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1) Mercury
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Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"It's 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone's table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun. The Joseph brothers become Marley's whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and...
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Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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"In 1945 Malaya, when her family is in terrible danger due to a choice she made 10 years earlier, Cecily Alcantara, who was lured into a life of espionage for the invading Japanese forces during World War II, finds her actions catching up with her and will do anything to save those she loves"--
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
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"A masterful debut that weaves together the lives of three generations of a Mexican American family bound by love, and a curse. The tight-knit Izquierdo family is grappling with misfortunes none of them can explain. Their beloved patriarch has suffered from an emotional collapse and is dying; eldest son Gonzalo's marriage is falling apart; daughter Dina, beleaguered by the fear that her nightmares are real, is a shut-in. When Gonzalo digs up a strange...
4) Swan song
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Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Chief of Police Ed Kapenash is about to retire. Blond Sharon is going through a divorce. But when a 22-million-dollar summer home is purchased by the mysterious Richardsons—how did they make their money, exactly?—Ed, Sharon, and everyone in the community are swept up in high drama. The Richardsons throw lavish parties, flirt with multiple locals, flaunt their wealth with not one but two yachts, and raise impossible hopes of everyone they meet....
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Moving to Seattle, Dessie Mei meets Donna, a girl who looks just like her, and when a secret DNA test reveals they're identical twins, both adopted from the same orphanage in China, they throw themselves into their newfound sisterhood until small differences between them create a rift.
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
When silverback gorilla Ivan and his mate Kinyani welcome a set of twins to their family, Ivan can't help but recall his childhood in the jungle — and his own twin — as he navigates joys and challenges of parenthood.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
10) La empleada
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Series
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Millie cleans the Winchesters' house, picks up their daughter from school, and cooks a meal for the family before eating alone in her tiny attic room. She wonders what it would feel like to have Nina's glamorous life. After trying on Nina's pristine white dress once, Millie is locked in her attic with the lock on the outside. But the Winchesters' don't really know her and what she's capable of.
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
"Una crónica familiar que abarca tres generaciones y dos países, La breve y maravillosa vida de Oscar Wao cuenta la historia del gordiflón y solitario Oscar de León en su intento de convertirse en el J.R.R. Tolkien Dominicano y su desafortunada búsqueda del amor. Pero Oscar sólo es la última víctima del fukú--una maldición que durante generaciones ha perseguido a su familia, condenándoles a vidas de tortura, sufrimiento y amor desdichado....
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Publisher
Zondervan Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An urgent message of both concern and hope, The Perilous Fight by Dr. Ben Carson is a clarion call to reestablish the bedrock of our culture, our country, and our freedoms: the family"--
"Learn from one of our leading conservative voices how we can return to the biblical values our nation was founded upon, especially the vital importance of the family, in order to secure a prosperous future for generations to come. Does America no longer feel like...
Author
Publisher
AdN, Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
" La casa de los ángeles rotos " es una saga familiar épica, encabezada por el patriarca Angelote, que transcurre durante la última fiesta de cumpleaños que este celebra en su casa de San Diego con ocasión de su inminente muerte a manos de un cáncer letal.
Pero cuando la madre de Angelote, mamá America, fallece en fechas cercanas a la fiesta, este debe organizar también su funeral y decide celebrar dos actos familiares en
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Series
Castle Knoll files volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"A dual narrative, feel good mystery in which a woman, Frances, spends a lifetime trying to prevent her murder as predicted by a fortune teller at a country fair when she was just 17. When she is in fact murdered nearly 60 years later, her great niece Annie must solve the crime to avenge her great aunt's death, and in so doing uncovers the dark heart of the quaint English village of Castle Knoll, where she might just find herself in the path of the...
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Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
A young boy's imagination takes off as he gazes at family photos, whisking him off on a fantastical journey. Along the way, the boy tries exciting and bold new things, ventures into unexplored worlds, and forms deep connections with his multicultural heritage and the ancestors who imbue him with the strength and courage to make a difference. Amerie has written a moving, sweeping, and deeply loving story that is inspired by her own family. It is a...
Author
Publisher
Night Nook Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"Paige Stevenson is a survivor, caring for her sister since she was seven years old, blaming herself for her mother's addictions. But all of her survival skills will be tested when she's sent to live in Indonesia with a father she's never met in a country completely different than her own. Paige swears to get her and her sister home, but the cost of getting a flight is over one million rupiah. The promise of help from a treasure hunting Australian,...
18) Good half gone
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"Iris Walsh saw her twin sister Piper get kidnapped--so why does no one believe her? Iris narrowly escaped her pretty, popular twin sisters fate as a teen--kidnapped and trafficked and long gone before the cops agreed to investigate. Months later, Piper's newborn son Callum was dropped on their estranged mother's doorstep in the dead of night, with a note in Piper's handwriting signed simply, Twin. As an adult, Iris wants one thing--proof. Because...
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm-except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
20) Darling girls
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Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Get ready for another twisty domestic thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of THE SOULMATE. From the outside, Alicia, Jessica and Norah might seem like ordinary women you'd meet on the street any day of the week. Sure, Jessica has a little OCD and Norah has some anger issues. And Alicia has low self-esteem that manifests itself in surprising ways. But these three have a bond that no one can fully understand. It's a bond that takes...
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