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- Christmas at the Shelter Inn / by Thayne, RaeAnne,author.;
- Pregnant and on bed rest, McKenna calls her sister Natalie, who fled Shelter Springs, Idaho, after family tragedies took their toll, pleading for help running the Shelter Inn during the busy upcoming Christmas season.
- Subjects: Christmas fiction.; Romance fiction.; Novels.; Christmas stories; Hotels; Man-woman relationships; Pregnant women; Secrecy; Sisters; Small cities;
- The Djinn waits a hundred years / by Khan, Shubnum,author.;
- "An ... 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 tragedy, Sana and her effusive father are Akbar Manzil's newest residents. There they find a community of eccentrics, each suffering their own losses and likewise searching for something-escape, solace, absolution. As Sana becomes increasingly entwined in their stories, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the history of the mansion itself: to the overgrown garden and its strange assortment of bones; to the eerie and forgotten East Wing, home to a clutter of broken and abandoned objects; and to a dusty old bedroom, unopened for decades, where she finds faded photographs of Akbar Manzil's first residents and a worn diary with entries she cannot translate. As she explores the mansion's whispering corners, she dredges up its longest resident: a djinn, the only remnant of Akbar Manzil's dark past. With its help, she discovers the story of a young woman named Meena from a hundred years prior, the original owner's second wife, who lived in the East Wing at the height of Akbar Manzil's glory, whose tragic fate is the house's ultimate secret-and whose story is the answer that Sana had been searching for all along."--
- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Gothic fiction.; Novels.; Boardinghouses; Eccentrics and eccentricities; Family secrets; Fathers and daughters; Haunted houses; Jinn; Mansions; Secrecy; Tragedy;
- Ballykissangel: S3. by Boyd, Dermot,film director.; Harrison, Paul,film director.; Cotter, Tom,film director.; Kirwan, Dervla,actor.; McCafferty, Frankie,actor.; Toibin, Niall,actor.; Hanly, Peter,actor.; Tompkinson, Stephen,actor.; Doyle, Tony,actor.; BBC Studios (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
- Dervla Kirwan, Frankie McCafferty, Niall Toibin, Peter Hanly, Stephen Tompkinson, Tony DoyleOriginally produced by BBC Studios in 1998.Births, deaths and mariages. Assumpta and Peter decide on their future - but tragedy strikes.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Subjects: Feature films.; Television series.; Motion pictures.;
- Acne : a memoir / by Chinn, Laura,author.;
- "Laura Chinn tells her by turns horrifying and hilarious story of growing up with non-conformist, irresponsible parents and countless family tragedies (and really bad, chronic acne) and how she found happiness despite everything"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Chinn, Laura; Chinn, Laura.; Television producers and directors; Television writers;
- The chance / by Kingsbury, Karen.;
- Subjects: Christian fiction.; Love stories.; Friendship;
- © c2013., Howard Books,
- The matter of Black lives : writing from the New Yorker / by Cobb, Jelani,editor,writer of foreword.; Remnick, David,editor.;
- Bringing together reporting, profiles, memoir and criticism from The New Yorker to present a bold and complex portrait of black life in America, told through stories of private triumphs and national tragedies, political vision, and artistic inspiration throughout history.
- Subjects: Essays.; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Racism;
- The chance [sound recording] / by Kingsbury, Karen.; LaVoy, January.;
- Read by January LaVoy.Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
- Subjects: Christian fiction.; Love stories.; Audiobooks.; Friendship;
- © p2013., Simon & Schuster Audio,
- Four friends : promising lives cut short / by Cohan, William D.,author.;
- 'Four Friends' is a powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kennedy, Jr. among them, by their fellow Andover classmate and bestselling author, William D. Cohan.
- Subjects: Kennedy, John F., Jr., 1960-1999.; Kennedy, John F., Jr., 1960-1999; Daniel, William W. (William Wallace), 1959-2000.; Berman, Jack.; Bull, Harry.; Phillips Academy; Tragedy.;
- Talking to my angels / by Etheridge, Melissa,author.;
- "Twenty years after the success of her first memoir, the New York Times bestseller The Truth Is ... , the Grammy and Oscar award-winning rocker and trailblazing LGBTQIA icon takes stock of the intervening years, recounting the euphoric triumphs and the life-altering tragedies of her life"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Etheridge, Melissa; Etheridge, Melissa.; Lesbian musicians; Rock musicians; Sons; Women rock musicians;
- Wicked dreams / by Jackson, Lisa,author.; Bush, Nancy,1953-author.;
- "Private investigator Ravinia Rutledge, when a dead body is found with her phone number and the words 'Next of Kin,' returns to Siren Song-a place marked by unexplained deaths and tragedies where she must stop a monster from her past from killing each and every member of The Colony"--
- Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Cults; Murder; Secrecy;
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