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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Violet Parry is living the quintessential life of luxury in the Hollywood Hills with David, her rock-and-roll manager husband, and her darling toddler, Dot. She has the perfect life--except that she's deeply unhappy. David expects the world of Violet but gives little of himself in return. When she meets Teddy, a roguish small-time bass player, Violet comes alive, and soon she's risking everything for the chance to find herself again. Also in the picture...
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2020.
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English
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"A showrunner and her assistant give the world something to talk about when they accidentally fuel a ridiculous rumor in this debut romance. Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse time--threatening Emma's promotion and Jo's new movie. As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their...
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When their grandmother dies, Grace and Andrew Easton inherit her sprawling, book-filled London home, Dinmont House. Rather than sell it, the adult siblings move in together, splitting the numerous bedrooms and studies. The arrangement is unusual, but ideal for the affectionate pair--until the day Andrew brings home a new boyfriend. A devilishly handsome novelist, James Derain resembles Cary Grant, but his strident comments about Grace's doctoral thesis...
28) If you only knew
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Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A boy recently released from jail and the daughter of a prosecutor fall for each other against all the odds. But when their dark pasts come to light, can they make things work?
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New beginnings (Mary Ellis) volume 1
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Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Amy King faces challenges in her young Amish life when both of her parents are killed in a house fire and her fiance, John Detweiler, persuades her to leave Lancaster County and make a new beginning with him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy turns into love and marriage. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use...
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Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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A millennial couple grapple with the sense of menace and despair that seems to permeate their modern lives as they scramble to pay the bills, cook meals, and navigate their relationship in the apocalyptic cityscape of 2020 Brooklyn, New York.
33) Peaces
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread; Boy, Snow, Bird; and What is Not Yours is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A sky-blue car that has been present in pivotal life moments for several people becomes a source of contention and then alliance between Marcus, who is fleeing the consequences of his unrealized ambitions, and Maria, who would make amends in her hometown.
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"A husband’s disappearance links two couples in this twisty thriller from New York Times bestselling author Mary Kubica Jake Hayes is missing. This much is certain. At first, his wife, Nina, thinks he is blowing off steam at a friend’s house after their heated fight the night before. But then a day goes by. Two days. Five. And Jake is still nowhere to be found. Lily Scott, Nina’s friend and coworker, thinks she may have been the last to see...
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Catapult
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Haunted by her new husband's previous life, Frances, a young art historian studying objects in paintings in Sydney, takes mind-clearing walks around her neighborhood during which she makes another worldly discovery that calls everything she thought she knew into question.
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English
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Desperate to obliterate her past, a young widow flees California for the French Riviera in this compelling debut, a tale of loss, rebirth, modern friendship, and romance that blends Sally Rooney's wryness and psychological insight with Emma Straub's gorgeous scene-setting and rich relationships. Just days after her young, handsome husband dies in a car accident, Ellie Huang discovers that he had a mistress--one of her own colleagues at a prestigious...
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Island of Mure novels volume 5
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English
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"On the little Scottish island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of "sweetheart weddings," a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald, who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things, returns with a wedding...
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A piano man in 1960s New York keeps to himself and away from his father's mob ties until his hit collaboration with an African American woman singer thrusts him into a national spotlight that also stirs up issues with his father's associates.
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Strebor Books
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Having fallen in love with a companion who convinced him to participate in a bank robbery and died in the fallout, Juan Jiles rebuilds his life with the funds from the heist, only to find himself embarking on a relationship with a street thug whose life of drugs risks everything Juan has worked for.
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