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3) Winter birds
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Plain and dutiful, Sophia Hess has lived most of her life without ever knowing genuine love. Her professor husband had married her for the convenience of having a typist for his scholarly papers. The discovery of a dark secret opens her eyes to the truth about her marriage and her husband. Eventually nephew Patrick and his wife, Rachel, take Sophia into their home, and she observes from a careful distance their earnest faith and the simple gifts of...
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In a heartbreakingly honest meditation on memory, identity, and aging, an elderly woman descending into dementia embarks on a desperate quest to find the best friend she believes has disappeared. Convinced Elizabeth is missing and in terrible danger, Maud's search for the truth will go back decades and have shattering consequences. As this singular obsession forms a cornerstone of Maud's rapidly dissolving present, the clues she discovers seem to...
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 5
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Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2005
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245 p. ; 22 cm.
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On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with...
11) The cemetery yew
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 3
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
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vii, 243 p. ; 22 cm.
12) Olive, again
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Olive novels volume 2
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Olive adjusts to her new life with her second husband, challenges her estranged son and his family to accept him, experiences loss and loneliness, witnesses the triumphs and heartbreaks of her friends and neighbours in the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine - and, finally, opens herself to new lessons about life.
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Elm Creek Quilts volume 5
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2003
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310 p. ; 23 cm.
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Victoria Trumbull mysteries volume 4
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
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vii, 211 p. ; 22 cm.
18) Emily, alone
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Viking
Pub. Date
2011
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255 p ; 24 cm.
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Newly independent widow Emily Maxwell dreams of visits by grandchildren and mourns changes in her quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood before realizing an inner strength to pursue developing opportunities.
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New Americana volume 4
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For some folks, Hart's Hollow Farm has seen better days. But for the Hart family matriarch, it's a home worth fighting for. From the moment Kristen arrives at Hart's Hollow, the place speaks to her soul. So when 73-year-old Emmy Hart asks Kristen to help return the farm to its former glory, she accepts--despite her fears about getting involved with Emmy--or the two kids in Emmy's care. Then there's there is Emmy's ruggedly handsome grandson, who...
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