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In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The divorce has just become final, and Richard is already engaged to someone. One woman is determined to change that situation--no matter what it takes. Soon a tangle of lies binds her life with those of Richard and his new fiancee. A tangle of lies, that hide some dangerous truths.
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English
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Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
6) Rabbit, run
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1960
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
307 p.; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a...
10) The wedding girl
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
327 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Beach House volume 3
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
A tale exploring themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South shares the story of The Beach House's Lovie Rutledge, who reflects on a summer during which a beach vacation to escape her unfaithful, disdainful husband culminates in a fateful romance with a handsome biologist.
14) The widow
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Language
English
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"Following the twists and turns of an unimaginable crime, The Widow is an electrifying debut thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on when more bad things began to happen. . . But that woman's husband died last week. And Jean doesn't have to be her anymore. There's a lot...
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English
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After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As for what it proves, heaven only knows. It's life as usual in Mitford. A beloved town character lands a front-page obituary, but who was it, exactly, who died? And what about the former mayor, born the year Lindbergh landed in Paris, who is still running for office? All this, of course,...
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Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Language
English
Description
Ralph Truitt, a wealthy businessman with a troubled past who lives in a remote nineteenth-century Wisconsin town, has advertised for a reliable wife; and his ad is answered by Catherine Land, a woman who makes every effort to hide her own dark secrets.
18) Stand-in wife
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Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Savor again this classic romance about a single dad getting a second chance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Tragedy had shattered Paul Manning's whole world, leaving him a grieving widower with three small children. Reeling from shock and grief, Paul turns in desperation to the one person he knows he can count on: gentle, caring Leah Baker. Slowly, Leah eases his sorrow and fills his life with new meaning. Then Paul makes...
19) Watch over me
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English
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When Benjamin Patil finds an infant abandoned in a field, he and his wife Abbi serve as the foster parents, but the baby's arrival opens wounds for Abbi and sheds light on how much Ben has changed since his tour in Afghanistan.