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Friday Night Knitting Club novel volume 1
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The Friday Night Knitting Club gathers every week to knit and chat over their stories of love, life, and everything in between. When the unthinkable happens, they realize they've created not just a knitting club, but a sisterhood.
62) On the run
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After eight years of raising her daughter Frankie on a horse farm in Tallanville, Alabama, single mother Grace Archer finds her life shattered by the dark secrets of the past, forcing her to resume an old identity to take on a deadly enemy.
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"Margot Lee's mother isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot, until she visits her childhood apartment in Koreatown and finds her mother dead under suspicious circumstances. The discovery sends Margot digging through the past, unraveling the facts of Mina's life as a Korean War orphan and undocumented immigrant, only to realize how little she truly knew about her mother"--Dust jacket flap.
66) Silver sparrow
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From the New York Times Bestselling Author of An American Marriage
"A love story . . . Full of perverse wisdom and proud joy . . . Jones's skill for wry understatement never wavers."
-O: The Oprah Magazine
"Silver Sparrow will break your heart before you even know it. Tayari Jones has written a novel filled with characters I'll never forget. This is a book I'll read more than once."
-Judy Blume
With the opening line of Silver Sparrow,...
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"From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Sister comes a gripping, thrilling story of a mother who will do anything to protect her child. The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter, Jenny, trapped inside the inferno. While their burned bodies are frantically cared for by doctors, Grace and Jenny awaken in the hospital in a strange in-between state. When they learn that someone purposefully set the fire, and...
68) Covenant child
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Twins Kara and Lizzie have always been told that their stepmother stole their inheritance. Then one day, she arrives and tells the girls that she had been kept away by legal technicalities and that she wants them to come live with her. But can Kara and Lizzie trust her?
69) Antiques con
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Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 8
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"As the dynamic dames descend upon a comic-book convention--to sell a rare 1940s Superman drawing--Vivian makes a show of keeping the valuable sketch locked to her wrist in a briefcase. When an intruder breaks into their hotel suite, they naturally suspect a felonious fan, over-eager to acquire their artwork. But this not-so-super villain proves less interested in the Man of Steel than in stealing a man's life, as Brandy and Mother stumble onto a...
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Cedar Key novel volume 4
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Starting a new life in Cedar Key, Florida, Berkley Whitmore, plagued by self-doubt, is delighted when her new store, Berkley's Chocolates & Gems, draws a wide circle of new friends and the admiration of English mystery author Saxton Tate III, giving her the courage to find the truth about her past.
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Newly-single mother Caroline Evans dreams of restoring an old barn into a restaurant, but her chance at happiness suddenly hangs in the balance as whispers of murder and vengeance find their way to her and her daughter Issy, hovering in that limbo between girl and young woman, begins to make some dangerous choices.
72) The glass lake
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In Ireland, a wife fakes a suicide by drowning and takes off with a pharmacist for London. Years later, after establishing herself in business, she longs for news of her daughter, now a teenager. She writes a letter, signing herself a friend of the mother and a correspondence develops. Now she is dying to see her, but dare she? By the author of Circle of Friends.
74) Antiques swap
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Trash 'n' treasures mystery volume 9
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"It happened at Serenity's swap meet, right after Brandy Borne and her ever-more-eccentric mother Vivian finished shooting the pilot for their very own TV show, Antiques Sleuths. Brandy just, well, lost her balance and fell...into the helpful arms of an old flame, local tycoon Wesley Sinclair III. But did Brandy's innocent slip lead to the murder of Wesley's wife, Vanessa? Sure, Vanessa was furious that she caught Brandy in Wesley's embrace. And she...
75) Exclusive
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Godmothers volume 2
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When Toots Loudenberry relocated to Los Angeles from South Carolina to be near her daughter, Abby, she expected to bump into the occasional celebrity. She just never expected them to be dead. Meanwhile, Toots, Sophie, and Mavis are concerned that the prestigious Dr. Sameer's budding romance with Ida may have something to do with his ailing bank balance. And Abby's attempted makeover of the celebrity magazine The Informer into the most talked-about...
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Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No history to hold on to, no relative to speak of. Margot wants family, she wants a past. She finds a photograph pointing her to a town called Phalene. When Margot gets there, it is not what she bargained for. Did her mother leave to hide her own past-- or to protect Margot from what's still there? There is poison in their family tree-- and now that Margot is in Phalene, she might never...
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Emma Raber's daughter volume 1
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Since her father died, Katie Raber's mother has tried to keep Katie close at hand, but the young Amish woman wants to break free from her mother's shadow, hoping to gain independence by attending nearby Mennonite youth gatherings.
79) Fourth wing
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Empyrean volume 1
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Chinese New Year - Year of the Dragon
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans....
80) Mustique Island
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"From bestselling author Sarah McCoy, a sun-splashed romp with a rich divorcee and her two wayward daughters in 1970s Mustique, the world's most exclusive private island, where Princess Margaret and Mick Jagger were regulars and scandals stayed hidden from the press..."--
