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101) Windfallen
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"In the village of Merham, everyone knows her place--or is promptly put in it. Lottie Swift, a Londoner by birth, loves Mercham, while her best friend, Celia, chafes against it constraints. When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a stark yet breathtaking art deco house on the seafront, the young women are drawn to it temptations. Their actions set off a chain of events with long-standing consequences. Years later, Daisy Parsons arrives to give...
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America has been at war since 2001, and a sizeable percentage of the soldiers deployed have been women. Soldier Girls follows the lives of three of them over twelve years, on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, back home, then overseas again for two of them. We watch as they become friends, interact, and separate. We see the effects on their lives and their families. Deeply reported and powerfully moving, their story is truly groundbreaking....
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Deadwood mystery volume 13
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Violet Parker needs to catch the little honey-loving imp that is starting to wreak havoc in the Black Hills. But she's got a Timekeeper gig that keeps her occupied, and there are real monsters wanting to tear the flesh from her bones just for fun. If she can't figure out how to wrangle "time" to save her family, the Grim reaper might come swinging for them next.--From back cover.
105) Bayou baby
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Butterfly Bayou novels volume 2
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"Seraphina Guidry loves Butterfly Bayou. A young, single mom, she's trying to find a place for herself in the town she cherishes, but past mistakes have made her wary. She adores her son but has sworn off men. She's dedicated herself to restoring an historic house and building her own business. A quiet life is all she wants. Harrison Jefferys never expected to find himself in small-town Louisiana, but he has a job to do and a family to reconnect with....
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"Every family has its fault lines, and when Maggie gets a call from the ER in Maryland where her older sister lives, the cracks start to appear. Ginny, her sugar-loving and diabetic older sister with intellectual disabilities, has overdosed on strawberry Jell-O. Maggie knows Ginny really can't live on her own, so she brings her sister and her occasionally vicious dog to live near her in upstate New York. Their other sister, Betsy, is against the idea...
107) Impending strike
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Elite guardians volume 2
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"Elite Guardian Charlie Lee knows that there is no future with the woman he loves--fellow Guardian Lizzie Tremaine. And he gets it. Lizzie's a single mom focused on protecting her daughter, and Charlie's got his own baggage anyway. It's easier, and safer, to keep things the way they are. Then, the unthinkable happens. While Charlie is undercover, he's seriously injured...and his memory of the past four years is gone. But maybe it's the fresh start...
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When she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took with it all her memories - Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in a council flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn't seen her parents since...
109) Class: a memoir
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When Stephanie Land set out to write her memoir Maid, she never could have imagined what was to come. Handpicked by President Barack Obama as one of the best books of 2019, it was called "an eye-opening journey into the lives of the working poor" (People). Later it was adapted into the hit Netflix series Maid, which was viewed by 67 million households and was Netflix's fourth most-watched show in 2021, garnering three Primetime Emmy Award nominations....
110) One of our own
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A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge-of-your-seat audio original thriller by the bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Best of Friends, performed by A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds) and Tessa Albertson (Younger).
Felicia, a single mother and lawyer by day, volunteers at a local crisis center to give back to her tightknit community in a small Wisconsin...
Felicia, a single mother and lawyer by day, volunteers at a local crisis center to give back to her tightknit community in a small Wisconsin...