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"Hairstylist Jess Greene has spent the last decade raising her younger half-sister, Tegan--and keeping a shocking secret. Ever since their reckless mother ran off with a boyfriend she'd known only a few months, Jess has been aware that he's the same accomplished con man who was the subject of a wildly popular podcast, The Last Con of Lynton Baltimore. Now thirty-one, Jess didn't bargain on Tegan eventually piecing together the connection for herself....
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"A quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenurship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything... It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...
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"Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging to the train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan mistakenly...
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School by the sea volume no. 4
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Beloved literature teacher Maggie Adair loves her life at the prestigious Downey House boarding school on the gloriously sunny, windy English coast. It was there that she found her footing as a teacher and fell in love with her colleague David--the two great anchors of her life. But these days Maggie's feeling restless, lured by the promise of a different life back in her Scottish hometown. How can you follow your heart when it seems to be taking...
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"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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2024.
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"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge . . . including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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(Patti Ann).Garden gates volume 3
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Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2006], c2006
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English
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Rainey's grandmother makes a startling request: Take me home. To Ireland, the country she fled post-World War II. Though they're inseparably close, Rainey knows few of her grandmother's secrets. Until they arrive at Aisling-the majestic estate on the southern coast of Ireland where her grandmother was raised-and Rainey discovers a collection of seventy-year-old letters in a trunk. Dublin, 1945. The Germans surrender, celebrants crowd the streets,...
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Mowbray Sisters volume Volume 3
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Tule Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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When Anna Mowbray receives a curt message from one of her estranged daughters that her ex-husband–a silent and surly Yorkshire farmer –is dying, she realizes it’s time to return home. Twelve years ago when her daughters were mostly grown, Anna walked away from Embthwaite Farm with no plan except to preserve her sanity and to find a ray of light to cling to. But going home is harder than even Anna imagines. Her daughters are miles away from forgiveness...
12) Amřica's Dream
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HarperCollins Publishers
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♭1996, ♭1996
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English
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America as seen through the eyes of a Puerto Rican maid. She is America Gonzalez, brought over by a Westchester, New York, couple who met her in a hotel in Puerto Rico where she was a cleaner. A novel filled with insights and observations by the author of When I Was Puerto Rican.
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Fleet
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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When your mother considers another country home, it's hard to know where you belong. When the people you live among can't pronounce your name, it's hard to know exactly who you are. And when your body no longer feels like your own, it's hard to understand your place in the world. This is a lyrical novel of growing up between cultures, of finding your space within them and of learning to live in a traumatized body. Our stubborn archivist tells her...
14) The Keeper's Son
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Josh Thurlow novels volume 1
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Amish herb shop volume Part 2
Publisher
Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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The Herbalist's Daughter Trilogy told the story of Cassia Byler, but now, two years later, we pick up with her younger brother Willow. This 3 part series will include a Discussion Guide at the end of each book as we journey with Reed Byler's son through feelings of low self-worth, timidity, and doubts about his Amish faith. Willow Byler, at age twenty-two, has his father on his knees. Has the much loved Reed Byler, the Amish Herbalist's from Smicksburg,...
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[Joshua Berkov]
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Angeline Sims is no shrinking violet. She's tough, opinionated, bossy, and she's got a bone to pick with nearly everyone in her life. Set in the fictitious Eastern North Carolina small town of Shelbington, Angeline has been given a terminal diagnosis, with mere months left to live. Upon learning of this news, her adult children and grandchildren come home for one last visit. There is no love lost between any of the family members, and they all have...
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Coral Cottage at Summer Beach volume 5
Publisher
Sunny Palms Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Marina and her sister Kai, entrusted with managing Summer Beach's one-hundred-year celebration, navigate treacherous waters. Age-old grudges and family secrets soon resurface. Their grandmother's hidden past casts a shadow, forcing them to confront dangerous truths. While Marina's daughter Heather grapples with boyfriend troubles, she discovers her new husband Jack is harboring secrets of his own. As tensions rise and love is tested, the bonds of...
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The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 9
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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What If...Dark clouds are forming. The Sarnonn rebels, seduced by Hakani's stories of the comparative ease of life at High Rocks, eye Kthama with jealousy.Akar's abduction of Tehya continues to haunt her, affecting her health and Khon'Tor vows to end the problem of his estranged son once and for all.Meanwhile, crimes from the past, long concealed, are now revealed before the High Council with devastating consequences.Wisdom says there is a time to...
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The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 6
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2019
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English
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What If…Long-held beliefs about their origin, their true relationship with the Sarnonn, and the role of the Ancients are shattered by voices from the past.As Adia deals with the Sarnonn sickness which has spread throughout Kthama, tension builds as Khon'Tor's son demands his place as heir to the leadership of High Rocks.What If…Time is running out, and the High Council must soon decide the course of the People or face inevitable extinction. But...
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The Etera Chronicles volume The Age of Shadows Book 8
Publisher
Dragon Wings Press
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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What If…The mysteries of the ages are finally laid open to the People of High Rocks. Engaging the power of the Aezaitera, the life force of the Great Spirit, Haan and his forty Sarnonn followers open Kthama Minor.As they disturb the dust of thousands of years, the leaders of High Rocks move reverently through the underground chambers until they come upon the legendary Wall of Records—the complete accounting of the sins of the Ancients, the Fathers-of-Us-All....