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Family secrets

  • The sorrows of an American a novel
    Author:
    Hustvedt, Siri
    Summary:

    When Erik Davidsen and his sister, Inga, find a disturbing note from an unknown woman among their dead father's papers, they believe he may be implicated in a mysterious death. The Sorrows of an American tells the story of the...
  • The smallest objective
    Author:
    Kirsch, Sharon
    Summary:

    "A lantern slide, a faded recipe book, a postcard from Mexico, a nugget of fool's gold -- such are the clues available to the narrator of The Smallest Objective as she excavates for buried treasure in her family home. Together...
  • The Scream of the Butterfly
    Author:
    Melander, Jakob
    Summary:

    The mayor of Copenhagen is found murdered in his luxury apartment. Detective Lars Winkler is put on this sensitive case, which is further complicated by the fact that the victim’s mother is the leader of the country’s most radical...
  • The scratch on the Ming vase
    Author:
    Stellings, Caroline
    Summary:

    Born in China, Nicki was abandoned to an orphanage before being adopted by a wealthy North American family. Now 16, Nicki divides her time between Hawaii and Ontario and is all set to train with a king fu grand master. When she reports...
  • The right time
    Author:
    Steel, Danielle
    Summary:

    Filled with heartbreak and betrayal, triumph and fulfillment, The Right Time is an intimate, richly rewarding novel about pursuing one's passion and succeeding beyond one's wildest dreams. Abandoned by her mother at age seven, Alexandra...
  • The queen's rising
    Author:
    Ross, Rebecca
    Summary:

    Grave Mercy meets Red Queen in this epic debut fantasy, inspired by Renaissance France, about an outcast who finds herself bound to a disgraced lord and entangled in his plot to overthrow the current king. Brienna desires only two...
  • The queen's resistance
    Author:
    Ross, Rebecca
    Summary:

    Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she'd just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet...
  • The Problim children
    Author:
    Lloyd, Natalie
    Summary:

    With a dash of Lemony Snicket, a dollop of the Addams Family, and a hearty dose of adventure, New York Times bestselling author Natalie Lloyd introduces a new series about seven strange and adventurous siblings who tackle problems...
  • The photograph
    Author:
    Otte, Kristen
    Summary:

    On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for. Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend Brent, getting her driver's license and competing for a district...
  • The photograph
    Author:
    Otte, Kristen
    Summary:

    On a quest for truth, one girl will find more than she bargained for... Sixteen-year-old Rachel Brandt is excited about her six-month anniversary with her boyfriend, Brent, getting her driver's license, and competing for a district...
  • The other side of goodness
    Author:
    Griggs, Vanessa Davis
    Summary:

    When a woman from his past reveals that the child he fathered with her in secret is in need of a bone marrow transplant, politician Lawrence Simmons must decide whether he is willing to risk his career and marriage to help her.
  • The mighty Carlins
    Author:
    Doyle, Collin
    Summary:

    A black comedy that celebrates a family at its worst. On the anniversary of his wife's death, Leo Carlin and his two sons come together for their traditional night of sharing the good and not-so-good memories of the dearly departed Mrs...
  • The making of us
    Author:
    Jewell, Lisa
    Summary:

    In a hospice in Bury St. Edmunds, Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sists with him every day and she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets and secrets. He tells her about the children he has never met and never...
  • The madwoman upstairs : a novel
    Author:
    Lowell, Catherine
    Summary:

    Samantha Whipple, the only remaining descendant of the Brontë family, embarks on a modern-day literary scavenger hunt to find the family's long-rumored secret estate--diaries, paintings, letters, and early novel drafts--using clues...
  • The lost flowers of Alice Hart
    Author:
    Ringland, Holly
    Summary:

    An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us - and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home...
  • The Lola quartet
    Author:
    St. John Mandel, Emily
    Summary:

    being fired from his job, New York journalist Gavin Sasaki reluctantly returns to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida. There Gavin's world is turned upside down when he learns that his high school girlfriend--ho went missing 10...
  • The line between here and gone
    Author:
    Kane, Andrea
    Summary:

    Amanda Gleason's infant son Justin suffers from a rare immune deficiency. His best chance for survival died with his father, Paul, who was murdered before Justin was born. But when a recent photo surfaces of a man who looks like a...
  • The last anniversary
    Author:
    Moriarty, Liane
    Summary:

    Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been...
  • The journal
    Author:
    Donovan, Lois
    Summary:

    Lois Donovan’s new historical fiction, The Journal, begins in 2004 when thirteen-year-old Kami receives a bizarre offer involving a historic house in Edmonton, from her estranged grandfather. A move to Edmonton was definitely not part...
  • The Japanese lover
    Author:
    Allende, Isabel
    Summary:

    From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second...

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