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Author
Publisher
Mercer University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
First cousins Ellison (Eli) Winfield and Adeline (Delia) Green are meant to grow up happily and innocently across the street from one another amid the supposed wholesome values of small-town Green Branch, South Carolina, in the 1960s and 70s. But Eli's tragic accident changes the trajectory of their lives and of those connected to them. Shunned and even tortured by his peers for his disfigurement and frailty, Eli struggles for acceptance in childhood...
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Rita McCall's twenty-three-year marriage goes up in flames, she leans on her cousins--and best friends--Sharae and Jemel for support. But they have issues going on in their own lives, too. And with the cousins at life-changing crossroads, it will take the wisdom of the aunts and their family history of love to get them through painful secrets and betrayals.
44) Whiz kid
Author
Series
Miles Lewis volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Miles teams up with his friends to enter a citywide science competition, his cousin Cam, who made it to regionals the year before, offers to help, but while everyone else is rocking the project, Miles feels like the weak link.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Logan Wade has built a life for herself in New York City, far from her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma. But when she gets the call that her famous cousin needs a new assistant, it's an offer she can't refuse. Yet the joy at their reunion is overshadowed by the toxic dynamic between Kelsey and her controlling parents. As Kelsey grasps desperately at a "real" life, Logan risks everything to try and give her cousin the one thing she...
47) Hot pot murder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Yale and Celine Yee’s food stall business is going so well that they’ve been invited to join an exclusive dinner with the local restaurant owners association. The members gather together for a relaxing hot pot feast…until Jeffery Vue, president of the group, receives a literal shock to his system and dies. Everyone at the meal is a suspect, but the authorities are homing in on family friend Ai Ho, owner of the restaurant where Jeffery was killed—and...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Iva Honeycutt is determined to make her first great discovery this summer--the treasure buried in her small town of Uncertain, Virginia, that her great-grandfather sought for years--if only she can keep her pesky cousin Heaven from interfering.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Dolores Madrigal has the amazing ability to hear things that are very far away, from across the whole Encanto she calls home. But one morning when she wakes up, she doesn't hear something she usually does. But what? To find out, join Dolores and her magical Madrigal family as they team up to solve a mystery in this sweet and silly story set in the world of Disney Encanto!"--
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is summer, 2012. Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountaintop house. As the days grow hotter, the friendship between the three begins to reveal its fault lines, and with the arrival of a fourth character, the household finds itself suddenly in the grip of uncontrollable passions. As readers of James Lasdun's acclaimed fiction can expect, The Fall...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
"1941. In Communist-ruled, war-ravaged Estonia, two men have deserted the Red Army--Roland, a fiercely principled freedom fighter, and his slippery cousin Edgar. When the Germans arrive, Roland goes into hiding; Edgar abandons his unhappy wife, Juudit, and takes on a new identity as a loyal supporter of the Nazi regime. 1963. Estonia is again under Communist control, independence even further out of reach behind the Iron Curtain. Edgar is now a Soviet...
52) Secret Vows
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
In too deep... Music is Jason Cole's first love, and so far, no woman has ever come close. He's happiest writing and recording at his Oregon mountain retreat. Plus, the gorgeous new waitress at the local restaurant is another reason to enjoy spending time in the small, remote town-especially once he hears her sing.... Though she's flattered when Jason offers her a recording contract, Greer Evans says no. She can't reveal the truth-that she's there...
53) Just like mother
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Spine-chilling and sharp, Just Like Mother is a modern gothic from a fresh new voice in horror, and "is set to be one of the year's most talked-about books" (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling author). A girl would be such a blessing... The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything-and...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparablea family. When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When Yale Yee discovers her cousin Celine is visiting from Hong Kong, she is obliged to play tour guide to a relative she hasn't seen in twenty years. Not only that, but her father thinks it's a wonderful idea for them to bond by running a food stall together at the Eastwood Village Night Market. Yale hasn't cooked in years, and she hardly considers Celine's career as a social media influencer as adequate experience, but because she's just lost her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"When Meredith Collins inherits a caf�e in Cape Sanctuary, it is the perfect escape. After her ex-husband was convicted of embezzlement, she lost everything. Her only choice is to return to her hometown and start again, even if that means facing her cousin, Tori. The once inseparable cousins fell out when Meredith's husband swindled their grandmother and have not spoken since. But back in the small town, Meredith starts to find new purpose and her...
Author
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Esta es una historia épica y arrolladora de amor prohibido ambientada en Argentina. Sofia y Santi son primos hermanos y crecieron rodeados de una enorme familia. Sus vidas parecen idílicas, pero a medida que envejecen, el amor entre ellos se profundiza en una pasión que ninguno de los dos puede ignorar.
This is an epic sweeping story of forbidden love set in the Argentine. Sofia and Santi are first cousins, growing up surrounded by an enormous...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Madame Mystique is a performer extraordinaire, come to work her scandalous magic at the glittering 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Of African American and Sicilian heritage, Mystique - aka Rosa Mancuso - and her fellow performers move on the margins. Her ambiguous status serves a hidden vendetta: she awaits the arrival of Paolo Amanta, the dashing pilot sent by Mussolini to dazzle spectators with a phenomenal air show. Back in Sicily, Paolo's band of...
59) The golden volcano =: Le volcan d'or : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Two Canadian cousins unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for afabulous gold-filled volcano on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
60) Djinn city
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Indelbed is a lonely kid living in a crumbling mansion in the super dense, super chaotic third world capital Of Bangladesh. His father, Dr. Kaikobad, is the black sheep of their clan, the once illustrious Khan Rahman family. A drunken loutish widower, he refuses to allow Indelbed go to school, and the only thing Indelbed knows about his mother is the official cause of her early demise: "Death by Indelbed." But When Dr. Kaikobad falls into a supernatural...
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