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2023.
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English
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Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, during which things don’t go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal and secrets, but things turnaround due to new friendships, unexpected romance and self-discovery.
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In the spring of 2020, Lara's three daughters return to the family's orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything...
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Natalie Walker is the reason her older brother and sister went to prison over 15 years ago. She fled California shortly after that fateful night and hasn't spoken to anyone in her family since. Now, on the same day her boyfriend steals her dream job out from under her, Natalie receives a letter from a lawyer saying her estranged mother has died and left the family's historic Santa Cruz house to her. Sort of. The only way for Natalie and her siblings...
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2023.
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English
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Starting over in a small beach community on the east coast, Kathleen Deane discovers this picturesque town is not what it seems but just what she needs as she finds herself in an all-out war with her neighbors who are building a huge monstrosity next to her tiny cottage.
8) Day: a novel
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English
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An already-troubled married couple, Isabel and Dan, both become obsessed with Isabel’s younger brother and must deal with the challenges and changes wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Dove Pond novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Returning home to Dove Pond to confront her mentor Angela who falsely accused her of stealing the Book of Cakes, acclaimed—and nomadic—baker Ella Dove learns that love can, and will, always find a way when her childhood sweetheart—and Angela’s grandson—wants her to stay.
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Told from three different viewpoints over the course of one day, this domestic comedy follows a wife, her husband and her best friend as long-standing tensions between all of them come to a breaking point, throwing everyone’s integrity into question and their relationships into chaos.
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When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life is already at a crossroads. In the years since she's last seen Minh, Ann has built a seemingly perfect life--a beautiful lake house, a charming professor boyfriend, and invites to elegant parties that bubble over with champagne and good taste--but it all crumbles with one positive pregnancy test. With both her relationship and carefully planned future...
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2023.
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English
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Centering around celebrated Irish poet Phil McDaragh, who was lauded in public but was carelessly selfish at home, three generations of McDaragh women must contend with inheritances—poetic wonder, abandonment and a sustaining love—in this intricately woven tapestry of longing, betrayal and hope.
13) Community board
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English
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A woman moves back into her parents’ empty home after her husband leaves her and spends her days on the town’s internet community board.
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English
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In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, Mariel Prager and her husband Ned, who’s having an identity crisis, lose almost everything they hold dear and unexpectedly find salvation in their failing business—the Lakeside Supper Club.
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After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Longtime bartender Malcolm Gephardt realizes his dream of owning a bar, The Half Moon, while his wife Jess, a lawyer struggling with fertility issues, wonders how to reshape her life, in a novel told over the course of one tumultuous week, laying bare the complexities of marriage, family, longing and desire.
17) Somebody's fool
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Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald "Sully" Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully's son, is still grappling with his father's tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns' newly consolidated police department...
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Sunrise Cove volume 4
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English
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With her new Sugar Pine Bakery nestled between a tavern and a bookstore, Harper Shaw feels a peace she’s never felt before until she meets Ivy, a teenage runaway who barrels into her heart, and finds her world upended by Ivy’s secrets, which change everything.
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Forty-two, divorced, and responsible for an aging aunt and uncle, florist Emily Lucretia, deciding to put herself out there, starts dating the owner of the local barbecue joint until her meddling small town gets involved in her relationship, with hilarious and unexpected results.
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Les Sonksen
Pub. Date
[2020?]
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English
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Gertrude, nicknamed Gertie, raising a precious teenage daughter, and a 10-year-old son, as a widow, attempts to find a balanced life. She has a full plate of responsibilities with her children's needs, partner of a busy bank, and owner of three beauty salons. Involvement with a failed marriage and annulment , she finds a short time of happiness with a marriage to her bank partner Roger. Will her health issues shorten that elusive search for abundant...
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