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In Wafford Springs, Silence Speaks Loudest of All . . . The small town of Wafford Springs, Florida never really recovered from the scandal caused by selfish, beautiful Lil Stallings, who twisted men around her finger. Lil is gone, but she left heartbreak and...

In Wafford Springs, Silence Speaks Loudest of All . . . The small town of Wafford Springs, Florida never really recovered from the scandal caused by selfish, beautiful Lil Stallings, who twisted men around her finger. Lil is gone, but she left heartbreak and...

People get divorced, but that's what happens to other people. That's what Claire thought anyway, until her husband, Charlie, tells her he wants a divorce. Claire has no choice but to take on the title of Divorced Woman, and face the question she has...

Setting Fires is the gripping story of Annie Fishman Waldmas, a documentary filmmaker, wife, and mother of two young children, who uses her professional skills to unravel the shocking secrets behind the two fires that come to dominate and haunt her life. The novel...

Retired widower George Wyse is happily minding his own business, fishing the lakes of Mountain Home, Arkansas, when his world is turned upside down. At the hands of his manipulative daughter, Lorraine, George lands in a retirement home, hours away and without transportation. Baffled,...

This is a book about a woman who has been through the fire and the rain.she is currently loving and a beautiful wife.Author: Hope FergusonISBN-10: 146631351XISBN-13: 9781466313514Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/21/2011Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.13d

Some kinds of love can only be endured. Richard Wilson, a professor of English literature, and his wife, Carol, are injured in a landslide that destroys their home and takes the life of their student boarder. Richard heals from the injuries caused by the...

Norma, a new work of fiction by writer Mark Zwolinski, asks you to enjoy a roller coaster like story about a kind, elderly woman, who saves a town from corruption and violence by surviving those very things herself. But the book also asks you...

Reflections of A Queen is in fact a memoir of A Modern African Woman. This book exudes the reflections of strength, quality and fortitude of a woman being ushered into the many different seasons of life. A Queen was her grandmother's and now mother's...

The witty and wise authors of The Nanny Diaries are back with an irresistible comedy about a forty-something wife and mother thrust back into the workforce, where she finds herself at the mercy of a #BossHalfHerAge. When Rory McGovern's actor husband, Blake, loses his...

This book contains Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novella, "The Corsican Brothers - A Novel". It is the tale of two brothers who, after being conjoined and separated when very young, are still able to sense the spine of the other. A moving story that has...

Author: Kimber AdamsISBN-10: 1441517987ISBN-13: 9781441517982Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2009Pages: 280Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

This electrifying novel features the Million Dollar characters fans have grown to love coming face-to-face with members of the Harris family, the unforgettable characters of Johnson's other bestselling series. It's his most dramatic--and passionate--installment yet. When Nate Kenny convinces Daphanie Coleman to sign over...

Baroness Orczy was a Hungarian who moved to London. She became a novelist, painter, and playwright. Orcy's book the Scarlet Pimpernel is her best-known work. The Scarlet Pimpernel is first in the series about the Scarlet Pimpernel; leader of a band of titled Englishmen...

Author: Viola ShipmanISBN-10: 1432864610ISBN-13: 9781432864613Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/2019Pages: 545Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.60w x 1.10dLarge Print

ONE CRAK, TWO BAM is inspired by the friendships of the women who play American Mah Jongg. You don't have to know how to play this ancient game to learn how the game of Mah Jongg can bring support, caring and friendship to everyone...

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed Sun Going Down comes an intimate portrait of a marriage and a family struggling to survive turbulent times that echo our own. THE PAINT FAMILY built an American empire on the legendary strength of their character, their...

Headstrong and iron-willed, Alexandra Bergson is devoted to securing success for her family. This novel captures what it meant to be an immigrant in twentieth-century America. At a time when most immigrant families were giving up, the father of a Swedish-American family passes away,...

Kirsten has spent her life trying to forget. But mercy begs her to remember.When she was in high school, a terrible accident fractured her family, and the only relief Kirsten could find was carving tiny lines into her skin, burying her pain in her...

"Tender and unsparing, this is a novel to hold onto." --Crystal Hana Kim, author of If You Leave Me "A masterfully written novel, alive and lyrical, a hypnotic rendering of the mess and the tenderness of family life."--Claire Lombardo, author of The Most Fun...

​"Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don't we ever get that movie?" India Allwood grew up wanting to be an actor. Armed with a stack of index cards (for research/line memorization/make-shift confetti), she...

A parable concerning love and integrity, infidelity and death, soon afterward devastation the forerunner for a new life. Revolving to show a fable of heart-wrenching determination. Rudy, being a man of substance and loyalty. Compassion his poorest tribute.A story illustrating: For marriage, loyalty and...

A young man seeks redemption from his past in the third novel from the No More trilogy by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kerry Lonsdale.After serving six months in a juvenile detention center, Lucas Carson returns home irrevocably changed by what...

The series begins in 1949. Jerry and his family move from the city, Cortland to the home converted from an old dance hall right under the thundering waterfall at Delphi Falls. Along with his friends, Jerry camped on top of the cliffs and studied...

"I CAN!"How many times have we heard children exclaim these words with great exuberance upon learning how to do something new?Growing Up with Bendie the Squirrel: I CAN Make My Bed book allows parents and caregivers to teach children important life skills and daily...

From Sunday Times bestselling author and viral TikTok sensation @MammyBanterOne month to go. One stressed mum. Can she pull off the perfect family Christmas?It's the most wonderful time of the year...Like every mum, Tara wants a perfect Christmas for her family - but no-one...

Starting over is never as easy as it sounds.To heal herself and her sons, Holly Simon made the radical decision to move seventeen hundred miles away to begin a brand new life as an Airbnb host just outside Yellowstone National Park.Forced to fake it...

Becoming One as Husband and Wife is the story of three couples at different stages of life, yearning to find harmony and unity in their broken marriages. Each of the couples find themselves dealing with struggles that are beyond their ability to solve on...

An emotional and hopeful debut that asks: Can first love survive 18 years, 11,000 miles and a lifetime of misunderstandings?"How I loved this story... It has it all--an evocative setting, complicated characters and a tale that keeps you turning those pages. Super!" --Imogen ClarkEighteen...

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble. Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani...

Crime and romance take over the idyllic Lake District setting in this first volume in Hugh Walpole's, The Herries Chronicle. First published in 1930, Rogue Herries is narrated by the titular character as he describes Francis Herries' story and his decision to move his...

Petro wants to wrestle, but her parents prevent her as female wrestling and boxing is against the law and their conservative values.When an exchange student from Germany joins their family, Petro is exited to learn she also enjoys wrestling.. They regularly wrestle each other...

"Dad, I Choose You" demonstrates how a father or father figure resonates love for their child through displays of love given to mom from pregnancy through birth. It's no surprise infants are soothed by hearing their dad's voice...because they've heard it all along! Enjoy...

Boys Like Us Trilogy, Book 3 - Sometimes the muse has the last word. Peter McGehee's acclaimed two novels, Boys Like Us and Sweetheart, introduced us to Zero MacNoo and his wonderfully zany circle of friends, family, lovers, and ex-lovers as they struggle to...

It's the late twenty-first century, following the decline of the old south's tobacco industry, when Ella Timrod, a reclusive South Carolina landowner, comes face to face with her lifelong fears after her brother commits a sudden, shocking act, bringing those around Ella together to...

Set mainly in England in the 1960s, and reflecting some of the attitudes of the time, this compelling story challenges the choice between "difference" and "assimilation", using the image of a clown as metaphor. In his debut novel, Become The Wind, Alexander Crombie drew...

Boys Like Us Trilogy, Book 2 - In Peter McGehee's debut novel, Boys Like Us, reviewers noted his lean, mostly-in-dialogue, fast-paced comedy of manners with an arresting theme ("I lose people ..."), fascinating contemporary urban folklore, and a superbly funny airplane scene. In Sweetheart,...

In the distant future, Greapa celebrates an uncommon birthday--his thousandth--by inviting numerous guests to an uncommon gathering. There Greapa will tell what has lain untold and hidden for centuries. He will recount in detail the momentous events that shook the Earth before the coming...

From the bestselling author of The Kindness of Strangers comes a poignant and life-affirming novel about our connections to the past, and the promise for the future during the least promising of times.Grieving but feisty widow Vivian Laurent is at a late-in-life crossroads. The...

Funny how life goes along, and Bam! You are swept off your feet by a love in your life, a child born and adopted into your family, anniversaries that bring such joy, deaths of loved ones, accidents, and trauma that you never expected to...

Born and raised in Northwest Ohio, Crystal Bowersox is an American singer-songwriter, independent mom, Type One Diabetes advocate and now, author. She has been a nationally touring artist since placing 2nd on American Idol in 2010.In 2022, Crystal became a mother of two after...

From USA Today Bestselling author - A Women's Fiction small town romance series!Can her 50th birthday get any worse?....She never saw it coming!She always had it together, hadn't she? A long marriage with three successful adult kids, a family business and a devoted husband.Maybe...

Author: Richmal CromptonISBN-10: 1509826017ISBN-13: 9781509826018Publisher: Policy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2017Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.64d

Author: Richmal CromptonISBN-10: 1509859489ISBN-13: 9781509859481Publisher: Policy PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2017Pages: 350Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.78d

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Recently widowed Conor McGuile acquires an antique railcar which he restores and outfits with all the comforts of home. He learns the caboose is haunted by an Indian warrior unjustly accused of robbing a bank courier of a fortune in gold. Conor determines to...

Bollywood meets a modern Southern society in this award-winning revealing and provocative multicultural journey of self-discovery. A dutiful Southern daughter who pretends to fit into her mother's world, but who secretly holds a penchant for differences and adventure falls for a Hindu Bollywood director....

Julie Halpern's Maternity Leave tells the profane, profound and just plain funny story of a professional woman who thinks she's ready for a baby but her maternity leave proves otherwise. Thirty six year old Annie Schwartz-Jensen is a middle school teacher on maternity leave-a...

A RICHLY IMAGINED NOVEL OF FAMILY, LOVE AND SCIENCE SET IN MODERN-DAY LONDON, FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PEOPLE'S ACT OF LOVERitchie Shepherd, aging former pop star and wildly successful producer of a reality teen talent show, is starting to trip over...

Molly O'Hara's young sister Nell is beautiful, spirited, and sweet, and the fact that she hasn't spoken for the last seventeen years--since she was eight--certainly doesn't reflect on her intelligence. After all, it's Nell who does the books for Enchanted Cottage Antiques, which she...