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2) Rainwater
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Language
English
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In a time of drought and economic depression in 1934, Ella Barron runs her boardinghouse in Texas while caring for her son, Solly, and responds to the calm influence of one of her boarders, David Rainwater, while facing the tension and uncertainty around her.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Her protective instincts brought out by Emma, who was sent to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met, Addie French takes her new friend under her wing, and the pair begins unfolding secrets, hatching schemes, and questioning everything they once believed.
4) Icefire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Description
While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, David opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
5) Nightingale
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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After twelve-year-old Lark, determined to escape her squalid life, steals a magical sword from the Royal Museum, she reluctantly becomes the next Nightingale, destined to vanquish an ancient evil.
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English
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Some guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own.... When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers and her genteel sisters fear they will be forced to sell the house and separate to earn livelihoods as governesses or companions. Determined to stay together, Sarah convinces them to open their seaside home to guests to make ends meet and provide for their ailing mother. Instead of the elderly invalids they...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Edition
Frist edition.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca meets Fatima Farheen Mirza in this sweeping, gorgeously atmospheric novel about a ruined mansion by the sea, and a young girl who unearths the true story of the tragedy that happened there a hundred years ago Akbar Manzil was once a grand estate off the coast of South Africa. Now, nearly a century since it was built, it stands in ruins-a boardinghouse for misfits, where people come to forget or be forgotten. Seeking a new home after a painful...
Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Language
English
Description
"She promised a dying father she would keep his daughter safe. She can't fail now. The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she would never have - a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski to raise and love quells those fears - until seventeen-year-old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair, and Sylvie's life unravels. With nowhere else to turn, Sylvie seeks help from her boarder and Rose's violin instructor,...
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Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Jove Books
Language
English
Description
Just when his doctor put him on a strict diet, Qwilleran 's assignment at the newspaper was to write a regular column on the enjoyment of good food and wine, but before long, it's more than Qwilleran's pounds that are disappearing and reporter and felines seem to have a murder on their hands and paws.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
With America's entrance into the Second World War, the town of Blackberry Springs, Alabama, has exploded virtually overnight. Workers from all over are coming south for jobs in Uncle Sam's munitions plants--and they're bringing their pasts with them, right into Dolly Chandler's grand but fading family home turned boardinghouse.
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Language
English
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2023 Lariat Adult Fiction Reading List
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African American Authors
February is Black History Month
Lariat List 2023
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Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more!
"An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." - Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee
In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can...
12) A time to bloom
Author
Series
Leah's garden volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Language
English
Description
"Delphinium Nielsen and her sisters have accomplished much in the past year, traveling west and settling in Nebraska. They are on their way to building a garden in dedication to their mother and working against the forces of nature to make their farm thrive. However, none of that can mask their concern that they are quickly running out of money. Del's work teaching in their booming town offers hope, not only to support her sisters financially, but...
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Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Language
English
Description
Jillian Slater hadn't seen her father or his mother in almost 20 years until, on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death, Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, calls and says Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd fly in to New Orleans for the burial. What Adella didn't tell her was that the apartment house bears the dead weight of a long and painful history. As an investigation into her father's...
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English
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When Arlen Wagner awakens on a train one hot Florida night and sees death's telltale sign in the eyes of his fellow passengers, he tries to warn them. Only 19-year-old Paul Brickhill believes him, and the two abandon the train, hoping to escape certain death. They continue south, but are soon stranded at the Cypress House--an isolated Gulf Coast boarding house run by the beautiful Rebecca Cady--directly in the path of an approaching hurricane. But...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The Darby-Jones boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit: the two of them and the four eclectic boarders living in their house. But their small, quiet life is upended when Arthur Rook shows up in the middle of a nervous breakdown, devastated by the death of his wife, carrying a pink shoe box containing all his wife's...
Author
Series
Puzzle lady mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When an elderly boarder at a Bakerhaven bed-and-breakfast drops dead during afternoon tea, there's nothing particularly suspicious about it--except for the Sudoku in his jacket pocket. But when a second body turns up in the window seat and an autopsy shows both men were poisoned with elderberry wine, the Puzzle Lady suspects she's dealing with a cold-blooded killer who for some reason is copying the Cary Grant movie Arsenic and Old Lace, in which...
Author
Series
American girl BeForever. Kit, 1934 volume 2
Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
Kit classic volume 2
American girl BeForever. Kit 1934 volume 2
Publisher
American Girl
Language
English
Description
"Turning Things Around, the second volume of Kit's classic stories, tells how Kit uses her talents to tackle the challenges brought by the Great Depression"--
Author
Series
Crooked heart volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition
Language
English
Description
It's late 1944. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of lodgers to feed and her young charge Noel, almost fifteen now, to clothe and educate. When she witnesses an accident and finds herself in court, the repercussions are both unexpectedly marvelous and potentially disastrous. Because Vee is not actually the person she's pretending to be, and neither is Noel.
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
He's the battle-hardened son of a bastard, raised in the wilds of New York. She's the sheltered, blue-blooded darling of the London broadsheets, destined to marry a duke. Their worlds could only collide in a boardinghouse by the London docks...and when they do, the sparks would ignite all of England. Nothing can stop Hugh Cassidy's drive to build an American empire unless it's his new nemesis, the arrogant, beautiful, too-clever-by-half Lady Lillias...
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