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Author
Series
Lakeshore chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
447 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating house fire reveals a rare treasure among her grandfather's belongings, leading her on a search for the truth, Jenny Majesky returns to the only place she feels safe, The Winter Lodge, where she finds an ally in the local police chief, Rourke McKnight.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Thirty-four-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. She's got good friends, her bike, and her bike club in Philadelphia. She's at peace with her plus-size body - at least, most of the time - and she's on track to marry her childhood sweetheart. Abby and Mark met at the weight-loss camp Abby's perpetually dieting mother, Eileen, forced her daughter to attend. Yet Abby can't escape the feeling that something isn't right . . . or the memories...
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English
Description
In 1750, without warning or apparent reason, the mineral springs of the colonial resort town of Bath, New York, ran dry. A little more than two hundred years later, after numerous warnings and for too many reasons, Sully, the unluckiest man in this unlucky town, isn't doing too hot either. He's broke, out of a job, and the owner of a dead pickup truck. The good news? Sully has the dumbest man in North Bath as his devoted friend, a long-suffering,...
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English
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"The irresistible Sully, who in the intervening years has come by some unexpected good fortune, is now staring down a VA cardiologist's estimate that he only has a year or two left, and he's busy as hell keeping the news from the most important people in his life: Ruth, the married woman he carried on with for years ... the ultra-hapless Rub Squeers, who worries that he and Sully aren't still best friends. Sully's son and grandson, for whom he was...
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English
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Alvirah returns as a periphery character in this fast-paced mystery about Zan Moreland, an interior designer who slowly begins to suspect that someone is impersonating her. Not only have her credit cards been stolen, but it appears someone is pretending to actually be her. If that's not frightening enough, it becomes even more heart wrenching when Zan's impersonator begins implying that she was responsible for her own son's kidnapping years earlier....
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Greenbury, New York. The brutally beaten body of a young man is discovered in the woods adjacent to an empty vacation home. Brady Neil had no criminal record, few friends, worked full-time, and attended community college. When Brady was a baby, his father, Brandon Gratz, was convicted of robbing and killing the owners of a local jewelry store. Decker begins to suspect that the son's murder may be connected to the father's sins. When one of Brady Neil's...
9) Farmer boy
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing--his very own horse--but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
While working for the Greenbury Police Department in upstate New York, Peter Decker must draw from his years of experience as a homicide cop when a break-in at the local cemetery leads him into a world of art forgery and murder that is linked to cold case crimes, international intrigue and ruthless people who kill for sport.
11) Girls: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
Jack, a security policeman on an upstate New York campus, tries to overcome his grief and heal the rift that has developed between him and his wife since the death of their infant daughter by joining in the search for a missing teenage girl.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
"As the new millennium approaches, the eccentric town of Thebes grows even stranger. Clocked by a Catholic statuette, Mrs. Leontina Scales begins speaking in tongues. Her daughter, Tabitha Scales, and her sons scheme to save their mother or surrender her to Jesus--whatever comes first. Meanwhile, choir director Jeremy Carr, caught between lust and ambition, fumbles his way toward Y2K. Only a modern master like Gregory Maguire can spin a tale this...
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
582 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After being attacked by a man who believed she was someone else and assaulted by her husband, Rebecca Schwartz reflects on her life of violence--her father killed her mother and himself and her brothers were also violent men--and decides to take her nine-year-old son and create a new life.
Author
Series
Wilderness series (Sara Donati) volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A judge's daughter elopes with a white adventurer in Colonial America. Elizabeth arrived from England to marry a doctor, but is smitten by Nathaniel, a man raised by the Mohawks. The doctor, however, refuses to give her up and pursues them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
517 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Award-winning writer O'Nan has been acclaimed by critics as one of the most accomplished novelists writing today. Now comes "his most complete work to date, filled with the type of life lessons that the best fiction has to offer and from an author firmly in control of his art" (Rob Stout, "Orlando Sentinel").
16) Bridge of sighs
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
527 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Louis Lynch and his wife Sarah are preparing for the trip of a lifetime in Italy, where they hope to reconnect with one another and their oldest friend, a reclusive artist whose long-standing love for Sarah may threaten their vacation and their future together.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Description
In this book, the author tells the story of a woman's homecoming, a family secret, and the old house that holds the key to the true legacy of a family. At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate first love, lead her into the unexpected. Late one night, as she paces...
18) Mohawk
Author
Series
Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
1986
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
419 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mohawk, New York, is one of those small towns that lie almost entirely on the wrong side of the tracks. Its citizens, too, have fallen on hard times. Dallas Younger, a star athlete in high school, now drifts from tavern to poker game, losing money, and, inevitablym another set of false teeth. His ex-wife, Anne, is stuck in a losing battle with her mother over care of her sick father. And their son, Randall, is deliberately neglecting his school work...
19) Bone box
Author
Series
Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus mysteries volume 24
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker/Lazarus novel volume 24
Decker/Lazarus novel volume 23
Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus
Decker/Lazarus novel volume 24
Decker/Lazarus novel volume 23
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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On a bright and crisp September morning, while walking a bucolic woodland trail, Rina Decker stumbles upon human remains once buried deep beneath the forest grounds. Immediately, she calls her husband, Peter, a former detective lieutenant with LAPD, now working for the local Greenbury Police. Within hours, a vista of beauty and tranquility is transformed into a frenetic crime scene. The body has been interred for years and there is scant physical...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Stanhope. A safe neighborhood. A place for families. On the surface, William Wooler is a family man. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Suddenly Stanhope doesn't...
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