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"Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding house and eventually finds work as a biology teacher. But at every turn in her attempt to make a life for herself, she is faced with a fresh humiliation, until the painful contrast between the future she imagined and...
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Harlequin intrigue volume 2078
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Catching serial killers is her specialty -- until one follows her home. Attacked and left with a partial heart-shaped symbol carved into her chest, forensic investigator Lena Love finds her latest hunt has become personal. But leaving LA to return to her hometown comes with its own danger -- like detective David Hudson, the love she left behind. And soon sparks fly, even as Lena is targeted and stalked, and bodies -- all marked with the killer's signature...
144) Once in a blue moon
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Sourcebooks Casablanca
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[2020]
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English
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"How often do you find a love like this? Cathy Terry is tired of running. Full of fear and hope, she backpacked across the country to Blessings, Georgia, not knowing if or when her abusive ex-husband would catch up to her. In Blessings she glimpses a safe haven and the closest feeling to home she's had in a long tim--'even more so when she meets Duke Talbot. The sweet, strong, and handsome rancher provides a shoulder to lean on. The stakes get higher...
145) The secret of snow
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"When Sonny Dunes, a SoCal meteorologist whose job is all sunshine and seventy-two-degree days, is replaced by a virtual meteorologist that will never age, gain weight or renegotiate its contract, the only station willing to give the fifty-year-old another shot is the very place Sonny's been avoiding since the day she left for college -- her northern Michigan hometown. Sonny grudgingly returns to the long, cold, snowy winters of her childhood . ....
147) Mermaid Inn
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Matchmaker Bay volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Eve Abbott has a problem--actually, make that a lot of problems. And they're all going to get worse the moment her toes hit the sand in Matchmaker Bay. Once a blissful summer escape, now the tiny town just reminds Eve of loss. Inheriting her aunt's beloved Mermaid Inn is the only reason Eve is coming back. She's definitely not ready to handle nosy neighbors, extensive renovations, or the discovery that a certain heartbreaker still lives down the...
148) Big little spells
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Witchlore volume 2
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English
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Returning to her coven ten years after being stripped of her magic and banished, Rebekah faces a death sentence as a danger to witchkind in the second novel of the series following Small Town, Big Magic.
Is her magic a threat to witchkind...or is she simply powerful enough to save the world? Rebekah Wilde was eighteen when she left St. Cyprian, officially stripped of her magic and banished from her home. Ten years later, she's forced to return to...
149) No te olvidaré
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Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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"Despǔs de pasar cinco ąos en la c̀rcel por el tr̀gico error que cost̤ la vida de su gran amor Scott, Kenna Rowan regresa a casa con un ͠nico deseo: abrazar a su hija Diem, de cuatro ąos, que vive con los padres de Scott y a la que no ha visto desde que naci̤. La ͠nica persona que no le ha cerrado la puerta por completo es Ledger Ward, duęo del bar local y uno de los pocos v̕nculos que le quedan con Diem. Pero ella sabe que si alguien descubre...
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Blackstone Publishing
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[2023]
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English
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After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market and reconnects with an old flame, fisherman Henry McCabe. But when she reads his palm, she is horrified by the visions.
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Harlequin Enterprises ULC
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[2022]
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English
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A temporary pit stop...or a forever homecoming? Aspiring pastry chef Nicole Evans is just waiting to hear about her dream job, and in the meantime, she goes to work in the café at the local bookstore. But that's before the recently widowed Nicole meets her temporary boss: her first crush, Liam Mendez! Single dad Liam has always kept his life--and his heart--closely guarded from Oak Hollow gossip. Will his simmering attraction to Nicole be just one...
152) Ohio: a novel
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2018.
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"The debut of a major talent; a lyrical and emotional novel set in an archetypal small town in northeastern Ohio--a region ravaged by the Great Recession, an opioid crisis, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan--depicting one feverish, fateful summer night in 2013 when four former classmates converge on their hometown, each with a mission, all haunted by the ghosts of their shared histories. Since the turn of the century, a generation has come of age...
153) Things left unsaid
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married. But she is unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and of returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven, Michigan. It's not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it's the other secrets she's buried that have kept her from moving on. Cassie's family, still struggling with the loss, have been drifting...
154) Kiss my boots
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Coming home volume 2
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Quinn Davis prefers to live her life quietly. She's the stereotypical tomboy with two overprotective big brothers who have always been there to protect her, especially from devilishly handsome cowboys with silver tongues. That is, until Tate Montgomery comes riding back into town. After nine years of silence, their first meeting is far from something out of a fairy tale and only further convinces Quinn that men aren't...
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"Richard Brockwell, the younger son of Ivy Hill's most prominent family, hasn't been home for Christmas in years. He prefers to live in the London townhouse, far away from Brockwell Court, the old family secret that haunts him, and the shadows of his past mistakes. But then his mother threatens to stop funding his carefree life - unless he comes home for Christmas. Out of options, he sets out for Ivy Hill, planning to be back on a coach bound for...
156) The homecoming
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Havenbury volume 1
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Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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Maddy fled the idyllic market town of Havenbury Magna three years ago, the scene of a traumatic incident she revisits most clearly in her dreams. Even so, when she is called back to help at the Havenbury Arms when her godfather Patrick suffers a heart attack, she is unprepared for the welter of emotions her return provokes. Psychologist and ex-army officer Ben is sure he can help Maddy to resolve her fears, until he finds himself falling for her,...
157) The trustworthy one
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Walnut Creek volume 4
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Kendra Troyer always knew she would leave Walnut Creek the first chance she got. When she was accepted into design school, she tried her best to look ahead to Columbus, where she was determined to stay, far away from her abusive home and far away from Nate Miller, the boy she vowed to despise for the rest of her life. As Kendra tries to come to terms with the anger she holds from her childhood, will she be able to open her heart to forgiveness and...
158) An everyday hero
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2020.
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"At thirty, Greer Hadley never expected to be forced home to Madison, Tennessee with her life and dreams of being a songwriter up in flames. To make matters worse, a series of bad decisions and even crappier luck lands her community service hours at a nonprofit organization that aids veterans and their families. Greer cannot fathom how she's supposed to use music to help anyone deal with their trauma and loss when the one thing that brought her joy...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"2016. The Bright Side Sanctuary for Animals is in trouble. Ariel discovers that her mother Mona's animal sanctuary in Western Kansas has not only been the target of anti-Semitic hate crimes, it is also for sale, due to hidden financial ruin. Ariel, living a new life in progressive Lawrence, and estranged from her mother for six years, returns to her childhood home - and finds her first love, a ranch hand named Gideon, still working at the Bright...
160) Flight patterns
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Recorded Books
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p2016
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English
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It has been thirteen years since Georgia left her family home on the coast of Florida, and nothing much has changed except that there are fewer oysters and more tourists. She finds solace in seeing her grandfather still toiling away in the apiary where she spent much of her childhood, but encountering her estranged mother and sister leaves her rattled. Seeing them after all this time makes Georgia realize that something has been missing--and unless...
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