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1) Just breathe
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English
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With Chicago --- and her marriage --- in the rearview mirror, cartoonist Sarah Moon flees to the small northern California coastal town where she grew up. As she comes to terms with her lost marriage, Sarah encounters a man she never expected to meet again: Will Bonner, the high school heartthrob she'd skewered mercilessly in her old comics. Now a local firefighter, he's been through some changes himself. But just as her heart is about to reawaken,...
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Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Private nurse and protected witness Claire Turner, accompanying her dying patient, George Bellamy, to Willow Creek to try and reconcile his relationship with his estranged brother, meets and falls in love with George's grandson Ross, but her past and his mistrust threaten to ruin their chances at happiness.
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English
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Maureen Davenport, who loves the Christmas holiday, prepares to direct Avalon's annual pageant, and as she makes preparations, she learns that former child star Eddie Haven, a man with tattoos and long hair, has been ordered to co-direct the production with her.
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Tess is used to the kinds of stolen treasures she returns to their owners, treasures she can see and touch, but a future of unexpected treasure awaits when she receives word of her grandfather's coma. After all, she never met the man/ Tess is stunned to learn that her grandfather has willed her a plot of land that includes an apple orchard. She's even more shocked when she meets the orchard's co-owner: a half-sister Tess never knew she had.
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Grand Central Publishing
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English
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Successful advertising executive Michelle Turner steels herself for a difficult encounter with her past when she returns to the small Montana town where she grew up to donate a kidney to her estranged father, and to make peace with Sam McPhee, her ranch-hand lover--now a prosperous rancher and doctor--who left town seventeen years earlier before learning that she was pregnant with his child.
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English
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When her mother, who is unexpectedly pregnant, receives a devastating diagnosis, Sonnet Romano must decide what really matters in life and, putting her career on hold, stays in Avalon and takes a job that forces her to work alongside her biggest mistake--award-winning filmmaker Zach Alger and Sonnet's former lover.
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 8
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
There are days on Willow Lake…
Daisy Bellamy has struggled for years to choose between two men—one honorable and steady, one wild and untethered. And then, one fateful day, the decision is made for her.
When the wind is so still and the water so calm…
Now busy with a thriving business on Willow Lake, Daisy knows she should be happy with the life she's chosen for herself and her son. But she still aches for the one thing she can't have....
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Center Point large print ed.
Physical Desc
447 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a devastating house fire reveals a rare treasure among her grandfather's belongings, leading her on a search for the truth, Jenny Majesky returns to the only place she feels safe, The Winter Lodge, where she finds an ally in the local police chief, Rourke McKnight.
10) The hostage
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unaware of the fire sweeping toward them in the Chicago fire, Deborah Sinclair confronts her wealthy, powerful father, determined to refuse the society marriage he has arranged for her. Suddenly, out of the smoke and flames, a stranger appears--intent on avenging an unforgivable crime.
11) The mistress
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Most days Kathleen O'Leary is a penniless maid. But tonight she takes a risk and masquerades as a glamorous heiress, thanks to a borrowed gown and her friends' sense of adventure. To her surprise, the ruse succeeds—even Dylan Kennedy, Chicago's most eligible bachelor, seems enraptured.
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Lakeshore chronicles volume 10
Language
English
Description
As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he just may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald.
13) Map of the heart
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
351 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Widowed by an unspeakable tragedy, Camille Palmer has made her peace with the past and settled into the quiet safety of life with her teenage daughter, Julie, in a sleepy coastal town. Then the arrival of a mysterious package breaks open the door to her family's secret past. In uncovering a hidden history, Camille has no idea that she's embarking on an adventure that will utterly transform her. Camille, Julie, and Camille's father return to the...
14) Lakeside cottage
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English
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When she returns home to her family's lakeside cottage, Kate discovers that a teenager has moved in without permission, and she becomes involved in the girl's situation while dealing with a neighbor with a dangerous secret.
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Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this riveting conclusion to the Tudor Rose trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs draws readers into the lives of a witty street performer, a chivalrous Irishman, and the passionate alliegance that blossoms between them.
Feisty orphan Pippa de Lacey lives by wit and skill as a London street performer. But when her sharp tongue gets her into serious trouble, she throws herself upon the mercy of Irish chieftain Aidan O'Donoghue.
Pippa...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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After she decides to sell her beach house, a widow must decide whether to risk trusting a romantic new man in her life with deep, dark secrets — and possibly her heart.
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
It's been two years since the mysterious accident took Sandra Winslow's politician husband, Victor — the favorite son of a town called Paradise — and left Sandra under a cloud of suspicion. She decides to sell her beach house on the edge of town and hires Mike Malloy,...
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Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When caregiver Faith McCallum arrives at the enchanted lakeside estate of Avalon's renowned Bellamy family, she's intent on rebuilding her shattered life and giving her two daughters a chance at a better future. But she faces a formidable challenge in the form of her stubborn and difficult new employer, Alice Bellamy. While Faith proves a worthy match for her sharp-tongued client, she often finds herself at a loss for words in the presence of Mason...
18) The firebrand
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Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Chicago is burning. And Lucy Hathaway is running for her life. As she rushes past a fine hotel engulfed in flames, a wrapped bundle tumbles from a window into her arms. Seconds later the building crumbles-and Lucy is astonished to discover the swaddled blanket contains a baby. Five years later Lucy walks into Rand Higgins's bank and knows: the orphan she rescued that day actually belongs to this ruthless financier. Now, to keep the child she's come...
Author
Series
Tudor rose trilogy volume 1
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Frustrated by his own failures at matrimony, King Henry VIII punishes an innocent nobleman by commanding him to marry the vagabond woman caught stealing his horse. Stephen de Lacey is a cold and bitter widower, long accustomed to the sovereign's malicious whims. He regards his new bride as utterly inconvenient ... though undeniably fetching. But Juliana Romanov is no ordinary thief - she is a Russian princess forced into hiding by the slaughter of...
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