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81) We bought a zoo
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Description
Adapted from a memoir by Benjamin Mee, the story of how the author, who has lost his wife, and his children cope with a dilapidated zoo, dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"When the illustrious India Hartley is accused of murder, she has to uncover the deceptions of others to save herself...India Hartley, the famous and beautiful actress, is now alone in the world after her father's death and embarks upon a tour of theaters across the South. Her first stop is Savannah's Southern Palace. On the eve of the second night's performance, something goes horribly wrong. Her co-star, Arthur Sterling, is shot dead on stage in...
Author
Series
Publisher
AvonBooks, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Roan Sullivan is the naswer to Jazzy Walker's prayers. The doting single dad is a whiz at campfire cooking, so who better to help her win this year's annual cookie challenge? With his help, Jazzy is sure she can finally take first prize right out of the grasping hands of Andi Browning, the gal who stole her fiance right from under her nose. A widower with a four-year-old daughter, Roan tells himself there are a million reasons not to help Jazzy....
84) Lavender blue
Author
Series
Blue Hollow Falls volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hannah Montgomery, the co-owner of a lavender farm who still grieves the son she lost years ago, develops a deep friendship with a widowed stonemason that could lead to something more if she is willing to take the risk.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"At age seventy-three, Laura Kauffman knows she is closer to the end of life tahn the beginning. If God willed it, she would join her beloved late husband soon. Even so, Laura wonders what prupose God might have for her in this winter of her life--and why this season seems so lonely. Widower Zechariah Stutzman is facing his own barren season, despite the great-grandchildren swirling around him. With his Parkinson's worsening, he had no choice but...
86) Hometown hope
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the three years since her mother's death, widower Hoyt Bradley's daughter, Jess, hasn't spoken-until she suddenly begs him to save her favorite bookstore from closing. Hoyt is desperate to hear his daughter's voice again, but he and the bookstore's pretty owner, Anna Delaney, share a less-than-friendly past. Working together is complicated enough...but can they avoid falling in love?
87) Wild iris ridge
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucy Drake returns to Hope's Crossing when she inherits her late aunt's house to find she is still attracted to the man whose late wife was Lucy's best friend"--
88) The escape
Author
Series
Survivors' Club septet volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After surviving the Napoleonic Wars, Sir Benedict Harper's body and spirit are in need of healing. He never imagines that hope will come in the form of a beautiful woman who has seen her own share of suffering. After the lingering death of her husband, Samantha McKay is at the mercy of her oppressive in-laws -- until she plots an escape to Wales to claim a house she has inherited. And Ben, being a gentleman, insists that he escort her on the fateful...
Author
Publisher
HarperLuxe
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Struggling for peace of mind after his wife and son are killed by a drunk driver, Wyatt Blaine restarts an equine therapy organization for troubled teens at the family ranch before the drunk driver's widow begs him to admit her son into the program.
90) Black River
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront an inmate who, twenty years earlier, held him hostage during a prison riot.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"She can't be dead!" the young pastor cried as he looked down at the still, white face of his new bride. Blinded by bitterness, Paul Cameron leaves his church and flees to a logging camp deep in the north woods of Wisconsin. There he wrestles with his loss-unable to get Corrine out of his mind and unwilling to make peace with God.
When a falling tree crushes his legs, Paul can run no further. Broken now in body as well as spirit, he must face his...
Author
Series
Promise Lodge volume 6
Publisher
Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When friends and family reunite at the Amish community of Promise Lodge to celebrate two spring weddings, widower Lester Lehmann meets a fresh-faced newcomer whose witty quips and sparkling eyes inspire surprising thoughts of a shared future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With two boys to raise, a fledgling contracting business to run and a family ranch to keep afloat, widower Drake Owens finds his hands aren't just full -- they're overflowing. When Faith Nichols is hired to help him renovate the church, he's drawn to the beautiful artist, but he can't fall for a woman who isn't a believer. Can love restore her faith ... and his heart?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
"After losing his wife to cancer, Lt. Alexander Steele vowed he'd protect himself and his children from that kind of loss again. But that was before he laid eyes on Lisa Fitzgerald. She welcomes him to town and immediately connects with his shy daughter, Emma. Yet Lisa is a cancer survivor herself, and so a reminder of everything Alex and his family suffered. Will a relationship with her be too much for him to bear? With their love growing even faster...
Author
Publisher
Worthy Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"James Stevens was, at one time, a good man with a great life. After the tragic death of his wife and losing custody of his little girl, James is at th darkest crossroad of his life. Angry, desperate and unable to hold down a steady job, he agrees to drive a box truck on a shady, one-time trip cross country for cash--no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering is actually a who, the questions in his mind begin haunting him mercilessly....
96) Wanted
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a split second, Katie feels certain she's about to receive everything she's ever wanted. . .
Twenty-year-old Katie Brenneman has always quietly fancied Jonathan Lundy. So when the brokenhearted widower asks her to help him take care of his two young girls, Katie knows it will be a trying time-yet she cannot pass up a golden opportunity to get to know this man better.
Just as she's settling into her new life, a message arrives from Katie's past,...
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Series
Promise Lodge volume 3
Publisher
Zebra Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's love at first sight for Christine Bender when widower bishop Monroe Burkholder comes to Promise Lodge, but the arrival of a young woman who claims Monroe has "ruined" her leads to complications.
Author
Series
Harlequin romance volume 4644
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Widower billionaire Aidan Phillips is determined to give his daughter the traditional Christmas she wants. But his vibrant hostess, Noelle McGregor, is showing him that money can't buy happiness. As a snowstorm swirls outside, Aidan recognizes the pain in Noelle's mesmerizing eyes, and finds himself opening up about his past. Might he have found the perfect present for his little girl after all: a mommy for Christmas?
99) Holding the fort
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When dance hall singer Louisa Bell visits Fort Reno to see her brother, she is mistaken for the governess that the harried Major Daniel Adams is waiting for. Between his rowdy troops and his two daughters, he has more responsibility than he can handle alone. Eager for the opportunity, Louisa sets out to show the widower that she is a perfect fit.
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Goldwyn's life hasn't exactly gone according to plan. Widowerhood at thirty-three and twelve-hour workdays have left a gap in his relationship with his quirky five-year-old son, Caleb, whose obsession with natural disasters and penchant for girls' clothing have made him something of a loner at his preschool. The only thing Charlie has going for him is his job at a prestigious law firm, where he is finally close to becoming a partner. But...
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