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"When songwriter West Prescott tries a vacation trade for Christmas, he accidentally ends up playing the caretaker of his own house-and falling in love with the struggling musician staying there. Will keeping his true identity from her hinder their blossoming romance?"--
2) River's song
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Inn at Shining Waters volume 1
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Following her mother's funeral, and on the verge of her own midlife crisis, widow Anna Larson returns to the home of her youth to sort out her parents' belongings, as well as her own turbulent life. For the first time since childhood, Anna embraces her native heritage, despite the disdain of her vicious mother-in-law. By transforming her old family home on the banks of the Siuslaw River into The Inn at Shining Waters, Anna hopes to create a place...
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"Miranda did not put adventure on her Christmas list, but thanks to her eighty-five-year-old neighbor Joy, that's exactly what she's getting this year. When Joy tells Miranda that she plans to drive an old RV decked out in Christmas decorations from their Chicago neighborhood to her new retirement digs in Phoenix--in the dead of winter, no less--the much younger Miranda insists that Joy cannot make such a trip by herself. Besides, a crazy trip with...
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Emma Burcelli has suffered over a decade of dating disasters. But she concludes that love is officially dead when her grandfather Poppi suddenly passes, leaving her grandmother Nona devastated. To help out, Emma works in the family bookstore, which Nona insists must be decked out in sweetheart décor as Poppi would have done for Valentine's Day. Although she feels like a V-Day Scrooge, Emma quickly learns to enjoy the task with the help of a handsome...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Thirty-something Gretchen Hanover becomes a first-time house-flipper. As ideas go, it's daring and genius. She'll take out a short-term loan, buy a fixer-upper, renovate it, resell it, and use the profit for an adorable house of her own. But Gretchen's plans to flip quickly flop when the house turns out to be in worse shape than she expected. She is relying on her retired contractor-father, but he wants to draw in his carpenter friend Noah Campbell....
7) Spring broke
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86 Bloomberg Place volume 3
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In this 3rd book in the 86 Bloomberg Place series, Kendall's housemates help her plan a garage sale to pay off her shopoholic debt. Megan is questioning her job goals. Anna is battling her family's attitude toward her Caucasian boyfriend. And Lelani is trying to work up the nerve to go home to Maui, where her controlling parents are caring for her infant daughter.
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86 Bloomberg Place volume 2
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"It's the holiday season, and each of the roommates at 86 Bloomberg Place is a little blue. Megan has a difficult boss, and now her mom is going on vacation to Mexico, leaving Megan alone for Christmas for the first time ever. Lelani can't afford to fly home to Hawaii and isn't sure she'd be welcomed anyway, not that she can admit that to anyone. Anna's old boyfriend--the one who cheated on her--has sailed back into her life, just when she's met a...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?
On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college,...
On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Because of Alice’s near-genius intelligence, teachers and counselors have always made excuses for her “little idiosyncrasies.” But during a stress-filled senior year at college,...
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86 Bloomberg Place volume 1
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Kendall's managed to wrangle her grandmother's house--free and clear--except for the rules. No male roommates. But that's okay. With the right ad she'll pull in some girls who will pay rent. If she's lucky, Kendall won't have to go to work any time soon.
Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in. Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents. Lelani can't take another day in her aunt's tiny crackerbox house...
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"Once upon a time in a little town on the Oregon coast lived four Lindas--all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. Decades later, they're all back home in Clifden and reinventing their lives, but the holidays bring a whole new set of challenges. Abby's new B&B is getting bad reviews and husband Paul is acting strange. Still grieving for her mom, Caroline is remodeling...
16) River's call
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Inn at Shining Waters volume 2
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Anna Larson's daughter, Lauren, is confused, brokenhearted, and misguided. It's the late 19500s and Lauren is off at college, feeling alienated from her mother. But when an illness strikes Lauren, she returns to her mother, the river and the Inn at Shining Waters to recuperate. When it becomes apparent that Lauren's mysterious illness is, in fact, a pregnancy, her rich and manipulative paternal grandmother, Eunice, insists Lauren marry the baby's...
18) Hometown ties
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Decades ago, four Lindas in the same first-grade classroom decided to go by their middle names, form a club, and be friends forever. Now they're all back home in Clifden, Oregon, all thrilled at the chance to reinvent their lives together. But for all of them, their fifties have brought growing pains. Join the four Lindas as they learn about forgiveness and faith, about asking for help and standing on their own two feet--and about love, which makes...
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Ruth knows her prayers are crucial to her family's welfare. But she doesn't realize that her heartfelt desire to obey God is mingled with the dangerous currents of Obsessive Compuslive Disorder. Will her strategies for protecting her family be the very thing that tears them apart?
20) Westward hearts
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Kentucky, 1856 -- Elizabeth Martin has mourned her husband's death for three years, but now she feels ready to fulfill the dream they had shared -- to take their two children west. The dream becomes reality when her middle-aged parents and bachelor brother surprise her with the news that they want to go as well.
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