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"Finlay Donovan is--once again--struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a single mother of two. On the bright side, she has her live-in nanny and confidant Vero to rely on, and the only dead body she's dealt with lately is that of her daughter's pet goldfish. On the not-so-bright side, someone out there wants her ex-husband, Steven, out of the picture. Permanently. Whatever else Steven may be, he's a good father, but saving...
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"Owen Christiansen has been in a downward spiral since an injury ended his NHL career. But a job on an Alaskan crabbing boat offers a fresh start . . . and maybe even a shot at romance with Elise 'Scotty' McFlynn, the captain's daughter. Used to being one of the guys, to never relying on anyone, Scotty doesn't believe in happily ever after -- especially with someone like Owen. Her instinct is confirmed when Casper Christiansen arrives to drag his...
3) The journey
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Series
Kentucky brothers volume no. 1
Language
English
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Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
4) The healing
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Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
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English
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Mark Nolan's happy-go-lucky bachelorhood is interrupted by the death of his sister and his subsequent guardianship of her six-year-old daughter, Holly, who is traumatized into muteness and desperately seeking a maternal figure. Enter Maggie Collins, a toy shop owner who lost her own husband to cancer.
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Pub. Date
2009
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English
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Sophie Heller and her family left Nazi Germany for a better life in Victory, Illinois. But when war fever sweeps the town, the Hellers become targets of suspicion, threats, and attacks. Sophie, working as a newspaperwoman, begins an investigation to uncover the truth. Cole Ambrose, a physically disabled local teacher, becomes her unexpected ally, and love.
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Little Bridge Island volume 2
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English
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A broken engagement only gave Molly Montgomery additional incentive to follow her dream job from the Colorado Rockies to the Florida Keys. Now, as Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate--in the form of a newborn left in the restroom--has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment." When John Hartwell...
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tripp is a thirty-five-year-old slacker, and he isn't ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging, they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for ridding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son is the off-chance possibility...
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[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2023?]
Physical Desc
89 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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Jeeves, my man, you know, is really a most extraordinary chap. So capable. Honestly, I shouldn't know what to do without him. On broader lines, he's like those chappies who sit peering sadly over the marble battlements at the Pennsylvania Station in the place marked "Inquiries." You know the Johnnies I mean. You go up to them and say: "When's the next train for Melonsquashville, Tennessee?" and they reply, without stopping to think, "Two-forty-three,...
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan, in the throes of a divorce, moves in, bringing his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Together they start a new family of two adults, one kid, and no grown-ups.
11) All that man is
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Vibrating with detail and intelligence, pathos and surprise, All That Man Is is a portrait of contemporary manhood, contemporary Europe and contemporary...
12) All is bright
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"Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he's determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason's new home in Hope's Crossing is her best work yet, and she won't let her...
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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....
16) Carry On, Jeeves
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Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs (approximately 6 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tag along for the misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his genius manservant, Jeeves, in this humorous collection of ten classic stories.
The fun begins when Bertram "Bertie" Wooster hires a wonderful new valet in "Jeeves Takes Charge." Jeeves proves himself to be quite handy in all sorts of dilemmas, including Bertie's fiancée asking him to destroy his uncle's memoirs. In "The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy," Bertie's forgetful friend cannot remember...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 243 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to the his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...
18) Work song
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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National Book Award finalist and Wallace Stegner Award winner Ivan Doig has garnered critical and popular acclaim for his vibrant, authentic tales of the American West. In Work Song he takes listeners to Butte, Montana, in 1919 for the tale of one charmer's efforts to elude Chicago gangsters. Stepping off the train in the world's copper mining capital, Morris Morgan secures a room at the boarding house of an attractive widow he'd like to know better....
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Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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It is True Dickinson's birthday and her best friends have gathered on this snowy night to celebrate-yet True has never felt more alone. Though her small business is thriving and her young son is happy, the death of her husband eight years ago has left an empty space in her life that friends and family cannot fill. Suddenly it seems that youth and beauty are slipping away while True is busily taking care of everyone else. But on this night, an accident...
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Series
True gentlemen volume 2
Language
English
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"Daniel Banks is a man of the cloth whose vocation is the last comfort he has left -- and even his churchman's collar is beginning to feel like a noose. At the urging of his family, Daniel attempts to start his life over as vicar in the sleepy Kentish town of Haddondale, family seat to the earls of Bellefonte. Resigned to spinsterhood, Lady Kirsten Haddonfield welcomes the new vicar to stay at her family's home while his is under renovation. Suddenly...