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Book cover for "The good left undone".
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"From present day Viareggio to Glasgow during World War II, a multigenerational sweeping tale of love lost, family secrets, and reconciliation over decades from New York Times bestselling author Adriana Trigiani"--
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A West Virginia cop investigates the murder of a philanthropic philanderer in this mystery by the author of Cromwell's Folly. A detective with West Virginia's Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Sam Lagarde appreciates a good horseback ride now and then to clear his thoughts. He keeps two horses of his own and finds their companionship to be more reliable than any of his previous marriages. And now his knowledge of horses may come in handy on his current...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Left Undone, "a big-hearted writer who tells big stories" (Jeanette Walls) comes a story of love, second chances, and making your own fate"-- Provided by publisher
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In her return to Provincetown after a best-selling novel exposes local secrets, an author returns to her idyllic Cape Cod hometown to face her betrayal but rediscovers her passion and community through a summer managing a friend's bookstore.
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The bestselling, beloved writer of romantic comedies like You've Got Mail tells her own late-in-life love story in her "resplendent memoir," complete with a tragic second act and joyous resolution. Delia Ephron had struggled through several years of heartbreak. She'd lost her sister, Nora, and then her husband, Jerry, both to cancer. Several months after Jerry's death, she decided to make one small change in her life--she shut down his landline, which...
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Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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"This novel about a utopian camp and its charismatic leader takes us into the lives of five unforgettable characters, and is a sweeping saga of idealism, love, class, and a piece of land that changes everyone who lives on it"--
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"Set in New York and China over three decades, Paper Names explores what it means to be American from three different perspectives. There's Tony, a Chinese-born engineer turned Manhattan doorman, who immigrated to the United States to give his family a better life. His daughter, Tammy, who we meet at age nine and follow through adulthood, and who grapples with the expectations of a first generation American and her own personal desires. Finally, there's...
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Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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From the author of the international bestseller The German Heiress, a gripping historical drama about a woman determined to avenge the crimes against her family, set at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. "The magnificent Anika Scott has written a lush and beautifully rendered novel that will keep you turning pages long into the night. Mystery, intrigue, secrets and a vendetta fuel this story, which is ultimately about the meaning of family and the power...
Book cover for "The undoing of Thistle Tate".
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Famous teen author Thistle Tate struggles to keep her biggest secret: the real identity of the author of her bestselling books. Thistle Tate is a glittering wunderkind, only seventeen, and a bestselling author of the wildly successful Lemonade Skies series, with the highly anticipated final book due to publish next year. She has diehard fans across the globe, flashy tours, and steep advances. And now she's finally started to date her best friend and...
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Red Winter volume 1
Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Language:
English
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Emi is the Kamigakari. In a few short months, her life as a mortal will end and her new existence as the human host of a goddess will begin. Carefully hidden from those who would destroy her, she has prepared her mind, body, and soul to unite with the goddess-and not once has she doubted her chosen fate. Shiro is a Yokai, a spirit of the earth, an enemy of the goddess Emi will soon host. Mystery shrouds his every move and his ruby eyes shine with...
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Pub. Date:
2006
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English
Book cover for "The Dramatic Romances".
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eBookIt.com
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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AN OLD STORY. It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad: The house-roofs seemed to heave and sway, The church-spires flamed, such flags they had, A year ago on this very day. The air broke into a mist with bells, The old walls rocked with the crowd and cries. Had I said, "Good folk, mere noise repels-But give me your sun from yonder skies!" They had answered, "And afterward, what else?" Alack, it was I who leaped at the...
Book cover for "Ex Libris: A Short Story Collection".
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Maw See Saw Creative
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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Readers and writers both love to fall into a good story. But what happens when fiction doesn't stay confined to the pages? After a breakup, Gina engages in some retail therapy at a used bookstore, but one of the novels she brings into her apartment turns out to be more than a ghost story. A reader spends her life escaping her responsibilities with books until she's escaped too far. A traveler finds a paperback left in the airplane seatback pocket,...
Book cover for "The Detective Sam Lagarde Mysteries".
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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The first three Sam Lagarde mysteries, together in one set, featuring a hard-boiled detective with West Virginia's Bureau of Criminal Investigations. Cromwell's Folly Det. Sam Lagarde is on the brink of retirement, but first he must investigate the decapitation of a notorious ladies' man in Charles Town . . . No Good Deed Left Undone Sam's knowledge of horses may come in handy when a philanthropic philanderer is found dead, pinned to a stable with...
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Publisher:
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
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After taking a slug to the crown, street hood Menace has been out of commission for two long years. Now fully healed, he aims to pick up where he and Speedy left off, and there's no time like the present. With Menace on the "disabled list," Speedy has grown the old gang into a force to be reckoned with, their influence, firepower, and manpower three times what it used to be. As Speedy and the boys help Menace regain his "underworld footing," bringing...
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Publisher:
Koehler Books
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"A loving coming-of-age story for women in mid-life. Brava!" -Adriana Trigiani, Author of The Good Left Undone". . . captures the true meaning of resilience-something so many women strive to know in the depths of their inner-self." -Sister Robbie Pentecost, OSF former Executive Director of the New Opportunity School for WomenAva Winston likes her life of routine in Lexington, Kentucky. Each day, she goes to the place she's worked for twenty years,...

17. Tiburon

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Publisher:
Michael Walmer
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Welcome to the colorful world of the White family. It is the early 1930s, the Great Depression, and they have fallen on hard times. Like many others, they have been 'on the road', travelling in search of work, but have now settled in the travelers' camp at Warning Hill, just outside the country town of Tiburon in central New South Wales, living in a hut of their own making. With an extraordinary cast of memorable characters, Kylie Tennant's first...
Book cover for "Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally . . . Murder".
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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A West Virginia detective investigates a marriage that ended in murder in this mystery by the author of No Good Deed Left Undone. Methodical detective Sam Lagarde knows what it takes to solve a murder. But as for his personal life, he's not certain how he managed to find romance at his age. The big mysteries for him have always been love and women . . . All the evidence in his latest case, the murder of Harold Munson, points to his wife, Charlotte,...
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Publisher:
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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For years, I was close enough to fame to touch it. Taste it. Drink it. Until one more drink became my answer to everything. Until one night I made a mistake which couldn't be undone. So, I cut all ties to my former life and the addiction that destroyed it. And I left in search of redemption on the other side of the country. After months building a new future, I thought my past had stayed put. Until I opened my front door to find she'd followed me....
Book cover for "After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage".
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Publisher:
Anna Monardo
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage is the story of marriages across three generations of a Calabrian family. Starting from a marriage brokered to facilitate immigration from Southern Italy to Braddock, PA, a steel town outside of Pittsburgh, this memoir explores the multigenerational impact of arranged marriage and takes readers on an unlikely path to international adoption. "This beautifully written story of three generations of marriage...