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1) Here i am
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Pub. Date
2016
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JACOB AND JULIA BLOCH HAVE A PROBLEM ? SEVERAL PROBLEMS, IN FACT. While they?ve been coaxing Jacob?s grandfather into a retirement home, bracing themselves for a family reunion and struggling to keep their eldest son from being expelled, a discovery is made that risks destroying their marriage. As domestic crises multiply in the foreground, a global disaster is looming on the horizon. The Bloch family is collapsing and so is the Middle East, where...
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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Out of the ashes of evil, Chris and Cathy have made a loving home for their children. Fourteen-year-old Jory is handsome and gentle, and nine-year-old Bart has a dazzling imagination. Then the lights come on in the abandoned house next door. The old lady in black is there, watching their home with prying eyes, guarded by her strange old butler. Soon she has Bart over for cookies and ice-cream, and asks him to call her 'Grandmother'. And Bart's dark...
3) Closer
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
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I know my daughter better than I know myself and if there?s one thing I know for sure at this moment it's that Maisie is not okay. My ex-husband, Shaun, and I are still friends. We would do anything for our beautiful little girl, Maisie. But now Shaun has moved in with Joanne and suddenly Maisie has a brand-new family. And there?s something not quite right about it ... I know Joanne isn?t everything she says she is. Yet no one will listen. I need...
4) Two sisters
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Pub. Date
2020.
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The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father's farm. Ellen, loyal and honest, loves the countryside. Gina, impulsive and unreliable, craves excitement and yearns for something more than drudgery and toil. But life for the sisters and their mother is tainted by their father's black moods. His worst treatment is often aimed at Gina, who has given up trying to please the man who seems to despise her. Grindle Hall, the big manor house, is owned...
5) Blueeyedboy
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Once there was a widow with three sons, and their names were Black, Brown and Blue. Black was the eldest; moody and aggressive. Brown was the middle child, timid and dull. But Blue was his mother's favourite. And he was a murderer.
6) Dark angel
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In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreams of a wonderful new life of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes, and - most importantly - love. The pearls of culture, wisdom, and breeding will now be hers. Soon she will make the Casteel name respectable, find her brothers and sisters, and have a family again. But even in the world of the wealthy, there are strange forebodings, and secrets best forgotten. And as...
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Those looking in from the outside think that Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a big, empty hole where all the love and warmth should be. Over the years her children have watched while their father chipped away at Lucy's self-confidence. Now the children are following their own paths and Lucy has never felt more alone. When tragedy strikes at the heart of her family, it's a wake-up call for her. Everyone...
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Pub. Date
2024
Description
Anthony Wistern is wealthy beyond imagination. Fragrant wife, gaggle of photogenic children, French chateau, Cotswold manor, plethora of mistresses, penchant for cutting moral corners, tick tick tick tick tick tick. Unfortunately for him, he's also dead. Suddenly poised to inherit his fortune, each member of the family falls under suspicion. And that's when everything comes crashing down.
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Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence. Her young eyes had seen so much but this never tainted her spirit. If it wasn't for her best friend Gary, and friendly dog called Whisky, Evie might never have made it to her 16th birthday. At 16 she meets Ken, a sweet, brown-eyed boy, not much older than she is. Perhaps her...
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
Kate Rafter is a successful war reporter. She's the strong one. The one who escaped Herne Bay and the memories it holds. Her sister Sally didn't. Instead, she spends her days in an alcoholic haze. Having driven her daughter away, her husband may soon wash his hands of her as well. With the death of their mother, Kate is forced to return to the old family home - and on her second night she is woken by a terrifying scream. What secret has Kate stumbled...
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(Virginia C.)Dollanganger volume 2
Publisher
Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
Description
The Dollanganger children are trying to rebuild their lives after suffocating for so long in the terrifying darkness of the attic. The siblings must put aside their past and learn to love and dream again, in order to find their rightful place in the world. Still, dreams of happiness and success are easily crowded out by thoughts of vengeance. Cathy is determined to make those responsible for destroying their childhood pay, from the grandmother who...