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Firefly Lake volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte Gibbs wants nothing more than to put the past behind her, once and for all. But now that she's back at Firefly Lake to sell her mother's cottage, the overwhelming flood of memories reminds her of what she's been missing. Sun-drenched days. Late-night kisses that still shake her to the core. The gentle breeze off the lake, the scent of pine in the air, and the promise of Sean's touch on her skin . . . True, she got her dream job traveling...
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English
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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...
23) Biloxi: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Biloxi, Mississippi is home to sixty-three-year-old Louis McDonald Jr. His wife of thirty-seven years left him, his father has passed--and he has impulsively retired from his job in anticipation of an inheritance check that may not come. In the meantime, he watches reality television, sips beer, and avoids his ex-wife and daughter. One day, he stops at a house advertising free dogs and meets overweight mixed-breed Layla. Unexpectedly, Louis takes...
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Series
Jackson Falls volume 1
Language
English
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"Get in and get out. That was India Robidoux's plan for this family visit. But when her brother needs her help with his high-profile political campaign, India has no choice but to stay and face the one man she's been running from for years--Travis, her sister's ex-husband. One hot summer night when Travis was still free, they celebrated her birthday with whiskey and an unforgettable kiss. The memory is as strong as ever--and so are the feelings she's...
25) The Lola quartet
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English
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Gavin Sasaki's a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It's early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly: the economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded age into something that more closely resembles the Great Depression. The last thing Gavin wants to do is return to his hometown of Sebastian, Florida,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
Frank Bascombe is now contending with health, marital, and familial issues in the wake of the 2000 presidential election. At 55, he now sells real estate and is trying to handle the breakup of two marriages, a life-threatening disease and the disappointment over a son's career choice.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Zoe, a sometime artist, is from California. Martin, an engineer, is from Yorkshire. Both have ended up in picturesque Cluny, in central France. Both are struggling to come to terms with their recent past - for Zoe, the death of her husband; for Martin, a messy divorce. Looking to make a new start, each sets out alone to walk 2000 kilometres from Cluny to Santiago de Compostela, in northwestern Spain, in the footsteps of pilgrims who have walked the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Per Petterson’s evocative and moving new novel, finds Arvid Jansen in a tailspin, unable to process the grief of losing his parents and brothers in a tragic ferry accident. In the aftermath, Arvid’s wife, Turid, divorced him and took their three daughters with her. One year later, Arvid still hasn’t recovered. He spends his time drinking, falling into fleeting relationships with women, and driving around in his Mazda. When Turid unexpectedly...
Author
Series
Firefly Lake volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mia Gibbs spent her marriage putting her husband's needs before her own. And now, after a painful divorce, she's building a new life for herself and her two daughters back home at Firefly Lake. The last thing she needs is a man to complicate things. But former bad boy turned friend Nick McGuire-and the one kiss they've shared-has turned everything upside down . . . Attorney Nick McGuire wasn't meant to be a family man. His career has always been...
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"A community is devastated when the bronze statue of local legend Mama Cuento is stolen on Valentine's Day. When Lexy Campbell arrives on the scene, a big bronze toe is found along with a ransom note - "Listen to our demands or you will never see her again. There are nine more where this came from".Then, Lexy's ex-husband Bran turns up begging for help to find his wife, Brandee, who has disappeared. Lexy agrees to pitch in, but when she shows up at...
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on the bestselling book by Matthew Quick, the riotous and poignant story of how a man who has lost everything, his house, his job, his wife, reconnects with himself and creates his own silver linings from the bonds he forms with his family and friends.
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Hindi
Description
Vivan is a successful radio jockey on a popular radio channel in Mumbai. He has acquired everything in life but his marriage is unsuccessful. So he divorces wife Pooja (Sonal) on grounds of incompatibility. Though he still carries a soft spot for Pooja, he soon realizes that he wants to spend his life with another girl Shanaya (Shehnaz).
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money--it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't stay in one place for long, and you're paranoid that your past is creeping back up on you. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson House in Degener, Texas, Eric thinks they may have finally...
37) Last chance hero
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Series
Last Chance romances volume 9
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fire chief Ross Gardiner returns to Last Chance to start over after a difficult divorce, where he gets a second chance to make things work with antiques shop owner Sabina Grey, who stole his heart when they were teenagers.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tommy Saxondale was once a roadie for all the great bands. Now Tommy's a pest controller and living in suburbia, but he's still railing against the system. Only these days the system means blokes in suits. Following Tommy's hostile divorce, he meets his soul mate in Magz, an amateur artist whose work evolves from selling t-shirts and posters of politicians smoking joints, amongst other things. Completing Tommy's surrogate family is his young lodger...
39) The hunt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Danish
Description
Lucas is a former school teacher who has been forced to start over having overcome a tough divorce and the loss of his job. Just as things are starting to go his way, his life is shattered when an untruthful remark throws his small community into a collective state of hysteria. As the lie spreads, Lucas is forced to fight a lonely fight for his life and dignity.
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Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment."
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