Catalog Search Results
10541) Getting It Right
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel of half sisters raised separately-and now united in the midst of danger.
Kara and Alex are half sisters, but they've never met. Kara, the product of an abusive foster-care setting, falls for the wrong men, is haunted by crippling memories, and longs for the family she knows only from a photograph. Meanwhile, Alex was raised in an atmosphere of dysfunctional privilege. She struggles to keep her younger sisters out of trouble, her mother...
Author
Language
Français
Description
Découvrez l'histoire d'un village qui se relève tant bien que mal suite à la guerre, et dont les habitants tentent de se reconstruire et de retrouver la vie de tous les jours...
Que de veillées passées à écouter Léon raconter sa guerre -la grande évidemment-, ses combats et toutes les horreurs qu'il y a vues ! Il en est revenu amputé de la jambe gauche. Malgré tout et heureusement, la vie à la ferme reprend peu à peu après ce cataclysme....
10543) The Hotel on the Riviera
Author
Language
English
Description
From Sunday Times bestselling author and the nation's best-loved TV presenter Carol Kirkwood comes a glittering escape to the French Riviera. Heiress Ariana Theodosis wanted everything that Hollywood had to offer, took it all, and is now paying the price. When she inherits a hotel on the beautiful French Riviera, she hopes it's a chance to start again. Elizabeth and Robert Chappell were Hollywood's fiery English golden couple. Their legendary breakups...
10544) A Forbidden Love
Author
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary story against all the odds...
He vowed in his letter to one day meet her again, once the war was over. But it was a letter Maria couldn't bring herself to read...
Growing up in the humble Spanish town of Fuentes, Maria dreamed of seeing the world and marrying one day. But before her life can truly start, civil war breaks out and Fuentes is torn apart by violence, secrecy and corruption. Maria vows to take a stand, yet as an unspeakable...
10545) The Stranger She Knew
Author
Language
English
Description
They wrote it on the wall above my bed. Hello, it said, my name is May. Please talk to me. May has been moved to a care home after her stroke. She can't communicate; all her words are kept inside. If she tries to point, her arms swing in wild directions, if she tries to talk, strange noises come out of her mouth. May is sharp, quick, and funny, but only her daughter Jenny sees this, and Jackie, a new friend at the home who cares enough to look and...
10546) Highliners: A Novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches-salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp-and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men-and for their women-the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman. No matter...
10547) Se retrouver enfin
Author
Language
Français
Description
Depuis la mort du mari d'Agnès Fournier, le soir de Noël, il y a dix ans, ses fils ont pris des chemins différents et se sont perdus de vue. Maxime, l'aîné, vit désormais à Paris et s'est spécialisé en chirurgie cardiaque. Le second, Sébastien, a abandonné son poste d'enseignant pour reprendre l'exploitation familiale en Corrèze. Quant au petit dernier, Nicolas, il est devenu pompier à Tulle. Pourtant, ce Noël sera différent car il...
10548) Péio: Roman
Author
Language
Français
Description
Plongez dans l'histoire du couple de Peïo et de Mimi Georgette, symbole d'un monde rural montagnard don’t les traditions s'éteignent peu à peu...
Péio est le cadet d'une famille paysanne du piémont pyrénéen. En vertu des coutumes locales, seul l'aîné hérite du patrimoine. Par amour de la nature et de la montagne, Péio s'en ira berger communal dans un village voisin.
Une rencontre va le pousser à construire sa maison pour devenir à...
Author
Language
English
Description
The brand new historical novel from Erin Litteken, bestselling author of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv, based on her family's heart-wrenching escape from war-torn Europe.
A story of the strength of the human spirit, the personal cost of conflict and how love can be found even in the darkest times.
Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Halya, Liliya and Vika are no strangers to sorrow. They lost family during the Holodomor,...
10550) Fast Forward
Author
Language
English
Description
A fun romantic comedy about rediscovering the important things in life.
Aspiring supermodel, Kelli Crawford seems destined to marry her hotshot boyfriend, but on her twenty–fifth birthday she wakes in the future as a fifty–year–old suburban housewife married to the now middle–aged high school nerd.
Trapped in the opposite life of the one she wanted, Kelli is forced to re–evaluate her life and discover what is really important to her....
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Despite their growing attraction, both Peter and Elizabeth have secrets that will come between them.
New South Wales, 1887
Peter Rowe's life is in the city, but his soul is in Australia's southern tablelands - a place he's never seen. Taking the new land manager's position on the thriving estate of Endmoor is the chance he needs to discover what happened to the family he has never met. What he doesn't expect to find in the bush is his employer's...
10552) A Broken Family
Author
Language
English
Description
Celia Frost has always thought herself a cut above the other residents of Lark Rise in Battersea. When her beloved son, Thomas, starts seeing Amy Miller, a girl from the bottom of the Rise, Celia disapproves, thinking her common. When Celia's husband leaves her and Thomas announces he is to marry Amy, she is more determined than ever to split them up.
Celia needs an ally, so she writes to her elder son, Jeremy, asking him to come home. Jeremy's...
Author
Language
English
Description
In present-day Southern California, a diverse group of characters seeks the fulfillment and connection this sunny state has always promised. They come with hopes for a better lifestyle, for a change of perspective, or for the dry, mild West Coast weather. A couple moves to Palm Desert from New York for the arid, warm climate a doctor prescribes and they manage both illness and homesickness. The woman makes an unlikely friend in a young albino boy...
10554) Daughters of Cornwall
Author
Language
English
Description
The unforgettable new novel from the Sunday Times bestseller 1918. The Great War is over, and Clara Carter has boarded a train bound for Cornwall - to meet a family that would once have been hers. But they must never discover her secret... 2020. Caroline has spent years trying to uncover the lies buried in her family history. And once she arrives in Cornwall, the truth finally seems to be in reach. Except with storm clouds gathering on the horizon,...
10555) The Lost Evacuee
Author
Language
English
Description
The brand new emotional and compelling novel from the bestselling author.
Will their new lives bring happiness, or heartache?
As the Blitz casts a dark shadow over London, Julie Miller, a teenaged orphan, is sent far away to keep her safe. Hoping this will be a new chapter after years of sadness, Julie voyages by ship across the Atlantic, and on the long passage, forges a bond with a young child called Beth, both of them dreaming of their new families...
10556) Flywheel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the makers of Overcomer and Fireproof comes a novel that asks: what's the most important thing in your life?
Jay Austin did what it took to get ahead and make the quick sell at work. Problem was-the more successful he was, the more he traded what really mattered. His integrity. His relationship with his wife. His time with his son.
He was chasing things that had no eternal significance. It wasn't until God slowly unraveled everything...
10557) Mr. and Mrs. Doctor
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Married in Nigeria, moved to Nebraska, Ifi and Job believed they would be able to keep up the appearance to relatives and friends back home that their marriage was not based on a lie: that Job was a respected doctor in America and Ifi would become his nurse.
10558) Stillwater
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former FBI agent Jack McBride took the job as Chief of Police for Stillwater, Texas, to start a new life with his teenage son, Ethan, away from the suspicions that surrounded his wife's disappearance a year earlier. With a low crime rate and a five-man police force, he expected it to be a nice, easy gig; hot checks, traffic violations, some drugs, occasional domestic disturbances, and petty theft. Instead, within a week he is investigating a staged...
10559) The Secrets of Lord Lynford
Author
Language
English
Description
"He's destined never to marry She might change his mind... Part of The Cornish Dukes. Eaton Falmage, Marquess of Lynford, is an expert at distracting himself from the painful truth that means he'll never wed. Seducing mining widow Eliza Blaxland seems the perfect diversion. Until he learns Eliza guards her heart as fiercely as her hard-won independence. He longs for more, but that would mean confessing his secret...and risking losing her forever!"--...
10560) Stern
Author
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson, comes a new trilogy starring three Westmorelands who are impossible to resist: Zane, Canyon and Stern Stern Westmoreland never makes mistakes -- until he helps his best friend Jovonnie "JoJo" Jones with a makeover ... for another man. Now Stern wants JoJo for himself. Their attraction is undeniable and there's only one way to test it: one long, steamy night together as much more than friends!...
Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Main Library Alliance members might be available in other libraries across New Jersey. You can search JerseyCat and place a request for the item to be sent to your library.
If your library doesn't permit JerseyCat requests or the item can't be found, you can also contact your library for assistance.Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request