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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Past and present collide in this heartfelt novel of love and loss from the National Book Award--winning author of A Wrinkle in Time. After the tragic death of her son and the seeming collapse of her marriage, Charlotte Napier flees to Portugal in the hopes of finding guidance from her mentor: her mother-in-law, Violet. Instead, she finds solace in the letters of Mariana Alcoforado, a seventeenth-century nun. Charlotte and Mariana's stories may be...
42) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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Chronicles the joys and troubles of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth--as they grow into young ladies and marry in nineteenth-century New England.
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Language
English
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From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak comes a novel about finding family in unexpected places and the lifelong bonds that don't need a lifetime to forge.
When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half sisters she didn't know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these...
45) Sweetgrass
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The New York Times–bestselling author paints an intimate portrait of a family's struggle to come together and protect their historic South Carolina home.
Sweetgrass is a historic tract of land in South Carolina that has been home to the Blakely family for eight generations. But Sweetgrass-named for the indigenous grass that grows in the area-is in trouble. Taxes are skyrocketing. Bulldozers are leveling the surrounding properties. And the Blakelys...
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English
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How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
47) Just breathe
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Language
English
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What happens when a cartoonist's life gets turned upside-down? Find out in this contemporary romance by New York Times bestseller Susan Wiggs! Sarah Moon tackles life's issues with a sharp wit in her syndicated comic strip, Just Breathe . With both Sarah and her cartoon heroine undergoing fertility treatments, her fiction often reflects her reality. However, she hadn't scripted her husband's infidelity. In the wake of her shattered marriage, Sarah...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"The acclaimed, bestselling author--winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize--tells the enthralling story of how an unexpected romantic encounter irrevocably changes two families' lives. One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny's mother, Beverly--thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The Daddy Surprise Since the loss of his wife, Alex Ryan has been living a half-life. But with one phone call, Alex discovers he's the biological father of a four-year-old girl ... and everything changes. Single mom Paige Kenner preferred to have a family without the man. Now suddenly there's Alex, who desperately wants to be a father to her little girl. A gorgeous, kind and committed father. Letting a stranger into their lives is far too dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The "deeply engrossing" saga of a 19th-century lumber baron's twisted love for his family -- from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Captains and the Kings ( The New York Times ). Born into the humblest of circumstances, William Prescott is determined to amass a fortune large enough to ensure that his four children will never want for anything. He'll do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, even if it means plundering Pennsylvania's forests...
51) Maid of Honor
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young woman must escape family conflict-and find her own identity-in order to track down a thief in this novel by an acclaimed mystery writer. Persis Green's existence has been overshadowed by the looming prospect of her older sister's wedding. Her family was once normal-boring, but normal. Then the engagement was announced and all hell broke loose. Now, Persis's father acts like a zombie at dinner parties, her mother goes from zero to shrieking...
52) One last dance
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Language
English
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Adult sisters Daphne, Alex, and Kitty must steel themselves against the shock of exposed family secrets and lies while also trying to deal with their individual struggles when their father is shot and their mother is jailed for his murder.
Author
Publisher
Gatekeeper Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Janice never thought she could hate her oldest brother, her best friend, her Christmas partner. But he was leaving her. The Army? Who was going to decorate cookies into the night with her? Sing every Christmas song? A hundred times each. And what about their favorite part. What about the tree? How could Edward not be thinking of her?"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit -- the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility -- much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Do you love stories with sexy, romantic heroes who have it all-wealth, status, and incredibly good looks? Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles for one great price! Look for Harlequin® Desire's January 2015 Bundle 2 of 2, filled with even more scandalous stories and powerful heroes! Because of the Baby ... (Texas Cattleman's Club: After the Storm) By Cat Schield When Lark Taylor and Keaton Holt set...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A "gripping, beautiful, emotionally raw" collection of stories about the things that go wrong between men and women from a PEN Award winner. Arriving in the midst of the #MeToo era, these stories examine the fallout from failed relationships between men and women -- partnerships that have crumbled under the weight of betrayal, misplaced hopes, illness, and particularly masculinity at its most toxic and misguided. A man in his mid-thirties receives...
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Language
English
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Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people--though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend--her grandmother Zelda--who died under mysterious circumstances years...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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""If I could only read one writer from now until the end of my life, it would be Dorothea Benton Frank."--Elin Hildebrand, the New York Times bestselling author of Summer of '69, The Perfect Couple, and The Identicals Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank's Carolina Lowcountry in this evocative tale that returns at long last to her beloved Sullivan's Island. Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen...
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 3
Language
English
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Look for Robyn's new book, The Best of Us, a story about family, second chances and choosing to live your best life!
An exceptional storyteller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr beautifully captures the emotionally charged, complex dynamics that come with being part of any family. Readers will laugh and shed a few tears as they discover what it means to be loved, supported and accepted by the people who mean the most.
Having left...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
" A page-turner with a deep heart." -- Nancy Thayer, New York Times bestselling author of Girls of Summer How do you start a new chapter of your life when you haven't closed the book on the previous one? Eighteen months ago, Autumn Divac's husband went missing. Her desperate search has yielded no answers, and she can't imagine moving forward without him. But for the sake of their two teenage children, she has to try. Autumn takes her kids home for...
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