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1) Just in time
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"An uplifting story of three grief support group dropouts--women united in loss and rescued through friendship. An accident has left Grace's husband in a vegetative state. Nan, a widow for twenty years, is feeling the emptiness now that her children are grown. Monica is reeling over her husband's sudden death and the revelation of his infidelity"--
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"As a child, Evie Lindsay was unnerved by her premonitions. As an adult, they have become a simple fact of life--sometimes disruptive but also inescapable, much like her quirky, loveable family. Evie's mother, Poppy, and her aunts, Camellia and Iris, are well known on San Orcanita island for their free-spirited ways and elaborately decorated hats. Their floral shop and Evie's bookstore draw streams of visitors all summer long. This season promises...
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A young dancer finds an unexpected partner--and gains the courage to live according to her heart. In a city built on dreams, Trisha Holiday makes her living moving like one. But out of her dancer's costume, she's as down-to-earth as they come. That's why she ignores the admiring note--and the accompanying $1000 bill--that arrives backstage after one of her ethereal performances. Yet the sender, a wealthy foreign prince, isn't easily dissuaded. Seven...
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Trapped in Kansas at the turn of the twentieth century, Nell Plat is seventeen, unhappily married, and the mother of two baby girls. No reality could be further from her secret dreams of glamour and excitement, dreams that tempt her to do the unthinkable: she runsa away to the wonderland of Los Angeles and its burgeoning motion picture industry. Nell becomes Madame Annelle, costumer to glittering Hollywood in the Roaring Twenties. But a knock on the...
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With its tree-lined streets, vibrant downtown and curbside planters of spring bulbs, Amberley, Massachusetts, seems a good place for Cate Saunders to start over. It's been two years since her husband, John, was killed in Iraq and life has been a struggle. Her new job as a caregiver doesn't pay much, but the locals are welcoming. In fact, Cate has barely unpacked before she's drawn--reluctantly at first--into a circle of friends. When revelations about...
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Verena Valent is at the helm of her family's legendary Swiss skincare company, which caters to a glamorous clientele in the heart of Beverly Hills. After her parents are killed in an automobile accident, she becomes the sole provider for her younger twin sisters and her grandmother. Instead of attending college with her friends as planned, she rises to the challenge to guide and expand her family's business. She is in the midst of a critical international...
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Cedar Key novels (Terri DuLong) volume 4
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Berkley Whitmore, forty-six and never married, runs Berkley's Chocolates & Gems in Salem, Massachusetts. Also an avid knitter, she owns two alpacas whose wool she turns into yarn. You'd think such an accomplished woman would also be a confident woman, but Berkley doubts her ability to have a meaningful relationship. After her mother passes away, Berkley discovers a box of postcards and letters that lead her to Cedar Key. There she meets Saxton Tate...
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Trinity College, Dublin, 1978. Aspiring actress Maeve meets pottery student Murtagh Moone. As their relationship progresses, marriage and motherhood come in quick succession. But for Maeve, with the joy of children also comes the struggle to hold on to the truest parts of herself. Decades later, on a small Irish island, the Moone family are poised for celebration but instead are struck by tragedy. Each family member must find solace in their own separate...
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In this romantic saga opener by a USA Today–bestseller, a small-town bride and her best friend question their taste in men.
Mayor Maggie Spencer was minutes from marrying the town golden boy before discovering her fiancé was cheating. Their marriage was meant to end the rivalry between their two families and rally the town. She didn't expect to run from the altar and into the arms of her fiancé's brother, literally!
Black sheep Griffin Stone...
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No matter how much mayor Maggie Spencer avoids bad boy Griffin Stone, there's only so far to go in Stonecreek. Only so much she can deny an undeniable attraction. And only so many times she can relive their blazing night together. Their families are feuding, the gossip is threatening her reelection, but nothing can keep her away. Is it desire...or is it (gasp!) love?
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Grace Trumbull's after work drink with Bradley Hanover, a handsome younger colleague, on a warm summer night turns into an impulsive, intimate encounter. After a few weeks of exhilarating secret dates, Grace--forty-two and divorced--realizes she's pregnant. For Grace, whose estranged mother refers to her own teenage pregnancy as her biggest mistake, the prospect of parenthood is daunting. She's just been made vice president of a media relations company...
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From the author of the bestselling The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, an exuberant and poignant new novel of passions, family, and forgiveness. When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman's Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club's parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend...
15) The postmistress
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Our street at war volume 1
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"One ordinary street in Lancashire is getting ready for war, who knows what else is going on behind the net curtains? ... Vicky Parrot wanted more out of life than working all hours in her father's Post Office. Her dreams were ruined when tragedy came calling, and now happiness seems impossible.The other townsfolk have their problems too. Sylvia Barker runs the haberdashery shop and she's hiding more than a few secrets behind the bales of wool in...
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To secure his legacy, a terminally ill billionaire makes a shocking proposal to his beautiful assistant in this contemporary medical romance.
With six months to live, Charleston heir Jonathan Tarleton must set his affairs in order. He knows that his family's business would be safe in the hands of his dedicated assistant, Lisette Stanhope. But the only way to leave her in charge is to marry her first. He tells himself that their contract marriage...
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"Translator Laura has travelled a world away from her New York home to the turquoise seas and rugged beauty of the Cornish coast. She has been summoned to Provence House, a magnificent English country estate, in order to translate a recently uncovered ancient scroll. But it seems the attraction of Provence House stretches beyond the professional...Forbidden from discussing the shocking truths she is uncovering with any outsiders, Laura finds herself...
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