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After a lifetime of living for her friends, family, even strangers, Lady Lucy Westmont knows something must change or she'll lose herself forever. An invitation to visit her free-spirited and scandalous aunt in the wild Scottish countryside is the perfect opportunity to discover how to live the life she wants. James Pembroke just learned that not only is he the new Earl of Rossbury, he's also inherited his late uncle's debts and a manor house deep...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
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2023.
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"Sometimes love finds you where you are, and other times it meets you across distant shores as four women discover in these four historical stories linked by a shared gold pendant. More Than Gold (New South Wales, 1851) by Carolyn Miller: Josephine Wilkins is headstrong and heartbroken--why else would she have left all she knew to follow her brother's dreams of finding gold across the seas? Daniel Jardine is simply seeking adventure, in a land far...
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"A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when World War I upends her life in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Dictionary of Lost Words. "Williams spins an immersive and compelling tale, sweeping us back to the Oxford she painted so expertly in The Dictionary of Lost Words"--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife It is 1914, and as the war...
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2023.
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"Evie Harlow runs a quaint little bookshop in London, which is the biggest adventure an unmarried woman with no prospects could hope for. Until Maximillian Shaw, Duke of Westbourne, saunters into her shop with a proposition: to win a bet with his friends, he'll turn her into the diamond of the season. The duke might be devilishly attractive, but Evie has no intention of accepting his ludicrous offer. When disaster strikes her shop, however, she's...
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"Haunted by the death of her sister, Finola Shanahan has resolved that she's not worthy of a family of her own and commits to spending her days caring for immigrants in the slums. Unwilling to consider marriage, Finola has perfected the ability to sabotage the relationships her parents arrange for her. At wit's end, her father calls upon the local Irish matchmaker, who pairs her with successful wagonmaker Riley Rafferty. After her usual tricks fail,...
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"Returning home to Magnolia with her teenaged daughter in tow, hoping a dose of family ties will help settle her down, Lauren Maxwell, with her brother getting married on Christmas Eve, quickly discovers that once home for the holidays, she might just decide that’s where she belongs."--
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2023.
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After surviving a brutal stagecoach robbery, Mariah Stover attempts to rebuild her life as she takes over her father's blacksmith business, but the townspeople meet her work with disdain. She is drawn to the new diner owner as he faces similar trials in the town. When danger descends upon them, will they survive to build a life forged in love?
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"The drawback to having a picture-perfect life is that there's nowhere to go but down--and Annalise Haverford is falling fast. Once, she was the self-proclaimed queen bee of Magnolia, North Carolina. Now her husband has been arrested for fraud, and she's become an outcast in the shallow circles she used to rule. There's only one affordable rental in town, and it's owned by the woman Annalise got fired from a lucrative job. Much as single mother Shauna...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
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2023.
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"Four short contemporary romances take readers to the author's native state of Kansas. Spring - Stormy Weather Gina Bowden, a young widow, fights city council to regain funding for her son's Boy Scout troop. Something better than lightning hits, though, when she teams up with the equally tenacious troop leader. Summer - King of Hearts Elise Jost is a non-traditional student just one credit short of graduating. A hard-working woman determined to establish...
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Poppy Banks would rather be writing mysteries than writing listicles for her dead-end job at Thought Buzz. But after a series of rejections, she's ready to accept life on the sidelines as a plus-size woman. Her aunt Margot is the one person unwilling to give up on her niece's dreams and tells her so at their secret yearly lunches. But all of Poppy's beliefs about herself are challenged when her beloved aunt dies and leaves her niece a grand surprise--a...
11) Moving forward
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"Former Army captain Greg Tebo loves his new life in Woodland Park. In the two years since he joined the WPFD, he's gained a reputation as a fearless firefighter, and after being stationed all around the country and overseas, he can't wait to settle down with a wife and kids. When a call comes in about a possible heart attack at the scene of a fire at the Garden Center, Greg assumes they're going to be helping an elderly customer - not the beautiful,...
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When Avery Lansing Crawford left her hometown of Camellia, Alabama, she was the darling of the town. A beauty queen. Now she's come back a disgraced and divorced mom who's lost almost everything--her home, her husband, even her design TV show--all while the public watched. And if the humiliation wasn't bad enough, Avery and her two small children are moving in with her mama...just in time to give everyone in Camellia something to talk about. And oh,...
14) Pinecraft refuge
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
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2023.
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"When her doctor prescribes fresh air and sunshine, Eva Miller turns her Florida getaway into a chance to gain some independence. Only, working part-time for Amish shop owner Tanner Dawson is hardly a vacation. The overprotective single father reminds Eva of her own strict upbringing. But as she begins to see beneath his gruff exterior, can she trust Tanner--and her heart--enough to stay?"--
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"Imogen Finch has just been through her seventeenth breakup. She saw it coming, so she's not as crushed as she might be, but with all seventeen of her exes leaving her for other partners, she's come to believe a prediction her well-intentioned and possibly clairvoyant mother made over twenty years ago: that Imogen would never come first at anything or to anyone. Is her love life failing due to a magical curse? Insufficient effort? Poor timing or personality...
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"Lila Rosetti Sinclair is headed home to Sunshine Bay to make the final plans for her wedding day when she is shocked by two life-changing surprises: a positive pregnancy test and the news that her family's business is struggling. Lila is determined to give this baby the close-knit family that she never had growing up. But the second surprise provides a complication when Lila learns that her fiancé's family has invested in the competitor to her family's...
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"For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother...
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"With rare plants to find, a dead sister who keeps bringing her coffee, and another sister whose anger fills the sky with lightning, Sage doesn't have time for romance. Sage Flores has an affinity for plants, but it wasn't enough to save her younger sister Sky's life. She ran from the tragedy, only to return to her hometown eight years later. Like slipping into an old, comforting sweater, Sage takes back her job at Cranberry Rose Company and uses...
20) Tourist season
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"Trapped alone in her fiancé's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family-especially her fiancé."--
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