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1) Love mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Nationally best-selling author Earlene Fowler won the Agatha Award for her hit Benni Harper mystery series. This poignant new novel is a multi-generational tale of reconciliation set in Morro Bay, California. Recently widowed, Love Mercy Johnson longs to make amends with her estranged grandchildren. She gets an unexpected chance to do just that when her lovelorn 18-year-old granddaughter Rett shows up at the family ranch seeking solace.
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Language
English
Description
"When her granddaughter June unexpectedly arrives and announces she's calling off her wedding, Ellen tells her the story of Nell, a Kansas-born woman who goes to the High Plains of New Mexico Territory in 1898 in search of a husband and the impending marriages she ran away from before marrying the love of her life"--
3) Tribute
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Language
English
Description
"After her stint as an actress, Cilla McGowan has found a more satisfying life restoring homes. So she comes to Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to save the dilapidated farmhouse of her grandmother--a legendary actress who died of an overdose there more than thirty years ago. Plunging into the project with gusto, Cilla's almost too busy and exhausted to notice her neighbor, graphic novelist Ford Sawyer. Determined not to carry on the family tradition...
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Series
Harlequin presents volume 3107
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
An unorthodox favor leads a Greek tycoon to a woman he can't resist—and a child he won't deny!—in USA Today–bestselling author's international romance.
Working late is nothing new for Alex Stavroulakis—and it's the perfect excuse to engineer a meeting with office-cleaner Rosie Gray. He promised his ailing godfather he'd discover if his long-lost granddaughter is a worthy heir. But the sizzling chemistry that ignites between...
Working late is nothing new for Alex Stavroulakis—and it's the perfect excuse to engineer a meeting with office-cleaner Rosie Gray. He promised his ailing godfather he'd discover if his long-lost granddaughter is a worthy heir. But the sizzling chemistry that ignites between...
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Series
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English
Description
"It is summer's end and Sea Breeze, the family's beloved estate on Sullivan's Island, must be sold. It is an emotional time of transition as Mamaw and the three sisters each must face loss and find a new place in the world. Harper, the youngest sister, arrived at Sea Breeze intending to stay only a weekend, but a rift with her wealthy, influential mother left her without direction or a home. During this remarkable summer, free from her mother's tyranny...
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Series
Another day volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Ten years ago this season, Gregory Maguire wrapped up the series he began with Wicked by giving us the fourth and final volume of the Wicked Years, his elegiac Out of Oz. But "out of Oz" isn't "gone for good." Maguire's new series, Another Day, is here, twenty-five years after Wicked first flew into our lives. Volume one, The Brides of Maracoor, finds Elphaba's granddaughter, Rain, washing ashore on a foreign island. Comatose from crashing into the...
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Series
Lost castle novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"Ellie Carver arrives at her grandmother's bedside expecting to find her silently slipping away. Instead, the beloved old woman begins speaking. Of a secret past and castle ruins forgotten by time. Of a hidden chapel that served as a rendezvous for the French resistance in World War II. Of lost love and deep regret. Each piece that unlocks the story seems to unlock part of Ellie too--where she came from and who she is becoming. But her grandmother...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beautiful fifty-eight-year-old Fenny Dexter lives a quiet life in California where she loves to spend time with JC and Vivi, two young women she has raised since their childhood after the death of their mother. When a blood-covered man knocks on Fenny's door, claiming to have had a car accident, it sets off a sequence of events involving serial killings and eventually the question whether Fenny and the girls will live long enough to find out just...
10) Relative Danger
Author
Series
Publisher
Untreed Reads
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spunky widowed Cealie Gunther is a woman of a certain age whose zeal for adventure keeps her in the thick of things—like trouble. She pops up in town early to watch her motherless granddaughter Kat graduate, only to discover that because of a custodian's death—accidental—or murder?—graduation might not take place.
Determined to find the truth, Cealie snags a job as a substitute teacher, exposing much violence, lurking
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Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Bitter Orange Tree is a profound exploration of social status, wealth, desire, and female agency by Jokha Alharthi. It presents a mosaic portrait of one young woman's attempt to understand the roots she has grown from, and to envisage an adulthood in which her own power and happiness might find the freedom necessary to bear fruit and flourish. Zuhour, an Omani student at a British university, is caught between the past and the present. As she attempts...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter.
On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie.
But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...
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Series
Singing Hills Cycle novels volume 4
Publisher
Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest. Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal...
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Series
Mulberry Park novels volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
A new generation of MacGregor women discovers their grandfather's matchmaking talent in this charming collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
There is nothing Daniel MacGregor would rather see than his three eldest granddaughters—Laura, Gwendolyn and Julia—married. But the three cousins have one-track minds, and love is taking a back seat to career success. Until Daniel handpicks three unsuspecting...
There is nothing Daniel MacGregor would rather see than his three eldest granddaughters—Laura, Gwendolyn and Julia—married. But the three cousins have one-track minds, and love is taking a back seat to career success. Until Daniel handpicks three unsuspecting...
16) The summer wind
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Series
Language
English
Description
"This heartwarming women's fiction series from beloved New York Times bestselling author Mary Alice Monroe centers on Marietta Colson Muir, a dowager of Charleston society who has retired to her historic summer home on Sullivan's Island called Conquest, and her three granddaughters Carson, Eudora, and Harper. It's summer once again on idyllic Sullivan's Island, but Eudora, or Dora as she's affectionately called by her family, is feeling anything but...
17) What Rose forgot
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Language
English
Description
Rose Dennis wakes up in a hospital gown, her brain in a fog, only to discover that she's been committed to an Alzheimer's Unit in a nursing home. When she overhears one of the administrators saying that she's "not making it through the week," Rose is convinced that if she's to survive, she has to get out of the nursing home. She avoids taking her medication, putting on a show for the aides, then stages her escape. The problem is-- how does she convince...
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Series
Detective Konrad novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a young woman known for drug smuggling goes missing, her elderly grandparents have no choice but to call the retired Detective Konrád. Still looking for his own father's murderer, Konrád agrees to investigate the case. But digging into the past reveals more than he set out to discover, and a strange connection to a little girl who drowned in the Reykjavík city pond decades ago recaptures everyone's attention. A brilliant, chilling tale...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"To hear Beatrice Agnew tell it, she entered the world with her mouth tightly shut. Just because she finds out she's dying doesn't mean she can't keep it that way. If any of her children have questions about their daddy and the choices she made after he abandoned them, they'd best take it up with Jesus. There's no room in Granny B's house for regrets or hand-holding. Or so she thinks. Her granddaughter, Evelyn Lester, shows up on Beatrice's doorstep...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In one lifetime we have many chances to get it right Grange Copeland, a deeply conflicted and struggling tenant farmer in the Deep South of the 1930s, leaves his family and everything he's ever known to find happiness and respect in the cold cities of the North. This misadventure, his "second life," proves a dismal failure that sends him back where he came from to confront his now-grown-up son's disastrous relationships with his own family, including...
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