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A woman's new neighbor makes a bad—yet unforgettable—first impression in a story of unexpected passion from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
After a four-year absence, Shane Abbott returns to her rural Maryland hometown to find that not much has changed, except she now has a new neighbor—a rather ill-mannered and unfriendly one.
Vance Banning isn't the unemployed carpenter he lets Shane think...
After a four-year absence, Shane Abbott returns to her rural Maryland hometown to find that not much has changed, except she now has a new neighbor—a rather ill-mannered and unfriendly one.
Vance Banning isn't the unemployed carpenter he lets Shane think...
2) The bachelor
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Henry Saxton-Brae has it all – a titled, self-made millionaire, his fiancée just happens to be a supermodel. To top it all, he's just bought Hanborough Castle. Flora Fitzwilliam has been summoned to restore Hanborough to its former glory. She soon discovers that it's not just the house that needs fixing, and Flora seems to be the only person who sees the real Henry Saxton-Brae. Can she make Henry see that his bachelor days are behind him?
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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"A must-read for anyone who loves history and art."
—Kristin Hannah
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the smash bestseller Orphan Train, a stunning and atmospheric novel of friendship, passion, and art, inspired by Andrew Wyeth's mysterious and iconic painting Christina's World.
"Later he told me that he'd been afraid
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Deception—the lies we tell ourselves and the lies we tell others—is the subject of this, Tove Jansson’s most unnerving and unpredictable novel. Here Jansson takes a darker look at the subjects that animate the best of her work, from her sensitive tale of island life, The Summer Book, to her famous Moomin stories: solitude and community, art and life, love and hate.
Snow has been falling on the village all winter...
Snow has been falling on the village all winter...
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When Prudence Burns, the idealistic Brooklyn girl who inherited a derelict plot of land named Woefield Farm, falls ill with a mysterious health condition, the responsibility of running the farm falls to her motley crew of farm hands, and it isn't long before things start to fall apart.
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This debut novel by Trevor Herriot, one of Canada's foremost writer-naturalists, is the richly observed story of Nell Rowan, who has inherited her family's prairie farmstead and returned there to live after many decades away. Nell is increasingly obsessed by a 19th-century bird collector while haunted by memories of her mother's disappearance. Herriot lives in Regina, SK.
14) The lost husband
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Dear Libby, It occurs to me that you and your two children have been living with your mother for-Dear Lord!-two whole years, and I'm writing to see if you'd like to be rescued. The letter comes out of the blue, and just in time for Libby Moran, who-after the sudden death of her husband, Danny-went to stay with her hypercritical mother. Now her crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape: a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country....
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A novel about silence, tinged with the fantastic, that sneaks the brutality of grief into your imagination. Simon and Marie can't seem to have a baby. And so they flee the city for an idyllic village, where things will certainly be better. But the town is gloomy, even hostile-- things haven't been the same since the factory closed down and a broadcast antenna was erected. Now there are no birds singing, and people have started disappearing.
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Lila and Miguel, a working couple obsessed with money and class, leave behind their comfortable life in the big city and end up stranded in an idyllic place in front of the sea, although recently ravaged by a great drought. There they await the arrival of Antigua Padilla, a water seeker who is said to have the power to attract jaguars.
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It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...
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