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"The novel follows the Cecil family's arduous journey by riverboat and wagon from Boone's Lick, Missouri, to Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. Fifteen-year-old Shay narrates, describing the journey that begins when his Ma, Mary Margaret, decides to hunt down her elusive husband, Dick, to tell him she's leaving him. Without knowing precisely where he is, they set out across the plains in search of him, encountering grizzly bears, stormy weather, and hostile...
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With a successful life, Laura has everything until her husband Jeff mysteriously disappears. As her husband's secrets come to light, she is left with a shocking picture of the man she married and a world that is falling apart, until she finds a strength and a love she thought she had lost forever.
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Grace Lawson's peaceful life turns upside down when she discovers a twenty-year-old photograph of a group of young people, one of whom resembles her husband Jack, mixed in with a group of recent family shots. Jack denies being the person in question but then mysteriously disappears, as does the photograph.
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Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her eccentric family she escaped by marrying at nineteen. But despite her newly dependent situation, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake...
7) Jessie
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Abandoned by her husband, Seth, before their second child was born, Jessie, as a single mom and the sole proprietor of Token Creek's general store, lives day to day with her hands full and her heart broken. When Seth returns to town, Jessie is reluctant to trust him or God with her family's future.
10) Duchess in love
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A Duke in Retreat
Gina was forced into marriage with the Duke of Girton at an age when she'd have been better off in a schoolroom than a ballroom. Directly after the ceremony her handsome spouse promptly fled to the continent, leaving the marriage unconsummated and Gina quite indignant.
A Lady In the Middle
Now, she is one of the most well-known ladies in London ... living on the edge of scandal—desired by many men, but
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Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to her first baby, James tells her that he's having an affair. Claire is left with a beautiful newborn daughter, a broken heart, and a body that she can hardly bear to look at. So, in the absence of any better offers, she decides to go home to her family in Dublin. Sheltered by the love of her quirky family, and the attention...
12) Live wire
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When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze - at eight months pregnant - asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband's life. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago. As Myron races to...
13) Celebration
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After decades as an army wife, and wealthy heiress, Kristine Kelly isn't sure how to handle the transition back to civilian life after her husband Logan disappears with the eight-million-dollar trust fund she had naively given him the power to control. Unable to handle the finances and shocked by the anger her children have towards their absent father, Kristine turns to alcohol for comfort, an act that only pushes her children further away. But with...
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Thomas Hardy's first masterpiece, The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a scene of such heartlessness and cruelty that it still shocks readers today. A poor workman named Michael Henchard, in a fit of drunken rage, sells his wife and baby daughter to a stranger at a country fair. Stricken with remorse, Henchard forswears alcohol and works hard to become a prosperous businessman and the respected mayor of Casterbridge. But he cannot erase his past....
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Pearl Tull is nearing the end of her life but not her memory. It was a Sunday night in 1944 when her husband left the little row house on Baltimore's Calvert Street, abandoning Pearl to raise their three children alone: Jenny, high-spirited and determined, nurturing to strangers but distant to those she loves; the oldest son, Cody, a wild and incorrigible youth possessed by the lure of power and money; and sweet and clumsy Ezra, Pearl's favorite,...
16) Home for good
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" 'I made a promise to protect you.' But pregnant Ali Silver's husband broke his vow and walked away from her. After being injured in combat, Jericho has finally come home to Bitterroot Valley to make peace with his father and regain Ali's trust. But the single mom's keeping secrets of her own. And someone's killing off Ali's cattle and sabotaging her horse therapy business. Jericho will do whatever it takes to protect his wife and be a real father...
17) Vanished
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Dotty, an abused teenager who flaunts her sexuality, and Aubrey, a simple laborer in his forties, live a life on the run with the infant girl they have abducted, but the endless uprooting wears on Dotty, and an ex-convict becomes the vehicle for her attempt to return home.
18) Mrs. Million
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After winning $9 million in a lottery, a wife in Minnesota offers $1 million in reward for the return of her husband, a salesman missing for six years. On hearing the news in Arizona, where he is ensconced with his paramour, the husband heads home to cash in, but on reaching town he is abducted by a con man.
19) Sandcastles
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Star of the Sea Academy volume 1
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"Painter Honor Sullivan has made a life for herself and her three daughters -- Regis, Agnes, and Cecilia -- at Star of the Sea Academy on the magical Connecticut shore. Here she teaches art at the convent school's beautiful seaside campus, over which Honor's sister-in-law, mother superior Bernadette Ignatius, keeps a benevolent and watchful eye. No one could have foreseen the day rebellious Regis would come home with the stunning news that she was...
20) A bound heart
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"Their stations could not have been more different: a Scottish laird and a simple lass. When a tragedy forces both to colonial Virginia as indentured servants, can a love thwarted by tradition come to life in a new land?" --