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English
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Amid the ashes of Nazi Germany's defeat, Marianne von Lingenfels returns to the once-grand castle of her husband's ancestors, an imposing stone fortress now fallen into ruin following years of war. The widow of a resister murdered in the failed July 20, 1944, plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Marianne plans to uphold the promise she made to her husband's brave conspirators: to find and protect their wives, her fellow resistance widows. First Marianne...
22) Country: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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After the death of her husband, Stephanie Adams, a devoted stay-at-home mother, meets country music megastar Chase Taylor, who opens his whole world to her.
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Enjoying an active but lonely rural life, seventy-year-old Percy allows a progressive preschool to move into his barn and transform his quiet home into a lively, youthful community that compels him to reexamine the choices he made after his wife's death.
24) Against the wind
Author
Series
Raines of Wind Canyon volume 1
Language
English
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When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal past comes back to haunt her.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
26) Blue: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills-until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst areas around the globe. Then, on the anniversary of the fateful accident-and wrestling...
27) Fool me once
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Language
English
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""#1 New York Times bestseller Harlan Coben delivers his next impossible-to-put-down thriller. In the course of eight consecutive #1 New York Times bestsellers, millions of readers have discovered Harlan Coben's page-turning thrillers, filled with his trademark edge-of-your-seat suspense and gut-wrenching emotion. In Fool Me Once, Coben once again outdoes himself. Former special ops pilot Maya, home from the war, sees an unthinkable image captured...
28) Clock dance
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English
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"Willa Drake can count on one hand the defining moments of her life. In 1967, she is a schoolgirl coping with her mother's sudden disappearance. In 1977, she is a college coed considering a marriage proposal. In 1997, she is a young widow trying to piece her life back together. And in 2017, she yearns to be a grandmother but isn't sure she ever will be. Then, one day, Willa receives a startling phone call from a stranger. Without fully understanding...
29) Love mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Berkley hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 325 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Love Mercy Johnson's predictable life in Morro Bay, California, is completely disrupted when her long-estranged granddaughter, Loretta Lynn "Rett" Johnson, an aspiring songwriter, shows up the Buttercream Cafe, a diner Love Mercy co-owns with her best friend Magnolia Rosalina Sanchez.
Author
Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Irene Steele's idyllic life--house, husband, family--is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene flies down to the beautiful Caribbean beaches of St. John...
31) Blue dahlia
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes the first novel of the In the Garden trilogy. Against the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past and uncover a dangerous secret.
32) Folly Beach
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 358 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Folly Beach, her childhood home, newly widowed Cate Cooper, whose late husband's financial exploits have left her homeless and broke, discovers that it is possible to go home again and discover the person she was meant to become.
33) My cousin Rachel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Rachel, a woman of exquisite beauty, descends on the great Cornwall estate of Philip Ashley. Despite his aroused suspicions, she soon enchants him. Philip must decide whether the glorious Rachel, the recent mysterious widow of his beloved cousin, is out to destroy him or is the innocent victim of a devious man with a tremendous longing to be loved. His fate and his future lie in the answer to this deadly question.
34) Adam & Eve
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional...
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English
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Staying busy has helped Tova cope ever since her son disappeared decades ago. So when her husband dies, she takes a job at the aquarium, where she meets Marcellus, an octopus that deduces what happened to her son.
For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus After Tova Sullivan's husband died, she began...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. Their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances. By all appearances, they are a golden couple.
Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites—curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (ca. 8 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two Korean baby girls are adopted by two very different American families who meet for the first time when the girls first arrive at Baltimore/Washington International Airport. The differences between the parenting styles, one a middle class, white American couple, the other Iranian-American, showcase how cultural identity is defined and developed in the U.S.
38) A Family Affair
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
Author
Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 2
Language
English
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A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane 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 back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life -- and death -- of a man they thought they knew....
40) Spinning forward
Author
Series
Cedar Key novels (Terri DuLong) volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Language
English
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Sydney Webster's comfortable New England life comes crashing down when her husband dies suddenly, leaving her penniless and evicted. She had no idea about his huge gambling debts, and is getting no sympathy from her hurt and angry twenty something daughter. With nowhere else to turn, Sydney takes shelter at a college friend's B&B in Cedar key, Florida, where she begins to form a plan. As Syd turns her talent at spinning wool and knitting into a retail...
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