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141) Deadly Ever After
Author
Series
Publisher
CROOKED LANE BOOKS
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Description
"They're getting married! Lucy Richardson and Connor McNeil have announced their engagement. Their friends throw a party for the couple at Coquina Beach, close to Lucy's beloved Bodie Island Lighthouse Library. As they're packing up the presents and the (few) leftovers from Josie's Cozy Bakery, who should arrive, but Richard Eric Lewiston III, Lucy's former almost-fiance and his overbearing mother Evangeline. Push comes to love when Evangeline makes...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Barrowfields is a richly textured coming of age story about a boy who loses the larger-than-life lawyer/writer father that he grew up idolizing, subsequently leaves home in the NC mountains and spends years contending with forgiveness, falls in love, and finally returns" --
"Just before Henry Aster's birth, his father -- outsized literary ambition and pregnant wife in tow -- reluctantly returns to the small Appalachian town in which he was raised...
143) The summer guests
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast--the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips's...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In North Carolina, during World War II, two girls--Lucy Brown and Allie Bert Tucker--decide to solve crimes just like Nancy Drew. Their chance comes when a man goes missing from town. Before they can solve the case, a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp opens, and more men go missing. Together the girls embark on a journey to discover if we ever really know who the enemy is.
"A Southern story of friendship forged by books and bees, when the timeless troubles...
145) Night bird calling
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Lilliana Swope's beloved mother dies, Lilliana gathers her last ounce of courage and flees her abusive husband for the home of her only living relative in the foothills of No Creek, North Carolina. Though Hyacinth Belvidere hasn't seen Lilliana since she was five, she offers her cherished great-niece a safe harbor. Their joyful reunion inspires plans to revive Aunt Hyacinth's estate and open a public library where everyone is welcome, no matter...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 8
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
After being robbed, Miss Julia is determined to find the culprit and brings her son Lloyd, friend Etta Mae Wiggins, and private investigator Mr. Pickens along on an investigation that leads her to Palm Beach, Florida.
147) The last song
Author
Language
English
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father, a former concert pianist and teacher, moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father...until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she and her younger brother spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Resentful and...
Author
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
149) Holly and Ivy
Author
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"The flames of memory always seem to glow a little brighter during the holidays. Perhaps that's why this time of year is so difficult for airline heiress Ivy Macintosh, as she faces thoughts of yet another festive season alone. Since the plane crash that claimed the lives of her husband and two children eight years ago, she's been submerged in grief. When eleven-year-old Holly Greenwood knocks on her door, lost and frightened after a forbidden visit...
150) Beth & Amy
Author
Series
March sisters volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Four sisters face new beginnings in this heartfelt modern take on Little Women by New York Times bestselling author Virginia Kantra. Amy March is more like her older sister Jo than she'd like to admit. An up-and-coming designer in New York's competitive fashion industry, ambitious Amy is determined to get out of her sisters' shadows and keep her distance from their North Carolina hometown. But when Jo's wedding forces Amy home, she must face what...
151) Cuando te encuentre
Author
Series
Publisher
Roca Editorial de Libros, Place of publication not identified
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Español
Description
Durante su tercera misión en Iraq, el soldado estadounidense Logan Thibault encuentra la fotografía de una joven sonriente medio enterrada en la arena del desierto. En la base, nadie la reclama y él acaba guardándola. De repente Logan empieza a tener suerte: gana en las partidas de póquer, sobrevive a un ataque que mata a dos de sus compañeros ... De vuelta a EE. UU., Logan buscará a la mujer retratada, aunque desde luego no se espera a la...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this witty and heartfelt rom-com debut for fans of Jasmine Guillory, Emily Henry, and Tessa Bailey, an Indian American woman signs herself and her boyfriend up for a matchmaking site to prove they're a perfect match, only to be paired with her ex instead"--
Rita Chitniss and Milan Rao were high school sweethearts, until the day he broke her heart. Six years later, Rita has turned her passion for furniture restoration into a career and has an...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When three siblings are found shot to death in the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina, in 1976, and the white authorities show no interest in solving the case, Josephine Wright sets out to prove the innocence of her childhood sweetheart,Olympus "Lymp" Seymore, the murder victims' half-brother and the leading suspect in the case.
1976. In the still-segregated town of West Mills, North Carolina in 1976, three siblings-- Marian, Marva,...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
For readers of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie and The Turner House , an intimately told story about a woman living by her own rules and the rural community that struggles to understand her. Azalea "Knot" Centre is determined to live life as she pleases. Let the people of West Mills say what they will; the neighbors' gossip won't keep Knot from what she loves best: cheap moonshine, nineteenth-century literature, and the company of men. And yet, Knot is...
Author
Series
Miss Julia series volume 23
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Wedding fever hits Abbotsville and several of Miss Julia's friends have plans to tie the knot. But, as usual, nothing is so simple. Christy Hargrove suddenly gives up a lifelong dream and drops out of medical school to marry, Helen Stroud and Thurlow Jones decide to change their commercial arrangement into a marital one, and, to Miss Julia's consternation, Lillian, her housekeeper and closest companion, is considering a less-than-romantic offer to...
156) Mulberry Hollow
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
"Avery Robinson decided to be a physician after helplessly watching her mother lose a battle with a terrible disease. Now at risk of developing the same illness, Avery guards her heart from love. She's driven to protect her loved ones as a workaholic doctor in the tiny mountain town of Riverbend Gap, North Carolina. Contractor Wes Garrett is hiking the Appalachian trail, in memory of the man who died saving his life, when an illness racks his body....
157) The stolen marriage
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1944, twenty-three-year-old Tess DeMello abruptly ends her engagement to the love of her life when she marries a mysterious stranger and moves to Hickory, North Carolina, a small town struggling with racial tension and the hardships imposed by World War II. Tess's new husband, Henry Kraft, is a secretive man who often stays out all night, hides money from his new wife, and shows no interest in making love. Tess quickly realizes she's trapped in...
158) Solo nosotros dos
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear, and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned upside...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore Estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
"Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse más allá de los confines de la mansión donde se esconden. Hay much que explorar en sus sombrios pasillos, aunque tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean. Pero...
160) The forgotten girl
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English
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This ghost story gave me chill after chill. It will haunt you. -- R.L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Do you know what it feels like to be forgotten? On a cold winter night, Iris and her best friend, Daniel, sneak into a clearing in the woods to play in the freshly fallen snow. There, Iris carefully makes a perfect snow angel -- only to find the crumbling gravestone of a young girl, Avery Moore, right beneath her. Immediately, strange things start to...
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