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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
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English
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From the outside looking in, Lauren Delaney has a life to envy--a successful career, a solid marriage to a prominent surgeon and two beautiful daughters who are off to good colleges. But on her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary, Lauren makes a decision that will change everything. Lauren won't pretend things are perfect anymore. She defies the controlling husband who has privately mistreated her throughout their marriage and files for divorce. And...
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English
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"Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of doctors and nurses who are as caring as Eric is. But when he...
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Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Sadie Always Believed in God's Promises. But Can She Really Trust His Heart? Young Amish widow, Sadie Fisher, leads a simple life in the quiet countryside of Lancaster County selling Amish goods to a steady stream of tourists. Though it is a good life, lately she's wondered if it is God's will for her to remain without a husband and a family.Winters can be brutally cold and lonely in Pennsylvania, so Sadie rejoices when a renter signs up for a three...
6) Gone
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back? For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it's the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate. Did one of the ghosts from Rainie's troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the...
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Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary woman flees the scene of a murder--and realizes it's not just the law that may be coming after her"--Provided by publisher.
So as not to jeopardize her case for child custody, Lake Warren is forced to lie to the police after having just been intimate with the flirtatious Dr. Keaton who has been murdered. Wanting to protect herself from being charged with the crime, she begins her own search for the truth--not realizing that she is dangerously...
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In the terrible wake of Hurricane Katrina, scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand has her hands full getting Memory Mine back in business, and her relationship with her ex-husband, Shamus, back on its feet. But the reconciliation is shattered when Shamus is kidnapped from their home. And when Carmela hurries to tell Shamus's Uncle Henry, she finds him sitting in his library with a bullet through his forehead. As a memorial to Uncle Henry, Carmela...
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Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Noelle Van Doren's world fell apart the day her estranged husband snatched her five-year-old daughter away from her. During the ensuing custody battle, Noelle-along with her divorced, distant mother and her aging, ailing grandmother-discovers just how far a mother will go for love of her child....
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Composer Arky Levin is at a creative dead end when, entirely by chance, he stumbles across an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. Based on a real piece of performance art that took place in 2010, the unusual installation moves almost all who participate in it. Arky finds himself drawn to the exhibit, returning day after day--and as he does, he begins to understand what might be missing in his life and what he must do.
14) Angels
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
After catching her husband having an affair and being fired from her job, Maggie Walsh suddenly finds her perfectly organized existence has become a perfect mess. She decides, for the first time in her life, to do something daring -- and flees to her best friend, Emily, in the faraway wonderland of Los Angeles. In this mecca of tanned, beautiful bodies, unsvelte, uncool Maggie is decidedly a fish out of water. Yet, overnight, she's mixing with film...
15) The Every boy
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Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In this addictive and highly original debut novel a fifteen-year-old boy dies mysteriously, leaving behind a secret ledger filled with his darkly comic confessions. Whether fantasizing about being a minority, breaking into his neighbors' homes, or gunning down an exotic bird, Henry Every's wayward quest for betterment sometimes bordered on the criminal. Alone now in their suburban house, his father pores over the ledger in a final attempt to connect...
16) The cabin
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Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
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Return to the stillness of the Adirondack mountains, where greed and vengeance disrupt the quiet in this thrilling romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Carla Neggers.
Texas Ranger Jack Galway knows his wife Susanna loves him, so when their marriage hits a rough patch, he supports her decision to take their two teenaged daughters to Boston for a break. But when a few weeks turns into several months, Jack heads to Boston to get...
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Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entngled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Since she caught her can't-be-soon-enough ex-husband cheating with his paralegal, Mallory has lost her NYC apartment, her job, her money, and frankly, her dignity. Then great-aunt Maggie leaves Mallory the keys to a house in the burbs. Now she's ready to fight for her life again. But the house in Huckleberry Hills has forty-seven separate HOA violations. And her hot, grumpy neighbor tells Mallory to mow the lawn first. She's done with men and done...
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unrated and Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Peter has his heart broken by Sarah Marshall, his girlfriend of five years. Sarah is an actress on a television crime series. After breaking up with Peter, she moves on with her life and her new boyfriend, Aldous, a British rock star. Peter is devastated, and after trying unsuccessfully to put her out of his mind, he decides to take a vacation to Hawaii to unwind. Unfortunately for Peter, Hawaii is also the chosen destination of Sarah and Aldous....
20) That ring
Author
Series
That boy volume 5
Publisher
Jillian Dodd Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
I first met the gorgeous Jennifer Edwards at a party some fifteen years ago. She was funny and silly and adorable. We had a crazy, instant connection. But then she kissed me. And I did what I had to do--stopped it immediately because I was married. In her tipsy state, she replied with something like, Don't promise me forever, just promise me tonight." And after a kiss like that, who could blame me if I kissed her? Clearly, I wasn't thinking straight...