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From the New York Times-bestselling author of 'How to Walk Away' comes a stunning new novel about courage, hope, and learning to love against all odds. Things You Save in a Fire is a heartfelt and healing tour-de-force about the strength of vulnerability and the nourishing magic of forgiveness.
As the only female firefighter in her Texas firehouse, Cassie Hanswell is excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But she never anticipated that...
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English
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Louise Watkins has her hands full. Her mother had been the town midwife, but after her daughter Alice died under her care, she refused to assist in a childbirth ever again. Since then Louise has assumed the work. She also takes care of Alice's six-year old, Charlotte, because the child's father was lost in World War I. But Louise's principal job is running the boardinghouse that is the family's main source of income. One day, Charlotte befriends a...
84) Addiction
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2001.
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English
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Amnesia, G.H. Ephron's acclaimed debut, introduced forensic neuropsychologist and expert defense witness Dr. Peter Zak. Returning in Addiction, Peter is back in the thick of things at the Pearce Psychiatric Center, coping with patients as well as everyday average administrative nightmares at the hospital, like budgetary concerns, construction, and colleagues' drug trials. And then the worst nightmare of all-the murder of a colleague.
Such an event,...
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Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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Kris Radish work features powerful women on a mission. In The Sunday List of Dreams, that woman is Connie Nixon. For as long as she can remember, Connie has tinkered with her list of dreams each Sunday. But she has never actually done anything about those dreams. And it's about time. Number 7 on the list: Find and reclaim estranged daughter Jessica. So Connie sets out for New York City to cross Number 7, the most important number, off her list. She...
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Cold River novels volume 1
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English
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Returning to her small, intrusive Ozark Mountain community, Caroline O'Conner cares for her Alzheimer's patient mother while navigating the challenges of her doctor father's frustrations, her brazen cousin's marital disasters, her deaf dog, a moonshining relative and a troubled ex-veteran.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A bookstore owner in a seaside village on coastal Maine is shocked when the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption thirty-seven years prior arrives at her door and the pair attempt to forge a new relationship.
88) Drawing home
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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When Sag Harbor's most famous resident, artist Henry Wyatt, dies suddenly, Emma Mapson finds herself in a battle against Henry's former business partner, Bea Winstead, when they discover that Henry has left his waterfront home to Emma's teenage daughter, Penny.
89) Knit two
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Series
Friday night knitting club volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
Description
No other author writes about the lives and friendships of women with more warmth and grace than New York Times bestseller Patricia Gaffney. A true master of women's fiction, with Circle of Three she flourishes the same breathtaking characterization and storytelling skills that made her previous novel, The Saving Graces, a readers' favorite. The story of a woman grieving for her losses and her life, and her relationship with her overbearing mother...
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"On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony and baby Lottie in Asheville, North Carolina, before she disappears forever. Harmony's friend Taylor Martin realizes how much the reunited mother and daughter yearn to stay together, and she sees in Jan a chance to continue her own mother's legacy...
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Series
Carson Springs novels volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows that feisty, sensual Gerry Fitzgerald wasn't always so outspoken. As a young novitiate, Gerry became pregnant, fleeing the altar just as she was about to take her vows and never breathing a word about why. Twenty-eight years later the child she gave up for adoption has returned, a grown woman looking for answers. Now Gerry must learn how to defuse the years of guilt, shame, and bitterness that divide her from her daughter. At the same...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After her eight-year-old daughter Ella is given six months to live, Penelope Dalton is determined to give her as many new experiences as she can, quickly ticking items off Ella's bucket list. The one sticking point is Ella's latest addition: get a Dad. And the dad Ella wants just happens to be her biological father"--
94) On the run
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English
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For eight years, single mother Grace Archer has been living a picture-perfect life raising her daughter, Frankie, on a horse farm in the small town of Tallanville, Alabama. Trying to forget the past that didn't forget her. When violence threatens to shatter Grace and Frankie's idyllic home, the waiting is over. The ghosts of the past have returned, and they're hungry for blood. Now Grace must resume an identity she thought she had cast off forever,...
95) Crossroads
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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The owner of a New England glassworks company, widow Cassie Wright struggles to raise her surviving child, Gwen, in the face of unbearable tragedy, but as Gwen blossoms into an independent young woman, dissention drives the two apart, until Gwen has her own child, a little girl who reunites the estranged family.
96) Just rewards
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Harte Family volume 6
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English
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From New York Times blockbuster bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford comes the astonishing final episode of the Harte family saga. Just Rewards is the dramatic conclusion of the extraordinary tale of Emma Harte's great granddaughters. In this sweeping novel, the Harte women find themselves in the midst of weddings and intrigue. Linnet O'Neill, great-granddaughter of Emma Harte, finds herself following in the footsteps of the original woman-of-substance...
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Random House
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English
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Recently widowed Helen Ames and her twenty-seven-year-old daughter Tessa discover that money has disappeared in several big withdrawals from the Ames' retirement savings. What Helen's husband did with all their money turns out to be provocative, revelatory--and leads Helen and her daughter to embark on new adventures, and change.
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Blackberry Island novels volume 4
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English
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Cousins by chance, sisters by choice ... After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long. Kristine has become defined by her relationship...
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