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In Flirting with Pete, bestselling author Barbara Delinsky weaves together two fascinating narratives that merge in a dramatic, highly emotional, and totally unexpected conclusion, as a daughter's struggle to win the approval of the father she never knew becomes a journey of self-discovery.
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father—but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and...
Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father—but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and...
3) Divine evil
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Returning to the Maryland hometown where her father died under mysterious circumstances, Clare Kimball finds herself falling in love with town sheriff and former bad boy Cameron Rafferty before a dangerous evil from the past returns to haunt her.
4) True grit
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Mattie Ross is just fourteen years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves home to avenge her father's blood. With the one-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory.
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2022.
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"Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston. Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,...
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After the suspicious death of his father, Adam Blaine attempts to help his family heal as the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's death casts suspicion on those closest to him.
"Two months after the suspicious and much-publicized death of his father on the island of Martha's Vineyard, it is taking all of Adam Blaine's will to suture the deep wounds the tragedy has inflicted upon his family and himself. As the court inquest into Benjamin Blaine's...
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Journey of the heart volume 2
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When her father succumbs to a long illness, Sarah Montgomery is freed to join the love of her life, Rand Campbell, out west in Fort Laramie, Wyoming. Sarah and her younger brother Joel make the arduous journey, but their reception isn't what Sarah had hoped for. Her friend Amelia is thrilled to have her, but Rand seems to be in the clutches of Jessica DuBois, the scheming daughter of the post commander. And things will get tougher before they get...
9) Meant to be
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"A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins, in this irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and The Lies That Bind. The Kingsley family is American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance. In 1968, after Joseph S. Kingsley, Jr. is killed in a tragic accident, his charismatic son...
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"A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of an eleven-year-old over the course of a single summer, as she tries to make sense of her new life with her estranged grandfather and sister after the death of her father and disappearance of her mother"--
After their father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit, Kenyatta Bernice (KB) and her sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed...
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2022.
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"Former White House intern turned intelligence operative Hayley Chill is filling her time by training as an MMA fighter. When she's convinced to pursue the truth about her father's mysterious fate, she stumbles upon a ciphered document under the floorboards of her father's house. With permission from her handler to probe deeper, she is led into a terrifying subculture of white supremacy within the United States military. As her investigation intensifies,...
12) Whereabouts
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"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...
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Summer beach volume 2
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When real estate developers discover the hidden enclave of SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest and Nineveh--the home of African American elites, Olivia Jones fights to preserve her new Black utopia, leading her to define the meaning of love, friendship, community and family.
In a hidden enclave in Sag Harbor affectionately known as SANS--Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Nineveh--there's a close-knit community of African American elites who escape the city...
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After ten years away from home, Adam Blaine returns to Martha's Vineyard to attend the funeral of his estranged father, Ben, a famous and charismatic writer who was fond of sailboats, good wine -- and women other than his wife. When Adam learns that Ben disinherited his family in favor of his mistress he begins to wonder if his father's death -- caused by an inexplicable fall from a cliff -- might have been suicide or murder. Using his training as...
16) Cherokee
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2017.
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As boss of the Half-Moon Ranch, the biggest along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Justa Williams is a chip off the old man's block. But when the old man ups and asks him for a dying man's favor, it's Justa's duty to honor his words. Even if that means taking $25,000 of company gold and riding blind into the blood-soaked Cherokee battleground of Oklahoma Territory to look for a man who may not even be alive and settle an old score. Odds are high things won't...
17) Manhattan Beach
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2017.
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"The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn...
18) Wildflower hope
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Wildflower House volume 2
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2020.
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"Kara Hart suffered overwhelming heartache when she lost her mother and husband, and her father's sudden death might be the blow that breaks her -- unless she turns her grief into purpose. She'll finish renovating his Victorian mansion in rural Virginia, but with her own twist. She'll turn the old house into a creative retreat for artists and writers. Kara has never tackled a project this big alone, and she's not ready to open her heart to others...
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2021.
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"Adrift in the wake of her father's death, a failed marriage and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it's also a distraction from her profound pain. When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore...
20) Devoted
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A child who has not spoken since his father's death befriends a dog who understands his wordless communications, which are complicated by the boy's conviction that an evil is targeting his family.
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