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The darkest evening [sound recording] / by Cleeves, Ann,author.; Birkett, Janine,narrator.; Macmillan Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Janine Birkett."Driving home during a swirling blizzard, Vera Stanhope's only thought is to get there quickly. But the snow is so heavy, she becomes disoriented and loses her way. Ploughing on, she sees a car slewed off the road ahead of her. With the driver's door open, Vera assumes the driver has sought shelter but when she inspects the car she is shocked to find a young toddler strapped in the back seat. Afraid they will freeze, Vera takes the child and drives on, arriving at Brockburn, a run-down stately home she immediately recognizes as the house her father Hector grew up in. Inside Brockburn a party is in full swing, with music and laughter to herald the coming Christmas. But outside in the snow, a young woman lies dead and Vera knows immediately she has a new case. Could this woman be the child's mother and, if so, what happened to her?"--Jacket flap.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Audiobooks.; Stanhope, Vera; Blizzards; Family secrets; Murder; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Half Moon : a novel / by Keane, Mary Beth,author.;
"From the beloved bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, an unforgettable novel about a couple in a small town and the complexities of marriage, family, longing, and desire. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, hasalways dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but quickly realizes that making margins won'tbe easy. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying to have a baby, she is struggling to accept the idea that motherhood may not be in the cards for her. Like Malcolm, she feels her youth beginning toslip away and wonders how to reshape her future. Award-winning author Mary Beth Keane's new novel takes place over the course of a week when Malcolm learns shocking news about Jess, a patron of the bar goes missing, and a blizzard hits the town, trappingeveryone in place. With a deft eye and generous spirit, Keane explores the disappointments and unexpected consolations of midlife, the many forms forgiveness can take, and what it means to be a family"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Blizzards; Infertility; Married people; Missing persons; Small cities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The Half Moon [sound recording] : a novel / by Keane, Mary Beth,author.; Lowman, Rebecca,narrator.; Butz, Norbert Leo,narrator.; Simon & Schuster Audio (Firm),publisher.;
Read by Norbert Leo Butz, Rebecca Lowman."From the beloved bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, an unforgettable novel about a couple in a small town and the complexities of marriage, family, longing, and desire. Malcolm Gephardt, handsome and gregarious longtime bartender at the Half Moon, hasalways dreamed of owning a bar. When his boss finally retires, Malcolm stretches to buy the place. He sees unquantifiable magic and potential in the Half Moon and hopes to transform it into a bigger success, but quickly realizes that making margins won'tbe easy. His smart and confident wife, Jess, has devoted herself to her law career. After years of trying to have a baby, she is struggling to accept the idea that motherhood may not be in the cards for her. Like Malcolm, she feels her youth beginning toslip away and wonders how to reshape her future. Award-winning author Mary Beth Keane's new novel takes place over the course of a week when Malcolm learns shocking news about Jess, a patron of the bar goes missing, and a blizzard hits the town, trappingeveryone in place. With a deft eye and generous spirit, Keane explores the disappointments and unexpected consolations of midlife, the many forms forgiveness can take, and what it means to be a family"--
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Blizzards; Infertility; Married people; Missing persons; Small cities;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The twelve jays of Christmas / by Andrews, Donna,author.;
"Meg's brother Rob and his fiancé Delaney have been engaged for some time now. In fear of their mothers' propensity for over-the-top celebrations, they decide to throw a party just before Christmas and then elope. When a blizzard traps their guests inside, the two mothers find out about the planned elopement and start trying to pull together the kind of over-the-top event the couple was trying to avoid in the first place. To make matters worse, a murder is afoot. Will Meg manage to help the snowbound would-be eloping couple thwart their mothers' grandiose wedding plans AND solve a murder among the assembled friends and relatives?"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Betrothal; Blizzards; Langslow, Meg (Fictitious character); Murder; Weddings; Women detectives;
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The greatest gift / by George, K.(Kallie),1983-; Graegin, Stephanie.;
The peaceful winter that Mona the mouse expected at the Heartwood Hotel is disturbed by a difficult guest, food shortages caused by a huge blizzard, and secrets. LSC
Subjects: Winter; Mice; Forest animals; Hotels, motels, etc.; Blizzards; Secrecy;
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The land in winter / by Miller, Andrew,1961-author.;
December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of their cottage. Across the field, funny, troubled Rita Simmons is also asleep, her head full of images of a past life her husband prefers to ignore. He's been up for hours, tending to the needs of the small dairy farm where he hoped to create a new version of himself, a project that's already faltering. There is affection -- if not always love -- in both homes. But when the ordinary cold of an English December gives way to violent blizzards -- a true winter, the harshest in living memory -- the two couples find their lives beginning to unravel. Where do you hide when you can't leave home? And where, in a frozen world, can you run to?
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Blizzards; Interpersonal relations; Secrecy; Spouses;
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Cold as hell / by Armstrong, Kelley,author.;
"New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong returns to Haven's Rock in Cold as Hell as Casey Duncan hunts down a dangerous killer during a deadly blizzard. Haven's Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they've settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Haven's Rock. When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, she's dragged into the woods kicking and screaming. She's saved in the nick of time, but the women of the town are alarmed. Casey and Eric investigate the assault just as a snowstorm hits Haven's Rock, covering the forest. It's there they find a frozen body, naked in the snow. With mixed accounts of the woman's last movements, the two begin to question who they can trust-and who they can't-in their seemingly safe haven"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Duncan, Casey (Fictitious character); Blizzards; Forests and forestry; Murder; Pregnant women; Sheriffs; Small cities; Women detectives; Women;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Estelle takes a bath / by Esbaum, Jill; DePalma, Mary Newell;
Pandemonium results when a mouse sneaks into a warm kitchen to escape a blizzard and startles Estelle in her bubble bath.
Subjects: Baths; Mice; Stories in rhyme;
© 2006., Henry Holt,
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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Nature's fury : eyewitness reports of natural disasters / by Vogel, Carole Garbuny;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Gives eyewitness descriptions of thirteen disasters from 1871 to 1980, including earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, blizzards, drought, flash floods, and wildfires.
Subjects: Natural disasters;
© c2000., Scholastic,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The secrets of winter : a Josephine Tey mystery / by Upson, Nicola,author.;
"December 1938, and storm clouds hover once again over Europe. Josephine Tey and Archie Penrose gather with friends for a Cornish Christmas, but two strange and brutal deaths on St. Michael's Mount--and the unexpected arrival of a world famous film star, in need of sanctuary--interrupt the festivities. Cut off by the sea and a relentless blizzard, the hunt for a murderer begins"--
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Christmas fiction.; Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952; Saint Michael's Mount (England : Castle); Blizzards; Family secrets; Islands; Motion picture actors and actresses; Murder; Police; Wife abuse; Women novelists;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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