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When Noel learns that his terminally ill former flame is pregnant with his child, he agrees to take guardianship of the baby girl once she's born; but as a single father battling demons of his own, Noel can't do it alone. He has a caring network of friends and family, but a social worker is convinced that Frankie would be better off in a foster home.
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Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Linda and Diane have been friends for more than thirty years. But when Pru Bonner, black sheep of the group, falls off the wagon so hard it shakes their world, "the girls" stage a hilarious kidnapping in Vegas to help their childhood friend clean up her act. As the women confront their pasts along with their hazardous adventure, they discover surprising strength in themselves and their friendships. Laughter is spiced with secrets,...
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Route 66 novels (Dorothy Garlock) volume 3
Pub. Date
c2004
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402 p. ; 21 cm.
6) Shuggie Bain
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"Young Hugh " Shuggie" Bain is a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Shuggie's mother Agnes is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion's share of each week's benefits on cans of extra-strong lager. Agnes's older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning...
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[2015]
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456 pages ; 22 cm
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Lawyer Corbin Gage's problem with alcohol wreaks havoc on his practice and his family relationships, even as he takes on a high stakes case involving two boys who were exposed to dangerous chemicals, against a prominent fertilizer company.
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[2024]
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305 pages ; 22 cm
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"At the start of seventh grade, Kyra believes her alcoholic mother, who has been sober for five years, has relapsed and with no one to count on, not even her best friend, she starts to question whether being just enough is not enough at all"--
11) Sunset
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John Bekker novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
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275 p. ; 23 cm.
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Bekker, a former police officer sunk in the depths of despair and alcohol, is rescued by Crist, the mob boss he thinks had his wife killed ten years ago. Crist is near death, and has a final wish-- he hires Bekker to find out who really killed Bekker's wife, so that Crist can go to the grave with a clear conscience.
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Frankie Elkin novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
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Frankie Elkin is a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching out missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up and the public no longer remembers, Frankie starts looking. A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager who vanished from her high school....
13) The hero's lot
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[2013]
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439 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Falsely accused of terrible crimes, Errol Stone is placed under compulsion and sentenced to undertake a perilous quest. He must succeed ... or die trying"--
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2013
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vii, 355 p. ; 25 cm.
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Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctor's alleged affair with the victim's wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lou's life at risk.
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"TJ Devlin is the charming disappointment in the prominent Devlin family, all of whom are lawyers at their highly successful firm--except him. After a stint in prison and rehab for alcoholism, TJ can't get hired anywhere except at the firm, in a make-work job with the title of investigator. But one night, TJ's world turns upside down after his older brother John confesses that he just murdered one of the clients, an accountant he'd confronted with...
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2020.
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430 pages ; 24 cm
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"Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's war on heavy industry has put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Shuggie's mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie's guiding light but a burden for his artistic brother and practical sister. She dreams of...
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Pub. Date
2000
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xxvi, 402, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Set in Mexico on the eve of WWII, the story tells of a man in extremis, an alcoholic consul bursting with regret, longing, resentment and remorse, whose climactic moment rapidly approaches..."---Editorial review from www.amazon.com
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[2016]
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255 pages ; 22 cm
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1969. Eugene and his brother, Bill meet Ligeia, a sexy, free-spirited redhead from Daytona Beach banished to their small North Carolina town until the fall. Ligeia's raw sensuality and rebellious attitude draw Eugene to the thrills and pleasures of the counterculture movement. As the romance turns dark Eugene and Bill drift apart, and when Ligeia vanishes their rift has become immutable. Decades later Bill is a successful surgeon while Eugene is a...
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[1962]
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409 p. 22 cm.
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The mysterious new tenant of Wildfell Hall is a strong-minded woman who keeps her own counsel. Helen 'Graham' - exiled with her child to the desolate moorland mansion, adopting an assumed name and earning her living as a painter - has returned to Wildfell Hall in flight from a disastrous marriage. Narrated by her neighbour Gilbert Markham, and in the pages of her own diary, the novel portrays Helen's eloquent struggle for independence at a time when...
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