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2) The heirloom
Author
Series
Heritage of Lancaster County volume Prequel
Language
English
Description
"Clara Bender believes a visit to Hickory Hollow may help her find direction after her father remarries. While restoring an heirloom quilt with her great-aunt Ella Mae Zook, the two form a warm bond. When Clara's life is again upended by an unexpected incident and a young Amish man, will she find where her heart belongs?"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed--but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
Author
Series
Amish holiday volume 3
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
When vandalism around Promise Glen threatens her roadside fruit and vegetable stand, widow and single mother Rebecca King is forced to accept the help of her condescending neighbor, but as they work side by side preparing for Thanksgiving, they discover the true values of the holiday—love and gratitude.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, her adopted son, Camden, rejects his inheritance, settling into a normal life as an English teacher in Colorado and marrying Jules, a woman just as eager to escape her own messy past. Ten years later, his uncle's death pulls Cam and Jules back into the family fold and questions about the infamous heiress come to light. What really happened to those four husbands, who all died under mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When widow Mrs Pargeter has her morning coffee, her intention is to admire her beautiful garden in peace and quiet. Little does she expect one of the patio's paving slabs to crack in two, revealing a human skull with a neat hole in the middle of its forehead! Mrs Pargeter decides to investigate. And who better to assist than her late husband's 'business associates', private investigator Truffler Mason and chauffeur Gary? The trio are soon certain...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"All she wants for Christmas is her independence. But life--and love--has other plans... Amish widow Susanna Glick knows marriage isn't kind to everyone. Rather than remarry, she's focusing on community and building her homemade noodle business. Renting a store from newly widowed daed Seth Lehman is the perfect opportunity--if she helps care for his adorable baby girl. But being a family isn't part of Susanna's plan for Christmas...no matter what...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
One of the most hated women in the country, Meredith Collins, whose late ex-husband was guilty of embezzlement and fraud, returns to the beach town of Cape Sanctuary to help run her late grandmother's Last Hope Café with her cousin, and meets and falls in love with a man who is not what he seems.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of crushing grief, sole parent Kate Whittaker must learn to live and love again. It's been tough raising her young son and wrangling a university fundraising job, an overbearing mother and a best friend intent on matchmaking her with someone new. When Kate and her boss, Hugh, become stranded in a sleepy hamlet north of Byron Bay, she finally has a chance to process all that she's been through and all that the future might hold. Caught...
Author
Series
Heaven Ridge novel volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Center Point Large Print edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Olivia Quinn lost her husband to a freak plane crash, she's been focused on one thing -- making a stable life for her teen stepdaughter, Taylor, of whom she's the sole guardian. But when she loses her job as a children's book editor because she refuses to relocate from Colorado to New York, all her hard-won stability is shattered. Then the opportunity arises to open Liv's dream bookshop in Haven Ridge, offering not only the solution to...
Author
Language
English
Description
Starting a new life in New York, Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, moves into a beautiful midtown penthouse where she forms an instant connection with her movie-star next-door neighbor over their strong impulse to help those in need after a devastating crisis strikes the city.
14) All my secrets
Author
Series
Gilded age volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Series
Beignets for two volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With her two boys off to college, forty-year-old Julia Monroe intends to expand her cleaning business in New Orleans, but God seems to have other plans. Samuel Reed, the ruggedly handsome Green Beret who broke her heart more than twenty years ago, has returned to town, and he's determined to win her back"--
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Nell Stevens' life is a mess. When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she's been gone. All her single friends are now married with children, sky-high rents force her to rent a room in a stranger's house, and in a world of perfect Instagram lives, she feels like a f**k up. Even worse, a forty-something f**k up. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in New York City in the heady aftermath of World War II, The story of a young woman whose rosy future is upended in a single instant. Raised never to step out of bounds, educated in one of the Sister Seven Colleges for a career as a wife and mother, torn between her cousin Mimi who is determined to keep her a "nice girl" - the kind that marries a doctor - and her aunt Rose who has a rebellious past of her own, Fanny struggles to raise her young...
18) Windsong Manor
Author
Language
English
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Description
"The London Countryside, 1820. When the baroness, and newly widowed, Eleanora Coventry moves her family to her country estate of Windsong Manor, she doesn't anticipate falling in love with Ridley Ellis, a lowly stable master who is hiding a secret about his past"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Examining the life of a privileged 20th-century woman as an artifact—an object prized, collected and critiqued, this sly and stylish novel, told through museum wall labels, follows an eccentric heroine as she disrupts her porcelain life with both major force and minor transgressions"--
Author
Series
Tales of the city volume 10
Language
English
Description
"Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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