Karen White
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nell King's cozy home in Yorktide, Maine, seems a step down from the impeccably decorated Boston house she shared with her ex-husband, but Nell and her two daughters have found real happiness and comfort here. Now, faced with what may be their last Christmas together before Molly and Felicity move away, she feels anxious: what role is left for her to fill?" --
22) Little comfort
Author
Series
A Hester Thursby mystery volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 343 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a brilliantly twisted debut set among Boston's elite, Edwin Hill introduces unforgettable sleuth Hester Thursby-and a missing persons case that uncovers a trail of vicious murder . . .
Harvard librarian Hester Thursby knows that even in the digital age, people still need help finding things. Using her research skills, Hester runs a side business tracking down the lost. Usually, she's hired to find long-ago prom dates or to reunite adopted children...
23) The missing ones
Author
Series
A Hester Thursby mystery volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who don't want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Caring for a four-year-old is responsibility enough in a world filled with terrors Hester never could have imagined before.
Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remote-the kind of place tourists love...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affaircomes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Big truck, big dog, big hair. Bad attitude.Roxy Abruzzo, bestselling author Nancy Martin's latest creation, is the loud-mouthed, sexy, independent-minded niece of a Pittsburgh Mafia boss trying to go (mostly) straight. She'd like to stay completely out of her uncle Carmine's shady business dealings, though he's trying to reel her in. She'd like to concentrate on the architectural salvage business she runs mostly on the up-and-up for a tidy profit....
26) Watch her
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a suspicious burglary and the disappearances of Prescott University alumni, Harvard librarian Hester Thursby and Detective Angela White uncover financial transgressions, rumors of infidelity, and a decades-old tragedy.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the North Dakota beet fields to California's National Forest campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have discovered a new low-cost labor pool: transient older Americans. With Social security coming up short, these invisible casualties of the Great Recession have taken to the road by the tens of thousands, forming a growing community of migrant laborers dubbed "workampers." In a secondhand vehicle christened "Van Halen,"...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author argues that Louisa's "Marmee," Abigail May Alcott, was in fact the intellectual and emotional center of her daughter's world--exploding the myth that her outspoken idealist father was the source of her progressive thinking and remarkable independence.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Darcy Stone is game for anything -- except sexy Navy vet and physical therapist AJ Colten, who'd rejected her when she needed him most. Now AJ needs Darcy to help him secure grants for his patients. Unfortunately she can't refuse -- the money will help fund her passion project rescuing S&R dogs to place with emotionally wounded soldiers. Forced to fake a relationship, AJ and Darcy grow closer. And they have to ask: how much between them is pretend?...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What would happen to dogs if humans simply disappeared? Would dogs be able to survive on their own without the help of humans? Many people assume that dogs are so dependent on people that they could not and would not survive in a world without us. But isthis true? And why does it matter to contemplate such a scenario? In this book, the authors argue that dogs would, as a species, survive without us and that imagining a world for dogs without humans...