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A light romance; nothing graphically sexual. It is also a tearjerker. Two sisters (mostly called Sally and Linda) have their lived destroyed by the death of their parents, leaving their parents' racing stables and moving to Bart's Landing, Uncle Bart's ranch in Arizona. Bart is named guardian to Linda (not yet twenty-one and suffers from terminal leukemia, at present in remission).
2) Gilbert
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Life was coming fast and furious for Gilbert at eighteen years old. He hardly knew how he'd gotten himself into his present situation. Not only was he married to a girl he hardly knew, but he was duty bound to support her and their expected child. He was told by his father that the family business was failing, so there went his future. Gilbert was a little bitter. He'd put long hard hours in the grocery store.
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How far would you go to save the one you love? Two doctors must take this journey through a suspenseful thought provoking medical ethical thriller intertwining huge drug cartels, breakthrough medical discoveries and political intrigue played out against an extremely personal morality tale involving the loss of love, trust and faith and the difficult struggles to regain all three. Just like life, it's a complicated affair. What would you do?
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Time has made life exciting with the cans of heat being used and perfected out at the city dump. The families have grown closer. Anything is possible with the diner and the rock bank. Come see inside the Hole Thing, book 2 of the saga Cans of Heat. Can you handle the heat in these books?
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Stockada: Es acaso el dolor, el temor que te produce esa herida que al penetrar el sentimiento y la ilusión en tu corazón: te motiva al desafío del cumplimiento de tu sueño y vivir esa, tu realidad.
"Como aquel viento ligeramente frío de invierno, en los primeros días de enero, día para recordad y evocar tu presencia por siempre".
Armando Bolanos
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Amanda Lewis, who lived in Boston, had always spent summers in Rangeville, Maine, with her paternal grandparents, who owned a working farm and inn. Amanda enjoyed her time at the summer camp, where she would reconnect with children that visited each year. Her best friend Toby Harper was an American Indian boy that lived in Rangeville all his life.
The summer of 1955, Toby and Amanda realized their feelings for each other were becoming more than just...
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Irene Polson was born and raised on and around Western American racetracks. Both her deceased parents had been track followers. When she was old enough, she became a jockey. A bad fall and the resulting injury caused her to lose her nerve, so now she was just a groom. She cared for racehorses, cleaning them and their stalls and seeing to their well-being. One of her charges was cruelly overworked earlier one morning, and it took hours to get IM Do...
8) Jolena
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Jolena is a twenty-seven-year-old woman who works in the downtown Chicago area as a lead collections representative for a big law firm. She is single and looking for that right man to settle down with and start a family. Her ex-boyfriend Keith, who is also her high school sweetheart, broke her heart deeply after he cheated on her and became a father to another woman's child. Keith apologizes to Jolena and continues to convince her that he is the man...
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Set in the Vietnam War era, this is a story of unbreakable friendship, love, loss and renewal
War hero, Lieutenant Jay McFadden, is the best friend anyone could ever have. Women adore him, but there is only one to whom he gives his soul, and that is Ronnie. But When Jay returns from war after years in captivity, he is heartbroken to discover that Ronnie, believing him to have been killed in action, has married someone else. Ronnie still loves him...
10) The Dirt Sack
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The Dirt Sack is a love story interrupted.
It is a cross between Grimm's fairy tales and criminal minds. In addition, it proves that God is ever present in our lives and is faithful to those whom he loves.
11) After the Storm
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Online attacks are hampering the smooth operation of Aunt Hyacinth's Bed and Breakfast. While Hank Dawn settles into his career as a police officer in the big city, Steph must juggle her new role as guardian for Ronnie Gideon, manage the B&B, and find a way to win Hank back. As she works to regain the trust and forgiveness of her neighbor and Hank's best friend, George Landsburg, Steph learns someone from her past is reaching out to threaten her friends...
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"Everyone has a garden ... Even if it's that piece of soul that nurtures dreams."
Writer Kaya Desjardin is stuck in her career and even worse, in her personal life. But when the neighborhood beautification committee forces her to overhaul the disaster that is her property, more than just her garden gets a second chance to bloom.
She does her best to overcome personal demons, blackmail, family discord, and even accusations of witchcraft-all while...
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"It was just supposed to be a nice break from my previous life of a difficult marriage, a sick and eventually dead husband, to visit my sister that I hadn't seen in way too long. I needed a real break, and I had it all planned. The problem was, I didn't watch where I was going and found myself in a beautiful valley in nowhere, and a car that decided to break down."
She didn't know it, but that one wrong turn would take her into a week full of wonder,...
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Gilbert and Max is a love story. It's a little different from your everyday love story. It's how two pets got a couple together. In a short period of time, lives were changed. Not just the two main characters, Jonathan Matthew Brown, known as John, and Patricia Ann Johnson, known as Patty. It would change the neighbors in the ordinary neighborhood and John's family back in Texas. As well as the person that is writing the book. The writer of the book...
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Makayla has a responsibility to her family and pack. At the age of 16, she must pick who is going to be her future husband. Can Makayla pick between a longtime boyfriend or her friend? But after a horrible accident, she wakes to find that she is married and her memory has failed to come back. Makayla finds herself alone and ruled by her controlling husband, Tom. One day, while she is at a cafe, Makayla notices a man who keeps looking over at her....
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This is a story that must be told. It tells the lifestyle and relationship problems of a woman in her sixties, involved with the romance of her gentlemen friends. No one knew the depth of her love, the loss of their relationship, and how difficult it was to recover.
Journaling in her diary was the only way that Ava wanted to share her encounters without being judged. She realized that she was drawn to the same type of men and the outcome was always...
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A love story that proves there is life after love and loss, finding yourself when the world hands you pain that takes you to your knees--you get up and push forward to the place where you know who you are--finding love again with no regrets, putting the broken pieces of your heart back together, and walking into the sun because you have found yourself--completely.
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Silva Reins had the dream life. She was in love with her high school sweetheart, Drew Stanton, and he had just proposed to her on their favorite mountain in the Pines of Flagstaff, Arizona. Nobody dreamed that would all be destroyed by a family secret that would keep Silva away from her hometown for so long. Fast-forward ten years, Silva is living in LA working as an assistant DA. When tragedy strikes, Silva is forced to go home, where she and Drew...
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A very badly wounded Viet Nam veteran learned to fight through deep depression and lived with his injuries. During recuperation, he found he had the ability to learn to play various musical instruments, and with his vocal ability, he was able to perform like a professional. He eventually reintegrated into as normal a life as possible. Along the way, he found the joys of love and the depths of extreme sadness.
After leaving the military, he searched...
20) Hotel Revelación
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Hotel Revelación es una novela basada en hechos reales y contiene algo de fantasía, se trata sobre una pareja que perdió a su hija accidentalmente y, debido a esta negligencia, la pareja comenzó con muchos conflictos matrimoniales; la razón por la que llegan a un acuerdo, el divorcio. Pero en camino a ese divorcio ocurre algo inesperado que les cambia la vida a ambos, pero antes teniendo que pasar por muchas pruebas de terror. Al final, surge...
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