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1) Looking Back
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
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English
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They met at school and have been inseparable ever since: Cecile, confident, elegant daughter of privilege; Norma, extraordinarily gifted and sadly troubled; and beautiful, ambitious Amanda, determined to rise above her humble southern beginnings. Two are married. One despairs of ever finding love. Three women, first and always: friends.
Author
Publisher
G. K. Hall
Pub. Date
1973 [c1972]
Language
English
Description
For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret, a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of pschological suspense and a savage commentary on a media driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs.
3) Cackle
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Publisher
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English
Description
"All her life, Annie has played it nice and safe. After being unceremoniously dumped by her longtime boyfriend, Annie seeks a fresh start. She accepts a teaching position that moves her from Manhattan to a small village upstate. She's stunned by how perfect and picturesque the town is. The people are all friendly and warm. Her new apartment is dreamy too, minus the oddly persistent spider infestation. Then Annie meets Sophie. Beautiful, charming,...
4) Dragon's kin
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Publisher
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English
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Beginning with the classic Dragonrider of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination, following book by book the evolution of one of science fiction's most beloved and honored series. Now, for the first time, Anne has invited another writer to join her in the skies of Pern, a writer with an...
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Myra, Kathryn, Alexis, Isabelle, Nikki and Anna seek justice for Yoko Akia, a young florist. Yoko wants to punish her father, who bought, impregnated and discarded her teenage mother, who died after giving birth to her. The lethal ladies are shocked to discover Yoko's dad is none other than Michael Lyons, an award-winning film star with another nasty secret: he's been buying and selling Asian women as sex slaves to prominent businessmen. The Sisterhood's...
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The year is 195. Fourteen-year-old Alex is rebellious by nature and scarred by childhood tragedy in the southern community of Evening Shade. An outcast in his own family, mute at an early age, Alex expresses himself by writing imaginative stories and by concieving daredevil stunts. In the aftermath of one of his stunts he being cared for by a nurse who is murdered and Alex seeks revenge on the man responsible for her murder.
Author
Series
Cass Shipton mysteries volume 2
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Five women embark on a harrowing ride in which even the magic of friendship may not be enought to save them.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they’re living a paradise assignment. All three are seeking a way to escape their pasts, but soon the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war.
Caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the Imperial...
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English
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"All her life, Zofia has found comfort in two things during times of hardship: books and her best friend, Janina. But no one could have imagined the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Warsaw. As the bombs rain down and Hitler’s forces loot and destroy the city, Zofia finds that now books are also in need of saving. With the death count rising and persecution intensifying, Zofia jumps to action to save her friend and salvage whatever books she can...
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English
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THURSDAYS AT EIGHT, New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber's new hardcover novel from MIRA Books, is the story of four friends, each at a turning point in her life. Each woman's story is unique, told with the warmth and compassion that demonstrates why the author has become one of the leading voices in women's fiction today.Four women come to a journal-writing class with different needs and goals. What they found was friendship -- a closeness...
13) Cowboys run
Publisher
Hart Sharp Video, LLC
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
Multiple
Description
There's never a dull moment from the time Clint Northern meets dan john Fighting Bear at his grandaughter's dirthday party. the two take an instant dislike to each other but find themselves unlikely partners when they're mistaken as the culprits of a local bingo heist.
Author
Series
Friday night knitting club volume 1
Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
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Walker and Daughter is Georgia Walker's little yarn shop, tucked into a quiet storefront on Manhattan's Upper West Side. The Friday Night Knitting Club is improvised by some of Georgia's regulars, who stroll into the shop looking for tips on knitting and end up finding much, much more. So now, once a week, they gather to work on their latest projects and to chat - and occasionally clash - over their stories of love, life, and everything in between....
15) Oryx and Crake
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Snowman tries to piece together what has taken place; mourning the loss of his beautiful and beloved Oryx and his best friend Crake, and slowly starving to death. In a world in which science-based corporations have recently taken mankind on an uncontrolled genetic-engineering ride, he now searches for supplies in a wasteland.
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 6
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a Knit to Quit group in their Blossom Street yarn store, hoping to bring in customers for weekly self-help sessions. Casey, the 12-year-old girl Lydia takes in while waiting for an infant of her own to adopt, helps out in the shop when she's not sulking in her room or causing trouble for Lydia's family. Local baker Alix wants a baby as much as Lydia does, but she and her husband...
17) Lethal justice
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English
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After spending a year wrongly imprisoned for fraud, Alexis calls on the Sisterhood to seek revenge on the real criminals, Arden Gillespie and Roland Sullivan.
The women of the Sisterhood are fun, smart, sassy, and determined to get their way every time. But most of all, they are the best friends a woman wants by her side in good times and bad. Meeting once again in Myra Rutledge's beautiful Virginia home, they're ready to face a new challenge and...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
It's Isabelle's turn for revenge by any means necessary. Several years ago, she was an architect on the fast track and hired Rosemary to help her firm meet demand, having no clue that Rosemary was so self-centered and driven she would let nothing and no one stand in the way of what she wanted and felt she deserved. This cold-blooded schemer managed to get into an accident that killed three people and seriously injured Isabelle. By the time Isabelle...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
The Sisterhood - Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle - have risked everything in the name of justice, including their own freedom. Their most recent mission promised to reward them with the ultimate prize - a presidential pardon and a chance to leave their enforced exile. But as they've learned too many times before, life doesn't always turn out as planned. Business titan Ruben Rumson has turned his attention to politics. By throwing...
Author
Series
Blossom street novels volume 4
Publisher
Center Point Publishing
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Young widow Colette Blake, has gone to work for Susannah Nelson at a Seattle flower shop after quitting her previous job on the heels of an ill advised affair with her boss. Now, her old boss has begun placing weekly orders for flower arrangements. Alix Townsend is just months away from marrying her love, Jordan Turner. But she's thinking of calling off the wedding. The plans for a wedding extravaganza engineered by her mentor Jacqueline and her future...