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41) The pretend wife
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Amish legacy novel volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now that Michelle Lantz has been dating Korey for over a year, she thought it was only a matter of time before he proposed. But Korey has seemed distant and is far from the attentive boyfriend she once knew. Tyler Bontrager and his brother Korey find themselves continually arguing: Tyler doesn't approve of how Korey treats Michelle and Korey thinks Tyler is out to take anything that's his.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman?Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, who as Isak Dinesen wrote the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As this year's summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threaten their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In the space of a few months Vanessa buried her husband, Matt, and gave birth to their son --breaking her heart while filling it with a whole new kind of love. But the one man she longs to share this love with now acts as if she doesn't exist. Paul Haggerty lives by the marine motto: Semper Fi. Ever faithful to his best friend, he's done right by Matt's widow as best he can ... considering he's been secretly in love with her for years. Now, just...
46) Mrs. Osmond
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and The Blue Guitar--a dazzling new novel that extends the story of Isabel Archer, the heroine of Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady, into unexpected (and completely stand-alone) territory. Isabel Archer is a young American woman, swept off to Europe in the late nineteenth century by an aunt who hopes to round out the impetuous but naive girl's experience of the world. When Isabel comes into a...
47) The wicked city
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
366 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Moving into the building that once hid a speakeasy, Ella Hawthorne uncovers the Jazz Age story of a scandalous love triangle involving redheaded flapper Gin Kelly, a rugged Prohibition agent, and a wealthy debonair Princetonian.
Author
Series
Wicked City volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages, 18 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Blackberry Island volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their tenuous relationship with each other--on Blackberry Island.
50) The other woman
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam's perfect, the man she thought she'd never meet. But lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. Emily chose Adam, but she didn't choose his mother Pammie. There's nothing a mother wouldn't do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever. -- adapted from back cover
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Language
English
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Description
"The ultimate summer nostalgia read, about an engaged woman who comes face to face with her first love who she hasn't seen in fourteen years, but who she spent every summer with from age five to seventeen when he broke her heart, calling into question everything she thought she knew about their love story, and herself"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland is too focused on her secret to take much notice of the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his younger brother, Hank--her longtime best friend--and Irvel has no idea how to break the news. Then the unthinkable happens--Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and Irvel take up the...
Author
Series
Amish bookstore volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
With little left to tie her to her home state of Texas and yearning for a slower life, Yvonne Wilson jumps at the chance to shake things up with a move to Montgomery, Indiana. A dream job awaits her-managing an Amish bookstore for her good friends Jake and Eva. Besides the slow-paced setting and the comfort of beloved books, Yvonne hopes the change will help distract her from the emptiness she feels after the death of her fiance. No longer a part...
Author
Publisher
Five Spot
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
410 p. : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eliot Gordon would do anything for her family. A 38-year-old working mother, she lives an ordinary but fulfilling life in suburban Atlanta with her partner, Grant Delaney, and their three daughters. The two older girls are actually Eliot's stepdaughters, a distinction she is reluctant to make as she valiantly attempts to maintain a safe, happy household . . .Then Finn Montgomery, Eliot's long-lost first love, appears, triggering a shocking chain of...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Laurel Millard, youngest of seven children, is expected to stay home and "take care of Mama" by her older siblings, but Laurel has dreams of starting her own family. Operating a silk loom at the Atlanta Exposition will give her the chance to capture the heart of a man wealthy enough to take care of Laurel and any children she might bear, as well as her mother. Langdon Rochester's parents have given him an ultimatum: settle down with...
56) Hello stranger
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In the first novel of Beth Wiseman's new Amish Bookstore series, a rare, old book may hold answers to a present-day romance. Yvonne Wilson arrives in Montgomery, Indiana, determined to purchase a rare book on behalf of a client willing to pay her an absurd amount of money for her efforts. Engaged to be married in a few months, Yvonne is thrown off guard when she finds herself attracted to the handsome bookstore owner, Jake Lantz--and now she's asking...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Language
English
Description
"A dazzling debut novel from an exciting new voice, The Mothers is a surprising story about young love, a big secret in a small community--and the things that ultimately haunt us most. Set within a contemporary black community in Southern California, Brit Bennett's mesmerizing first novel is an emotionally perceptive story about community, love, and ambition. It begins with a secret. "All good secrets have a taste before you tell them, and if we'd...
60) Luster
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Edie is stumbling her way through her twenties--sharing a subpar apartment in Bushwick, clocking in and out of her admin job, making a series of inappropriate sexual choices. She is also haltingly, fitfully giving heat and air to the art that simmers inside her. And then she meets Eric, a digital archivist with a family in New Jersey, including an autopsist wife who has agreed to an open marriage--with rules. As if navigating the constantly shifting...