Amy McFadden
Author
Series
Life in Icicle Falls volume 11
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Return to the fan-favorite town of Icicle Falls with the final installment in USA TODAY bestselling author Sheila Roberts's treasured series
When Muriel Sterling released her new book, A Guide to Happy Holidays, she felt like the queen of Christmas. She's thrilled when the new tree she ordered online arrives and is eager to show it off-until she gets it out of the box and realizes it's a mangy dud. But rather than give up on the ugly tree, Muriel...
82) Twisted
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Beth Anne Reimer, renamed Bex Andrews, is ready to start a new life in foster care. There, she won't be known as a serial killer's daughter. Though her father was never tried for the murders attributed to "The Wife Collector," he disappeared after questioning. The police want to use Bex to lure in her father. But is she baiting a serial killer or endangering an innocent man?"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Draws on research at college and university campuses to explore the topics of sex, consent, and sexual assault, discussing statistics about the prevalence of campus rape, and offering advice on how to make college a safer experience.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
The children of a once-brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the four Haas siblings grew up in chaos-raised in an environment composed of neglect and glamour in equal measure. When their father dies, they must depend on their intense but fragile bond to remember what it means to be family despite years of anger and hurt. These brothers and sisters are painfully human, sometimes selfish, and almost always making the wrong decisions, but their...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Etiquette expert Myka Meier has coached thousands of business professionals and worked with internal human resources and hiring departments of some of the most successful Fortune 100 companies to learn what it takes to be the best in business. It may surprise you to learn that etiquette is what differentiates you from everyone else, and Business Etiquette Made Easy shows you how to put your best professional foot forward. Whether you¿́¿re just...
Author
Series
Debutante dropout mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In the second installment of Susan McBride's Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin ... before she becomes the killer's next target.
Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps lifestyle hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren't for the underhanded machinations of Andy's upper-crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy's donning...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"AJ is a buttoned-up, responsible student...[and] spends every summer with her father in Florida. A free-spirited wild child, she spends as much time as possible on the beach with her friends and older siblings. When her middle sister crashes her carefree summer getaway, Adelaide's plans fall apart. In order to help her sister, save her unexpected friendship with a guy who might just be perfect for her, and discover the truth about her own past, Adelaide...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Madeline Vaughn-Alwin's picture-perfect life fades to gray when her childhood sweetheart perishes in the Great War. The aspiring painter leaves her wealthy New York family behind to travel across the country and start over in California. But when Maddie reaches Santa Fe, New Mexico, she halts her westward journey, certain she's found her new home amid the striking scenery and inspiring artistic community.
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
After years of learning how to manage her bipolar disorder, Emily Firestone finally has it under control. Even better, her life is coming together: she's got a great job, her own place, and a boyfriend, Paolo, who adores her. Then Paolo disappears.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Ryn, eighteen, trapped by a massive blizzard in the Denver airport, meets some unique characters who help her cope with survivor's guilt on the first anniversary of her best friend's death.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Around midnight, three friends take their partying from bar to boat on a misty fall evening. Just as the weather deteriorates, one of them suddenly and confusingly goes overboard. Is it an accident? The result of an unwanted advance? His body disappears quickly, silently, into the dark water. The circumstances are murky, but what is clear is that the other two need to notify the authorities. Minutes become hours become days as they hesitate, caught...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
There was no passion to break her heart, no love to risk and lose. Marrying her boss, prominent businessman Cormick Grayson, was a very reasonable proposition for a woman who'd been hurt in love before. It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. At first. But something wasn't right. Gray's eyes told her there was more to this than a polite, passionless marriage. But Gray's cool, impersonal distance left Amber wondering about the man she'd married....
Author
Publisher
HarperWave, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublisher
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Everything you ever wanted to know about culinary terms that the foodie is afraid to ask: Based on Brette Warshaw's eponymous newsletter, What's the Difference? Is an essential guide that explores all of the differences between kitchen essentials and cooking terms that even non-foodies are too embarrassed to ask about"--
97) The murder game
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
New Game
The game is simple--he is the Hunter. They are the Prey. He gives them a chance to escape. To run. To hide. To outsmart him. But eventually, he catches them. And that's when the game gets really terrifying. . .
New Rules
Private investigator Griffin Powell and FBI agent Nicole Baxter know a lot about serial killers--they took one down together. But this new killer is as sadistic as they've ever seen. He likes his little games, and he...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the night of a massive, record-breaking hurricane, George Westfall, an upstate New York antique store owner and father of three, lays dying. As his wife Ana seals up the storefront, their adult son Armie hides from the outside world as he always does, immersed in woodwork and thoughts of the past. In New York City, Armie's older brother Josef, a sex-addicted techie, is fighting to repair his broken relationship with his daughters. And out in Los...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Kate is a 35-year-old social media obsessed woman, who, after being jilted at her rehearsal dinner, discovers she can change her life by what she writes in her Facebook status. Heartbroken and confused over why she was left, she wishes to go back in time--to before her fiance Max, broke things off-- so she can try to save their relationship. Because it turns out, the reason Max ended their engagement has a lot to do with Kate's close friend and co-worker,...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Adam Herschberger, who is known simply as The Beast, offers her a deal--marry him and her family can keep their farm--Annabell Beiler, to be a dutiful Amish daughter, agrees to his proposal and vows to break through his icy reserve.