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Red Ruby Heart in a Cold Blue Sea

Morgan Callan Rogers · 308 pages

"When her mother disappears during a weekend trip, Florine Gilham's idyllic childhood is turned upside down. Until then she'd been blissfully insulated by the rhythms of family life in small town Maine; watching from the granite cliffs above the sea for her father's lobster boat to come into port, making bread with her grandmother, and infiltrating the summer tourist camps with her friends. But wi

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The Missing

Beverly Lewis · 332 pages

Readers anxiously await the second book in this moving series filled with mystery and family secrets, love and loss, heartbreak and healing.Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave them three weeks before. Grace suspects the reason has to do with her father and his reserved, uncommunicative ways. This conviction led Grace to

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The Courage Tree

Diane Chamberlain · 400 pages

Eightyearold Sophie Donohue just wants to be like everyone else in her Brownie troop. Which is why her mother, Janine, finally agrees to let Sophie go on a weekend camping trip with the other girls. But Sophie is no ordinary childshe suffers from a rare disease that requires constant treatment.When Sophie fails to return from the trip, Janine's worst fears turn to sheer panic. A fullscale search i

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The Girl in Times Square

Paullina Simons · 640 pages

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In Leah's Wake

Terri Giuliano Long · 368 pages

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Finding Emma

Steena Holmes · 278 pages

"Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the child waiting for the swings at the playground, the girl with ice cream dripping down her face. But it's never Emma. Because Emma's been missing for two years. Unable to handle the constant heartache of all the false sightings, Megan's husband threatens to walk away unless Megan can agree to accept Emm

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Someone to Watch Over Me

Madeleine Reiss · 401 pages

"Carrie's life collapses when her five-year-old son, Charlie, disappears on a Norfolk beach. She turns her life inside-out to find out what happened, but nothing prepares her for the most shocking discovery... Molly is desperate to protect her young son, Max, from his estranged father - a violent and unstable man. She can't do it alone, however, and time is running out for help to reach them... Ca

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The Wife's Tale

Lori Lansens · 384 pages

On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy--still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school--to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary's life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the b

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The Day I Lost You

Fionnuala Kearney · 418 pages

The second poignant and heartrending novel from the Irish Times bestselling author, Fionnuala Kearney. When Jess's daughter, Anna, is reported lost in an avalanche, everything changes. Left to explain her mother's absence to Anna's five-year-old daughter, Rose, Jess isn't yet ready to admit to herself that her daughter might not be coming back. But Anna's disappearance dredges up some life changin

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The World We Found

Thrity Umrigar

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A Place Called Here

Cecelia Ahern · 436 pages

The magical new novel from the number 1 bestselling author of PS, I Love You, Where Rainbows End and If You Could See Me Now.Ever since the day her classmate Jenny-May Butler vanished, Sandy Shortt has been haunted by what happens when something – or someone – disappears. Finding has become her goal. Jack Ruttle is desperate to find his younger brother Donal who vanished into thin air a year ago.

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Looking for Me

Beth Hoffman · 456 pages

Opening an antiques shop in Charleston after discovering a talent for restoring furniture, Teddi Overman struggles to come to terms with her shattered family and sense of self after receiving news that her long-missing brother might still be alive.

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Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy · 560 pages

It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace curtains

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The Color of Light

Karen White · 267 pages

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Plain Truth

Jodi Picoult · 416 pages

From the bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper comes the riveting story of a murder that shatters the picturesque calm of Amish country -- and tests the heart and soul of the lawyer defending the woman at the center of the storm. The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantia

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The Deep End of the Ocean

Jacquelyn Mitchard · 464 pages

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Mitchard's suspenseful and moving novel is now available in trade paperbackFew first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightma

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Once Was Lost

Sara Zarr · 224 pages

As the tragedy of a missing girl enfolds in her small town, fifteen-year-old Samara, who feels emotionally abandoned by her parents, begins to question her faith.

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The Return of Ellie Black

Emiko Jean · 299 pages

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The Life You Left

Carmel Harrington · 319 pages

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The Missing Sister

Lucinda Riley · 805 pages

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Outside the Lines

Amy Hatvany · 358 pages

When Eden was ten years old she found her father, David, bleeding out on the bathroom floor. The suicide attempt led to her parents' divorce, and David all but vanished from Eden's life. Since childhood, she has heard from him only rarely, just enough to know he's been living on the streets and struggling with mental illness. But lately, there has been no word at all. Now in her thirties, Eden dec

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What Happened to My Sister

Elizabeth Flock · 289 pages

Nine-year-old Carrie Parker and her mother, Libby, are making a fresh start in the small town of Hartsville, North Carolina, ready to put their turbulent past behind them. Violence has shattered their family and left Libby nearly unable to cope. And while Carrie once took comfort in her beloved sister, Emma, her mother has now forbidden even the mention of her name.

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The Forgetting Time

Sharon Guskin · 357 pages

"Noah wants to go home. A seemingly easy request from most four year olds. But as Noah's single-mother, Janie, knows, nothing with Noah is ever easy. One day the pre-school office calls and says Janie needs to come in to talk about Noah, and no, not later, now - and life as she knows it stops. For Jerome Anderson, life as he knows it has stopped. A deadly diagnosis has made him realize he is appro

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The Book of Secrets

Elizabeth Joy Arnold · 464 pages

"After more than twenty years of marriage, Chloe Sinclair comes home one night to find that her husband, Nate, is gone. All he has left behind is a cryptic note explaining that he's returned to their childhood town, a place Chloe never wants to see again. While trying to reach Nate, Chloe stumbles upon a notebook tucked inside his antique copy of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Written in co

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