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1) A new hope
Author
Series
Thunder Point novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since moving to Thunder Point, a small town on the Oregon coast, and with the help of her cousin Ray Anne, Ginger is finally moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is peaceful and fulfilling, and she's excited to start her first big assignment, assisting with the Lacoumette wedding."--p. [4] cover.
2) Good faith
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Greed. Envy. Sex. Property. In her subversively funny and genuinely moving new novel, Jane Smiley nails down several American obsessions with the expertise of a master carpenter. Forthright, likable Joe Stratford is the kind of local businessman everybody trusts, for good reason. But it's 1982, and even in Joe's small town, values are in upheaval: not just property values, either. Enter Marcus Burns, a would-be master of the universe whose years with...
3) Lucky charm
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Derek Corwin is well aware of the family curse - every Corwin male who married for love would be destined to lose his woman and his fortune. He decides to outsmart the prophesy that has plagued his family for generations by breaking up with his first love-and marrying someone else. Now, divorced and broke, all he has left is his teenage daughter, a boatload of regret … and wariness when it comes to love.
Until Gabrielle Donovan returns, determined...
Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bundled away to a small town in Maine by her ex-husband and on-again, off-again friend, William. For the next several months, it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the moody, swirling sea. Rich with empathy and emotion, Lucy by the Sea vividly captures the fear and struggles that come with isolation,...
Author
Series
Gus Murphy novels volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Gus Murphy thought he had the world all figured out. A retired Suffolk County cop, Gus had everything a man could want: a great marriage, two kids, a nice house, and the rest of his life ahead of him. But when tragedy strikes, his life is thrown into complete disarray. A gritty, atmospheric new series about the other side of Long Island, far from the wealth of the Hamptons, where real people live - and die.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Annika (rhymes with Monica) Rose is an English major at the University of Illinois. Anxious in social situations where she finds most people's behavior confusing, she'd rather be surrounded by the order and discipline of books or the quiet solitude of playing chess. Jonathan Hoffman joined the chess club and lost his first game--and his heart--to the shy and awkward, yet brilliant and beautiful Annika. He admires her ability to be true to herself,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Divorced dad Tate McKettrick is super busy running the Silver Spur ranch and taking care of his six-year-old twin daughters. Does he have time to start up a relationship with former flame, Libby Remington, who's busy enough with her mother and running the coffee shop?
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when...
Author
Publisher
Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings: he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live with his parents, everything seems changed: no one will talk to him about Nikki; his old friends are saddled with families; the Philadelphia...
12) Tomcat in love
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
13) Independence day
Author
Series
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Real estate agent Frank Bascombe moves into his newly married ex-wife's old home, and is looking forward to the upcoming Fourth of July weekend, but somehow nothing turns out the way he expects.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after Judd's wife leaves him for his boss, Judd's father Mort passes away, bringing the entire family together in mourning. During this week of “sitting shiva,” Judd realizes his siblings are even more dysfunctional than he is, and the confrontations that ensue are full of raw emotion and humorous consequences.
16) Mistletoe Bay
Author
Series
Misty Harbor romances volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cooper Armstrong finds love when he moves to Maine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
With "The Sportswriter," in 1985, Richard Ford began a cycle of novels that ten years later -- after "Independence Day" -- won both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Now, Frank Bascombe's story resumes, in the fall of 2000, with the presidential election still hanging in the balance and Thanksgiving looming before him with all the perils of a post-nuclear family get-together.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Chemin will change you. It changes everyone... The Chemin, also known as the Camino de Santiago, is a centuries-old pilgrim route that ends in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Every year, thousands of walkers--some devout, many not--follow the route that wends through quaint small villages and along busy highways alike, a journey unlike any other. Zoe, an artist from California who's still reeling from her husband's sudden death, has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018].
Language
English
Description
"After his divorce, cowboy turned Navy SEAL Wayne Brustanovitch swore he'd never remarry. Now he needs a wife--and fast--in order to fulfill his ailing father's final wishes. Wayne has a plan, but for it to work, he'll need his pregnant friend Paisley to agree to.... A make-believe marriage! Paisley Carter knows her hunky neighbor's idea is a bad one, even if it's for a good reason. Then again, after her ex left her pregnant and alone, a no-risk relationship...
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