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1) The waiting
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Renee Ballard and the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit get a hot shot DNA connection between a recently arrested man and a serial rapist and murderer who went quiet two decades ago. The arrested man is only twenty-four, so the genetic link must be familial: His father was the Pillowcase Rapist, responsible for a five-year reign of terror in the City of Angels. But when Ballard and her team move in on their suspect, they encounter a baffling web of secrets...
2) The waiting
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: she was separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the peninsula was split down the 38th parallel, dividing one country into two. As many fled violence in the north, not everyone was able to make it south. Her mother's story inspired Gendry-Kim to begin interviewing her and other Koreans separated by the war; that research fueled a deeply...
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English
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From one of America's best-loved storytellers, The Waiting Time is an ambitious, romantic, historically rich epic, sure to delight new and loyal readers alike Spirited Abigail Banes dreams her newly married life coastal Georgia will be lived amid spreading magnolia trees, where lovers walk and whisper along blossom-lined paths. But her dreams are shattered when a fatal accident claims her husband, Eli, leaving her sole proprietor of their rice plantation-and...
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English
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Jorie King has been waiting for Ben Zook much of her life--waiting for him to return to Lancaster County, the church, and her. When he is reported dead, she is devastated but finds unexpected comfort in his brother Caleb, a comfort that turns to love for both of them.
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English
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"Feeling burned out, Sara Fraser abandons her trendy lifestyle and sets off to the mountain cabin of Lowell Kincaid, her mysterious uncle and the black sheep of her family. But Uncle Lowell has gone missing . . . and that means finding Adrian Saville, a recluse Kincaid had told her to contact if anything should ever happen to him. Adrian tells her not to worry; he knows Lowell well, and he's received instructions to look after Sara if she ever turns...
Author
Publisher
Ginger Scott
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
The boy.His game.Her whole entire heart.Who says high school sweethearts can't be forever?The Waiting Series follows high school sweethearts Reed Johnson and Nolan Lennox through football, life, love and everything messy that goes along with it. The series begins with Waiting on the Sidelines and Going Long. Book 3, The Hail Mary, is for more mature readers and deals with adult themes."If you haven't started reading this series yet, I've never been...
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English
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"When an old woman begs God to let her see the daughter who had been taken from her arms almost eighty years before--could her impossible prayer come true? In the summer of 1928, sixteen-year-old Minka was looking forward to a sewing class picnic, a rare chance to put aside farm chores. It would be a day to remember. And it was...but not in the way Minka had dreamed. Cornered by a stranger in the woods, the young girl was assaulted; months later,...
9) The waiting
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eric Brady, a new hotel employee stumbling upon an open secret. One of the rooms is haunted. Eric decides it's both his and the hotel's best interest to help remove the ghost. However, when he meets the ghost, everything changed.
11) The waiting
Author
Publisher
[Larry Antone Ludwig]
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
randy Bentlow a young printers son gets a job to write about what was west of Virginia. Arriving in San Antonio he meets dressmaker Ginny Howzer. She makes her mark on his heart, but he has a job to finish.Brandy travels north on a cattle drive to the Missouri River before riding east. Downriver a set of circumstances cause him to deal with the justice system in Franklin, Missouri. He faces the gallows but beats the hangman. When he returns to Virginia...
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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an appropriately timed gift, a well-negotiated marriage alliance were all forms of political agency wielded....
13) The waiting room
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial/HaperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A multi-generational novel unfolds over a day in the life of a young physician in contemporary Israel, who must cope with modern threats under the shadow of her parents' horrific wartime pasts.
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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The inspiring true story of a four-year-old Chinese orphan who convinces her adoptive American family to return to China to rescue the little boy she couldn't forget.
Adopted by an American family at age four, Jaclyn traveled to her new home with a great burden. Her new family had to leave behind a little boy who had been under her charge at the Chinese orphanage where Jaclyn fought the odds against abandonment, institutionalization, and hunger,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Waiting Place is an unflinching look at ten young lives suspended outside of time -- and bravely proceeding anyway. Each lyrical passage leads the reader from one story to the next, revealing the dreams, ambitions, and personalities of each displaced child. The stories are punctuated by intimate photographs, followed by the author's reflections on life in a refugee camp. Locking the global refugee crisis sharply in focus, The Waiting Place is...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Nolan Lennox had things figured out. Named after a baseball legend, she enjoyed being the Tomboy, her closet filled with her brother's hand-me-downs, cut-off jeans and soccer shorts. But when her first trip to high school results in a broken heart from the first boy to ever make her heart flutter and cruel words from an older girl she once thought a family friend, Nolan starts to question the very person she thought she was and wonders if her humble...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ever since her husband's death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. she can't sleep, can't work, and can't bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica's ear. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica's despair. After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for...











