Nicole Poole
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2016
Language
English
Description
Discovered by the former quarterback she was hired to tail, detective Piper Dove pretends to be the athlete's stalker and is subsequently hired as his bodyguard, an arrangement threatened by their growing chemistry.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When life throws her one setback too many, midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong takes off for Runaway Mountain. In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and a...
3) Stung
Author
Series
Stung volume 1
Publisher
Walker & Company, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When a vaccine to save endangered bees causes their sting to turn children into ferocious killer beasts, the uninfected build a wall to keep the beasts out, but Fiona wakes up on the wrong side of the wall.
4) New mercies
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Sandra Dallas, best-selling author of The Persian Pickle Club, weaves an intricate and sophisticated tale in New Mercies. Nora Bondurant is divorced-unfathomable for a woman in 1933-and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Its 1880, and for unassuming seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent, the Brides House is a fairy tale come to life. It seems as if it is being built precisely for her and Will Spaulding, the man she is convinced she will marry. But life doesnt go according to plan, and Nealie finds herself in the Brides House pregnant---and married to another.For Pearl, growing up in the Brides House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum. Her father has fashioned the house...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb returns to the heart-racing world of NASCAR with Once Around the Track. Badger Jenkins, a driver past his prime, is recruited by an all-female pit crew to drive their new car. But every woman has a different plan to get the car into the fast lane, and it's not long before the women collide-both on and off the track.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Caldwell grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, and took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. This memoir is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: how literature can shape and even anticipate a life.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
Popular television personality Valerie Adler turns to her long-forgotten, Illinois hometown friend Addie Downs when she runs into a bit of trouble involving betrayal and loyalty, family history and small-town secrets.
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
One moment June Nealon was happily looking forward to years full of laughter and adventure with her family, and the next, she was staring into a future that was as empty as her heart. Now her life is a waiting game. Waiting for time to heal her wounds, waiting for justice. In short, waiting for a miracle to happen. For Shay Bourne, life holds no more surprises. The world has given him nothing, and he has nothing to offer the world. In a heartbeat,...