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1901) One more song to sing
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"More than two decades ago, Olivia Lovett left her old life behind in Oklahoma and forged a career in Nashville as a country music star. Now her voice is failing, forcing her to find a new dream just as the secrets of her past come knocking at the door"--
1902) Feliz cumpleaños
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Desde que se divorció, hace ya algún tiempo, Valerie Wyatt ha trabajado duro para convertirse en una célebre decoracora. Ahora tiene su propio programa de televisión y parace que las cosas no podrían irle mejor. No obstante, ni la fama ni el dinero ni su magnífico físico son suficientes para eludir una verdad aterradora: pronto tendrá sesenta años. El destino quiso que ella y su hija compartieran fecha de cumpleaños. A punto de cumplir los...
Author
Publisher
Studio House Literary
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The intriguing history of Palm Beach's glorious Breakers Hotel includes its conversion to a World War II army hospital, where over a dozen babies were born. Passions and fires, both figurative and literal, will forever change the lives of three women, whose heartrending journeys weave through the time line of the resort. It is February 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Addie, the daughter of the assistant manager of the most beautiful...
1904) Splinters of light
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ten years ago, Nora Glass started writing essays about being a single mother of a six-year-old daughter. Her weekly column made her a household name, and over the years, her fans have watched Ellie grow from a toddler to a teenager. But now Nora is facing a problem that can't be overcome. Diagnosed with a devastating disease that will eventually take away who she is, she is scared for herself, but even more frightened about what this will mean for...
1905) What lies between us
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Every other night, Maggie and Nina have dinner together. When they are finished, Nina helps Maggie back to her room in the attic, and into the heavy chain that keeps her there. Because Maggie has done things to Nina that can't ever be forgiven, and now she is paying the price. But there are many things about the past that Nina doesn't know, and Maggie is going to keep it that way, even if it kills her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With the man of her dreams back in her life and all three of her daughters happy, Ansley Murphy should be content. But she can't help but feel like it's all a little too good to be true. Meanwhile, youngest daughter and actress Emerson, who is recently engaged and has just landed the role of a lifetime, seemingly has the world by the tail. Only, something she can't quite put her finger on is worrying her--and it has nothing to do with her recent...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Journey now to San Francisco, California, of 1853 where... An English socialite finds more treasure than expected on her trip to the American West. When Abby Effingham becomes stranded in the middle of the California gold rush, her money depletes quickly even while her prospects for marriage increase daily. But Abby is on a mission to find her mother--not romance. Will a ridiculous scandal keep her from traveling on, or will it wake up an aloof innkeeper...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
Español
Description
All her life, 13-year old Anna has helped her sister fight leukemiea. Anna has provided platelets, bone marrow, and even stem cells to ensure Kate's survival. But when their parents ask her to donate a kidney, Anna has had enough. She enlist the aid of a lawyer and announces her intention to sue for control of her own body.
"Anna ha nacido con un propósito muy espefíco. Nació porque un científico manipuló la conexión entre el óvulo de su madre...
1909) Motherhood: a novel
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Grace isn't exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They've never had a great relationship, and Grace likes her space--especially now that she's stuck at home during a pandemic. Then again, she needs help with the mortgage after losing her job. And maybe it'll be a chance for them to bond--or at least give each other a hand. But living with Mother isn't for everyone. Good intentions turn bad soon after Jackie...
1910) The vanishing tide
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets? Isla knows her family kept things from her. When she inherits the cliffside cottage where she spent her childhood, she must face dark shadows of her past--the mother who rejected her in favour of her art, the aunt whose death haunted them both, and the silence that permeated every room. Digging through the belongings of someone she realises she never really knew, Isla finally has the chance...
Author
Publisher
Kennebec Large Print, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A glorious treat awaits you at the literary table of Donia Bijan." --Adriana Trigiani Set against the backdrop of Iran's rich, turbulent history, this exquisite debut novel is a powerful story of food, family, and a bittersweet homecoming. When we first meet Noor, she is living in San Francisco, missing her beloved father, Zod, in Iran. Now, dragging her stubborn teenage daughter, Lily, with her, she returns to Tehran and to Cafe Leila, the restaurant...
1912) Harbor secrets
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1916 when newspaper woman Anna McDowell learns her estranged father has suffered a stroke. Deciding it's time to repair bridges, Anna packs up her precocious adolescent daughter and heads for her hometown in Sunset Cove, Oregon. Although much has changed since the turn of the century, some things haven t. Anna finds the staff of her father s paper not exactly eager to welcome a woman into the editor-in-chief role, but her father insists he wants...
1913) Snap out of it
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After three marriages and a lot of living, resilient Billie Slate knows exactly what trouble love can bring. Now she's reinvented herself as the Heartbreak Bunny, an on-call performance artist who can heal anyone who's been burned by that four-letter word, LOVE, by hopping about and whisking away sad mementos from their past relationships. Call it magic. Call it peculiar. But her bunny costume is as perfect as her breakup mantra: SNAP OUT OF IT....
1914) When the rain ends
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When artist Dani Manchester learns she's slowly losing her vision, she becomes unmoored. Her ex-husband died only months before, leaving Dani and her preteen daughter grief stricken. Suddenly, the life Dani built for her family on the Outer Banks feels like a painful reminder of all they've lost. On a whim, Dani sells her waterfront home and buys an old farm inland near the Virginia state line. But Dani's daughter recoils at the sudden, drastic change....
1915) Truth of the matter
Author
Series
Potomac Point novel volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020].
Language
English
Description
Seventeen years ago, two pink stripes on a pregnancy test changed Anne Sullivan's life. She abandoned her artistic ambitions, married her college sweetheart before graduation, and--like the mother she lost in childhood--devoted herself to her family. To say she didn't see the divorce coming is an understatement. Now, eager to distance herself from her ex and his lover, she moves with her troubled daughter, Katy, to the quaint bayside town of Potomac...
1916) Surfside sisters: anovel
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A woman from Nantucket returns home to find that reunions aren't always so simple in this heartwarming novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Nantucket Wedding and Secrets in Summer. Growing up, Lara always dreamed of leaving Nantucket to become a writer. Now that she's a bestselling novelist living in New York City, she realizes that success isn't what she thought it would be. Confused, and with a harrowing case of writer's block,...
1917) Watch us shine
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Cornelia Brown is reeling from a terrifying act of violence when she gets word that her mother has been badly injured in an accident. Cornelia returns to Virginia, to the house she grew up in, and in the weeks that follow, she watches her mother Ellie struggle to recover, fluctuating between her usual crisp, can-do clarity and periods of delirium during which she seems haunted by a devastating loss from her past. In grief-stricken tones, Ellie begs...
Author
Publisher
[Library Ideas, LLC]
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Un cuento bilingüe basada en la vida, los sueños y los logros de tres generaciones de niñas artísticas, creativas e imaginativas a medida que crecían en la familia de la autora. "--
"A bilingual story based on the lives, dreams, and accomplishments of three generations of creative, imaginative, artistic girls as they grew up in the author's family. "--