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81) The opium prince
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Born to an American mother and a late Afghan war hero-turned-magnate, Daniel Sajadi has spent his life navigating a complex identity. After years in Los Angeles, he is returning home to Kabul for the first time as the head of a US foreign aid agency dedicated to staunching the growth of the poppy fields in Fever Valley that feed the world's opiate epidemic. But on the drive back to Kabul from an anniversary trip with his wife, Rebecca, Daniel hits...
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Aleksandra Daniels hasn't set foot in the quiet seaside town of Bellamy Bay, North Carolina in over twenty years. Ever since her mother's tragic death, her father has mysteriously forbidden her from visiting her aunt and cousins. But on a whim, Alex accepts an invitation to visit her estranged relatives and to help them in their family business: an herbal apothecary known for its remarkably potent teas, salves, and folk remedies. Bellamy Bay doesn't...
84) Driftwood Point
Author
Series
Chesapeake diaries volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While recording her great-grandmother's stories of Cannonball Island's rich history, artist Lisbeth Parker goes up against a man from her past, Alec Jansen, who is on the opposite side of the debate over the island's future.
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Series
Snowberry Creek novels volume 3
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Snowberry Creek after the death of her father, Melanie Wolfe is reunited with her high school crush, Spencer Lang, a soldier who helps save her family's business - and her damaged heart.
86) Cowboy up
Author
Series
Coming home series (Harper Sloan) volume 3
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Cowboy Clayton Davis has a one-night stand with bookstore owner Caroline, who is facing a tough time after leaving an abusive ex, and the two find it hard to stay away from each other.
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English
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"Zoe Hallett and her sister, Ava, are the precocious offspring of two pioneering scientists, but the sisters have been estranged for years. When Zoe reads a news story about Ava's mysterious disappearance, she assumes it's just another of her sister's twisted fictions, designed to blame Zoe and destroy the peaceful life she's created with her husband and beautiful step-daughter in Houston. But Zoe's email is hacked to send threatening messages to...
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English
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For fans of books like THE READERS OF BROKEN WHEEL RECOMMEND, a feel-good story of going home again to get things right. Crocker County crowns a new Corn Queen every year, but Jane Willow's the one you would remember. She can't forget Iowa, either. Even though she fled to LA to become a film critic years ago, home was always there behind her. But when a family tragedy happens, she's forced to drive back to Crocker County. The rolling farmlands can't...
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Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
America{u2019}s sweetheart, actress Chloe O{u2019}Connor, returns home to Christmas, Colorado, where she has a hard time hiding her feelings for Easton McBride, the former star quarterback and military hero with whom she has been in love for years.
91) Kiss me that way
Author
Series
Cottonbloom novels volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperback
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Cade Fournette, the man who saved her life long ago, unexpectedly returns to Cottonbloom, physical therapist Monroe Kirby is determined not to let the scars and secrets of the past divide them once more.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When the bodies of a murdered woman and infant wash into the shallows of Lake Superior, Kate Granger, who has seen this woman in her dreams, sets out to unravel a centuries-old mystery that, when the truth is revealed, finally rights the wrongs of the past.
93) Creed's honor
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English
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Miller's novel stars Connor Creed, a rancher reluctantly carrying on his uncle's legacy in Lonesome Bend, Colorado. For years he's sacrificed his own dreams to fulfill the promise he made to his uncle. But everything changes when his wild, estranged twin brother re-enters his life--and then there's the beautiful Tricia McCall, who stirs feelings of passion deep within Connor's soul.
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Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 1
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English
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Description
"Suzanne Zimmerman was only seventeen and pregnant when her shamed mother quietly sent her away from their Old Order Mennonite community in Kansas. With her old home, family, and first love firmly behind her, Suzanne moved to Indiana, became a nurse, and raised a daughter, Alexa, on her own. Now, nearly twenty years later, an unexpected letter arrives from Kansas. Her brother asks her to bring her nursing abilities home and care for their ailing mother....
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Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When her family becomes a local gossip blog's new favorite subject due to her sister's impending nuptials, Cass Coventry finds her weekend stay in Newport becoming a full summer of frenzied wedding planning and society drama that reveals one surprise after another.
98) The wishing tree
Author
Series
Sunset Beach novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ivy Marshall finds out her husband's cheated on her on the same day her sister's perfect boyfriend proposes on national television. When Ivy's mother asks her to return to her family's beach home to plan her sister's upcoming wedding, she decides to use the excuse to escape from the pain of her circumstances. When her return to Sunset Beach, North Carolina, brings her face to face with her former fiancé, old feelings rise to the surface and she wonders...
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Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When the Duke of Margrave accepts her proposal of a marriage of convenience, Edie, transformed from a ruined American heiress to English duchess, enjoys their arrangement until he returns from overseas, determined to win her heart and make their marriage real.
100) Somebody like you
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Aiden Gallagher was only five years old when he appeared in a photograph on the Kissing Bridge. The town of Darling, Vermont, has used Aiden's image on the famed bridge--local legend has it that a kiss there results in everlasting love--as part of its tourism campaign. Now, twenty years later, Aiden is asked to recreate the moment with the woman he once kissed: Laurel Stone"--Amazon.com.
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