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Up at Butternut Lake

Mary McNear · 400 pages

It's summer, and after ten years away, Allie Beckett has returned to her family's cabin beside tranquil Butternut Lake. She's promised her five-year-old son, Wyatt, that they will be happy there. She's promised herself that this is the place to begin again after her husband's death in Afghanistan. The cabin holds so many wonderful memories, but Allie is seized with doubts. Has she done the right t

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The Rescue

Nicholas Sparks · 446 pages

One of America's bestselling authors returns with a tale about the greatest commitment of all: loving someone forever. When a near-fatal car crash brings Taylor McAden together with Denise Holden, a new resident of Edenton, North Carolina, he must look into his past to see if it's not too late to take a chance on the future.

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Needles and Pearls: A Beach Street Knitting Society Novel

Gil McNeil

The warm and witty sequel to The Beach Street Knitting Society and Yarn ClubSlip one . . .Two weddings and a year after her husband's funeral, Jo Mackenzie is finally starting to get the hang of being a single parent. The boys are thriving, the yarn shop is doing well—thanks to Jo's improvements—and she's just about keeping her head above water.Knit two together . . .But a man from Jo's past and a

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The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle

RaeAnne Thayne · 218 pages

Christmas was tough for widow Jenna Wheeler and her four children. But even though she'd sold part of her family's land to make ends meet, she was determined to spin the holiday into the stuff of magic - no matter what it took. Now if she could only find a job...

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The Christmas Secret

Donna VanLiere

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A Lawman's Christmas

Linda Lael Miller · 368 pages

The sudden death of the town marshal leaves Blue River, Texas, without a lawman, and Dara Rose Nolan without a husband or income, until Clay McKettrick comes to town. When they say "I do" to a marriage of convenience, the temporary lawman's wish is to make Dara Rose his permanent wife.

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The 13th Gift: A True Story of a Christmas Miracle

Joanne Huist Smith · 204 pages

"For readers of Richard Paul Evans and Greg Kincaid comes The 13th Gift, a heartwarming Christmas story about how a random act of kindness transformed one of the bleakest moments in a family's history into a time of strength and love. After the unexpected death of her husband, Joanne Huist Smith had no idea how she would keep herself together and be strong for her three children--especially with t

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Flat-Out Sexy

Erin McCarthy · 304 pages

"One of the romance writing industry's brightest stars" -Romance Reviews Today, returns with a flat-out delightful, new, and sexy contemporary romance about a woman who's happy being single—and the man determined to change her mind. Independent single mother Tamara Briggs wanted to find a new, sexy, no-strings-attached man—just not one as young as NASCAR driver Elec Monroe. But he sure does get he

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Send No Flowers

Sandra Brown · 211 pages

She usually didn't play the part of damsel in distress...but this ill-fated camping trip was reducing her to roles she'd never expected to encounter. When Pierce Reynolds appeared in the midst of a thunderstorm to offer her and her two small boys dinner and a dry place to sleep, Alicia Russell couldn't help but surrender to his rescuing arms...Her sons quickly grew to adore the masculine attention

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Wolf Children: Ame & Yuki

Mamoru Hosoda · 538 pages

When Hana falls in love with a young interloper she encounters in her college class, the last thing she expects to learn is that he is part wolf. Instead of rejecting her lover upon learning his secret, she accepts him with open arms. Soon, the couple is expecting their first child, and a cozy picture of family life unfolds. But after what seems like a mere moment of bliss to Hana, the father of h

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A Winter's Tale

Trisha Ashley · 403 pages

A charming romantic comedy about a hard-up single mum inheriting a stately home - and a host of headaches - The perfect novel for curling up with during the long winter nights. Sophy Winter is not your typical Lady of the Manor...When she unexpectedly inherits Winter's End - a crumbling mansion in the beautiful Lancashire countryside - it seems like all Sophy's prayers have been answered. She eage

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Say You'll Stay

Corinne Michaels

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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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Kissing Under the Mistletoe

Marina Adair · 302 pages

Regan, skeptical about love after learning that her fiancé is already married, moves with her daughter to Napa for her dream job, but when the scorned wife's brother tries to drive her from town, sparks begin to fly between the two.

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Candlelight Christmas

Susan Wiggs · 328 pages

As single father Logan O'Donnell prepares to give his son, Charlie, the best Christmas ever on the shores of Willow Lake, he just may be in for a Christmas surprise himself, in the form of sharp-witted and independent Darcy Fitzgerald.

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Sweet Tea at Sunrise

Sherryl Woods · 389 pages

Emotionally wounded single mom Sarah Price has come home to Serenity, South Carolina, for a fresh start. With support from her two best friends--the newest generation of the Sweet Magnolias--she can face any crisis. But sometimes a woman needs more than even treasured friends can provide. Sexy Travis McDonald may be exactly what Sarah's battered self-confidence requires. The newcomer is intent

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A Virgin River Christmas

Robyn Carr · 320 pages

Last Christmas Marcie Sullivan said a final goodbye to her husband, Bobby. This Christmas she's come to Virgin River to find the man who saved his life and gave her three more years to love him.Fellow marine Ian Buchanan dragged Bobby's shattered body onto a medical transport in Fallujah four years ago, then disappeared as soon as their unit arrived stateside. Since then, Marcie's letters to Ian h

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Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Lisa Kleypas · 211 pages

ONE LITTLE GIRL NEEDS A FAMILY One rain-slicked night, six-year-old Holly lost the only parent she knew, her beloved mother Victoria. And since that night, she has never again spoken a word. ONE SINGLE MAN NEEDS A WIFE The last thing Mark Nolan needs is a six-year-old girl in his life. But he soon realizes that he will do everything he can to make her life whole again. His sister’s will gives

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Night Music

Jojo Moyes · 416 pages

The Spanish House is a hotch-potch of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece.

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Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe

Debbie Johnson · 352 pages

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Only By Your Touch

Catherine Anderson · 466 pages

USA Today bestselling author Catherine Anderson takes readers to a quaint wilderness town, where together, a man and a woman find a second chance at life-and love...Determined to give her son Jeremy the childhood he deserves, Chloe Evans has left a tough past behind to start over in the charming town of Jack Pine, Oregon. But protecting Jeremy becomes a dicey proposition when he seeks out the most

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Wild and Wrangled: A Rebel Blue Ranch Novel

Lyla Sage · 357 pages

Camille Ashwood had always loved a plan. Her latest was her best yet. She was going to get married so she could secure her daughter’s future, get her overbearing parents off her back, and finally start building her own life in small-town Meadowlark, Wyoming. Easy, right? But when her groom doesn’t show up to the wedding, Cam’s life is turned upside down—she doesn’t even have a place to live. Th

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One Perfect Spring

Irene Hannon · 416 pages

"Single mom Claire Summers is doing her best to make lemonade of the lemons life has handed her. Workaholic Keith Watson is interested only in the bottom line--until a letter from Claire's eleven-year-old daughter seeking help finding the long-lost son of a neighbor reaches him and changes everything, bringing love and hope to many lives"--

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