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"Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master's degree in history at the University of Chicago. Her unexpected return home to the celebrated quilter's retreat is met with delight but also concern from her mother, Gwen; her best friend, Sarah; master quilter Sylvia; and her other colleagues--and rightly so. Stymied by writer's block, Summer hasn't finished her thesis, and she can't...
22) Black sheep
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"A cynical twentysomething must confront her cultish family in this fiery, irreverent novel from the national bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Vesper Wright is in hell. The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, she comes home to find an envelope waiting on her doorstep. There's no return address, but she knows exactly who it's from-her estranged family. Inside the envelope is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper's...
23) 15 Summers Later
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15 summers ago, everything changed . . . Ava Howell seemed to have it all. She moved away from Emerald Creek, Idaho, married the love of her life and published a bestselling memoir. But she never expected that her husband would feel so betrayed by a secret from her past — the truth of what happened to her and her sister all those years ago — that he’d walk away. Now Ava is back home and trying to move on with the only person who can truly understand....
24) 183 reasons
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Newfound Lake ; 1
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Alanna Grace
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2023
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"Solia Anderson will do anything to save her family’s remote log cabin from sale. Tired of the confines of her hometown where, at any moment, she might bump into a reminder of her bad taste in men, she bravely trades creature comforts for untamed adventure. Suitcase (and stubborn determination) packed, she retreats to the quiet shores in the Lakes Region of New Hampshire where she lazed away her childhood summers. However, her plans for an uncomplicated,...
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2023
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"An emotional and witty story of love, forgiveness, and second chances as the race to the wedding day begins... It's been years since Dr. Imani Kemp has returned home to Peachtree Cove, Georgia. As Tallahassee's most sought-after OB-GYN, she doesn't have much time for anything else. But when her mom announces she's marrying a man she just met on a dating app, Imani knows she has to put a stop to it immediately. Let her mom be hurt again after the...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2024]
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"Returning home to Pennywhistle, Tennessee, for her beloved daddy's funeral, PJ Spoon, abandoning her PhD program at Vanderbilt, impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at the Chickie Shak, where she meets and falls for Boof, a talented singer-songwriter searching for her birth mother."--
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2023]
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"Returning to her ancestral home in the North Carolina mountains to complete her graduate thesis, Toya, a young black artist, sets her sights on something bigger when she encounters a still-standing Confederate monument in the heart of town and two horrific crimes split the county apart."--
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"There's something sinister under the surface of the idyllic, suburban town of Wesley Falls, and it's not just the abandoned coal mine that lies beneath it. The summer of 1995 kicks off with a party in the mine where six high school students witness a horrifying crime that changes the course of their lives. The six couldn't be more different. Maddy, a devout member of the local megachurch. Kelly, the bookworm next door. James, a cynical burnout. Casey,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
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2023.
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"She's struggling to forgive... But it's the only way to heal her heart. When Susannah Peachy returns to her grandfather's potato farm to help out after her grandmother's injured, she's not ready to face her ex-beau. But with Peter Lambright pitching in to harvest her grandfather's crop, she can't avoid him. For his family's sake, Peter can't tell Susannah why he had to leave her. But sharing his secret could make all the difference for their future.."--...
32) Come with me
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"A single mom renews a friendship with an old acquaintance and returns to her Ohio hometown to start over with a new job and ultimately begins to suspect that the friend is vying for control of her entire life"--
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"A twisty thriller from the beloved author of The Familiar Dark, where a woman returns to the town where her sister was murdered and finds a copycat on the loose. It's been fourteen years since Greer Dunning's older sister, Eliza, was murdered, and Greer's family has never be the same. But after the execution of the killer convicted, there's now been a similar killing back in Greer's small Kansas hometown, Ludlow. A copycat, according to the authorities,...
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Dell
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[2023]
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"After escaping a bad relationship, Jess Cavendish is running and leaving it all behind, carrying just a few treasured belongings in her rucksack. She needs to start over, but that means sleeping where she can and making the most of her slim savings. Luckily, she comes across a recently sold, unoccupied house. It couldn't hurt to stay while she saves up enough to get her own place, right? Gethin Thomas is also looking for a fresh start. He's moved...
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Penguin Press
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2024.
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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love--leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and...
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