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Since quitting work to look after his eight-year-old daughter, Alexa, Thomas Bradshaw has found solace and grace in his daily piano study. His pursuit of a more artistic way of life shocks and irritates his parents and in-laws. Why has he swapped roles with Tonie Swann, his intense, intellectual wife, who has accepted a demanding full-time job? How can this be good for Alexa?
Tonie is increasingly seduced away from domestic life by the harder, headier...
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The story of 17-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Over six turbulent months, she fills three diaries with sharply funny yet poignant entries and manages to find herself hopelessly in love. By the time she pens her final entry, she has "captured the castle" and the heart of the reader.
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"Marcia Willett delivers another powerful and touching tale of the importance of friendship and family in The Sea Garden. Jess Penhaligon is on her way to Devon to receive an award for her botanical painting. Hosting her will be Kate, who gladly welcomes her into her home. Jess's own family fell apart several years ago, so she is grateful for Kate's friendliness --and her close unit of extended family and friends, who embrace Jess just as warmly....
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Nonny Frett understands the meaning of "between a rock and a hard place." She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised...
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Rose Mae Lolley, having been told by a gypsy that her abusive husband will kill her, sets out in search of an ex-boyfriend, who once offered to murder her alcoholic father, with the intention of convincing him to kill her spouse, but instead Rose is forced to face her situation head on as well as deal with her feelings over being abandoned as a child by her mother.
10) 50 Harbor Street
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Corrie McAfee and her husband, a private investigator, solve a mystery from their past, while their daughter Linette moves back home and opens a new medical clinic and finds unexpected romance.
11) The usual rules
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A novel about a thirteen-year-old girl who finds herself living with her father, across the country from her native Brooklyn, coping with her mother's violent death in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
12) A good house
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The members of the Chambers family find themselves pulled apart and thrown together again in the years following World War II, and through their difficulties, they learn the true meaning of family.
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A stunning debut novel, THE END OF ALWAYS tells the story of one young woman's struggle to rise above a vicious family legacy and take charge of her own life. In 1907 Wisconsin, seventeen-year-old Marie Reehs is determined: she will not marry a violent man, as did her mother and grandmother before her. Day after day, Marie toils at the local laundry, watched by an older man who wants to claim her for his own. Night after night, she is haunted by the...
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Hollis Shaw's life seems picture-perfect. She's the star of the popular food blog, Hungry with Hollis, and is married to Matthew, a dreamy heart surgeon. But after she and Matthew get into a heated argument one snowy morning, Matthew leaves for the airport and is killed in a car accident. The cracks in Hollis's perfect life--her strained marriage and her complicated relationship with her daughter, Caroline--grow deeper. When Hollis hears about something...
15) Kinfolk
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Kinfolk is the story of a Chinese family. Dr. Liang moves to America in search of a better life, but his children long to return to China. Each responds to their new life in China differently, providing rich insight into the struggles between Eastern and Western culture, and the differences between generations.
16) The beach house
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At her mother's request, Caretta Rutledge travels back to the beach house she spent most of her childhood summers at, where she begins to reconnect with her estranged family.
17) Never tell a lie
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High school sweethearts Ivy and David Rose, expecting their first child, try desperately to keep their happy life from falling apart when they become suspects in the disappearance of a former classmate who showed up at their yard sale, asked to take a look around their house--which she used to play in as a child--and vanished.
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The Scudder family of Long Island, a household that includes patriarch August, his adult son and daughter Roy and Mavis, and his orphaned grandchildren, nineteen-year-old Nancy and her younger brother Clayton, is disrupted by an explosion at a nearby fireworks factory and further unsettled by Nancy's announcement that she plans to marry a young man from Boston.
19) Leaving: a novel
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"I never thought I'd see you here," Sarah says. Then she adds, "But I never thought I'd see you anywhere." Sarah and Warren's college love story ended in a single moment. Decades later, when a chance meeting brings them together, a passion ignites--threatening the foundations of the lives they've built apart. Since they parted in college, each has married, raised a family, and made a career. When they meet again, Sarah is divorced and living outside...
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After years of playing the role of the dutiful Navy wife and mother, Grace Bennett reaches a crossroads in her life and begins to wonder if she truly loves her husband, but when a disaster on her husband's aircraft carrier leaves her wondering if her husband is dead or alive, Grace rediscovers the love that brought them together.
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