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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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-- Horse From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glassmakers from the height of Renaissance-era Italy to the present day. It is 1486 and Venice is a wealthy, opulent center for trade. Orsola Rosso is the eldest daughter in a family of glassblowers on Murano, the island revered for the craft. As a woman, she is not meant to work with glass—but she has the hands for it, the heart, and a vision....
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo's wife — and...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Thirty-something midwesterner Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved past the accidental death of his young son Brendan, as well as his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart Chloe. He's successful, he's in love again, and he believes he's mastered his own memories. But then he is contacted by a strange woman who tells him not only that she owns his old house, but that she believes it to be haunted by Brendan's ghost. Will Mark--who...
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Series
Civil War battle series volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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-- -- -- Find out what happens to the Brannon family in the rest of the Civil War Battle ©2003 James Reasoner; (P)2003 Blackstone Audiobooks
5) Empire Falls
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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-- Look for Richard Russo's new book, Somebody's Fool, coming soon.
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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The culture of China is rich with marvelous folklore and legendry that has informed its tale telling from the era of oral storytelling up through the current age of the written word. Chinese Myths and Folk Tales Chinese Myths and Folk Tales is one of Barnes & Noble's Collectible Editions classics. Each volume features authoritative texts by the world's greatest authors in an exquisitely designed bonded-leather binding, with distinctive gilt edging...
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Pub. Date
2022
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English
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-- Wrong Place Wrong Time She has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. There's her online support group, her jigsaw puzzles and favorite recipes, her beloved Emily Dickinson poems. Also keeping her company are treacherous memories of an unstable childhood and a traumatic event that had sent her reeling. But something's about to change. First, two new friends burst into her life. ...
10) Wings of Glass
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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-- Crossing Oceans When Trent is injured in a welding accident and his paycheck stops, he has no choice but to finally allow Penny to take a job cleaning houses. Here she meets two women from very different worlds who will teach her to live and laugh again, and lend her their backbones just long enough for her to find her own.
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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-- What readers have been saying about Stella's Christmas Wish"A delightful, warm-hearted Christmas read which I thoroughly enjoyed." - Portobello Book Blog "This book feels like you should be snowed in somewhere, preferably in the country, with a nice armchair, warm blanket, hot chocolate and a sleeping cat ... a sweet story about family and friends." - Bookaholic Swede "Finally we discover what the Christmas Wish of the title is based on and sigh...
13) Flight Patterns
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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The New York TimesThe Sound of Glass and coauthor of The Forgotten Room tells the story of a woman coming home to the family she left behind-and to the woman she always wanted to be... Georgia Chambers has spent her life sifting through other people's pasts while trying to forget her own. But then her work as an expert of fine china-especially of Limoges-requires her to return to the one place she swore she'd never revisit... It's been thirteen years...
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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If you love Susan Mallery and Jill Shalvis, you won’t want to miss this new novel of second chances, dogs, and knitting, from the author of Pupcakes Laid off, cheated on, mugged: what else can go wrong in Maeve Stephens’ life? So when she learns her birth mother has left her a house, a vintage VW Beetle, and a marauding cat, in the small town of Timber Creek, Washington, she packs up to discover the truth about her past.She arrives to the sight...
16) A Better Man
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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What if the only way you could get out of your marriage was to become the perfect husband? A workaholic and a consummate flirt, Nick has decided he wants out. But he balks when their old friend, a divorce attorney, shows him that as sole breadwinner, he stands to lose the most. Together, he and his friend hatch a plan: Nick will act like an ideal husband and father in order to ease the pain of leaving and make out better in court. So he encourages...
17) Tatty
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Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Published to huge acclaim, Christine Dwyer Hickey’s TattyTattyTatty was selected as the Dublin One City One Book for 2020 and republished with a new introduction by Dermot Bolger.
18) Moving On
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Series
Anderson family (Millie Gray) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
-- MAY 1945 In post-war Leith, the church bells have barely stopped ringing but the Anderson family must quickly come to terms with the harsh realities of peacetime Britain. As Johnny's hopes of a life in politics finally come true, his vows to remain a dutiful husband and father and to keep himself aloof from the murkiness of the Westminster establishment are proving problematic. Peacetime is not easy for Johnny's Polish brother-in-law Hans, either....
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Some Secrets Weren’t Meant to Be Kept… They started out as the “misfit moms”—the trio of less-than-conventional parents at their sons’ tiny private school. They’ve shared everything. Or so they thought. Now, on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to New York City, they’ll sightsee, they’ll shop, they’ll catch a few Broadway shows. They’ll tell all… After seventeen years as a single parent, Neve will reveal a past sin that could destroy...
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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-- The Washington PostAtonement.Trudy has been unfaithful to her husband, John. What’s more, she has kicked him out of their marital home, a valuable old London town house, and in his place is his own brother, the profoundly banal Claude. The illicit couple have hatched a scheme to rid themselves of her inconvenient husband forever. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy’s womb. As Trudy’s unborn...
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