Karen White
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Brower draws on a wide array of untapped, candid sources to tell the stories of the ten remarkable women who have defined the role of First Lady of the United States since 1960. From Jackie Kennedy to Michelle Obama, she offers new insights into this privileged group, and shares stories exploring everything from the first ladies' political crusades to their rivalries with Washington figures; from their friendships with other first ladies to their...
42) Cover your eyes
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Morgans of Nashville volume 1
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English
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"Motivated by her brother's unlawful conviction and subsequent death in prison, public defender Rachel Wainwright requests a DNA test for a man who was sent to prison thirty years ago for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Concerns rise when a new string of similar murders occur"--
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"2019: Andie Figuero has just landed her dream job as a producer on Makeover Mansion, a popular reality show about restoring America's most lavish historical houses. Andie's latest project features the once glorious but now crumbling Sprague Hall in Newport ... But the mansion's reclusive owner, Lucia 'Lucky' Sprague, will only allow the show to go forward on two conditions: One, nobody speaks to her. Two, nobody touches the mansion's ruined boathouse....
45) The curiosities
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Nell Parker has a PhD in Art History, a loving husband named Josh, and a Craftsman bungalow in Madison, WI. But her last pregnancy ended later in the second trimester, and rather than pausing to grieve, she pushes harder for testing and fertility treatments. Urging Nell to apply for jobs, Josh believes his wife needs something else to focus on other than a baby that may never be. Finding a job turns out to be difficult for an art historian . . . until...
47) Adam & Eve
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Entrusted with her late husband's discovery of extraterrestrial life and enlisted by her dead husband's friend, anthropologist Pierre Saad, to help him smuggle a newly discovered artifact out of Egypt -- an ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis -- Lucy Bergmann crash lands her plane on a slip of land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the Middle East. Burned in the crash landing, she is rescued by Adam, a delusional...
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Neelie Sterling novels volume 1
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English
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Neelie Sterling is happy with her veterinarian husband, Matt until she gets a call from one of his colleagues telling her that shes pregnant with Matts baby. She travels with a group including her husband, to Zimbabwe to rescue a badly injured elephant, in hopes of winning back her husband.
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[2020]
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English
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Four women learn to let go--and get back more than they ever expected. There's no road map for what to do when your husband dies--when he jumps off a bridge to escape mistakes that he made, or even welcomed, into your lives. But Lily doesn't need to consult a map for this particular part of her journey; she knows the way back to the small town she left behind. With a precocious seven-year-old who reminds her too much of his father tucked safely in...
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"Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed, labeled as fat...
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Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 1
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English
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As captain of a San Francisco Bay tour boat, Pru can handle rough seas. The hard part is life on dry land. Pru loves her new apartment and her neighbors. Problem is, she's in danger of stumbling into love with Mr. Right for Anybody But Her.
52) A country affair
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A little bit country: Stranded on the side of a country road with a broken-down car, Rorie Campbell is grateful when horse rancher Clay Franklin comes to her rescue. Stuck in the quirky small town, Rorie gets to know Clay, and she quickly starts to fall for the gruff, tough cowboy. Can a city girl make it work with a country man? Clay certainly thinks so. But their situation is... complicated. Clay and Rorie will have to sort out their feelings if...
53) The time between
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Seeking atonement over her guilt that she caused her sister's paralysis, Eleanor takes a job caring for an elderly woman and becomes caught up in the woman's life of passion, danger, heartache, and deception in Hungary during World War II.
54) After the rain
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2013.
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When photographer Suzanne Paris, on the run from her ex-fiancé, lands in Walton, Georgia, she's pretty sure she's never seen a town so small. It's a far cry from the life she left behind - and Joe Warner is nothing like any man she's ever known. He's the mayor of Walton, a teacher, and the widowed dad of six children. But something about Joe's slow Southern warmth lights Suzanne up in places that have been cold for far too long - and tempts her to...
55) Sea change
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A lonely woman with a life-long feeling of not quite belonging elopes with a child psychologist she met at a conference and discovers how difficult it is to actually escape her past.
For Ava Whalen, a new marriage and a move to St. Simons Island means a new beginning. But what she doesn't realize is that her marriage will take her on an unexpected journey into the deep recesses of her past that will transform her forever... and that her obsession...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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627 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Time and again, New York Times bestselling author Karen White has proven herself to be the "ultimate voice of women's fiction."* Now you can revisit the emergence of her signature style in two of her earliest novels--completely revised and together in one volume for the first time. In the Shadow of the Moon -- When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have...
58) Plea of Insanity
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C.J. Townsend novels volume 3
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English
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Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia is asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn't hesitate to jump on board. The defendant: a successful Miami surgeon. The victims: his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity. The perfect father. The perfect...
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It's frigid in snow-covered Tinker's Cove, and Lucy Stone is fighting the winter blues - and her widening waistline. The town is launching a travel promotion for Valentine's Day, and as a reporter for the Pennysaver, Lucy is assigned a puff piece on upscale Chanticleer's Chocolates and its deliciously handsome owner, Trey Meacham. But when a local fisherman drowns suspiciously, Lucy's certain her investigative skills could be put to better use ......
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
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English
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From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.