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Exciting fiction premiere from beloved New York Times bestselling author Beth Moore. Only God knew why Jillian Slater agreed to return to New Orleans on the news that her father had finally drunk himself to death. It's not like they were close. She hadn't seen him-or her grandmother, the ice queen-in almost 20 years. But when Adella Atwater, the manager of her grandmother's apartment house, called and said Jillian's expenses would be paid if she'd...
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2014.
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English
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It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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House of furies volume 1
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English
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Ellie moves into a boardinghouse full of eccentric people where she tries to save a young man named Lee from befalling the terrors of the house staff.
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Sister circle volume 4
Publisher
Mustard Seed Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"Evelyn Peerbaugh is worried. Once again she has taken in new boarders, but this time she's opened the door of Peerbaugh Place to women who can't pay a cent for her services. But the bonds of sisterhood are as strong as ever. As Evelyn reaches out to these sisters in need, she discovers that God has a whole new plan for the Sister Circle, and for her."--Back cover.
7) Cornucopia
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[Createspace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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English
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The author of forty-five New York Times bestselling novels, Sandra Brown is one of the romance world's most acclaimed writers. Rendezvous magazine has praised her as a novelist whose "larger than life heroes and heroines make you believe all the warm, wonderful, wild things in life." Now, in the classic romantic tradition her fans have come to love, here is another sexy and extraordinary tale of passion—the story of a woman who gives...
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Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Lola Delaney is a vulgar, dumpy, less-than-bright "shotgun bride" who is married to recovering alcoholic Doc Delaney. Their unhappy marriage is made even more unhappy when a sexy stranger, Marie, rents a room from Lola. Lola is a tiresome creature who never stops talking, especially about the "imminent" return of her runaway dog Sheba. Doc is having enough trouble staying from the bottle and resigning himself to his marriage without the curvaceous...
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Publisher
Rosalind Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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At first, moving to the grand house and living among her mother’s roomers was a welcome reprieve from her parents’ constant fights, but Phoebe still walks in her sleep, and her sister has nightmares. It began on the evening after Pearl Harbor was attacked. Phoebe’s best friend and family were hauled away by the police to an internment camp, and her parents had their worst fight ever. Her mother leaves the marriage, and, to carry herself and...
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Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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In 1934, during the Depression, Kit's cantankerous uncle comes to live in the Cincinnati boardinghouse run by her parents, enlisting her aid in transcribing his complaining letters to the editor of the local newspaper and inspiring her to write a different kind of letter of her own.
16) Driving lessons
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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Evangelical Christian do-gooder, Laura Marshall fills her home with down-and-out boarders. Laura's shy teenage son, Ben, lands a job tending to self-proclaimed "Dame" Evie Walton, an over-the-hill actress with the mouth of a drunken sailor and an insatiable lust for life. The battle for Ben's soul begins as Evie shanghais Ben away from his repressive roots and transforms him from a boy to a man.
19) The fire within
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Last dragon chronicles volume 1
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English
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When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
20) Lackawanna blues
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HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives. Based on Ruben Santiago-Hudson's autobiographical play about his relationship with his guardian Rachel Crosby, set in 1950's and 1960's Lackawanna, New York. After the separation of his parents, young Ruben, a part-black, part-Hispanic child, is sent to live in a small-scale boarding house run by...
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