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"Fans of Barbara Kingsolver will love this stunning debut novel from a New York Times bestselling nature writer, about an unforgettable young woman determined to make her way in the wilds of North Carolina, and the two men that will break her isolation open. For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase...
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"In the ruggedness of the beautiful Kentucky mountains, Honey Lovett has always known that the old ways can make a hard life harder. As the daughter of the famed blue-skinned, Troublesome Creek packhorse librarian, Honey and her family have been hiding from the law all her life. But when her mother and father are imprisoned, Honey realizes she must fight to stay free, or risk being sent away for good. Picking up her mother's old packhorse library...
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"Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she's been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still...
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South Carolina sunsets volume 1
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Julie's husband of twenty-one years was living a secret life, which ended her marriage and forced her to start over alone at forty-three years old.
Faced with a new reality, she decides to rebuild her life on an island off the coast of South Carolina and learn to make it on her own.
The only thing she isn't expecting is to be thrown together with her estranged
...5) From scratch
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"In this short novel, a single mother goes back to school in order to run her own bakery."--
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A writer travels to a fishing village to complete her book and becomes close friends with many residents including her popular housemate, Mrs. Almira Todd. Throughout her stay, the writer is, inundated with personal stories from her colorful neighbors. In The Country of the Pointed Firs, a Boston native travels to a small Maine town called Dunnet Landing. She finds room and board with an older woman named Almira Todd, a widow and local herbalist....
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"Can there ever be sympathy for a kidnapper-no matter how forceful her case? Don't decide until you read Before You Found Me, Brooke Beyfuss's complex, compelling new novel that dissects the tangled psychology of right and righteousness." - Jacquelyn Mitchard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean
Explore the unlikely bond that develops between two abuse survivors and take a deep dive into personal sacrifice, morality,...
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"A riveting and deeply moving debut--a love story in the spirit of Where the Crawdads Sing--that is both a stunning exploration of the natural world and an unforgettable coming-of-age novel. Victoria Nash is just a teenager in the 1940s, but she runs thehousehold on her family's peach farm in the ranch town of Iola, Colorado--the sole surviving female in a family of troubled men. Wilson Moon is a young drifter with a mysterious past, displaced from...
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"River Lane's acting career is tanking fast. Determined to start fresh behind the camera, she'll take whatever job she can get, including filming a documentary about the picturesque town of Moose Springs. When mountaineer and Moose Springs local Easton Lockett sees what looks like a woman on her own in the wilderness, of course he offers to help. The last thing he expects is to interrupt a film shoot and earn River's wrath. But Easton has an idea:...
10) Run Away Home
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Serena Chasey has nowhere left to go; she's run out of places to hide. She takes her father's advice and heads for Montana to stay at her family's lake house on Flathead Lake, the last place anyone would look for her. She's desperate to start over, desperate to feel normal after the nightmare she's lived for the last three years.
Evan "Van" Brooks spent the last three years drowning in guilt, swallowed up by a past he can't get away from, living...
11) Just One Look
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The magic of summer is alive in Honeymoon Harbor—and for one pair of friends, the perfect time to take a chance on love. After settling into the cozy seaside town of Honeymoon Harbor, veterinarian Cameron Montgomery is focused on taking care of the locals' furry friends and never missing a Wednesday lunch break with his best friend, Megan Larson. Single mom Megan has always felt a special connection with Cam, but with three-year-old...
12) Weeds
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Bright and independent-minded, Judith Pippinger Blackford aspires to a life of freedom and self-expression beyond the tobacco fields of Kentucky. But her dreams are crushed by the reality of farm life, an endless cycle of tending children, livestock, and menfolk, while trying to scratch a living out of the unyielding clay soil.
Based on the author's own attempts to raise tobacco, this pioneering naturalistic novel recounts the dire effects of her...
13) Some nerve
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After failing to score an important interview with a reclusive actor, Hollywood magazine reporter Ann Roth returns to her Missouri home only to discover that the actor is in her hometown, where he is using an alias while undergoing heart surgery.
14) Wild Mountain
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Vermonter Mona Duval loves the covered bridge beside her store. She loves local history and the rugged, rural nature of her home state. But when an ice storm collapses the bridge, she is bereft. Frank MacFarland, a seasonal resident who is beguiled by Mona, lends his political expertise to help rebuild the bridge. But they meet with powerful opposition. Tensions arise in the town, compounded by resistance to the soon-to-be-voted on Freedom to Marry...
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Raleigh Bishop's perfect life in rural St. Mary's County, Maryland, has just come to a shattering end. Her naval test pilot husband, Grant, has been killed in a flight accident, and Raleigh is left to pick up the brittle shards of that life. She prefers to stay hidden away in her grief but is unwillingly dragged out of it by the contents of her husband's will, which contain a shocking bequest. Grant has left her St. Clements Bluff, an old Bishop family...
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Andrew Carnegie funded fifty-nine public libraries in Kansas in the early 20th century-but it was frontier women who organized waffle suppers, minstrel shows, and women's baseball games to buy books to fill them. Now, a century later, Angelina returns to her father's hometown of New Hope to complete her dissertation on the Carnegie libraries, just as Traci and Gayle arrive in town-Traci as an artist-in-residence at the renovated Carnegie Arts Center...
17) A Last Gift
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Five women. One dead husband. Too many secrets. Bree Mann, a successful romance author, expected to live a long, quiet, and happy life with her beloved husband, Paul.Instead, cancer steals Paul's life, and Bree retreats into a deep, dark depression. A month later, a letter arrives from Paul, sending Bree and her four childhood friends on a scavenger hunt, forcing them to confront not only Paul's past but to uncover secrets and lies that change their...
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★★★★★ "Great series! Couldn't put it down! The Stiletto Book Club members are exciting, troubled but are learning to care about each other in their personal lives as well as share the books they read!" -- ReviewerI'm read to start my life over. I wasn't looking for Spencer. Too bad, fate has other ideas.Welcome to MagnoliaPennyI'm settling in on Magnolia Island. As the new owner of Magnolia Daily, I'm determined to make the most of my new...
19) My Ántonia
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The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly concerning a young Bohemian girl named Ántonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American assimilation of the immigrant.
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Sadie works as a framer, building houses. She lost her own home in a recent divorce and now lives with her two daughters in a rented bungalow. When her landlady says she needs to move out, Sadie finds there's a housing crisis in her community. She can't find a place to live and is forced to move her family into a travel trailer at a local campsite. When her ex-husband finds out, he insists that the girls come live with him in another city. Desperate...
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