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With one phone call her seven-year marriage was over and Lacey was left to pick up the pieces of her shattered heart left by yet another man in and out of her life.
Coming from a broken home, Lacey knows the value of family; however, she is blinded by her need to love and be loved and is determined to give her son everything she never had, but at what cost?
Lacey's season of singleness begins with twenty-eight-year-old Ian, who is fun for a while...
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Following the shocking death of a teenage boy, Barrett and Amelia are moved to revisit the passing of their own daughter, Edi, which occurred in the same small town nearly a decade earlier. Amelia finds herself caring for the recently deceased boy's "sort of" girlfriend, who faces constant harassment and accusations from the townsfolk, while Barrett combs through Edi's self-published fantasy novels in an effort to connect with her. As he reads, an...
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Le manque d'inspiration pour écrire a été un problème dans la vie du jeune écrivain Rogério. Enfin... Jusqu'à ce qu'une nuit, alors qu'il espionnait le quartier depuis les immeubles environnants, il se retrouve témoin d'une dispute de couple aux conséquences inattendues.
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Préparez-vous à rencontrer Veronica, une jeune fille au cœur plus grand que le monde, qui a récemment quitté son pays d'origine. Bien que sa défunte mère, enterrée en Colombie, lui manque, elle est heureuse que sa jeune sœur Sofia et elle-même travaillent dur pour améliorer leurs conditions de vie au Japon. Veronica était loin de se douter qu'à l'autre bout du continent, l'amour lui jouerait un tour.
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Having clear boundaries is essential to a healthy, balanced lifestyle. A boundary is a personal property line that marks those things for which we are responsible. In other words, boundaries define who we are and who we are not. Boundaries impact all areas of our lives: Physical boundaries help us determine who may touch us and under what circumstances -- Mental boundaries give us the freedom to have our own thoughts and opinions -- Emotional boundaries...
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Is there any such thing as a stable family?
As Marianne strives to balance the demands of her career against the need to hold her family together, it is memories of her grandmother, Sarah, that fill her mind. Marianne is determined to maintain the loyalty and values that she fears the younger generation have lost, but this is no easy task.
As tragedy befalls her actor nephew, the havoc wreaked by a disturbed child and her son's marriage erodes,...
7) Diamond Eyes
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Follow the pain, trauma, and tumultuous family saga of December Rose, from her mother's birth to watching her own children grow up and attend school.
When December Rose's momma was born, she entered the world as the first daughter and fifth child of Edd and Maude. So began a winding, chaotic life between relationships - both with family and lovers - that consistently changed the course of December's life
Travel with December through moves across...
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Before All Who Have Ever Seen This Disappear, Michael Gills' fifth novel, plumbs the depths of the Stepwell family tendency toward theatrical catastrophe. When Weldon Stepwell, bare-knuckled catcher for the Danville Little Johns and town florist, has his leg amputated in a wood-cutting accident, the team shows up on the hospital lawn to give blood, pray, and curse God. Mostly they gather to be with the stricken wife, daughter, and son and wait to...
9) In for Keeps
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Kiki's sexy one-night stand with rock god Dev Stone has become a red-hot affair with a lot of potential…until she discovers a secret that threatens to ruin everything.
Kiki Becker moved to Moretta-a beautiful island and popular celebrity haunt-to escape a painful divorce. But after a scorching one-night stand with rock star Dev Stone almost becomes a sex scandal, she realizes she needs to face real life again. When Dev offers her a job as his tour...
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"Spanning 60 years, Jones's deceptively casual, episodic novel is a warm-hearted dissection of a dysfunctional marriage. . . . Uplifting and astute." -The Sunday Times
Married in 1952, Jack and Milly meant to live the American Dream-but over six decades, the dream has changed for their country and for them. Wait for Me, Jack takes us from the aches and indignities of old age back to the exhilarating early days of a new relationship. An insightful,...
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Cecilia and Claudio are doctors are the same hospital. They eat lunch together almost every day; they talk, sometimes even share secrets. Each is enmeshed in a complicated, painful relationship that has technically ended but isn't really over: she is newly separated, with two small children; he's stuck in the apartment building where he grew up, where his senile mother, not to mention his ex-wife and her new family, all still live. Cecilia and Claudio...
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Emelisa macht sich keine Gedanken über die Strafe, die auf sie zukommen wird. Aber Humphrey, ihr Verteidiger, tut es. Der Ausgang des Urteils, das heute Abend über sie gefällt wird, wird nicht nur über das Schicksal von Emelisa entscheiden, sondern auch über das ihrer zarten, unschuldigen Kinder und der Frauen einer ganzen Zivilisation. Humphrey versucht, den Strom der Diskriminierung gegen sie einzudämmen. Aber wird er Emelisa vor einer lebenslangen...
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First published in 1927 in the original French, this translation of "Thérèse Desqueyroux" by Eric Sutton was first published in the USA; New York: Boni & Liveright Inc., 1928, now public domain in the US and Canada.
Thérèse Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. Everyone knew she'd tried to do it, but family honour was more important than the truth. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse,...
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The brand NEW instalment in the bestselling Harpers Emporium series by Rosie Clarke.
Can the Harpers Girls look forward to some happy times as a new dawn rises over London?
Sally Harper is busy juggling running London's Oxford Street Store Harpers and looking after her beautiful new-born daughter, whilst husband Ben is overseas on another dangerous mission, this time to rescue a friend in need.
Young Becky Stockbridge finds herself in a difficult...
15) Long Past Dawn
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Two years ago, Sara Friessen's life was changed forever when a young man from the wrong side of the tracks saved her from a brutal assault. To her, he is brilliant, her savior, the man she plans to marry and spend her life with, the only man she has ever given a piece of her heart.
But to Devon Reed, Sara is the girl he shouldn't love. No matter how much he tries, Devon, now a young law student, believes he isn't the kind of guy who should be with...
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"The Kiss to the Leper" by Francois Mauriac is a novel about a French priest named Charles who has become disillusioned with his life and the Church. After being sent to a leprosarium to care for leprosy patients, Charles gradually begins to see the beauty and dignity of these outcasts and rediscovers his own humanity and faith. Through his experiences with the patients and his interactions with a nurse named Marthe, Charles undergoes a spiritual...
17) Nadar
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Kat ha viajado con su hija adolescente a Lutrá, en Grecia, donde deberá tomar una decisión. Lutrá –«baños» en griego– es el pueblo de su padre, que acaba de morir. Las piscinas naturales que se forman bajo seis pequeñas cascadas trazan el perímetro de la localidad. Se dice que sus aguas tienen propiedades curativas, y Kat se sumerge en ellas con la esperanza de que también tengan efectos beneficiosos sobre su atribulado corazón. A su...
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A short-lived affair causes ripple effects through the years in this novel about the complexities of love and marriage by the author of A Part of Me.
Molly loves Jack. But so does Carly . . .
While working away from home, it's easy for Jack to have a fling with Carly. Fiancée Molly will never find out; it's not the first secret he's kept from her.
When the relationship runs its course, though, Carly can't move on emotionally. For her,...
19) The Missing
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Gabriel and Hannah's daughter Christa is missing. Has she run away with her older boyfriend or has something worse happened to her? As Gabriel and Hannah wait for the police to find her, they're forced to confront the fissures in their marriage and who they've become as parents and individuals. With Gabriel's alcoholism and womanizing always lurking and Hannah's guilt over possibly pushing her daughter away taking a toll on her mental health, they...
20) Amando a Harry
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La diseñadora de moda Carla Kane ha estado demasiado ocupada ascendiendo peldaños en su carrera para mantener una relación a largo plazo, hasta que conoce al encantador y carismático Harry Wilkinson y resulta profundamente enamorada por primera vez.
Solo hay un problema: Harry ya está casado con Barbara, una esposa que dejó su trabajo para dedicarse a su hogar y ha estado contenta hasta ahora de dedicar todas sus energías a cuidar de su marido...
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