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Katherine Lamontagne isn't Celeste Barnes's mother, but ever since Celeste graduated high school and her parents abandoned Hidden Harbor, Maine, she's acted the part. At twenty-two, Celeste worked at Katherine's bakery, and hoped to buy the business once Katherine took early retirement. But when...

The Sunday Times bestseller returns for a fourth book! Alfie and his mischievous kitten George are back for more adventures - this time taking them a long way from home... Alfie and George just can't seem to keep out of trouble. So when they...

From the pages of the national bestselling Dame Frevisse mysteries. While performing in the theatrical and religious festival of Corpus Christi Day in Coventry, Joliffe is summoned by Bishop Beaufort to use his skills as a spy to uncover the mysteries of the town's...

The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox - the master storyteller.Finding a new beginning means taking the hardest road...but the journey is where you find your true courage.Torn away from their beloved home, the journey for the Carter family has just...

A follow-up to her successful debut Charleston and set in the world's most glamorous landscapes, this moving new love story from Margaret Bradham Thornton draws on a metaphor of entanglement theory to ask: when two people collide, are they forever attached no matter where...

A luminous and insightful novel that considers the moral complexities of scientific discovery and the sustaining nature of love. A young researcher at MIT, Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine's Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal--Valentine's...

Saralee Rosenberg's compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love.When Shelby Lazarus returns home to Long Island in the midst of a family crisis, she is forced to face all...

Tina and Maurice Shaw meet in the turbulent days of World War 11. They fall in love and marry before Maury joins the Medical Corps in France. When they return to the States, the couple move to a small town in Pennsylvania with Maury's...

Every street should have a dog like Jack. And every abandoned dog should find a new family like the residents of Christmas Street--a group of people who just might need Jack as much as he needs them . . . All day, he trots...

This "brutal and brave" (Booklist) novel transmutes the practice of medicine into a larger exploration of humanity, the meaning of care, and the nature of annihilation--physical, spiritual, or both. A young woman puts on a white coat for her first day as a student...

Author: Alma RoutsongISBN-10: 1258212900ISBN-13: 9781258212902Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/15/2011Pages: 206Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d

Testing, Testing, One, Two Teens Meet Lizzie, the exasperated mother of Cassie, Connor and Stepdaughter Maisy. She gets by with good friends, cheap wine and talking to herself. Teenager Cassie, the Facebook-tweeting, selfie-taking, music and mobile phone-obsessed daughter, hates everything about her life. She...

A thousand eyes were watching me. Nobody in the room was talking, and the only sound was a muffled cough from the darkness in the back of the auditorium. Why wasn't everyone whispering to their neighbors? Shouldn't they be playing on their cell phones...

Named an ELLE BEST BOOK OF 2024Named a BEST or MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by Readers' Digest, Elle Magazine, CondeNast Traveler, Publishers' Weekly, Indigo, ZibbyMag, Goodreads, BookBub & more "A deeply moving, layered portrait of the hopes, dreams and fears a family...

A mysterious, heartwarming tale of small-town intrigue, family secrets, and the possibility of new love from the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Lighthouse Keeper.Emma Laurent has always preferred helping others to asking for help. But now, she's the one in need. Her stepmother...

Let one woman's struggle with Alzheimer's disease, and passing into the freedom of the next life restore faith in God's promise that love and life are everlasting. Faith is restored as little synchronistic coincidences are revealed as more than just that from the perspective...

In A Cosmic Awakening of Relationships beyond Us, love is the goal of each character. Liz and Joe explain their love story and its direct impact on the cosmos. Just when Ruby thinks her negative decisions have distorted love, its power is amplified and...

The truth behind a teenage girl's disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel about justice, lies, and impossible choices by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only...

Two families in Seattle, one American and the other Japanese-American, face the upcoming World War II. Both families have sons who are affected by the war and by the prejudice that roiled the Seattle community and sent one family to an internment camp. As...

IT'S ALMOST BUNNY RUE'S BIRTHDAY!In this rhyming picture book, Rue's family helps her think of plans for her special day. After they brainstorm fun activities, Rue discovers what will make her birthday the best. Children of all ages will enjoy this fun and heartwarming...

Follow the story of Aaron, a young boy and the victim of child abuse. Experience through his eyes how the lack of support, proper education, and encouragement warped his life and affected his perspective on reality.Inspired by the author's experiences and interviews, A Boy...

IT'S ALMOST BUNNY RUE'S BIRTHDAY!In this rhyming picture book, Rue's family helps her think of plans for her special day. After they brainstorm fun activities, Rue discovers what will make her birthday the best. Children of all ages will enjoy this fun and heartwarming...

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz...

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple...

Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter, Lacey, are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered questions. It's been thirty years since May DuBerry, Willy's young wife and Lacey's mother, abandoned them both, leaving Willy to raise Lacey alone.Lacey Cherrymill is smart, stubborn, and focused....

Secrets are like pennies. Everybody's got one, even the poorest among us.For generations, the Jensens have raised their families in the small Montana town of Moose Creek, where gossip spreads faster than the wind. Yet some secrets need to be told.When twenty-one-year-old Bea discovers...

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple...

Margaret Oliphant's novel 'A Country Gentleman and his Family' was originally published in 1894. When Mr. Warrender dies his widow looks forward to a fresh start. This story follows the three Warrender children; Theo, the heir, who falls in love with a widow with...

A suicide attempt by teenager Pamela Watkins leaves the young girl's family concerned regarding her state of mind and what could have driven her to contemplate such a drastic solution. No answers can be found from Pamela herself, who has withdrawn into doubts she...

The truth behind a teenage girl's disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel about justice, lies, and impossible choices by New York Times bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.When nineteen-year-old Jill Moss goes missing near the Utah-Arizona border, everyone has an opinion. Only...

The fourth in a series, this book continues the story of Emily Conn, who is growing up in the hills of eastern Kentucky. Emily is the next to youngest child in a family of five daughters. She struggles to grow into her own person...

A laugh-out-loud, opposites attract romance about three of the world's most beloved C's: Christmas, Coffee, and Cats. Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls needs a Christmas miracle. Opening the Meow and Furrever Cat Café to find loving homes for adorable, adoptable cats was a...

"Inventive and thrilling. . . . I couldn't put it down." --Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half "It's a thrill to read this novel." --Jia Tolentino, New York Times bestselling author of Trick Mirror The gripping story of...

A Far Piece to Canaan is a warm and nostalgic novel from an unexpected source: Sam Halpern, whose salty paternal wisdom made Justin Halpern's Sh*t My Dad Says a phenomenal bestseller. Inspired by Sam Halpern's childhood in rural Kentucky, A Far Piece to Canaan...

A funeral. Four clues. An adventure they never saw coming.As children, the four Baker cousins were inseparable, each sweltering Georgia summer spent playing at Gram and Gramp's lake house, immersed in an endless world of fun and make-believe.Now adults, Gram's death brings them together...

A funeral. Four clues. An adventure they never saw coming.As children, the four Baker cousins were inseparable, each sweltering Georgia summer spent playing at Gram and Gramp's lake house, immersed in an endless world of fun and make-believe.Now adults, Gram's death brings them together...

Is there any middle-ground for Christmastime, or must it be either a time of bliss or sorrow? Caitlin and Sarah McGrady are in the midst of their first Christmas together without their husband/father, and they will soon find out.Author: Joseph NicolelloISBN-10: 1621386554ISBN-13: 9781621386551Publisher: Angelico...

Bartlett's fictional story describes the career path of a country boy who, with his euphonium, climbs to the pinnacle of the brass band world. The setting is the German town of Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills. In full and instructive prose, the writer explores...

From the national Essence bestselling author comes an engaging tale about a family secret that sends one young woman scrambling to uncover the truth about her past. Award-winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction "tackles some of life's toughest situations" (The Florida Times-Union),...

How a loving and loyal service dog saved a veteran from the depths of depression.A war veteran's story of healing, recovery, and personal discovery.In this moving memoir, the return of a war veteran to civilian life is chronicled in a touching book that highlights...

This poem was written in honor of my uncles James and Leroy. Both of these men had, and continue to have, a great impact on my life. The emphasis is from the old saying: "Each one, reach one and teach one." I hope this...

What creates a family? Is it more than blood? Is it love, forgiveness, or trust? What brings people together to live, love, and learn together? Most families are created the same way, but not the Murphy Family. Brought together by love and forgiveness this...

The war year of 1942 was not the best of times for Anna Brendon Clark. Now a single mom abandoned by a philandering husband in Maryland to raise three small children, her only refuge was her family and friends in West Virginia, the world...

A laugh-out-loud, opposites attract romance about three of the world's most beloved C's: Christmas, Coffee, and Cats. Veterinarian and animal lover Kara Ingalls needs a Christmas miracle. Opening the Meow and Furrever Cat Café to find loving homes for adorable, adoptable cats was a...

Bret Lott's powerful, insightful stories illuminate the everyday episodes that move us -- husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and neighhors -- along the intricate paths of intimacy. A little boy's first bad dream brings his father back to his own childhood nights...

This is the story of a girl whose life starts with hardship and suffering.Hena was living in Afghanistan. Her parents separated, Hena lived with her stepmother. When her birthmother died she went to her grave and on the way back home a car hit...

Travis lives isolated in the Allegheny Mountains in the mid-1800s. He loves God, loves his family, and is well respected by all on the mountain. But one decision- for the right reason-causes his unintentional entry into the Civil War. While he fights to survive...

In the fall of 1950, Vicki Leigh Bayle learned that love and hate are drawn from the same well and that some of the people she loved most kept stores of each in equal measure. In the segregated context of South Florida, she learned...

Career-focused Noah realizes his family needs his attention more than his job does. When he realizes this just in time for Christmas, he decides to make it up to them. Through some surprise encounters and a series of Christmas challenges, he is inspired to...

This summer, escape to the Shores­--a Southern lake town full of elegance and glamour in a story about family traditions, friendship, and a love that can't be denied--for readers of Sunny Hostin's Summer on Sag Harbor Chareese "Reese" Devlin spent every summer of her...