Alana Kerr Collins
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Language
English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Late one night a man walks into the luxurious home of disgraced banker Harry McNamara and his wife Julie. And when the man launches an unspeakably brutal attack on Harry, a horror-struck Julie, frozen by fear, watches her husband die. Just one hour later, the attacker, J. P. Carney hands himself into the police and confesses to beating Harry to death. Except he also claims that the assault was not premeditated and that he didn't know the identity...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Illinois, 1881: Whitsitt College sophomore Beth Carrington has two goals to fulfill by the time she graduates: obtain a medical degree, and establish a women's fraternity, Beta Xi Beta, that will help young women like herself to connect with and support one another while attending the male-dominated Whitsitt. Neither is an easy task. The sole female student in the physicians' program, Beth is constantly called out by her professors and peers for having...
4) Eggshells
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Vivian doesn't feel like she fits in - and never has. As a child, she was so whimsical that her parents told her she was "left by fairies." Now, living alone in Dublin, the neighbors treat her like she's crazy, her older sister condescends to her, social workers seem to have registered her as troubled, and she hasn't a friend in the world. So, she decides it's time to change her life: She begins by advertising for a friend. Not just any friend. She...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
310 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the remarkable true story of the Carpathia--the only ship and her legendary captain who answered the distress call of the sinking Titanic. Just after midnight on April 15, 1912, the passenger steamship Carpathia receives a distress signal from the largest passenger liner ever built, RMS Titanic, which is on its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York. Captain Arthur Rostron is awakened to an enormous maritime emergency with...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
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"Set during the Irish Land Wars (1879-1882) this novel in verse follows Anna Mallon through a series of tragedies as her mother dies, older sibling immigrate to America, and she and her father and sister with special needs are about to be evicted from their farm"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Rewind
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Psycho meets Fatal Attraction in this explosive story about a murder caught on camera. You've already missed the start. To get the full picture you must rewind the tape and play it through to the end, no matter how shocking.
Andrew, the manager of Shanamore Cottages, watches his only guest via a hidden camera in her room. One night a shadowy figure emerges on-screen, kills her, and destroys the camera. But who is the murderer? How did they know about...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"Gripping, beautifully written, and genuinely chilling, The Nothing Man had me from page one. Simply stellar."—Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award–winning author of The Dark Corners of the Night
I was the girl who survived the Nothing Man. Now I am the woman who is going to catch him ...
At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with serial attacker the Nothing Man. Now an adult,
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Language
English
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"A gripping debut psychological thriller for fans of The Silent Wife and The Wicked Girls about two families in crisis and a holiday house swap gone terribly wrong "She would never have fit as neatly into the trunk of his own car." Limerick, Ireland: the O'Brien family's driveway. American Oscar Harvey opens the trunk of his hosts' car and finds the body of a woman, beaten and bloody. But let's start at the beginning. Kate and Mannix O'Brien live...
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Publisher
Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
221 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion, a trio of women compete to win the heart of the slick guest of honor. In a tense hospital waiting room, an inseparable pair of hard-partying friends...
11) A touch of gold
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Gold is wealth. Wealth is power. Power is a curse. King Midas once had the ability to turn all he touched into gold. But after his gift--or curse--almost killed his daughter, Midas relinquished The Touch forever. Ten years later, Princess Kora still bears the consequences of her father's wish: her skin shines golden, rumors follow her everywhere she goes, and she harbors secret powers that are getting harder to hide. Kora spends her days locked in...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
iii, 399 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Nell Crane has never held a boy's hand. In a city devastated by an epidemic, where survivors are all missing parts--an arm, a leg, an eye--Nell has always been an outsider. Her father is the famed scientist who created the biomechanical limbs that everyone now uses. But she's the only one with her machinery on the inside: her heart. Since the childhood operation, she has ticked. Like a clock, like a bomb. And as her community rebuilds, everyone is...