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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times bestselling author of the Lowcountry Summer series, returns to her beloved Beach House series with the highly anticipated follow-up to Beach House Memories and The Beach House!"--
Cara Rutledge inherited her mother Lovie's beach house on Isle of Palms. She rents the house for the summer to Heather, who suffers from extreme social anxiety. Heather plans to send the summer painting shore birds, for a postage stamps...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"An unlikely friendship between a curmudgeonly old man and a desperate young woman delivers a funny and uplifting message about the power of human connection and how it's never too late to be the person you wanted to be. Eighty-eight-year-old Duffy Sinclair wants the last leg of his bachelor life to be strictly predictable, so Centennial Assisted Living is perfect: low-sodium meals, off-key sing-alongs, and the company of his best pal and roommate,...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"From author Willy Vlautin comes an exploration of greed and opportunism, set amidst a rapidly gentrifying city--a novel taking place over 48 hours in which a young woman must push herself to her limits to get the security she needs for herself and her family"--
11) The last guests
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When newlyweds rent out their seldom used lakeside house to strangers, things take a sudden deadly turn.
Newlyweds Lina and Cain don't make it out to their property on gorgeous Lake Tarawera as often as they would like, so when Cain suggests they rent the house out to vacationers, Lina reluctantly agrees. The home has been in her family for generations, but they could use the extra money. Lina is amazed at how quickly guests line up, and at how much...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Agent Eric Hill, against all odds, is among them. He once took a bullet for a previous president, making him a hero, though Hill has fallen far since then -- riding a desk in the White House basement, stripped of his service weapon, disillusioned and nearly broken after pushing back against the corrupt power of official Washington. But his instincts, honed by years of the job, take over during the attack, and Eric once again earns this spot by the...
Author
Series
Trouble in paradise! volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Plum Lockhart went out on a limb when she ditched her corporate job in NYC and moved to the Caribbean island of Paraiso. Now the head of her own villa broker agency, Plum finds herself going head-to-head with her former boss and his evil (and annoyingly handsome) deputy Damian. But when an old colleague asks her to connect with his snarky assistant Arielle, the sweet life turns sour--Arielle is soon found dead at the house of an eccentric tycoon,...
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2021, 2020
Description
Renting out his West London home in the wake of marital and career setbacks, an award-winning artist rediscovers his sense of purpose through relationships with a lonely American, a tortured fellow artist, and a cautiously optimistic divorcée.
"Bennett Driscoll is a Turner Prize-nominated artist who was once a rising star. Now, at age fifty-five, his wife has left him, he hasn't sold a painting in two years, and his gallery wants to stop selling...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
16) Candyman: Say it
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
For decades, the housing projects of Chicago's Cabrini-Green were terrorized by a ghost story about a supernatural, hook handed killer. In present day, an artist begins to explore the macabre history of Candyman, not knowing it would unravel his sanity and unleash a terrifying wave of violence that puts him on a collision course with destiny
17) The flatshare
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Tiffy and Leon share an apartment in London. Tiffy and Leon have never met. After a bad breakup, Tiffy Moore needs a place to live. Fast. And cheap. But the apartments in her budget have her wondering if astonishingly colored mold on the walls counts as art. Desperation makes her open minded, so she answers an ad for a flatshare. Leon, a night shift worker, will take the apartment during the day, and Tiffy can have it nights and weekends. He'll only...
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Lovingly renovated, located by the sea in a quiet Long Island village, the house is Ruthie Beamish's nest egg-- the retirement account shared with her ex-husband, Mike, and the college fund for their teenage daughter, Jem. The catch? To afford the house, Ruthie must let it go during the best part of the year. This Memorial Day weekend, the renter is Adeline Clay: widowed, elegant, connected, and accompanied by a stepson. But soon Adeline demonstrates...
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