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2022.
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Still reeling from her mother's death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone. There she encounters her mother in the flesh at 30 years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
82) The witch elm
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After being beaten and left for dead by burglars, Toby, a happy-go-lucky charmer, returns to his ancestral home where he stumbles on a family secret.
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2024.
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Victorian Scotland is becoming less strange to modern-day homicide detective Mallory Atkinson. Though inhabiting someone else's body will always be unsettling, even if her employers know that she's not actually housemaid Catriona Mitchell, ever since the night both of them were attacked in the same dark alley 150 years apart. Mallory likes her job as assistant to undertaker/medical examiner Dr. Duncan Gray, and is developing true friends--and feelings--in...
85) 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.
86) Reaper man
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Discworld volume 11
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They say there are only two things you can count on ... but that was before Death started pondering the existential. Of course, the last thing anyone needs is a squeamish Grim Reaper and soon his Discworld bosses have sent him off with best wishes and a well-earned gold watch. Now Death is having the time of his life, finding greener pastures where he can put his scythe to a whole new use. But Death's demise soon leads to chaos and unrest - literally,...
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"In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface"--Amazon.com.
88) Mind games
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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, twelve-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...
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"1873. At an abandoned château on the outskirts of Paris, a dark séance is about to take place, led by acclaimed spiritualist Vaudeline D'Allaire. Known worldwide for her talent in conjuring the spirits of murder victims to ascertain the identities of the people who killed them, she is highly sought after by widows and investigators alike. Lenna Wickes has come to Paris to find answers about her sister's death, but to do so, she must embrace the...
90) Fly away
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Tully Hart has always been larger than life, a woman fueled by big dreams and driven by memories of a painful past. She thinks she can overcome anything until her best friend, Kate Ryan, dies. Tully tries to fulfill her deathbed promise to Kate---to be there for Kate’s children---but Tully knows nothing about family or motherhood or taking care of people. Sixteen-year-old Marah Ryan is devastated by her mother’s death. Her father, Johnny, strives...
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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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"It's been five years since the Mason family vacationed at the lakeside cottage in northeastern Vermont, close to where prize-winning novelist Samuel Mason grew up. The summers that Sam, his wife, Mena, and their twins Franny and Finn spent at Lake Gormlaith were noisy, chaotic, and nearly perfect. But since Franny's death, the Masons have been flailing, one step away from falling apart. Lake Gormlaith is Sam's last, best hope of rescuing his son...
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She blames him for her brother's death. Can she let go of resentment and open her heart to love? Penny Cartwright found it difficult to understand why her younger brother would choose to join a country singer's band rather than return to Kings Meadow after college and the separation strained their relationship. Then a car accident made certain her brother could never return. Trevor Reynolds has chased stardom in Nashville for more than a dozen years,...
95) The broken girls
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2018.
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More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.
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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...
97) The return
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2020.
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Moving into a family beekeeper cabin in New Bern, North Carolina to recuperate from war injuries, Trevor Benson, an Afghanistan veteran, falls in love with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson while working with Callie, a sullen local teen, to investigate the mystery of his grandfather's death.
98) Foreign body
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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c2008
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Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered. While relaxing in the surgical lounge, she listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. She hears her grandmother's name mentioned, Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi. Maria had raised Jennifer and her brothers...
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Dutton
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[2020]
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Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and...
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After the tragic death his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous. At first, Benny tries to ignore them, but soon the voices follow him outside the house, onto the street and at school, driving him at last to seek refuge in the silence of a large public library, where objects are well-behaved and know to speak in whispers. There,...
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