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The Shipping News

Annie Proulx · 337 pages

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Shipping News is a celebration of Annie Proulx's genius for storytelling and her vigorous contribution to the art of the novel. Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a "head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips," is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing

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This Was Not the Plan

Cristina Alger · 368 pages

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How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets

Garth Stein · 368 pages

When his son's mother dies and leaves him a single parent to Dean, a fourteen-year-old boy he has never met, Evan Wallace is forced to confront his music career and his epilepsy.

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At First Sight

Nicholas Sparks · 320 pages

There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away again after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, most of all, never become a parent. Now, Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, North Carolina, married to Lexie Darnell, the love of his life, and anticipating the birth of their daughter. But just as his life seems

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Forever Right Now

Emma Scott · 384 pages

Kann ihre Liebe gegen die Schatten der Vergangenheit bestehen? Darlene Montgomery will in San Francisco ganz von vorn anfangen und sich auf ihre Karriere als Tänzerin konzentrieren, nachdem sie endlich ihre Drogenprobleme überwunden hat. Das Letzte, was sie gebrauchen kann, ist in die Probleme ihres attraktiven Nachbarn Sawyer hineingezogen zu werden. Der junge Vater kämpft nicht nur darum, sei

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A Nest of Sparrows

Deborah Raney · 336 pages

His fiancee was the one woman he's loved. Her children are all he has left.

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Sustained

Emma Chase · 267 pages

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Morning Light

Catherine Anderson · 432 pages

(Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan #8) Born with second sight, Loni MacEwen must warn the handsome rancher Clint Harrigan that his son is in danger-except he doesn't even have a son. Then the drama Loni predicted unfolds on the news: an orphaned boy is lost in the wilderness. As Loni and Clint help in the search for the boy, they begin to form a bond of their own...

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Fine Things

Danielle Steel · 406 pages

Riding on the crest of a highly successful career, Bernie Fine was moving to fast to realise that he had everything - except what he wanted most. Sent to San Francisco to open the smartest department store in California, Bernie becomes aware of the hollowness of his personal life. Despite his success he grows increasingly disenchanted - until five-year-old Jane O'Reilly gets lost in the store. Thr

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Point of Retreat

Colleen Hoover · 320 pages

Layken and Will have managed to overcome the obstacles that threatened to destroy their love, proving that they are destined for one another. What they are about to learn, however, is that the things that have brought them together may be the very things that ruin their connection forever... Layken is left second-guessing the relationship whilst Will is jumping over hurdles to prove his love fo

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Some Kind of Hero

Suzanne Brockmann · 338 pages

"Former Navy SEAL Peter "Grunge" Greene's lonely but comfortable life is upended when his longtime ex-girlfriend unexpectedly dies in a car crash, leaving him sole custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Maddie. They move to San Diego to start a new life together, but Maddie quickly falls in with the wrong crowd and soon goes completely AWOL. New to town with no one to turn to, Peter is frantic to

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Flex

Ferrett Steinmetz · 429 pages

"FLEX. Distilled magic in crystal form. The most dangerous drug in the world. Snort it, and you can create incredible coincidences to live the life of your dreams. FLUX: The backlash from snorting Flex. The universe hates magic and tries to rebalance the odds; maybe you survive the horrendous accidents the Flex inflicts, maybe you don't. PAUL TSABO: The obsessed bureaucromancer who's turned paperw

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About a Boy

Nick Hornby · 288 pages

Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and b

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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive

Tom Malmquist · 288 pages

Tom's heavily pregnant girlfriend Karin is rushed to hospital with severe flu. While the doctors are able to save the baby, they are helpless in the face of what transpires to be acute Leukemia, and in a moment as fleeting as it is cruel Tom gains a daughter but loses his soul-mate. In Every Moment is the story of a year that changes everything, as Tom must reconcile the fury of bereavement with t

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At Attention

Annabeth Albert · 304 pages

Lieutenant Apollo Floros can ace tactical training missions, but being a single dad to his twin daughters is more than he can handle. He needs live-in help, and he is lucky a friend's younger brother needs a place to stay. He's surprised to see Dylan all grown up with a college degree-and a college athlete's body. Apollo's widowed heart may still be broken, but Dylan has his blood heating up. I

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Stones in the Road

Nick Wilgus · 350 pages

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Bed of Roses

Nora Roberts · 426 pages

Love blooms in the second novel in Nora Roberts's celebrated Bride Quartet series.As little girls MacKensie, Emma, Laurel, and Parker spent hours acting out their perfect make believe "I do" moments. Years later their fantasies become reality when they start their own wedding planning company to make every woman's dream day come true. With perfect flowers, delicious desserts, and joyful moments ca

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Single Dad on Top

J.J. Knight · 394 pages

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The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

Laurie Gilmore · 385 pages

As a renowned chef, single-dad Archer never planned on moving to a small town, let alone running a pancake restaurant. But Dream Harbor needs a new chef, and Archer needs a community to help raise his daughter, Olive. Iris has never managed to hold down a job for more than a few months. So when Mayor Kelly suggests Archer is looking for a nanny, and Iris might be available, she shudders at the

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Don't Want to Miss a Thing

Jill Mansell · 420 pages

Dexter Yates loves his fun, care-free London life; he has money, looks and girlfriends galore. But everything changes overnight when his sister dies, leaving him in charge of her eight-month-old daughter Delphi. How is he ever going to cope? Comic-strip artist Molly Hayes lives in the beautiful Cotswold village of Briarwood. When it comes to relationships, she has a history of choosing all the wro

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Dockside

Susan Wiggs · 400 pages

With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new adventure. She's waited a long time for dating, travel, and chasing dreams. But just as she's beginning to enjoy being on her own, she finds herself falling for Greg Bellamy, owner of the charming Inn at Willow Lake and a single father with two kids of his own.Greg lost his first marriage to a demanding career. Now he's det

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I Want It That Way

Ann Aguirre · 368 pages

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Light The Stars

RaeAnne Thayne · 256 pages

Wade Dalton was having a very bad day.His five-year-old had accidentally set the kitchen on fire. His daughter was surly, as usual. The baby hadn't been fed yet. And his mother—aka "The Childminder"—had eloped...with a scam artist. Could it get any worse?Turned out it could. Because the annoyingly beautiful daughter of said scam artist was now at the door, batting her doe eyes at him and proposing

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Digitalis

Ronie Kendig · 320 pages

"Colton Neeley left his military career to take care of his four-year-old daughter. Although he's firm in his faith now, the repercussions of his former life are still evident--namely in the form of his daughter and his debilitating flashbacks from combat-related trauma. Can he muster the courage to step out of his self-imposed isolation and embrace the new woman in his life? Piper Blum is hiding-

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