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A new novel inspired by little-known historical events: a dramatic story of three young women on a journey in search of family amidst the destruction of the post-Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who rediscovers their story and its vital connection to her own students' lives. Actual "Lost Friends" advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold...
42) Remember me?
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When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, having survived a car accident, she has lost a big chunk of her memory--three years to be exact. And that's not all. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband--who also happens to be a multimillionaire?
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Place called home (Lori Wick) volume 1
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"With the death of her grandfather, her only living relative, Christine experienced a deep loneliness she'd never felt before. After escaping to the small community of Baxter, Christine begins to piece together a new life. The love she finds there, along with newfound faith, sustains her as she faces the threat of danger."-Cover
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After surviving an auto accident that broke nearly every bone in her body and plunged her into a coma, successful businesswomen and happily married Casey Marshall realizes that although she is unable to see or communicate, she can hear everything. She quickly discovers that her friends aren't necessarily the people she thought them to be--and that her accident might not have been an accident at all.
45) Sister Carrie
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Sister Carrie is a Theodore Dreiser novel about a young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts realizing her own American Dream. She first becomes a mistress to men that she perceives as superior and later emerges as a famous actress. Sister Carrie is considered as the "greatest of all American urban novels." Theodore Dreiser was an American novelist and journalist who the naturalist school and is known for portraying characters whose...
46) Tully
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[1994]
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The story of a rebellious girl coping with adolescence. The locale is Topeka, Kansas, and the novel chronicles the girl's efforts to rise above her poverty and her low class origins. A tale of child abuse, incest, abortion and adultery.
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When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
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Prairie Legacy volume 2
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Virginia Simpson has a yearning deep inside her to go somewhere, discover something, be a part of the world about her in a new way would not go away. But what would satisfy it? When her graduation day arrives, she walks to the podium as the class valedictorian to the proud grins of her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis. College beckons, and life seems to be well in hand. She thought she would feel different. Like an adult, with an inner knowledge...
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Berrybender narratives volume 1
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[2002]
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Part western, part satire of the English class system contrasted with rugged frontier society, the first volume of this proposed tetralogy gets off to a shaky start as McMurtry introduces the randy, bumbling Berrybender clan, a rich but inept aristocratic British family that journeys up the Missouri River to try to capitalize on the land boom of the 1830s. The early romantic subplot shows promise when beautiful but flighty Lady Tasmin Berrybender,...
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A series of disappearances that reach into her past. Can solving them help her heal? Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the...
52) Ashley Bell
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"At twenty-two, Bibi Blair's doctors tell her that she's dying. Two days later, she's impossibly cured. Fierce, funny, dauntless, she becomes obsessed with the idea that she was spared because she is meant to save someone else. Someone named Ashley Bell. This proves to be a dangerous idea. Searching for Ashley Bell, ricocheting through a Southern California landscape that proves strange and malevolent in the extreme, Bibi is plunged into a world of...
53) Ride the river
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No matter that Echo Sackett was young, and a woman, and had never been far from the valley, she was still a Sackett. Sharp and smart and a better hunter than most of the men she knew. Like her bold ancestors, Echo couldn't ignore a challenge. A sure hand with a horse, a dead shot with a rifle, and fast with her wits, Echo traveled to the mountains of Tennessee, coming up against ruthless killers who's stop at nothing to cheat her out of her inheritance....
54) Swing Time
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2016.
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Two brown girls dream of being dancers - but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves...
55) Sky bridge
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"Libby is a bagger at the supermarket in town. She is also a new mother - not of her own child, but of her little sister's. Tess did not want the baby, but Libby convinced her not to have an abortion by promising to raise it - a promise Tess thought was crazy and Libby believed she would not have to keep. Now Tess has left for Durango and Libby pays rent to share a house with her mother on land neither of them own. She drives into town a few days...
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Hannah's heart volume 1
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2010
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Hannah Millerś Amish faith is solid. Her devotion to her family and Indiana community is unquestionable. Yet her young spirit longs for adventure and romance. As troubling circumstances give her good reason to spend the summer at her auntś Montana horse ranch, Hannah soon discovers she has much to learn about life and love.
57) Northanger abbey
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Jane Austen's first novel--published posthumously in 1818--tells the story of Catherine Morland and her dangerously sweet nature, innocence, and sometime self-delusion. Though Austen's fallible heroine is repeatedly drawn into scrapes while vacationing at Bath and during her subsequent visit to Northanger Abbey, Catherine eventually triumphs, blossoming into a discerning woman who learns truths about love, life, and the heady power of literature....
58) The Sacrifice
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Abram's daughters volume 3
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Before she can be courted, tragedy befalls Leah, forcing her to choose between her happiness and her family.
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Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her widowed father, Andrew, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiance, and her own search-and-rescue blood hound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can't recall. And then a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret that changes the world as she knows its.
60) Shadow and bone
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Grisha trilogy volume 1
Shadow and Bone volume Bk. 1
Shadow and Bone Trilogy volume 1
GrishaVerse volume 1
Shadow and Bone volume Bk. 1
Shadow and Bone Trilogy volume 1
GrishaVerse volume 1
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Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protege of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.