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Coming Up in the Valley is a family saga novel, very dramatic, slightly comical with a hint of mystery. The novel covers 20 years. The backdrop is Las Vegas Nevada. The novel gives a little history of Las Vegas. Its main-focus is on the small community inside the Las Vegas Valley, known by its residents as the village. The characters do travel to New York, Texas, and China. The story is very inspiring. The message is that with faith, hard work, determination,...
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When you think of a love story, you usually think of the romance, the passion and the connections the people have but you would never believe a story of pain, lies and love lost. You think of steamy nights and hot dates. You think of flowers, chocolates and butterflies on the inside. But not for Sydney.
Sydney Rose has the perfect relationship, at least she thought. Until Sydney becomes entangled in the ultimate journey of love, torture and obsession....
4) Cranford
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Step into the charming world of "Cranford" by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. This delightful novel invites you to a quaint English village, where the lives of its eccentric and endearing inhabitants are interwoven in a tapestry of humor, heartwarming moments, and social observations.
Set in the early 19th century, the narrative unfolds through the eyes of Mary Smith, an outsider welcomed into the close-knit community. As she navigates the idiosyncrasies...
5) Finding Lisa
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Tara Richards is unhappy with her job as a rehabilitation nurse and disenchanted with her marriage, but lacks the courage to make a major life change. When her best friend Lisa disappears, Tara's life is thrown into turmoil. Has Lisa jeopardized her sobriety by going on a drinking binge or is she hiding the news that she may be pregnant from her partner Ryan, who has a history of battering, and it's not his baby? Lisa is her rock, her confidant, her...
6) Home fires
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Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
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Home Again is a 76,500-word work of women's fiction with elements of magical realism set in the small resort town of Fish Creek in Door County, Wisconsin (USA).
Self-help author, Garrett Oakley, isn't feeling the love of self, help, or writing as he struggles to finish the sequel to his best-selling book on parent-child relationships. Already past his deadline, his life gets even more complicated when his reporter fiancée, Morning Glory Wilson,...
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Julie Larkham and Gregor MacGregor, "Mac", were living a fairy tale existence in their whitewashed croft overlooking Kincaird Loch, in the Scottish Highlands.
Mac and his brother had inherited a dilapidated castle, which they had turned into a boutique hotel with the help of Australian born, Julie and Chrissy. Now Mac was focused on Julie and the peanut growing inside her. He was overjoyed, while Julie was suffering from extreme morning sickness.
Running...
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Nadia is the oldest child, an orphan and a refugee. Even though her stepfather is a loving man and her stepmother is tolerant, she feels solely responsible for her brother and sister.
So it's no surprise to anyone that when her stepfather falls ill and contracts a marriage for Nadia, she agrees at once.
What else is she to do?
Making the decision is easy. Living with it is another story altogether.
Follow Nadia in the journey to find herself and...
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At the time of writing, Camille is a 29-year-old author who wants to nurture and share my gift and passion for writing with the world. I believe that if everyone positively contributes to the world around them, we can make a better future for the next generation. That is my intention; to contribute what I can to the world around me, no matter how small and seemingly insignificant.
"The Orphan's Journey; Elizabeth's Beginning" is the story of a very...
11) Enredados
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Enamorarse por internet en estos tiempos es normal. Me pregunto si es normal todo lo que ha pasado Sara por creerse una súper cybernauta. Esta atrapante historia de la vida de Sara te hará reir y llorar, o talvez sólo llorar por los acontencimientos desgarradores que marcaron su vida, por las consecuencia de su excesiva confianza en desconocidos a través de las redes sociales, por sus decisiones. Te envolverá la ternura cuando conozcas su amor...
13) Leave of Absence
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A small prairie community is blown apart when an audacious teenaged girl challenges long-held views of spirituality and sexuality. Suspected of being gay, she is brutalized by her classmates. This searing drama of bigotry and transcendence challenges the fallout of the Catholic Church's response to the same-sex marriage rulings in Canada. Award-winning playwright and actor Lucia Frangione has emerged as an important post-feminist voice in the theater,...
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My heart has been broken a thousand times along the way, like everyone. It is unavoidable, and when it happens, we try to make sense of it, to give it meaning, to name it. We consider what we might have learned ~ possibly something worth sharing.
Strength rose out of weakness as the young woman of my past stumbled over insecurities and
uncertainties until I learned one of life's most valuable lessons. Of course, there was a price and loss, but...
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She learned at a young age that love and heartache walk hand-in-hand.
Ambitious twenty-three-year-old law student Gemma Ellsworth seems to have it all. Living her best life in New York City, no one would guess that beneath her polished surface, she's riddled with anxiety and guilt.
Raised by a loving Mom and Grandmother, Gemma and her twin spent their childhood running barefoot through the golden fields of rural Indiana until one fateful night left...
16) Broken at Birth
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"It began with my grandmother's early morning phone call."I assumed it was just another call for attention from a lonely and sick old woman. Nothing more than one of my typical trips to resupply her with cigarettes and beer.How wrong I was."I have something important to tell you girls," she told me. "Something you all need to know before I die."By "girls" she meant my mother, my half-sister, and a cousin I'd never met. My job was to get us all together.What...
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Ginny Priem, the quintessential bachelorette with a successful career along with a full social calendar, had little time or care for dating. When a casual encounter brought Chad into her life, it changed everything. Her walls quickly crumbled and she was swept up into a fairytale relationship.
Or so she thought...
Ginny's life sets into a tailspin as she slowly uncovers the man she fell in love with is not the man he is at all. Based on a true story,...
19) Belleville
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Abby and Zack, young American newlyweds, have abandoned a comfortable postgraduate life in the states for Belleville, a bustling, bohemian, multicultural Parisian neighborhood. But as secrets both minor and monumental are revealed, their fraught relationship begins to unravel. Belleville examines the limits of trust and dependency in a world where love can turn pathological and our most intimate relationships may not be what they seem.
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Love comes softly volume 2
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[2004]
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English
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Missie Davis, devoted equally to teaching school and doing her share on the family farm, becomes torn between two very different men until she learns what is really important.
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