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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...
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"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
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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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Lark Harnish, plucky and chatty and full of hope, is starting a new life. It's 1919 in rural Nova Scotia and at just thirteen years old, she has to leave her mother and siblings to go work at the McMasters house. Her father has died and her family desperately needs the money. She arrives expecting another version of her own family--bruised and saddened by the loss of a parent, but still full of love and laughter and stories. Instead she finds a family...
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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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On mean Harp Bittlemore's blighted farm, hidden away in the Backhills, nothing has gone right for a very long time. Crops don't grow, the pigs and chickens stay skinny and the three aged dairy cows, Berle, Crilla and Dally, are so desperate they are plotting an escape. The one thing holding them back is the thought of abandoning young Willa, the single bright point in their life since her older sister, Margaret, ran away. But Willa Bittlemore, just...
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"Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of solitude and how we relate to other beings. It has been lauded by European critics for doing something very rare: offering deep pleasure and joy in reading with little theatrics. Having grown up as an only child in Northern Sweden, Lydia is used to isolation and being on her own. She fills her...
19) About last night
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The immensely funny and heartwarming number one bestseller, tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life - but will she have the courage to take it?
Molly has traded London for a dream home in the country - except it was her husband's dream, not hers. And David is, well, rather dead now.
So when a distant relative leaves her a London townhouse, Molly is ready to quit 'The Good Life' and return to *her *good life.
But there's a rather...
20) Cottage life
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