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1) Family meal
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English
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"Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, unexpected, and explosive. When Cam returns to his hometown of Houston, he crashes back into the orbit of his former best friend, TJ, and TJ's family bakery. TJ's not sure how to navigate this changed Cam, impenetrably cool and self-destructing, or their charged estrangement. Can they find a way...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend to Allied troops. But as Singapore falls to the Japanese...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
4) Funny story
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English
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"Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan,...
5) Absolution
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English
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American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
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English
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The rules of summer book club are simple: No sad books. No pressure. Yes, wine! Besties Laurel and Paris are excited to welcome Cassie to the group. This year, the book club is all about fill-your-heart reads. Since Laurel's divorce, she feels like the Worst Mom Ever. Cassie has an unfortunate habit of falling for ridiculous man-boys. Paris is still reeling after chasing off the only man brave and foolish enough to marry her. Inspired by the heroines...
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Series
Friendship letters volume 3
Publisher
Barbour
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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When she becomes physically and emotionally abusive to her own children, Irma Miller, struggling with her own childhood trauma, reaches out to her friend Doretta for prayer and wisdom, learning that to save her family, she must admit she needs professional help.
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Series
Tom Swift inventors' academy volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Something seems amiss when an overnight lock-in at Swift Enterprises turns into a quarantine lock-down, and Tom and his friends must find the real reason behind it all"--
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Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mercy Spenser promised her friend and roommate she'd spend her vacation in west Texas for a charitable mission -- she didn't agree to the oppressive heat, massive spiders, or the rowdy cantina next door drowning out her gospel singing. She's not the type to sit idly by, so when she clashes with the sexy-as-hell man who runs the place, her temper is hot enough to nearly burn down the entire town.
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mabel Beaumont's husband Arthur loved lists. He'd leave them for her everywhere. 'Remember: eggs, butter, sugar'. 'I love you: today, tomorrow, always'. But now Arthur is gone. He died: softly, gently, not making a fuss. But he's still left her a list. This one has just one item on it though: 'Find D'. Mabel feels sure she knows what it means. She must track down her best friend Dot, who she hasn't seen since the fateful day she left more than sixty...
11) Time to shine
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Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A merry and bright hockey romance about finding your place, finding your people and finding your way back to the one you love the most. For Landon Stackhouse, being called up from the Calgary farm team is exciting and terrifying, even if, as the backup goalie, he rarely leaves the bench. A quiet loner by nature, Landon knows he gives off strong "don't talk to me" vibes. The only player who doesn't seem to notice is Calgary's superstar young winger,...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
It's 1990. In Dalton, Maine, life goes on. Rose goes to work at the diner every day, her bruises hidden from both the customers and her two young boys. At a table she waits, Dr. Richard Haskell looks back on the one choice that's charted his entire life, before his thoughts wander back to his wife, Trudy, and her best friend. Trudy and Bev have been friends for longer than they can count, and something more than lovers to each other for some time...
13) New beginnings
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Series
Zee files volume 5
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As Zee prepares for spring term at The Hollows, the school buzzes with energy as a real-life princess arrives on campus as its newest transfer student"--
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Series
Five Island cove volume 8
Publisher
Feel Good Fiction, Elana Johnson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Clara Tanner has lost it all. Her husband is accused in one of the biggest heists on the East Coast, and she relocates her family to Five Island Cove-the hometown she hates. Her mother and brother live there, though Clara never dreamed she'd be returning to the cove. Not only does she find them waiting for her with open arms, but all of the women in her mother's circle are welcoming too. Clara and Scott have bought Friendship Inn, a hulking, close-to-condemned...
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English
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so, is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse, in the city...
17) Girl/friend
Author
Series
Zee files volume 3
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Everyone is surprised when Zee strikes up a friendship--and more--with Archie, the school's most elusive, handsome boy on campus, but unfortunately Zee's friends and Archie do not get along, and the more she tries to help the situation, the more tangled things get.
19) A vineyard tide
Author
Series
Vineyard sunset volume 17
Publisher
[Katie Winters]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a summer night in 1983, a mysterious woman carried her baby into The Sunrise Cove Inn -- and their lives were changed forever. Forty years later, the Sheridan Family must come together to help them yet again, before the past is lost for good. Top-rate journalist Lola Sheridan is renowned for her ability to get to the heart of any story. When a university professor contacts her to dig into her past, Lola jumps at the opportunity, especially...
Author
Series
Tom Swift inventors' academy volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Every year, Swift Academy students go to a nearby summer camp to field-test their inventions. Tom and his friends have been working hard on all their projects, but they're most thrilled about Noah's new virtual reality simulation. They can't wait for it to go live, and eveyone is looking forward to running tests at the camp. Nothing dulls their excitement, not even when a mysterious prankster starts messing with people's inventions. But things take...
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