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"A former child prodigy and kleptomaniac, Ester--who rechristens herself as a gentile, Carleen--lands in prison for decades after a botched heist. Let loose onto the streets of New York, Carleen begins a halted process of self-discovery, wrestling spoiled uptown canines as a dog walker and attempting to connect with her estranged, ferociously orthodox daughter"--
44) The good parents
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A two-time winner of Australia's prestigious The Age Book of the Year Award, Joan London's debut novel, Gilgamesh, was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now, London has delivered The Good Parents, a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents' orbit. Maya de Jong is an eighteen-year-old country girl who moves to...
45) Shore lights
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2003.
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Maddy Bainbridge knew that the things that drove her crazy about her mother when she was seventeen would drive her even crazier at thirty-two, but Maddy had few choices left
46) Rich again
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Walk-in closet full of designer everything? Check. Private Caribbean island? Check. Connection to the aristocracy? Working on it. Cunning, malicious stalker? Double check.
Welcome to the world of the Kents, a charismatic, ambitious, and fabulously wealthy English family with two sisters — one as strong and sparkling as the other is delicate and wounded — who must somehow put their differences aside to keep an unknown enemy from bringing them...
47) Ghostfires
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One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and father who struggles every day to remain sober and avoid bankruptcy.
Warren has entered into an arrangement with his son that has since kept Ben financially afloat and Warren supplied with morphine. Ben's...
48) sMothering
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First, there was Bridget Jones. Then came the Nannies. Now meet Claire McLeod, a twenty-something American girl living in Portland, Oregon. Claire's got big problems: her mother's a tyrant, her sister's a lesbian, her father's in Omaha.
Claire's peaceful, if dull, existence is shattered when her mother arrives in Portland for an unexpected-and unwelcome-visit. Armed with a sharp tongue, a critical eye, and enough Weekender Wear to make anyone nervous,...
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Jojo Harvey is a dead ringer for Jessica Rabbit and the most ferocious literary agent in town. A former NYPD cop, she now lives in London making million-dollar book deals while trying to make partner at her firm . . . all the while sleeping with the boss man. Lily Wright is an author who believes in karma, and is waiting for the sky to fall after stealing her former best friend's man. Though her first book failed to sell, her life turns upside down...
50) Three daughters
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An ebullient novel about family secrets and the triumph of sisterly love
Driven by a legacy of lies, the shame of their own imperfections, and impending chaos in each of their well-ordered married lives, the three Wasserman daughters struggle with themselves and one another to break their parents' silence and understand their past.
Shoshanna, control freak and world-class problem solver, stands on the brink of a Big Birthday in the shadow of the...
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For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished older daughter clings to a stale marriage. Her son, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man twice her age. On the weekend of their parents' anniversary party, lies will be revealed, hearts broken, and love found. And the biggest...
54) Cost
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THE LUMINOUS AND GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM "ONE OF OUR BEST WRITERS" (JONATHAN YARDLEY, THE WASHINGTON POST)
When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plans to spend the time tending her fragile relationships with her father, a repressive neurosurgeon, and her gentle mother, who is descending into Alzheimer's. But a shattering revelation intrudes: Julia's son Jack has spiraled into heroin addiction.
In...
55) Rhythms of Grace
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Twenty years after her dreams of being a dancer were shattered by a brutal assault, Grace Okoye returns home to help children in need and rediscover her faith, and when she unexpectedly falls in love, Grace hopes her own shaky faith is powerful enough to help her new man find his own.
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In the near future, the global threat of terror has cultivated rage, apathy, and panic. People fear that "anybody could be armed, or have a bomb. Or a disease. Or all three." For Phil, a dermatologist, it is a time of unease and uncertainty, in contrast to the days when he coasted through life on his good looks, a modicum of charm, and only haphazard effort. Phil's energies are divvied up among his belligerent children, his grieving mother, his wayward...
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Blue Heron Cottages volume 5
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Francine Winters--Frankie to her family and friends--doesn't know how she got to this point in her life. Her marriage is falling apart. Will moved into the guest bedroom and their marriage is crumbling. They're considering a trial separation but haven't told their grown daughters yet. Which is too bad because... The last thing she needs is the surprise family vacation the girls plan. And to make things worse? They planned it at the very place she...
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Body movers novels volume 1
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English
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A debutante-turned-department store clerk finds herself in trouble when her thieving doppelganger winds up dead in this romantic mystery.
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex-fiancé back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn't get any more complicated. And then . . .
Her best friend jumps...
With fugitive parents, a brother dodging loan sharks, a hunky cop who's made her outlaw family his business, a buff body mover looking to make a move on her and her ex-fiancé back in the picture, Carlotta Wren thought her life couldn't get any more complicated. And then . . .
Her best friend jumps...
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This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
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