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Jackson Brodie mysteries volume 4
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English
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Retired police detective Tracy Waterhouse and former detective Jackson Brodie find their lives spinning out of control after she takes custody of an ex-con's child and he rescues an abused dog.
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Meredith thought she'd done it all right - married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter - but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong. Josie has been happily single for years, but she wants a child of her own so much she's one bad Match.com date away from heading straight for the baby carriage all on her own. These sisters, whose relationship was strained by the tragic death of their older...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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From the author of the international bestseller "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" comes another exquisite and emotionally resonant novel about the search for the truth and unconditional love. On a foggy spring morning in 1972, twelve-year-old Byron Hemming and his mother are driving to school in the English countryside. On the way, in a life-changing two seconds, an accident occurs. Or does it? Byron is sure it happened, but his mother, sitting...
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Walsh family volume 6
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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From author Marian Keyes comes the sequel to Rachel's Holiday. Back in the long ago nineties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. But a spell in rehab transformed everything. Life became very good, very quickly. These days, Rachel has love, family, a great job as an addiction counsellor; she even gardens. Her only bad habit is a fondness for expensive running shoes. But with the sudden reappearance of a man she'd once loved, her life wobbles. She'd thought she...
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"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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When Sharon learns that her husband Al is having an affair with one of his students, her life is sent into turmoil, and the couple decides to split. But when Sharon is diagnosed with cancer, she and Al are brought together once again. Meanwhile, in an interwoven thread, we meet Nelly, a young, beautiful 19th century woman with ties to the theatre. Magnetized toward the incomparable Charles Dickens, Nelly becomes his secret mistress. But soon, she...
7) Clock dance
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"A bewitching new novel of family and self-discovery from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Spool of Blue Thread. Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother, yet the...
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Doubleday Canada
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English
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Sharp, engaging, contemporary fiction from Governor General's Award winner Kate Pullinger, author of "The Mistress of Nothing." Based on a newspaper article Pullinger first read more than a decade ago about the body of an airplane stowaway landing in a southwest London supermarket car park, the novel is about the complex texture of modern life - airplanes, the internet, migrant labour, and the loneliness of the nuclear family. Kate has moved away...
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