Sandra Burr
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"When Nell Channing arrives on charming Three Sisters Island, she believes that she's finally found refuge from her abusive husband--and from the terrifying life she fled so desperately eight months ago... But even in this quiet, peaceful place, Nell never feels entirely at ease. Careful to conceal her true identity, she takes a job as a cook at the local bookstore cafe and begins to explore her feelings for the island sheriff, Zack Todd. But there...
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Mia Devlin knows what it's like to love with your whole heart - and then watch your love walk away. Years ago, she and Sam Logan shared an incredible bond built on passion, legend, and fate. But then one day he fled Three Sisters Island, leaving her lost in memories of the magic they shared-and determined to live on her own... As the new owner of the island's only hotel, Sam has returned to Three Sisters with hopes of winning back Mia's affections....
3) The reef
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Amateur treasure hunters Tate Beaumont and her father Raymond team up with professional deep-sea divers Matthew Lassiter and his Uncle Buck in an attempt to find the legendary jeweled amulet known as Angelique's Curse which lies somewhere on the bottom of the Caribbean.
4) Just breathe
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With Chicago --- and her marriage --- in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken,...
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Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
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Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them-which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her-and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control. Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister...
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Betta Nolan moves to a small town after the death of her husband to try to begin anew. Pursuing a dream of a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simply daily routines. Among those who help her in both expected and unexpected ways are the ten-year-old boy next door, three wild women friends from her college days, a twenty-year-old who is struggling to find his place in the world, and a handsome man who is ready for love....
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"Surrounded by the sweeping cliffs and beauty of Big Sur, Kate Powell treasured her life at Templeton House...and the family who raised her like one of their own. Although Kate lacked Margo's beauty and Laura's elegance, she knew she had something they would never possess--a shrewd head for business. Driven by ambition, Kate measured her life's success with each soaring promotion. But now, faced with professional impropriety, Kate is forced to look...
9) Running hot
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Ex-cop Luther Malone, lifelong member of the secretive paranormal organization known as the Arcane Society, is waiting to meet Grace Renquist. Hired as an aura-reading consultant in the quest for a murder suspect, she's got zero field experience. She's from tiny Eclipse Bay, Oregon. She's a librarian, for heaven's sake. As for Grace, she's not expecting much either from Malone, who walks with a cane and isn't so good with a gun. Nice resume for a...
10) Hidden riches
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When stolen antiques arrive by mistake in Dora Conroy's shop in Philadelphia, she immediately becomes the target of a ring of ruthless smugglers. Fortunately, the upstairs tenant is Jed Skimmerhorn, an ex-policeman. They join forces to bust the ring and find love.
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From the outside, Laura Templeton's life looks charmed: the daughter of a wealthy family, married to the man of her dreams and the mother to two beautiful daughters. But her dreams are short-lived, and it all collapses when Peter doesn't prove to be the kind of husband or father material Laura has dreamed of. With her best friends, Margo and Kate, recently married and starting their own families, Laura feels isolated. Then her brother's friend, bad...
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Despite falling in love, single mother Mary Jo Wyse is wary of a relationship with her next-door neighbor Mack McAfee, but in order to occupy time and get her mind off of her own problems, she begins to read a stack of World War II letters that she recently discovered.
13) Remember
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Once again, the Baxter family is touched by love and loss, including the tragic events surrounding September 11. Ashley Baxter has locked up her heart, convinced that no one--including God--could love her because of the past behavior she is trying to forget. A few highly unlikely people help her open up to love and redemption.
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"The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But-- someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she's determined to place...
15) Crazy for you
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A romantic comedy in Ohio on Quinn McKenzie, whose live-in boyfriend, Bill, does not like dogs and takes her newly adopted one to the pound. Quinn's answer is to recuperate the dog and send Bill to the dogs. Now free of emotional attachment she sets her sights on Nick, her sister's ex-husband. Nick is not interested in new attachments and the game of love is on. By the author of Tell Me Lies.
16) Fast women
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"Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective agency that has lots of potential and a boss who looks easy to manage. Gabe McKenna isn't doing too well, either. His detective agency is wasting time on a blackmail case, his partner has decided he hates watching cheating spouses for...
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Casey Stratton has left behind an unbearable situation at home and set off on her own. Damien Rutledge III is a society man from New York, thrusting aside his life of refinement and sophistication in favor of a more basic need: revenge. Their two worlds collide as they chase the same outlaws in Texas.
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"Her husband's suicide left Nora MacKenzie alone, and his shady Wall Street dealings left the Manhattan socialite penniless. By a miracle she's held on to their mountainside farm--and she'll keep holding on, no matter what. The property is Nora's one chance to wring some dignity out of the sham she's been living. The Vermont locals think she's a city girl on a nature kick, but she's not afraid to get her hands dirty. Nora's serious about learning...