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Ever since her husband's death collided with the birth of her daughter, postpartum depression has taken hold of Veronica Shelton. she can't sleep, can't work, and can't bear to touch her beautiful baby girl. Her emotional state is whispering lies in Veronica's ear. But not everything can be reasoned away by Veronica's despair. After all, the break-in at her house happened. The disturbing sketches she found in her studio are real. So is the fear for...
682) Chinatown
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"An abandoned package is discovered in the Paris Metro: the subway workers suspect it's a terrorist bomb. A Vietnamese woman sitting nearby, her son asleep on her shoulder, waits and begins to reflect on her life, from her constrained childhood in communist Hanoi, to a long period of study in Lenin-grad during the Gorbachev period, and finally to the Parisian suburbs where she now teaches English. Through everything runs her passion for Thuy, the...
683) Status
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"Tyesha Fenty is a beautiful 22-year-old mother of one very precocious little girl--and an unashamed internet addict. Between taking care of her daughter and posting updates about her life via the Web, Tyesha stresses over love and family. The father of her child is a spiritually devout drug dealer named Rodrick Al-Bashir who has a thing for other women. And her mother, Velma Fenty, is a widowed hoarder on the verge of losing her house. Stalking is...
684) Ardiente atracción
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"Hacia años, Canyon Westmoreland había dejado que un terrible malentendido se interpusiera entre Keisha Ashford y él, pero, cuando Keisha regresó a la ciudad con un niño de dos años, llegó el momento de aclarar las cosas de una vez por todas. Entre ellos todavía bullía una incandescente atracción y, en esa ocasión, nada impediría a Canyon conseguir lo que le pertenecía...¡su mujer y su hijo!"--Page [4] of cover.
"Years ago, Canyon Westmoreland...
685) The narrator
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"Being a single mother is tough, but I'd do anything for my little girl Scarlet. I'd given up on my career as a voice actor when the call came, but suddenly I was the new narrator for a secret book from bestselling author Philippa Roberts, who has been missing for eight months. It was a lifeline for me and my daughter. I hated that it meant leaving Scarlet with my ex in his perfect new home with his perfect new girlfriend. But I knew it was the right...
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It seems lately that Poppy Lively is invisible to everyone but the IRS. After her accountant absconded with her life savings, newly bankrupt Poppy is on the verge of losing her home when an old flame, now a hotshot producer, gives her a surprising way out: a job in costumes on a Hollywood film set. It's a bold move to pack her bags, keep secrets from her daughter, and head to Los Angeles, but Poppy's a capable person--how hard can a job in wardrobe...
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When a single mom becomes an "empty nester," she spreads her wings to rediscover herself -- and her passions -- in this heartwarming novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Jenna Boltz's life is at a crossroads. After a messy divorce nearly twenty years ago, she raised her two children on her own, juggling motherhood with her beloved job as a Seattle intensive care nurse. Now that Paul and Allie have gone to college and moved...
688) The cleaner
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Meet John Milton. He considers himself an artisan. A craftsman. His trade is murder. Milton is the man the government sends after you when everything else has failed. Ruthless. Brilliant. Anonymous. Lethal. You wouldn't pick him out of a crowd but you wouldn't want to be on his list. But now, after ten years, he's had enough - there's blood on his hands and he wants out. Trouble is, this job is not one you can just walk away from. He goes on the run,...
689) Brambleberry House
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His second-chance family: When Julia Blair returns to her hometown of Cannon Beach she's divorced and with two children, and ready to start over again. But is it good or bad luck when she immediately runs into her sixteen year old crush, Will Garrett who looks just as battered and bruised by life so far as she is?
A soldier's secret: To find out who was claiming ownership of the only place he'd ever called home, Harry Maxwell knew he'd have to practice...
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Teenager Zé becomes pregnant after a brief love affair with a captain's son her age. By the time she realizes her condition, the ship has left and the boy is gone. In her father's Cuba, an unwed teenage mother is a source of scandal and shame and a threat to his ambitions in the Party. He disowns her and brutally throws her out of her home. Led by her mother, she leaves the city for refuge in Matanzas, a university town rich in Afro-Cuban culture,...
691) Tranquility Falls
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"Six years ago, Daniel was a Los Angeles financial analyst who was too handsome for his own good. Too smart for his anchor job on the nightly news. And too enamored with the heady addictions of the high life. That man died in a tragic accident with his fiancée. With grief and guilt battling for control, Daniel moved to the quiet California seaside town of Miramar Bay with his best friend--a rescue Labradoodle who still sees him through rough times....
692) Impending strike
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"Elite Guardian Charlie Lee knows that there is no future with the woman he loves--fellow Guardian Lizzie Tremaine. And he gets it. Lizzie's a single mom focused on protecting her daughter, and Charlie's got his own baggage anyway. It's easier, and safer, to keep things the way they are. Then, the unthinkable happens. While Charlie is undercover, he's seriously injured...and his memory of the past four years is gone. But maybe it's the fresh start...
693) Trust no one
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There's a killer at large, and a pregnant woman has gone missing. Each new clue brings Detective Kerri Devlin closer to the killer and the missing woman, who starts looking more like a suspect than a victim.
It is the worst possible time for Detective Kerri Devlin to be involved in an all-consuming double-homicide case. She's locked in a bitter struggle with her ex-husband and teenage daughter, and Falco, her reckless new partner, is anything but...
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As policewoman and single mother Ryan Eames and newcomer Ethan Lange work on an animal rescue operation together, they are drawn into something deeper and surprising by her extraordinarily gifted son that makes Christmas in Miramar Bay a season of love, healing, and second chances.
Policewoman and single mother Ryan Eames is dedicated to her lonely, gifted son, Liam. This year, stretched by double shifts and an out-of-season coastal wildfire, Christmas...
695) Behind the door
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In the rural town of Zarepath, deep in the woods on the border of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, stands the Door. No one knows where it came from, and no one knows where it leads. For generations, folks have come to the Door seeking solace or forgiveness. They deliver a handwritten letter asking for some emotional burder to be lifted, sealed with a mixture of wax and their own blood, and slide it beneath the Door. Three days later, their wish is answered--for...
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From a single mother who gets lured into her pastor's twisted den of lies, to a deadly revenge plot gone wrong, and an illicit affair that leaves a bloody trail of evidence, author and filmmaker N'Tyse presents Chain of Fools: Prison Bids, her most gripping, collaborative work thus far--featuring crime of passion tales served by bestselling authors Briana Cole, Shakir Rashaan, Brandie Davis, Erick S. Gray, and India Williams.
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"Cerys leaves her life behind in a fiery wreck. Lily slips away from hers early one morning, silent as a shadow. Both are mothers. And both are desperate. When the two women are thrown into each other's paths, they strike a tentative bond. Cerys is a mother with no children to care for anymore, and Lily is doing all she can to take care of a four-year-old on her own. But each keep secrets from the beginning-the scars, the loneliness, and, most importantly,...
698) On dangerous ground
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"A Place to Call Home by New York Times bestselling author Sharon Sala. Detective Judd Hanna came to the Wyoming high country for a few days of peace and solitude, away from the dark shadows of big-city crime. But even here, peace was hard to find. For Charlotte "Charlie" Franklin and her adorable little girl were in mortal danger. And before Judd could hope for a future with Charlie, he had to make sure she lived to see tomorrow..."--Page [4] of...
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"Draya had given up on the hopes of being in love ever since her fiancé, Korey, decided to make a fool out of her. Her woman’s intuition told her he was doing her dirty, and without asking him, she packed up her son and moved out of the home they were sharing. However, Korey has not and will not give up on Draya. He knows she’s the one for him. Despite the past issues, he swears he didn’t cheat on her and wishes there was something he could...
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"An inventive, funny, sometimes heart-breaking exploration of the connections between art and hunger, duty and desire, and loss and survival. Brother and sister Robert and Julia Zamarin are trying to awaken the world to its peril with their tiny political theater company, while their sister Eva, a neuroscientist, searches for the biological roots of empathy. As Julia attempts to break free of Robert's influence, Robert, as lost without her as she...