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1581) A Man of Humble Age
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If you're willing to wait, for a man of humble age
to leave behind his staves, and pieces he has played
You ought to find a way, to forget your harboured
hate, and lend a chocolate lime, a moment without haste.
1582) Country Wedding
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Set in eastern Long Island, in an area reminiscent of the Hamptons, it is a tale about a wedding party: the bride and groom each apprehensive, but for different reasons. On the scene are a former lover of the bride's who makes a sudden appearance and a young swain who is equally taken with the bride-to-be.
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A comedy romance written with dry humour and a sarcastic wit.' – Amazon Reviewer.'So funny, yet so sad too.' – Amazon Reviewer. A modern version of Cinderella – 'Cinders' Valerie Anthrope has two ugly conditions holding her back: insomnia and paranoia. Her fairy godmother is overbearing Ellen Semple, who interferes in all aspects of Valerie's life. Prince Charming is the delectable Lex Kendal who relentlessly pursues Valerie. The glass slipper...
1585) Albert vuelve a casa
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Big Fish y El diario de Noa se dan cita en esta evocadora historia acerca de un hombre, una mujer y su caimán. Un conmovedor tributo al amor, de la mano del autor de Rocket Boys, la aclamada novela autobiográfica que inspiró la película Cielo de octubre.
Elsie Lavender y Homer Hickam (padre del autor) fueron juntos al instituto en la región minera de Virginia Occidental, donde se graduaron al iniciarse la Gran Depresión. Después de que Homer...
1587) History of Now
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Small. almost imperceptible changes are rippling through the New England village of Grandville, altering it in ways its inhabitants cannot yet imagine. Laced through a narrative of one recent year in Grandville's history are stories that reach back to a 17th century family in Rotterdam, and 18th century migration by a farmer's lonely son in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a 19th century underground railway journey by a gifted runaway slave. Each...
1588) Daughters of the Storm
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A sweeping tale of freedom and betrayal, love and death, set in revolutionary France.Paris, 1789. As the shadow of the guillotine falls over a nation at war with itself, three very different women find themselves caught up in the storm of revolution...In France under the last Bourbon king, the extravagance grows more outrageous and the unrest of the poor more dangerous. Into this ferment are swept the innocent English Sophie Luttrell, visiting France...
1589) The Wishing Box
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A sometimes funny, sometimes magical first novel, The Wishing Box explores the surprising and unintended consequences of getting what you ask for. Julia, an almost-30 single mom whose life is mostly together, lives in Oakland with her seven-year-old son. Never suspecting it will actually work, she and her sister create a wishing box and half-seriously hold a ceremony for the return of the father who abandoned them as children. Astonishingly, he comes...
1590) The Sadness
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Broke and homeless at 30, Kelly Enright flees Arizona. Returning to her hometown of Portland, ME, her only plan is to track down her estranged but well-off father. But her twin brother, Max, is living in their deceased mother's home, and if anyone's more screwed up than Kelly, it's disheveled, misanthropic Max. Max has just one obsession: film. In particular, his own unfinished project from a decade earlier, which he believes is a masterpiece in the...
1591) The Project
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At the beginning of her college sophomore year in 1994, Sabella Pierce surrenders to her semester-long psych class assignment: volunteer as a companion for eighty-three-year-old nursing home resident, May. Having grown up with a bitter grandmother and a well-earned lack of enthusiasm for old people, Sabella dreads this project.
But, Sabella's anxiety about her assignment turns to fascination as she discovers May's vibrant spirit, life of independence,...
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A recipe book is an odd thing to give to someone who doesn't cook, so when Kat Bower is bequeathed a book of secret family recipes by her recently deceased mother, Ella, she is puzzled. Along with the recipes, lovingly handed down from generation to generation, Kat quickly discovers that the book is a conduit into the lives of the remarkable women who contributed to it. Through their stories, she embarks on a journey of discovery about herself and...
1593) False Advertising
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Helen and Gemma, two women who couldn't be more different, are thrown together when their lives take an unexpected turn. Helen always tries to be a good person - she recycles, she is even polite to telemarketers. As a mother, wife, daughter and nurse, Helen is used to putting everyone's needs before her own. But it only takes one momentary lapse of concentration to shatter her life forever.There was no such momentary lapse for Gemma, she had never...
1594) Christmas Joy
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Life isn't always sweet, even for girls called Candy.
Candice Parker married Gerald Ford on Christmas Eve two years ago following a massive blizzard. The year before that her family was left homeless when a fire burned their apartments to the ground. Fortunately, fireman Gary had been on call and led the team that rescued Lanelle and Dakota from the blaze.
Last year it all came to a head when Caroline joined their household as the nanny and housekeeper...
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Some families you are born into. Some you choose. And some choose you. Four women have little in common other than where they live and the joyous complications of having sisters. Cindy waits for her own life to begin as she sees her sister going in and out of hospitals. Lise has made the boldest move of her life, even as her sister spends every day putting herself at risk to improve the lives of others. Diana is an ocean apart from her sister, but...
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Has this runaway bride found the man of her dreams?
Restless-that's businessman and biker Seth Bolton. But when he rescues runaway bride Kate Burroughs, he wants more than he should with the lush mom-to-be. He's never been one to settle down, and he already has plans to leave. The best he can offer Kate is a no-strings fling…
And in spite of her better judgment, Kate says yes to Seth. She needs what he can give her, for however long it lasts....
1597) Three's a Crowd
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Well, we're different, we lead such different lives. I'm not sure how we'll go now without Annie. She was like Carrie, you know, in Sex and the City. Annie was our Carrie.'Without Annie, friends Catherine, Lexie and Rachel are lost. How will they fill the void? Will their friendship survive?Catherine is characteristically unfazed, forging ahead in her high-flying career while struggling to connect to her unfathomable teenage daughter. But secrets...
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Levi Revel is a boy in danger of losing his family and maybe his mind. He's in awe of his father, Everest-a majestic dreamer, a master builder, a man with a violent, secret past. As the family moves from state to state, Levi hears solace in the voice of God, a voice that sends him preaching from treetops and roofs. But as the family begins to fall apart and Levi enters adolescence, he starts to hear more troubling things. When Everest takes him on...
1599) Keeper and Kid: A Novel
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"Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down." ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Room
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down...
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Imagine a life never having to deal with the real worldTwenty-two-year-old Coleman O'Sullivan is a number one New York Times Fantasy Author who spends every day writing at his leisure. His only contact with others is through Athena, his virtual assistant.Due to an unusual occurrence, after five years living isolated on Sanctuary Island, Colman was forced to go over to the mainland to pick up lifesaving medical supplies. While at the pharmacy he met...
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