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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...
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Language
English
Description
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.
3) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
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 with their own inchoate impulse to “do good” for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later, Charlene’s daughter, spurred by an encounter...
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Language
English
Description
Sharing the less “palatable” parts of her life, revealing her struggles with bulimia, mental illness and family, coaches and federation, the U.S. figure skating champion and Olympic medalist provides an intimate account of surviving as a young woman in a society that rewards appearances more than anything and demands perfection at all costs.
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Series
Robin Lockwood novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
Attorney Robin Lockwood finds herself defending her old nemesis in a multiple murder case with too many suspects where success might cost her own life.
Author
Language
English
Description
Now 94 and living a quiet life, Cecily Larson, when her family surprises her with an at-home DNA test, finds the unexpected results not only bringing to light the tragic love story she's kept hidden for decades but also calls into question everything about the family she's raised and claimed as her own.
9) Wild hope
Author
Publisher
Mango Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt collection of poems offering solace and inspiration, emphasizing self-care, and fostering hope amidst life's challenges.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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Language
English
Description
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” —herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the locals, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable Rose Thorn—has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey”...
Author
Publisher
Brown Books Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The B Words walks readers through thirteen key challenges that women encounter in their career paths, showing how to navigate them with confidence and ultimately manifest the bravery needed to achieve for self-defined success. Author Tricia Kagerer not only explores the hurdles we all have faced or will face in the workforce but also offers effective strategies that combat the true root causes of the inequality we must stamp out to create a brighter...
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Series
Merriwell sisters volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Waiting for her own happily-ever-after, Miss Venus Merriwell, who works at an orphanage in Covent Garden, meets her match in gambler Galahad Sinclair who bought the empty building next door they desperately need.
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Most of us were never taught how to effectively express our preferences, desires or deal-breakers. Psychotherapist Terri Cole reveals a specific set of skills that can help you stop abandoning yourself for the sake of others (without guilt or drama) and get empowered to consciously take control of every aspect of your emotional, spiritual, physical, personal, and professional life. Cole also offers actionable strategies, scripts, and techniques that...
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Publisher
Red Adept Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Penny Crenshaw’s divorce and her husband’s swift remarriage to a much younger woman have been hot topics around Atlanta’s social circles. After a year of enduring the cruel gossip, Penny heads back to Kentucky to settle her grandmother’s estate. Reluctantly, Penny travels to her hometown of Camden, knowing she will be stirring up all the ghosts from her turbulent childhood. But not all her problems stem from a dysfunctional family. One of...
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Language
English
Description
While her mother, Oscar-winning actress Ardith Law, a Hollywood icon at 62, deals with conflicting feelings for a much-younger man, her daughter, Morgan, a successful plastic surgeon in NYC, falls for a much-older man, which brings them together as they each try to navigate an unconventional romance.
Author
Publisher
Rodale Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In this revised version of the revolutionary book, which now includes new research developments, expanded recommendations and updates to reflect the changing landscape of women’s sports, an exercise physiologist and nutrition expert empowers women with the personal insight and knowledge to be in the healthiest, fittest, strongest shape of their lives.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Unapologetically optimistic judge Abby Stone, the daughter of the late Harry Stone, follows in her father's footsteps as she presides over the night shift of a Manhattan arraignment court and tries to bring order to its crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She’s been widowed and divorced. Now in her 50s, she’s happily single. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni’s efforts to humor her daughter result in a series of dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still out there after all. Marni’s best friend and colleague...
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