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Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
The residents of a small South Carolina town look on with interest and delight when John Dodge, a man who specializes in fixing up businesses on the brink of disaster, takes over an odd little pen shop in Lambert Square and sets his sights on Julia Darrow, the very self-contained, pajama wearing owner of Cocoon, a luxury linen store.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Young Stephen Huxtable, the Earl of Merton, becomes entangled in a romantic affair with Cassandra Belmont, a beautiful widow who has been accused of murdering her husband, but taking Cassandra as his wife would risk his reputation.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Dora, moving through life without direction, leaves college when her beloved grandmother, Mimi, has a stroke and rushes home to Forsyth, North Carolina, where she finds her calling running Mimi's vintage clothing store and love with a young contractor named Conrad.
48) Riven rock
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
A historical novel based upon the lives of socialite Katherine Dexter, one of the first female graduates of M.I.T., and her husband, Stanley, heir to the McCormick fortune; telling the story of their lives after Stanley was institutionalized at Riven Rock with a psycho-sexual disorder that made him violent toward women.
49) Promise me
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Beth Cardall, having fallen in love with a mysterious man eighteen years earlier who helped her cope with her daughter's unidentifiable illness and problems in her marriage and changed her world and destiny, decides on Christmas Eve to divulge a secret she has been keeping for years.
Author
Language
English
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Description
New York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Miranda's track record with men is horrible. Her most recent catastrophe is Greg. He seems perfect gorgeous, witty, exciting. And he and Miranda are in love until Miranda discovers he left his wife when he found out she was pregnant. With the help of her friends, Miranda plans the sweetest and most public revenge a heartbroken girl can get. But will Miranda learn from her mistake, or move on to the next "perfect"...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Sisters Miranda and Annie retreat to Westport, Connecticut, with their mother after their father files for divorce after forty-eight years of marriage, and the three find life in the small, dilapidated beach cottage brings about confusion over reason and romance.
53) The last song
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ronnie Miller is resentful when her mother insists she and her ten-year-old brother spend the summer with their estranged father in North Carolina, and while things get off to a rocky start, Ronnie eventually makes friends and begins to better understand her dad and why he wanted her to visit.
55) Dream lake
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Alex Nolan, jaded from a betrayal and living in a Victorian house haunted by a ghost that only Alex can see, finds himself drawn to Zoé Hoffman and begins to suspect she could help him uncover the mysteries behind the ghost.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the fire that killed her father and left her horrible disfigured, Sicily Coyne is offered a chance at a normal life in the form of a revolutionary surgery that gives her a new face, and, with her beauty and courage restored, Sicily seeks new experiences and adventures, until she is forced to confront a moral and medical crisis that changes everything.
Author
Publisher
FlamingoBooks
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan, pregnant with Hank Oliver's child, goes to live with him in his Arizona cabin, but she chafes at the restrictions of her impending motherhood and when she develops a strong attraction to Native American artist Junior Whitebear, she begins to wonder if she is capable of domesticity and fidelity.
58) The best of me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks, now middle-aged, are called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, and they will be forced to confront the choices each has made.
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Penguin Books
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Volume three of a three volume set collecting the works of Russian author Vladimir Nabokov, written after his emigration to the United States, between 1969 and 1974. Includes "Ada," "Transparent Things," and "Look at the Harlequins!"
60) Handyman
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When Maggie Ivey signs up for Dr. Jason Golding's 21-Day Overhaul, she hopes to find the strength she needs to put her life back in order, but instead she finds a love that is strong enough to endure the everyday struggles of life.
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