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"From the lighthouse sporting a huge wreath to the Christmas Stroll along its quaint streets, holidays on Nantucket are always magical. However, while the town might be aglow like a scene from Dickens tale, unfortunately for newly married island newcomer Nicole Somerset, Christmas means a dreaded visit from her step-daughter. Headstrong Kennedy brings with her a family of her own--husband Archer and adorable 3 year old son, Maddox--but Kennedy's yet...
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Late August is a beautiful time on the Southern coast--the peach trees are ripe, the ocean is warm, and the sweet tea is icy. A perfect time to enjoy the rocking chairs on the porch. But beneath the calm surface bubbles a threat: it's also peak hurricane season. When a hurricane threatens the coasts of Florida and South Carolina, an eclectic group of evacuees flees for the farm of their friends Grace and Charles Phillips in North Carolina: the Phillips's...
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Amsterdam in the year 1705. It is Thea Brandt's eighteenth birthday. She is ready to welcome adulthood with open arms, but life at home is increasingly difficult. Her father Otto and her Aunt Nella argue endlessly over their financial fate, selling off furniture in a desperate attempt to hold on to the family home. As catastrophe threatens to engulf the household, Thea seeks refuge in Amsterdam's playhouses. She loves the performances, and the stolen...
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"Meet The Adults. Claire and Matt are no longer together but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a "normal" family Christmas. They can't agree on whose idea it was to go to the Happy Forest Holiday park, or who said they should bring their new partners. But someone did--and it's too late to pull the plug. Claire brings her new boyfriend Patrick (never Pat), a seemingly sensible, eligible from a distance, Iron-Man-in-Waiting....
6) The vineyard
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"Mauro Larrea's fortune, the result of years of hardship and toil, comes crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debt and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his money in a daring play that wins him an abandoned house and a vineyard an ocean away. Mauro travels to Andalusia de Jerez in Spain with every intention of selling the property and returning to Mexico. That is, until he meets the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, the widow...
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1994. In the desert near Tillman, Arizona, forty miles from Tucson, a grand experiment involving the future of humanity is underway. As climate change threatens the earth, eight scientists, four men and four women dubbed the "Terranauts," have been selected to live under glass in E2, a prototype of a possible off-earth colony. Closely monitored by an all-seeing Mission Control, this New Eden is both an adventure in scientific discovery and a momentous...
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"Czasami wszystko musi się zagmatwać, by los mógł wreszcie wskazać właściwe rozwiązanie. Życie sióstr Niemirskich bardzo się skomplikowało - w miasteczku pojawił się ktoś, kto może zniszczyć mozolnie budowane szczęście. W dodatku rodzinnemu domowi zagraża niebezpieczeństwo - wielka turystyczna inwestycja, która ma powstać w pobliżu. Agatę, Danielę i Tosię czekają przełomowe decyzje. Czy postąpią właściwie? Czy czary...
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"At one point, Selah, Vice, and Skye were inseparable...but money will change the very meaning of "friends to the end." Life after losing a loved one can be hard, especially if you're the reason why they are no longer here. These are the times that you are supposed to lean on your friends the most. Selah is about to learn a hard lesson that she may not be ready for. Will her ride or die chicks ride with her again, or will this be the end of the trio?...
10) Libra princesses
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"The death of their father sent Irish twins Norielle "Nori" and Nadia "Nadi" Porter on two different paths in life. Nori found solace in furthering her life through education, while Nadi found peace in the streets with Kelz, her longtime boyfriend."--
11) French roast
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"Wisconsin coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen's cousin, Jacque Oui, is in trouble. Big trouble! Not only is his cash-strapped Schultz's Market facing competition from a major new grocery chain, but his ex-wife Paulette has arrived from Paris, spectacularly claiming that she and Jacque are still married, despite Jacque being engaged to Maggy's friend and star barista Amy Caprese. When a huge fire rips through Schultz's Market overnight and a gruesome...
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"It's midnight on Ana Koehl's sixtieth birthday, and she is taking stock. Nine years have passed since she last had sex with her kind-hearted but pot-addicted husband, seven since she began an affair with a magnetic gonzo journalist. She's gratified by her work as a book doula, yes, but equally burdened by the compulsion to be on-call for her clients 24/7. And life seems determined to keep her on her toes: her elderly mother's birthday greeting is...
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"It is 2027, August Helm is thirty years old. A biochemist working in a lab at the University of Chicago, he is swept off his feet by the beautiful Amanda Clark. Animated by August's consuming desire, their relationship quickly becomes intimate. But when he stumbles across a liason between the director of his lab and a much younger student, his position is eliminated, and his world upended. August sets out to visit his parents in the heart of Wisconsin's...
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"Against the Wind is a story of six characters' second chances to make things right. A successful environmental lawyer is forced to take himself to task when he realizes that everything about his work has betrayed his core beliefs. A high school English teacher asks her former high school love to take up her environmental cause. A transgender adolescent male raised by his grandparents struggles to excel in a world hostile to his kind. A French-Canadian...
15) Girls' weekend
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Dani, Meg, and Charlotte have bonded over babies, barbeques, and backyards, but when they escape for a girls weekend away, they can't bring themselves to return to lives that don't seem to fit anymore. Harried Dani can't explain why she feels so discontented until she meets a young gallery owner who inspires her to rediscover the art that once made her happy. Dependable Meg faces up to a grief that threatens to swallow her whole and confronts a...
16) My devotion
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After Helen, nearly 80, unexpectedly encounters her long-ago lover Frank Appledore in London, she begins a monologue directed at Frank of their meeting in 1950s Rome, where their diplomat parents were stationed. After Helen leaves for Amsterdam to study literature, she invites Frank to stay with her. In their 20s, Helen dedicates herself to a publishing career, while Frank drifts until he finally attempts painting at 28. Despite periodic sex and Helen's...
17) The royal game
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England, 1444. Three women who came from nowhere to challenge the course of history... King Henry VI's grip on the crown hangs by a thread as the Wars of the Roses begin to tear England apart. Everyone must choose between York or Lancaster. And from the ashes of war, the House of Paston begins its rise to power. Led by three visionary women, the Pastons are a family from humble peasant beginnings who rely upon cunning, raw ambition, and good fortune...
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"If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one. After seventeen years--and countless broken bones and broken promises--she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she's spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to...
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La Templanza, la nueva novela de María Dueñas. Nada hacía suponer a Mauro Larrea que la fortuna que levantó tras años de tesón y arrojo se le derrumbaría con un estrepitoso revés. Ahogado por las deudas y la incertidumbre, apuesta sus últimos recursos en una temeraria jugada que abre ante él la oportunidad de resurgir. Hasta que la perturbadora Soledad Montalvo, esposa de un marchante de vinos londinense, entra en su vida envuelta en claroscuros...
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