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Thirtysomething Emily Wilson, having agreed to visit her great-aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island and trying to cope with her divorce while doing research for her next novel, finds a diary from 1943 and realizes the life of its anonymous author is connected to hers, sending Emily on a path of facing her past and looking to her future.
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The New York Times bestselling author of Starting Over and An Ocean Apart returns with his strongest work to date-a heartwarming story of love, compassion, and redemption… After the dot-com bubble burst, Dan Porter is laid off from his job and must decide what is truly important. His wife of 20 years, Jackie, a beautiful and successful managing director for a clothing designer, no longer connects with him. His teenagers Josh, Nina and Millie are...
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Following a tragic accident, two women--Tessa Russo, a renowned pediatric surgeon, and Valerie Anderson, an attorney and single mother--living in the same Boston suburb but with relatively little in common aside from a fierce love for their children converge in ways no one could have imagined.
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Working with a team of gifted mediums, Schwartz brings forth great love and wisdom from "the other side" to explain why experiences such as incest, rape, abusive relationships and mental illness are planned-- and the deep, soul-level healing they can create. You can emerge from victim consciousness to know yourself as the powerful creator of your life.
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Oprah Winfrey, sharing stories from her own past, and a renowned brain development and trauma expert discuss the impact of trauma and adversity and how healing must begin with a shift to asking, "What happened to you?" rather than "What's wrong with you?"
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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"From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive. Ned Ayres, the son of a judge in an Indiana town in midcentury America, has never wanted anything but a newspaper career--in his father's appalled view, a "junk business," a way of avoiding responsibility. The defining moment comes early, when Ned is city...
88) Emily, alone
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Eighty-year-old Emily Maxwell, having come to rely on her sister-in-law Arlene to chauffeur them to their round of dinners, shows, museums, and funerals, and distanced from her two adult children and four grandchildren, tries to sustain her optimism and energy after Arlene has a stroke, leaving Emily to rediscover her independence.
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Atria Books
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2012
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English
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"Reunited with her cousin, Kelsey, when a job offer returns her to the home of her unhappy childhood in Oklahoma, Logan risks everything to secure her cousin's happiness while Kelsey's celebrity and controlling parents threaten her efforts to live a normal life"--Provided by publisher.
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"Paige Watts is the ultimate stage mother. The daughter of Hollywood royalty, Paige channels her own acting dreams into making her daughter, Emma, a star. By the age of nine, Emma is playing a central role in a hit TV show. Then everything is shattered by unforeseeable tragedy. Now Emma is living with her aunt Whitney, who had chosen a very different path than her sister. Whitney was always the studious older sister, hating the cult of celebrity that...
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St. Martin's Press
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2014
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English
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"Lucky Santangelo. A fifteen-year-old wild child ready to discover life, love and independence. Daughter of the notorious Gino, Lucky discovers her mother's murdered body floating in the family swimming pool at the tender age of four. Since then Gino has kept her protected from life closeted in their Bel Air mansion. But in Confessions of a Wild Child Lucky finally breaks free, and running away from boarding school the adventures begin. Boys, sex,...
93) Keep quiet
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2014
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English
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"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
94) One Last Thing
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Thomas Nelson
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[2015]
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English
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Tara had always imagined her happily ever after. But her fiancé's secrets are changing this story into one she doesn't even recognize. Tara Faulkner and Seth Grissom grew up next door to each other in Savannah's historic district. Their parents are best friends. They finish each other's sentences all the time. Their fairy-tale wedding is a foregone conclusion ... until Tara discovers another side to Seth three weeks before the wedding. Reality has...
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A famous, young model has her appearance forever altered and loses the people she loves most in a terrorist attack and changes the course and purpose of her life after reading a revealing letter that accompanied her mother's will.
Veronique Vincent graces the covers of magazines and walks the runways of haute couture shows across the globe, yet she prefers spending time at home or with her boyfriend. An explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes...
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Slammed volume 3
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Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2013.
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Layken and Will's love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still he cant resist his wife's pleas and so he begins...
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Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.
98) Standing still
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Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Kidnapped by an intruder, Claire, a sufferer of acute panic disorder, finds herself imprisoned in a hotel with her abductor as her only companion, a trauma that forces her to reevaluate her life and threatens to shatter her sense of sanity.
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Amy Einhorn Books
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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Alice Love, having woken up on the gym floor and been rushed to the hospital with a head injury, believes she is twenty-nine, expecting her first baby, and madly in love with her husband, but, after realizing she has forgotten ten years of her life and is actually thirty-nine, she is forced to try and piece together what occurred over the past decade to result in her marriage and life not being as she had hoped it would be.
100) The silence: a novel
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people, dinner, an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The retired physics professor and her husband and her former student waiting for the couple who will join them from what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. The conversation ranges from a survey telescope in North-central Chile to a favorite brand of bourbon to Einstein's 1912 Manuscript on the Special Theory of Relativity. Then something...
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