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When he loses his job, his reputation, his fianc�ee and his favorite chair, Benny Catspaw gets a strange inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of - a seven-foot-tall self-described "bad weather friend" named Spike whose mission is to help people who are just too good for this world.
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"Lori, the heroine of Aunt Dimity's Death, married to a workaholic attorney, finds herself and Aunt Dimity searching for her missing father-in-law and her pink flannel bunny, only to discover a centuries-old secret about her husband's family."--Amazon.com
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"I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that." Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London. A marriage of convenience is the only solution. No one would have ever paired the shy, stammering wallflower with the sinfully handsome viscount. It quickly becomes clear, however, that Evie is a woman of hidden strength-and Sebastian desires her more...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
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423 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Award-winning author Catherine Palmer presents the first novel in another HeartQuest series. Fiery Elizabeth Hayes is determined to preserve Chalmers House, the Victorian mansion next to her growing antiques business. But Zachary Chalmers, heir to the mansion, has very different plans. Together they learn that God has the best plans of all-if we will only surrender to him.
10) All shook up
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
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463 pages ; 23 cm
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English
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A Man With a Past
When an unexpected inheritance sends J.D. Carver to the Star Lake Lodge to claim his half, he's expecting trouble. Being greeted with open arms by the whole Lawrence gang-feisty Aunt Sophie and calm Uncle Ben, clearly off-limits Dru and her young son, Tate-just convinces him they're working an angle, and he's determined to uncover it. But a tiny part of him longs for the home-and-hearth life they have.
A Woman With a Reputation
Dru's...
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Family upstairs volume 1
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English
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"Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she's been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London's fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby's...
13) Eclipse Bay
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Thorndike Press
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2000.
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471 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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FIRST IN THE STUNNING TRILOGY
Eclipse Bay has grown and flourished amongst the sharp cliffs and hidden coves of the rugged Oregon coast. But this small town is also filled with secrets as treacherous as the landscape and rivalries as fierce as an ocean storm.
Their grandfathers hated each other. Their fathers hated each other. But they don't hate each other. Not at all . . .
Hannah Harte remembers the long-ago night on the beach that revealed Rafe...
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Thorndike Press
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2017.
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Large print edition.
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1 volume (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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James de Vere has always insisted on being perfectly pragmatic and rational in all things. It seemed the only way to deal with his overdramatic, greedy family. When he falls ill and no doctor in London can diagnose him, he returns home to Grace Hill in search of a physician who can-or to set his affairs in order. Arriving at the doctor's home, he's surprised to encounter the doctor's daughter Laura, a young woman he last saw when he was warning her...
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2015.
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"Sam Gardner has been pastor of Hope Friends Meeting for just four months when ninety-eight-year-old member Olive Charles passes away. What's more shocking news is that Olive has left her entire estate--worth nearly one million dollars--to the meeting. At first the gift sounds to Sam like a godsend. Yet as word of the unexpected windfall spreads, it stirs up a storm of conflicting opinions among the church members as to how the money would best be...
17) Eye of the storm
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G.K. Hall
Pub. Date
2001
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435 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
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English
18) Inheritance
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The Lost Bride trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic designer Sonya MacTavish is stunned to learn that her late father had a twin he never knew about-and that her newly discovered uncle, Collin Poole, has left her almost everything he owned, including a...
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Thorndike Press
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2008.
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457 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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The dangerously beautiful Deirdre Cantor is determined to inherit her grandfather's vast fortune. All she needs is to marry a duke, and be the first granddaughter to walk down the aisle. So when the proper Calder Marbrook, the Marquis of Brookhaven and future Duke of Brookmoor, is abandoned at the altar, Deirdre makes it her business to become his wife; in spite of the whispers about his past.
20) New mercies
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2005
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Doubleday large print home library ed.
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434 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Inheriting a historic Mississippi family home she knows little about, Nora Bondurant moves to the house in the hopes of forgetting her unhappy past but becomes enmeshed in a mystery surrounding her aunt's untimely death.