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LARGE TYPE NOVEL SENDKER
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When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be--until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father's past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion...
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NOVEL HOOD
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NOVEL HOOD
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LARGE TYPE HOOD
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LARGE TYPE HOOD
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"An enthralling novel about love, loss, secrets, friendship, and the healing power of literature, by the bestselling author of The Knitting Circle. Ava's twenty-five-year marriage has fallen apart, and her two grown children are pursuing their own lives outside of the country. Ava joins a book group, not only for her love of reading but also out of sheer desperation for companionship. The group's goal throughout the year is for each member to present...
3) The chance
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NOVEL KINGSBURY
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NOVEL KINGSBURY
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CD NOVEL KINGSBURY
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Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them.
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LARGE TYPE HOLMES
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LARGE TYPE HOLMES
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Fools Gold series (Susan Mallery) volume 10
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL MALLERY
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL MALLERY
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When an injury forces her to return home to Fool's Gold, and into the fold of her estranged family, dancer Evie Stryker, who doesn't believe in Christmas miracles, agrees to stage the winter festival and then plans to leave town, but her brother's best friend has other plans for her.
6) Home front
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LARGE TYPE HANNAH
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LARGE TYPE HANNAH
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From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each...
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NOVEL CENTER
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NOVEL CENTER
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"From the author of Happiness for Beginners comes an unforgettable love story about finding joy even in the darkest of circumstances. Margaret Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she's worked for so hard and so long: a new dream job, a fiancé she adores, and the promise of a picture perfect life just around the corner. Then, suddenly, on what should have been one of the happiest days of her life, everything she worked for is taken...
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Magnolia sisters volume 1
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PB ROMANCE MAJOR MAGNOLIA 1
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE MAJOR
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LARGE TYPE ROMANCE MAJOR
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"Avery Keller arrives in Magnolia, North Carolina, with one aim: collect her inheritance and quickly put the quirky town in her rearview mirror. But the father who didn't acknowledge her when he was alive has left Avery a mess to sort through--along with two half sisters she's never met and a gorgeous single dad living next door. Soon her plan to keep this colorful, close-knit community at a distance gets complicated.... Grayson Atwell has rescued...
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Appalachian blessings volume 1
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NOVEL THOMAS APPALACHAIN 1
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NOVEL THOMAS APPALACHAIN 1
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It's 1954 and Perla Long's arrival in the small town of Wise, West Virginia, was supposed to go unnoticed. She just wants a quiet, safe place for her and her daughter, Sadie, where the mistakes of her past can stay hidden. But then drought comes to Wise, and Perla is pulled into the turmoil of a town desperately in need of a miracle. Casewell Phillips has resigned himself to life as a bachelor ... until he meets Perla. She's everything he's sought...
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL STEEL
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL STEEL
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A woman who longs to avoid risk at all cost learns that men who love danger are the most exciting. After a carefree childhood, Mary Margaret Kelly came of age in the shadow of grief. Her father, a dashing daredevil Air Force pilot, died when she was nine. Maggie saw her mother struggle to put their lives back together. As the family moved from one city to the next, her mother warned her to beware of daredevil men and avoid risk at all cost. Following...
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CD NOVEL BERG
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LARGE TYPE BERG
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Sharing nothing in common except their 16-year-old daughter, divorced parents John and Irene reconnect in the wake of a devastating tragedy and discover things about each other that they had not revealed during their marriage.
12) One summer
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Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront.
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Summer Island (Toni Blake) volume 1
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PB ROMANCE BLAKE SUMMER 1
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"Summer Island has always been home to Meg Sloan. She runs the Summerbrook Inn, like her grandmother did, and she loves the laid-back pace of life and the close-knit community the island offers. Meg also loves Zack Sheppard, but what she doesn't love is Zack's refusal to commit to an exclusive relationship. Seth Darden arrives on Summer Island in search of summer work, but also in search of something else--his past. There are secrets buried at the...
14) Porch lights
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 10
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NOVEL FRANK
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NOVEL FRANK
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PLAYAWAY FRANK LOWCOUNTRY 10
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PLAYAWAY FRANK LOWCOUNTRY 10
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When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green...
15) The prayer box
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Carolina heirlooms novels volume 1
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NOVEL WINGATE CAROLINA 1
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NOVEL WINGATE CAROLINA 1
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL WINGATE
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL WINGATE
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When Hatteras Island old-timer Iola Anne Poole passes away at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage finds herself charged with cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house. Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi Jo Reese expects to find no more than a temporary hiding place within Iola's walls. But all that changes when she discovers eighty-one carefully decorated prayer boxes, one for each year from Iola's youth to her...
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NOVEL ADAMS
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NOVEL ADAMS
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NOVEL ADAMS
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NOVEL ADAMS
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LARGE TYPE ADAMS
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LARGE TYPE ADAMS
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"Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries. Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It's a list...
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Discover two extraordinary romantic stories about the power of a life-changing love letter.
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story...
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CD NOVEL THAYER
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CD NOVEL THAYER
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL THAYER
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""The queen of beach books" (The Star-Ledger) returns to the shores of Nantucket in a novel about one memorable summer when flirtations flourish, family dramas play out, and scandalous secrets surface. Memorial Day weekend means that seasonal visitors have descended on the glamorous island of Nantucket. For year-round resident Darcy Cotterill, it means late-night stargazing in the backyard of the beautiful house she grew up in and inherited from her...
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NOVEL FOSTER SUMMER 1
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NOVEL FOSTER SUMMER 1
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PB ROMANCE FOSTER SUMMER 1
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PB ROMANCE FOSTER SUMMER 1
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Sunset, Kentucky. When they're running the animal-rescue farm they inherited from their grandparents, Autumn and Ember Somerset are perfectly in sync. Other times, not so much. Dependable Autumn would rather curl up with a good book than paint the town red. But when Autumn's high school crush comes back to town with his young daughter, igniting memories best left forgotten, there's only one person Autumn can turn to. Ember's free-spirited facade hides...
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Blossom street novels volume 10
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CD NOVEL MACOMBER
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CD NOVEL MACOMBER
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL MACOMBER BLOSSOM 9
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LARGE TYPE NOVEL MACOMBER BLOSSOM 9
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After being let go from her competitive, high-pressure Seattle law firm, Libby Morgan reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store, where she forms close bonds with three women and finds time for romance with a charming and handsome doctor who seems to be her perfect match. But just as everything is coming together, Libby must make a choice that could forever change the life she holds so dear.