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Hannah Swensen mysteries volume 28
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In this scrumptious new read in the blockbuster series packed with delightful recipes from a beloved New York Times bestselling author, baker Hannah Swensen is tempted by a high-profile tournament in Lake Eden that quickly turns deadly...
"A good puzzle, lots of delicious recipes...Fluke reinforces her place as the queen of culinary cozies." —Publishers Weekly
Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine...
"A good puzzle, lots of delicious recipes...Fluke reinforces her place as the queen of culinary cozies." —Publishers Weekly
Embracing a sweet escape from her usual routine...
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Simultaneously intimate, simple, deep, and powerful, The Old Man and the Sea is a story of triumph, loss, struggle, and perseverance, set against the rich backdrop of a Cuban fishing community.
The novella follows an old fisherman as he struggles to catch a gigantic marlin and turn his waning luck around. Over the course of this struggle the book contemplates masculinity, religion, fate, and the ultimate meaning (or lack thereof) of...
The novella follows an old fisherman as he struggles to catch a gigantic marlin and turn his waning luck around. Over the course of this struggle the book contemplates masculinity, religion, fate, and the ultimate meaning (or lack thereof) of...
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Rogues to lovers volume 2
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The next delightful novel in Anna Bennett's Rogues to Lovers series!
"Tantalizing...readers will be swept away." - Publishers Weekly
A FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER
Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family's fishing business afloat. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams. But she'll do anything for
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Off season volume 4
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Look for Home to the Harbor, the exciting new novel from Lee Tobin McClain, available from HQN books Apr 27, 2021. Pre-order your copy today!
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As the wounds of the Civil War are just beginning to heal, one fateful summer would forever alter the course of a young girl's life.
In 1868, on the barren shores of post-war Outer Banks North Carolina, the once wealthy Sinclair family moves for the summer to one of the first cottages on the ocean side of the resort village of Nags Head. Seventeen-year-old Abigail is beautiful, book-smart, but sheltered by her plantation life and hemmed-in by her...
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Joaquin Morales mysteries volume 1
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The body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman's nets in a remote fishing village in Quebec. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area, is thrown into the deep end of the investigation.
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One December day, a hapless and bored lobster fisher cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist. His wife leaves with their children soon after. During the spring lobster season, he and his friend are caught in a storm front, and the fisher falls overboard and is lost at sea for days. He is found alive, but having come so near to death forces him to confront the things he fears the most: love, friendship, belief, and himself.
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"April 1976: St Constance, a tiny Caribbean village on the island of Black Conch, at the start of the rainy season. A fisherman sings to himself in his pirogue, waiting for a catch - but attracts a sea-dweller he doesn't expect. Aycayia, a beautiful young woman cursed by jealous wives to live as a mermaid, has been swimming the Caribbean Sea for centuries. And she is entranced by this man David and his song."--Publisher description.
11) The storm
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Hannah and Nathan appear to have the perfect marriage. A beautiful Cornish house with heritage, a son, a dog. Every evening, Hannah awaits her husband's return, with a home-cooked meal, soothing conversation and, ultimately, sex. But Nathan controls Hannah's every move--counting her change from her shopping, checking her receipts, the mileage on the car. And Hannah seems happy to let him, being a prisoner in a gilded cage. Because Hannah has a secret....
12) Arrow's fall
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Offshore novels volume 2
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There's nowhere to hide in the Great Sea Reef in this heart-stopping thriller of a yarn. In this follow-up to 2018's Arrow's Flight, a tale of an 18th-century sunken ship and a fortune in gold sends Arrow and her crew on a venture that seems harmless enough. That is, until it attracts the attention of the flamboyant owner of the Golden Dragon, a 240-foot sailing machine crewed by cashiered ex-marine Lord Barclay Summers and his band of mercenaries....
13) Arrow's flight
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Offshore novels volume 1
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Jared Kane is a West Coast commercial fisherman whose life has been plagued by bad luck and blackout drinking. Once he inherits Arrow, an old forty-six-foot wooden sailboat, Jared begins to see a chance for redemption. With his friend from prison, Danny MacLean, Jared plans an offshore voyage, sailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, down the Pacific Coast to California and out into the South Pacific. But that bad luck rears its ugly head: Danny...
14) Alamar
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Film Movement volume year 8, film 7
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Before their inevitable farewell, a young man of Mayan roots and Natan, his half Italian son, embark on an epic journey into the open sea.
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Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and shape-shifting friends obliterating their bodies in two-week shifts of crushing labor. The couple keep their pain hidden from each other, and most of...
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Bellinger sisters romances volume 2
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King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows hes a guaranteed good timein bed and outand thats exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. Shes immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for...
18) Follow the sun
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Quinn Boyle is a lobsterman afloat in a shambled vessel, haunted by his battles with lobsters and with heroin, and ever behind on his child support. Since Quinn lost a man off his boat and served time for possession, only naive beginners will work with him. On his final lobster run, Quinn's down to his last options. He hires on an old nemesis, Freddy Santoro, who's facing prison time of his own. Three days later, they're both gone, lost without a...
19) Les pêcheurs
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Résumé: Bienvenue au chalet de Martin Petit. Chaque semaine, lhumoriste reçoit un duo de la grande famille du monde de lhumour pour un week-end de pêche dans un cadre rustique et bucolique.
20) Seduced
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Hannah Smith novels volume 4
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Hannah Smith returns in the stunning new adventure in the New York Times bestselling series by the author of the Doc Ford novels. A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble....
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