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1281) Lillian on life: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A middle-aged woman in the 1960s looks back on her life as a single woman and on the men in her life"--
1282) A happy catastrophe
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Marnie MacGraw and Patrick Delaney have been in love for a few years now, enough to realize that they are imperfectly perfect together. Still, there are some things that maybe need a little attention. Marnie's ebullient; he's brooding. She thrives on change; he prefers stability. She sees marriage and parenthood in their future, but he can't see beyond the shadow of an earlier tragedy. Then an eight-year-old surprise from Patrick's past shows up...
1283) Watch us shine: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2023].
Description
"Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recoverIn grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs Cornelia to bring her the Northern Lights, and despite her confusion at this mysterious plea, Cornelia vows to do so. With the help of her prickly...
1286) Promises to keep
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Six people--sisters Callie and Steff Perry, their divorced parents Walter Cutler and Honor Pitman, Lila Grossman and the man of her dreams, Eddie--each receive a shocking note that summons them together for one extraordinary summer in Maine--a summer that will change their lives forever.
1287) Feels like falling
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"It's summertime on the North Carolina coast and the livin' is easy. Unless, that is, you've just lost your mother to cancer, your sister to her extremist husband, and your husband to his executive assistant. Meet Gray Howard. Right when Gray could use a serious infusion of good karma in her life, she inadvertently gets a stranger, Diana Harrington, fired from her job at the local pharmacy. Diana Harrington's summer isn't off to the greatest start...
1288) Surfacing
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"A new collection of essays exploring the nature of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of Sightlines"--
"In this remarkable collection, part travelogue, part cultural and personal history, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past...
1290) The last silk blot
Author
Series
Time of death volume 6
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"When Kyle and Allaire travel outside the walls of the time tunnel, they meet Kyle's ancient ancesror, and their journey takes a turn that he could have never anticipated. Now, with everything on rhe line, Kyle must revisit the demons of the past one final time if he was any hope of leaving them behind once and for all." --
1291) The summerhouse: Book 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Description
Three women reunite after 25 years and realize that their lives are unfulfilled. Magically they are given the chance to relive any three months they choose.
Author
Series
Rosemary Beach novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Rush promised her forever .... but promises can be broken. Torn between his love for his family and his love for Blaire, Rush has to find a way to save one without losing the other. In the end one has to be more important. Letting go isn't easy. Blaire believed in her fairytale .... but no one can live in a fantasy. Her love for Rush and desire to have a family keep her believing they can find a way for this to work. Until she has to make the right...
1293) The Other Woman
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A woman whose marriage began as an extramarital affair tries to forge a bond with her stepson after her infant daughter dies unexpectedly.
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 14
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"Colin Riordan came to Virgin River to recuperate from a horrific helicopter crash, the scars of which he bears inside and out. His family is wonderfully supportive, but it's his art that truly soothes his troubled soul. Stung personally and professionally by an ill-advised affair, PR guru Jillian Matlock has rented an old Victorian with a promising garden in Virgin River. She's looking forward to cultivating something other than a corporate brand....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"When Charlie Garrett arrives as a young teacher at the Abbott School, he finds a world steeped in privilege and tradition. The school's green quads are lined by gothic stone halls, students dart across campus in blazers and bright plaid skirts. Fresh out of college and barely older than the students he teaches, Charlie longs to find his place in the rarefied world of Abbottsford. He is particularly drawn to the school chaplain, Preston Bankhead,...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
When the borders between East and West Berlin closed overnight in August of 1961, families and friends were suddenly split by concrete and barbed wire. Couples found themselves marooned on opposite sides of a divided city. In 2002, Kurt Hilst and Anna Robinson are assigned to begin piecing together documents found after the East German police began shredding documents after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. They encounter and follow two couples...
1298) The last shepherd
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his familys Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the ranch instead. Then his father is killed in an accident, and Matt discovers that he is not the heir to the ranch. So he travels to the French Pyrenees from which his father and grandparents came to settle the questions about his legacy. Instead, he discovers a vast Basque family and a mystery that drove...
1299) Tantric coconuts
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"A new novel--and new direction--from the bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas! Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance meets Life of Pi meets On the Road meets Travels with Charley in this quirky spiritual journey across the wild highways and byways of America"--
1300) Stillwater
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Clement and Angel are fraternal twins separated at birth; they grow up in the same small, frontier logging town of Stillwater, Minnesota. Clement was left at the orphanage; Angel was adopted by the town's richest couple, but is marked and threatened by her mother's mental illness. They rarely meet, but Clement knows if he is truly in need, Angel will come to save him. Stillwater, near the Mississippi River and Canada, becomes an important stop on...
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