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Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Irene Steele is still recovering form the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious death and life of a man they thought they knew....
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Series
Carson Springs novels volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
x, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
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"Midafternoon on a Tuesday, it occurred to Bean Jessup that she was forgetting her husband's face."
So begins this smart and charmingly written debut novel about a young woman trying to start over amid the grandeur of the Alaskan landscape and the creaky confines of an isolated fishing village and its relentless and pungent salmon cannery.
A Hole in the Heart is the story of what happens when Bean arrives after accepting a last-minute elementary-school-teaching...
44) The beach house
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Known in Nantucket as the crazy woman who lives in the rambling house atop the bluff, Nan doesn't care what people think. At sixty-five-years old, her husband died twenty years ago, her beauty has faded, and her family has flown. If her neighbors are away, why shouldn't she skinny dip in their swimming pools and help herself to their flowers? But when she discovers the money she thought would last forever is dwindling and she could lose her beloved...
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Series
Miss Julia series volume 9
Pub. Date
2008
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"When developers threaten to bulldoze the old courthouse to make way for condominiums, Miss Julia is dismayed. She enlists the help of Etta Mae Wiggins in a plot to scare off the money by exposing the town's many eccentric characters." --From publisher description.
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"It has been two years since the death of Merritt Heyward's husband Cal, when she receives unexpected news--Cal's family home in Beaufort, South Carolina, bequeathed by Cal's reclusive grandmother, now belongs to Merritt. Charting the course of an uncertain life--and feeling guilt from her husband's tragic death--Merritt travels from her home in Maine to Beaufort, where the secrets of Cals unspoken-of past reside among the pluff mud and jasmine of...
48) Night music
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Isabel Delancey, a classical violinist, has always taken her comfortable life for granted. But when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her with a mountain of debt, she and her two children are forced to abandon their home and move to the Spanish House, a now-dilapidated manor Isabel inherited in the English countryside. With the house falling down around them, and the last of her savings disappearing fast, Isabel turns to her neighbors for help, not...
49) True devotion
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Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe "Bear" Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again-even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may not get there in time. Uncommon Heroes: Welcome to a world where friendships go deep, loyalties...
50) Fidelity
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Pub. Date
c2008
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When Phil Kramer is shot dead on a deserted suburban street in the middle of the night, his wife, Emily, is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions.
51) Quiver
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 25 cm.
55) Emily, alone
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
255 p ; 24 cm.
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
After she joins a baking contest to try to shake off the lingering grief from her husband's death, Zell Carmichael Roy befriends her nine-year-old next-door neighbor, a motherless girl who joins Zell's quest for dessert-competition glory.
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of this novel, has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her husband, Sam suddenly dies. And then more jolt: her big-hearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves--lines from her...
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Miss Julia series volume 10
Pub. Date
2009
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If there's no rest for the weary, Miss Julia must be absolutely exhausted. She's just learned a secret - Hazel Marie is pregnant with twins and the prospective father has cleared out of town. But good things come in unexpected packages. Abbotsville finds itself the scene of a heist, and Miss Julia knows there's only one man who can solve the crime. It's J. D. Pickens, P. I., renowned investigator and Hazel's wayward love.
59) Sweet anger
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2004
Physical Desc
6 CDs (ca. 7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Author
Series
Cornish mysteries (Carola Dunn) volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Looking forward to a quiet retirement in Cornwall after a lifetime of international travel, widow Eleanor is inadvertently drawn into a murder investigation involving her wrongly accused artist friend and her detective niece.
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