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"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
23) Black or white
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The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
24) Pack up the moon
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Newly married, Joshua and Lauren are wildly in love, each on a successful and rewarding career path. Then Lauren is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Joshua struggles to make the most of the time he has left with his wife and to come to terms with a future without the only woman he has ever loved. Lauren has a plan to keep her husband moving forward: twelve letters, one for every month in the year after her death. Letters that will lead Joshua on...
25) The intern
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Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
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The lone lawman in the small Texas town of Branding, widowed single father Sheriff Sam Delaney shoulders a lot until a special someone enters the picture.
The lone lawman in the small town of Branding Iron, Texas, Sheriff Sam Delaney is also the widowed single father of six-year-old Maggie. This year Maggie is determined that what her daddy needs this holiday season is a girlfriend. He hustles Sam to a meeting with her schoolteacher, and he is surprised...
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An accomplished executive with a troubled past navigates a new relationship with her boss . . . but she's about to learn that love is a roller coaster ride.To the world, amusement park executive Hailey Ashton is a woman on her way up. Few know that beneath her tough exterior, she leads a life of quiet emptiness in the shadow of her gorgeous sister. Then Hailey meets Tyler Scott, her wealthy, self-assured new boss and the single father...
28) Bag of bones
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A powerful tale of grief, love's enduring bonds, and secrets of the past from #1 New York Times bestselling author and master storyteller Stephen King.
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls "Sara Laughs," Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved...
Four years after the sudden death of his wife, bestselling novelist Mike Noonan is still grieving. Unable to write and plagued by vivid nightmares set at the western Maine summerhouse he calls "Sara Laughs," Mike reluctantly returns to the lakeside getaway. There, he finds his beloved...
29) Truth be told
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When a never-married marriage counselor gets the opportunity of a lifetime to co-host a television talk show with a media mogul, she convinces an old college friend and his teenage children to pose as her husband and family during a pitch weekend at the mogul's ranch.
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In Holt, Colorado, widower Louis Waters is initially thrown when the widowed Addie Moore suggests that they spend time together, in bed, to stave off loneliness. They are soon exchanging the confidences and memories of lives now empty of family, and their hopes for the imminent future.
31) Everybody's fine
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When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together.
34) Safe haven
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Katie, a newcomer in a small southern town, forms relationships with Alex, a young widower, and Jo, her plainspoken single neighbor, who help her overcome her fearful past.
35) Forbidden falls
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Recently ordained minister Noah Kincaid is used to taking on new challenges, so he has no problem tackling the renovation of the long-abandoned Virgin River church. But that's before he meets the stunningly beautiful--and stubbornly headstrong--Ellie Baldwin. She may not be exactly what Noah wants in an assistant, but she may be exactly what he needs.
36) Mr. Troop Mom
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Eddie Serrano, a successful defense attorney, realizes that he hasn't been involved in his daughter's life as much as a father should. He tries to prove himself as a responsible parent by attending her Spring Action Classic mountain jamboree as the Killer Bees' 'Troop Mom.'
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When his daughter is hit by a poison arrow during an Indian raid, widower Paul Meakes, determined to bring the Comanche warriors responsible to justice, hires an Indian hunter to help him on his quest, only to discover that the dangers of the West are far greater than he ever could have imagined.
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"This supernatural American road trip fantasy tells the story of a war between the ancient and modern gods. Shadow Moon gets out of jail only to discover his wife is dead. Defeated, broke, and uncertain where to go, he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday, who employs him to serve as his bodyguard-thrusting Shadow into a deadly world where ghosts of the past come back from the dead, and a god war is imminent. The Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy,...
40) An untamed heart
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Norway, 1878. Twenty-year-old Ingeborg Strand is certain she is destined to be an old maid. She's had several suitors but none she deemed worthy of spending her life with. That is, until she meets a university student from Oslo, and feelings stronger than friendship begin to develop between them. But tragedy strikes, and the future begins to look bleaker than ever. Grief settles heavily over Ingeborg, and her mother suggests that she leave Norway...
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