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1241) His secret daughter
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Not Noah. Not my husband. But there he is, unconscious in the hospital bed. Our daughter sobs into my shoulder. We love him so much. What if he never wakes up? And who is the little girl beside him, gazing up at us with big, tear-filled brown eyes? Eyes that look just like my husband's...Our family of three is perfect. Just me, Noah and our teenage daughter Maya. The day the police knock at our door, telling us about the car accident, is the worst...
1242) Scarlet in blue: a novel
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"Part mystery, part coming-of-age story, and part tragedy, Scarlet In Blue, by acclaimed novelist Jennifer Murphy, traces the lives of a mother and daughter who, because of their fugitive lifestyle and the pain that overshadows it, share a dependence and a love so strong neither can imagine life without the other. Fifteen-year-old Blue Lake is a budding pianist who resents her mother Scarlet's nomadic lifestyle. She yearns to settle in one place so...
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"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her mother, a fearful evangelical who's become caught up in a fearsome cult called The Collection of Redeemed Souls. Cielo and her mother, Mexican citizens without U.S. papers, have always had their...
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"No matter where life takes you...faith takes you further. Amber Hill never imagined she would find herself a war widow and single mom. She feels robbed and is angry at God, and she doesn't know how to help her nine-year-old daughter Bree through her grief. Where, Amber wonders, are the Sunday dinners, the picnics, the bike rides, the time together they should be enjoying as a family? Instead, Amber is left with a folded flag and an empty heart. Cody...
1245) Sea escape
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Acclaimed novelist and nationally recognized family expert Lynne Griffin offers an emotional, beautifully imagined story inspired by her family letters. Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling with her busy life as a nurse, wife, and mom, when her estranged mother suffers a devastating stroke. In an attempt to lure her into choosing life, Laura reads aloud at her bedside the legendary love letters her father wrote to her mother from...
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La vida de Ally Hughes es un caos. Con una niña que requiere toda su atención, una madre controladora que sigue cada uno de sus pasos y unas largas jornadas como profesora en la Universidad de Brown ... Bastante tiene con organizarse ella sola, como para pensar en hombres ... ¡O en tener sexo! Y entonces aparece Jake, un alumno diez años más joven que ella, que le hará vibrar como nunca en toda su vida. Pero Ally no está preparada para...