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2) Blood bayou
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Seven years ago, tragedy ended the troubled marriage of Camille and Jack Vermillion. Now, as head of the Truth Project, her life safe and orderly, she focuses her lawyerly skills on freeing wrongly incarcerated individuals on death row. Jack paid a bitter price for his mistakes. No longer a corporate attorney, he's pastor of a small church in Blood Bayou. Then tragedy strikes again. Jack's sister is murdered, apparently by a prisoner Camille has set...
3) Time to heal
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"Rachel's world came crashing down with the kidnapping of her only child. Her despair made her question everything about her life, including her eighteen-year marriage to local sheriff, Jake McAdams. When fourteen-year-old Michael appears on their doorstep three months later, claiming to be Jake's son, her life is turned upside down again. But taking Michael into her home also forces Rachel to look at everything anew. She begins to rediscover her...
4) Missing Max
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When baby Max is kidnapped during Mardi Gras, Jane and Kyle Madison's life falls apart. What their daughter, Melanie, does next is unthinkable. Max vanished into thin air while in the care of his teenage sister, Melanie. Six months later, the family is a shadow of its former self: Melanie blames herself and is acting out and rebellious; Jane is obsessed with finding Max; and Kyle, a lawyer, struggles to cope with his own grief and a persistent suspicion...
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FAMILY MANHe only wanted to be a father to his children - But that was the one thing Daniel Kendrick couldn't be. Falsely accused of a crime that severed him from his family, he made a new, solitary life for himself in New Orleans. Soon that, too, was shattered. His teenage daughter had run away - had run to him. How could he explain that he couldn't give her the home she longed for? How could he convince youth worker Tessa Hamilton to let him see...
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Elizabeth Walker has spent most of the past three decades trying to forget the loss of her mother and father, a lonely childhood spent in a series of foster homes and the two baby sisters she hasn't seen in twenty-five years. She values her privacy above everything, and has built a wall around herself that few people have ever climbed.
But when her best friend, Gina, risks losing her young daughter to an impersonal court system-;the same system that...
8) Belle Pointe
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BELLE POINTE IS WAITING LOR SOMEONE TO UNCOVER ITS SECRETS
Anne Whitaker: Faced with an unexpected loss, Anne returns to the hot and sultry Mississippi Delta, leaving her husband, Buck, to ponder his future-;with or without her. Looking for distraction, she immerses herself in the history of Belle Pointe, the plantation house that has been home to generations of Whitakers, including her husband.
Buck Whitaker:A professional athlete, Buck is in an...
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9 Months Later.
Another wonderfully emotional story by award-winning author Karen Young. A winner!
A marriage of convenience...
It made perfect sense. Or so Dr. Talbot Robichaux told Dr. Stephanie Sheldon. Since both had busy hospital practices, their baby would be much better off-and their own lives much easier-if they shared parental duties.
Stephanie couldn't fault Tal's logic, but his thirteen-year-old daughter could. Not only was...
10) Never Tell
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Haunted by the memories of an August night nine years ago when a car crash robbed her of her family, artist Erica Stewart has focused her life on her thriving Houston boutique. No one is more surprised than Erica when a new man walks into her life.
Texas born and bred, Hunter McCabe is a successful architect who is smitten the moment he meets Erica. He's determined to pursue her-;despite her efforts to keep him at a distance.
But someone is watching...
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A moving story from award-winning author Karen Young. Perfect reading for the Christmas season! Luke Jamison: Dedicated Doctor and Reluctant Substitute Dad. Dr. Luke Jamison would do anything to help his patients--anything but get emotionally attached. He tried that once, and it nearly destroyed him. Now his boss, the very determined Dr. Keely Hamilton, wants him to help her take care of Matthew, a delightful four-year-old who was abandoned by his...
12) In Confidence
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The irony of life is not lost on high school guidance counselor Rachel Forrester: while she is educating teens about good choices, her own life is spiraling out of control. First, she learns her husband is having an affair. Second, her aging mother collapses. And third, Cameron Ford is back in her life-;again.
As Rachel struggles to get her life in order, her fifteen-year-old son, Nick, forges a bond with the taciturn Cameron. Oddly, it is this bond...
13) Hundred percent
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Christine Gouda, called Tink, and her best friend Jackie are entering sixth grade, and suddenly everything seems awkward and just plain wrong--boys are behaving differently, clothes do not fit the way they should, long term friendships suddenly seem tenuous, and most of all she needs a new nickname because "Tink" just does not fit anymore.
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Eleven-year-old Pearl Moran cannot imagine life without the historic but under-utilized branch of the New York Public Library where she was born (in the Memorial Room) and where her single mother works as the circulation librarian; the other librarians, the neighborhood people, the raccoons, and most of the 41,000 plus books all form the structure and essence of her life--but when someone cuts off the head of the library's statue of Edna St. Vincent...
15) Lie For Me
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RITA Award winner Karen Young has become an internationally best-selling author with her inspiring works. With Lie for Me, Young spins a tale of deceit and danger. Lauren Holloway's ex-fiancé Tucker is in serious trouble: his ex-wife has been murdered and he's in desperate need of an alibi. But when Lauren refuses to lie for him, Tucker is forced into hiding. Years later, Lauren finally decides to help prove Tucker's innocence-a decision that puts...
17) Cobwebs
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Sixteen-year-old Nancy enjoys the colorful ethnic mix of her heritage in several different Brooklyn households, not suspecting how very strange that heritage is.
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Edging into forty-something, Karen and Pam found themselves in a state of shock. They had checked off many of their major life goals--career, husband, children, friends--but they lost momentum. They came up with a plan to face their fears, rediscover their interests, renew their relationships, and give back to the community. They challenged themselves to try one new thing every week for a year--from test driving Maseratis to rock climbing to dance...
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Scientists have identified at least 100 million pieces of space debris-from paint chips to nonoperational zombie satellites-floating in Earth's orbit. And over 100 tons of those pieces enter Earth's atmosphere each year! Journey into outer space and learn about the dangers of space junk collisions, how scientists track them, and how space agencies are working to develop new technologies to clean up the space junk. Along the way, you'll hear from the...
20) Outside In
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Chérie Witkowski is twelve, and she doesn't want to turn thirteen this year. This is the year, 1968, that everything -- absolutely everything-seems to be changing. At home her parents are expecting a new baby, her mother is fixing up the house so they can sell it and move who-knows-where, and everyone is starting to tease her about the boy next door. Meanwhile her newspaper route brings the changes of the outside world crashing in on her: the Vietnam...
