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Five years after the end of World War II, Amie Stilwell returns to her hometown in Maine. There she connects with Shibby Travis, her surrogate mother, and tries to restart her life. But strange events seem to haunt the town--a silent boy is abandoned, a Boston socialite is found dead in a nearby barn, and an old friend believed to be a casualty of the war suddenly reappears. Amie must use all of her skills to discover the truths hiding in Pelican...
282) Rebellion
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A 1924 German novel on destiny. The hero is a one-legged veteran of World War I, earning his living by playing a barrel organ. A run-in with a wealthy man sends him to prison, he loses his musician's license and his wife leaves him.
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Christopher Jones offers a young Korean woman a ride to the Greyhound bus station, and within hours, his good deed plunges him into the dark, dangerous world of human trafficking. Struggling with a painful divorce, unemployment, and responsibilities of caring for his mother and teenage daughter, Christopher is hardly prepared for the dangers that unfold. Helping the woman escape from sex traffickers puts him on the radar of Korean mobsters, exposing...
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Fate, the great equalizer, binds two broken and battered hearts together in their true destiny. When those wanting to silence Cora show up in Gibbs City, Missouri to do her harm, Sheriff Virgil Carter fights against her past as it rises and threatens to destroy them both. Caught between her past and the future she longs for, Cora must make a difficult decision. Torn between her desire to hold on to love, Cora must surrender what she holds dear to...
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"The fragile, 1952 postwar tranquility of a five-year-old boy's world explodes one summer day when a leopard escapes from the zoo, throwing all of Oklahoma City into dangerous excitement, in this evocative story of a child's confrontation with his deepest fears. For Grady McClarty, an ever-watchful but bewildered five-year-old boy, World War II is only a troubling, ungraspable event that occurred before he was born. But he feels its effects all around...
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Death knocks on the door of every home in Gibbs City, Missouri. Who will answer? The strength and valor of Sheriff Virgil Carter is tested as Gibbs City, Missouri faces its most challenging foe. An influenza epidemic strikes and Virgil can no longer control the outcome as the town erupts in chaos. As the consequences of her past actions move closer, Cora Williams must use all her knowledge and physical strength to fight an invisible adversary. One...
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Bluebird Bakery owner Taylor Harp loves how small and close-knit Teaberry Island is--except when the only response to her help wanted ad is from someone she hoped to avoid. She and Cody Cunningham shared a long-ago romance until he started dating her prettier younger sister. But though the sting of rejection remains, so do the sparks. After PTSD ended his military career, Cody Cunningham came back to the one place that felt like home. A difficult...
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"After she is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Katherine abandons her successful advertising firm and seeks refuge in the solitude of her wilderness cabin. Living off the land in complete isolation brings Katherine peace--until the day she realizes she is not alone, and never was. Katherine's sudden and unanticipated arrival at the cabin unsettles Danny, a Vietnam veteran tormented by the demons of his past, who has been squatting in the previously...
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"Liz served in Iraq with her trusty military working dog, Ender, by her side. But now that her tour is over, she has to readjust to life in her small New Hampshire town. Despite being surrounded by people she's known her whole life, Liz feels entirely alone and soon gets trapped in a downward spiral of flashbacks and blackout drinking. Things seem destined for a bad end, but when Liz's on-again-off-again boyfriend, Ben, almost hits a stray dog while...
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Afghanistan veteran Jim Chapel has been enlisted in a new war. This time it's in his own backyard and even more deadly. A small band of fugitives escapes from a secret upstate New York military facility, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Each fugitive has a target, an innocent civilian, and will not stop until the target has been eliminated. Chapel, a wounded Special Forces veteran, is tasked with hunting this group of extremely deadly, genetically...
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The past crawls back like an unwanted memory to shatter the hearts of the ones we love. Sheriff Virgil Carter must find evidence to keep the woman he loves from imprisonment and certain death. When his investigation reveals a web of corruption and greed, an attempt is made on his life and leaves him severely injured. His profound love for Cora gives him the strength to battle for her freedom. Cora Williams must face her toughest challenge of all times...
293) Great Falls
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Shane has always worshiped his big brother, Jeremy. But three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan have taken their toll, and the easy-go-lucky brother Shane knew has been replaced by a surly drunk who carries his loaded 9mm with him everywhere and lives in the basement because he cant face life with his wife and two small children. When Jeremy shows up after Shane's football game and offers to take him to the family cabin overnight, Shane goes along both...
294) Trained to hunt
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He'll hunt the through the jungle, across the desert, and into the grave. Former Army Ranger Pierce Hunt is second-guessing his decision to join a CIA hunter-killer team that will take him far away from his daughter. But when a new performance-enhancing drug kills four football players--including his daughter's boyfriend--settling down becomes the last thing on Hunt's mind. When Anna Garcia, Hunt's love and head of the largest drug cartel in Miami,...
295) A hero's honor
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The Rogue: "Soldier of fortune Sean Killian had faced danger countless times, but nothing made him more wary than his latest assignment--protecting Susannah Anderson. Killian's past had left him hardened and plagued by nightmares, but there was something about Susannah that threatened to penetrate his tough shell. And as the attraction between them grew, losing Susannah was one fear Killian couldn't face."--
The Guardian: "Wounded veteran Abby Stewart...
296) Country place
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"Johnnie Roane has come home from four years of fighting in World War II to his loving parents and his beautiful wife, Gloria. But his first doubts of Gloria's infidelity are created on the way home by the local taxi driver, a passionate gossip, and these doubts which mature with the hurricane that is bearing down on them darkening the seemingly perfect town of Lennox, Connecticut. But a greater violence lurks beneath the surface of the storm...Country...
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"A faux summer fling seemed like the perfect solution... until they start falling in love for real. Teacher Stella Marshall's summer break has just began, but the gossip is already sizzling: Luke Keegan's back in town! Stella's high school crush is all grown up and smolderingly sexy. She might even consider a fling with the former Navy SEAL, if she hadn't already sworn off all romantic entanglements. But there isn't a single thing she can do to stop...
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"Juliet's elderly grandparents are killed in their Adelaide home. Who would commit such a heinous crime -- and why? The only clue is her grandfather Karl's missing signet ring. When Juliet's estranged sister, Lily, returns in fear for her life, Juliet suspects something far more sinister than a simple break-in gone wrong. Before Juliet can get any answers, Lily vanishes once more. Juliet only knew Karl Weiss as a loving grandfather, a German soldier...
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"In just a few months, Abby Everhart has gone from being a top LA media influencer to an unemployed divorcée living out of her car. So inheriting her great-aunt's homestead comes at the perfect time. Abby heads to Highland Falls, North Carolina, to spruce up Honeysuckle Farm before putting it on the market for some much-needed cash. But instead of finding a charming getaway, she discovers a serious fixer-upper, complete with a leaky roof, overgrown...
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"Amy Wallace has made plenty of mistakes in her young life, but she didn't see this one coming. Chris Seger is a marine serving in Afghanistan. His life is forever altered by a single, fateful step. A mother of another Afghan war vet suffers a devastating loss, which changes the course of Finley's life for good. Finley is a mostly golden retriever, who suddenly finds himself alone and confused in a dog shelter. Later, he's brought to a local prison...