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1) Sam's Story
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In this captivating saga, Samantha Skylar experiences undying passion and endures one horrific act of brutality that sweeps her into the arms of the second most powerful man in the country. Samantha's journey takes her from the poverty and close-minded attitudes of a tiny, coal-mining town in West Virginia, to the estate of one of Atlanta's oldest and wealthiest families. This epic trilogy follows Samantha from the age of 14 to 40. Book Two opens...
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Three couples. Three divorces. Six new lives.
Viola's husband has filed for a divorce because he has finally accepted the fact that his need for travel and adventure is stronger than his love for her.
Jason and Annabelle, his next-door neighbour, have filed their divorce applications because they found out that their spouses were having an affair.
While recovering from the shock and adjusting to their new lives, everyone involved will make surprising...
3) Blind Acorn
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While Trinity Barrett searches for herself, the complications of family life get in the way. Her husband of twenty years and two teenage children add to the messiness of her life. The give and take nature of friendship is demanding. Her work requires compassion and understanding of others. She knows that she has a good life, is surrounded by good people, but can't seem to get out of her own way. She needs a place of her own, somewhere she can recover...
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When Willow is born and her mother dies moments later, only the narrator of this spellbinding debut novel knows the death isn't from complications of childbirth. Amelie-Anais, buried on the Nebraska hilltop where the family home resides, tells the story of deceit, survival, and love from beyond the grave. Following Willow's life and Willow's incredible passion to paint despite loneliness, a physical handicap, and being raised by a father plagued with...
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When 39 year-old biologist Margie's certain plans to relocate to a remote village in the Karoo with her significant other fall to pieces, she has to endure a change of life and a change of heart as she is won over by the place and people of Waddedene. In a series of diary blog posts, Margie goes from the desperation of being alone, confused and heartbroken to the gradual realisation that she has been given the unusual gift of healing, in the strangest...
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Annie feigns interest as her client studies the OPI color chart. After years of selecting polishes, one to her is no different from the other. What's far more interesting is the conversation from the last manicure appointment that is sure to continue about the woman's pending divorce. Will she get the house and custody of the children, or will he?
You see, this nail tech is secretly writing a book about her clients' lives, and this juicy story...
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Every little girl dreams about the man they will one day meet and live happily ever after with, but what if an unlikely candidate redefines your once preconceived knowledge of passion? Welcome to Brooklyn, New York where we meet Jolene Wilson, a girl with a posh job that lives the life most girl's dream about. She has a dynamic group of friends, a family that is reality TV worthy, and a boss that is set for the cover of GQ. Never in her wildest dreams...
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Priscilla Vickers returns to her job as an art instructor for a small suburban college in picturesque Winter Park, Florida. She has endured a terrible year in which not only did her Great Aunt Clara die as a result of a house fire; but in trying to soothe her sorrow, Prissy fled to Scotland on an Art Fellowship where she had her heart broken by a shameless Scotsman. All Prissy wants to do now is teach what she learned in Scotland to her art students,...
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Kitty Blue is the stage name of Catherine 'Kitty' Bennet, a talented but broke singer, who lives in an outback town located near the magical Currup mountain ranges in the central Australian desert. Kitty has just broken up with her no-good boyfriend, fellow musician, Evan Wickham, and moved back into the Bennet family home to live with her matrimonially-obsessed mother, and two sisters, Mary, a spinster librarian, and Lydia, a wild schoolgirl. The...
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On a sun-dappled street in Naples, Florida, Jim Franza, a retired litigator, is hit by a car in front of his home. His wife Ivy, her best friend Marge Coppola and young neighbor Elena Pineda, watch in horror as Jim is killed instantly and the driver runs from the scene. Ivy is devastated and turns to alcohol for comfort. She blames the driver and Elena for Jim's death since Elena was with the driver minutes before he raced down the road. Elena feels...
11) No Time For Love
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Chatham Ross has no time – for anything, least of all love. She manages her three kid's demanding schedules, exercises at crazy hours to preserve her less than perfect figure and writes catchy advertising jingles to pay for the mortgage. To the outside world, she seems to have it all - except for a husband. Who has time for that? Besides, hers died unexpectedly five years ago and she's still not over it. A chance occurrence with a particular jingle...
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Living in Glass Houses is a contemporary story about three friends, all at a crossroads after discovering that even the best laid plans don't always result in the life you want. It's about navigating the murky waters of relationships and friendships and having the courage to make those hard, life-altering decisions which mark the difference between existing and living. Jonathan is a do-gooding college basketball coach in a relationship with a woman...
13) Sally's Road
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Jon Elkon's strength is in creating eccentric yet entirely believable characters as well as bizarre plots which could just happen. The book is based on the Author's experience of cancer within his family: he accompanied an Aunt all the way from diagnosis to holding her hand when she was dying in terrible pain. This experience was what made him determined, in some way, to get Revenge on cancer. And the best way to show one's contempt for a powerful...
14) Inside Deception
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After suffering from a traumatic childhood, including sexual abuse at the hands of her biological father, Andrea Ranch thought that her life would never be the same. That was, until she laid eyes on Keith Griffin while on the campus of University of Louisiana. And from that moment on, he became her prized possession. Years later, Andrea is still determined to become one with Keith Griffin. But there is one thing standing in her way-Eva English, Keith's...
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Katherine Watt was a stressed out, burned out Silicon Valley executive tired of making corporate decisions, traveling the globe to meet with bureaucratic bodies in Malaysia, China, Singapore, India, Australia and points beyond. She was ready to leave all that behind and to create a new life; a second chapter. She heard the ghosts of the City of Light calling to her and moved to her perfect little apartment in Montmartre where her only decision each...
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Chemiluminescence is a centred around two sets of women, one middle aged, Anna and Helen, the other two teenage girls, Dianne and Tracette.
Anna is married to Daniel and has three grown children, James, Michael and Devon, when she discovers she is seriously ill with cancer.
Helen is already struggling with the disease and, after being diagnosed as terminal, decides to forgo any further treatment and leave her future to fate. The decision has already...
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Chloe, adrift after the loss of the cherished grandmother who raised her, is newly graduated from college and searching for meaning in her life. She finds it in a small mental hospital where she meets a seemingly unreachable, nearly catatonic patient. June, returned from the war in Afghanistan, is trapped in a self-imposed prison of isolation and harboring a secret that threatens to destroy her still. When Chloe finds out that June has a grandmother...
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MISSOURI NORMAL is Telory Arendell's 64,000-word upmarket women's fiction debut novel about a psychic 25-year-old's quest for respect in the Southern Midwest. This is M. Scott Swanson's Throw the Amulet meets Kimberly Diede's Whispering Pines.
To JANE MONTGOMERY, "Missouri Normal" is everything she's trying to avoid: house-bound, bible-thumping, double-wide trailer trash. As an older returning college student, Jane is a community outlier. After...
19) Woodacre
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Woodacre is a love story about two people perfectly wrong for each other. The novel is set in Marin County in the early seventies as a generation of people set out to reinvent themselves after the turbulent sixties. During this restless time of experimentation and social change, individuals and families were rocked, often torn apart, by the lure of freedom that came at a price. The story alternates, chapter by chapter, between dual first person points...
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