Nearing the end of her backpacking around Europe, journalist Sarah Turnbull meets a charming Frenchman in Bucharest. She agrees to visit him in Paris for a week, but it stretches on and little by little Sarah falls under Paris' spell. It becomes her home. The story of an adventurous heart, a maddening city, and love.
The Delaney family is a communal foundation. Stan and Joy are the envy of all of their friends. They're killer on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry is palpable. But after fifty years of marriage, they've finally sold their famed tennis academy and are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. So why are they so miserable?
Follows three mothers, each at a crossroads, and their potential involvement in a riot at a school trivia night that leaves one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but which evidence shows might have been premeditated.
Summer 1924: On the eve of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand English country house, a young poet takes his life. Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, one-time housemaid of Riverton Manor, is visited by a young director making a film about the poet's suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long consigned to the dark reaches of Grace's mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge.
Call No.
RS Mor
ISBN
9781489397669
Accession No.
2019378
Member Library Holdings
NVD c.1 07/19
PM c.3 07/19
SPL c.2 07/19
Publisher
Grand Haven, Michigan : Brilliance Audio, 2017, 2006
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The only female in The Clarion's newsroom, Blaise Hill's long-held dream of being a reporter has come true. But the ambitious young journalist's confidence is shaken when she secretly witnesses the murder of a top crime boss -- a death that rocks the Sydney underworld. Adam Rule, who helps cover up the murder, is one of the few people who knows what really happened, and what Blaise knows. When she gets a plum assignment -- moving to England to cover the British royal family -- Blaise hopes to put it all behind her. Will Blaise's dark secret come back to hurt her?
During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson witnesses a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel returns to the family farm for her mom's 90th birthday and finds herself overwhelmed by questions she has not thought about for decades.
Sam and Clementine have a wonderful, albeit, busy life: they have two little girls, Sam has just started a new dream job, and Clementine, a cellist, is busy preparing for the audition of a lifetime. If there's anything they can count on, it's each other. Clementine and Erika are each other's oldest friends. A single look between them can convey an entire conversation. But theirs is a complicated relationship, so when Erika mentions a last minute invitation to a barbecue with her neighbors, Tiffany and Vid, Clementine and Sam don't hesitate. Having Tiffany and Vid's larger than life personalities there will be a welcome respite. Two months later, it won't stop raining, and Clementine and Sam can't stop asking themselves the question: What if we hadn't gone?
