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A selection of unabridged stories from the bestselling author of Goodnight Nobody. Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, and often hilarious, progress of love and relationships over the course of a lifetime. From a teenager coming to terms with her father's disappearance to a moving portrait of men's fears about commitment and love, Weiner's stories explore those transformative...
4) The angel
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A woman's passion for myth and magic leads her into the heart of a murderous evil in this romantic suspense adventure by a New York Times bestseller.
Inside an ancient ruin, Keira discovers the mythic stone angel she seeks-but also senses a malevolent presence . . . just before the ruins collapse around her.
Search-and-rescue veteran Simon Cahill finds Keira in the rubble just as she's about to free herself. Simon holds no stock in myths or...
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2009
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A story of patients and staff, family, and friends who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old Ireland and the new. • "Good-hearted [and] entertaining." —The Washington Post
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two...
Dr. Clara Casey has been offered the thankless job of establishing the underfunded clinic and agrees to take it on for a year. She has plenty on her plate already—two...
7) Sham rock
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The University of Notre Dame relies on Roger Knight, the rotund professor of Catholic Studies, and his brother Philip, a semiretired PI, to investigate certain delicate situations that could put the school in a bad light. Students, faculty, and alumni, like David Williams, are all fair game.
Having been a successful financial adviser until recently, David has returned to campus to renege on a pledged donation to the university's ethics program. While...
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Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby she witnesses the fatal shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals. She is targeted by a shadowy criminal couple called the Landrys, and, as the only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. After Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case he pledges to protect Ellie until...
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2011
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On the eve of her debut into London society, Alana Farmer learns that she was kidnapped as a baby and is really a princess. She decides to travel to her homeland to stop a revolt, but Christoph Becker, captain of the palace guards, arrests her when she arrives. Will he be able to seduce the truth from Alana--is she really the princess or a pretender?
12) Critical mass
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"New York Times-bestselling author Sara Paretsky's brilliant protagonist V.I. Warshawski returns in another hard-hitting entry, combining razor-sharp plotting and compelling characters with a heady mix of timely political and social themes. V.I. Warshawski's closest friend in Chicago is the Viennese-born doctor Lotty Herschel, who lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Lotty escaped to London in 1939 on the Kindertransport with a childhood playmate,...
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A dark secret from a family's past threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm explodes into flames in the middle of the night killing Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, and injuring Kate, who is in a coma.
14) Don't go
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2013.
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When Dr. Mike Scanlon is called to Afghanistan as an army doctor, he is aware of the hardships it will cause his wife Chloe and their newborn daughter; when Chloe dies in an apparent household accident, Mike returns home to bury her and discovers the life he left behind has fallen apart.
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"Autumn has descended on Crozet, Virginia, ideal conditions for a scenic drive for Harry and husband Fair. Harry's nose for trouble leads her straight to a cornfield's macabre scarecrow--an all too real murder victim that frightens all but the noisy crows. This accountant's gruesome death is only the first of many disturbing events in the normally pastoral corner of the world. While Harry tends her beloved grapes and sunflowers, a killer edges...
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The horrifying rape and apparent suicide of Catherine Quixwood, wife of a wealthy merchant banker, falls outside the jurisdiction of policeman Thomas Pitt, but so pervasively offensive are the rumors about the victim that Pitt quietly takes a hand in the investigation.
17) Silencing Eve
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"This is the finale that fans have been waiting for. In Taking Even, the game began. In Hunting Eve, the chase was on. Now, in Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will Eve Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her? And will the secrets of Eve's past ultimately become her undoing? In Silencing Eve, all the questions will be answered in a shocking, you never saw it coming conclusion. Iris Johansen's 2012 trilogy, Eve, Quinn, Bonnie...
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In the Great Depression, twelve-year-old William Eng, a Chinese American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage ever since his mother was carried away from their apartment five years ago; when he sees actress Willow Frost, he believes she is his mother, Liu Song.
19) Three Sisters
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After a jilting at the altar, Andi Gordon makes the most impetuous decision of her life, buying one of the famed Three Sisters Queen Anne houses on Blackberry Island; thrown together by fate, Andi and her female neighbors will discover what they're really made of.
20) Chestnut Street
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"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one of these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie)...
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