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Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...
3) The letter
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A letter left on his daughter's grave sends a man searching for his mother who abandoned him in childhood. For David Parkins, it's a chance at happiness, his wife having just left him.
5) Enemy women
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For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women's prison.
But young Adair finds that
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It ends with us volume 2
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"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...
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Slammed novels volume 3
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2013.
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Layken and Wills love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers now married are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still he cant resist his wife's pleas and so he begins...
10) The city
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There are millions of stories in the city -- some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable grandfather, also a "piano man;" his single mother, a struggling singer; and the heroes, villains, and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live -- and who will change...
12) Someday
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Every day volume 3
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
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When A discovers there are others who wake up in a different person's body every day, A gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead, in a story told from multiple perspectives.
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Prairie legacy volume 2
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Having graduated from high school, Virginia Simpson thought she would feel different--like an adult with an inner knowledge that she was on the edge of the nest, ready to try her own wings. And then circumstancers began swirling around her, making her rethink her plans and reevaluate her priorities.
14) Timepiece
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In 1910s Salt Lake City, Mary Ann Chandler, an Englishwoman, is hired by a millionaire collector of clocks as his secretary and eventually he marries her. The novel traces their bitter-sweet romance. A prequel to The Christmas Box.
15) A quiet strength
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Prairie legacy volume 3
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Virginia Simpson has endured her share of struggles on the Great Plains, but she faces more trials after she marries as she balances relationships in her household and tries to build a home with her new husband.
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"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
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When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey,...
19) The rescue
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Reluctant to take chances in the world of romance, volunteer firefighter Taylor McAden experiences a dramatic change in heart after a near-fatal automobile accident leads to a fateful encounter with Denise Holden, a single mother who has just moved to the small town of Edenton, North Carolina, to build a new life for herself.
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Christmas box trilogy volume 1
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Sequel: Timepiece.
An inspirational Christian tale on a dying woman who convinces a busy shopkeeper in Utah to devote more time to his family because their love is God's greatest gift. This is the hardcover edition of a paperback self-published last year.