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In the backyard of the bride's grandparents' Southern California home, a group of family, friends and strangers come together to celebrate the wedding of two people in love, but each brings with them conflicts they can't leave behind.
The bride's brother Ian brings upheaval as he shakes off responsibility. Kristy, the photographer, is overwhelmed by her anxiety. The whole foundation of Leah's life has been destroyed, distracting her from her critical...
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From a secret duo of USA Today Bestselling Authors, comes an ENEMIES-TO-LOVERS SEXY ROMCOM STANDALONE in the Modern Love Series.
Who knew sleeping with the enemy could be this fun?
Was the one night stand a good idea?
Well, no. Probably not in retrospect.
In my defense I had just moved back into my grandparent's house, I'd lost my dream job, and a guy on Tinder had stood me up. It was like life had suddenly stamped 'LOSER' on my forehead.
So...
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Although they had always dreamed of having a family, tall, horse-faced Frances and stubby, one-eyed Jack had reconciled themselves to a lifetime of abject loneliness. Then one day, out of nowhere, an infant is dropped into their midst. A fairy tale for adults!
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“Thanks, PG! Memoirs of a Tabloid Reporter” recounts the life and adventures of reporter Billy Don Johnson during his 20 years (1975-1995) working for the fictional tabloid The National Insider.
After his dreams of becoming a crusading journalist with daily newspapers are dashed, Billy throws himself into the wild world of diets, household tips, ghosts, UFOs, weird history, and celebrity scandal, all of which is designed to please Padrone Gallione...
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Sophia Weber is an anxious twenty-two-year-old, utterly dependent on her mother's care. Gertrude Weber, Sophia's mother, spends her time whipping her matriarchal household into shape while obsessing over her daughter's wellbeing. But Gertrude uses her maternal power only to manipulate her daughter into living a life of fear and dependency. The novel takes readers on a tormenting ride through Sophia's memories while she struggles in the present day...
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A newly married couple with a flair for the macabre buys a Queen Anne-styled manor that echoes their gloomy insides. Once the pair met and committed themselves, both knew there was no way to escape from the other-even in death. Conrad and Elizabeth Fleischer, their surname meaning "butcher," are beautiful and only find that they need each other to satisfy their sliver of a desire to be social. They seldom leave their beloved manor that is occupied...
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Hidden away from the outside world, tucked in the corners of rolling hills, lies a monastery. Only open to the public during certain times of day that align with the monks' strict schedule, a young girl, Mary Baptisia, and her parents volunteer to work in the garden. While there, Mary ogles at the immense beauty of the monastery with its draping tapestries, terrifying gargoyles, and divinely high nave. Mary discovers a particular monk, John Abelard,...
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On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged and ultimately interlaced. Remy, a gifted violinist, is married to the composer Nicholas Elko-once the love of Hazel's life.
It has been twenty years since Remy, an ambitious conservatory student; Nicholas, a wunderkind...
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Robinswood Estate, County Waterford, 1950. Three sisters, the three men who love them, and a house that could consume them all.
Assuming their roles as the new Lord and Lady Kenefick and returning to Robinswood with the plan to drag it back from the brink of dereliction is taking its toll on Kate and Sam. With a young family to raise, a very limited budget, and only Kate's parents to help, the task seems insurmountable.
Kate's eldest sister Eve...
10) Abigail: A Novel
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Secrets are meant to be kept. Especially when the truth will change everything.
Since the death of her mother, Abigail Blakeslee has lost any desire to become a debutante and enter Society. But now, foregoing her first Season has brought an unwanted invitation to join her aunt and cousins for a summer at Timpton House, the large estate of the Stanton family.
Reluctantly accepting, Abigail is thrust into the vexing world of social propriety and...
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She was born on the streets and would pass her knowledge to her daughter…
Yolanda Yates' life has been one of hardship and despair. She finds a new lease on life when she discovers an abandoned baby behind a dumpster in a back alley. She will do everything in her power to love, protect, and teach her daughter that families aren't always born together, sometimes you have to find and make them.
Find out how powerful a mother's love can be in this...
12) Toast
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"Beautifully conceived and written, Toast is a gentle yet fierce novella." -Alison McGhee, Someday
In many ways, the Hamilton children are like any other kids. Eleven-year-old Mia and ten-year-old Will love playing Minecraft, eating pizza, and playing in the yard. But Mia knows that because Will is on the autism spectrum, some things are different for him. For starters, he doesn't like things to change. Pizza has to be just so crispy, or he won't...
13) East of Denver
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WINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD
The first volume of Gregory Hill's award-winning Strattford County Series, East of Denver is an unflinching look at rural America, a poignant, darkly comic tale about a father and son finding their way as their livelihood slowly disintegrates.
When Stacey "Shakespeare" Williams returns to his family's farm to bury his dead cat, he finds his prematurely-senile father living in squalor. There's no money, the land...
15) Black Powers
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What happens when a cop eats a radioactive doughnut?
Upon their return from a largely disappointing trip to Florida, Kallie and AB are both expecting a slow week.
However, their expectations are quickly subverted when Zeus asks Kallie for a favor, and AB finds out there are still more radioactive doughnuts out in the city-and one's been eaten by none other than Officer Max Powers, the same man who'd helped Kallie the night of her Model Middle America...
16) Hum
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Hum follows a young woman whose life is changed forever when, after being raped, she gives birth to a hummingbird. She must learn to cope with not only what happened to her, but with the bird's persistent, agitating presence in her life.
Natalia Hero's debut is a beautiful and tormented magical-realist novella about surviving trauma, reclaiming oneself, and what it means to heal.
17) All That Was
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Separated by a century. Bonded by loss. Will examining all that was invoke comfort or calamity? Seattle, 2015. Emily Reed refuses to dwell on her emotions. When the first-year attorney is assigned a church archival project, she dives into the records to hide from her own heartache. But when she discovers her parents were married in this very chapel, she is forced to confront the grief she buried a decade ago. After she died in 1935, Elizabet Thomas...
18) Saving Lisa
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Can Lisa survive without her husband by her side?
When Lisa loses the love of her life in Afghanistan, she realizes there is little left that connects them. Now a single parent, she has to be strong for her daughter. Lisa has the support of his family but as a nurse in a corrupt hospital, there is no one with her interest in mind. Then somebody unexpected saves Lisa from making the ultimate sacrifice.
Should Lisa relinquish her morals for her...
19) Speaker
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A seemingly ordinary 14-year-old boy discovers he has the ability to talk with animals, and they with him. It is not at all like Dr. Doolittle.
After 14-year-old Hamish Taylor loses his father to cancer, his mother forces him to move with her from rural Pennsylvania to Brooklyn. Resentful, Hamish avoids his mother and explores his new city, which two years earlier had been struck by the catastrophe of 9/11. One day, as Hamish passes near the ruins...
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The "achingly beautiful" story of Immortal North concludes in this stunning sequel, an unflinching meditation on the triumph of human resolve.
He's known as the trapper and his family has a long history in these remote woods. Now it's just him and the boy, and he'll raise him in the world he knows, the forest, where threats take recognizable forms: harsh weather, peak predators, the intrusion of civilization at odds with their lifestyle. But for those...
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