Category Archives: New Adult Books

The Sisters of Sea View

by Julie Klassen

When their father’s death leaves them impoverished, the Summers sisters open their home to guests to provide for their ailing mother.  But instead of the elderly invalids they expect, they find themselves hosting eligible gentlemen.  Sarah must confront her growing attraction to a mysterious widower, and Viola learns to heal her deeply hidden scars.

 

 

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Bones of Holly

by Carolyn Haines

Sarah Booth is in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for Christmas this year, as a judge for the annual library tree decorating contest.  The other two judges are writers Sandra O’Day and Janet Malone.  They’re bestselling Mississippi authors, but bitter competitors.  When Sandra vanishes from her own gala, suspicion turns to Janet.  Janet accuses Sandra of attempting to manipulate the media by a fake disappearance, but is it a stunt, or is something more sinister at play?

 

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An Amish Christmas Star

by Shelley Shepard Gray, C.Hubbard, and Rosalind Lauer

The crisp fragrance of pine trees and the warm spice of fresh cookies aren’t the only blessings that Christmas brings, and no one knows more about happy homecomings than three couples who are celebrating the greatest gift of all.

 

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A Dangerous Business

by Jane Smiley

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set in 1850s Gold Rush California. 

 

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Daisy Darker

by Alice Feeney

After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island.  Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours.  The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets.  Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead.  And an hour later, the next family member follows…Trapped on an island where someone is killing them one by one, the Darkers must reckon with their present mystery as well as their past secrets, before the tide comes in and all is revealed. 

 

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Stella Maris

by Cormac McCarthy

The best-selling Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series:  Stella Maris is an intimate protrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 

 

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All The Broken Pieces

by John Boyne

From the NY Times bestselling author John Boyne, a devastating, beautiful story about a woman who must confront the sins of her own terrible past, and present in which it is never too late for bravery.

 

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A World of Curiosities

by Louise Penny

It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter.  But not everything buried should come alive again.  Not everything lying dormant should reemerge.  But something has. 

 

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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook

by Ellen Marie Wiseman

NY Times bestselling author Ellen Marie Wiseman masterfully evokes the real-life Willowbrook State School in this gripping narrative of social injustice, survival, and a young woman determined to find her sister. 

 

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