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Matchmaking mamas volume 2
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English
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Cassandra Vail has but one objective at the Kellens' ball: she must secure a proposal from her eminently suitable suitor. Instead, she finds her best-laid plans thwarted by another man--the handsome and thoroughly vexing Mr. Harwood. Thanks to his meddling, Cassandra is faced with an unthinkable consequence: her parents take matters into their own hands and betroth her to a complete stranger. Tom Harwood meant only to deter a debutante from pursuing...
64) Me and my mama
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English
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In rhyming text, a young child reflects on the many reasons they love their mom.
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Charlie and Mouse volume 3
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English
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It is Mom's birthday, and Charlie and Mouse and their Dad want everything to be perfect--so when the cake gets burnt the boys have to come up with a new plan, pronto.
66) Barefoot season
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English
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Young army vet Michelle Sanderson returns to Blackberry Island Inn, the home she left long ago, to claim her inheritance and recuperate. But she finds Carly Williams, her former best friend, running the inn and the business on the verge of financial collapse. To save the inn, the two women must put aside their feelings and work together, but can they overcome the betrayal that has come between them?
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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When their mother reluctantly joins the Italian Resistance against Nazi occupying forces in World War II Florence, young Paolo and his sister, Costanza, devise a clever way to use their bicycle to assist the movement.
68) Worser
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English
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William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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English
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When her quiet life is shattered by a bus accident that reveals she is not related to the five-year-old she claims is her daughter, skip tracer Sarah Keller, unable to prove her innocence, flees authorities and uses her unique skills to protect her daughter and herself.
70) Stealing home
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Sweet magnolias volume 1
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English
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While dealing with a wealth of family issues, Serenity, South Carolina, resident Maddie Townsend, jobless and newly single, finds herself the talk of the town when her son's baseball coach declares his love.
72) Her good name
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English
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As a single woman and convert to the Church, Chrissy has always managed to find her place in life-- at least until someone else begins using her credit cards, her bank account, and, most important, her name. When Chrissy meets Micah Heet, the other half of a blind date gone bad, the two discover they are facing the same battle and join forces to find the perpetrators. Little do they know that the small semblance of life they have left will be put...
73) Inheriting Edith
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English
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"A poignant breakout novel about a single mother who inherits a beautiful beach house in Sag Harbor--with a caveat--she must take care of the ornery elderly woman who lives in it who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Together they embark on a path to forgiveness, acceptance, and a life-changing friendship"--
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English
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"The small desert town seemed like the perfect place to disappear--until Brooke Seward's worst nightmare walks into the diner where she works. The man who killed her husband has found her--again. Desperate to protect her young daughter, Brooke has no choice but to run for their lives. They find refuge with Montana rancher Michael Calder, but in bringing them into his hope, Michael is unwittingly drawn with them into the path of danger. Someone is...
75) Smart women
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English
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B.B. and Margo, two forty-year-old divorcees, are unprepared for the frustrations, pain, and passion which arise when B.B.'s ex-husband hits town, in a story about a complex romantic triangle.
76) Two bear cubs
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Publisher
Greenwillow
Pub. Date
c1982.
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English
Description
Two adventurous cubs love to wander, but when frightened, appreciate having Mother close by.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
This summer, meet your neighbors. The residents of the exclusive cul-de-sac on Alton Road are entangled in a web of secrets and scandal utterly unknown to the outside world, and even to each other. On the night of the annual Summer block party, there has been a murder. But, who did it and why takes readers back one year earlier, as rivalries and betrayals unfold-discovering that the real danger lies within their own block and nothing-and no one-is...
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English
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Set in Kerrville, Kansas, The Center of Everything is told by Evelyn Bucknow, an endearing character with a wholly refreshing way of looking at the world. Living with her single mother in a small apartment, Evelyn Bucknow is a young girl wincing her way through adolescence. With a voice that is as charming as it is recognizable, Evelyn immerses the reader in the dramas of an entire community. The people of Kerrville stuck at once in the middle of...
79) Daisy: a novel
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English
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Forty-six-year-old Daisy feels like her life is finally where she wants it to be. Her last daughter is almost out of the nest, she's remarried to a wonderful new man, and she's just recently joined a book club with some fascinating women. But when Daisy faces an unexpected pregnancy, she'll have to rely on her family and her new friends like never before.
80) The confusion
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Baroque cycle volume 2
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English
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While a group of Barbary galley slaves plots to escape their lives of servitude on board a seventeenth-century pirate ship, spy and socialite Eliza is forcibly returned to the court of the Sun King.
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