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[2022]
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Good things never happen in November, at least not for the Reynolds women. It was the month they lost their patriarch. And the month when fourteen-year-old Trinity went missing during a tropical storm. So Hope Reynolds isn't surprised when it becomes the month she walks in on her boyfriend kissing another woman. Or when she receives a panicked call from her mother about a mistake which could cost the family their treasured beach house. Meanwhile,...
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Mick Hardin novels volume 1
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"Chris Offutt's first foray into crime fiction, this propulsive thriller exposes the loyalties and rivalries of a deep-rooted and fiercely private community in the Kentucky hills. Mick Hardin, a combat veteran now working as an Army CID agent, is home on a leave that is almost done. His wife is about to give birth, but they aren't getting along. His sister, newly risen to sheriff, has just landed her first murder case, and local politicians are pushing...
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A tale exploring themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South shares the story of The Beach House's Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
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[2020]
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"Mitch Wilkins is football player destined for greatness. From an inauspicious start in rural Virginia to the glamorous, ferocious heights of the NFL, his life unfolds across the stories of those who accompany him on his journey, including his patient working mom, an ambitious girlfriend, a Vietnam veteran uncle, a talkative young teammate, a billionaire team owner, and more. But success doesn't come without its costs. As Mitch and his wounded family...
87) Have a nice day
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2012.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and peers who are afraid to ask her what happened.
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[2018]
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The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her nearest neighbor, General Seamus Ogilvy, finally comes home to Tall Acre, she hopes it is a sign of better days to come. But the general is now a widower with a small daughter in desperate need of a mother. Nearly destitute, Sophie agrees to marry Seamus and become the mistress of Tall Acre in what seems a safe, sensible arrangement. But when a woman from...
89) Deaf sentence
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Pub. Date
2008
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When the university merged his Department of English with Linguistics, Professor Desmond Bates took early retirement, but he is not enjoying it. The monotony of his days is relieved only by wearisome journeys to London to check on his aged father who stubbornly refuses to leave the house he is patently unable to live in with safety. But these discontents are nothing compared to the affliction of hearing loss, a constant source of domestic friction...
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New Americana volume 3
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Allison felt like she'd stepped into a fairy tale when she married widower Burke Caldwell. Wealthy, powerful, and breathtakingly handsome, Burke is the husband of her wildest dreams. But after less than a year of marriage, he's become distant, almost a stranger. His friends see Allison as little more than a trophy wife, and his only daughter regards her as the enemy. With everyone so devoted to the memory of Burke's first wife, Kate, how can Allison...
91) The curiosities
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[2019]
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Nell Parker has a Ph.D. in art history, a loving husband named Josh, and a bungalow in Madison, Wisconsin. But Nell's last pregnancy ended in the second trimester, and her husband encourages her to apply for jobs rather than pause to grieve, believing she needs something to focus on other than the baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historian—until Nell sees the ad seeking a director for a new nonprofit called...
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2020.
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New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates's new novel introduces the women of the Lighthouse Inn B&B. They might not have it all together, but this summer, they'll discover that together, they might still have it all... Rachel Henderson's family is falling apart. Becoming a widow, especially at this age, is heartbreaking. With her teenage daughter, Emma, leaving soon for college, Rachel needs a friend, but local diner owner Adam is the last person...
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Poldark family novels volume 4
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2008.
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Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only his family's financial security but also his turbulent marriage to Demelza. When Ross and Elizabeth's old attraction rekindles itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a handsome Scottish cavalry officer. With bankruptcy an increasingly real possibility, the Poldarks seem to be facing disaster on all fronts.
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After a video of her organizing her sock drawer goes viral, Emily Harlow uses her moment in the spotlight to start Freeze-Frame Clutter Kickers an launch her career as a professional organizer. The catch: she's married to a man who can't drive past a yard sale without stopping. Like other professionals who make a living decluttering people's lives. Emily has devised a set of ironclad rules. When working with couples, for example, she makes it clear...
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2023.
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"High above a jungle-planet float the last refuges of humanity--plant-made civilizations held together by tradition, technology, and arcane science. Here, architects are revered deeply, with humanity's survival reliant on a privileged few. If not for their abilities, the cities would plunge into the devastating earthrage storms below. Charismatic and powerful, Iravan is one such architect. His abilities are his identity, but to Ahilya, his archeologist...
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[2023]
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"[T]wo sisters seek a new balance in work, family, and love when one receives a diagnosis that sets the clock ticking. Determined to save Sherri's life, Kristen drops everything to guide her sister on the harrowing cancer treatment journey. When she's unable to balance the strain of caring for her patients, being a wife and mother, and her frantic efforts to save her sister, Kristen's carefully balanced life crumbles, starting with her marriage....
97) The burn
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"There's not much that can make Detective Betty Rhyzyk flinch. But her wounds are still fresh from an encounter with an apocalyptic cult known as The Family, and she's having trouble readjusting to life as it once was. She's back at work as a narcotics detective, but something isn't right--at work, where someone has been assassinating confidential informants, or at home, where she struggles to connect with her loving wife, Jackie. To make matters...
98) Valley of ashes
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Madeline Dare mysteries volume 4
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[2012]
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Madeline Dare trades New York's gritty streets for the tree-lined avenues of Boulder, Colorado when her husband Dean lands a promising job. Madeline, now a full-time homemaker and mother to beautiful toddler twin girls, has achieved everything she thought she always wanted, but with her husband constantly on the road, she's fighting a losing battle against the Betty Friedan riptide of suburban/maternal exhaustion, angst, and sheer loneliness. A new...
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[2022]
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"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar...
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2017.
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"Equal parts funny and searingly beautiful...well worth the ride." - New York Daily News
"Feldman's engaging novel offers sublime levity to balance the gravity of his characters' various struggles, and Adam's and Marissa's tales interweave effortlessly as they search for meaning among many doubts and what-ifs." - Booklist
"A satisfying story about chance meetings and kinship." - Publishers Weekly
"Joshua Max Feldman has written the quintessential...