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"Four freshmen arrive at college from completely different worlds: Lainey, a California party girl with a flair for drama; Tyson, a brilliant scholar and law school hopeful from D.C.; Summer, a recruited athlete and perfectionist from the Midwest; and Hannah, a mild-mannered southerner who is content to quietly round out the circle of big personalities. Soon after moving into their shared dorm, they strike up a conversation in a study lounge, and...
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A compelling debut that glows with bittersweet heart and touching emotion, deeply interrogating questions of family, redemption, and unconditional love in the sweltering summer heat of Savannah, as two people discover what it means to truly forgive. It's been eight years since Sara Lancaster left her home in Savannah, Georgia. Eight years since her daughter, Alana, came into this world, following a terrifying sexual assault that left deep emotional...
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Under Northern skies volume 3
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" In 1910 Minnesota, Nilda Carlson's dreams are coming true. Though her first few months in America were difficult, her life now resembles the images that filled her daydreams in Norway. She and her younger brother Ivar live in their own house, just a short distance from her older brother and his family. Together they work the farm and fell trees for lumber. They plan to grow a dairy herd, weave rugs out of their own wool, and make skis to sell. Everything...
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[2023]
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In this dual collection of short stories, Alexander McCall Smith brings his trademark humor and warmth to inventive tales of spying and vengeance. In one story, a spy dropped deep into enemy territory manages to disguise himself--quite convincingly--as a nun. In another, an invitation to join the Vatican Secret Service sends a prospective operative down a rabbit hole of controversy and confusion. A third story finds an author, on the brink of public...
5) Calico Joe
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In this novel, the careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. The baseball is thrilling, but it is what happens off the field that makes this story a classic.
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[2014]
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"From Thrity Umrigar, the critically beloved, best-selling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about the beauty of forgiveness"--
Befriending a young Indian woman named Lakshmi--who is suicidal, lonely, and trapped in a loveless marriage--psychologist Maggie finds their relationship warped by conflicting expectations and threatened by the revelation of long-buried secrets.
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"The Palmer sisters couldn't be more different. Karen, the eldest, is the responsible one the one who got the grades, married the perfect guy, and has two wonderful, high-achieving children. Cassie is the rebellious one, who got pregnant right after high school and married the wrong man, despite her family's misgivings. And Nicole is a free, creative spirit, who's always been indulged and pampered as the baby of the family who could do no wrong. These...
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2001
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5 CDs (ca. 6 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Linda Fallon encounters her former lover, Thomas Janes, at a literary festival where both have been invited to give readings from their work. Moving backward through time, this story traces the shocking resonance a single choice, even a single word, can have over the course of a lifetime."
10) Potato pants!
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Potato is very excited to buy a pair of pants on sale at Lance Vance's Fancy Pants Store, but when he sees Eggplant, who pushed him the day before, he is afraid to go in.
11) A winter dream
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A holiday tale inspired by the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors follows the modern story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings becomes the chief advisor to the CEO of another company and his own family's savior in the face of a troubled economy.
13) A slow burn
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Defiance Texas trilogy volume 2
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Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2009]
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365 pages ; 22 cm.
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Emory Chance needs to find who killed her daughter Daisy and unravel the mystery behind a sickening premonition in this suspenseful story about courageous love, the power of forgiveness, and the bonds that never break.
14) Family pictures
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2013
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As dark truths from the past reveal themselves, two middle-aged women must learn to forgive -- for the sake of their children and themselves.
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Montlake
Pub. Date
2022.
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320 pages ; 21 cm
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Released from prison, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her 4-year-old daughter, but with everyone against her, she turns to local bar owner Ledger Ward who, risking everything, secretly helps her make amends.
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Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
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371 pages : map ; 24 cm
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Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him that Alaska doesn't forgive mistakes. A lot of mistakes where made the day she died in a plane crash with Kache's father and brother-- and Kache still feels responsible. He fled Alaska for good, but now his aunt Snag insists on his return. Returning to his family's cabin in the woods, he finds smoke rising from the chimney and a mysterious Russian woman hiding from her own troubled past. Nadia has stayed there,...
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Ballantine Books
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[2013], ©2013
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301 pages ; 25 cm.
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When the will of a recently deceased ladies' man mandates a summer-long reunion for his daughters from different marriages at his posh Nantucket house, the three sisters are forced to confront long-festering resentments and misunderstandings as well as challenges in their private and professional lives, a situation that is complicated by a shocking revelation and the arrival of their mothers.
19) Draw the line
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After two boys drawing their own lines realize they can connect them, a misstep creates a rift between them.
20) Light on snow
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Time Warner AudioBooks
Pub. Date
p2004
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7 CDs (ca. 6.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Finding a wailing infant while snowshoeing in the woods with her father makes 12-year-old Nicky Dillon question her life's strange shape, from why her father moved them to the isolated New England farmhouse to how they can come to terms with the tragedy they left behind.
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