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Lisa Stern, an idealistic child of the sixties, feels ready to change the world. She navigates the tumult of her Boston college years and falls in love with a professor who dies in a car crash. In a state of intense grief, Lisa drives to Provincetown one night to wander their favorite beach. Seeing the anguish of the young woman, a sleepless Isabela, who owns the town bakery, thinks she may commit suicide. She invites Lisa to come home with her and...
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When most fifty-year-old women are settled in their lives, Francine's life is falling apart. A chain of events, beginning with a minor car accident, shakes Francine's foundation, causing her to reevaluate her career and her relationship with the people closest to her: her husband, her daughter, her best friend, and a former lover.The Transformation of Francine recounts the pivotal year in the life of Francine Blythe as she copes with betrayal and...
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"The Hunting of Hillary traces how an entire industry of hate, lies, and fear was created to persecute Hillary Clinton for decades and profit from it. In The Hunting of Hillary, presidential biographer Michael D'Antonio details the years of lies and insults heaped upon Hillary Clinton as she pursued a life devoted to politics and policy. The worst took the form of sexism and misogyny, much of it barely disguised. A pioneer for women, Clinton was burdened...
104) Under the paper moon
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Five years after working for the Office of Strategic Services with Nick, whom she gets close to until the World War II' end brings with it an act of deep betrayal, former spy Evelyn, now working as a PI, finds herself back in Nick's orbit when her latest case brings the war to her doorstep.
105) The end of the story
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The End of the Story is an energetic, candid, and funny novel about an enduring obsession and a woman's attempt to control it by the telling of the story of it. With ruthless honesty, artful analysis, and crystalline depictions of human and natural landscapes, Lydia Davis's novel offers a compelling illumination of the dilemmas of loss and the process of remembering.
106) Long time gone
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When DNA results reveal a disturbing connection to the mysterious disappearance of a famous baby nearly three decades ago, a forensic scientist is plunged into a dangerous search for answers in this engrossing, propulsive new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Twenty Years Later.
Thirty years ago, Baby Charlotte vanished. Today, she’s still in danger.
When Dr. Sloan Hastings submits her DNA to an online genealogy site for a research...
107) Who Burned My Chicken Soup: Practical Life Lessons for Self Proclaimed Bad Bi@#S, Divas, Girl Bosses
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"Ladies, gentlemen, and mythical creatures of the world, gather 'round for a groundbreaking announcement! Introducing ""Who Burned My Chicken Soup...Practical Life Lessons for Self Proclaimed Bad Bi$%#, Divas, Girl Bosses, and Other Mythical Creatures"" - the self-help book that's here to shake things up and keep it real! Tired of traditional self-help fluff? Looking for guidance that's as honest and poignant as your best girlfriend's advice? This...
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Jo Ravens is thirty-two, divorced, and stuck in a rut. She wants a new career, and she wants to lose the sixty pounds she packed on after her divorce. Her knack for finding dead bodies points her in the right direction for a career change, while her sister's exuberance for weight loss gimmicks enables both of them to try new, creative ways to shed pounds.When Jo crashes her bike in a construction site, she lands on a naked girl with a knife in her...
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Lydia Casselberry's world comes undone when she discovers that her husband of almost forty years is having an affair. Needing time to grieve and to decide whether to continue the marriage, she decides to flee from her Tampa home to a place she hasn't been in decades – her family's lodge in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. She tells no one where she is going, but writes two notes saying she needs to be alone. One is to her best friend; the other her husband...
110) Maple Leaf Hunter
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Susan has written a children's book. She has a romantic weekend planned with Mick in Niagara Falls and Toronto before her big meeting with the publisher. When Mick's old college buddy invites them to come to his lodge for a visit, they decide to stay in Canada for the week. Darby, Nate, and Alex want in on the fishing action, and the group is soon on their way in an RV.A strange occurrence at the mall before they leave town sets off alarm bells for...
111) Big Easy Hunter
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Susan is deliriously happy with her life with Mick, her friends, and her new position with Slimmers Weight Loss. The residents of Carbide City, however, are fearful when a serial rapist eludes police, and a burglar breaks into homes in the middle of the night while the occupants are sleeping. When several of the theft victims name Susan as the thief, she is happy to head out of town with Darby to attend a wedding in New Orleans. But once there, Susan...
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Farberville, Arkansas is playing host to its first ever mystery convention. Sponsored by the Thurber Farber Foundation and held at Farber College, Murder Comes to Campus is playing host to five major mystery writers representing all areas of the field. Dragooned into running the show when the original organizer is hospitalized, local bookseller Claire Malloy finds herself in the midst of a barely controlled disaster. Not only do each of the writers...
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Five lonely strangers join a bar trivia team in an effort to find friends, but end up on a path that will change each of their lives forever, in this heartwarming debut perfect for fans of Beth O'Leary and Sophie Kinsella. How do you make friends as an adult? That's one question lonely Londoners Bryony, Harry, Jaime, Luke, and Donna would really like the answer to. They tend to do better with questions of a different variety-trivia questions like...
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For the last nine months, Chance Eliason and Kat Summers have been lovers. Kat lives in Seattle, and Chance lives three hours away in the little town of Rosswood. Of late, this distance between them has put a strain on their relationship. One Sunday in August, Chance confronts Kat about her refusal to return to Rosswood where she'd suffered a frightening ordeal. In the heat of the argument, bitter words are spoken that send Chance back to his ranch...
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Vernie Olander, is an author. She wasn't always an author. For over fifteen years, she was the executive director of the Portland, Maine Symphony Orchestra before retiring to pursue a career as a novelist. Her days quickly changed from board meetings, pitching sponsors, and unraveling complicated budgets, to hours of writing, attending creative writing classes, and dreaming up plots for fiction novels. Energy flowed, and after completing her first...
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Tami loves John, and he loves her, but the twists and turns of fate cause their lives to spin off in different directions. John becomes a Navy SEAL and a National hero, while Tami becomes an elementary schoolteacher experimenting sexually with Traci, her college roommate. Tami and John's lives cross paths from time to time but fate and Traci never let them be on the same page at the same time.John and Laura fall in love, but they do not marry. Tami...
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It's Elodie's daughter's second year of preschool, and now that she knows the ropes, Elodie is excited to begin her reign as the family activities director and organize a civilized ice cream social and pancake breakfast-except nothing at Mountain View Co-op Preschool is ever civilized. Instead, there's chaos, mayhem, and a freaking bear roaming the neighborhood. Plus, according to the rumor mill, a new set of parents are swingers and looking for some...
118) October Storms
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On the Illinois prairie . . .In October 1897, Louise Hawkes - unconscious, severely beaten, and near death - and her two young children, are found on the muddy bank of Friends Creek. Transported to Dunham's Crossing, they are placed in the care of a childless widow, Agnes Dunham Hoskins. Fearful of discovery by her tormentor, mistrustful of strangers, Louise stubbornly refuses to discuss her past.Weeks later, the fates of both women are forever changed...
119) In a Dry Land
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Libby is a born caretaker-although not by choice. Her parents bred her specifically to care for her severely retarded older sister when they would no longer be able to. But at only nineteen-sooner than she expected-Libby is already Mama to Baby. Libby loves her sister, yet naturally still yearns for a husband and children of her own. Unfortunately, she has convinced herself that no one would ever want to marry her, with a thirty-year-old Baby. Clearly...
120) The Last Letter
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Katherine wouldn't have believed it if she hadn't found the letter...Katherine Arthur's mother arrives on her doorstep, dying, forcing her to relive a past she wanted to forget. When Katherine was young, the Arthur family had been affluent city dwellers until shame sent them running for the prairie, into the unknown. Taking her family, including young Katherine, to live off the land was the last thing Jeanie Arthur had wanted, but she would do her...
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