Carlson, Melody
Summary: Ginny Masters manages a Seattle boutique hotel, but is tired of the rat race. Jacqueline Bowman manages her grandfather's fishing lodge in western Washington, but she longs for city life. Eager for a change, these women swap jobs for the summer, but it's not quite so simple to find the happiness, and love, they're searching for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Dawn Dixon can't believe she's on a groomless honeymoon on beautiful Cape Cod with her mother. Mom creates a mess when, on a whim, she buys a run-down ice cream shop in the town's tightly regulated historic district with big plans to fix it up. Dawn knows she has to stay and fix this fiasco. But her mother's money pit ice cream shop may have created a chance for a happy ending.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. Ten years after he dove into the water to save her life, they meet again, and again, both their lives are on the line.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KINHannon, Irene
Summary: Katherine Parker searches for peace in Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast. Zach Garrett recovers after a traumatic loss. When Katherine and Zach are recruited to help rehab a home for foster children, sparks fly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HANHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: "From bestselling author Angela Hunt, the heart-wrenching story of a young mother who unknowingly gave away her own child after serving as a surrogate for a childless couple. Amanda Hocking is a typical young wife and mother struggling to make ends meet.She decides to help a childless family by becoming their gestational surrogate, hoping to achieve some financial stability of her own. After a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books 2013
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Summary: "In 1941, beautiful Irvel Ellis is too focused on her secret to take much notice in the war raging overseas. She's dating Sam but in love with his brother, Hank, and Irvel has no idea how to break the news when the unthinkable happens-Pearl Harbor is attacked. With their lives turned upside down overnight, Sam is drafted, and Hank wants to enlist. But Sam insists Hank stay home, where he and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2023
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Finkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: "When former national baseball star Tyler Ames suffers a career-ending injury, all he can think about is putting his life back together the way it was before. He has lost everyone he loves on his way to the big leagues. Then just when things seem to be turning around, Tyler hits rock bottom. Across the country, Tyler's one true love Sami Dawson has moved on. A series of small miracles leads...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kingsbury 2014Sawyer, Kim Vogel
Summary: "Ten-year-old Hazel takes her three-year-old sister to pick berries in a blackberry thicket in 1943, and only one of them comes home again. Young Hazel's world crumbles, the weight of the guilt from that colors every relationship in her life for the next seventy years. But now Hazel's granddaughter Meghan is a cold case agent and has an opportunity to investigate this very personal family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAWGist, Deeanne.
Summary: "From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive "New Woman"--the girl behind Tiffany's chapel--and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 World's Fair setChicago and the nation on fire, Louis Tiffany--heir to the exclusive Fifth Avenue jewelry empire--seizes the opportunity to unveil his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Howard Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GISKingsbury, Karen
Summary: From their first meeting, to their stunning engagement and lavish wedding, to their happily-ever-after, Noah and Emily Carter were meant to be together. Theirs is a special kind of love and they want the world to know. More than a million adoring fans have followed their lives on Instagram since the day Noah publicly proposed to Emily. But behind the carefully staged photos and encouraging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KINSmith, Jake
Summary: James McConnell's one wish is that his nine-year-old son Aaron will finally be healthy enough to play a game of catch. Dying of cancer, Aaron wishes to see his father play in a major league baseball game. James fears he doesn't have the talent it takes, even for one game, and that he'll miss what could be Aaron's precious last weeks. Yet how can he refuse his dying son's wish?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMIBatacan, F. H.
Summary: "In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas--a 50-acre dump that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of teenage boys begin to appear in the dump heaps,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BATKaron, Jan
Summary: After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one--but what, exactly, does it prove? Meanwhile, newly married Dooley and Lace face a crisis that empties their bank account and turns their household upside down. Is the honeymoon over? Is this where real life begins?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KARFinkbeiner, Susie
Summary: It is 1952, and nearly all the girls Bertha Harding knows dream of getting married, keeping house, and raising children. Bertha dreams of baseball. She reads every story in the sports section, she plays ball with the neighborhood boys, she even writes letters to the pitcher for the Workington Sweet Peas, part of the All- American Girls Professional Baseball League. When Bertha's father is...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FINSnelling, Lauraine.
Summary: "Dinah Taylor has an orderly life that is just how she likes it. A perfectly furnished luxury apartment, a satisfying career as a scientist and CEO of her own company, and an uncomplicated personal life. But all of that changes when she meets seven-year-old Jonah. The boy shows up one day, a scruffy dog by his side, in front of her office building. Dinah knows nothing about kids and even less...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2014Evans, Richard Paul
Summary: Chicago celebrity and motivational speaker Charles James is supposed to be dead. Everyone believes he was killed in a fiery plane crash. Thanks to a remarkable twist of fate he's very much alive and well, and ready for a second chance at life. Will he use this opportunity to right some wrongs from his old life and start over the right way this time?
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC EVASnelling, Lauraine
Summary: "The sprawling lake home Lynn Lundberg built with her husband has been an epicenter of joyful family life, from summer holidays spent around the water to cookies baked in the kitchen with grandchildren in the fall. But since her husband's sudden passing two years ago, Lynn has been lost in the grief and solitude she feels without him at home. She doesn't want to sell the big family place, but...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Faith Words 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2015Snelling, Lauraine
Summary: "Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Snelling 2016Evans, Richard Paul.
Summary: "The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans's Mistletoe Collection. At thirty-two Kimberly Rossetti, a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership, has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Evans 2015Green, Amy Lynn
Summary: In 1942, an impulsive promise to her brother before he goes off to the European front puts Avis Montgomery in the unlikely position of head librarian in small-town Maine. Though she has never been much of a reader, when wartime needs threaten to close the library, she invents a book club to keep its doors open. As the women in the book club face personal challenges and band together in the face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC GREKaron, Jan
Summary: "After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, to Mitford where he - and his beloved friends and family - face the challenge of settling into the next phase of their lives"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnams Sons 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Karon 2014Gulley, Philip
Summary: "Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have made the tree beside the meetinghouse, and the meetinghouse attic, their place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Street 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Gulley 2016Marshall, Catherine
Summary: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her - and her one-room school - as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018