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Summary: "It has been years since Helen Franklin left England. In Prague, working as a translator, she has found a home of sorts--or, at least, refuge. That changes when her friend Karel discovers a mysterious letter in the library, a strange confession and a curious warning that speaks of Melmoth the Witness, a dark legend found in obscure fairy tales and antique village lore. As such superstition has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION PerryHawkins, Rachel
Summary: "When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION HawkinsCard, Maisy
Summary: "Centers on Abel and Vera Paisley, a working-class Jamaican couple striving to build a better life for their children. Abel travels to London in the early 1960s in search of fortune. Instead, he sees an opportunity to escape the drudgery of his life by faking his death and assuming a new identity. Vera, now a widow, is racked with guilt over her husband's "death" and takes out her grief on her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION CardGriffiths, Elly
Summary: Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland's most famous story, "The Stranger," left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favorite...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2019
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1 available in Adult Mystery, Call number: MYSTERY GriffHarrow, Alix E.
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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Summary: "Late one night, Laura, Daniel, and Mo find themselves confused and disembodied, blinking under the fluorescent lights of their high school music room. They are greeted by the man they know as their music teacher, who restores the ghostly teens to their corporeal forms with a flick of his fingers and explains: nearly a year ago they went missing from their hometown, the small seaside community...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024
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1 available in Adult Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Call number: FANTASY LinkDu Maurier, Daphne
Summary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday & Company 1938
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION DuMaurSchwab, Victoria
Summary: Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother's journal--which seems to unravel into madness. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home--to Gallant. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn't matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: Y FICTION SchwabO'Donnell, Paraic
Summary: "In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION OdonnellHawkins, Rachel
Summary: When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate, along with a nine-figure fortune...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK FICTION HawkinsHawkins, Rachel
Summary: "When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle's death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold and questions about the infamous heiress come to light. What really...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FICTION HawkinsBourland, Barbara
Summary: "After a fire decimates her studio, including the seven billboard-size paintings for her next show, a young, no-name painter is left with an impossible task: recreate her art in three months--or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into an exclusive retreat in upstate New York famous for its outrageous revelries and glamorous artists. And notorious as the place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION BourlMoreno-Garcia, Silvia
Summary: After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MorenogarciaMoore, Christopher
Summary: "Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MooreSetterfield, Diane
Summary: Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black -- $c Source other than Library of Congress.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SetterLivesey, Margot
Summary: "From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective-she doesn't, for instance, see that she has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION LiveseySummary: Say hello to adventure with Elmo and Abby Cadabby! From clowning around at the Sesame Circus to solving mysteries with Tango, Grover, and Cookie Monster, little ones will have the best time playing, singing, and exploring. With over two hours of fun, come along on some amazing adventures with your favorite furry friends from Sesame Street. Special guests include Ginnifer Goodwin playing an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023