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21) Sister Carrie
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English
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After leaving the country for Chicago, Caroline Meeber is seduced by a traveling salesman and then falls in love with a saloon manager.
22) Remember me?
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English
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When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, having survived a car accident, she has lost a big chunk of her memory--three years to be exact. And that's not all. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband--who also happens to be a multimillionaire?
23) Gods in Alabama
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For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now.
When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves...
When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end. At the same time, Burr, her long-time boyfriend, has raised an ultimatum: introduce him to her family or consider him gone. Arlene loves...
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In her acclaimed debut novel, Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld created a touchstone with her pitch-perfect portrayal of adolescence. Her prose is as intensely realistic and compelling as ever in The Man of My Dreams, a disarmingly candid and sympathetic novel about the collision of a young woman’s fantasies of family and love with the challenges and realities of adult life.
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In...
Hannah Gavener is fourteen in the summer of 1991. In...
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Hannah's heart volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
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English
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When devout Hannah Miller visits her aunt in Montana, she meets someone who causes her to question the wisdom of marrying the Amish farmboy who has staked his claim on her affections.
26) The sugar queen
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English
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Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she's a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet. For while Josey has settled into an uneventful life in her mother's house, her one consolation is the stockpile of sugary treats and paperback romances she escapes to each night--Source other than Library of Congress.
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Lancaster County secrets volume 1
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English
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Lancaster County has always been her home—but where does her heart belong? Debut contemporary fiction from the author of Amish Peace.
28) Winter fire
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New York Times bestselling author of St. Raven returns to the Georgian period and the irresistible Malloren clan in this sumptuous Christmas romance.
Genova Smith accompanies the elderly Trayce ladies and their handsome nephew Ash to a Christmas party at Rothgar Abbey, the home of the Marquess of Rothgar, the man Genova mistakenly believes to be her father. But when she and Ash are caught in a comprising situation,...
Genova Smith accompanies the elderly Trayce ladies and their handsome nephew Ash to a Christmas party at Rothgar Abbey, the home of the Marquess of Rothgar, the man Genova mistakenly believes to be her father. But when she and Ash are caught in a comprising situation,...
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2009.
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English
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A tender and magical tale from the 2016 recipient of the Astrid Lindgren award and author of international bestseller How I Live Now, National Book Award finalist Picture Me Gone, and most recently Jonathan Unleashed
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling...
Pell Ridley, daughter of a good-for-nothing preacher in mid-nineteenth century England, has watched her mother crushed by the burden of too many children and too little money. Unwilling...
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"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly detailed and elegantly crafted." —Curtis Sittenfeld, author of Sisterland
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London,...
After an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man twenty years older, Nazneen is taken to London,...
31) Beyond summer
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Blue Sky Hill volume 3
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English
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When soon-to-be college student Tam Lambert learns that her family's finances are collapsing, the privileged life she's known is forever changed. Tam and her family must move to a tiny house owned by her father's company, Householders, in the Dallas neighborhood of Blue Sky Hill. Shasta Reid-Williams and her husband have just purchased their first home in Blue Sky Hill, and it's the perfect place to raise her children. Even better is having a great...
32) City of girls
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1940: Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, and her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There, Vivian is introduced to fun-chasing showgirls, a sexy male actor, a grand-dame actress, a lady-killer writer, and no-nonsense stage manager. But when Vivian makes a personal mistake that results in professional scandal, it ultimately...
33) Hope's highway
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Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 2
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English
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The Voice of America's Heartland, national bestselling author Dorothy Garlock, delivers the second novel in her evocative, Depression-era trilogy.Ernie Harding may have stolen Margie Kinnard's savings, but he didn't shatter her dreams of going to California to become a movie star. Help arrives from an unexpected source: Margie's long lost father.
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Harvest House Publishers
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English
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Beloved author Lori Wick presents a new standalone in the tradition of her bestselling Sophie's Heart.
After losing her parents, Arcineh Bryant lives with her grandfather as a girl. But growing up without her family causes her to hold resentment toward the man who took her in. Years later, when she meets a man she thinks she may love, she doubts whether she can trust her own heart.
A character-rich journey leads Arcineh back
...35) The quiet tenant
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Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man in the small upstate New York town where he lives. He's the kind of man who always lends a hand and has a good word for everyone. There's one secret he's been keeping from everyone: he is a kidnapper and serial killer. Aidan has murdered eight women and there's a ninth he has earmarked for death: Rachel, imprisoned in a backyard shed. When his wife dies, Aidan and his daughter Cecilia are forced to move. He...
36) Return to me
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Burke family volume 2
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English
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When Roxy Burke left home for Nashville, she swore she wouldn't come back until she was a star. But it's desperation that drives this prodigal back to her family, and no one is prepared for what happens next.Roxy has crashed and burned. She's squandered an inheritance, lived a wild life, and wasted her talent. Desperate and ashamed, she now must return to her father and sister, neither of whom she's talked to in seven years.Roxy's father welcomes...
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Alex Delaware novels volume 21
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English
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Haunted by her aunt's deathbed confession of murder, Tanya enlists the assistance of Dr. Alex Delaware and LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis to unravel the truth about a secret from the past that could have deadly repercussions in the present.
38) Loving
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In the fourth and final chapter of the series, Bailey's planning her dream wedding to Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, but doubts are wracking her mind. Did she make the right choice in choosing Brandon, or should she return home to Bloomington, Indiana, and be with Cody Coleman, her first love?
39) Remembered
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Fountain Creek chronicles volume 3
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English
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A touching historical romance set in Colorado of a woman searching for her father and finding love on the journey. Fountain Creek Chronicles book 3.
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100th Anniversary Edition
“Miss Cather, indeed, here steps definitely into the small class of American novelists who are seriously to be reckoned with.”—H. L. Mencken
“To reread Cather is to rediscover an arresting chapter in the national past.”—Los Angeles Times
Feisty Thea Kronborg, with her rapturous singing voice, is headed for great things. But her upbringing in...
“Miss Cather, indeed, here steps definitely into the small class of American novelists who are seriously to be reckoned with.”—H. L. Mencken
“To reread Cather is to rediscover an arresting chapter in the national past.”—Los Angeles Times
Feisty Thea Kronborg, with her rapturous singing voice, is headed for great things. But her upbringing in...
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