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"Mary used to be such a nice girl. She was the resident whiz kid of Liberty Lake, Minnesota--the quiet, chubby teen with the scholarship to an Ivy League school. But three years later, "Ivy League Mary" is back--a thinner, cynical, restless failure who was kicked out of Cornell at the beginning of her senior year and won't tell anyone why. Taking a job at the local grocery store, Mary tries to make sense of her life's sharp downward spiral. Then beautiful,...
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" Ironside Lake, Minnesota, January 1944. Headstrong and determined, linguistics student Johanna Berglund has very definite plans for her future . . . plans that do not include returning to her hometown and the secrets and heartaches she left behind. But when the only way to her intended future is through undertaking a translator position at a nearby camp for German POWs, she reluctantly accepts. Johanna arrives to find the once-sleepy Minnesota town...
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Sleeping on the couch for a decade after her husband's hoarding gets out of control, unfulfilled university employee Paula rescues a dying man's beloved dog and embarks on a life-changing journey that compels a new vocation at a wildlife rehabilitation center.
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Birch TrueBlood, local shaman and descendant of a courageous band of Ojibwa Indians, does a booming business with New Age Believers and tourists. With a daughter to raise, he manages to mask his cynicism about life. Everything changes when he is called to work his magic at an historic old house where he meets a woman who's about to make him a believer. Rochelle LeCalir knows who Birch is and believes he is a fake. Running a bed-and-breakfast inn,...
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Butternut Lake volume 2
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Preparing for her final year of college, Daisy is crazy busy now that she's back at Butternut Lake. She's helping her mother, Caroline, run their coffee shop and trying to build a relationship with the absentee father who's suddenly reappeared. She never expected to fall in love with Will, the bad-boy from high school who works at the local garage. With every passing day she and Will grow closer to each other . . . and closer to the day they will...
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"When novelist Kendra Brennan moves into her grandfather's old cabin on Hidden Lake, she has a problem and a plan. The problem? An inflammatory letter from A Very Disappointed Reader. The plan? To confront Tyler, her childhood best friend's brother--and the man who inspired the antagonist in her first book. If she can prove that she told the truth about what happened during those long-ago summers, perhaps she can put the letter's claims to rest and...
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Minnesota. Ruth is a forty-something journalist desperate for a child with her new husband. Hal is a divorced attorney and the father of two teenage boys; open to having another child, he wants Ruth to be happy. Their hope rests with Cally, who wants to go to college but doesn't have the cash.Within a day of the baby's birth, Cally has a change of heart and leaves the hospital with the newborn. What would you do for your partner, when the going gets...
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""This sparkling novel starts with high energy and unique characters that move from one surprise to another." --Ann Garvin, USA TODAY bestselling author All it takes is the right book to turn a Book Hater into a Book Lover... That was what Elliot--the beloved co-owner of Over the Rainbow Bookshop--believed before his untimely passing. He always had the perfect book suggestion for the self-proclaimed Book Hater. Now his grief-ridden business partner,...
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When a natural disaster threatens to destroy lives in the small mountain town of Pineville, Minnesota, Doctor Esther Hanson struggles to help her patients without giving in to overwhelming emotions triggered by a long-suppressed memory and U.S. Border Patrol agent Ben James, grieving the tragic loss of his wife, rushes an abandoned baby to Esther's clinic. Brought together by the life of a child, Ben and Esther become each other's reason to change....
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"A collection of lost books holds the clues to her family's legacy...and her future Hope Sparrow has mastered the art of outrunning her tragic past. Never stay anywhere too long. Never allow anyone control over her life again. Coming to Wanishin Falls in search of her family's history already feels too risky. But somewhere in the towering stacks of this dusty old shop are the books that hold Hope's last ties to her late mother--and to a rumored family...
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