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"Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law is a Hollywood icon. Radiant at sixty-two, she is the epitome of glamour and a highly respected artist. But her success has come at a price: She has a strained relationship with her daughter, Morgan, who at thirty-eight still blames Ardith for putting her career before being a mother. Morgan is a successful plastic surgeon in New York City--and the distance from Ardith's Bel Air mansion is not lost on either of them....
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the early 1970s amid the specter of the Manson girls, when the peace and love movement begins to turn ugly, this is the story of a runaway teenager's disappearance and her sister's quest to discover the truth"--
1969. Sixteen-year-old Lucy is about to run away with a much older man, to live off the grid in rural Pennsylvania. Her rash act will have vicious repercussions for both her and her older sister, Charlotte. Charlotte's youth has been...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Etta Mae Wiggins is frustrated with her trailer-park life and her no-good family, and she has big dreams for something better. Working as the home nurse for the elderly but wealthy Howard Connard, Senior, she finally sees her chance -- with her sexy curves and infectious charm, Etta Mae is determined to become his wife. Unfortunately, Connard's scheming, money-hungry son and stuck-up daughter-in-law are equally determined to make sure she doesn't....
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English
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This is the time to run away, she thinks, to call it a mistake, to race back to home and safety. If I don't go home I will never feel safe again. On meeting Micajah Burnett, the son of an old school friend, Eve Armanton is faced with a choice. Years of a miserable marriage means she's as broken as the beautiful antique violin she's just found, and Micajah offers a spark of life, an opportunity to reawaken her sense. If Eve takes a leap into this new...
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English
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Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
6) Georgetown
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ulrich Mott is an eccentric and versatile social climber with grandiose plans to affect United States foreign policy. He is encouraged and egged on in his attempts by his strategically chosen wife, the well-connected journalist Elsa Brecht. Mott has a knack for making himself indispensable and impossible to ignore, with an impeccable sense for when to flatter and how to deftly use political jargon to his advantage. The only one seemingly immune to...
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Publisher
Fremantle Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
If Jane Austen was twenty-five today would she be a greenie or a member of the Young Liberals? Probably neither. But for twenty-five-year-old Hazel, reading the classics starting with A is a way to pass the time while jobless and plotless. A chance encounter with an irresistible older man provides a much needed distraction. When Hazel is partnered with him on a political campaign, her attraction is deepened by the strength of his convictions. Adam...
8) Hook shot
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Series
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 432 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"A single, divorced dad in the final years of his basketball career, Kenan Ross's perfect life has blown up in his face. He's still picking up the pieces when he meets Lotus DuPree. A wildflower. A storm. A kick to his gut and a wrench in his plans from the moment their eyes meet. He promised himself he'd never trust a woman again, but he's never wanted anyone the way he wants Lo. At twenty-five, Lotus is finally living out her dream, becoming a force...
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English
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"At twenty-nine, Phylicia Chandler put her life on hold to care for her dying mother with her sisters, Joanna and Britt. Now Mom is gone and their father stuns them all by running off with a woman young enough to be their sister. Life is moving forward all around her, but Phylicia feels stuck--until her father's protégé, Quinn Mitchell, presents the sisters with an intriguing business opportunity to purchase a trio of cottages just outside of Langhorne,...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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"It's 1965, and life has taken a turn for eighteen-year-old Anton Addison-Rice a year after his brother died in a tragic accident, Anton is still wounded - physically and emotionally. Alone for the holidays, he catches a glimpse of his neighbor Edith across the street one evening and realizes that she's in danger. Anton is determined to help Edith leave her abusive marriage. Frightened and fifteen years Anton's senior, Edith is slow to trust. But...
11) The next wife
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English
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"Kate Nelson had it all. A flourishing company founded with her husband, John; a happy marriage; and a daughter, Ashlyn. The picture-perfect family. Until John left for another woman. Tish is half his age. Ambitious. She's cultivated a friendship with Ashlyn. Tish believes she's won. She's wrong. Tish Nelson has it all. Youth, influence, a life of luxury, and a new husband. But the truth is, there's a lot of baggage. Namely, his first wife--and suspicions...
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Series
Wildflower duet volume 3
Publisher
Page & Vine
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
123 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When I met Thayer Holmes, I had no idea how much he would single-handedly change my life. Our journey hasn't been an easy one, but it has been ours. We've fought through the impossible and come out stronger because of it. But happily-ever-after isn't a destination. It's a never-ending road trip with bumps along the way. Some bumps are bigger than others, but none of it matters as long as we have each other, right?
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Publisher
She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern -- his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile -- made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she'd imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the ghosts of Vern's past -- a town, a house, a family, a memory....
Author
Series
Wildflower duet volume 2
Publisher
Page & Vine
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"His heart was shattered beyond repair. My life was irrevocably changed. So I left him. I started over. I married someone else. But I never forgot him. It's been six years since I last saw Thayer Holmes. Being forced to return to my hometown means confronting our past head on and dealing with the fallout of my divorce. I'm now in the same spot he was when we met. Starting over. There are no secrets we can keep anymore. Not all love gets a second chance,...
Author
Series
Wildflower duet volume 1
Publisher
Page & Vine
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"My future is a big 'what if' at the moment and I'm fine with that. For the most part. When Thayer Holmes moves in next door, the grumpy landscaper both fascinates and amuses me. When he asks me to nanny his kid, it's a great way to make some extra money. It's impossible not to fall in love with Thayer and his adorable son. There's a big problem though. I'm eighteen. He's thirty-one. Falling for someone almost fifteen years older than me wasn't part...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's in the water where she first sees him: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving...
Author
Publisher
Millennial PRINT, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the hit TV Land series Younger" -- Cover.
Henry Cane knows exactly what he's going to do with the rest of his life. That's the problem. Born into the rarefied world of Manhattan wealth and privilege, after graduating from Princeton, Henry is about to start his perfectly planned out life. He's always known he will move back to Manhattan and be groomed to take over his father's publishing business. He's destined to date a string of appropriate...
18) An education
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
19) The comedian
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at the life of an aging insult comic named Jack Burke.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Touchstone hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. While serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate, the Yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience...