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1) The women
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Three generations of Swagger family members, Charles, Earl and Bob Lee, tell their stories in three interconnected novellas that describe hunting for a notorious gangster in Chicago, uncovering municipal corruption in Maryland, and returning from the Vietnam War.
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Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in an estate in Northern California, with strict instructions not to leave the property and zero contact with the outside world, the competitors start to feel a little too isolated. When long-kept secrets begin to rise to the...
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Language
English
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When she makes a wish to skip to the good part of her life, 26-year-old Lucy Young wakes up to a handsome husband, a high-powered job and two perfect children, and as she embraces the new relationships and the perks of maturity, she must ask herself some difficult questions.
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Series
House of Falconer volume 3
Language
English
Description
Returning from The Great War a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental, James Falconer, determined to make amends to his daughter, Leonie, now a grown woman who wants nothing to do with him, works toward healing his body, soul and family.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where he lives with his wife and children, and so when he hears about a train laden with gold and other treasures, he sets off for Houston to rob it -- with his younger brother Hugo in tow. But when the heist goes awry and Hugo is killed...
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After Faith Eden's baby was ripped away from her, she is determined to get little Paula back from the wealthy family who adopted her. Her brother, Trevor, is also anxious to get the baby back and will do anything necessary to do so. But when the dark truth comes to light, this twisted family will stop at nothing to keep outsiders out and secrets in -- no matter the cost.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lorna, a respected psychotherapist, struggles to make her estranged mother a part of the family while also trying to break through to her son, Adam, who has returned from college after an incident he refuses to discuss.
10) Kiss me now
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Series
Creekville Kisses volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Ian would do anything for his grandmother, so when Gran suddenly announces she's leaving the family property to her pretty new neighbor, Ian is on the case. He'll use every one of his sharply honed skills as a private investigator to expose the gold digger and save Gran. Brooke is living her best life far from the city and career that tried to destroy her. She's happy spending her summer renovating the house she inherited and gardening with her elderly...
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Marcus Ryker novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Seeking to clear his name in a bombing gone wrong, CIA operative Marcus Ryker, with his closest ally inside the White House no longer able to help him, races against time to stop a Libyan terrorist group in from launching a retaliatory strike against the U.S.
12) Kinfolk: a novel
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Language
English
Description
When a mysterious teenager shows up in 62-year-old Nub’s life in rural Alabama, he learns that family, forgiveness, and kindness can be found in the most unlikely of places.
13) Situationship
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moving into her late grandmother’s house, along with her toddler twins and a dog named Garbage Disposal, single mother Teagan Bianchi comes face-to-face with her teenage crush, who still lives next door, and must decide whether or not she can overcome her fears to get a second chance at love.
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Series
Ransom Canyon romance volume 8
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Preferring nature to people, Cooper Holloway moves to a remote woodland cabin, but receives an unexpected visitor who needs his help just before Christmas.
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In 1857, three sister wives in the Utah territory, after the U.S. Army’s invasion brings the rebellious Mormon community to heel, retreat into the hostile desert wilderness, resolving to keep themselves and their children alive and forming an unbreakable bond as they make a new definition of family.
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Publisher
Escape Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire Jack Mancini has pulled himself up out of the worst circumstances to become a self-made CEO. The one thing Jack can't face is Christmas. But when he's asked to stay in London for Christmas by the only person who understands his pain, Jack's fierce loyalty demands that he agree. Ever since tragedy struck, Grace Robertson has done everything she can to give her younger brother the life he deserves, ignoring her own passions to focus on her...
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English
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"The year is 1998, and Bunny Glenn is a lonely American teenager in Azerbaijan with her Foreign Service family. Through Bunny's bemused eyes, we watch global interests flock to her temporary backyard for Caspian oil and pipeline access, hearing rumbles of the expansion of the American security state and the buildup to the War on Terror. We follow Bunny from adolescence to middle age -- from Baku to Athens to Houston -- as her own ambition and desire...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Enrolling in the prestigious Law and Literature course at Franklin University to exact revenge on the professor she believes is responsible for her sister’s death, Jessie Mooney will cross any line to hold him accountable as the truth becomes darkly twisted.
19) Trust the stars
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Olivia Garza thrives in her unconventional, service-oriented life. By day, she helps troubled teens . . . by night, she creates a viral web series when she tries to better understand her mother's desperate decisions by retracing her steps with a camera. So far, Olivia has been an anonymous narrator, but she's promised to reveal herself in the last stop on her documentary: Kenya. Prince Louis, heir to the throne of the small European kingdom of Alloria,...
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Language
English
Description
After shifting her focus from tracing the family trees of violent criminals to helping adoptees find their biological parents, forensic genealogist Rowan Healy agrees to help Austin detective Jack Bruner find justice for the victims of the West Campus Rapist through her DNA research, which leads them down a dark path.
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