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Porch Lights

Dorothea Benton Frank · 330 pages

When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie

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The After Wife

Gigi Levangie Grazer · 298 pages

As she pours out her grief and questions to a tree in her backyard after her husband's death, reality show producer Hannah is astonished when the tree appears to respond, prompting Hannah's discovery that she can communicate with the dead.

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The Flavours of Love

Dorothy Koomson · 509 pages

'I'm looking for that perfect blend of flavours; the taste that used to be you. If I find it, I know you'll come back to me.' It's been 18 months since my husband was murdered and I've decided to finish writing The Flavours of Love, the cookbook he started before he died. Everyone thinks I'm coping so well without him - they have no idea what I've been hiding or what I do away from prying eyes. Bu

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Emily and Einstein

Linda Francis Lee · 356 pages

Sandy Portman and Emily Barlow seem to lead a perfect life. Sandy is a successful businessman from an old-money family, and Emily, beautiful and smart, is quickly gaining respect in her career as a book editor. But Sandy is keeping a few secrets from Emily, and is hit by a car and killed before he has a chance to reveal the truth. In a Dickensian turn of events, he's given an otherworldly chance t

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The Secrets We Keep

Stephanie Butland

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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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Anybody Out There?

Marian Keyes · 592 pages

Life is perfect for Anna Walsh. She has the "Best Job in the World" as a PR exec for a top-selling urban beauty brand, a lovely apartment in New York, and a perfect husband - the love of her life, Aidan Maddox. Until the morning she wakes up in her mammy's living room in Dublin with stitches in her face, a dislocated knee, and completely smashed-up hands - and no memory of how she got there. While

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This Book Made Me Think of You

Libby Page · 417 pages

THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER THAT CELEBRATES LOVE, LIFE, AND FINDING THE RIGHT BOOK AT THE RIGHT TIME Join readers around the world who have fallen in love with the book praised by Adriana Trigiani as “the feel-good novel of the year”—an emotional and uplifting story about one woman’s reading-inspired journey to live, dream, and love again. “A lovely, affecting paean to the power of books and enduring

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Table for Five

Susan Wiggs · 400 pages

When Derek and Crystal Maguire are killed in a car accident, their three children are left to be raised by their designated guardians-Lily Robinson and Sean McGuire. Brought together by tragedy, the two strangers are joined in grief and their mutual love for these orphaned children. Sean and Lily are about to embark on the journey of ups and downs, patience and understanding that makes a family. A

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Good Grief

Lolly Winston · 362 pages

A brilliantly funny and heartwarming debut about a young woman who stumbles, then fights to build a new life after the death of her husband. The perfect book for anyone who has ever been heartbroken, lost someone they loved, or eaten too many Oreos.

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P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

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A Virtuous Woman

Kaye Gibbons · 176 pages

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Midwives

Chris Bohjalian · 312 pages

Sibyl is a respected midwife, accused of murder after she performs a caesarian on a mother whom she believes to have died of a stroke during a long and difficult labour. A trial ensues to decide whether Sibyl has committed murder. The story is told from Sibyl's daughter's viewpoint.

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Sam's Letters to Jennifer

James Patterson · 264 pages

Have you ever gotten a letter that changed your life completely? Sam's Letters to Jennifer is a novel about that kind of drama. In it, a woman is summoned back to the town where she grew up. And in the house where she spent her most magical years she finds a series of letters addressed to her. Each of those letters is a piece of a story that will upend completely the world she thought she knew - a

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The Pilot's Wife

Anita Shreve · 304 pages

Until now, Kathryn Lyons's life has been peaceful if unextraordinary: a satisfying job teaching high school in the New England mill town of her childhood; a picture-perfect home by the ocean; a precocious, independent-minded fifteen-year-old daughter; and a happy marriage whose occasional dull passages she attributes to the unavoidable deadening of time. As a pilot's wife, Kathryn has learned to

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When I'm Gone

Emily Bleeker · 363 pages

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The Lost Husband

Katherine Center · 358 pages

Crazy Aunt Jean has offered Libby an escape from her hypercritical mother--a job and a place to live on her farm in the Texas Hill Country. Life on Aunt Jean's goat farm is both more wonderful and more mysterious than Libby could have imagined.

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Winter in Paradise

Elin Hilderbrand · 328 pages

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The Garden of Small Beginnings

Abbi Waxman · 368 pages

"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can

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How to Talk to a Widower

Jonathan Tropper · 352 pages

Twenty-nine-year-old widower Doug Parker finds his life spiraling out of control as he struggles to come to terms with grief, love, family, and suburbia while dealing with a bossy, pregnant twin sister who urges him to begin dating again, a younger sister planning her wedding, a mother dealing with her ailing husband, and a hostile teenage stepson.

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Regretting You

Colleen Hoover · 363 pages

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Since You've Been Gone

Anouska Knight · 392 pages

In one tragic moment, Holly Jefferson's life as she knew it changed forever. Now she's running her bakery, Cake-- or at least going through the motions. Then she meets Ciaran Argyll. His privileged and charmed life feels a million miles from her own. But Ciaran, too, is wrestling with ghosts. Will Holly find the missing ingredient that allows her to live again-- and embrace an unknown and unexpect

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Off Season

Anne Rivers Siddons · 407 pages

Acclaimed novelist Anne Rivers Siddons's new novel is a stunning tale of love and loss. For as long as she can remember, they were Cam and Lilly--happily married, totally in love with each other, parents of a beautiful family, and partners in life. Then, after decades of marriage, it ended as every great love story does...in loss. After Cam's death, Lilly takes a lone road trip to her and Cam's f

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