Joshilyn Jackson
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Laurel Gray Hawthorne's life seems neatly on track -- a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna -- until everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor Molly Dufresne.
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Español
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Una abogada ferozmente independiente, experta en divorcios, descubre la importancia de la familia y de los vínculos personales cuando recibe un enigmático mensaje de su madre, con la que no se habla desde hace años. Una historia de profundas resonancias sentimentales acerca de la perdurabilidad del amor y del poder de la narración para conformar y transformar nuestras vidas.
Nacida en Alabama, Paula Vauss llevó durante sus primeros diez años...
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340 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it, teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted professor husband, her spirited fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, her adorable infant son. And, of course, the steadfast and supportive Charlotte. But Amy's sweet, uncomplicated life begins to unravel when...
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viii, 344 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After a gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband will kill her, Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape, following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets.
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xiii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Single mom Shandi Pierce's life takes a turn when an enigmatic geneticist saves her and her 3-year-old genius son from an armed robber.
"At twenty-one, Shandi Pierce is juggling finishing college, raising her delightful three-year-old genius son Natty, and keeping the peace between her eternally warring, long-divorced Catholic mother and Jewish father. She's got enough complications without getting caught in the middle of a stick-up in a gas station...
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295 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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After being placed in foster care, Paula Vauss grows up to become a tough divorce attorney only to have her life thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message from the mother she has not seen in years.
After a childhood on the road, and being placed in foster care when her mother went to prison, Paula Vauss grew up to become a tough divorce attorney. Her life is thrown into chaos by an astonishing revelation and a cryptic message...
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ix, 322 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"A novel that follows a young woman's search for the truth about who her mother really is"--Provided by publisher.
When an old grave is unearthed in the backyard, headstrong young Mosey Slocumb is determined to investigate. What she learns could cost her family everything ...
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viii, 294 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Nonny Frett understands the meaning of "between a rock and a hard place." She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy." She's got two men: her husband, easing out the back door; and her best friend, laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised...
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"Beyond the skyline of Toledo stands the Toledo Institute of Astronomy ... a beacon of scientific learning for astronomers far and wide. One of these is George Dermont ... who's trying to prove the scientific existence of a Gateway to God ... Its newest star is Irene Sparks, a pragmatist and mathematician invited to lead the Institute's work on a massive superconductor being constructed below Toledo. This would be a scientist's dream come true, but...
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324 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Growing up poor in rural Georgia, Bree Cabbat's single mother warned her that the world was a dark and scary place. Bree rejected her mother's fearful outlook, and life has proved her right. Marrying into a family with wealth, power, and connections, Bree has all a woman could ever dream: a loving lawyer husband, two talented young teenage daughters, a new baby boy, a gorgeous home, and every opportunity in the world - until the day Bree awakens...
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9 audio discs (11 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Shine, Shine, Shine is a shocking, searing, breathless love story, a gripping portrait of modern family, and a stunning exploration of love, death and what it means to be human. Discover the singular world of Sunny, a woman searching for the perfect life, and Maxon, an astronaut on his way to colonize the moon. Theirs is a wondrous, strange relationship formed of dark secrets, decades-old murders and the urgent desire for connection.