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"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta...
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English
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"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome...
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Publisher
Aspen Light Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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In a small cafe at a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere, John--a man in a hurry--is at a crossroads. Intent only on refueling before moving along on his road trip, he finds sustenance of an entirely different kind. In addition to the specials of the day, the cafe menu lists three questions all diners are encouraged to consider: Why are you here? Do you fear death? Are you fulfilled? With this food for thought and the...
Publisher
Odd Dot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"This uplifting read-aloud is a heartfelt wish for all children and a timeless introduction to the Grammy Award-winning and multi platinum singer and songwriter. You are fearless presents Taylor Swift's inspirational journey, encouraging children to be fearless, defy limits, and follow their hearts. Perfect for Swifties of all ages!"--
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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"1939. Seventeen-year-old Nora Jennings has spent her life secure in the certainty of a bright, happy future - until one night of passion has more catastrophic consequences than she ever could have anticipated. Labelled a moral defective and sectioned under the Mental Deficiency Act, she is forced to endure years of unspeakable cruelty at the hands of those who are supposed to care for her.1981. When psychiatrist Janet Humphreys comes across Nora,...
7) Plan A
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Publisher
Labyrinth Road
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ivy's road trip across the country to get an abortion becomes a transformative journey of vulnerability, strength, and above all, choice.
Ivy can't entirely believe it when the plus sign appears on the test. Now, instead of spending the summer in her small Texas town working at the local drugstore and swooning over her boyfriend, Lorenzo, she's planning a cross-country road trip to her grandmother's house on the West Coast, where...
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Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"After escaping a bad relationship, Jess Cavendish is running and leaving it all behind, carrying just a few treasured belongings in her rucksack. She needs to start over, but that means sleeping where she can and making the most of her slim savings. Luckily, she comes across a recently sold, unoccupied house. It couldn't hurt to stay while she saves up enough to get her own place, right? Gethin Thomas is also looking for a fresh start. He's moved...
9) Memory piece
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Three Asian American teenagers meet in the New York suburbs in the 1980s. Drawn together by their shared sense of alienation from their conventionally domestic immigrant families, each wants to live a meaningful life. They envision a future defined by freedom and creativity, but on the brink of adulthood in New York City, their fortunes quickly diverge. Giselle Chin is a performance artist, pushing the boundaries of the form while socializing with...
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Series
True calling volume Book 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"After years of jumping through other people's hoops to be all they thought she should be, and enduring a tragedy no mother should, self-described "newbie Christian," Harper Townsend, has finally found her true calling . . . and her true love. Until it appears that to follow one may mean leaving the other behind. Adolescent psychologist Wyatt McCowan is beyond delighted to have the girl that got away back in his life, and his heart. But even as they...
11) Red
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Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Tess's decision to get an abortion goes public, she is rejected and harassed by people in her community, but she soon finds solace in her music and uses her voice to end the cycle of abuse in her small town.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that actually, this life isn't what she wants anymore, anyway. So she enlists her best friend, the glamorous older widow Evie, to join her in setting up a new life in Manhattan. Sylvia's ex-husband may have lost her life savings, but Sylvia and...
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Series
Leeward Island volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It was a marriage of inconvenience, but life has a wicked sense of humor. Charlotte Amelia Etheridge has cowered to her mother's sharp tongue and endless demands for the last time. In a fleeting moment of rebellion, she recklessly asks a foreigner from the Leeward Islands for a dance. But her one courageous act lands her in a compromising position. Forced to wed a stranger, Lottie leaves the only home she's ever known to reside on the isle of St....
