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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
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"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island’s small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed—but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing...
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Publisher
Nordica Libros
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
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"A cat-and-mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment between mother and daughter"--
Johanna es artista y ha pasado las últimas tres décadas viviendo en Estados Unidos con su esposo y su hijo. Tras la muerte de su marido, Johanna regresa a su Noruega natal. Una galería la ha invitado a una exposición retrospectiva, con una nueva obra suya como pieza central. Johanna alquila un apartamento junto al fiordo y una pequeña cabaña en el...
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Series
Unexpected seasons volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
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"Eleanor did not come to London to be proper and boring. After the death of her husband and a year of mourning, the seventeen year old wants nothing more than her independence and to have a little fun. She's hardly looking to remarry, despite pressures from her late husband's nephew, who is keen on obtaining her inheritance. Eleanor quickly devises a plan that includes a fake engagement. What's not a part of the plan? Falling for a dashing, quiet...
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Series
Mischief and matchmaking volume 1
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm.
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It's 1857, and anxious debutante Beth has just one season to snag a wealthy husband, or she and her mother will be out on the street. But playing the blushing ingenue makes Beth's skin crawl, and she'd rather be anywhere but here. Gwen, on the other hand, is on her fourth season and counting with absolutely no intention of finding a husband, possibly ever. She figures she has plenty of security as the only daughter of a rakish earl, from whom she's...
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Tales of the city volume 10
Pub. Date
2024.
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"The long-awaited tenth novel in Maupin's beloved and bestselling Tales of the City series, Mona of the Manor follows the adventures of Mona Ramsey--now the widowed Lady of a glorious old manor in the Cotswolds--and her fabulous butler-slash-adopted-son Wilfred, as they work to help an American visitor who has gotten herself in trouble"--
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Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023].
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
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"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
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Since her police officer husband Eric's mysterious murder, Carly Harris has been struggling to support herself and their infant son. Her career as an antique dealer isn't sustainable, nor is her dream of becoming a novelist. So when her grandmother proposes she and her two sisters restore the family's large Beaufort home and turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, she immediately gets to work clearing out the house. In the process, she uncovers a family...
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