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Most child protagonists are suffocated by family and the day-to-day struggles that growing up entails. Donna Tartt, in the follow-up to her sensational debut The Secret History, complicates this matter for 12-year-old heroine Harriet Cleve Dusfresnes by forcing her to live in the shadow of a sibling murdered over a decade earlier. The death is one more nail in the coffin of her once proud family, now reduced to a collection of specters. Together with...
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Devastated by the sudden death of her mother -- a quiet, loving and intensely private Southern seamstress called Miss Mabel, Sutton Douglas makes the impulsive decision to pack up and head north to the Michigan resort town where she believes she'll find answers to the lifelong questions she's had about not only her mother's past but also her own place in the world. Recalling Miss Mabel's sewing notions that were her childhood toys, Sutton buys a...
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"Conley Hawkins left her family's small-town newspaper, the Silver Bay Beacon, years ago. now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is offered a new position in Washington, D.C.--but the job goes up in smoke. Conley finds herself back working for her sister at the Silver Bay Beacon, and she's been assigned the locla gossip column, "Hello, Summer." Then Conley witnesses an accident that kills a local congressman-- a beloved war hero with a shady...
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After the death of her US senator father, Marlow Madsen travels to the small island off the coast of Florida where she spent summers growing up to help her mother settle the family estate. It’s also the perfect escape to help her feel grounded again—one she’s happy to share with friends Aida and Claire, who are hoping to hit reset on their lives, too. A leisurely beachfront summer promises the trio of women the opportunity to take deep healing...
9) Sister dear
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Shattered by the discovery that she is not biologically related to her recently deceased father, Eleanor unsuccessfully reaches out to her biological father before becoming obsessed by her half-sister's seemingly perfect life.
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New Beginnings volume 1
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Traces the reunion of the three disparate Palmer sisters, one responsible, one rebellious, and one free-spirited, who reveal imperfections in their respective lives while mourning their mother's death.
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Brady Bradshaw was a child when the Oklahoma City bombing took his mother from him. Every year, Brady visits the site on the anniversary to remember her. A decade ago on that day, he met Jenna Phillips, who was also a child when her parents were killed in the attack. Brady and Jenna shared a deep heart connection and a single beautiful day together at the memorial. But after that, Brady never saw Jenna again. Every year when he returns, he leaves...
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Truman Capote’s first novel is a story of almost supernatural intensity and inventiveness, an audacious foray into the mind of a sensitive boy as he seeks out the grown-up enigmas of love and death in the ghostly landscape of the deep South.
“Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the...
“Intense, brilliant . . . . Capote has an astonishing command . . . a magic all his own.” —The Atlantic
At the age of twelve, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the...
17) A Vintage Death
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New owner of a music box shop, Callie Reed, pitches in on the decorations for a special Halloween-themed book signing at Keepsake Cove, a quaint town of collectible shops on Maryland's Eastern Shore. She then welcomes the suspense author, who has opted to stay at a B&B with a mysterious history and an eccentric owner.When the B&B owner is found dead, stabbed with a pair of vintage scissors, suspicion immediately falls on his estranged wife, Dorothy,...
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Cape Sanctuary volume 4
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"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child's life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
19) A family affair
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An empty nester, Anna McNichol's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But when her husband dies suddenly, Anna’s carefully constructed world falls apart. The mysterious young woman at the memorial service confirms her husband had been keeping secrets, and Anna is determined to get to the truth. Faced with one challenge after another, she finds support from an unexpected source. And as she puts her...
20) One summer
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It's almost Christmas, but there is no joy in the house of terminally ill Jack and his family. With only a short time left to live, he spends his last days preparing to say goodbye to his devoted wife, Lizzie, and their three children. Then, unthinkably, tragedy strikes again: Lizzie is killed in a car accident. With no one able to care for them, the children are separated from each other and sent to live with family members around the country. Just...
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