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From the author of The Restoration of Celia Fairchild, comes a novel about the meaning of family and the places we call home. If you love "southern summer" fiction authors like Mary Alice Monroe and Kristy Woodson Harvey you'll love this delicious novel about family, friendship, and finding your true path in life.
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from
...2) The women
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2024.
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English
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the...
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2023.
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Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote "The Underland" -- and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it's best to let the uncanny house and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling go to rot ... Opal is a lot of things--orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashier--but...
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"A brilliantly written dual timeline narrative with a mystery that will keep you reading late into the night." -Madeline Martin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop in London, on The Codebreaker's Secret
An extraordinary story, inspired by real events, of a female aviator who defies the odds to embark on a daring air race across the Pacific, perfect for fans of Great Circle and Her Last Flight.
1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless...
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Death gate grim reapers thriller volume 4
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Amanda M. Lee
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Death gate grim reapers thriller volume 2
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Amanda M. Lee
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Death gate grim reapers thriller volume 1
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Amanda M. Lee
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[2018]
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English
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Death gate grim reapers thriller volume 3
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Amanda M. Lee
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
9) River Mumma
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When the Jamaican water deity, River Mumma, tells her she has 24 hours to find her missing comb, Alicia, forming a strange connection with her two co-workers who help her fight off malevolent spirits, is led on a journey through time to discover herself and what the river carries.
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Quipu
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[2021]
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Español
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"Eori, una alumna taor̕ brillante, consigue una beca para estudiar en una importante universidad de su pa̕s. All̕ se reencuentra con Livi, una vieja y querida amiga moorzi de la infancia; y ambas conocen a Soraya, Talawa y Nunda. Todas ellas se ver̀n obligadas a crecer en medio de una guerra que escala r̀pidamente en peligro y violencia entre las dos etnias: los moorzis, la casta predominante que buscar̀ imponer su supuesta supremac̕a, y los...
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Gallery Books
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2023.
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English
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"The Devil Wears Prada meets The Assistants in this compulsively readable workplace novel following a young woman who takes a job working for an enigmatic influencer and who quickly discovers that having it all and being it all comes with a price"--
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Essien of Alkebulan volume 1
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Essien defies her village's gender roles by signing up for military enlistment, but when she begins seeing mythical beings of Alkebulan folklore and discovers she possesses superhuman abilities, she must choose between fulfilling her destiny as Goddess of Alkebulan or altering the course of history.
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"Summer is coming to a close on the East End of Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome. A misstep at a dinner party, and the older man she's been staying with dismisses her with a ride to the train station and a ticket back to the city. With few resources and a waterlogged phone, but gifted with an ability to navigate the desires of others, Alex stays on Long Island and drifts like a ghost through the hedged lanes, gated driveways, and sun-blasted...
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"Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the pert outfits he orders for her, and adjusts her libido to suit his moods. True, she's not the greatest at keeping Doug's place spotless, but she's trying to please him. She's trying hard. She's learning, too. Doug says he loves that Annie's AI makes her seem more like...
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"It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood of the East End, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy. But after a chance encounter with Ray, an American airman stationed nearby, Nellie becomes enchanted with the idea of a...
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Wildflower duet volume 3
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Page & Vine
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"When I met Thayer Holmes, I had no idea how much he would single-handedly change my life. Our journey hasn't been an easy one, but it has been ours. We've fought through the impossible and come out stronger because of it. But happily-ever-after isn't a destination. It's a never-ending road trip with bumps along the way. Some bumps are bigger than others, but none of it matters as long as we have each other, right?" -- Provided by publisher.
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Alfred A. Knopf
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2024.
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English
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"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late 19th century Scotland. Growing up in the care of her grandparents on Belhaven farm, Lizzie Craig discovers at a young age that she can see into the future. Her gift of sight is selective--she doesn't, for instance, see that she has an older sister who will come to join the family on...
19) American ending
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"Yelena is the first American born to her Old Believer Russian Orthodox parents, who left two older daughters behind to build a life in a Pennsylvania Appalachian town. This town, in the first decades of the 20th century, is filled with Russian transplants and a new church with a dome. Here, boys quit grade school for the coal mines and girls are married off at fourteen. The young pair up, give birth to more babies than they can feed, and make shaky...
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"Auris's adoptive sister Char has always been the baby of the family--a position that grates on Char, especially when everyone insists on telling her exactly what to do and how to do it. But Char is certain that her headstrong, impulsive behavior, the quality her family sees as her greatest weakness, is actually her greatest the willingness to instantly brave danger and leap to the rescue when anyone she loves is threatened. Char knows she will never...
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