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Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Derailed by the sudden passing of her husband of thirty years, an artist on the brink of a gallery opening struggles to pick up the pieces of her life before discovering harrowing evidence of her husband's affair.
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English
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"Your family has been attacked, never again to be the same. Now you have to choose between law...and justice. Jason Bennett is a suburban dad who owns a court-reporting business, but one night, his life takes a horrific turn. He is driving his family home after his daughter's field hockey game when a pickup truck begins tailgating them, on a dark stretch of road. Suddenly two men jump from the pickup and pull guns on Jason, demanding the car. A horrific...
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Amish greenhouse mystery volume 2
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Sylvia has been nearly paralyzed with grief and anxiety since the tragic death of her husband, father, and brother in a traffic accident. She tries to help in the family's greenhouse while caring for her two children, but she prefers not to have to deal with customers. Her mother's own grief causes her to hover over her children and grandchildren. As a diversion, Sylvia takes up birdwatching, and meets an Amish man who teaches her about local birds....
5) Fly away
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime.
After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe...
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A Hope Harbor novel volume 5
Language
English
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Jeannette Mason has sworn off relationships, but when she meets a single dad with a grieving little girl and an unruly puppy her resolve is tested.
Author
Series
Amish greenhouse mystery volume 1
Language
English
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Mysterious Events Plague a Greenhouse in Pennsylvania's Amish Country
When Vernon King, his son, and son-in-law are involved in a terrible accident, three women are left to cope with their deaths, as they become the sole providers of the family they have left. The women's only income must come from the family greenhouse, but someone seems to be trying to force them out of business.
Amy King has just lost her father
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all"--
11) Edge of dusk
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Series
An Annie Pederson novel volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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"USA TODAY bestselling romantic suspense author Colleen Coble launches a brand-new series set in the fan-favorite Upper Peninsula that incorporates beloved characters from her Rock Harbor series"--
13) Flight: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Want, told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate--a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net"--
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Series
Friendship letters volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Doretta Schwartz used to be so happy and passed her positive attitude along to friends in several letters she wrote each month. But that all changed the day she learned of her fianc�e's death and a heavy weight of depression fell upon her. Feeling empty, she puts away her letter writing and won't even respond to calls from friends. William's twin brother, Warren, is also grieving his loss, while at the same time, trying to be supportive to...
15) Taking chances
Author
Series
Heartland volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
175 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A new stablehand may ruin Amy's relationship with Ty, the only person who understands the role that Heartlands and its program for rescuing and rehabilitating abused horses plays in Amy's life.
16) After the storm
Author
Series
Heartland volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
171 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although she is still in pain from her mother's death, Amy must use all her skills with horses to help Spartan, the animal they were trying to rescue the night her mother was killed.
17) Coming home
Author
Series
Heartland volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
140 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Amy's mother founded Heartland, a place for healing traumatized horses, but Amy, who inherited her mother's skills with horses, must continue her work after an accident on a stormy night kills her mother.
Author
Series
Annie's Attic mysteires volume 25
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While searching the attic for her grandmother's Easter-themed table linens, Annie Dawson stumbles upon a box containing a diary (dated 1943) and other World War II memorabilia. Did the young couple in the letters marry or did war end their chance for a happily ever after?
20) Breaking free
Author
Series
Heartland volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
148 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pegasus, the only link to Amy's past, is growing weaker and Amy will try everything to nurse him back to health and keep Heartland together, but it will take all of Amy's courage to avoid living in the shadow of her mother.