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1. Bittersweet
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"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
3. Bittersweet
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Kensington
Pub. Date:
2006
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English
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Will A Twist Of Fate Lead To A New Beginning. . .
Desiree Prescott doesn't believe in fairy-tale love anymore, not since her dreamboat ran off to Vegas years ago with another woman. She's content with her new fiancé, and she's going to make it work. But a shocking phone call in the middle of the night suddenly sends her to take care of three children in Atlanta. . .who live right next door to pro baseball player Gerard Kingsley....
Desiree Prescott doesn't believe in fairy-tale love anymore, not since her dreamboat ran off to Vegas years ago with another woman. She's content with her new fiancé, and she's going to make it work. But a shocking phone call in the middle of the night suddenly sends her to take care of three children in Atlanta. . .who live right next door to pro baseball player Gerard Kingsley....
4. Bittersweet
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China Bayles mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
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"This Thanksgiving, be grateful for China Bayles who teams up with an old friend to solve a complex case of theft and murder in a South Texas ranching community. It's Thanksgiving in Pecan Springs, and China is planning to visit her mother, Leatha, and her mother's husband, Sam, who are enthusiastically embarking on a new enterprise turning their former game ranch into a vacation retreat for birders. She's also looking forward to catching up with...
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Winning a scholarship to a prestigious college where she befriends a beautiful girl of privilege, unassuming Mabel joins her friend during a lakeside summer surrounded by wealthy vacationers only to discover morally ambiguous truths about her friend's family fortune.
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English
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5 stars
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"With her mega-bestseller Quiet, Susan Cain urged our society to cultivate space for the undervalued, indispensable introverts among us, thereby revealing an untapped power hidden in plain sight. Now, she employs the same mix of research, storytelling, and memoir to explore why we experience sorrow and longing, and the surprising lessons these states of mind teach us about creativity, compassion, leadership, spirituality, mortality and love. Bittersweetness...
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From V. C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful, and brilliant. But her intelligence makes her the outcast of both the private school she attends and the broken family she hopes to salvage. When she catches...
8. Bittersweet
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Series:
Home Sweet Home volume 3
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English
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"Caring family and friends, tranquil streets--ex-prosecutor Willow Lamont wishes these could make her feel truly at home. She's back to help her grandfather manage Chocolate Haven, a long held dream come true. But she's struggling to make their unique fudge--and to cope with a secret trauma that haunts her. Yet when she finds an abandoned baby who breaks her heart wide open, she wonders how long she can hide her emotions--especially from warm, handsome,...
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Bittersweet in the hollow volume 1
Publisher:
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date:
©2023
Lexile measure:
870L
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried.
10. Bittersweet rain
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English
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After the death of her wealthy husband, a young widow must settle the estate with his son — the same man who once broke her heart. Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Sadness is your superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet explores the power of the bittersweet personality, revealing a misunderstood side of mental health and creativity while offering a roadmap to facing grief in order to live life to the fullest.
“Bittersweet grabs you by the...
“Bittersweet grabs you by the...
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Publisher:
Zondervan
Pub. Date:
[2010]
Language:
English
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A personal memoir explores the intertwined natures of happiness and sadness, discussing how bitter experiences balance out the sweetness in life and how change can be an opportunity for growth and a function of God's graciousness.
13. Bittersweet
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In her very first novel, award-winning author Nevada Barr reveals another side to her remarkable storytelling prowess with this heart-wrenching yet tender tale of two women whose boundless devotion to each other is continually challenged in nineteenth century America.
14. Bittersweet
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California Historical volume 2
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English
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Laney McCain has unabashedly had her sights set on Galen O'Sullivan for years. And though Galen has treated her as nothing more than his best friend's pesky tag-along sister, Laney dares hope that now is the time he will open his eyes and truly recognize the woman she's become. But the arrival of Ishmael and Ivy Grubb, squatters on the O'Sullivans' land, diverts Galen's attention. Though the Grubbs are crass and uneducated, Galen shows mercy and allows...
15. Bittersweet
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Publisher:
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date:
2012
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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Hudson Avery gave up a promising competetive ice skating career after her parents divorced when she was fourteen years old and now spends her time baking cupcakes and helping out in her mother's upstate New York diner, but when she gets a chance at a scholarship and starts coaching the boys' hockey team, she realizes that she is not through with ice skating after all.
16. Bittersweet
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Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2004
Lexile measure:
1640L
Language:
English
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One of medicine's most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921. The drug produced astonishing results, rescuing children and adults from the deadly grip of diabetes. But as Chris Feudtner demonstrates, the subsequent transformation of the disease from a fatal condition into a chronic illness is a story of success tinged with irony, a revealing saga that illuminates the complex human consequences of medical intervention....
17. Bittersweet
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Publisher:
Linda Cushman
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Anna Lea Pepper is a fiercely independent woman. Her husband joins the Confederate army and disappears without a trace, leaving her to provide for their children. She is thrust into the violence of war after Union soldiers destroy her crops. Anna Lea discovers her greatest enemy is herself, and she must learn to trust God and those who love her. She learns that life can sometimes be Bittersweet.
18. BitterSweet
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Publisher:
Red Hills Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Derrick never had any trouble keeping it in his pants. He's a monogamous guy, even while secretly in love with his best friend, Victoria, and going through the motions with other women. But when Victoria gets taken off the market-and by his twin sister no less-Derrick's love life flies off the rails. Nuria Diaz is trouble with a capital TROUBLE. She's a firecracker of a woman - spoiled, demanding, and unapologetically hedonistic - and Derrick can't...
19. Bittersweet
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Publisher:
Apollo Publishers
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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The world's leading chocolate taster shares his wild ride to attain the most envied job, and explains his warning heard around the world: that we might soon run out of chocolate. Angus Kennedy has the best job of all time. But his journey to becoming the world's leading chocolate taster has followed a rocky road. Kennedy spent his childhood learning his way around the chocolate industry despite an alcoholic mother, a father dying of cancer, and multiple...
20. Bittersweet
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Publisher:
Penelope Fletcher
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Roses and lace, a church filled with smiling relatives, and a handsome gentleman waiting down the aisle. This was the dream Roslyn Roseberry cherished as a girl. What she got is a dusty yard, leering men with six shooters, and a bloody rancher with a gun shoved to the back of his head. Beauregard Kellington keeps to himself, working with his horses, ignoring the prejudiced slurs from the local townsfolk. Discovering the woman he once called a friend...