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A popular radio host whose career was launched years earlier by an on-air rant about her unfaithful husband struggles with falling in love, an obsessed stalker, and her socially fearful teen daughter, who emerges from a riding accident with a high-risk new personality.
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Jesse Ryder and her sister, Luz, were both on track for promising careers as photographers when, at 21, Jesse became pregnant. When the baby was born prematurely, Jesse fled to New Zealand to become a photojournalist, leaving the baby to be adopted by her sister and brother-in-law, Ian. Now, 16 years later, Jesse is back, wanting to meet the daughter she never knew--especially before the onset of her blindness destroys her chance at happiness forever....
5) Eden
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A fourteen-year-old African-American girl in Mississippi is sent to care for her cancer-stricken aunt on the other side of town, where she learns about crime, brutal forms of "justice," and dignity in death.
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A saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb--spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood--is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted...
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
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"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
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Desperate for a place to belong with her father in prison and her mother dead, teenager Kenny Lugo finds a less-than-idyllic home with her Aunt Glo, her father's struggling girlfriend, and her children, until she finds redemption from an unexpected source following the killing of a college girl in the house next door.
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Ever since Abby's Grand Lady spoke those words over her when she was just a girl, Abby has been dreaming of returning to visit her indomitable grandmother in rural Louisiana. When an unexpected opportunity comes for Abby to take her preteen daughter on a cross-country road trip to the South, she's elated. She can't wait for Hannah to meet 92-year-old Grand Lady and be touched by her soft hands and gentle stories before it's too late. Tensions rise...
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"Riveting and startling….So raw and funny I wanted to read parts aloud to strangers." -Dylan Landis, author of Normal People Don't Live Like This
"Jessica Anya Blau…creates characters that have a lot more depth and more of a past than one often sees in fiction these days…. I found it impossible not to care about them-and equally impossible to forget them. Blau is a magnificent writer, and this is one special novel." -Steve Yarbrough, author...
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Man at the helm novels (Nina Stibbe) volume 2
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Fifteen-year-old Lizzie takes a job as a junior nurse at a ramshackle refuge for the elderly, where she encounters a colorful host of characters and begins to experience the first sense of belonging in her young life.
14) Kit's law
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Fourteen-year-old Kit Pitman has always lead a sheltered life in a small town on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where her mentally-challenged mother and strict grandmother hide the truth about Kit's illegitimate birth, but when Kit's grandmother dies unexpectedly, she and her mother are thrust into the harsh realities of life.
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Your own daughter...one of the popular girls?
On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. Lydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel. But, Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after...
16) Holly and Ivy
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Facing another holiday season alone eight years after losing her husband and children in a plane crash, an airline heiress bonds with a young singing prodigy from a home where music is forbidden by the girl's grieving widower father.
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A young woman in 1960's North Carolina resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.
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"Finding love on Martha's Vineyard has been a dream come true--but for the bride-to-be, the price of happiness may be too high . . . With her long-awaited wedding to police sergeant John Lyons only weeks away, bestselling author and Vineyard Inn proprietor Annie Sutton is faced with more drama than usual. Between the hideous heirloom gown her new family expects her to wear and the challenges of bonding with John's contentious daughter Abigail, Annie's...
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Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
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New Americana volume 8
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"Determined to save the family farm from foreclosure, Derby-winning horse trainer Jo Beth Ellis reinvents the property as a healing retreat for horses and makes a deal with her handsome neighbor in hopes of winning a trifecta--a champion horse, a happy family and a forever love."--
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