Therese Plummer
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Series
Virgin River volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she wants to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him. Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport four years ago, then disappeared once their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian have gone unanswered. Marcie tracks Ian to the tiny mountain town of Virgin River and...
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English
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Adjunct professor and theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway is tired of barely surviving. Physics is all she ever wanted to do, but she's spending so much time teaching, commuting, grading, and answering student emails that she can't work on her research. In order to pay her bills (including for the insulin that keeps her alive), she moonlights as a fake girlfriend. It's an easy job—until she meets Jack Smith, a repeat client's hot and annoying older...
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English
Description
"Joan Sample is not living the life she expected. Now a widow and an empty-nester, she has become by her own admission something of a recluse. But after another birthday spent alone, she is finally inclined to listen to her sister, who has been begging Joan to reengage with the world. With her support, Joan gathers the courage to take some long-awaited steps: hiring someone to tame her overgrown garden, joining a grief support group, and even renting...
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Language
English
Description
After the death of her twin brother, teacher Hope Godwin moves to Oceanside, Washington, where she falls in love with animal shelter volunteer, and wounded ex-marine, Cade Lincoln, Jr, and a dog named Shadow, finally finding peace in her new home until Cade's past comes back with a vengeance.
5) Virgin River
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 1
Language
English
Description
When recently widowed Melinda Monroe accepts a job as nurse practitioner and midwife in the remote mountain town of Virgin River, she thinks she's found the perfect place to start over. The town isn't at all what she expected, though, and she considers leaving, but then a tiny baby, abandoned on a front porch, changes her plans... and a former marine cements them into place.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As the only female firefighter in her Texas firehouse, Cassie Hanswell is excellent at dealing with other people's tragedies. But she never anticipated that her estranged and ailing mother would ask her move to Boston. The tough, old-school Boston firehouse is as different from Cassie's old job as it could possibly be. Hazing, a lack of funding, and poor facilities mean that the firemen aren't exactly thrilled to have a "lady" on the crew, even one...
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Language
English
Description
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
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Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 3
Language
English
Description
Dakota Jones is the second youngest of four children who had a difficult upbringing living with parents who struggle with mental illness. He escaped his family as soon as he could by joining the military. Now, after several tours of duty he has been discharged. He has nowhere to go and no solid plans for the future. Refusing to return home to his parents he arrives in Sullivan's Crossing where his brother Cal and sister Sierra have each experienced...
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English
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"After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Samantha Casey loves everything about her job as an elementary school librarian on the sunny, historic island of Galveston, Texas - the goofy kids, the stately Victorian building, the butterfly garden. But when the school suddenly loses its beloved principal, it turns out his replacement will be none other than Duncan Carpenter - a former, unrequited crush of Sam's from many years before. When Duncan shows up as her new boss, though, he's nothing...
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 5
Language
English
Description
After her best friend dies, Hannah Russell becomes the guardian of five-year-old Noah. Realizing they need time to get to know each other, Hannah rents a country house in rural Colorado. The home's handsome owner, Owen Abrams, promises to stay out of their way, but that plan is upended after Noah bonds with his dog. While Hannah learns to be a mother, Owen, who is also grieving, is drawn out of his solitude by his guests. But as life throws more...
12) Any day now
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 2
Language
English
Description
For Sierra Jones, Sullivan's Crossing is meant to be a brief stopover. She's put her troubled past behind her but the path forward isn't yet clear. A visit with her big brother Cal and his new bride, Maggie, seems to be the best option to help her get back on her feet. Not wanting to burden or depend on anyone, Sierra is surprised to find the Crossing offers so much more than a place to rest her head. Cal and Maggie welcome her into their busy lives...
13) What we find
Author
Series
Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. She returns to Sullivan's Crossing to slow down before she burns out completely. Her eccentric father, Sully, welcomes her with open arms, but circumstances demand Maggie must take on more responsibility than she'd planned. When quiet hiker Cal Jones lends a hand, Maggie is suspicious...
14) How to walk away
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture-perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a brief, tumultuous moment. In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Maggie...
15) Save what's left
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Kathleen Deane's husband, Tom, tells her he's no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. Who said anything about being happy? They live in Kansas, for goodness sake! But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town that has always looked lovely in the Christmas cards her childhood friend Josie sends every...
Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 2
Language
English
Description
Eric Nash just lost his dream job as a powerful attorney. Before seeking a new position, he returns home to visit his father. When he arrives, the town is not the calm oasis he had been hoping for; instead, his dad?s house is undergoing a major renovation. He also discovers that the woman whose car he accidentally rear-ended, BJ Stevens, is his father?s architect and contractor, making for a painfully awkward moment. BJ is emotionally guarded, but...
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Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Robin Lockwood is an increasingly prominent defense attorney in the Portland community. A Yale graduate and former MMA fighter, she's becoming known for her string of innovative and successful defense strategies. As a favor to a judge, Robin takes on the pro bono defense of a reprehensible defendant charged with even more reprehensible crimes. But what she doesn't know - what she can't know - is how this one decision, this one case, will wreak complete...
18) City of the lost
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Casey Duncan and her friend are invited to Rockton, a town for people who need to disappear, she's skeptical. Could it really be the haven it promises? She soon finds that Rockton has its own particular set of problems, including a designer drug and a murderer. As the town's new detective, Casey is soon plunged into the hunting of a killer in a town built on secrets.
Author
Series
I survived volume 12
Language
English
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions, Lois Clary codes all day and collapses at night, her human contact limited to the two brothers who run the neighborhood hole-in-the-wall from which she orders dinner every evening. When the brothers have Visa issues, they have one last delivery for Lois: their culture, the sourdough starter used to bake their bread. She must keep it alive, they...