Karen White
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Murray will always remember her childhood on Edisto Island, where her late father, a local shrimper, shared her passion for music. Now her memories of him are all that tempers the guilt she feels over the accident that put her sister in a wheelchair-and the feelings she harbors for her sisters husband.To help support her sister, Eleanor works at a Charleston investment firm during the day, but she escapes into her music, playing piano at a...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Karen White weaves a story of friendship past and present, love, and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day. London, 1939. In a city on the brink of war, beautiful and ambitious Eva Harlow and her best friend, sweet Southerner Precious Dubose, are young models on the rise--and a duo as close as sisters. But when Eva falls in love with Graham St. John, an aristocrat and former...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperColllinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An heiress, a resistance fighter, and a widow are all joined by one legendary hotel: the Ritz in Paris.
France, 1914. As war breaks out, Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, using it as their headquarters, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. She and the dashing young officer...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In "A Little Bit Country," city girl Rorie Campbell and horse rancher Clay Franklin cope with a complicated situation while they sort out their feelings for each other, and in "Country Bride," Kate Logan spontaneously proposes to her longtime friend Luke Rivers, who agrees and will not renege on his promise.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"--
Author
Series
Beyond the Page bookstore mystery volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In Lauren Elliott's fourth USA Today bestselling Beyond the Page Bookstore Mystery, bookshop owner Addie Greyborne must solve a locked-room murder in a supposedly haunted mansion to recover a priceless Sherlock Holmes original."--Publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social security comes up short, often underwater on mortgages, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
That summer - more than ten years ago, while they were still in high school - Noelle McDowell and Thomas Sutton fell secretly in love. Secretly because their mothers had been locked in a bitter feud for decades. But despite the animosity between Sarah McDowell and Mary Sutton, Noelle planned to elope with Thom. Until he jilted her. This Christmas Noelle McDowell is home to celebrate the holidays with her family. (After all, December 25 is also her...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three women fight for the chance to raise the child they've all come to love. When Lilia Swallow's husband, Graham, goes into remission after a challenging year of treatment for lymphoma, the home and lifestyle blogger throws a party. Their best friends and colleagues attend to celebrate his recovery, but just as the party is in full swing, a new guest arrives. She presents Lilia with a beautiful baby boy, and vanishes. Toby is Graham's darkest secret--his...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each other never had. Now famous singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Reunited, the sister's begin to work on a project that could uncover memories for them both. Yet soon dark secrets of the past emerge that could test their bond to its very limit.
12) Heartwood
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Though Iris Stern considers herself a modern woman, with a successful academic career and a happy marriage, she still holds steadfast to her old-fashioned sensibilities. But as the mother of three adult children, each with their own lives and burdens to bear, she often finds those sensibilities called into question when confronted with the choices her children have made.
Author
Series
Publisher
Annie's
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Liz Eckardt is hosting a wedding at her bed-and-breakfast, Olde Mansion Inn, location in Pleasant Creek, Indiana. The only thing missing is the groom. The bride believes something ominous happened to her fiance and she ask Liz and the other members of the Material Girls quilting group to find out what happened to him.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During a student exchange program, seventh-graders Ivy June and Catherine share their lives, homes, and communities, and find that although their lifestyles are total opposites they have a lot in common.