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Kensington Books
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Returning to Kurland St. Mary to help with a friend's wedding, Lucy Harrington is dismayed at the presence of Major Robert Kurland, but calls a truce with him when Mrs. Chingford, a meddling widow who had set her sights on Lucy's father, is found dead at the bottom of a staircase.
82) The captive
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Captive hearts (Grace Burrowes) volume 1
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English
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Struggling with Society life, Christian Severn, who lost his wife, son and will to live, finds an ally in the Countess of Windmere, who helps him stay strong for his surviving daughter, but refuses his proposal of marriage even though romance has blossomed between them.
83) Tempted
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Thirty-three year old widow and mother of two small children, Beverly Simpson blames God for what she's lost. Preacher Joe Clark pursues her, intrigued by her irreverent approach to life. Can they reconcile their differences and find love?
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Veteran con artist Roy spots an obvious easy mark when he meets Betty, a wealthy widow, online. In no time at all, hes moved into Betty's lovely cottage and is preparing to accompany her on a romantic trip to Europe. Betty's grandson disapproves of their blossoming relationship, but Roy is sure this scheme will be a success. He knows what he's doing. As this remarkable feat of storytelling weaves together Roy's and Betty's futures, it also unwinds...
85) Play dead
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When her husband, Boston Celtics' star player David Baskin, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model-turned-entrepreneur Laura Ayars begins to suspect that David's death wasn't a simple accident and launches her own investigation.
86) Redwood Bend
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Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. As she stands by the side of the road pondering her next move, Katie hears a distinct rumble. The sight of the sexy, leather-clad bikers who pull up beside her puts her imagination into overdrive.
Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by...
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Zebra Books
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Widowed Julia, Lady Winterset, has inherited a book that every gentleman in London seems to want. Harrison Landingham, Earl of Mountdale, can't let the obstinate Julia release the shameless memoir that could ruin his family's name, but the only way to stop her may be equally sordid, for his rivals are intent on seducing the captivating woman to acquire the book.
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"After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover....
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Under suspicion (Mary Higgins Clark) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
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"[A] Manhattan ER doctor is brazenly murdered in front of his young son in a city playground. Five years later, his killer is still at large. Meanwhile his widow, Laurie Moran, is now an award-winning TV producer. Still haunted by her husband's murder, she has been raising their son alone. Laurie and her TV crew have just received the green light to produce a new 'cold case' series. Revisiting unsolved crimes one at a time, she and her TV crew will...
90) Fearless
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2020.
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Weaving a thread of suspense into her trademark powerful storytelling, #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers a compelling new novel about a woman who learns that her new life may not be all it appears . . . Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West...
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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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Miss Julia series volume 5
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c2004
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English
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Miss Julia, who has been doing fine since her philandering husband passed away, has to make a decision about marriage with a longtime beau.
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"In the five years since her husband's disappearance, Geeta has become accustomed to a solitary life; you'd be surprised how difficult it is to make friends when your entire village believes you're a witch who murdered your husband. And since she can't convince anyone that she didn't murder him, she figures she might as well use her fearsome reputation to protect herselfas a woman on her own. But when other women in the village decide that they, too,...
94) Beyond a doubt
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Rock Harbor series volume 2
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English
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Bree Nichols is trying to put her life back together after losing her husband in a plane crash and being separated from her young son, Davy, for a year. Her life becomes more complicated, though, when she finds human skeletal remains in her basement. The decades-old mystery takes center stage as Bree tries to understand her romantic feelings for forest ranger Kade Matthews. At the same time, Kade's teenage sister, Lauri, and her boyfriend, Brian,...
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Kensington Books
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Margaret Vaughn has hired Daisy to provide afternoon tea for her theater group. A local girl who left long ago for an acting career in New York, Margaret has returned home, with a multimillionaire husband in tow. But while Daisy bustles around Margaret's historic farmhouse, she senses that there's tension behind the scenes. Then she discovers the hostess on the floor of the pantry, dead and covered with clotted cream
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Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married, and that the groom will remain a secret until the wedding day, she may finally be able to bring them home for the holidays.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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Two families awaiting the arrival of their adopted infant daughters from Korea meet at the airport. The families lives become interwined after the Donaldsons, a young American couple invite the Yazdan's, Maryam, her son and his Iranian American wife to an arrival party, which becomes an annual event. Maryam, who came to this country thirty-five years earlier, feels her values threatened when she is courted by a newly widowed Donaldson. A penetrating...
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"Pamela has organized a weekend-long knitting bee as part of a conference on fiber arts and crafts...But when pompous Professor Robert Greer-Gordon Critter, the keynote speaker at the conference, crashes the bee, he seems more interested in flirting than knitting...After coffee and cookies are served, the professor suddenly collapses, seemingly poisoned--but how? Everyone had the coffee and cookies"--
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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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