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1121) Getting Right
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Suppose your more than mildly irritating leech of a sister calls you, as she usually does wanting money, only this time she says instead that she has cancer and in the course of the conversation challenges you to write the story of her life. You say, sure, you'll do that but you'll tell it the way you see it. The tale that emerges involves not only the dying sister, Connie, but brother Len as well. And it's also about "me," the sibling invited to...
1122) The Wheaton
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A year after the early death of his wife, John Davies comes hesitantly out of retirement to take a job at The Wheaton, a senior's residence. Having resisted 'getting involved' for his entire life, John is immediately out of his comfort zone. The Wheaton is a boundary-free environment, and he is immersed in the kinds of sticky matters he usually does his best to avoid. Surrounded by mortality and the ghosts of regret haunting many of the residents,...
1123) Expanding Dreams
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Taylor Romriell knows exactly what she wants from life, and a man has no part in it. Still grieving the death of her parents, she opens a bed and breakfast with her sisters at her family's vacation home on Bear Lake in the mountains of southeast Idaho. After her sister's engagement, all of her thoughts must shift to preparing for the wedding. Filled with fun, love, grief, and a taco boat, she fights through her busy days and her dreams grow-expanding...
1124) A Season Among Psychics
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Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching through the school system, year by year. He is a non-reader, and she is worried that ninth grade English may be too much for him. Because of the demands of work and mothering, she is isolated. Buried under the surface of...
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Se podría decir que los personajes de estos cuentos, en su mayoría, son "gente común". Vecinos de un consorcio, compañeras de oficina, dos hermanas ancianas inseparables, un directivo desempleado, un remisero que no ha logrado formar familia… Gente con deseos, mezquindades y temores que todos podemos reconocer en nosotros mismos o en los que nos rodean.
Pero el arte de estos cuentos es tan simple como complejo, mirar lo habitual y ordinario...
1126) Necessary Lies
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Lost innocence. Betrayal. Smalltown secrets.
It all adds up to necessary lies.
It always starts with the loss of innocence.
Life had plenty to offer beautiful seventeen-year-old Cliffie Flowers in 1953 backwoods Georgia before she got pregnant by a local lothario whose conquests also included her sister. Fearing the disappointment of her adoring father, Cliffie lies to conceal her downfall as the golden girl who might have been the hope of her poor...
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A pussycat purchased at a pet shop, and abandoned. Concerned with his stray cat tag, and the desire to belong to a human, Franc initiates an adoption process, and follows his intuition. His intelligent approach combined with uncomplicated feline logic, helps him to achieve his goals, and simultaneously portrays a heart breaking picture of a family saga.
It is then, when we begin to wonder about our frailties, and the unconditional love animals offer...
1128) The Color of Hope
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Ruth Connelly used to think she had the perfect life-an attractive husband, two children, a partnership in a Boston law firm, and a summerhouse where generations of her family have reveled in the elemental beauty of the Maine coast. But without her even realizing it, everything has started disintegrating. This summer, there is no escape from the tensions which have surfaced between her, Paul, and their beautiful, troubled sixteen-year-old daughter...
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From player to...;daddy?
Hollywood agent Ian Schaffer could have his pick of gorgeous women. So he's totally thunderstruck by the intensity of his attraction to horse trainer Cassie Barrington. The single mom, with her luscious curves and unadorned beauty, is so much hotter than the bombshells he's used to. But it's her vulnerability and passion that the jaded player finds utterly irresistible-;and that sets off alarm bells, because Ian's as commitment-shy...
1130) Arboria Park: A Novel
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Stacy Halloran has lived most of her life in 1950s-era housing development Arboria Park. But her beloved neighborhood may not survive much longer.
Despite her parents' entreaties to "stay in the yard where it's safe," the Park is where young Stacy roams in quest of "real life." Through her wanderings, she learns about the area's agricultural history; meets people from backgrounds different than her own; watches her siblings develop interracial...
1131) Eli's Secret
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This story takes place between 1901 and 1921. It is set in a quiet village in the Welsh Marches where two old men, The Reverend ApIvor, and Old Eli, disagree over a moral issue that ends their long friendship. Each does so willingly to conceal the young people in their keeping to protect them and their secrets, but their wellintentioned actions have serious repercussions for the future. Years later, upon the death of Old Eli, a young woman, Lily,...
1132) Seasons in Time
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A parent's worst nightmare – their child has gone missing, without a trace, just days before Christmas.The social pressures and hectic pace that many families face can produce profound feelings surrounding neglect and belonging. A sense of loneliness is experienced by many, which is felt more deeply during the 'Holiday Season'. These feelings, left unchecked, erode the cohesiveness of the family unit, resulting in the unexpected. 'Seasons In Time',...
1133) Pacific
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Would you be willing to kidnap your child to save his life and set sail in search of a doctor that may hold the key to his survival when everyone else has given up? When it means you may lose everything regardless of the outcome? Pacific by Trevor J. Houser discovers what a desperate father is willing to do to save his son's life...even if it means braving deadly storms at home and on the run.
1134) Crisantemo blanco
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Estamos en 1943, en la Corea ocupada por los japoneses, dos hermanas crecen dentro de la comunidad Haenyeo de la isla de Jeju. Las mujeres haenyeo son conocidas por su maestría en el buceo, la suya es una comunidad muy peculiar donde son las mujeres las que ganan el pan.
La hermana mayor, Hana, se encuentra buceando un día con su madre mientras su hermana pequeña juega en la playa. Cuando ve que se acercan unos soldados japoneses, vuelve nadando...
1135) Where There Is a Will
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Surfing, amnesia and a search for self, Where There Is A Will is fast-moving holiday read all about family, love, and identity, built for the beachgoer in us all.
A massive cyclone swell on Sydney's beaches claims a big wave surfer, leaving his long-term partner without a body to mourn. His four adult godchildren from far and wide gather for the reading of his will. A mystery girl from Tasmania joins them.
Down the coast, a man is pulled...
1136) Nuestro es el cielo
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Todos tenemos que tomar decisiones.
Y algunas de ellas nos conducen al desastre.
Rob Coates está hundido. Antaño felizmente casado con Anna y padre de Jack, su precioso hijo, se halla ahora sumido en el alcoholismo y a duras penas consigue salir adelante. Dirige una página web de fotografía, We Own the Sky, donde cuelga fotos panorámicas de lugares que visitó con su familia, y lucha por olvidar el pasado. Poco a poco iremos descubriendo de qué...
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A boss's marriage of convenience for his daughter's sake. Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Catherine Mann!
Widower Xander Lourdes will do anything for his toddler daughter. But in a high-profile custody battle, his millions only go so far. What he really needs is a wife, in name only. And he has just the woman in mind...;if only he weren't so drawn to the beautiful redhead!
Zoologist Maureen Burke is still reeling from a painful past,...
1138) Pen Pals
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My name is Beth, and I am 9 years old.
This simple sentence began a lifetime of friendship and support for Beth, Claire and JJ. As their letters flew around the globe, each of them dealt with their own insecurities and reached out to the others for support. Beth crippled internally by her past, beautiful Claire, lacking in confidence though talented and successful, and JJ scarred since birth for the world to see. Through the decades each confides...
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In the tradition of Olive Kitteridge and The Woman Upstairs, this novel explores how a terrible crime changed one woman's life forever.
Lida Stearl prides herself on always do the right thing-it has served her well throughout her life as she built a career as an orthodontist, maintained a happy marriage, and raised her young niece after the murder of her sister by her brother-in-law, Clarence Lusk. But now that she's widowed, retired, and an empty...
1140) All the Houses: A Novel
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A bittersweet, biting, sharply observed family drama from the author of Waterloo
After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood...
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