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41) Tempting fate
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Gabby and Elliott have been happily married for eighteen years. They have two teenaged daughters; they have built a life together. So why does forty-three-year-old Gabby feel like she has only three more minutes left of youth? Why do her friends so desperately try to hang on to their attractiveness? And why does she ever even look at the handsome guy--ten years younger--at the other end of the bar one night? Gabby is the last person to have an affair--a...
Author
Series
Big Stone Gap novels volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nestled in the lush Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, the town of Big Stone Gap has been home for Ave Maria Mulligan Machesney and her family for generations. She's been married to her beloved Jack for nearly twenty years, raised one child and buried another, and run a business that binds her community together, all while holding her tight circle of family and friends close. But with her daughter, Etta, having flown the nest to enchanting Italy, Ave...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is searching for the woman who fifty years ago saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Unfortunately, he is aided in his quest by Alex, a translator with an uncanny ability to mangle English into bizarre new forms; a 'blind' old man haunted by memories of the war; and, an undersexed guide dog named Sammy Davis Jr, Jr. What they are looking for seems elusive - a truth...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Penny Alistair dies and her twin brother Hobby is left in a coma from a terrible car crash on the evening of Nantucket High's traditional graduation bonfire on the beach, and Zoe, the twins' mother, is forced to face the truth about what happened to them and her role in the accident.
45) Come home
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news:...
46) The nest
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...
47) Porch lights
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of Shoko, a Japanese woman who married an American GI, and her grown daughter, Sue, a divorced mother whose life as an American housewife hasn't been what she'd expected. When illness prevents Shoko from traveling to Japan, she asks Sue to go in her place. The trip reveals family secrets that change their lives in dramatic and unforeseen ways.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kwan moves from China to live with her family in San Francisco and develops a relationship with her half sister Olivia. She confides in Olivia about the ghosts she hears telling her about love. Years later Kwan and her ghosts advise Olivia about her marriage.
50) A peculiar grace
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Description
Hewitt Pearce, a blacksmith living in his family's Vermont home, finds his quiet life disturbed by a troubled young woman and the knowledge that the woman he has always loved has recently been widowed.
51) Gone
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pierce Quincy, a P.I. and former FBI profiler, is very concerned when he finds the abandoned car of his partner and former lover, Rainie Connor. Especially when she had disappeared and blood stains covered the driver's seat of the car. Rainie had been working on a case involving a foster child, trying to discern if the child had been abused, or was in fact, the abuser. But now the boy had vanished too. With many questions to be answered, Pierce began...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym (she hates the gym!) and is whisked off to the hospital to find out the honeymoon is truly over - she's getting divorced, she has three kids, and she's actually thirty-nine years old. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade - and try to reconstruct her life at the same time. Ultimately, she must...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press/Gale Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
483 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bonnie Markham, her divorce pending and her quilt shop out of business, accepts an offer from her friend Claire to help run a quilting retreat at a bed and breakfast in Hawaii where she learns the quilting traditions of the islands, but her idyll is threatened by her estranged husband's demand for her share in the Elm Creek Quilts cooperative.
54) Fates and furies
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia, an exhilarating novel about marriage, creativity, art, and perception. Fates and Furies is a literary masterpiece that defies expectation. A dazzling examination of a marriage, it is also a portrait of creative partnership written by one of the best writers of her generation. Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes,...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. She discovers that her mother tastes of despair, as she uncovers family secrets.
56) Perfect match
Author
Series
Charlie 'Bird' Parker novels volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
571 p. (large print) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Assistant district attorney Nina Frost has always prided herself on the fact that she protects the city's children from abuse and crime, but when her own son is sexually abused, she finds herself overcome with rage and sets out to find his attacker and exact justice for her son.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Despite her own major achievements--she becomes the first licensed female glider pilot in the United States--Anne Morrow Lindbergh is viewed merely as Charles Lindbergh's wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, life's infinite possibilities for change and happiness.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1985
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
257 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Rosamunde Pilcher invites listeners to share the full spectrum of life's moods and emotions through the thirteen stories gathered here in her very first collection of short fiction. From a child's first knowledge of death, through city and country, to an elderly woman's newfound freedom.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Bliss McGowan is stunned when her husband Palmer leaves her and takes the family fortune with him, but her troubles really begin when she embarks on a plan to have Palmer declared dead in order to collect the much-needed insurance money.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from Liane Moriarty, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Husband's Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot, about how sometimes we don't appreciate how extraordinary our ordinary lives are until it's too late. "What a wonderful writer--smart, wise, funny." --Anne Lamott Six responsible adults. Three cute kids. One small dog. It's just a normal weekend. What could possibly go wrong? In Truly Madly Guilty, Liane Moriarty...
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