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41) Waves of mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she's asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctantly at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort, 23-year-old...
42) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's just a normal morning for Anna McDonald, until she opens the front door to her best friend, Estelle. Anna turns to see her own husband at the top of the stairs. They're leaving together and they're taking Anna's two daughters with them. Left alone, Anna can't take it in. With her world shattered, she distracts herself with a true-crime podcast. There's a sunken yacht in the Mediterranean, multiple murders and a hint of corruption. Then Anna realises...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Hannah moves back to her hometown of Los Angeles and takes up residence in her best friend Gabby's guestroom. Shortly after getting back to town, Hannah goes out to a bar one night with Gabby and meets up with her high school boyfriend, Ethan. Just after midnight, Gabby asks Hannah if she's ready to go. A moment later, Ethan offers to give her a ride later...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a Gulf Stream jet goes down in the Bahamas carrying a fortune in cash and ill-gotten diamonds, expat diving instructor Michael Gannon is the only person on the scene. Assuming himself the beneficiary of a drug deal gone bad, Gannon thinks he's home free with the sudden windfall until he realizes he forgot to ask one simple question. Who were the six dead men on the plane? Gannon soon learns the answer to that fateful question as he is thrust...
Author
Series
Broken Road volume 3
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chicago celebrity and pitchman Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash, a flight he narrowly missed. But thanks to that remarkable twist of fate, he's very much alive and ready for a second chance at life and love. Escaping death has brought Charles some clarity: the money, the fame, the expensive cars; none of it brought him true joy or peace. The last time he was truly happy was when he was married...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Someone has to take the blame. When the Britannia Theatre's balcony collapses, killing over a dozen people, the fingers point at the architect. He should have known better, should have made it safer, should have done something. Douglas Layton knows the flaw wasn't in his design, but he can't fight a guilty verdict. When he is finally released from prison, he has nothing: no job, no family, nowhere to go. He needs to assume a new identity and rebuild...
47) Still me
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Emily Ackerman has traveled the world, her constant compass and companion a book of letters her mother left for her when she died. With no father in the picture, her mom's advice has been her only true north. But when professional failure leads Emily back to Nantucket to renovate and sell the family cottage she inherited, she wonders if her mom left advice to cover this... especially when her grandmother arrives to 'supervise.' And especially when...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dawn Gibbons is shocked when her long-lost father reappears in her life. Seriously ill, his dying wish is to reconnect with her. But for Dawn, it's complicated--her wealthy father comes complete with jealous relatives--and a handsome young lawyer Dawn finds dangerously sexy. Dangerous because he's engaged--to her newfound half-sister. One thing a Gibbons woman doesn't do is steal her sister's man. Yet for the first time, Dawn may care about love more...
50) Don't go
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to serve as an army doctor in Afghanistan, he's acutely aware of the dangers he'll face and the hardships it will bring his wife Chloe and newborn baby. And deep inside, he doesn't think of himself as a hero, but a healer.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth ever a mistake and is lying for one's family ever justified? Can one do the right thing, but bitterly regret it? ... My Life as a Rat follows Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman who looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers....
52) Beautiful
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modeling affords her. The beloved daughter of a hardworking single mother, she has always preferred spending time at home or with her kindhearted boyfriend...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
It's 1988. The CD has arrived. Sales of the shiny new disks are soaring on high streets in cities across the country. Meanwhile, down a dead-end street, Frank's music shop stands small and brightly lit, jam-packed with records of every kind. It attracts the lonely, the sleepless, the adrift. There is room for everyone. Frank has a gift for finding his customers the music they need. Into this shop arrives Ilse Brauchmann - practical, brave, well-heeled....
Author
Series
Cape Charade volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
I have three confessions to make: 1. I've got the scar of a gunshot on my forehead. 2. I don't remember an entire year of my life. 3. My name is Kellan Adams... and that's half a lie. Girl running... from a year she can't remember, from a husband she prays is dead, from homelessness and fear. Tough, capable Kellan Adams is hired at a remote resort on the Pacific Coast. When a former employee is found murdered, she's embroiled in the investigation...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Arden Maynor was just a child when she was swept away while sleepwalking during a terrifying rainstorm and went missing for days. Strangers and friends, neighbors and rescue workers, set up search parties and held vigils, praying for her safe return. Against all odds, she was found, alive, clinging to a storm drain. The girl from Widow Hills was a living miracle. Arden's mother wrote a book. Fame followed. Fans and fan letters, creeps, and stalkers....
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects, and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister-Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
57) Blue: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills. Then her whole world is dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once a world-famous photographer, known for her iconic image, "Still Life with Bread Crumbs, " Rebecca Winter has drifted out of the spotlight, and is now more inclined to think of herself as the Artist Formerly Known as Rebecca Winter. As her income dries up, she decides to leave behind the expensive world she knows in New York City, sublet her apartment, and move to a small, inexpensive cabin in the country, where her life falls into a quieter rhythm....
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's cultural leaders following a luxurious arts-oriented tour of Europe, crashed shortly after takeoff in Paris. In one fell swoop, most of the city's wealthiest residents perished. Left behind were children, spouses, lovers, friends, and a city on the cusp of great change: the Civil...
60) Oliver Loving
Author
Publisher
MacMillan Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening, and the unspoken story he carries, will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart....
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