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"When 58-year-old Helen Spencer reviews her life, what she sees are the mistakes. Over the years, things seemed to go sideways incrementally, one little wrong decision at a time. She can even pinpoint where it all started to go awry: a wonderous, romantic night in the woods her senior year of high school with a boy named Cal Crosby. A night she would soon work hard to forget. Forty years, one marriage, three children, and one grandbaby later, suddenly...
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Don't miss this chance to escape to stunning Cornwall for a heartwarming new standalone novel about secrets and second chances They say a single moment can change your life… For Cornish artist Sennen Kellow that moment comes with the discovery of her late gran's epic love story – a story that happened years before she ever met Sennen's grandfather. Now, as Sennen digs into her grandmother's past and discovers a forgotten beach, a hidden poem,...
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A grump who lost his family... After a devastating loss, Malcolm Niall has spent the past twenty years hiding from the world. As manager of a Highland estate, he's built a life of purpose, caring for the land and animals. And for the past six months, his peace has been utterly destroyed by a sexy Southern whirlwind who's never met a stranger. Worse, they have to work together daily. His sunshiny nemesis who's starting a new life Nothing about Charlotte...
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Sometimes you squander all your second chances... At the tender age of seven, Peter Stratford fell in love with the only woman who would ever claim his heart. But Carrie represented Ardor Creek, the town Peter detested. Determined to make something of himself in New York City, he leaves her behind, breaking both their hearts. Carrie Longwood accepted that Peter would never love her enough to stay. Embracing her inner strength, she married another...
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You are cordially invited to…a hot mess. "Ice Queen" Tove Nilsen has it all: a successful career as a political consultant, beauty, a wonderful daughter who's about to be married…and a gaslighting, selfish disaster of an ex-husband who's just RSVP'd "yes" to the wedding. On top of that, he's bringing wife number six with him-a woman who's a mere 5 years older than their daughter. Oh, and she's a literal supermodel. Tove's always handled everything...
6) Becoming Ted
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A charmingly joyful, surprising story about love, acceptance, and self-expression from the acclaimed author of “The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle”. Fans of the musical "Kinky Boots" and Byron Lane's “Big Gay Wedding” will have their hearts stolen by Becoming Ted!
If Ted Ainsworth were to compare himself to one of the ice cream flavors made by his family's company, famous throughout his sleepy Lancashire hometown, it might be vanilla-sweet,...
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"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals...
8) The wedding
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After more than twenty years of marriage, Wilson Lewis, son-in-law of Allie and Noah Calhoun is forced to admit that the romance has gone out of his marriage. Desperate to win back his wife Jane's heart, he must figure out how to make her fall in love with him again.
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Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his American wife - a cold woman with clearly defined standards - and Hilda Burgoyne - an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's relationship with Hilda gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor and eventually proves disastrous. (He is with Hilda when a messenger, unable to find him, fails...
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Beauty, like truth, is enduring. But only one can set you free. The Inheritance of Beauty is a rich and enchanting story about 92-year-old George, forced to watch his beloved wife Maggie fade from Alzheimer's-until a stranger arrives at their nursing home to bring the tragic past crashing back.
Maggie Black came of age in the lush, fragrant lowcountry of South Carolina-spending her days with her beloved brother and the childhood sweetheart she would...
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Un hombre maduro decide regresar a su país después de 40 años. La súbita pandemia se lo impide prolongando cada vez más una cuarentena que da pie a la reflexión: haber traicionado su propio destino décadas atrás. En aras de un supuesto triunfo exigido por su madre desde su juventud. El autoexilio y la errada decisión de dejar al que hoy vislumbra como el verdadero amor que talvez aun lo espere en una lejana playa del norte.
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12) The Spa Break
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'Fabulous to read…It's about a girls' weekend with characters in their 60s and determined to have a good time' Woman & Home 'A laugh out loud, naughty, enlightening heart-warming story about friendship and discovery' Yours Magazine A weekend at the spa will leave four old friends with a whole lot more than they'd bargained for… The glossy brochure promised a serene experience of total tranquillity and rejuvenation, but what best friends Bridgette,...
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Alex, a divorced man in his mid-fifties, announces that he is escaping the stress and losses of his life by meeting with three women of his youth out of curiosity-but is that the real reason?Seeking escape from work fatigue and a loveless life, mid-fifties Alex sets out on an adventure to reconnect with three women of his past, telling his incredulous daughters he's satisfying curiosity, not on a quest to reignite romance. He locates and arranges...
14) A Place to Live
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Ah, the golden years. Retirement--no longer chained to an alarm clock, free to travel, enjoy life at a leisurely pace. Minerva Gardiner, a socialite, suddenly finds herself a widow when her investment broker husband falls over and dies on the golf course. Minnie has never managed money or a budget, or held a job; and now she must navigate through insurance agents, mortgage bankers, and lawyers. All to no avail, for her husband of forty years has spent...
15) Seashells
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Cove and Heather first meet when they are ten years old, bonding over a seashell they find on the beach. They each keep half of the shell and promise to meet again the following morning. However, when Heather has a terrible accident and Cove's family decides to leave, Cove begs his parents to drive around the area to find Heather so he can give her the seashell and remind her of their promise to meet again the following week. Unaware of the accident,...
16) Rhia's Walk
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Rhia, a reclusive artist, has been on a solitary walk for over twenty years. When fate brings a young girl running from abuse across her path, she takes her in. Setting aside her own heartaches, she nurture's her protégé to give her the skills to find the life she deserves. Can she in turn, learn to live and put aside her past? Or, will she ever remain a prisoner inside her 'box of paints' till the walks end.
17) Broken Sparrow
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A chance encounter. An unlikely hero. Morris has always dedicated himself to his brothers in the MC, choosing the freedom of the open road over the monotony of family life. But a chance encounter with a single mother on the run causes his protective instincts to kick into overdrive. Alice Sparrow thought she had planned her escape perfectly, but everything that could go wrong, did. Bank account emptied. Broken-down car. No place to stay. But when...
18) Let It Be Me
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Four years ago, firefighter Caleb Romero saved a child and met the woman of his dreams. But trauma killed the timing, so he's contented himself with being the friend she needed as she navigated sudden parenthood.
Four years ago, Emerson Aldridge became a mom in the worst possible way. Without qualm, she abandoned her own dreams to shepherd her teenage daughter through their shared grief. Her number one priority has been to raise Fiona the way her...
19) Never Too Late
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He's the number-one guy at Calder Defense. She's the girl who got away twice. Are they destined for eternal heartbreak, or is the third time the charm?
Finally breaking free from an awful marriage, Jenny had all but given up on love...until fate literally dropped her into the arms of her former law school crush.
What started as a casual lunch grew into the second chance at romance Jenny never dreamed possible. The two weeks that followed her unexpected...
20) Foolish Games
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A Hail Mary play for the heart.
Bridal designer, Julianne Marchione knows better than to lose her head at a client's wedding. But, much to her embarrassment, a mix of migraine medication and a smoking hot football player lead to a steamy one-night stand resulting in a surprise pregnancy. Julianne has every intention of leaving her NFL hookup far in the past until her son, Owen, is born with a life-threatening blood disorder that requires a transfusion-and...
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