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Christmas hope volume 7
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Gretchen Daniels has recently moved into an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Miriam. She and her children are building a life together in a new community when a mysterious young woman, Melissa McCreary, moves into the apartment next to them. She has few possessions, little personality, and keeps to herself. One day, a local landlord who is looking for Melissa knocks on Gretchen's door for assistance. Melissa's mother has...
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful novel about a woman running her family's luxury department store and the wealthy investor who threatens to take it over. Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven...
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It seemed like a simple case — before the bodies started piling up... When single-mother Devon Connor hires Elvis Cole, it’s because her troubled teenage son Tyson is flashing cash and she’s afraid he’s dealing drugs. But the truth is devastatingly different. With two others, he’s been responsible for a string of high-end burglaries, a crime spree that takes a deadly turn when one of them is murdered and Tyson and his girlfriend disappear....
44) In close
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Bulletproof trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Claire O'Toole's mother, Alana, went missing fifteen years ago. That was big news in Pineview, Montana, the kind of town where nothing much ever happens. Then, last year, Claire's husband, David, died in a freak accident -- after launching his own investigation into Alana's disappearance. Is Alana dead? Or did she simply abandon her husband and daughters? Claire's determined to find out -- and her former boyfriend, Isaac Morgan, wants to help. Although...
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Cannie Shapiro volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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The last decade of Cannie's life has brought some surprises. Her life story, in fictional form, became an unexpected bestseller, and Cannie has since retreated from fame's fallout, writing science-fiction under a pen name and praying that all her daughter inherited from her father, Cannie's ex-boyfriend Bruce Guberman, are her curls and her eye-colour, and not his predilection for smoking pot. Meanwhile Cannie's best friend, Samantha, is looking for...
46) Live to tell
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Live to tell thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
519 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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In a lovely suburban town just north of New York City, the gossip mill runs more efficiently than the commuter train line. And in every impeccably decorated house, they're talking about Lauren Walsh. They say that nothing could be worse than being abandoned by your husband for another woman. They're wrong. All Lauren wants is to protect her children from her messy divorce. But then their father goes missing, a case of mistaken identity puts all their...
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Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1999
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375 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Helen Ketterling returns to the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota where she worked thirteen years earlier as a teacher, this time to investigate reports of wrongdoing at the local casino, and encounters Reese Blue Sky, the man she once loved and the father of her son.
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The epitome of intelligence, high-powered energy, beauty, and grace, Blaise McCarthy is an icon in the world of television news, asking the tough questions and taking on the emotionally charged issues of world news and politics with courage and insight. A single mother, she manages her well-ordered career meticulously, always prepared on the news or interviewing world-renowned figures and heads of state. To her audience, Blaise seems to have it all....
49) Better the blood
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Hana Westerman volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"An absorbing, clever debut thriller that speaks to the longstanding injustices faced by New Zealand's indigenous peoples, by an acclaimed Maori screenwriter and director. A tenacious Maori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription....
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Neapolitan novels volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
[2014]
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418 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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In this third volume in the series, Elena and Lina have become women. Lina married at sixteen and has a young son; she's left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena's left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons.
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Ryan family novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
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425 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Retired combat medic Jesse Ryan is headed back to Texas to take care of his aging foster parents. But he finds his parents' live-in nurse is Addison Hall, the woman he always regretted leaving behind after their steamy night together before he shipped out. Jesse is shocked to learn Addy gave birth to a girl about nine months after he left--his girl. Addy has her hands full as a single mom of a nineteen-year-old daughter. The last thing she needs...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2016.
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379 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Susanne Collins has her hands full raising four orphaned nieces and nephews and managing the family farm. When her cowboy neighbor offers to plant her crops in exchange for keeping his wild horses in her corrals, Susanne hesitantly takes the deal. But soon she wonders if Tanner Harding will prove to be the strong, solid man she's been hoping for. Half Native American, Tanner has always been adrift in a white man's world. Yet the beautiful stand-in...
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Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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Young widow Megan Rocklin is trying hard to pick up the pieces. A year after her fireman husband's death, she has managed to keep the family diner going and tend to her two active children, June and Caleb. She's sure that's all she can handle -- and then Jared Marshall asks Megan to cater the meals for his hotshot crew. With his rugged good looks, Minoa, Nevada's new fire management officer turns many heads -- but his heart lands straight on Megan....
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Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
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366 p. ; 23 cm.
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English
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Annabelle has finally made peace with the loss of her beloved husband. Until she finds out he wasn't alone when he died. Since a plane crash killed her husband two years ago, Annabelle Murphy has found solace in raising her two children. Just when she thinks the grief is behind her, she receives the news that the wreckage of the small plane has been discovered -- and that her husband did not die alone. He was with another woman. Suddenly, Annabelle...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
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375 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"A gunman without a gun wakes up in Death Valley. He has no recollection of how he got there, or even his own name. He stumbles upon the homestead of a widow and her young son. But the amnesiac is being trailed by hard men who want answers he doesn't have. First a group of gunslingers, then a troop of soldiers threaten the innocent family. Their only hope of rescue is the very man who got them in this predicament. But how can he help them when he...
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English
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A contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island.
"Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory....
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2023.
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Español
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Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de television mas seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada deacido acetico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que suexito aumenta lo hacen tambien sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no solo este ensenando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambien desafiandolas a alterar el orden establecido....
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Eleven years have passed since Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husband’s betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, Alexa has finally put her demons to rest, making a name for herself as a top prosecutor, handling the city’s toughest cases while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest...
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"What might have been? That tantalizing question propels a woman on a cross-country adventure to reunite with the men she loved and let go ... It all starts with a fall from a ladder, in a firehouse in New York City. The firehouse has been converted into a unique Manhattan home and studio where renowned photographer Madison Allen works and lives after raising three children on her own. But the accident, which happens while Maddie is sorting through...
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Walsh family volume 1
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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It's bad enough that Claire's husband James left her the day he was at the birth of their first child -- I mean, if he thought it was going to upset him that much he should have just stayed at home -- but to rub salt into the episiotomy, he didn't even have the decency to leave her for someone skinny! He's just absconded, leaving Claire with a newborn baby, a broken heart, two extra stone and an ...er...birth canal ten times its normal size. In the...
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