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Welcome to your happy place…
As summer comes to the tranquil shores of Micklewick Bay, Maggie Marsay is on cloud nine. She can barely keep up with orders for her handmade teddy bears, turning her crafting hobby into a thriving business. And after trying for a baby for some time, she has joyful news to share with her devoted husband Bear who she lives with in an idyllic clifftop cottage alongside their cheeky labrador.
But an unexpected visitor...
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Inspired by the temporary shuttering of Powell's Books in Portland, Oregon, “City of Books” explores a bibliophile's fantasy: moving into a bookstore to stop it from closing.
Jo Waterstone knows what you should read next. She's honed the skill of sizing up a person and recommending their next book in the decades she's worked at Bruebaker's Books. Her life has been shaped by the store, the bustle of customers exploring the stacks, and managing...
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Former doctor Tucia Hatherley, when her livelihood is threatened, joins a traveling medicine show, and loathing the duplicity, tries to break free only to be pulled in even deeper until something happens that challenges her to recover her belief in medicine and the good in others--and herself.
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Sometimes the only way to find true happiness is to go back home.
Ophelia Simmons is back home at the Paradise—the former brothel where her mom raised her and six sisters—contemplating her next career move and dodging Great Aunt Bernie's matchmaking attempts. She is about to meet her match in Jake Brennan, the ruggedly handsome owner of a local winery where Aunt Bernie convinces her to take a job for the summer. At first
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Discover the elegance of the Regency era with the complete works of Jane Austen, the unparalleled queen of romance. Step into ballrooms, experience heartfelt confessions, and find true love amid societal expectations.
"It is a truth universally acknowledged" that Austen's tales are timeless. From the fiery spirit of Elizabeth Bennet to the enduring patience of Anne Elliot, meet iconic characters that have captured hearts for centuries.
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Susan Coll uses her experience as both an author and bookstore employee to deliver a big-hearted and dramatic comedy about myths, real life, and the overlap between them.
Cassie Klein has always used stories to help her fly, but now her plot lines aren't lining up.
At 55, Cassie has already weathered more than most. She was orphaned at the age of three and has never fully understood why her DC-based parents were on a bridge in West Virginia that...
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Your free gift with purchase doesn't always come from a department store makeup counter!Emma and Laura are about as different as two sisters can be. Emma's always been the party girl, Laura, the hardworking doctor. But now, the two have something in common. Both are newly single and trying out the dating scene after marriage.Emma's a widow and a single mother with a guilty secret she can't let go. Laura's husband just dumped her for one of four women...
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When a middle-aged woman seeks to satisfy her own neglected needs, her world turns amusingly complicated.At fifty-five years old, Nan Marino is totally content tending her garden, watching her grandchildren, taking weekly walks with her two best friends, and keeping a clean house. Oh, and talking to Martin, her dead ex-husband. She either confides in him with all her problems or rails against him for leaving her for a younger woman.Nan's tidy life...
9) Nickels
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"...a perfect genius that makes the impossible in expression, possible; the unknowable in experience, knowable" --Anya Achtenberg, author of The Stories of Devil-Girl Nickels follows a biracial girl named "Little Miss So and So", from age 4-1/2 into adulthood. Told in a series of prose poems, Nickels' lyrical and inventive language conveys the dissociative states born of a world formed by persistent and brutal incest and homophobia. The dissociative...
10) On a Life's Edge
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Shawna Charity has an abusive partner, little money, no skills, and three children under six, one with an intellectual disability. To save them all, she escapes with the children to her widowed mother's home. Shawna's goal: to become a hair-dresser so she can provide a good future for her family, and be rid of Randall. Retired English bachelor Max Candle lives next door. Facing end stage cancer, he is ready to throw in the towel. But when Shawna asks...
11) On Point
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Anna Pavlova Krylov is a direct descendant of the world famous prima ballerina Anna Pavlova and is given her name. Her mother focuses her life on ballet from early childhood to the exclusion of all else.When Anna is judged to have less talent than a ballerina must have by Julliard and the American Academy of Ballet, it does not deter her. Rather it makes her even more determined to achieve her dream and prove them wrong.She dances in the corps de...
12) Whispering Waves
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Whispering Waves SynopsisSadie Booker was an ordinary teenager living a blissfully ordinary life until she was blindsided by her mother's unexpected death. She vowed to her mother to care for and protect her family.When Sadie's father begins dating Marissa, her mother's ex-best friend and worst enemy, Sadie is outraged and determined to end their budding relationship and uncover the secret that bitterly ended the friendship, causing her mother further...
13) A Shard of Glass
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Beth is a 22-year -old woman, who when she was 10-year-old, lost her entire family in a fierce snowstorm. She was the only one to escape her family's car that slid off an icy road into an ice-covered lake. When she escaped out one of the side windows of the station wagon, a small shard of glass embedded itself into her lake and after being rescued by a passer-by, Beth is taken to a hospital. Her surgeon visits Beth and, remembering the shard of glass...
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Lisa Stern, an idealistic child of the sixties, feels ready to change the world. She navigates the tumult of her Boston college years and falls in love with a professor who dies in a car crash. In a state of intense grief, Lisa drives to Provincetown one night to wander their favorite beach. Seeing the anguish of the young woman, a sleepless Isabela, who owns the town bakery, thinks she may commit suicide. She invites Lisa to come home with her and...
15) Tender Cruelties
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The story of one woman's struggle to find love, happiness and fulfillment within the oppressive confines of the Communist regime in Prague. This is the second volume of the Prague Trilogy
16) Tattered Hearts
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Nora Manning flees a life of torment, desperate in a search for safety as well as anonymity. A random stop in affluent Bartholomew, New York, provides what she needs when she finds employment as a live-in housekeeper/cook for businessman Ben Stafford. As they coexist inside his home with polite deference for each other, she soon realizes Ben's need for seclusion equals her own. All is well until a series of events unlock their private pain and they...
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When Jenna meets Liam Toliver at a party, she never expects to see the man again. After a series of missteps, Liam ingratiates himself into Jenna's life. Smitten with the man, she allows him to monopolise her time, and the longer she spends with him, the more infatuated she becomes. Liam's insistence that he can never love Jenna because he has given his heart to another causes Jenna to break their association.Liam begs Jenna to reconsider, and eventually,...
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6000 pages1,145,003 words9 stories12 booksDays of laughing, loving, crying, and fun.Books included:Indelible Love - Emily's StoryIndelible Love - Jake's StoryIndelible Lovin' - Max & Jane's Story Vol. 1Indelible Lovin' - Max & Jane's Story Vol. 2Unlikely Attraction - Delaney's StoryNear Perfect Attraction - Donovan's StoryUnyielding Love - Nick & Bee's Story Vol. 1Unyielding Love - Nick & Bee's Story Vol. 2Indelible Lovin' - Max & Jane's WeddingFinally,...
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When Laura went to Italy to celebrate her 60th birthday, she was not looking for a man. But there stood Raffaele Balducci, a talented potter, jazz guitarist, father and grandfather. His face was pleasantly wrinkled from many years under the Tuscan sun. He had lively brown eyes and dark wavy hair sprinkled with gray.Their attraction was swift and strong. They were old enough to know how love works.
20) Family Resort
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Olivia Noble Sherman has had a long career at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria Hotel, working her way up from the kitchen to become the head of the conventions and banquets department. Her past seems to have caught up to her when she learns that her only aunt and uncle can no longer operate the family inn back home in Seaside, Oregon. She flies to Los Angeles where her three sisters live to share Uncle Sam's letter and the conditions of his Will. She...
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