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2) Celebration
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One woman fights for her family—and her heart—in this novel of redemption from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of the Sisterhood novels.
Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Finders Keepers, dazzles readers once again with the unforgettable story of one woman's life—the betrayal that nearly destroys her, the love that helps her heal, and the struggle to find the truth...
Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Finders Keepers, dazzles readers once again with the unforgettable story of one woman's life—the betrayal that nearly destroys her, the love that helps her heal, and the struggle to find the truth...
3) Live wire
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When a pregnant tennis star reports that her rock-artist husband has gone missing amid scandalous rumors, Myron Bolitar is forced to confront deep secrets about his client's past while struggling with fatherhood roles in his personal life.
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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times.
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
David Winkler begins life in Anchorage, Alaska, a quiet boy drawn to the volatility of weather and obsessed with snow. Sometimes he sees...
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A classic novel from an exceptional storyteller, A Woman Betrayed, first published in 1991, is a stunning tale of troubling secrets that can hide beneath the placid surface of a seemingly good marriage—and the courage that's needed to move on.
Laura Frye has been happily married to her husband, Jeff, for twenty years. She has everything she ever wanted: strong, enduring, romantic love; two wonderful kids; even her own successful catering
...6) Gone girl
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick Dunne's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-Year Nick Dunne isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but hearing from Amy through flashbacks in her...
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Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by marrying at nineteen. But despite her newly dependent situation, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake...
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Sexy, successful, and shameless.
Three Hollywood hotshots who share a decades-long friendship based on competition, ambition, and accumulating power at any cost may soon find themselves enveloped in the heat of a burning revenge in this sexy, steamy Collins classic!
Jack Python may be the hottest talk show host in LA, but his road to fame was anything but easy. Abandoned as a boy by his mother who took off with his starlet sister...
Three Hollywood hotshots who share a decades-long friendship based on competition, ambition, and accumulating power at any cost may soon find themselves enveloped in the heat of a burning revenge in this sexy, steamy Collins classic!
Jack Python may be the hottest talk show host in LA, but his road to fame was anything but easy. Abandoned as a boy by his mother who took off with his starlet sister...
11) Single wife
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Grace Brookman's husband is missing. He wasn't kidnapped or murdered (she's fairly certain), he just seems to have run away from home. He got up one morning, and with an offhand Gracie, I'll be back in a little while, he was gone. Laz had left before, but this time, when several weeks pass and he doesn't return, Grace copes with the situation by pretending to family and friends that he's still around.
At first, Grace covers for Laz in little ways:...
13) Jessie
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Big sky dreams volume 3
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Abandoned by her husband, Seth, before their second child was born, Jessie, as a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When Seth returns to town, Jessie is reluctant to trust him or God with her family's future.
15) Sandcastles
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Star of the Sea Academy volume 1
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Eleven years ago, Honor thought she had the perfect home, the perfect love, the perfect life. Then her husband, John, broke her heart--and tore their little family apart. Now, John has returned to the family. What he finds is one daughter still hurting over his abandonment, another who barely remembers him, and a third who may be in more trouble than anyone knows. And then there is Honor herself--and a passion that may have been interrupted but that...
16) Vanished
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National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate need-and a terrible secret-in this suspenseful, "astonishing" novel (Vogue). Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is kidnapped from her Massachusetts home. For the next five...
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Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past....
18) The only problem
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A wealthy academic's life shatters when his estranged wife becomes the suspected leader of a terrorist organization Having led a successful, comfortable life, Harvey Gotham retires to the French countryside to pursue bookish obsessions-namely, a long monograph on the Book of Job, the biblical narrative of faith in the face of extraordinary suffering. But Gotham's intellectual interests soon bleed into his daily life when a series of misfortunes,...
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The lives of two very different men collide with shocking consequences in the darkness of the California night in this gripping noir thriller from an acclaimed master Successful Northern California vintner Cameron Gallagher suffers from alcoholism, depression, and persistent nightmares. Truck driver Nick Hendryx lost everything when a hit-and-run accident put his wife in a coma. They are two men with seemingly little in common, but their disparate...
20) Stewball
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A murder investigation leads Du Pré into the cutthroat world of illegal horse racing Gabriel Du Pré's aunt Pauline has burned through more than her share of husbands, so it's no surprise when she shows up in Toussaint complaining that the latest one, Badger, has run off. Du Pré, the fiddler and sometimes deputy, agrees to go looking for her man and finds him shot, execution-style, in the wilds of the Montana countryside. A chat with his contacts...