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"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and...
243) The friendship list
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"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...
244) The five year lie
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Harper
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[2024]
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English
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When she receives a disturbing text message from the only man she's ever loved who died five years ago, Ariel Cafferty, with the more questions she asks, the more sinister answers she gets, must, to safeguard herself and her son, find the truth before it finds her
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Atheneum, a Caitlyn Dloughy Book
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[2019]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Juan has plans. He's going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself - or at least find something better than his mom Fabi's cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. HIs best friend JD has plans, too. He's going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quinten Trantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven...
246) A simple favor
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Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A mommy vlogger seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town
247) Her Last Goodbye
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Morgan Dane novels volume 2
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Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out... and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband-- the prime suspect-- hires Morgan Dane to find his wife and prove his innocence. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea's family. She wants to track down the criminal-- unaware she's his next target
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2024
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"A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chigago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to...
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Doubleday
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[2022]
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
250) Lecciones de química
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"Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de televis̤in ̀ms seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada dè cido ačtico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que sǔ xito aumenta lo hacen tambǐn sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no ̤slo es̀t ensęando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambǐn desafìndolas a alterar el orden...
251) Dreamland: a novel
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
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Mira Books
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"The Pint-Sized Secret: Geologist Brianna O'Ryan was beautiful, intelligent...and possibly a corporate spy! Yet the more Jeb Delacourt investigated what the single mom had tried to keep hidden, the more he felt her secret was not professional, but personal...and the faster she made his pulse race. Soon, stolen kisses and midnight embraces had Brianna wondering if it was time to risk everything for love... Marrying a Delacourt: Once upon a time, Michael...
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