Sarah Jio
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2009: Caroline wakes up in a Paris hospital with no memory of her past. Slowly regaining recollections of a man and a young child, she vows to piece her life back together. 1943, Nazi-occupied Paris: Céline, a young widow, tries to build a new life for her daughter while working in her father's flower shop. When a ruthless German officer discovers her Jewish ancestry, Céline is forced to play a dangerous game to secure the safety of her loved ones....
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"Kailey Crain can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a writer for Seattle's Herald and is engaged to Ryan, who is perfect in nearly every way. But one evening, as the couple leaves a romantic dinner, Kailey spies a thin, bearded homeless man on the sidewalk, and is stunned when their eyes meet: The man is the love of her life, Cade McAllister. When Kailey met Cade ten years ago, their attraction was immediate and intense. But it all...
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"A librarian inherits a bookshop from her estranged mother, leading her halfway across the world on a journey of self-discovery that transcends time and honors the unbreakable bonds of love and family. When librarian Valentina Baker was a teenager, her mother, Eloise, unexpectedly fled to her native London, leaving Val and her father on their own. Now in her thirties and fresh out of a failed marriage, Val feels a nagging disenchantment with her life--and...
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Seattle, May 1, 1933: Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son Daniel good night and leaves for the night shift. The next morning, a heavy snow is falling. When Vera goes to wake her son, his bed is empty and his teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Fast forward to the present day: once again a snow-storm has arrived on May 2. When Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge is assigned to cover this "blackberry winter" and its predecessor decades earlier,...
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Fleeing an East Coast life marred by tragedy, Ada Santorini takes up residence on houseboat number seven on Boat Street. She discovers a trunk left behind by Penny Wentworth, a young newlywed who lived on the boat half a century earlier. Ada longs to know her predecessor's fate, but little suspects that Penny's mysterious past and her own clouded future are destined to converge.
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"Goodnight Moon is an adored childhood classic, but its real origins are lost to history. In Goodnight June, Sarah Jio offers a suspenseful and heartfelt take on how the "great green room" might have come to be. June Andersen is professionally successful, but her personal life is marred by unhappiness. Unexpectedly, she is called to settle her great-aunt Ruby's estate and determine the fate of Bluebird Books, the children's bookstore Ruby founded...
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"In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island. Under the thatched roof of an abandoned beach bungalow,...
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"Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face grave consequences. When Jane falls for a science writer...
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"On the eve of the Second World War, the last surviving specimen of a camellia plant known as the Middlebury Pink lies secreted away on an English country estate. Flora, an amateur American botanist, is contracted by an international ring of flower thieves to infiltrate the household and acquire the coveted bloom. Her search is at once brightened by new love and threatened by her discovery of a series of ghastly crimes. More than half a century later,...
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Reader's Digest volume Volume 198, April 2016
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Reader's Digest volume Volume 200, August 2016
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Select editions large type
Reader's Digest volume Volume 200, August 2016
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23cm.
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English
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Large print abridged versions of the stories Dog Gone, Back Soon by Nick Trout and The Melody of Secrets by Jeffrey Stepakoff.