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"When U.S. troops occupy Germany, friends Jakob and Emmanuelle are saved from the terrible fate of so many in the camps. With the help of sponsors, they make their way to New York. In order not to be separated, they allow their friendship to blossom into love and marriage, and start a new life on the Lower East Side, working at grueling, poorly paid jobs. Decades later, through talent, faith, fortune, and relentless hard work, Jakob has achieved success...
42) Say nothing
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Some stories are so complex it takes four people to tell it.
Bexley Nelson lives in her secrets.
Ben Lawrence lives in the past.
Ryan Brae lives to protect.
Grey Maslen lives up to his word.
And Hannah Lawrence is missing.
Hiding away in a diner, Bexley Nelson keeps her secrets bound. As the world begins to flood with stories of who she once was, her silence is paramount; until she's forced to act before she loses anyone she's ever come in contact...
44) Mind Games (CD)
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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As they do each June, the Foxes have driven the winding roads of Appalachia to drop off their children for a two-week stay at their grandmother's. Here, 12-year-old Thea can run free and breathe in the smells of pine and fresh bread and Grammie's handmade candles. But as her parents head back to suburban Virginia, they have no idea they're about to cross paths with a ticking time bomb. Back in Kentucky, Thea and her grandmother Lucy both awaken from...
45) Funny Story (CD)
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Daphne always loved the way her fianc�e Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian,...
46) Diary: a novel
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Pub. Date
2004
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English
Description
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled. Suddenly, though, Misty finds her artistic talent returning as she begins...
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Maddie Baker Mystery volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Maddie Baker offers a self-defense course, a terrified young woman asks her for private lessons to escape a chokehold. Maddie readily agrees to meet Amy the next morning, but when she doesn’t show up, Maddie becomes concerned.
She enlists the help of Detective Noah Langley and his partner Lance Forrester. Since it’s not an official investigation, and the only thing they know about her is her first name, it’s not long before their hands...
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Pub. Date
20161004
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English
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A collection of stories featuring the working-class struggles and self-sabotaging betrayals of mother and daughter protagonists includes the tales, "My Dog Roscoe," "Blood Work, 1999" and "Home to Die." By the author of Once Upon a River. Reading-group guide available.
50) Younger
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Pub. Date
2005
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English
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She's old enough to be his mother. She's having too much fun to care.
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Series
Mags Munroe volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
My twelve-year-old daughter frequently moans that Ballycarrick is the most boring town in Ireland.
Nothing ever happens here.
She’s right.
And as the local police sergeant, this is something I’m delighted about.
I’ve enough to worry about - the polar ice-caps, the evil monster that’s shrinking my trousers, not to mention the hot flushes - without having to be like one of those gritty Netflix cops, chasing criminals down alleyways and busting...
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Series
Mags Munroe volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
If you want to disappear, start again, make a new life, a small Irish village is probably not the wisest place to go, since anonymity is not something we do well here.
The arrival of someone new is always a cause for twitching curtains and whispered conversations.
But here, like everywhere, people have their secrets, and as the local sergeant I’m expected to have my eyes peeled for anything unusual.
And I do.
Usually.
Until I don’t, and the...
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The Tour volume 4
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A luxury stay in an Irish castle, a handsome, experienced tour guide, and a secret that has never been revealed. Life as manager of the magnificent resort of Castle Dysert on Ireland’s wild Atlantic coast is never dull, and Conor O’Shea’s life to date has taught him to be prepared for the unexpected. Even he however, is not ready for the gang from Bubbles O’Leary’s bar in New York. A motley crew, from spinster sisters of a certain age, to...
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