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"Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's most prestigious private school on a scholarship. But amid the wealth and privilege, Lyla doesn't always fit in. Then one devastating photo changes everything. Finch snaps a picture of Lyla...
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Becca "Bex" Stuart's two best friends have married the men of their dreams, she's thrilled for them, and a little envious. If her own first love hadn't died serving the country years ago, everything would have been so different. But when her sweet nephew, Josh, moves in with her for a while, Bex's life is turned upside down - and there's only one person she can rely on. Single dad Tate Calder came to Mustang Creek with his two sons in tow, looking...
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Keegan McKettrick has learned the hard way that women can't be trusted. The only female in his life these days is the young daughter he sees all too rarely, and his sole passion is for his job overseeing his family's corporation. Until beautiful but mysterious Molly Shields comes to Indian Rock on a mission--and keeping a suspicious eye on her becomes Keegan' full-time hobby. Molly doesn't know why she's attracted to a man who's determined to dig...
4) Two by two
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Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career and an expansive home. But underneath the surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear. In a matter of months, Russ finds himself without a job or wife. Throwing himself into the wilderness of single parenting, Russ embarks on a journey at once terrifying and rewarding, testing his abilities and his emotional resources beyond...
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Montana Creeds volume 2
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The town librarian, Kristy Madison, is speechless when Dylan Creed turns up for story time with a toddler in tow. The man who'd left a string of broken hearts is back, and she's determined to tame his wild ways once and for all.
6) Dockside
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Nina Romano, single mom and ex-mayor of Avalon, is just a bank loan away from realizing her lifelong dream: restoring the Inn at Willow Lake, a historic lodge once owned by the wealthy Bellamy family, and turning it into an elegant retreat. Then she finds that Greg Bellamy has beat her to the punch. Greg and Nina have been sparring since the night Greg decked the West Point cadet who had gotten her pregnant at age 15. Now, nearly 20 years later, Greg...
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An engrossing, contemporary western romance starring Rance McKettrick, a handsome, successful businessman and cousin to the last volume's hero, Jesse. Having buried himself in work since his wife's death five years earlier, Rance gets a wake-up call in the form of a blonde newcomer to the small ranching town of Indian Rock, Ariz. Riding up in a hot pink VW Bug, eccentric Chicagoan Echo Wells sparks the whole town's interest when she opens up Indian...
8) Elsewhere
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"Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object-something he calls "the key to everything"--and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of...
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Lowcountry tales volume 12
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Beekeeper Holly McNee Jensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivans Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Her mother, a devoted hypochondriac, might be unaware that she’s quite ill but that doesn’t stop her from tormenting Holly. Holly’s escape is to submerge herself in the lives of the two young boys next door and their widowed father, Archie. Her world is upended when her more flamboyant sister returns...
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Natalie Harper feels she must sell the bookshop she's inherited to pay for her grandfather's care, but he refuses to accept, and renovation of the store and its studio apartment push her life in a whole new direction. Besides, she loves the store and its books provide welcome solace for her overwhelming grief. After she moves into the small studio apartment above the shop, Natalie carries out her grandfather's request and hires contractor Peach Gallagher...
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Includes reading group questions and sample of "Most Wated."
Dr. Eric Parrish is the Chief of the Psychiatric Unit at Havemeyer General Hospital outside of Philadelphia. Recently separated from his wife Alice, he is doing his best as a single Dad to his seven-year-old daughter Hannah. His work seems to be going better than his home life, however. His unit at the hospital has just been named number two in the country and Eric has a devoted staff of...
12) Company man
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The single father and CEO of a major coporation faces a stalker as well as a business conspiracy and by taking action a tragedy ensues. Discovering strengths he never knew he had, his enemies don't realize how hard he'll fight to save his company and nobody knows how far he'll go to protect his family.
13) The hero
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Devon McAllister flees danger with her daughter and ends up in Thunder Point, Oregon, where she meets widowed father Spencer Lawson, a man who can teach her about safety and stability.
15) Friction
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Crawford Hunt wants his daughter back. Following the death of his wife four years ago, Crawford, a Texas Ranger, fell into a downward spiral that left him relegated to deskwork and with his five-year-old daughter Georgia in the custody of her grandparents. But Crawford has cleaned up his act, met all the court imposed requirements, and now the fate of his family lies with Judge Holly Spencer. Despite Crawford's obvious love for his child and his commitment...
16) Plainsong
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In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl -- her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house -- is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these...
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First-grade teacher Joy Kelliher has two new students--twin boys who belong to her high school sweetheart. If teaching Nick Capello's sons wasn't difficult enough, the widower's also her neighbor ... and competing for the principal job she wants. Now with little matchmakers drawing Joy and Nick together, can they overcome a painful past to build the family Joy's always wanted?
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"A single father who yearns to be a family man, Logan O'Donnell is determined to create the perfect Christmas for his son, Charlie. The entire O'Donnell clan arrives to spend the holidays in Avalon, a postcard-pretty town on the shores of Willow Lake, a place for the family to reconnect and rediscover the special gifts of the season. One of the guests is a newcomer to Willow Lake--Darcy Fitzgerald. Sharp-witted, independent and intent on guarding...
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As an etiquette coach, Margot teaches her clients to fit in. But her new client Bianca, an aging movie star who gained fame and notoriety through a campaign of shock and awe, requires intensive lessons. Soon secrets bring them closer together and Margot realizes that she has to be brave to get the life and love she has always wanted. Sunshine has always been the good-time sister, abandoning jobs to chase after guys who used her, then threw her away....
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Newly single and unemployed Kerry Tolliver moves back home to her family's Christmas tree farm in North Carolina and is guilt tripped into helping her brother, Murphy, sell trees in New York City. She begrudgingly agrees, but she isn't happy about sharing a trailer with her brother in the East Village for two months. Then, Kerry meets Patrick, recently divorced, a father to a six-year-old son, and lives in the neighborhood. Surrounded by warm childhood...