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1) A Slipper
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To send his nephew A-Bao, Uncle Guoliang came to Shanghai to visit his cousin brother Li Guocai, who was an officer. Beginning from the moment he was about to step in Li Mansion, the author wrote until he left Shanghai. Coming to Li Mansion, Uncle Guoliang dared not enter it. He decided to buy a pair of shoes. After strolling around several stores, the salesman sold him a pair of leather shoes. Afterwards, he planned to visit A-Xin, who lived in Garden...
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From an author praised for her "genuinely perceptive portrayals of human relationships," a historical family saga and sequel to Shoddy Prince (Irish Independent).
After twenty-two years' estrangement, Bright Maguire and Nat Prince are joyously reunited and plan to start a new life in Australia. Their daughter Oriel isn't thrilled by the return of her long-absent father, but can she put aside her feelings and accompany them?
After the horrors...
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"An incantatory Appalachian gothic tale of love, murder, and restless souls, populated with unforgettable flesh-and-blood characters . . . [a] masterpiece." -Amy Greene, national bestselling author
Miracelle Loving's world comes crashing down when her mother, Ruby, is murdered during a fortune-telling session gone wrong. Without the guidance of her mother, Miracelle grows up following the only path she knows, traveling from town to town, sometimes...
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Is the new girl in town all she appears?
She needs a new start…
Not a new man.
Kaitlin Carmody is a woman with a past-one she'd like to forget. A string of bad choices led to a fresh start in the small town of Starlight, so when her boss shows signs of serious illness, she's determined to help him the best she can. But Finn Samuelson, her boss's handsome, headstrong son, is certain Kaitlin is taking advantage of his father and running his family's...
5) Cloudmaker
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A teenager in Depression-era Montana with finds danger and adventure with a gangster's watch in this coming-of-age tale.
From the nationally bestselling author of Painted Horses, Malcolm Brooks returns with a soaring, spirited novel set during the summer of Amelia Earhart's final flight-a tale of American ingenuity and optimism set against the backdrop of a deepening Great Depression . . .
The summer of 1937 will be a turning point for fourteen-year-old...
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When gratitude becomes friendship…and something more.
Cole Meacham has only been out of prison a couple of weeks after a ten-year term for a murder he didn't commit. A silent, guarded man, he doesn't know how to start over again now that he's free. Destitute and alone, he's been sleeping in a park. Then Erin Parrish offers him a job plus room and board. The woman with the haunted eyes seems to be the only person on earth who isn't afraid of him....
7) Let Me Burn
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He's a broken firefighter. She's his sweet escape. Lucas Russell lives for his job. Forced to take extended leave following an accident, he returns to his small home town to stay at the beach cottage his grandparents left him.After a broken engagement, Ember isn't ready for love right now. But she didn't count on meeting a handsome firefighter with a dimpled smile. After Lucas saves her from one awkward situation too many, she finds him impossible...
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They didn't know each other, but the events of one single day heralded a pivotal change that would alter their lives forever.Almost two decades spent locked away in a dark, dank cell, Gray Bennet isn't used to the sun, the sounds, the scents. It's overwhelming. Each year Robin Bishop returns, and while everyone around her is solemn, she lifts her face to the sun and celebrates her freedom. It's liberating.He sees her.She stands out in the grieving...
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She rescued a cat and gave the feline a furever home.Did she find her forever man in the process?The peaceful town of Brownsfield, Texas, is the perfect place to start a new veterinary practice-newcomer Dr. Caleb Wyatt decides-until the morning he opens the doors of his animal clinic. He needs to hire part-time help but the animals of Brownsfield are not cooperating. Mrs. Pierson's poodle is looking for love in all the wrong places. A colicky calf...
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A successful artist shoots a dog harassing his cows and descends into madness in this dark novel by the Tony Award–winning author of Sticks and Bones.
In classic works such as Hurlyburly and Streamers, David Rabe's depictions of violence and the dark side of the human psyche have won him widespread acclaim. In Recital of the Dog, a painter who has left urban chaos for the country soon finds his hopes of tranquility shattered by a marauding intruder-a...
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When two copy clerks inherit a fortune, they embark on a new life as professional dilettantes in the unfinished novel by the author of Madame Bovary.
First conceived in 1863 and left unfinished at his death in 1880, Bouvard and Pécuchet was to be Gustave Flaubert's masterpiece. It tells the story of two Parisian copy clerks, François Bouvard and Juste Pécuchet, who become fast friends. When Bouvard inherits a fortune, their lives are transformed....
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Wanted: Christmas magic. Ten years ago, Mark Campbell broke Kristan Donahue's heart when he joined the navy and left her behind in their small New England town. Now he's back home for the holidays and wants to pick up where they left off. Can the magic of Christmas help Kristan open up her heart enough to trust again? And can this same magic convince Mark that next to Kristan is where he belongs forever?~This is a sweet, Hallmark style Christmas romance...
13) Chey's Cowboy
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Trace Mitchem is the foreman at Bridleton and a confirmed bachelor whose main goal in life is to build a ranch he can call his own. Cheyenne Bartell is the youngest heir to the Texas ranching dynasty. What she lacks in self-confidence, she makes up for in spirit and determination.Trace and Chey have known each other for years and worked side by side to save Bridleton. He prefers to keep a safe distance between them. She wants to explore the smoldering...
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A powerful new posthumous novel from bestselling author Mario Reading
Relegated to an isolated provincial town in France after years spent fighting on the Eastern Front, German commander Maximilian von Aschau finds unexpected distraction in the form of beautiful and reserved Lucie Léré.
He's seen every horror of the human experience. She's never left her village. Opposites in every way, Max and Lucie manage to find common ground. But love is the...
15) On the Mountain
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On a cold and still night, a frightened woman makes a frenzied escape down a wooded mountainside. Fear is her only companion. Silence is her only salvation.Anna Nicholson had lived all her life under the shadow of prejudice in the remote village high on Mount Louis whose reclusive people were considered as wild and primitive as the wilderness from which they lived. So when she awakes one morning to find herself in a stranger's barn with a rifle to...
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"I want you to marry me."
A wedding in Smoke River, Oregon...
Marianne Collingwood has inherited a business, the perfect escape from her life of drudgery. There's one condition: to claim the business, she must be married! Her coworker, handsome Lance Burnside, will have to be the groom-this marriage of convenience will help them both. Only once it's too late does she consider the question of the marriage bed they must share...
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She owns the lodge, but he owns the land . . . Can their tug-of-war have a happy ending?
When single mom Carly Hughes inherits the Longleaf Lodge in Mississippi, she gains a heap of trouble-in the form of her old teenage crush, Deputy Mackenzie Bridges.
Her father left Mack the land around the lodge. While Carly wants to sell for her daughter's sake, Mack wants to stay for his niece's. And if they can't work together, they'll both lose everything-including...
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From Darkness into Love is a fast-paced, deeply emotional, second-chance romance that readers have described as "full of action, suspense, and romance." How many times will you risk your heart for love? Not once, but twice, tragedy had torn Jessie's world apart. Cameron had saved her and captured her heart. However, before they could reach their happy ending, threats from a sinister stranger forced her to abandon everything she loved. It had taken...
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Spanning six decades, these three novels follow a man and his family as they struggle to adapt to life in a new world. From the death of Queen Victoria through the swinging sixties, this acclaimed saga is an unforgettable story of a farming family and a vanishing way of life. Long Summer Day: Lt. Paul Craddock returns to England after the Boer War to resume civilian life. His father has died, leaving Craddock heir to a scrap-metal business. But instead...
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A rural British family gets new neighbors-and new troubles- in this comic classic by the author of The Darling Buds of May.
Gore Court is a run-down country house that junk dealer Pop Larkin intends to convert into a bungalow for his daughter and son-in-law. But, Mr. and Mrs. Jerebohm, a wealthy couple from London, arrive desperate to buy the place. Spotting the naivete of the social-climbing pair, Pop manages to get them to agree to pay a ridiculous...
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