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"In 1969 Alabama, eleven-year-old Dixie Dupree learns that the family she once believed was happy has deep fractures and records everything in her diary in this coming-of-age story about mothers and daughters, the guilt and pain that pass between generations, and the truths that are impossible to hide, especially from ourselves"--
22) Just in time
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"An uplifting story of three grief support group dropouts--women united in loss and rescued through friendship. An accident has left Grace's husband in a vegetative state. Nan, a widow for twenty years, is feeling the emptiness now that her children are grown. Monica is reeling over her husband's sudden death and the revelation of his infidelity"--
23) Waiting for Nick
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"Frederica Kimball had been waiting for the day when Nicholas LeBeck would fall as desperately in love with her as she had always been with him. Nick didn't know what had hit him...sweet, adorable Freddie, whom he'd always loved like a kid sister, was suddenly looking and acting like a sensual woman. The waiting was over, but the wanting had just begun!"--Amazon.com.
24) Kentucky sunrise
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The conclusion to the saga of the Coleman and Thornton families follows Nealy Coleman Diamond as she and her daughter Emmie battle against each other while trying to train a new colt for the illustrious Kentucky Derby.
25) Perfect match
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"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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Large print edition.
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367 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"After losing her husband, Harold, and her beloved grandson, Cody, within the past year, Louisa has two choices. She can fade away on her Indiana family farm, where her companionship comes courtesy of her aging chickens and an argumentative cat. Or, she can concoct A Plan. Louisa, a retired schoolteacher who's as smart, sassy, and irreverent as ever, isn't the fading away type. The drunk driver who killed Cody got off scot-free by lying about a deer...
27) In plain sight
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The Sisterhood volume 25
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For years Myra Rutledge and Annie de Silva, founding members of the Sisterhood, have funded an underground network run by former Supreme Court Justice Pearl Barnes to help women escape abusive relationships. When two of Pearl's clients fail to report for their weekly check-in, the Sisterhood and their allies begin a search for French model Amalie Laurent and her one-time maid, Rosalee Muno. Amalie's estranged husband, Lincoln Moss, is a distant cousin...
28) Kentucky heat
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Determined to make her racing stables the best in Kentucky, Nealy Coleman Diamond finds her life changed by the arrival of her ex-husband's law partner, Hatch Littletree, but an unexpected tragedy threatens to destroy everything Nealy holds dear.
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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Large print edition.
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507 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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"Shortly after her 101st birthday, Prudence O'Connor receives a visit from an unknown relative. A lifetime has passed since the summer day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, genius glass artist, dynamited the breakwater at his Oyster Bay mansion rather than turn over the beach for public use--and Prudence's family was mysteriously shattered. Now, a box of mementos sparks long-repressed memories, forcing Prudence to unpack her history and unravel the consequences...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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Large Print edition.
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639 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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Nestled into the cliffs in southern Italy's Amalfi coast, Positano is an artist's vision, with rows of brightly hued houses perched above the sea and picturesque staircases meandering up and down the hillside. Santina, still a striking woman despite old age and the illness that saps her last strength, is spending her final days at her home, Villa San Vito. The magnificent eighteenth-century palazzo is very different from the tiny house in which she...
31) Convincing Alex
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Detective Alex Stanislaski thought he’d seen it all—until he mistakenly arrests the daringly bold soap opera writer Bess McNee for soliciting. Committed to understanding her characters, Bess often looks for research opportunities to help her write the best she can—and accidentally being arrested gives her the best opportunity of all. She decides to follow the sexy detective around to get “ideas” for her show, but Bess will soon discover...
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Piping Plover Press
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[2019]
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316 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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"Lisa Hodges needs to make a decision fast. Thanks to her dead husband's gambling addiction, their savings is almost gone. In her early fifties with a large, waterfront home on Nantucket to support, Lisa hasn't worked in over thirty years, has no in-demand skills and is virtually unemployable. Her only options are to sell the house and move off-island, or, she could use her cooking and entertaining skills and turn her home into a bed and breakfast....
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"Synopsis: With its tree-lined streets, vibrant downtown and curbside planters of spring bulbs, Amberley, Massachusetts, seems a good place for Cate Saunders to start over. It's been two years since her husband, John, was killed in Iraq and life has been a struggle. But when she meets a Holocaust survivor, Cate feels a deep connection and finds an unexpected way forward" --
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For Mina, a London-based travel writer, the enigmatic silence surrounding her aunt Carmela has become a personal obsession. Carmela disappeared from her Italian hometown long ago and is mentioned only in fragments and whispers. Mina has resisted prying, respectful of her family's Sardinian reserve. But now, with her mother battling cancer, it's time to learn the truth. In 1952, Simius is a busy Sardinian town surrounded by fertile farms and orchards....