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"After a series of terrible dates, Marni McGuire, the host of a popular TV cooking show, forms an unbreakable bond with her best friend Ellen as well as a young intern on the show and her pregnant daughter Bella as they navigate the challenges and celebrate the joys of life"--
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B
Pub. Date
2022.
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554 pages ; 24 cm
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"Madrid, 1991. Seven very different women meet at a small sewing academy where they will share their lives' stories with each other. Each one has a different reason to want to learn to sew and, among fabrics, patterns, and pins, all of them will connect with parts of themselves that they thought were long gone and forgotten, they will discover the therapeutic power of friendships between women and, stitch after stitch, they will weave the story of...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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391 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, photographs (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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Prisoners of war in 1942, Australian nurse Nesta James and Norah Chambers—held in the notorious Camp Palembang, deep in the jungle of Sumatra—battle disease, starvation and unimaginable brutality meted out by Japanese soldiers, but find, in themselves and in each other, the courage and resourcefulness to survive.
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Hudson sisters novels volume 2
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Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2018.
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viii, 373 pages ; 21 cm.
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Allie, Des, and Cara learn about another secret their father purposely hid from them: his sister Bonnie. The women reluctantly band together to work with a local contractor on the renovations to an historic Art Deco theater, financed by an account Fritz had set up for the task. Des, elected to handle the money, needs to find ways to stretch out the remaining savings while searching for new sources of funding after a freak storm sets the project back....
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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405 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"When Amy, Frankie, Rachael and Nina reunited for a holiday cruise, it changed their lives. Now they're getting together for another adventure, and what better winter setting than a ski lodge? It's perfect until Frankie goes snowshoeing alone. When she twists her ankle right after losing her phone in the snow, Frankie wonders how she'll be able to summon help--only to be rescued by a reclusive Grizzly Adams lookalike who lives nearby and introduces...
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"Mariah Ellison, Charlotte Pitt's grandmother, accepts her longtime friend Winnie's gracious invitation to spend Christmas with her and her husband, Barton, in their picturesque village. But upon arrival, Mariah discovers that Winnie has vanished without a trace, and Barton rudely rescinds the invitation. Once Mariah finds another acquaintance to stay with during the holiday season, she begins investigating Winnie's disappearance. Mariah's uncanny...
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Persevero Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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273 pages : 24 cm
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In 1940, art-world icon Georgia O'Keeffe bought a house in a mountain-rimmed New Mexico desert, planning to live there for six months every year. To manage her remote household while she paints, O'Keeffe invited Maria Chabot-a young and na�ive would-be writer-to join her. Their tempestuous relationship endured throughout the chaotic years of WW2; the death of Georgia's domineering, philandering husband (famed photographer Alfred Stieglitz); and...
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Espasa
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[2022]
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462 pages ; 23 cm
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"Londres, 2017. Lucille adora a su abuela Sylvie, y cuando esta le pide ayuda para recuperar una reliquia, la joven no duda en subirse a un tren rumbo a Par�is tras la pista de un Dior de valor incalculable. Lo que Lucille no sabe es que detr�as de ese vestido se esconde un gran secreto familiar que podr�ia cambiar su vida por completo. Par�is, 1952. La Francia de la posguerra est�a llena de lujos y excesos, y Alice forma parte de ese privilegiado...
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2024.
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"Best friends don't always have the best intentions. On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering - with a jolt of fear - that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered...
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2024.
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Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
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Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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501 pages ; 23 cm
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In 1954, Emilia Winthrop, a professor at Wellesley College, is summoned to CIA headquarters, where she is forced to confront the harrowing consequences of the summer she exposed a traitor amongst the New England elite and a choice that could destroy her chance for redemption all over again.
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2023.
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"Petunia Yoder is Blueberry, Pennsylvania’s youngest old maid, at twenty-two years of age, and completely unmarriageable. But she’s determined to celebrate her friends’ weddings with joy and a full heart. Unfortunately, Petunia’s best friend, Eden Beiler, is playing a dangerous game with a man who is ruining her reputation... Ike Smoker is the community’s iceman—the one who cuts, stores, and sells the ice—and...
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Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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406, 7 pages ; 21 cm
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It's summer on Nantucket, and as the season begins, three women arrive at the local airport, observed by Josh, a local boy, home from college. Burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues, the women -- two sisters and one friend -- make their way to the sisters' tiny cottage, inherited from an aunt. They're all trying to escape from something: Melanie, after seven failed in-vitro attempts, discovered her husband's...
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Editorial Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
[2022]
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534 pages ; 23 cm.
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"Nayeli, una joven tehuana que ha huido de su hogar, llega a la ciudad de Mxico desamparada. Gracias a sus maravillosos dotes en la cocina encuentra un lugar en la Casa Azul, donde Frida Kahlo vive prcticamente aislada desde el fatal accidente que la dej paraltica. Entre sabores, aromas y colores, la pintora y su nueva cocinera inician una amistad que marca profundamente el destino de ambas. Muchos aos despus en Buenos Aires, donde Nayeli se asent...
18) Now may you weep
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
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385, 8 pages : map ; 21 cm.
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Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never questioned her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's homecoming--and that fellow hotel guest Donald Brodie was once Hazel's lover ... And the fires of a fierce and passionate affair may not have burned out completely--on Brodie's part, at least, since he's prepared to destroy...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
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"It's opening night, but far from glamorous. Alice is performing in a local Bay Area production of The Winter's Tale, the complete opposite of what she had envisioned for her career back home in Los Angeles. She doesn't have dreams of superstardom per se,but the basement theatre in a wildfire-choked town simply isn't ideal. To make matters worse, her best friend Sadie is not even coming. Pragmatic and serious Sadie and flighty, creative Alice have...
20) The night island
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Lost night files volume 2
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
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309 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.
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Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them-all they have to do is find the list. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio's...
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