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"Joy Okafor is overwhelmed. Recently divorced, a life coach whose phone won't stop ringing, and ever the dutiful Nigerian daughter, Joy has planned every aspect of her mother's seventieth birthday weekend on her own. As the Okafors slowly begin to arrive, Mama Mary goes to take a nap. But when the grandkids go to wake her, they find that she isn't sleeping after all. Refusing to believe that her sister is gone-gone, Auntie Nancy declares that she...
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"Celebrity cooking show host Marni McGuire has seen it all. She's been married -- twice -- and widowed and divorced. Now in her midfifties, she's single. Happily so. She just needs to convince her pregnant daughter, Bella, of this fact. And maybe convince herself, too. Especially after Marni's efforts to humor her determined daughter result in a series of disastrous dates that somehow prompt Marni to wonder if maybe the right man for her is still...
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"An environmental journalist in Washington, DC, Rachel has shunned her New England working-class family for years. Divorced and childless in her middle age, she's a true independent spirit with the pain and experience to prove it. Coping with challenges large and small, she thinks her life is in free fall -- until she's summoned home to deal with the aftermath of her mother's death. Then things really fall apart. Surrounded by a cast of sometimes...
5) Old haunts
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x, 290 pages ; 18 cm.
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While dealing with her ex-husband who is trying to win back their 10-year-old daughter, Alison Kerby must help a pair of sad spirits who, haunting her Jersey Shore guesthouse, need her help in solving a murder.
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"Brenda Malloy wants nothing to do with Christmas ever again. Last year, Brenda and her husband rushed their beloved dog, Tim, to the emergency vet on Christmas Eve. The good news: Tim survived after the vet cleared the obstruction -- a pair of women's lace undies. The bad news: the undies were not Brenda's. A year after the breakup, Brenda has put her life back together. She's trained for a marathon, is writing a children's novel, and she's found...
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344 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Her husband's cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn't going to take it anymore. She's moving back north, to the city of her dreams -- with her best friend, Evie, in tow. Think a screwball comedy featuring a sophisticated Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . . When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in bed with the floozy of their Boca retirement community, she's shocked and furious . . . at first. By the time...
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444 pages ; 23 cm
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"¿Quién eres cuando tienes que caminar con los zapatos de otra persona? Nisha viaja por todo el mundo y disfruta de las comodidades propias de los ricos y poderosos. Hasta que su marido le pide el divorcio y deja de pasarle dinero. Nisha está decidida a aferrarse a su sofisticado estilo de vida, pero, mientras, deberá esforzarse por salir adelante. Y eso que ya ni siquiera tiene los zapatos que llevaba puestos hasta hace un momento. La razón...
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Quitting her job and divorcing her husband, Yeong-Ju, in a leap of faith, opens the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. Welcoming new friends and visitors to her circle, she builds an inviting space for hurt and lost souls to rest, heal, and learn how to write their own stories.
10) The next wife
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296 pages ; 21 cm.
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Kate and Tish Nelson are two halves of a very similar coin: John's ex- and trophy- wife, respectively. Both have enjoyed the luxury that he (and Kate) earned through founding a successful company, but Kate works hard and raises their daughter while Trish is encouraging him to go on a romantic getaway to celebrate their new love. But they both know John's eye wanders, after all, Tish seduced him out of Kate's marriage and into her own, and when needed,...
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418 pages ; 21 cm.
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A poignant, evocative story that celebrates the magic of motherhood, the joys of coming home, and the price we so willingly pay for love.
Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria's heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family's restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie's fortunes will...
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Día que volume 4
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253 pages ; 24 cm.
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Una historia sobre el amor, la superación y el crecimiento personal, sobre cambiar los ritmos frenéticos y vivir una vida pausada en armonía con la naturaleza. Tras tres años infernales junto a Ben y un hijo en común, Mel siente la valentía de acabar con la relación tóxica en la que se ha convertido su vida. La idea de huir a Montana, comprar una pequeña cabaña en Yellowstone para rehabilitar y convertirla en una casa rural en la que vivir...
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