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For One More Day
Mitch Albom - Knopf Format: Book
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This is the story of Charley, a child of divorce who is always forced to choose between his mother and his father. He grows into a man and starts a family of his own. But one fateful weekend, he leaves his mother to secretly be with his father - and she dies while he is gone. This haunts... |
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Chestnut Street
Maeve Binchy - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition Format: Hardcover
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Just round the corner from St Jarlaths Crescent featured in MINDING FRANKIE is Chestnut Street. Here, the lives of the residents are revealed in Maeve Binchys wonderfully compelling tales Bucket Maguire, the window cleaner, who must do more than he bargained for to protect his son. Nessa... |
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As Young As We Feel: A Novel
Melody Carlson - David C. Cook; New edition Format: Paperback
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Once upon a time in the little town on the Oregon coast, there were four Lindas—all in the same first-grade classroom. So they decided to go by their middle names. And form a club. And be friends forever. But that was 47 years and four lives ago. Now a class reunion has brought them... |
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The Walk: A Novel
Richard Paul Evans - Simon & Schuster; 1 edition Format: Hardcover
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The first book in a new series from Richard Paul Evans, The Walk is the story of Alan Christoffersen, a once-successful California advertising executive who loses everything he holds dear. At first he considers taking his life; instead he embarks on a walk across America from Vacaville,... |
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The Sweet by and By: A Songbird Novel, Book 1
Sara Evans - Thomas Nelson Format: Audiobook
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"Enchanting." - Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling authorThe first book in the Songbird series from country music star Sara Evans and New York Times bestseller Rachel Hauck!It begins with a little red envelope . . . the one Jade doesnt want to send. The envelope... |
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Almost Heaven
Chris Fabry - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Format: Paperback
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2011 ECPA Christian Book Award winner for fiction! 2011 Christy Award Winner for contemporary standalone novel.Billy Allman is a hillbilly genius. People in Dogwood, West Virginia, say he was born with a second helping of brains and a gift for playing the mandolin but was cut short on social... |
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A Place Called Hope: A Novel
Philip Gulley - Center Street Format: Hardcover
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When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident,... |
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Sea Rose Lane
Irene Hannon - Center Point Pub Format: Library Binding
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After a devastating layoff, attorney Eric Nash heads back to the town where he grew up only to discover that his childhood home is being transformed into a bed & breakfast. Instead of plotting his next career move in peace, he s constantly distracted by noise, chaos and BJ Stevens,... |
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Love Without End
Robin Lee Hatcher - Thomas Nelson Format: Paperback
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For two single parents with bruised hearts, it'll take more than a little courage to get back on the horse when it comes to love.Kimberly Welch lost her husband to a heart attack in the blink of an eye. But she's losing her daughter slowly, in the day-to-day tension. In three difficult... |
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Home to Holly Springs
Jan Karon - Viking Format: Hardcover
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Readers of the nine bestselling Mitford novels have been captivated by Jan Karon?s ?gift for illuminating the struggles that creep into everyday lives?along with a vividly imagined world? (People) . They learned quickly that ?after you?ve spent time in Mitford, you?ll want to come... |
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The Chance: A Novel
Karen Kingsbury - Howard Books Format: Print book
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and a long-ago promise that just might offer the hope of love for today. The day before a teenage Ellie moved from Georgia to California, she and her best... |
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Unwritten: A Novel
Charles Martin - Center Street Format: Print book
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An actress running from her past finds escape with a man hiding from his future.When someone wants to be lost, a home tucked among the Ten Thousand Islands off the Florida coast is a good place to live. A couple decent boats, and a deep knowledge of fishing and a man can get by without... |
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It Happens Every Spring (The Four Seasons of a Marriage Series #1)
Catherine Palmer - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Format: Paperback
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Meet the characters that live, work, dream, and love in the community of Deepwater Cove. Best-selling authors Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer team up to show how four married couples, all in different stages in life, experience the joys and hardships of marriage as examined in Gary Chapman's... |
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The Masterpiece
Francine Rivers - Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Format: Hardcover
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New York Times bestselling author Francine Rivers returns to her romance roots with this unexpected and redemptive love story, a probing tale that reminds us that mercy can shape even the most broken among us into an imperfect yet stunning masterpiece.A successful LA artist, Roman... |
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Someday Home
Lauraine Snelling - Center Point Format: Book
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Lynn's husband passed away two years ago. She doesn't want to live alone, but she's resistant to leave the great big lake house that holds all her memories. Angela's husband decides he needs something "different" and files for divorce. Judith never married, having... |
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Every Breath
NICHOLAS SPARKS - Grand Central Publishing Format: Large Print
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Hope Anderson has some important choices to make. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina,... |
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Promises to Keep
Ann Tatlock - Bethany House Publishers Format: Paperback
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Eleven-year-old Roz (Rosalind) Anthony and her family have just moved to Mills River, Illinois, to escape an abusive situation. Only days after settling into their new home, they are surprised to find the previous owner, Tillie Monroe, on their front porch reading the newspaper. Though... |
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An Irish Country Girl: A Novel
Patrick Taylor - Forge Books; Reprint edition Format: Paperback
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Readers of Patrick Taylor’s books know Mrs. Kinky Kincaid as the unflappable housekeeper who looks after two frequently frazzled doctors in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. She is a trusted fixture in the lives of those around her, and it often seems as though Kinky... |
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The Dance: A Novel
Dan Walsh - Revell Format: Paperback
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Jim Anderson is a successful businessman, and his wife, Marilyn, is the perfect wife. And why wouldnt she be? He gives her everything she needs. Thats why Jim never expected to come home one day and find Marilyn gone.After 27 years of marriage, Marilyn has had enough of feeling unloved... |
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Beyond the Picket Fence: And Other Short Stories
Lori Wick - Harvest House Pub Format: Hardcover
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Endearing characters, tender romances, triumphs of faith--these are the gems readers have cherished in Lori Wick's novels. Now Lori brings the same treasures to this very special collection of eight short stories. |
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The Prayer Box
Lisa Wingate - Thorndike Press; Lrg edition Format: Hardcover
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When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iolas rambling Victorian house.Running from a messy, dangerous past, Tandi... |
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Cross Roads
William P Young - FaithWords Format: Paperback
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Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He 'awakens' to find himself in a surreal world, a 'living'... |
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