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Taking chances is part of life, but when you bet your future against the odds, it's a high-risk game. Kate Madison's stylish resale shop has been a big SoHo success, supporting her and her four kids since her husband's untimely death. Now they are grown and ready to forge lives of their own. And they all choose to play against the odds, to their mother's dismay. Isabelle, a dedicated attorney, is in line to make partner at her Wall Street firm when...
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"Spencer Brooke always knew she was destined to be CEO of her grandfather's business-the most respected and luxurious department store in New York City. Brooke's has been at the center of every happy memory she has, but it hasn't been an easy journey. Seven years after her father's death, her life is very different from the days when she walked through the store with her grandfather as a young girl. She may be the owner of Brooke's, but she's also...
23) Blue shoe
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English
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When she stumbles upon a small blue shoe and other small items left behind in her deceased father's car, Mattie Ryder, a divorced mother of two, and her brother struggle to uncover the truth about their dysfunctional upbringing.
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Series
The brothers' bond volume 2
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Trace Bowman isn't about to let Cheyenne hide away her heart. He can't ignore the way she has with his daughter, Zoey? or how she's reminded him of the power of love. Now he needs to convince Cheyenne that Redemption is more than a place to hide?it's also a way to be found.
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Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
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The beautiful Victorian house that Amy Masterson decides to rent, fully furnished, is more than just a place to start over with her young daughter. When Amy learns that the three-story house on Sugar Plum Lane belonged to her great-grandmother, Eleanor Rucker, she discovers a window into the past she knows almost nothing about. As Amy settles into Fairbrook, she's stunned to learn that Ellie Rucker still lives on Sugar Plum Lane, cared for by Amy's...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Brooke Holloway is raising six-year-old Meghan and ten-year-old Spencer on her own two years after her husband's death. Being a single mom and running the family's small-town hardware store keep her busy. The last thing on Brooke's mind is falling in love. Owen Saunders fled the big city to start over. Then he bought an old house to restore -- for all the wrong reasons. If anything needs restoration, it is Owen's heart in the aftermath of his failed...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Widowed mom Hannah St. James didn't expect to meet her next employer by crashing into his Mercedes, but she's in no position to pass up the position that workaholic businessman Tyler Matthews offers: live-in caregiver to his grandmother. Hannah adores caring for feisty Lily, and her son's new room is every boy's dream. But her handsome boss hides his guarded heart behind ledgers and meetings. Underneath Tyler's tycoon exterior is a tender side that...
28) Nowhere to turn
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Series
Hidden identity (Lynette Eason) volume 2
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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The day Danielle Harding takes her 11-year-old son and flees from her abusive husband is the same day Kurt Harding dies. Dani believes she and her son are finally safe, but the danger has just begun. Kurt had taken something that was important to a mysterious person who wants it back and believes Dani has it. Running for their lives, Dani and her son have nowhere to turn -- until she hires Adam Buchanan of Operation Refuge and goes into hiding. But...
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Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A young girl tries to make sense of an unruly world spinning around her. Growing up with a single mother who is chronically out of work and dating a married man, 10-year old Evelyn Bucknow learns early how to fend for herself.
30) Guilty
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When Kat White was fifteen, she and some friends held up a store, and a security guard was killed. No one was caught. Sixteen years later, Kat (now Kate) is with the Philadelphia DA, and a single mom. She discovers that she is to prosecute Mario Castellanos, a friend from that terrible night. When Mario is found dead in her apartment, and another man who knows the secret gets involved, Kate finds that her life and her son's are in danger.
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Banister Falls novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part€of€Gale, €Cengage€Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After Raine's dad walked out, Ginevieve Lightly never lived in one place too long, a rambling lifestyle that defined her daughter's youth. When their car dies in Banister Falls, Wisconsin, Gin promises Raine they can stay until she finishes her senior year of high school. Gin will do anything to make sure her daughter has a bright future ... a future that's compromised when Raine reveals she's pregnant ... Dan Moretti has only ever called Banister...
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Maggie Sheets is just trying to get by. A single mother, she works as a house cleaner and dreams of the days when her financial woes will be over. When her former employer, Liza, a renowned author Maggie once considered a friend, takes her own life, Maggie learns that she has been included in the will and now owns a beautiful home in Sag Harbor. But there's a catch: Maggie has also inherited Liza's eighty-two year old mother. Edith has always prided...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In the Vietnamese fishing village of Phan Thiet in 1942, Tuyet meets and falls in love with Japanese major Yamazaki Takeshi, a wounded veteran with a good heart, but when he risks his life for the Resistance, she and her family are drawn into the conflict, with devastating consequences.
36) Lover's lane
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Series
Twilight Cove trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Living quietly with her son in an isolated town, Carly Nolan hides her troubled past from the local inhabitants until the arrival of private investigator Jake Montgomery, who is searching for the woman who had disappeared with his best friend's baby.
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Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1965 in a tight-knit working-class neighborhood in Queens, New York, and Ruth Malone--a single mother who works long hours as a cocktail waitress--wakes to discover her two small children, Frankie Jr. and Cindy, have gone missing. Later that day, Cindy's body is found in a derelict lot a half mile from her home, strangled. Ten days later, Frankie Jr.'s decomposing body is found. Immediately, all fingers point to Ruth. As police investigate the...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
In 1814, Sara Stevenson, the well-bred but high-spirited daughter of celebrated Scottish lighthouse designer Robert Stevenson, falls in love with a common sailor, Thomas Crichton. On the day of their clandestine elopement, Thomas mysteriously disappears, leaving Sara heartbroken, secretly pregnant, and at the mercy of her overbearing family. Refusing to relinquish her hopes that Thomas will someday return to her, Sara is banished to an eerie lighthouse...
40) The dress lodger
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
©2000.
Language
English
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A novel on the hardship of the Industrial Revolution through the eyes of an Englishwoman forced to be a prostitute to make ends meet. A potter's assistant during the day, she changes at night into a gown, rented by her pimp to walk the narrow streets. It is cold and business is slow. By the author of A Stolen Tongue.
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