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Claire has a problem with setting limits. All her life she has taken on every responsibility, assumed every burden, granted every request. Claire wants it all--and in the eyes of her friends, she has it: a devoted husband, four beautiful children, even a successful career as an artist. So when she agrees to chair the committee for Nantucket's social event of the year, she knows she can handle it. Claire can handle anything.
But when planning the gala...
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No one writes about Italian-American families with the humor, warmth, and heart of Peter Pezzelli. Now, with Francesca's Kitchen, he delivers another winning novel about how much we need the closeness of family--even if we don't know it.
Where There's Food, There's Family
For years, Francesca Campanile was the queen of her home. Standing in her Rhode Island kitchen, making sauce from sun-ripened tomatoes, dropping in basil from her garden, and...
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Thirty-eight-year-old single mother Rebecca Martin, having shed her romantic illusions along with her ex-husband, discovers she may have given up on love too soon when Michael Christopher, a man who has just left the monastery after twenty years, moves into her downstairs apartment.
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Delacorte Press
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c2009
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Assistant District Attorney Alexa Hamilton reluctantly sends her seventeen-year-old daughter Savannah, to live with her ex-husband and his family in Charleston after she received death threats against Savannah's life for prosecuting serial killer Luke Quentin.
8) Guilty
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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c2008
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Philadelphia prosecutor and single mother Kate White faces her past when she has to prosecute a man who was part of a robbery in which she was involved sixteen years earlier, and the criminal threatens to expose her if he is found guilty.
11) Shiver
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Gallery Books
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2012
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Samantha Jones finds a nearly dead man in the trunk of a car that she had been hired to reposes. The man who she saved then takes her as a hostage and forces her to help protect him from the ruthless killers.
13) Lover's lane
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For six years, Carly Nolan has built a secretive life for herself and her son Christopher. Nobody in the quiet little beach community of Twilight Cove, California, suspects she is running from the tragic memory of her fiancé Rick and his unexpected death--and from his rich, powerful parents, who want to take away her child. She has carefully concealed her troubled past from the folks in the isolated cove. Until now.
Private investigator, Jake Montgomery,...
16) Sullivan's law
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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Parole officer, law student, and single mom Carolyn Sullivan's already hectic life is thrown into a tailspin when one of her probationers is accused of rape, and to make matters worse, she is assigned to supervise Daniel Metroix, a convicted killer and paranoid schizophrenic whose claims of innocence in the death of the police chief's son twenty-three years earlier begin to ring true when it becomes apparent someone is now trying to kill him.
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Atria Books
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2008
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Ten years after finding fame with a novel based on her own life, Cannie Shapiro has faded from the spotlight, content to write science fiction under a pen name and raise her daughter, Joy, but as Joy prepares for her bat mitzvah and begins to ask questions about Cannie's past, Cannie realizes she cannot hide forever if she wants to be truly happy.
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What if the one person you can’t bear to be with is also the one person you can’t bear to be without? Jamie McClintock is a free-spirited artist and single mother who has at last found peace and freedom sharing a farmhouse with an elderly man and his young grandson. But when the old man dies suddenly, her idyllic country life comes to a halt, as the old man's estranged son, Nate, return's to claim the house and his child. Jamie can't stand Nate's...
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