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"Growing up, Shawn Thornton's life was anything but normal--but then, so was his mother. Upon waking from a coma following a car crash, Beverly Thornton's once gentle, loving disposition inexplicably dissolved into violent mood swings, profanity-laced tirades, and almost animal-like fits of rage. Inside the Thornton house, floors and countertops were piled high with garbage because Bev couldn't move well enough to clean, and dinners were a Russian...
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All her life, Hannah Sterling longed for a close relationship with her estranged mother. Following Lieselotte's death, Hannah determines to unlock the secrets of her mother's mysterious past and is shocked to discover a grandfather living in Germany. Thirty years earlier, Lieselotte's father is quickly ascending the ranks of the Nazi party, and a proper marriage for his daughter could help advance his career. Lieselotte is in love?but her beloved...
4) Sisters
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Sea Glass Sisters : "A mother-daughter road trip is the last thing Elizabeth Gallagher needs. But with an impending hurricane, they are determined to convince Aunt Sandy to abandon her seaside store and return home. Instead, they discover that sisterhood can change hearts, lives, and futures ... often in unpredictable ways."--Page 4 of cover.
Tidewater Sisters : "Tandi Reese and her sister, Gina, have complicated ties. Faced with legal papers for...
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"Love Lives Here is a collection of stories that include the ways Maria and her husband navigated family their way, without clear instructions or a road map. It's meant to inspire you to think about how to make life meaningful and how to create a space to grow while loving others."--Back cover.
7) 3 day test
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"Martin Taylor has totally lost touch with his family. He has no clue who his teenage dauther's friends are, why his son only communicates with an electronic sign outside his bedroom door, or why his youngest child only watches faith TV. Convinced the family needs to reconnect [this Christmastime], Martin surprises the wife and kids with a little experiment--he locks them in their own home with no power, no heat, no running water, and absolutely no...
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Jingle bell blessings: An orphaned boy wants a family. Chloe wants to find him one. They land on a distant relatives doorstep only to find a real life scrooge, a man haunted by a tragic past. Will three strangers become a true family by Christmas?
Family by design: Finding a sitter for his orphaned niece is Dr. J.C. Mueller's priority. But he can't ask the one person the girl actually takes a shine to. Maddie Carter is already a full-time caregiver...
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"In rural Iowa, life is both the planter and uprooter of dreams. As love, long delayed, springs to life in the heart of a young Swedish immigrant, one man struggles with his withered ambitions--and new blessings that could take their place if he would but allow them room."--Page 4 of cover.
10) The inheritance
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McKenna and her rebellious younger brother accept an invitation from their cousin to move to Copper Creek, Colorado, but when McKenna's cousin dies, leaving her the ranch and a young child, a distant relative shows up to contest the will.
11) Promised to me
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After a wait of over ten years, Karola Breit finally receives word from her betrothed in America to join him, but then she discovers that he's a recent widower with two children.
12) Someone like you
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Maddie Baxter West is shaken to the core when she finds out everything she believed about her life was a lie. Her parents had always planned to tell her the truth about her past: that she was adopted as an embryo. But somehow the right moment never happened. Then a total stranger confronts Maddie with the truth and tells her something else that rocks her world--Maddie had a sister she never knew about. Betrayed, angry, and confused, Maddie leaves...
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In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.
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"In love for the first time, a son's decisions about the future divides his family in this fearless and thought-provoking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author of the 'heart-tugging and emotional' (Romantic Times Book Reviews) Baxter Family books. In the shadow of very great loss, the only way to live with passion is truly, madly, deeply. When eighteen-year-old Tommy Baxter declares to his family that he wants to be a police officer after...
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