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THURSDAYS AT EIGHT, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's new hardcover novel from MIRA Books, is the story of four friends, each at a turning point in her life. Each woman's story is unique, told with the warmth and compassion that demonstrates why the author has become one of the leading voices in women's fiction today.Four women come to a journal-writing class with different needs and goals. What they found was friendship -- a closeness...
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After spending a year wrongly imprisoned for fraud, Alexis calls on the Sisterhood to seek revenge on the real criminals, Arden Gillespie and Roland Sullivan.
The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home, they're ready to face a new challenge and...
3) Cackle
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c2021.
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"All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming,...
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"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler’s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can...
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1973 [c1972]
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For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret, a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of pschological suspense and a savage commentary on a media driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs.
6) Dragon's kin
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Beginning with the classic Dragonrider of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination, following book by book the evolution of one of science fiction's most beloved and honored series. Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an...
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Cass Shipton mysteries volume 2
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Five women embark on a harrowing ride in which even the magic of friendship may not be enought to save them.
8) Looking Back
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They met at school and have been inseparable ever since: Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privilege; Norma, extraordinarily gifted and sadly troubled; and beautiful, ambitious Amanda, determined to rise above her humble southern beginnings. Two are married. One despairs of ever finding love. Three women, first and always: friends.
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Friday night knitting club volume 1
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Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat - and occasionally clash - over their stories of love, life, and everything in between....
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"Douglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. It was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, and is now published or forthcoming in forty territories, having already sold more than a million copies worldwide. Now Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class...
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2023.
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While their mother entertains lovers and friends in her cottage on the Isle of Wight, refusing to ever speak of her painful past, sisters Rachel, Imogen, and Sasha find her silence keeping them from finding true happiness, in a novel that asks whether children can ever be free from the mistakes of their parents.
14) Amish Violet
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Amish Love Blooms volume 5
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2016
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Wanted: An Amish Husband.
It's time for Violet to marry -- or so her mother and matchmaking aunt claim as they compile a list of suitable Amish bachelors. The problem is that Violet prefers solitude and won't marry just anyone...especially now that her childhood friend from schul, Nathan Beiler, has returned.
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Reeve LeClaire novels volume 1
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In many ways, Reeve LeClaire looks like a typical twenty-two-year-old woman. She has finally landed her own apartment in San Francisco, she waitresses to pay the bills, and she wishes she weren't so nervous around new people. She sees herself as living a pleasant structured life. But Reeve's life has been anything but normal. Ten years ago, she was kidnapped and held captive for four years. After a lucky escape, she has spent the past six years working...
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2023.
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Thirty-two-year-old 'happiness guru' Dr Cooper Hunziker has it all - a dream job as assistant psychology professor at Yale University, a soon-to-be published self-help book, The Happiness Connection, and the perfect man. But there's a problem. Cooper isn't happy. Of course, it doesn't help that she's facing cut-throat competition for her tenure at Yale, an accusation of plagiarism that could cost her everything, or that her new book has irritated...
17) Mother
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2007
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Mary Sullivan has never stopped grieving for her mother. When she meets a young woman in a luncheonette who tragically loses her mother, Mary offers to help and opens her home to her. Mary enjoys the female companionship while her husband and teen sons begin to resent the relationship. But Mary realizes by helping the young woman, she is healing.
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Domestic equalizers volume 5
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"No holiday in tiny Salt Lick, Texas, is more revered than January 8th-Elvis's birthday! To commemorate the grand occasion, Hogg's Drive-In-where the King enjoyed many a burger on the road to fame and fortune-is displaying an "actual" pair of Elvis's blue suede shoes. That is, until some heel without a soul swipes them right out of their display case. Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin-the shoe-loving Domestic Equalizers-are shocked...
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The 39 clues. Cahills vs. Vespers volume 3
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2012
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The Vespers have crossed a line. Amy and Dan were devastated when the Vespers kidnapped seven Cahills around the world, holding them hostage until Amy and Dan delivered an impossible ransom. But at least the hostages were Cahills - members of the world's most powerful family, trained to face all odds. Now the Vespers have gone too far. They've kidnapped Atticus, an innocent 11 year old boy and Dan's only friend.
20) The wedding gift
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2013
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"When prestigious plantation owner Cornelius Allen gives his daughter Clarissa's hand in marriage, she takes with her a gift: Sarah, her slave and her half-sister. Raised by an educated mother, Clarissa is not the proper Southern belle she appears to be--with ambitions of loving whom she chooses--and Sarah equally hides behind the facade of being a docile house slave as she plots to escape. Both women bring these tumultuous secrets and desires with...