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274 pages ; 24 cm
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1938. Women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the 'divorce capital of the world,' Reno, Nevada. The catch: they have to wait six weeks to become 'residents.' At the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need, Ward earns an honest living as a ranch hand. Two new guests are about to upend everything he thinks he knows: Nina, a St Louis heiress and amateur pilot back for her third divorce, and Emily, whose...
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349 pages ; 22 cm
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Single mother Roz has reached breaking-point. After the dissolution of her marriage, Roz's business has gone under, debts are racking up, the rent is late (again), and she's struggling to provide for her nine-year-old son, who is starting to misbehave in school. Roz is in trouble. Increasingly desperate, Roz doesn't know where to turn. Then the perfect opportunity presents itself. At her sister's fortieth birthday party, Roz meets Scott Elias -- wealthy,...
63) Baker's blues
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346 pages ; 24 cm
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In Wyn Morrison's world a 5 AM phone call is rarely good news. It usually means equipment trouble at her bakery or a first shift employee calling in sick--something annoying but mundane, fixable. But the news she receives on a warm July morning is anything but mundane. Or fixable. Mac, her ex-husband, is dead. He's not just in a different house with another woman, but actually, physically gone and the news ignites a firestorm of memories and regrets....
65) The Goodbye girl
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a woman's ex-husband sublets her apartment right out from under her and she refuses to move, the new tenant, a Chicago actor, moves in, touching off a comic, hate-love relationship.
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With over 60 million copies of her books in print, New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown delivers a masterpiece in her latest novel A Kiss Remembered. Heading back to college at the age of 26, Shelley Browning didn't expect the searing memory of Professor Grant Chapman's kiss to come flooding back. Certain he wouldn't remember, Shelley keeps her distance until he asks her to have an innocent cup of coffee with him. Time had changed little...
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320 pages ; 22 cm
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"An exuberant new novel, from an internationally bestselling author that will delight fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette?, and CBS's The Good Wife, about a modern-day superwoman who leans in so far she falls over. Liddy James is forty-four, fit, and fabulous. One of New York's top divorce attorneys, a bestselling author, and a mother of two, she glides through the courtrooms and salons of the Manhattan elite with ease. Despite a devastating...
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308 pages ; 21 cm
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A single mother of an 11-year-old by day, and an erotic fiction writer by night, 46-year-old Sadie Fuller, during a routine shopping trip, encounters a gorgeous man who is exactly like the one in her imagination (and in her latest novel) which opens her up to new romantic possibilities.
"At forty-six, Sadie Fuller's life isn't exactly romantic. A divorced, overweight, somewhat sexually frustrated mother of an eleven-year-old, she lives in the suburbs,...
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Plum Sykes is a contributing editor at Vogue and also writes for Vanity Fair on fashion, society, and Hollywood. Her best-selling novels are sophisticated fairy tales of the thin, pretty, and rich. While a newly married young New Yorker begins to worry about her husband's Paris "business trips," her best friend is busy celebrating her own divorce party and embarking on a Make Out Challenge. Chic and tongue-in-cheek, The Debutant Divorcée is pure,...
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"For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central...
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278 pages ; 24 cm
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Collecting things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes, a man bequeaths his estate to his unsuspecting assistant, who bonds with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners.
Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He does this as a tribute to the fiancée who died...
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407 pages ; 23 cm.
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Recently divorced, Ellen McClarety has opened a bake shop in her small Midwestern town, hoping to turn her life around with the traditional Danish pastry called kringle. Her younger sister, Lanie, a successful divorce attorney with a baby at home, is beginning to feel that her perfect life is not as perfect as it seems. As close as two sisters can be, both women long for the guidance of their mother, who died years ago.
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"Claire Fontaine is convinced that her ex-husband killed their teenage daughter all those years back and believes he's capable of killing again. When she sees him move in with another woman, to play step-father for a girl the same age as the one she lost, Claire tries desperately to warn the new bride of the danger her family is in. But when the woman dismisses her admonishments, she feels she must take matters into her own hands and stop the crime...
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255 pages ; 22 cm
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"When Leslie Morgan divorced after a twenty-year marriage, both her self-esteem and romantic optimism were shattered. She was determined to avoid the cliché of the "lonely, middle-aged divorcée" lamenting her stretch marks and begging her kids to craft her online dating profile. Instead, Leslie celebrated her independence with an audacious plan: she would devote a year to seeking out five lovers in hopes of unearthing the erotic adventures and authentic...
78) Love warrior
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Traces the author's journey of self-discovery after the dissolution of her marriage, revealing how she found healing by rejecting gender standards and refusing to settle for a "good-enough" life.
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462 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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"Divorced, Linwood Scott moves back home to Mimosa Branch, Georgia, to the garage apartment next to her mother's mansion. While she works to figure out what her next step will be, it's family, love, and a sense of humor that will help guide her through the unpredictable turns her life has taken"--
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