Blair Brown
Author
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"She had only meant to wait it out, wait unnoticed until he had passed, taking bsby steps, wanting to disappear, but then she actually did disappear, dropping into the water that was everywhere - no sides no top no bottom - and taken so by surprise that it didn't matter that she was close to shore or that she was a good swimmer because she panicked and in her panic she swallowed water and scratched her cheek and somehow clawed her hair loose from...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Three far-flung sisters come home to Martha's Vineyard one last time. Their mother's beach house is the only place any of them ever found true happiness and they need to begin the difficult process of letting go. Memories of their grandmother, mother, and their Irish father, who sailed away the year Dar turned twelve, rise up and expose the fine cracks in their family myth--especially when a cache of old letters reveals enough truth to send them back...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an entire cosmos of unconventional and charismatic characters, from the fun-chasing showgirls to a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Research has shown that during puberty, when the brain begins teeming with hormones, the pre-frontal cortex, the center of reasoning and impulse control, is still a work in progress.
Author
Language
English
Description
When beautiful, blond Sheila married the charming, handsome Blackthorne, she was convinced she had found her perfect soul mate, and helped him attain the privileged life of the country club set. But behind Allen's smooth facade, she discovered a violent, controlling sociopath - a liar, a scam artist, a sexual deviant. When she finally fled with their two young daughters, she was skeletally thin, bruised, and beaten. Although Sheila recovered and remarried,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Manhattan D.A. Alex Cooper investigates the murders of three victims while dodging infuriated gang members packing heat. Her interrogation skills lead to someone with a twisted obsession concerning the military, and things grow increasingly dangerous when the chase leads to a chain of small, abandoned islands around New York harbor.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nine days before Christmas 1998, thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was preparing to visit her family for the holidays. Ronda's second marriage was dissolving and her career as a pioneering Washington State Trooper had ended, but she told her mother she was optimistic about starting over. At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and said his wife had committed suicide. But her mother, Barb Thompson, never for one minute believed it.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Lyra Davis left behind a world of wealth and privilege and the people she loved most in the world, unable to reconcile the expectations of her celebrated family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri--until her daughter Pell travels across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and the deeper truths they all need so desperately.
11) Last kiss
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Hubbard's Point, Connecticut. Nearly a year after the death of eighteen-year-old Charlie, singer-songwriter Sheridan Rosslare still hasn't played a note of the music that was once her life's passion. Tucked away in the beach house where she raised her only child, she lives with her memories of him and a grief too big to share even with her beloved sisters or her dear friend Stevie Moore. Nor can Stevie comfort Charlie's heartbroken girlfriend, Nell...
12) Bad blood
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bad Blood finds Assistant DA Alexandra Cooper deeply involved in a complicated, high-profile homicide case. Defendant Brendan Quillian, a prominent young businessman, is charged with the brutal strangulation of his beautiful young wife, Amanda. His conviction is not a certainty: Quillian was conveniently out of town on the day of the killing, and he has hired a formidable defense attorney who seems one step ahead of Cooper as the trial opens. But...
13) The kills
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper's case against Andrew Tripping, charged with the rape of investment banker Paige Vallis, is in trouble when she is handed a second case: the murder of a former Harlem Renaissance dancer, Queenie Ransome. Queenie was also a one-time mistress to King Farouk of Egypt, and reputedly fled the palace with handfuls of jewels. And as Alexandra begins untangling Queenie's dangerous, complex past, the threads...
14) Lethal legacy
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Language
English
Description
When Assistant District Attorney Alex Cooper is summoned to Tina Barr's apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side, she finds a neighbor convinced that the young woman was assaulted. But the terrified victim, a conservator of rare books and maps, refuses to cooperate with investigators. Then another woman is found murdered in that same apartment with an extremely valuable book, believed to have been stolen. As Alex pursues the murderer, she is drawn...
16) The bone vault
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Assistant D.A. Alex Cooper enters the case when the body of a recently murdered young woman is found inside a stone sarcophagus at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Ann Holmes, a sixteen-year-old itinerant mushroom picker has seen the Virgin Mary in the woods near North Fork, Washington. Father Collins finds Ann disturbingly alluring, but must stay impartial so he can judge the veracity of her sightings. Carolyn Greer becomes Ann's impromptu publicity manager, and Tom Cross sees the visions as the last chance for redemption for himself and his son.
19) Airframe
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plan...At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal mid-air disaster aboard a commercial twinjet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.