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Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm
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"Widower Mitch Jensen is at a loss with how to handle his mother's odd, forgetful behaviors, as well as his daughter's sudden return home and unexpected life choices. Little does he know Grandma June has long been keeping a secret about her past--but if she doesn't tell the truth about it someone she loves will suffer, and the lives of three generations will never be the same"--
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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319 pages ; 24 cm
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"Ways the World Could End is a story of grief, friendship, and love--the love between parents and children, between spouses, between teenagers, between strangers. It is a story that asks us to consider what we can and cannot forgive, and reminds us that often the hardest thing to forgive is ourselves"--
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Pub. Date
2014.
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260 pages ; 22 cm
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10 books. When his most prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, is stolen, bookstore owner A. J. Fikry begins isolating himself from his friends, family and associates before receiving a mysterious package that compels him to remake his life.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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58, 86 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
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Calder brand volume 3
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"Battle-scarred and emotionally ravaged by the loss of his wife and children to Spanish Flu, former US Army Major Logan Hunter heads to Blue Moon to salvage whatever peace he can near the only family he has left. Not only does the Calder clan embrace him, but patriarch Webb Calder helps Logan secure a prime piece of ranching property. Yet settling into his new home is fraught with challenges, especially since Logan's land borders the rival Dollarhide...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Kit Webb has left his stand-and-deliver days behind him. But dreary days at his coffee shop have begun to make him pine for the heady rush of thievery. When a handsome yet arrogant aristocrat storms into his shop, Kit quickly realizes he may be unable to deny whatever this highborn man desires. In order to save himself and a beloved friend, Percy, Lord Holland must go against every gentlemanly behavior he holds dear to gain what he needs most: a book...
88) Waiting on love
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Fulfilling a promise to her dying mother, Elise Wright watches over her father as cook on his Great Lakes schooner. But the behavior of a new sailor unsettles her and first mate Nick Clark, who secretly begins investigating. When tragedy strikes, Nick and Elise must rely on their faith and each other as they confront their greatest fears"--
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm
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The lone lawman in the small town of Branding Iron, Texas, Sheriff Sam Delaney is also the widowed single father of six-year-old Maggie. This year Maggie is determined that what her daddy needs this holiday season is a girlfriend. She hustles Sam to a meeting with her schoolteacher, and he is surprised to discover the demure Grace Chapman is unexpectedly alluring. When Sam is roped into playing Santa at the annual Christmas ball, with the pretty Miss...
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"Joshua and Lauren are the perfect couple. Newly married, they're wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. As Lauren's disease progresses, Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with his future- a future without the only woman he's ever loved. He's so consumed with finding a way to avoid the inevitable ending that he never...
92) We are the light
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Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 25 cm
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"Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb that has been torn apart by a recent tragedy. Everyone in Majestic sees Lucas as a hero--everyone, that is, except Lucas himself. Insisting that his deceased wife, Darcy, visits him every night in the form of an angel, Lucas spends his time writing letters to his former Jungian analyst, Karl. It is only when Eli, an eighteen-year-old young man whom the community has ostracized, begins...
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Pub. Date
c2012
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285 p. ; 22 cm.
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When Edward Schuyler, a modest and bookish sixty-two-year-old science teacher, is widowed, he finds himself ambushed by female attention. There are plenty of unattached women around, but a healthy, handsome, available man is a rare and desirable creature. Edward receives phone calls from widows seeking love, or at least lunch, while well-meaning friends try to set him up at dinner parties. Even an attractive married neighbor offers herself to him....
94) Only beloved
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Survivors' Club septet volume 7
Pub. Date
2016
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For the first time since the death of his wife, the Duke of Stanbrook is considering remarrying and finally embracing happiness for himself. With that thought comes the treasured image of a woman he met briefly a year ago and never saw again. Dora Debbins relinquished all hope to marry when a family scandal left her in charge of her younger sister. Earning a modest living as a music teacher, she's left with only an unfulfilled dream. Then, one afternoon,...
95) Herons Landing
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Honeymoon Harbor volume 1
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Working as a Las Vegas concierge, Brianna Mannion is an expert at making other people's wishes come true. It's satisfying work but a visit home to scenic Honeymoon Harbor turns into a permanent stay when she's reminded of everything she's missing: the idyllic small-town charm, the old Victorian house she'd always coveted, and Seth Harper, her best friend's widower and the neighborhood boy she once crushed on hard. After years spent serving others,...
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"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except...
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"In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
98) A widow's hope
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
485 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly begins to fly. Simon, her deacon brother-in-law, finds just about everything about Hannah vexing. So no one is more surprised than the deacon when his own brother, Seth, shows an interest in the beautiful young widow.
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The Southold chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
455 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Anglican Mary Langton longs to marry for love. Left at the altar and in disgrace, she's being pressured to marry the son of a London milliner. Puritan Barnabas Horton still grieves the loss of his beloved wife, but knows his two young sons need a mother. With tender hearts, Mary and Barnabas take a leap of faith and wed. But when Barnabas's plans to move to the New World to escape persecution come to light, Mary's world is upended. How can she leave...
100) Pack up the moon
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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x, 448 pages ; 24 cm.
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Newly married, Joshua and Lauren are wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with a future without the only woman he has ever loved. Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward: twelve letters, one for every month in the year after her death. Letters that will lead Joshua on...
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