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1) Night music
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"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--
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With her husband Bernard two years in the grave, seventy-nine-year-old Harriet Chance sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan cruise only to discover through a series of revelations that shes been living the past sixty years of her life under entirely false pretenses. There, amid the buffets and lounge singers, between the imagined appearance of her late husband and the very real arrival of her estranged daughter midway through the cruise, Harriet is...
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2015.
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English
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"Facing foreclosure on her California home, widowed Kylie Wayne is grateful to accept her aging aunt Muriel's offer to come back to small-town Branding Iron, Texas, and help out on the ranch. But when an early storm rolls in, Kylie's dream of a perfect Christmas for her kids is blown away with the unexpected snow. Comfort and joy seem unlikely, unless a certain long, tall Texan with a bad boy's charm can rope some holiday cheer."--jkt.
4) Texas true
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Tylers of Texas volume 1
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English
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The cowboy who claimed her heart before taking off on a tour of duty planned never to return. But Beau Tyler is back, and Natalie Haskell feels defenseless against the powerful pull of the brawny soldier. Especially when she finds herself suddenly widowed and needing the shelter of his strong arms.
5) The Maidens
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When a member of a secret society known as The Maidens is murdered, a brilliant, but troubled, group therapist finds her obsession with proving the guilt of an untouchable Cambridge University professor spiraling out of control, threatening to destroy her credibility as well as her life.
"Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca...
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel, a stirring novel about a woman striking out on her own after loss as her adult daughters try to find their own independent paths in life. Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her husband���s venture capital firm, and in doing so, is...
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Love on the Santa Fe volume 1
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English
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"When bankruptcy forces widow Susanna Jenkins to follow her family to New Mexico, what they see as a failure she sees as a fresh start. Owen Turner is immediately attracted to Susanna, but he's afraid of opening up his heart again, especially as painful memories are stirred up. But if Owen can't face the past, he'll miss out on his greatest chance at love"--
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Finfarran Peninsula volume 5
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English
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Setting up a transatlantic Skype book club to stay in touch with her recently widowed grandmother on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula, Cassie uncovers tragic family secrets that reveal unexpected truths about her grandmother's marriage.
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Jo Marie Rose first arrives in Cedar Cove seeking a sense of peace and a fresh start. Coping with the death of her husband, she purchases the newly christened Rose Harbor Inn and sets out to begin her life anew. Yet the inn holds more surprises than Jo Marie can imagine.
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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When widow Wendy Harper and her son move into their inherited beach cottage in Maine so that they can renovate and sell it, the charm of the town, and local craftsman Caleb Colton, make Wendy think twice about moving back to Ohio.
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Ballantine Books
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c2013.
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English
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At Madeline's Tea Salon, the cozy hub of the Avalon community, local residents scrapbook their memories and make new ones. But across town, other Avalonians are struggling to free themselves of the past: Isabel Kidd is fixing up her ramshackle house while sorting through the complications of her late husband's affair. Ava Catalina is mourning the love of her life and helping her young son grow up without his father. Local plumber Yvonne Tate is smart,...
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Forge, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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Anna Kate Callow has returned to the charming little town of Wicklow, Alabama, to settle her beloved grandmother's affairs, which means closing Granny Zee's cherished restaurant, the Blackbird Café. To her surprise, Anna Kate finds herself inexplicably drawn to the quirky Southern town her mother ran away from so many years ago, and to the mysterious blackbird pies some people insist contain a little magic. Anna Kate isn't the only one coming home....
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The Overland Trail, 1853: Naomi May never expected to be widowed at twenty. Eager to leave her grief behind, she sets off with her family for a life out West. On the trail, she forms an instant connection with John Lowry, a half-Pawnee man straddling two worlds and a stranger in both. But life in a wagon train is fraught with hardship, fear, and death. Even as John and Naomi are drawn to each other, the trials of the journey and their disparate pasts...
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle...
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