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1) Belonging
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Taylor Broderick has two things that matter in her life--Momma and the dream they share to find the gold-seeking father Taylor has never known. When an opportunity arises for them to continue their search for him, Taylor can barely climb the mountain fast enough to tell Momma. After announcing their fondest wish can be realized, Taylor learns the father, her hopes, trusting mother--everything she believes--is a lie. Taylor's quest to find her own...
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Aparecido en 1977, después de ser rechazado por la censura debido a sus «tendencias antisociales», Las cuatro estaciones fue el primer libro de relatos de la prestigiosa autora rumana Ana Blandiana, de quien ya publicamos en Periférica el también extraordinario Proyectos de pasado. Como éste, Las cuatro estaciones se inscribe en la nutrida tradición fantástica de la literatura de su país, a la vez que dialoga con otras tradiciones, de Poe...
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Recently widowed Rodger de Jonge is losing his bond with his daughters. He's a man of the African bush, and coping with 'girlie feelings' was always Helene's department, not his. When an orphaned baby elephant is found, Rodger sees an opportunity that might help him reconnect with his children. But interfering with the orphan goes against his usual conservation methods. It will require a new approach to save both the baby and his family.
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Lauder Jones and Mountcastle, two Halifax families both alike in dignity, linked by love and circumstance. Douglas Lauder Jones, obscure story writer, calls it "Life and No Escape." His lovelorn son John thinks it's the end of happiness. Neuroscientist Ursula Lauder Jones sees it as sink-or-swim parenting. Whatever it is, her daughter Merin, new owner of a movie house on Barrington Street, wants to sit through it twice. Her sister Anya, summer student...
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A quirky, tender work of contemporary fiction about grief, love, and starting again at middle-age set in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, from the author of The Pregnant Pause and Fishnets & Fantasies. Rose Ainsworth, the affable protagonist in Jane Doucet's debut novel, The Pregnant Pause, is back in this candid, compelling look at midlife love, loss, and new beginnings. Rose and Jim, her husband of almost twenty years, have been living happily in Halifax,...
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The path to heaven runs through Israel is the first part of a trilogy that tells the life of seven generations of a Jewish family that, in the midst of joys and sadness, gets closer to Eretz Israel, to fulfill the dream of return to the land that God bequeathed them four thousand years ago.The characters are ordinary beings, whose lives take place in Eastern Europe, especially in the former Russian Empire, where discrimination against Jews was more...
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Das Leben steckt voller Rätsel. Gerade als Nell den Entschluss fasst, ihr Leben neu zu ordnen, erreicht sie die überraschende Nachricht, dass sie die Erbin eines Hauses in Prerow ist. Was mochte Elisabeth Bollnow, die sie kaum kannte, wohl dazu bewogen haben, ausgerechnet ihr das Haus zu vermachen? Und was hatte die alte Dame mit ihrer Großmutter zu tun, die lange vor ihrer Geburt gestorben war? Obwohl Nell ihre Großmutter nie kennengelernt hatte,...
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Beth Poole's got the wrong ticket to the right life…English dog trainer Beth Poole is having trouble getting her life back together after beating a life-threatening illness and divorcing her husband. When her Aussie-soap-obsessed grandma sends her to Australia to recover, it seems a great opportunity for some rest and relaxation while she figures out what's next.But when Beth arrives in Australia things get off to a rocky start. To begin with, she's...
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A massive storm hits the Midwest on Christmas Eve. TV meteorologists are calling it "Snowmageddon" and predicting up to two feet of accumulation by dawn on Christmas morning. They warn everyone to be inside and off the roads by noon. In Signal Bend, Missouri, the townspeople scramble to relocate their traditional Christmas Eve festivities indoors, to the compound of the Night Horde MC, and figure out how to retain some of the magic of their shared...
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La espiritualidad es algo extraordinario y elusivo. Para muchas personas, la espiritualidad es una faceta ajena o de poco interés en sus vidas. Con frecuencia, la emplean como sinónimo de religión, esoterismo, o una mezcla de creencias heterogeneas. Pero, ¿Qué es realmente la espiritualidad? ¿Es sinónimo de alguna de las alternativas anteriores o se trata de algo más? ¿Acaso la filosofía, de la mano de Friedrich Nietzsche, mató a Dios y...
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Thirty years ago, Savannah's child was taken from her shortly after giving birth. The next day, she ran away to the Pacific Northwest where she's been living ever since. But her circumstances have changed. The tavern where she bartends is closing and her landlord is selling the house she rents. Now seems like the right time to go home to South Carolina, but does she have the courage to face her past? Upon her mother's death, while searching for funeral...
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A widowed soulmate. A handsome newcomer. One summer to reclaim her life. With her husband's tragic passing, the fate of their cherished ancestral farm falls squarely on Jennie Mitchell's shoulders. With no in-demand workplace skills, she grapples with the news of her husband's secret debt and the daunting task of managing everything on her own. She throws herself into opening a bed-and-breakfast, determined to preserve the family legacy and stay...
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A trilogy of the first three 'Paper Dog Bob Stories' in one book.Revisit Bob's adventures in one place or enjoy them all for the very first time. Read more about how...Bob loves his job delivering Stanley's Paper.Bob loves his ball even if Stanley and Virginia don't.Bob loves Craig's socks and so do his animal friends.
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"Esta es la narrativa de una joven intrépida, cuya rebeldía la lleva a liberarse de las restricciones de su mansión, decidida a explorar lo que sus padres siempre le habían negado. En su búsqueda, se encuentra con personajes singulares, con vidas fascinantes aunque inusuales, desentrañando así los misterios que habían permanecido ocultos en su mundo."
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Sarah and Jesse Start the Set with A Summertime romance in His Innocent Runaway.Vera and Flynn create a yummy holiday romance.Sam and Elizabeth round everything off with a wintertime romance. The Box set has a progressive timeline where couples will Cameo in each other's books.Each book is a stand alone HEA
16) Girls Aloud
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Once Ellie Gillman waves her husband off on his grand adventure-a cross-country bicycle trip to publicize the perils of climate change-she realizes she's got her own environment to take care of: the environment of her home, her daughters, and her cozy New England town. While Scott Gillman pedals his way to fame and glory, Ellie mops up the messes of day-to-day living. The house has a roof problem. The town has a litter problem. Ellie's boss is a walking,...
17) Pierceless
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Some things happen in life that makes us want to give up. Hardship can harden our hearts. Tom has lost so much since high school. He has no reason to believe he will have the life he desires. His heart has hardened toward love (God). He decides to stop seeking love in all areas of his life for fear of losing even more. So, love seeks him.
18) Caterina
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Destiny is impossible to escape...Caterina Bonavera had a solid plan. To move up the line from sous chef at one of New York City's top restaurants and then open one of her own. Moving back to Virginia to help her sisters run the family winery had been nowhere on her radar. But neither had landing the head chef's job at a popular local restaurant upon her return, only to find herself unemployed again after three years; nor getting romantically involved...
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Heartache. Betrayal. Forgiveness. Redemption... It's time to head back to Magdalena, New York, and spend a little time with the people we love to love and even a few we love to hate.Roman Ventori isn't looking for a wife. He's had one of those and it ended badly. He's come back to Magdalena out of duty, not love for the town that drove him away with rumors and judgments.Angie Sorrento is in Magdalena to do a job, not find a husband. She almost had...
20) Garden of Ash
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Raised near the Deep South's Okefenokee Swamp, gifted horticulturist Asher Ganit's relationship with the earth and its bounty was spellbinding to those who witnessed the fruits of his labor. Yet he shunned his family's legacy to attempt growing a garden of his own. The murder of his wife and kidnapping of his child destroyed it all.For more than two decades, Ash wandered, riding the train rails as a hobo, keeping in touch only with his lawyer, MC...
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