Gloria Reuben
Author
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro the Father of Impressionism"--Provided by publisher.
2) Admission
Description
A Princeton admissions officer, Portia Nathan, who is up for a major promotion, takes a professional risk after she meets a college-bound alternative school kid who just might be the son she gave up years ago in a secret adoption.
3) Firestarter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a...
Series
Jesse Stone volume 8
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meaning as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.
Series
Jesse Stone volume 2,4,7,8
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Benefit of the doubt: "When a shocking double homicide rocks the quiet town of Paradise, Stone is forced back into action. His police department nearly emptied of staff, he has to rely on his expert intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues as he attempts to unravel the mysterious murders."
Innocents lost: "Tom Selleck returns as Paradise's anguished former Chief of Police, Jesse Stone, in his most gripping mystery yet. Cindy Van Aldan...
9) Life support
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and a AIDS activist in the black community. Ana is a recovering junkie who tries to atone for her seedy past by being a loving mom to her 9-year-old daughter. In addition, she takes care of her husband, who also has HIV. But Life Support, an AIDS awareness facility that is an integral part of her life, is where Ana feels most at home. Ana has come far...
11) Nick of time
Pub. Date
1995.
Description
No sooner does accountant Gene Watson arrive at L.A.'s Union Station with his six-year-old daughter than he's plunged into a nightmare. Two shadowy strangers separate Watson from his little girl, slap a gun into his hand and present a devil's bargain: kill a top government official before she leaves a nearby political rally-- or never again see his beloved child.
12) Little John
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The unmarried daughter of a Texas rancher gives birth to an unwanted child. She puts the child up for adoption and moves away. Unbeknownst to her, her estranged father adopts her child. Twelve years later, the father decides to reunite his daughter with her son, even if she doesn't want anything to do with them.
15) Reasonable doubt
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Hotshot district attorney Mitch Brockden is involved in a fatal hit-and-run, but Clinton Davis is found with the body and charged with murder. Believing that Davis is innocent, Brockden is compelled to throw the trial. Soon after, Brockden's perfect life begins to unravels as he realizes that the man he set free is hiding a secret that will destroy him.
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