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1341) Picking up the pieces
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2023.
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"As Nora and her British Army officer husband, Gordy, pack up yet another home and leave the sun of Cyprus for the drizzle of England, she can't shake a feeling of regret--at her failure to follow her own dreams, but also, if she's honest, at having ended up an officer's wife at all, drifting through a life of temporary homes and temporary relationships. Since losing her parents at a young age, Nora's life has been lacking an anchor: someone or something...
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p2009
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Not long ago, Scott Bryant would have described himself as an ordinary guy. But one act of heroism has changed his life forever, or at least until the apocalypse occurs. Inexplicably possessed with superhuman strength, Scott finds himself allied with the enigmatic and alluring Melanie Regan in a quest to find the mysterious Oracle.
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[2021]
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"How far will she follow her dreams? Ohio farm country, 1897. Louisa, the spirited eldest daughter of Herzig and Clara Steinbacher, has her whole life ahead of her. She is seventeen, and dreams of the "outside world" beyond her doorstep. But when Clara dies in childbirth, Louisa is suddenly thrust into adulthood--with the burden of her mother's responsibilities...and the care of her younger siblings. The only world she has ever known closes around...
1346) Daytripper
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Pub. Date
[2011]
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Presents key moments in the life of Brás de Oliva Domingos, a Brazilian writer and sometime journalist, and the son of a prominent author, as if each episode would turn out to be the day in which he was about to die.
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2013.
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Taking a job as an assistant to extreme sports enthusiast Will, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident, Louisa struggles with her employer's acerbic moods and learns of his shocking plans before demonstrating to him that life is still worth living.
1348) The hush
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Pub. Date
2018.
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It's been ten years since the eve nts that changed Johnny Merrimon's life. Since then, Johnny has fought to maintain his privacy. His only connection to normal life is his old friend, Jack. But Jack sees danger in the wild places Johnny calls home; he senses darkness and hunger, an intractable intent.
1349) Oh, Johnny
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Pub. Date
2009
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Johnny Wrigley, a newly minted United States Marine, finds himself on a troop train headed for California - and then to an island in the Pacific where he is going to kill "Japs" for America. During a brief coffee and donut stop in Kansas City, Johnny finds himself sexually involved with a young girl as innocent as he is. As he fights a brutal war, then returns home to resume chasing his dream of becoming a professional baseball player, not a day goes...
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2017.
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"From the author of the "lyrical and compelling" (USA Today) novel A Good American comes a powerful story of two friends and the unintended consequences of friendship, loss, and hope. For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous--and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan's...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
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An impoverished nineteenth-century woman's coming of age and struggles against injustice are placed against a backdrop of the growing influence of Charles Dickens and shaped by an enamored young man, a scheming coal baron, a friendly dwarf, and an unconventional philanthropist.
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2017
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Having collected a lifetime of lost objects in order to deal with the loss of his fiancě, Anthony Peardew bequeaths his secret life's mission to his unsuspecting assistant, Laura, leaving her his house and all its lost treasures--and the responsibility to return each one to its owner.
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2012.
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The majestic and haunting beauty of the Italian Alps is the setting for the first meeting of Enza, a practical beauty, and Ciro, a strapping mountain boy, who meet as teenagers, despite growing up in villages just a few miles apart. When Ciro catches the local priest in a scandal, he is banished from his village and sent to hide in America as an apprentice to a shoemaker in Little Italy. Without explanation, he leaves a bereft Enza behind. Set during...
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is finally arrested and she is returned to her father in small-town Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind, become part of a family again, and learn that love is more than just a possibility.
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2014.
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"Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and Rosemary, who begins her story in the middle. She has her reasons. "I was raised with a chimpanzee," she explains. "I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion...she was my twin, my funhouse mirror, my whirlwind other half and I loved her as a sister." As a child, Rosemary never stopped talking. Then, something...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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"One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude....
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2017.
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"In October, 1947, after a summer-long drought, fires began near Bar Harbor and raced along the coast of Maine, ravaging two hundred thousand acres--the largest fire in Maine's history. In the southern part of the state, people were forced into the sea to escape the flames. Five months pregnant, Grace Holland is left alone to protect her two toddlers when her husband Gene joins the volunteers fighting to bring the fire under control. Along with her...