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Now that the Bordelon siblings have recovered their family land from their conniving stepmother, it is up to them to restore the now rundown property back to its former glory. However, before the five sisters can even come up with a plan to tackle...

Bobby thought the summer he turned thirteen was just going to be a typical summer - moving into another old rent house and keeping away from his alcoholic, abusive dad's wrath. He never dreamed how wrong he would be. His life would be changed...

This story takes place during a few days in April 1881 in and around the villages of Chesterton, Bletchingdon and Binsey, all in the county of Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, and in the village of Northfield, Birmingham, situated in the county of Warwickshire during a...

When opposites attract, will their differences ruin their chance at true love?Anna is independent to the core. Her Seattle tech firm is the perfect place for her to hide her shyness with a tough, brilliant exterior. But when she develops surprising feelings for a...

"Let Me Tell You How It Isn't" follows the life of 22-year-old Justin Murphy as he searches for his estranged Lebanese father through London. Raised primarily by his Irish Catholic grandparents in Los Angeles, Justin struggles to identify with a Middle Eastern heritage he...

"It's rare to find a character like Luther van der Loon who makes such a rich and lasting impression-so vividly wounded, exuberant in characterization. Luther embodies the anxious, angst-ridden neurotic we are afraid we will become, or maybe who we aspire to be. In...

A sunburnt psychological thriller of obsession and escape Cynthia is twenty-one, off-balance, soaked in social media and ennui, and desperately waiting for something, anything, to happen. Her striking fitness instructor, Anahera, is ready to throw in the towel on her job and marriage. Emptying...

Third in the USA-Today bestselling Pacific Horizons series of romantic women's fiction by Edie Claire Life dealt her heart a terrible blow as a newborn. With time, she learned to love again. But with him, time is running out.Marine biologist Ri Sullivan had a...

Second in the USA-Today bestselling Pacific Horizons series of romantic women's fiction by Edie Claire One horrible night fifteen years ago, a little girl named Maddie was taken away from the island paradise she treasured, the townspeople she loved, and the playmate who shared...

A dying Emma Hanson asks her granddaughter to try to right a wrong that denied her a rightful place in history. Emma, a poor farm girl born in 1900, has exceptional scholastic ability and a deep fascination with the natural world. Despite fighting her...

After months of heartbreaking effort, things are finally starting to turn around for the Saunders clan. Their friend Charles is on the mend, their fledgling business is finally starting to take off, and the constant threat of foreclosure is no longer hanging over their...

As Joyce Novak's daughter, Marnie, completes medical school and looks ahead to a surgical internship, her wedding, and a future filled with promise, a breast cancer diagnosis throws Joyce's own future into doubt. Always the caregiver, Joyce feels uncomfortable in the patient role, especially...

As seen on RedbookElle * Yahoo News * Bustle * Popsugar * and more Newly divorced Rhonda, haunted by her sister Evelyn's ghost, travels to an old palazzo in Rome to confront Marco, the man who stole her sister's heart--only to find out he's...

His breaths ran rapid, his heart raced; his hands shook... reliving the events of the afternoon. Rejection is a terrible thing; it can drive you to become a version of yourself that you never knew existed... to taking actions you never would have imagined.When...

Some friendships are meant to last forever Nicknamed the four musketeers since they met freshman year of college, Anna, Kat, Erin and Barbara's friendship spans over fifteen years. Known as the tough one, Anna's only dream was to escape her mother's kitchen by setting...

Menashe Everett is a tormented man. He's ruled by depression and addiction. He's haunted by his past. At 37, he barely keeps his job and lives in a haze of blurred reality.But to many in his life, he's their only hope.For the past ten...

Scarlet has the life most only dream about-she travels the world, she makes plenty of money and she has the best friend anyone could ask for. But, piece by piece, her world is falling apart because of her damaged family, years of resentment and...

Like any other girl her age, Kathleen was ready for the excitement of a first love. What she wasn't ready for was Atticus. He had been her best friend for as long as she could remember, and the subtle change in their relationship as...

Kate Moore and Adam Bennett had it all: successful careers, a comfortable lifestyle, and a deep love for each other. After living together for twelve years, Adam finally decides it's time to make their relationship official; he wants Kate to be his wife. When...

The Dugans are a scrappy, dysfunctional family living in upstate New York that's getting along okay until the mother walks out one day, leaving five undisciplined kids and an alcoholic, unemployed husband behind. In these twelve stories, we find out how the Dugan clan...

Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, Charmed Particles tells the intertwined stories of two families. Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India now working...

This collection of 21 stories is organized into five sections, each with from one to six stories loosely focused on a particular place/time and set of characters. The Blue Heron Lake stories follow a community of Latino workers who eventually attempt to make their...

A fictionalized account of baseball and the love of the game. Young players are approached by scouts looking to hire them into professional leagues. Unfortunately, some of the tactics used are less than honest, and sometimes players get involved with less than honest characters....

The Homegoing: A Novel by Michael Olin-HittAuthor: Michael Olin-HittISBN-10: 1933964588ISBN-13: 9781933964584Publisher: Bottom Dog PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2012Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

Happy People in Tears is an award-winning tale of diaspora that takes the reader on a voyage through five worlds--the island home of São Miguel, mainland Portugal, California, New England, and Canada--experienced and suffered through the obsessive search for happiness of a poor Azorean...

Steven Lindsay, a university lecturer, is suddenly released from a Soviet labour camp after serving only part of a sentence for what he believes were false charges.With a burning sense of injustice, he returns home to find his family life has changed beyond all...

In these twelve tales, good friends go on an unexpected journey of discovery to Sweden at Midsummer, a young girl explores her love of the dark, a group celebrates an unusual anniversary and a woman is faced with past trauma attending her best friend's...

- Acclaimed short story collection published in the US for the first time - Author has international profile: event appearances include PEN World Voices; Library of Congress; Hay, Berlin, Jaipur & Edinburgh festivals - The Whispering Trees was long-listed for the Etisalat Prize for...

Put on your running shoes and get ready to go on a marathon through Macy's tumultuous life Macy works hard and loves harder, all while enduring the whelms of life, that are a bit foreign to some. As time transcends, witness the likes of...

Indian immigrant family drama set in Malaya from colonial era through to the present.-chronicles the triumphs and defeats of sibling rivalry and the pursuit of happiness in material world.Author: Penny SinghamISBN-10: 1792135084ISBN-13: 9781792135088Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/21/2018Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Can friends become lovers? Since the tragic death of his wife, Dr. Frank Brannigan has focused on raising his two daughters and furthering his medical practice, but now he's lonely. Maybe it's time to get married again, but how? He doesn't want to follow...

Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway,...

The war is over, but there's heartbreak ahead... Liverpool, 1945. As the war draws to a close, Alice and Terry Lomax are building a new life with their young daughter Cathy. After years away fighting, Terry is a stranger to his daughter and must...

May 1940. Ghosts haunt the woods and fields of Norfolk, as Europe descends into full-blown warfare. William Abrehart, a strange, nature-loving boy who hasn't spoken since the mysterious death of his father, struggles to keep the promise he made to look after his withdrawn...

Set in Crete, Cally's Way explores the relationships between sex and love and the historical horrors that shape our identities. Cally is a twenty-five year old business graduate. Her mother, who was born in Crete but has always refused to talk about it, has...

A month before her wedding on Maui, Trish Walsh's dream life falls apart when her fianc , Michael, calls off the wedding, and she loses her job at a prestigious CPA firm. Heartbroken and jobless, she leaves her Colorado home and goes to Maui...

When her husband abandons them for another woman, Jane Winston is left to raise their teen-aged daughter as a single mother. She loves Emma more than anything in the world and would do anything for her-no matter how high the cost. Emma, on the...

Ten years after Little Men, the boys that Jo raised are all grown-up. But that certainly doesn't mean that they no longer need her help and advice. Emil, now as sailor, must survive shipwreck and disaster. Dan's attempt to make his fortune ends in...

" Seaburn] does a good job of tracking the myriad ways that the different players react to the tragedy." -KIRKUS REVIEWS"I don't know how, and I don't know why, but I think I died today."So begins the complex and mysterious journey of Gavin Goode...

Growing up in a household with two other siblings should be great, except when you live with parents from hell. After years of mental and physical abuse, Zoe Reed has had enough. Now, with her sisters on board, they pay their parents back for...

Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work cut out for him. His sister-in-law, Sunday, is finally home after the car crash that killed her husband and left her critically injured. But Flynn still has to get her failing ancestral farm up and running while...

Catastrophic downfalls Heroic rescues Daring catnappings William and Tibby Forever depicts these and many other fur-raising events in the lives of William and Tibby, two cats who live with their beloved Second Mom and her hon in a small gray house on a hill....

Jason Audley has had a colorful past (see author Craig J. Hansen's other Jason Audley titles, The Skeleton Train and Winter Lake). Once a whimsical drifter, we find Jason now with a job, a girlfriend, and a faithful dog. But, things unravel with a...

A divorced mother of two gets an app on her phone that lets her be in more than one place at the same time.Author: Kamy WicoffISBN-10: 1631529765ISBN-13: 9781631529764Publisher: She Writes PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2015Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews...

Lawyer-turned-stay-at-home-mom Sarah Shaw is struggling to find a steady happiness after the death of her infant daughter, when she meets a young homeless mother and toddler she can't get out of her mind. Rescuing them becomes her mission-one that takes her on a journey...

When privileged Southern woman Valeria Vose discovers her husband's infidelity through his lover's attempted suicide, she turns to an Episcopal priest for direction and solace-and spins into a clandestine, ill-fated love affair that forces her to confront all her preconceived values and expectations.Author: Alice...

When Greg and Rene Garrett get the news that every couple dreads to hear, life as they know it is suddenly ripped apart. Will their strong faith in God be enough to carry them through the rough road that lies ahead? When death comes...

Denise and Derrek Shaw are the perfect American couple. Happily married for fifteen years, they have a wonderful daughter, successful careers, and a beautiful house. They also have a shocking secret: a dangerous addiction to drugs. Denise and Derrek attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings. But...

Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins.Author: Louisa May AlcottISBN-10: 1618954008ISBN-13: 9781618954008Publisher: Bibliotech PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 216Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

Set in pre-war England, the novel begins in Jacob's childhood and follows him through college at Cambridge, and then into adulthood. The story is told mainly through the perspectives of the women in Jacob's life, including the repressed upper-middle-class Clara Durrant and the uninhibited...