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"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
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Bliss Creek Amish volume 1
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English
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In author Kelly Irvin's first installment in the Bliss Creek Amish series, readers will find a charming, romantic story of how God works even in the darkest moments.
It's been four years since Carl left. Four years since he left the safety of the small Amish community for the English world. And in four years, Emma's heart has only begun to heal. Now, with the unexpected death of her parents, Emma is plunged back into a world of despair and confusion....
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[2020]
Edition
First United States Edition.
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English
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"An enthralling, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late nineteenth-century Russia, filled with "boundless imagination, wit, and panache" (David Grossman), and enough intrigue and misadventure to stupefy the Cohen brothers. With her reputation as a vilde chaya, a wild beast, Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl-certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run...
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The year 1900 ushers in a new century and the promise of social change, and women rise together toward equality. Yet rules and restrictions remain, especially for women like Alice Butterworth, whose husband has abruptly disappeared. Desperate to make a living for herself and the child she carries, Alice leaves the bitter cold of Chicago far behind, offering sewing lessons at a New Orleans orphanage. Constance Halstead, a young widow reeling with shock...
8) Beach colors
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
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English
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Fans of Jane Green and Kristin Hannah are going to adore Beach Colors, a fun, heartwarming, and sandy story from Shelley Noble, a former dancer and choreographer whose credits include the films Mona Lisa Smile and The Game Plan. The perfect beach read, Beach Colors tells the story of a respected New York City fashion designer who returns to her tiny coastal Connecticut home town when her city life implodes-only to find herself falling hard for a local...
9) Relativity
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2016.
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English
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"In the vein of Jodi Picoult's House Rules and Nick Hornby's About a Boy, a debut novel about an exceptionally gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from it, and the father he has never met who is trying to come back into his life"--
10) Goodbye again
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Series
Wyndham Beach volume 2
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English
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"A woman strives to move beyond her devastating past in an uplifting novel filled with hope and second chances by New York Times bestselling author Mariah Stewart. In the wake of her daughter's unexplained suicide and her husband Jim's sudden abandonment, Liddy Bryant is determined to move on and make some positive changes in her life. In her hometown of Wyndham Beach, the neglected and shuttered bookstore is also in need of renewal, and Liddy recognizes...
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2017.
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English
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Happily married with two children and a comfortable home in a Swiss town, Thomas and Astrid enjoy a glass of wine in their garden on a night like any other. Called back to the house by their son's cries, Astrid goes inside, expecting her husband to join her in a bit. But Thomas gets up and, after a brief moment of hesitation, opens the gate and walks out. No longer bound by the ties of his everyday life--family, friends, work--Thomas begins a winding...
12) Izgnanie Rai
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2020.
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Russian
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"Oleg and Paia were happily married for many years, their marriage seemed perfect. But everything changes overnight when best friend and business partner Nikita dies. Soon after the friend was burried, passion between Oleg and the young widow Angelina erupts. Paia was abandoned, humiliated and utterly broken. Others were on the side of the "unhappy" widow. Now there is only one thing left - revenge. But the intrigue twists even more interestingly,...
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[2017]
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English
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The Straight Spouse: A Memoir is a love story about a woman who is married to a man who turns out to be gay -- and how she deals with it in unexpected ways. This story takes place in the early 1990s, and she believes she is the only woman in the world to face this unthinkable threat to her marriage. Her journey -- sometimes disturbing, sometimes uplifting is about the importance of letting go and finding one s own way through hard times.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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I edizione.
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Italiano
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"«Mi chiamo Gabriele, come l'arcangelo» aveva detto, «ma qui in Germania è un nome da donna. Il tuo invece che razza di nome è?» Galla si chiama così in onore dell'imperatrice Galla Placidia: «Darmi quel nome è stato uno dei pochi gesti coraggiosi di mia madre». Da quando è stata lasciata dal marito, improvvisamente e senza spiegazioni, passa le giornate sul divano a fissare la magnolia grandiflora del cortile, fantasticando di buttarsi...
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2019.
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English
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"This is a riotous romp taking the reader from the turbulent frontier culture of the pampas deep into indigenous territories. It charts the adventures of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro's abandoned wife, in her travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. While Liz provides China with a sentimental education and schools her in the nefarious ways of the British Empire, their...
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