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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
354 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pierce Waverly, the Earl of Devonmont, has been estranged from his mother for most of his life. When his mother's new companion, Mrs. Camilla Stuart, writes to tell him that his mother is seriously ill, he goes home. But when he learns that the lovely widow tricked him in order to effect a holiday reconciliation, he refuses to stay unless she meets his terms.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"Sonya used to perform on stage. She used to attend glamorous parties, date handsome men, ride in fast cars. But somewhere along the way, the stage lights Sonya lived for dimmed for good. And then, in their absence, came darkness--blackouts, empty cupboards, hazy nights she can't remember. Haunted by her failed career and unresolved childhood trauma, Sonya has fallen deep into an alcoholic abyss. What keeps Sonya from losing herself completely is...
Author
Publisher
Abbi Glines
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The only thing hotter than the weather South of the Mason Dixon line are the boys. Worn, faded blue jeans, slow Southern drawls, and those naughty moments in the back of pickup trucks a girl never forgets. Welcome to the world of the Sutton boys. Five brothers who fight, party, drink a little too much, but more importantly, they love their momma. Nothing can tear them apart ... until the girl next door wins more than one of their hearts.--Page 4 of...
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Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
Author
Series
A Lavender Tides novel volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Her photographs capture the beauty of Puget Sound. Do they also expose a darkness that someone would kill to keep buried? After her husband, Jack, dies in a climbing incident, Shauna has only her five-year-old son and her helicopter charter business to live for. Every day is a struggle to make ends meet and she lives in constant fear of losing even more than she already has. When her business partner is murdered, his final words convince Shauna that...
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English
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"'I had but one delusion, which I held onto with all my willpower: we once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' In a world created outside of time, Li and the son who died talk about their lives. Deeply intimate and moving, this story cycle of grief captures the love and humor in a relationship which goes on now in a mother's heart, between a mother and child, even as it captures the pain of Li's...
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Language
English
Description
How can we live with integrity and pleasure in this world of police brutality and racism? An Asian American activist is challenged by his mother to face this question in this powerful--and funny--debut novel of generational change, a mother's secret, and an activist's coming-of-age. Twenty-one-year-old Reed is fed up. Angry about the killing of a Black man by an Asian American NYPD officer, he wants to drop out of college and devote himself to the...
48) Commit
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Language
English
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Description
I got dumped. And not by just some woman. By the love of my life—a heart-crushing blow. Now we're going to be together all weekend at my friend's destination wedding. It's no problem. Not awkward at all. I've had two months to construct a heart of stone. Seeing Remi again will be easy. The hard part? Pretending like I'm not still in love with her when really, all I want is a second chance. Commit is a second-chance romantic comedy full of witty...
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Language
English
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"In 1796 Trinidad, young Rosa Rendón quietly but purposefully rebels against the life others expect her to lead. Bright, competitive, and opinionated, Rosa sees no reason she should learn to cook and keep house, for it is obvious her talents lie in running the farm she, alone, views as her birthright. But when her homeland changes from Spanish to British rule, it becomes increasingly unclear whether its free black property owners-Rosa's family among...
Author
Series
Suzanna trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
187 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In Poor People's Flowers, Suzanna runs fast. Twice she ran away from men. The first man was her husband. The second a stranger, who promised to take her from New Mexico to Colorado in the mid 1930s. Suzanna runs until she meets two other men, and a beautiful woman. One of them uses her, the other helps her. The woman taught her to work in a working class bar, and together they searched for the children Suzanna left behind when she ran.--Back cover....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago, carrying his resentment of his mother with him. He has now returned to Bombay to adopt a baby--and to see his elderly mother for the first time in several years. Discovering that she is in the hospital, has stopped talking, and seems to have given up on life, he is struck with guilt for not realizing just how sick she has become. His unexpected appearance and assiduous attention revives her and...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
373 pages, 9 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Widowed in her forties, with four children and not enough money, Nora has lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man who rescued her from the stifling world to which she was born. And now she fears she may be drawn back into it. Wounded, strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny community where everyone knows your business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has...
54) The book eaters
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Sunyi Dean's The Book Eaters is a contemporary fantasy debut. It's a story of motherhood, sacrifice, and hope; of queer identity and learning to accept who you are; of gilded lies and the danger of believing the narratives others create for you. Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet...
55) Johnny Angel
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Language
English
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Description
In her fifty-eighth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells the breathtaking story of a mother’s love and a son’s gift, of the tragedy that nearly destroyed a family...and the miracle that saved them. -- Johnny Angel is a celebration of life, hope, and forgiveness. It will make you laugh and cry…and hold your loved ones just a little bit closer.
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English
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"Bertie's mother Irene returns from the Middle East to discover that, in her absence, her son has been exposed to the worst of evils--television shows, ice cream parlors, and even unsanctioned art at the National Portrait Gallery. Her wrath descends on Bertie's long-suffering father, Stuart. But Stuart seems to have a new spring in his step"--
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
"[A] portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born--a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam--and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"All children have imaginary friends, Georgina tells herself. It's perfectly normal, and they all grow out of it in the end. But when her seven-year-old son, Cody, tells her about New Granny, the new friend he's met in the park, Georgina is instantly suspicious. Something-call it maternal instinct-tells her he isn't making it up. But maybe Georgina is losing her mind. It wouldn't be the first time, after all. And with her own mother's recent death...
Author
Series
Suzanna trilogy volume 3
Publisher
ABQ Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
ii, 174 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
By the mid 1960's, at the thrust of the Chicano Movement, Suzanna Montoya had settled in the city, gained a critical consciousness, and began to address urban concerns about race, class, and gender. Like many of her nameless Southwest contemporaries, Suzanna did her part where she lived on the west side of town, part of, but disenfranchised from the mainstream. Once again, Irene Blea, via Suzanna's analytical gift renders a colorful voice as she takes...
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