Search Results
Showing
1 - 20
of 7,855
query time: 0.05s
Author:
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Women in the Castle comes a sweeping story of a nation on the rise, and one family's deeply complicated relationship to the resource that built their fortune and fueled their greatest tragedy, perfect for fans of The Dutch House and The Great Circle"--
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel that perfectly interweaves history, mystery, and social justice. When Kayla Carter's husband dies in an accident while building their dream house, she knows she has to stay strong for their four-year-old daughter. But the trophy home in Shadow Ridge Estates, a new development in sleepy Round Hill, North Carolina, will always hold tragic memories. When she is confronted by an...
Author:
Language:
English
Average Rating:
2.5 stars
Description:
"Littleport, Maine, has always felt like two separate towns: an ideal vacation enclave for the wealthy, whose summer homes line the coastline, and a simple harbor community for the year-round residents whose livelihoods rely on service to the visitors. Typically, fierce friendships never develop between a local and a summer girl--but that's just what happens with visitor Sadie Loman and Littleport resident Avery Greer. Each summer for almost a decade,...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Formats:
Description:
"Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. "The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes "The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street...
Author:
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
"[T]he [...] multigenerational family saga set in a fractured rural village in WWI Austria. Maria and Josef live with their children in a valley in westernmost Austria. When the First World War breaks out and Josef is drafted into the army, Maria is left to provide for her family alone. Every day is a struggle against starvation, the harsh alpine climate and the hostile nearby villagers who see Maria as little more than a beautiful temptress out for...
Author:
Series:
Last kids on Earth volume 6.5
Publisher:
Viking
Pub. Date:
©2021
Lexile measure:
GN: Graphic Novel 320L
Language:
English
Description:
An anthology of six original Last Kids short stories, designed to bridge the gap between books 6 and 7, features contributions by prominent graphic artists and finds Jack and his friends spinning yarns about their over-the-top post-apocalyptic adventures.
Publisher:
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
After attacking two teenage girls, killing one and wounding the other, an ex-convict and his gang find shelter at the home of one of the girls' parents, and when the parents realize what has happened they seek revenge for their daughter's attack.
Author:
Pub. Date:
2011
Lexile measure:
750L
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better.
Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last!, they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln...
Track the facts with Jack and Annie!
When Jack and Annie got back from their adventure in Magic Tree House Merlin Mission #19: Abe Lincoln at Last!, they had lots of questions. What was it like to grow up in a log cabin? How did Lincoln...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild - selling abandoned homesto anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
Author:
Publisher:
Penguin Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"On January 20, 2021, standing where only two weeks earlier police officers had battled with right-wing paramilitaries, Joe Biden took his oath of office. The American people were still sick with COVID-19, his economists were already warning him of an imminent financial crisis, and his party, the Democrats, had the barest of majorities in the Senate. Yet, faced with an unprecedented set of crises, Joe Biden decided he would not play defense. Instead,...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
Jacob Carlyle has been living his best life as a highly successful political pundit. His comfortable existence goes into meltdown, however, when right-wing activists go public with a hidden-camera video of Jacob in a hotel room with the married son of an ultra-conservative politician. Suddenly Jacob is the target of attacks from both ends of the political spectrum. He retreats to his late grandfather's remote farmhouse to try to sort out the mess...
13. The Last House
Author:
Publisher:
Brick Books
Pub. Date:
2009
Language:
English
Description:
Shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award Poems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss. This is Michael Kenyon's third full-length collection of poems. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the underside, the angularity of the outcast, those forced by temperament or predilection or circumstance to the fringes of middle class life. Here, it is insight itself that pushes the speakers closer to the edge. The world of these...
14. The Last House
Author:
Publisher:
AuthorHouse UK
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
The story is the cross section of the life and realities of Kerala State, South India, during the hoary and obfuscated years of internal emergency. The protagonists in the story are generally sad, and the sadness they are charged with makes them philosophical in various ways. Each one is gnawed by a nostalgia to reach out to a state of being and also to a state of mind they seem to have forfeited somewhere beyond the time-space capsule they are shut...
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
'I gobbled it up in two sittings, quickly turning pages to see what would happen next. The windswept, desolate setting, cold, gloomy manor house and dark characters created the perfect stormy day read… And did I mention the twists? Oh my goodness!' NetGalley reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ When a young widow's little girl vanishes, could a dark family secret hold the answer? On the death of her aunt Gwyn, Lowri returns once more to Gwyn's home on the...
Author:
Publisher:
Kensington Books
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
As intriguing as it is relatable, Paige Roberts' compulsively readable novel delves into the secrets and ties that lie between friends-and neighbors. When Amy Kravitz opts to leave Washington, D.C., behind in favor of a less stressful life in the Philadelphia suburbs, she has a certain kind of house in mind. And on a charming street in a family-friendly neighborhood, she and her husband Rob find it. It's a perfect brick colonial with plenty of space,...
Author:
Publisher:
BookaVivo
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
Spanish
Description:
¿Realmente conocemos a las personas con las que compartimos la intimidad de nuestras vidas? Nada es lo que parece… Todas las familias esconden secretos. Alguien mató a Sadie porque conocía una incómoda verdad. Solo hay que hacerse las preguntas adecuadas para descubrirlo. Avery Greer y Sadie Loman pertenecen a dos mundos muy opuestos, pero comparten un mismo lugar de vacaciones: Littleport, en Maine. Sadie aparece muerta durante la celebración...
Author:
Series:
Heaven's Cove volume 1
Publisher:
Lamplight Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
From the attic of Driftwood House there are stunning views of the deep green sea and sapphire sky. But Rosie can't tear her eyes away from the faded photograph in her hands, and the words written on the back that will change everything... Back in the tiny seaside village of Heaven's Cove after the death of her mother, all Rosie Merchant wants is to hide her tears, rent out her childhood home, and get back to her 'real' life, away from the gossiping...
Author:
Language:
English
Formats:
Description:
A Cuban immigrant comes of age in NYC in this autobiographical debut novel by the author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. New York City, 1944. Hector Santinio is the younger son of Cuban immigrants who share an apartment with relatives in Spanish Harlem. Caught between his mother's anxieties and his father's macho expectations, Hector struggles to find an identity for himself while wrestling with both cultural and personal isolation. Meanwhile,...
Author:
Series:
Heaven's Cove volume 3
Publisher:
W F Howes
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
The girl stands on the clifftop, feeling the soft breeze lift her shining red hair and dry her tears. She can almost hear Ireland calling her home across the wild sea. But she can never go back. And in that moment, she swears no-one will ever find out why. Freya is desperate for escape from her messy break-up when she's offered a job caring for elderly Kathleen in the seaside village of Heaven's Cove. Kathleen's once-red hair is now a brilliant white,...