Joshilyn Jackson
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"In this game, even winning can be deadly... Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with itteaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet,...
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"With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality---the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who we really are. Superheroes have always been Leia Birch Briggs' weakness. One tequila-soaked night at a comics convention, the usually level-headed graphic...
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HIS GAME. HIS RULES. HER LIFE. It started with the letters… For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly unphased and diligently files them along with her other messages from unhinged fans. After all, she’s a single mom approaching forty, not the kind of hot young celeb who sparks dangerous obsessions. But there’s something...
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Pub. Date
[2013]
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"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station mini-mart and falling in love with a great wall of a man named William Ashe, who willingly steps between the armed robber and her son....
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Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 24 cm.
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track--a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna--until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
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Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2010
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viii, 344 p. ; 24 cm.
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After a gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband will kill her, Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape, following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
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After being placed in foster care, Paula Vauss grows up to become a tough divorce attorney only to have her life thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message from the mother she has not seen in years.
After a childhood on the road, and being placed in foster care when her mother went to prison, Paula Vauss grew up to become a tough divorce attorney. Her life is thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message...
10) Between, Georgia
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Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Nonny Frett understands the meaning of 'between a rock and a hard place.' She's got two mothers, 'one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy.' She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised...
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
[324 pages ; 24 cm]
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"Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat's single mother warned her that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother's fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Marrying into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree has all a woman could ever dream: a loving lawyer husband, two talented young teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world - until the day Bree awakens...
12) Distinto a todos
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Una abogada ferozmente independiente, experta en divorcios, descubre la importancia de la familia y de los vínculos personales cuando recibe un enigmático mensaje de su madre, con la que no se habla desde hace años. Una historia de profundas resonancias sentimentales acerca de la perdurabilidad del amor y del poder de la narración para conformar y transformar nuestras vidas.
Nacida en Alabama, Paula Vauss llevó durante sus primeros diez años...