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41) Tuscan holiday
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"In this smart, tender, insightful novel, bestselling author Holly Chamberlin introduces two very different women who, over the course of two unforgettable weeks, learn about unbreakable bonds, unshakeable love, and the chances that come once in a lifetime--and change us forever... When Elizabeth Caldwell planned a trip to Florence with her daughter, Marina, she secretly hoped for a warm, fuzzy bonding experience worthy of a Lifetime movie. But Marina--twenty-one,...
42) Betrayed
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"Lacey Fowler is distraught when her father and stepmother are killed in a car accident while traveling home to Mooresville, North Carolina from Daytona International Speedway. Her anxiety is heightened when champion stock car driver and playboy Reese Mitchell inherits part of her father's prestigious team, Southern Racing. While snooping through company files, she discovers a shortage in the company payroll. And when she finds photos of the fatal...
43) The Corinthian
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Penelope Creed will do anything to avoid marrying her repulsive cousin. Dressed in boy's clothing, she's fleeing from London when discovered by Sir Richard Wyndham, himself on the verge of the most momentous decision of his life. When Sir Richard encounters the lovely young fugitive, he knows he can't allow her to travel to the countryside all alone, so he offers himself as her protector. As it happens, at that moment Sir Richard could use an escape...
44) Cousin Kate
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In Regency England, penniless Kate Malvern is swept to her aunt's Elizabethan manor and showered with comforts. But despite the luxury of her new life, the atmosphere in the household is less than homely, and gradually it dawns on Kate that there are sinister reasons for her aunt's benevolence.
45) Dead pan
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Cake decorator Daphne Martin once again finds herself and her cakes at the center of a murder mystery. Half the town gets sick following a cake event, but for poor Fred Duncan, a bout with potential food poisoning quickly turns fatal. Now it's up to Daphne to sort through the likely suspects and figure out who frosted Fred. Book Two of Gayle Trent's cozy mystery series about a Virginia baker turned mystery sleuth.
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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In this charming and thoughtful retelling of Mansfield Park, Amanda Grange brings one of Jane Austen's most remarkable novels to life once again ... At ten years of age, Fanny Price came to live with Edmund Bertram and his family at Mansfield Park. Far from the brat Edmund expected, Fanny became his closest confidante and dearest friend. But when the fashionable Crawford siblings - Henry and Mary - come to town, Edmund is enchanted by Mary's beauty...
47) Egret cove
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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With a crummy job and no close friends or family in Kokomo, Indiana, sixty-something Angela Dunn has given up on finding much excitement in life; when her brother calls from Florida with a job offer, Angela makes a decision to let go of the past and find the joy in life once more.
48) Frame work
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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When college teacher Sarah Brandau is invited to a literary conference in Prague, she persuades her grandmother, Edith, who raised her when her parents died, to travel from Manhattan for a reunion in the fabled city. Browsing in an antique shop, Edith is attracted to a picture with an ornate frame. But when they return to the hotel, Sarah and Edith discover they got more than they bargained for - and are in more danger than they ever could have imagined....
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Faith, Love, Family, and Courage.
On the southern frontier in 1827, newlyweds Lavinia and Thomas Jones moved into a cabin in the vast pine forests of South Georgia. Over the decades to come, their magnificent home, Greenwood, rose among the pines, and their family grew and prospered. But their faith, love, and future were tested by the joys and sorrows of a turbulent era, including the war that nearly destroyed their beloved homeland.
In the authentic...
50) Lily in bloom
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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The terms of fifty-year-old Lily McVay's divorce settlement are quirky at best: live in her ex-husband's ancestral mausoleum of a house, restore her dead mother-in-law's renowned garden, and host the small Gulf Coast town's overblown annual soiree. Lily needs help. Aided and abetted by her "I'll help bury the body, no questions asked" friends, Lily sets out to lay old ghosts to rest and grow a new life.
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A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client's dead body in this irresistible new mystery series.
It'll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin's freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne's Delectable Cakes, off the ground is hard enough now that Daphne's moved back...
52) Newport summer
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In the late 1880s the Earl of Camberly crosses the Atlantic to Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to trade his title for an American heiress's wealth. Audrey St. Clair knows what she wants and it's not an English Earl. She offers to guide him in some investments that will save his family finances, if, in return, he will help her thwart her parents' matchmaking efforts.
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In a struggling Dallas neighborhood, two unlikely allies--Sandra Kaye Darden whose missing adopted son draws her to her Uncle Poppy's home and Cass Blue who is struggling to survive on her own after ditching foster care--realize their ability to make a difference--and the power of what becomes known as the Summer Kitchen to nourish the soul.
55) Taos chill
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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Taos, New Mexico, is a winter wonderland where you can rub elbows with cowboys, artists, and Hollywood expats. Native New Mexican Carmen Pollini is an up-and-coming author with lots of fans. One in particular has started sending her suggestive gifts, while someone is harassing her by e-mail. Plus, her agent has failed to send her advances and royalties. Then her nemesis, the local R.E.D. delivery truck driver, is found dead on Carmen's doorstep......
56) To believe
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Broken roads romances volume 3
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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Country girl police officer Roseanna Cahill should never have married rich big city boy Colin Vance Fields III, better know as Trey. When they divorced after four years, Roseanna thought she had seen the last of him, until his sister showed up showed up at her door begging for help. Trey had been kidnapped and they needed Roseanna's tracking skills to rescue him.
57) To hope
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When Jodie Cahill, bull rider, breaks her wrist, she jumps at the chance at the job of a three-month tour as a judge on the circuit.
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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It's an ordinary afternoon in Summer Breeze, Florida, when a young, wide-eyed girl steps into I Saw It First, the trash-to-treasure shop Christy Castleman opened with her Aunt Bobbie. Clutching a jewelry box, Zeffie Adams tells Christy she needs money to pay her grandmother's medical bills, prompting Christy to offer the curious visitor more than the box is worth. But soon Christy finds there is more to the small box than someone wants her to know....
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Thorndike Press
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2009
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Driving back from the garage in the worst storm of the winter after a failed inspection for their old car and no funds for a new one, Reverend Mother Joan of the Stella Maris Convent didn't hold much hope about the future. Expenses were overtaking them, and the boiler was on the blink. Even Sister Imelda, who could 'fix' anything mechanical, wouldn't risk another patch on it. What happened next along the dark muddy lane would change the sisters' lives...