Lourey, Jess
Summary: Minnesota, 1977. For the teens of one close-knit community, summer means late-night swimming parties at the quarry, the county fair, and venturing into the tunnels beneath the city. But for two best friends, it's not all fun and games. Heather and Brenda have a secret. Something they saw in the dark. Something they can't forget. They've decided to never tell a soul. But their vow is tested when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOUBuchanan, Greg
Summary: "A literary thriller from stunning new talent Greg Buchanan, Sixteen Horses is a story of enduring guilt, trauma, and punishment, set in a small seaside community the rest of the world has left behind. In Ilmarsh, England, local police detective Alec Nichols discovers sixteen horses' heads on a farm, each buried with a single eye facing the low winter sun. After Veterinary Forensics expert...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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Summary: During his last day before leaving for university, Natwest, desperately waiting for a deeply embarrassing package he ordered, embarks on a small-town odyssey to find it, encountering an unforgettable cast of characters along the way, in this humorous story of being always connected to everyone and everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2024
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Goldman, Matt
Summary: Moments after they learn their brother is dead, estranged siblings Liv and Gabe receive a scheduled email from him, claiming he was murdered, and returning home to investigate, they risk everything to unearth the secrets in a small town where someone is willing to kill for the truth to stay buried.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge, Tor Publishing Group 2024
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Summary: The last time Nicola Bennett saw Lauren Ballard she was scraping a key along the side of a new cherry-red Chevy Silverado. That was the night before her friend mysteriously vanished from her home, leaving a bloodstained washcloth and signs of a struggle--as well as her grieving husband and young daughter--behind. Now, nearly twenty years later, Nicola, newly unemployed and still haunted by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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Summary: "What would you do if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thinks so too? What if the truth doesn't matter? As Lucy Chase's Texas hometown begins to tell versions of what happened and who Lucy is to a nationwide, true crime obsessed audience, at the bequest of her grandmother, she returns to the place she vowed never to set foot in again to solve her friend's murder,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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Summary: For many long years, Atlee Pine was tormented by uncertainty after her twin sister, Mercy, was abducted at the age of six and never seen again. Now, just as Atlee is pressured to end her investigation into Mercy's disappearance, she finally gets her most promising breakthrough yet: the identity of her sister's kidnapper, Ito Vincenzo. With time running out, Atlee and her assistant Carol Blum...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing Large Print 2020
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Summary: A novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can change a life. Lucille is getting on in years, but she stays busy. Thanks to the inspiration of her dearly departed friend Arthur, she has begun to teach baking classes. Her classes have become so popular that she's hired Iris, a new resident of Mason, Missouri, as an assistant. In these difficult times, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, LLC 2018
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Summary: Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it...right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House Audio 2024
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Summary: "Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "Hollows Bend, New Hampshire, is a picture-perfect New England town where weekend tourists flock to see fall leaves and eat breakfast at the Stairway Diner. The crime rate--zero--is a point of pride for Sheriff Ellie Pritchett. The day the stranger shows up is when the trouble starts. The sheriff and her deputy investigate the mysterious teenage girl. None of the locals can place her. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central 2024
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Backman, Fredrik
Summary: "Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland--and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house--and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling--go to rot. Opal knows better than to mess with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARThayne, RaeAnne
Summary: Pregnant and on bed rest, McKenna calls her sister Natalie, who fled Shelter Springs, Idaho, after family tragedies took their toll, pleading for help running the Shelter Inn during the busy upcoming Christmas season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2023
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Summary: Arriving in the lakeside town of Good Hart, Michigan, Becky Thatcher--just turned forty years old with little to show for it--encounters eighty-year-old Mary Jackson, who has almost given up hope that someone will come along to carry on her legacy as the owner of The Very Cherry General Store. For most of her eighty years, Mary Jackson has endured the steady invasion of tourists, influencers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2023
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Summary: "In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible tragedy that forever bonded him with his friends Nat and Harper in unknowable ways. Decades later, Wilder returns to the town in an attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WARSandford, John
Summary: "Wheatfield, Minnesota, is a metropolis of six hundred souls and change for which the word 'moribund' might have been coined. Nothing ever happened there, and nothing ever would, until the mayor (of sorts-campaign slogan: 'I'll do what I can') and his precocious teenage buddy come up with a scheme to put Wheatfield on the map. Should something dramatic occur-say, an apparition of the Virgin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2018
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Summary: "Until Camryn Neff can return to her "real" life in Chicago, she's in Wishing Tree to care for her twin sisters. She's not looking for forever love, not here. But handsome hotelier Jake Crane is a temptation she can't resist, so she suggests they pair up for the season. No golden rings, no broken hearts. At his side, she sees her hometown through Christmas-colored eyes. The cheer is cheerier,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HQN 2022
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Summary: "Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical series full of vivid New England atmosphere and the deeply drawn characters that are Sarah Stewart Taylor's trademark. In the hot summer of 1965, Bostonian Franklin Warren arrives in Bethany, Vermont, to take a position as a detective with the state police. Warren's new home is on the verge of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2024
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Summary: "Avalee Elvis prides herself with being able to fix just about anything. . . except her past. Unable to put the puzzle of her life together, she pours heart and soul into making neglected places whole again. As the owner of Lowcountry Lost, Avalee spends her days in hot-pink Carhartt overalls and a tool belt reclaiming Lowcountry properties. Making them beautiful again releases the deep sigh...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2024
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Summary: "Conley Hawkins left her family's small town and its newspaper, The Silver Bay Beacon, in the rearview mirror years ago. Now a star reporter for a big-city paper, Conley is exactly where she wants to be and is about to take a fancy new position in Washington, D.C. Or so she thinks. When the new job goes up in smoke, Conley finds herself right back where she started, working for her sister, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Returning to the small Louisiana town of Catalina Cove to care for his aging parents, Saint is shocked when he comes face to face with "Angel," the no-strings woman of his dreams with whom he had an unforgettable one-night stand, discovering her brother is his new boss.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Canary Street Press 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACMallery, Susan
Summary: "Until Camryn Neff can return to her "real" life in Chicago, she's in Wishing Tree to care for her twin sisters. She's not looking for forever love, not here. But handsome hotelier Jake Crane is a temptation she can't resist, so she suggests they pair up for the season. No golden rings, no broken hearts. At his side, she sees her hometown through Christmas-colored eyes. The cheer is cheerier,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "Growing up at the Shelter Inn hotel, Natalie Shepherd envied guests who could come and go as they pleased. So when it was time to finally leave for college and put the lush green mountains around Shelter Springs-along with the cloud of loss that seemed to follow her family-behind her, she swore she'd never come back. But now her sister McKenna needs a favor. On pregnancy bed rest at doctor's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023