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Publisher
Prospect Park Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Los Angeles Times–bestselling author of Helen of Pasadena offers a "charmingly funny and effortless read" about new love, new life, and Shakespeare (Library Journal, starred review).
English professor Elizabeth Lancaster is living her perfectly orchestrated, perfectly dull life when action star FX Fahey—her college boyfriend and one-time philandering husband—shows up with a job
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Language
English
Description
Judd Foxman's wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, a Howard Stern-like radio personality, but it is the death of his father and the week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family that motivates him. Jen's announcement of her pregnancy-doubly tragic because of a previous miscarriage-is followed by the dramas of Judd's siblings: his sister, Wendy, is stuck in an emotionless marriage; brother Paul-always Judd's defender-and his wife...
3) Good Faith
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Language
English
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Emerging from an ugly divorce in the early 1980s, real estate salesman Joe Stratford is reluctant to join his friend Marcus in a get-rich-quick scheme and wonders about the advances of a free-spirited married woman.
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When his long-lost uncle dies, leaving him his supervillain business, Charlie, as rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital come after him, finds going bad looking pretty good with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats and a terrifying henchperson at his side.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lamb traces the self-discovery of David Lamb, a narcissistic middle-aged man with a tendency toward dishonesty, in the weeks following the disintegration of his marriage and the death of his father. Hoping to regain some faith in his own goodness, he turns his attention to Tommie, an awkward and unpopular eleven-year-old girl. Lamb is convinced that he can help her avoid a destiny of apathy and emptiness and even comes to believe that his devotion...
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Series
South Carolina sunsets volume 1
Language
English
Description
Julie's husband of twenty-one years was living a secret life, which ended her marriage and forced her to start over alone at forty-three years old. Faced with a new reality, she decides to rebuild her life on an island off the coast of South Carolina and learn to make it on her own. The only thing she isn't expecting is to be thrown together with her estranged sister, the flower child wanna-be, yoga teaching bane of her existence. She also doesn't...
8) The ghost
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Language
English
Description
The romance of Sarah Ferguson, an 18th century countess who flees her abusive husband in England to join her French lover in America. It is presented through the eyes of a modern man who reads her diary, drawing inspiration from it to improve his own love life.
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Series
Amgash novels volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret, one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us....
12) Heartbeat
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Language
English
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The story of two people as they struggle to cope with life. Bill Thigpen, producer of the number-one daytime drama bumps into married and pregnant Adrian Townsend. They discover what they both need, fall in love with, can't live without, is each other
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After losing his twin to a drowning accident and his wife to divorce, Zeke Cooper leaves his mother and two daughters behind in Tennessee and travels to Virginia horse country, where he considers his responsibility to repair his fractured family.
14) A new hope
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English
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After losing her child, Ginger Dysart was lost in grief. But since moving to Thunder Point, Oregon, Ginger is moving forward. Her job at the flower shop is peaceful and fulfilling, and she's excited to be assisting with the Lacoumette wedding. The occasion is marred by an unfortunate encounter with the bride's brother, Matt. Struggling with his own painful memories, Matt makes a drunken spectacle of himself when he tries to make a pass at Ginger....
15) Lucky charm
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Derek thought he could outsmart the long-standing Corwin curse by breaking up with Gabrielle, his first love, and marrying someone else. Now, divorced and broke, all he has left is his teenage daughter and a healthy respect for ancient sorcery. But then Gabrielle returns, determined to defeat the curse and rekindle their passion. But will her stubborn streak and her unwavering love be the lucky charm Derek so desperately needs?
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Language
English
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Description
Linda Breland, a single mother tired of living hand-to-mouth in New Jersey, decides to move herself and her two teenage daughters to her distant hometown of Mount Pleasant, S.C., where her sister, Mimi, still lives. Linda's straight-shooting style impresses local restauranteur Brad Jackson, who hires her to manage his restaurant; hints of a future romance are about as subtle as a kitchen fire. Frank easily, breezily shifts among her multiple first-person...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Settled back into the San Francisco singles scene following the implosion of his young marriage just months after the honeymoon, Neill Bassett is going through the motions. His carefully modulated routine, however, is soon disrupted in ways he can't dismiss with his usual nonchalance.When Neill's father committed suicide ten years ago, he left behind thousands of pages of secret journals, journals that are stunning in their detail, and, it must be...
18) Dixie divas
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Series
Publisher
Bell Bridge Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"... Eureka "Trinket" Truevine, the newest Diva, gets more than she bargained for when she finds her best Diva girlfriend Bitty Hollandale's ex-husband in Bitty's hall closet. He's dead. Very dead. Now Trinket and the Divas have to help Bitty finger the murderer and clear her name..."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Little Bridge Island volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
As Little Bridge Island Public Library's head of children's services, Molly Montgomery hopes the messiest thing in her life will be her sticky-note covered desk. But fate, in the form of a newborn left in the restroom, has other ideas. So does the sheriff who comes to investigate the "abandonment.".
Author
Series
Frank Bascombe novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people live in at this moment.