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"With a successful career, money in the bank, and a solid future, Felicia has almost everything she ever wanted. But getting married is the one holiday wish she can't seem to get. And it's not helping that she's hopelessly in love with her coworker, widower Richard Grimes. Richard has his hands full juggling pre-Christmas work demands and raising two teenage daughters. But he's not too busy to wish his relationship with Felicia could become much more....
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"Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up. Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5'3" and 5'9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire....
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GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016) GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016) GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016) SILVER: READERS' FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN'S FICTIONOn her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her...
6) Recruited
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When Olivia Gesso skydives into a recruiting job with Kava Tech-a hip start-up where twenty-somethings binge drink, gamble, and code their way to luxury cars and fat bonuses-it's almost hard to remember how she got there. No one would have expected an eco-warrior hell-bent on saving the seeds of an extinct tree to find her way into this silicon jungle, serving as high-heeled bait for geeky coders. But student debt and desperation drive Olivia farther...
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Si crees que la jardinería comunitaria solo es quitar malas hierbas y plantar semillas, estás equivocado. En esta novela fresca y encantadora, Christy Wilhelmi nos demuestra que la jardinería es mucho más que mantener a raya a las plagas.
Cada vez que Lizzie cruza las puertas del huerto comunitario Vista Mar deja atrás el caos del mundo exterior. Allí las filas son uniformes, las herramientas se almacenan correctamente y cada temporada trae...
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Escape to the beautiful, idyllic English countryside with Fay Keenan.
After a rough year, the last place Lizzie Warner wants to be is Roseford. It may be a picture-postcard country idyll, but for Lizzie it will always hold difficult memories from her past. But when the alternative to staying with her Aunt Bee, owner of Roseford Blooms, is moving back in with her controlling parents – well, the choice is easy.
Simon Treloar was born and raised...
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On a two-week outdoor winter snowshoeing trip in northern Saskatchewan with her niece Dilly, outdoor adventurer Jay tells stories as they hike and camp. Some are true – her outdoor training in Wyoming, her early life on the farm – and some are stories within stories within stories. A faux diamond necklace that mysteriously appears and disappears, Jay's youthful encounters with the mysterious Cowboy, an inspiring series of books that she read on...
10) The Suncatchers
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Luka Bakker meets the charismatic Espen De Cleene in an awkward moment at a market in Amsterdam, but then he vanishes from her life as quickly as he'd appeared. A few months later, another chance encounter brings them back together.
With Espen, two other men enter into her life who become her best friends: Espen's brother, Bas, and his friend, Stijn.
Luka, a cartographer, designs the order of her life like the charts she creates-carefully mapped...
11) Bike Rock
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In Book 3 of the Pedro the Water Dog Saves the Planet series, realizing the only way to end fossil fuels is to get rid of cars, best-friend athletes Tilly and Camas write a manifesto for their bicycle ride across the country, The Great Petal Pedal Ride. The elders of Burning Man are called upon, having just kicked cars out of the playa and the mayor of Netherland bike mecca, Utrecht. Add an ominous monopoly of oil barons, an elegant, musical, starlet...
13) One More Year
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"One More Year, keep your stuff longer, people" is Tilly's mantra and passion as she trains for her first Ironman with her best-friend-coach, Camas. Set in an idyllic northwest town on a pristine glacier-formed lake, Tilly sets out to tackle an Ironman for an environmental cause to convince people to curb their overconsumption to give the planet a fighting chance. She doesn't know all three sports, so she relies on a curmudgeon former cyclist, her...
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Faye Mackenzie and her friends' anorexic daughter, Clare, are, thrown together when a flood separates them from their hiking group in the remote, mountainous Tsitsikamma region of South Africa. With Clare critically injured, Faye is compelled to overcome her self-doubt and fear of the wild to take care of the younger woman, who opens her heart to Faye.
As their new friendship takes the women on an unexpected journey of discovery, the rest of the group...
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Out of a small egg buried deep inside a nest of sand crawls a baby sea turtle. As it reaches the sea, it begins a long, solitary existence as the carrier of a soul that will, after years of learning patience, balance and the grace of living, be reborn as a human being.Genevieve "Genie" Hudson thought she was doing fine, but when she comes home and finds her cat dead, she begins to realize the extent of her mental struggle. Mimi's death sends Genie...
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As architectural intern Amalia Sengupta Erenwine grapples with her nascent career in New York City and the consequences of her new relationship, her friend the Reverend Mildred McCaine plans a panel about medical marijuana at her Binghamton church. When these two women take off on a road trip back to Mildred's hometown, they each in their own way intend to prove themselves pure of intent and unencumbered by their pasts. Amalia hopes to demonstrate...
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Amalia Erenwine-an environmental activist working in New York City as an architectural intern-takes on the natural gas industry in this visionary eco-fiction book by Maia Kumari Bree Chowdhury (formerly published under Maia Kumari Gilman). Amalia rails against the underwriting of her employer's work by a natural gas company involved with fracking. She clashes with the gas company's petroleum geologist, executive Mark Stone-and yet, a hurricane of...
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A mother abandons her family in California to pursue a miracle cure in Munich. Once she gets there however, she wonders if she might have already died. Bedridden with a terminal diagnosis, memories, nurses, immoral doctors, foreign television broadcasts, and phone calls from children intrude upon her consciousness. An aloe plant called Madame Blavatsky is her primary companion.
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"Though they come from the same small Irish village, lonely widow Ruby and struggling single mother Frankie couldn't be more different. Then they discover the Moonlight Gardening Club, founded to remind its members that even on the darkest of nights, beauty and light can still be found. As they plant flowers chosen specially to be enjoyed under a carpet of stars in the gentle glow of moonlight, an unexpected friendship starts to bloom - and it might...
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Thirty-year-old Bronwyn Artair feels out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT. So she drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor. After a year of living alone in New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers that her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces.
When she finally accepts she really...
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