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1001) The chicken dance
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English
Description
When eleven-year-old Don Schmidt wins a chicken-judging contest in his small town of Horse Island, Louisiana and goes from outcast to instant celebrity, even his neglectful mother occasionally takes notice of him and eventually he discovers some shocking family secrets.
1002) Lies like poison
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
Description
Three years after one secretly backed out of a plot to kill Raven's abusive stepmother, former friends Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna are drawn back together when one of them is arrested for the stepmother's murder.
Poppy, Lily, and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. When they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna, and lily in her...
1003) The girl in the garden
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English
Description
When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
"Police Chief Pete Adams fears Zoe's inquiries are setting her up for deeper heartbreak and putting her in danger. As Zoe and Pete inch closer to the truth, they discover that a missing gun links the crimes which span more than four decades. But the killer isn't done. Two more Vance Township residents fall victim to the same gun, and when tragedy strikes too close to home, Zoe realizes her family is in the crosshairs."--
1005) The Angels' Share
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Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
7 CDs (7.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Some believed he was the second coming of Christ. William wasn't so sure. But when that drifter was buried next to the family distillery, everything changed. Now that Prohibition has ended, what the townspeople of Twisted Tree, Kentucky, need most is the revival of the Old Sam Bourbon distillery. But William McFee knows it'll take a miracle to convince his father, Barley, to once more fill his family's aging house with barrels full of bourbon. When...
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English
Description
"Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the results of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, unravelling a family mystery piece by piece, and assembling the story of her biological father. Along the way, larger questions arise: what exactly is kinship? And what does it mean to be a family? Unearthing is a captivating...
1008) The house of Scorta
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Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
The story of the Scortas opens in 1870 with Rocco Scorta Mascalzone, the bastard product of a rape, and a notorious scoundrel, whose legacy the family is forced to confront.
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1999 Texas, Lia Cope, when her grandmother Mineko moves in, connects with her over stories of the Turtle House in Japan and the secrets they both carry, and when Mineko is forced to live in an assisted living community, she and Lia devise a plan to bring a beloved lost place to life.
1010) What I promise you
Author
Series
Echoes of the past volume 2
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English
Description
1942 - Noémie Treves, a young, pregnant Jewish woman, had her entire world shattered when she is arrested and taken to the Camp de Rivesaltes transit camp in Southwest France. No sooner does she arrive, though, than she assists in helping two young girls scheduled for transport escape to a nearby maternity hospital. The matron there befriends her and changes her name to help hide her. But nothing goes according to plan, and Hannah finds herself doing...
1011) The problim children
Author
Series
Problim children volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
Author
Series
Hyacinth volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--
1014) The caregiver: a novel
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English
Description
Mara Alencar's mother Ana is the moon, the sun, the stars. Ana, a struggling voice-over actress, is an admirably brave and recklessly impulsive woman who does everything in her power to care for her little girl. With no other family or friends her own age, Ana eclipses Mara's entire world. They take turns caring for each other--in ways big and small.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
9 audio discs (10 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bríd fled Northern Ireland during the Troubles and hid her tragic past while living in California. Now a mother, Bríd and her teen daughter are forced to return to Northern Ireland to confront the past.
1016) Hidden
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (2 hr., 15 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
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English
Description
Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on.
Arizona. It's been three years since the...
1019) The lies they tell
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A tragic local mystery from the past is blown wide open when a girl from the poor side of town infiltrates a group of reckless, wealthy boys and uncovers more than she could have imagined.
Everyone in Tenney's Harbor, Maine, knows about the Garrison tragedy, when a house fire killed four of the five family members. Fingers point at Pearl Haskins' father, who was the caretaker of the property, but Pearl doesn't believe it. Pearl's future never held...
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