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Everything She Lost
If her abusive husband hadn't tried to kill her and her beloved dog Lucie, Helen Ward might never have left her million-dollar home and run far away. Now Helen's changed her identity and moved across the country, hopeful that she can be safe, happy, maybe even loved. And when she meets college professor Sam Tolliver, she begins to believe fairytales do come true.
Gave Her Everything She Ever Wanted
But even with love blossoming...
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At the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged step-father, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared her to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change...
4) Fractured
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Detective Will Trent is called in to investigate the murder of a teenage girl in an affluent Atlanta suburb, and soon realizes that another girl is missing, sending Will on a wild chase through the city to find the missing girl before it is too late.
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"Experience the sultry Southern atmosphere of Atlanta and the magic of the Carolina Lowcountry in this funny and poignant tale of one audacious woman's quest to find the love she deserves, from New York Times bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank. Leslie Anne Greene Carter is The Last Original Wife among her husband Wesley's wildly successful Atlanta social set. His cronies have all traded in the mothers of their children they promised to love...
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"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize...
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then the sisters to each other despite the unknown,...
10) The weekenders
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"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
11) The husband
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What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty will discover that when a voice on the other end of a phone call says, 'We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash.' Although Mitch doesn't have that kind of money at his disposal, the caller knows that Mitch will do whatever it takes to raise it because Mitch loves his wife more than life itself. Now he's got 72 hours to prove it.
12) Willow Springs
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Copper Brown places her trust in God to help her find her purpose in life after she leaves her mountain home following a whirlwind romance and goes to live in Lexington, Kentucky, with her husband, a busy medical doctor.
13) Beach colors
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Fans of Jane Green and Kristin Hannah are going to adore Beach Colors, a fun, heartwarming, and sandy story from Shelley Noble, a former dancer and choreographer whose credits include the films Mona Lisa Smile and The Game Plan. The perfect beach read, Beach Colors tells the story of a respected New York City fashion designer who returns to her tiny coastal Connecticut home town when her city life implodes-only to find herself falling hard for a local...
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Joanna Harrison, having spent twenty-five years of marriage following her husband from place to place as he climbed the corporate ladder, rebels at the prospect of yet another uprooting, and leaves her home and husband to take up residence on Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where she becomes the live-in companion to aging artist Grace Finelli,a woman who has chosen to live her last years for herself.
15) Another woman
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When the seemingly elated Cressida Forrest disappears without a trace the night before her lavish wedding, a frantic search for answers reveals a fragile web of sexual and financial secrets involving two families.
16) The wife's tale
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Mary Gooch, a middle-aged, overweight woman whose ordinary life has come to a standstill, is startled by her husband's disappearance on the eve of their silver anniversary and decides to set out in search of him by traveling to Los Angeles, where her encounters with strangers, family members, and friends give her the inner strength to move on.
18) Wings of glass
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On the cusp of adulthood, 18-year-old Penny is swept off her feet by a handsome farmhand. But the fairy tale doesn't last, and she finds redemption with two women from very different worlds.
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"Sadie Jones has a long literary future ahead of her." -Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with the Pearl Earring Fresh off her triumphantly assured debut novel The Outcast, award-winning author Sadie Jones has again delivered a quiet masterpiece in Small Wars. Set on the colonial, war-torn island of Cyprus in 1956, Jones tells the story of a young solider, Hal Treherne, and the effects of this "small war" on him, his wife Clara, and their family. Reminiscent...
20) The consequences
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"Explores the aftermath of infidelity from three different perspectives--husband, wife, and mistress."--from cover, p. [4].
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