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When Imogen Naughton vanishes, everyone who knows her is shocked. Her handsome husband treats her like a princess. She's always said how lucky she is. Why has she left? And how will she survive without Vince? What goes on behind closed doors is often...

Mackenzie Cooper does not want to be who she was -- the one who was driving with her eyes on her phone just long enough to cause a deadly accident that cost her everything. In order to survive, she becomes someone new, someone better...

Stay and die, or run and survive. Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, surviving a merciless foster care system by relying on each other. Twelve years later, the world begins to...

Author: Cathy LambISBN-10: 1432842692ISBN-13: 9781432842697Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2018Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.85lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.40dLarge Print

Sisters Nell, Meredith, and Lizzy left home as soon as they could to escape their mother's domineering presence. Called home to fulfill the final wishes of their narcissistic mother as she faces death, will the estranged Sunshine sisters discover that blood is thicker than...

Cocoamo (Co-ka-mo) a loving, endearing name given to the innocent, young impressionable boy within this story by his loving grandmother. Cocoamo is the untold story of many. It's a story of love, family, joy and pain. Cocoamo will have its readers experience every emotion...

This collection by Jamaican-born writer, Barbara Paul-Emile, presents stories that focus on the vicissitudes of daily life as experienced by people in small towns and rural districts in the Caribbean islands. These tales deal with personal dilemmas, psychic crossroads, and social issues as shaped...

Returning to their hometown isn't something the Bradshaw brothers ever thought they'd do. But a family tragedy has reunited them in Benevolence, Washington--where second chances, reignited dreams, and real love are never far away . . . Texas rancher Flynn Bradshaw has his work...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels weaves a powerful story of betrayal, courage, and starting over . . . From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful--at least on the surface. But no one in her...

Pushcart Prize nominee Sonya Chung has displayed her stunning talent in her award-winning short fiction and essays. Now, she renders the compelling story of a troubled family straddling cultures, fleeing and searching, in her piercing and profoundly humane first novel. In 1953, on a...

#1 Essence bestselling author Patricia Haley takes sibling rivalry to a shocking new level as one man tries to heal his broken family in this compelling series based on popular biblical stories. Don Mitchell is certain the Lord has a plan for him to...

Ever been lied on?Principal Elaine Robeson has. Now she is afraid those distortions of her character will tarnish her years of selfless service. Her family, friends, and staff know her true spirit, but the allegations and publicity have shrouded her soul with doubt.​Author: Sabin...

Shade's life-altering vow to God leads to mysterious decisions that cause her to forfeit the man she loves.Shade Doe believes her prayers are answered when she meets an older Christian man who offers her marriage and a name for her newborn child. Despite his...

Amazon #1 Bestseller Highly Recommended by Midwest Book Review When high-powered attorney Helen Thompson discovers that her husband has abused their fifteen-year-old daughter and plans to use her in a sex ring, she takes a golf club to his head. And she doesn't stop...

When Beth Carson flees her controlling husband, a Sydney surgeon, and travels to Florence, Oregon, she is unsure what her future holds. Although her only knowledge of Florence comes from a few postcards found in her late mother's effects, she immediately feels at home...

Welcome to the dark heart of the family - the secrets we keep, the memories we treasure and the relationships we feel bound to, but long to escape. Edward and Isobel haven't spoken for years and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. When...

On her family's austere farm, the Girl learns stories and fables of the world around her - of Miina, their sleeping neighbour; how people get depressed if pine trees grow too close to the house; that you should never turn away a witch at...

They faced up to the challenges of war - but can they deal with the troubles of peace? Canadian, Jim Armstrong, married in haste during the second world war, after a one-night stand. When his wife and their small son join him in Canada...

Two women worlds apart ... one secret that changes everything. Erin and Laura are cousins and best friends who share a love of languages and travel. Erin, a French teacher in Dublin, reaches crisis point and drops everything to move to Australia. In Sydney,...

Psychiatrist Farah Goodwyn is married to a wonderful man she respects greatly, but never really loved - not like she loves her new lover Kane Taylor. Life complicates further when keeping the secret of her mentally ill daughter's adoption is threatened by the return...

Five-year-old Sousanna is often cold and always hungry, but she's happy living in post-WWII Greece with her kind and loving family. Then one day a stranger approaches Sousanna's father with a startling proposition, made bearable only by the assurance that the situation is temporary.But...

Set during the First World War, William Breedlove Martin's IN ANOTHER TIME is the intense drama of the Lansdownes, a big, well-to-do family in a small Southern town. As the brothers Laurence and Victor leave for the front as fighter pilots, their overbearing father,...

Award-Winning Story of friendship From bestselling author Bette Lee Crosby...What Matters Most. A heartwarming story of acceptance and coming to grips with reality. Royal Palm Literary Award Winner. Louise Palmer is a settled-down person. A woman who wants nothing more than to remain in...

In 76 funny and poignant linked vignettes, 13-year-old agnostic protagonist Sandy Drue delivers the story of her personal quest. Her family has moved from New York City to Small Town USA -- not an easy move, especially for Sandy's artist/intellectual mother who feels, the...

Can you trust your own brain? Challenging what we know about our senses, Rapeseed features a synesthetic mom from Kansas with cross-wired colors, smells, and sounds in her letters, her numbers, and her turbulent memories. She's been quietly keeping secrets from and with her...

Blood is thicker than water. I didn't understand that expression when I was a kid. I only knew that I was closer to my brother Seth than to anyone else in the world. He was the calm to my storm, the light to my...

With her sister Abby's encouragement, Rebecca has moved out of their overbearing father's home. When a chance encounter with Chris ends with an invitation, Rebecca says yes. The authentic way Chris lives his life attracts Rebecca and garners her affection. Chris loves Rebecca and...

When a sibling unexpectedly inherits his grandfather's dairy farm, Will O'Shaughnessy turns to selling Fords in rural, pre-World War I southwestern Wisconsin. But over the next two decades, even as his automobile business booms and he raises a family with his true love, Mary,...

Sweet Bird of Prey is the sensitive and surprisingly humorous story of Shannon Bennet, a thirteen year old girl who narrates her junior and senior years of high school. Shannon has a confusing and complex relationship with her brother Phillip, who suffers from undiagnosed...

The Twelfth Child is a novel about trust, love and friendship. Set in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, this story starts in early 1900's and takes readers on a journey of mystery, adventure and discovery as young Abigail Anne Lannigan struggles to unearth the...

A novel both literary and suspenseful, Revere Beach Boulevard tells the story of a family that rallies around an errant son, even as a long-hidden secret that has touched all their lives comes to the surface. Peter Imbesalacqua has bent the rules and battled...

This book chronicles the quest of a man named Pavlos as he is attempting to solve the mystery of the Delphic Epsilon while also coming to terms with his mother's recent death. After twenty years living and working in Paris as a newspaper cartoonist,...

Based on a true story of forgiveness, Kingdom of Simplicity invites readers into the compelling life of sixteen-year old Eli Yoder, a misguided Amish youth in rumspringa faced with forgiving the person who killed his sisters.Author: Holly PayneISBN-10: 0982279779ISBN-13: 9780982279779Publisher: Skywriter BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2009Pages:...

In Larson's Quest, book two in the Sands of Sanibel novella series, Larson pens his life story for his daughter, Larsea. His story covers his life growing up on Sanibel, his love for Catarina, leaving his beloved island and his journeys as he enters...

Andrew Pavel, by all outward appearances, lives a normal life. He has a beautiful wife, Erica, and two great kids, Nathan and Eileen. His brother and sister are his best friends and his parents drive him crazy. But behind closed doors, normal is slipping...

More than sixteen years ago, Dr. Genevieve Moss-Carpenter lived in a downspiraling world of drug addiction and self-destruction. She left that world behind to find completeness in the redeeming power of Jesus Christ. But in leaving that world, she left behind what was most...

Imagine...that you are an average fifteen-year old boy in an American public high school. You study hard, play soccer, and look forward to getting your driver's license next year along with your first job. One typical day, a popular cheerleader approaches you at school...

After her father's death, eleven-year-old Rowan Graham wrestles with depression. Carolina, her mother, looks for a way to ease her daughter's grief and decides to adopt another dog. Rowan chooses a wolfhound-deerhound mix and believes she and the pup, Zephyr, communicate through mind-pictures, a...

When Parker Sloane returns from a foray into third-world cash-smuggling to his childhood home in the woods of New England, it seems he's seeing his country and his blended stepfamily for the first time-- and finding both just as twitchy, desperate, paranoid and unpredictable...

"This poignant, charming novella warmed my heart more than anything has in a LONG time. It had a distinctly fairytale-ish feeling to it and made me smile all the way through." - Amazon reviewerAlthough they had always dreamed of having a family, tall, horse-faced...

My name is Jimmy Hendricks and I'm a recovering idiot. So begins John Blumenthal's third novel, the moving story of a small-town New England entrepreneur with a proble-matical name who reacts to the abrupt, unanticipated dissolution of his marriage by revisiting the past, and...

Millie Bryson discovers Shawnee Indians in her family's past. It's 1925 and memories of the Indian Wars, and what happened to some of the early settlers, are still fresh in some of their minds. The kids in her eighth grade class at school tease...

Welcome back to the resort town of Sun Valley where you'll find stunning mountain vistas and blue skies . . . and three close-knit sisters who depend on each other through thick and thin. Changes squeezes the heart with a life-affirming story filled with...

Heartbeats returns readers to the quaint resort town of Sun Valley, Idaho with a moving story about three sisters rebuilding their lives when they've got nothing left to lose. Karyn Macadam is starting over after losing her husband to a skiing accident. She's given...

Closely knit Colombian siblings' internal rifts threaten to tear apart the hard-won legacy their father fought to establish against guerilla and paramilitary violence. An intimate and transgressive novel that confirms H ctor Abad as one of the great writers of Latin American literature today....

Troy Hull has troubles. After the death of his parents, he left college to take up his family's traditional lobster-fi shing life. Now, thanks to poor fi shing, a misguided second mortgage, and the changing nature of his hometown, Troy fi nds himself faced...

In 1895, the arctic explorer Captain Ian Ryder has let his house in Blackpool on the Nova Scotia coast to the recently married Clara Weiss, who is about to become the compass of a social circle far too intimate for its own good. Lost...

Imagine a hawk's view of the magnificent bluegrass pastures of Kentucky horse country. Circle around the remnants of a breeding farm, four beautiful horses grazing just beyond the paddock. Inside the ramshackle house, a family is falling apart. Hack, the patriarch breeder and trainer,...

A bull's heart simmers in a crockpot, echoing the household's tension in a retelling of Biblical Jacob's trials. A priest observes his congregation's descent into madness and wonders at his own role. An elderly woman imagines herself into her boomtown's history and eventual abandonment...

With a Hammer for My Heart is the story of Lawanda, a precocious, poverty-stricken fifteen-year-old girl from Cardin, Kentucky, who dreams of attending college. When Lawanda's friendship with an alcoholic World War II veteran named Garland is misinterpreted by their fellow townspeople, a tragedy...