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When Fernando spots Marlena across the Piazza San Marco, it is love at first sight. A year later he manages to meet her and convince the American chef to marry him and move to Venice. Romance and great recipes. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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A fable about undauntingly following one's dreams, listening to one's heart, and reading life's omens features dialogue between a boy and an unnamed being. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Girl with a pearl earring tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl, who becomes a maid in the house of the painter Johannes Vermeer. Her calm and perceptive manner not only helps her in her household duties, but also attracts Vermeer's attention. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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One man struggles to save his family and his small North Carolina town after America loses a war, in one second, a war based upon an Electro Magnetic Pulse (EMP) weapon that will send America back to the Dark Ages. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Charlie Gordon, a youth with limited mental capabilities, along with a laboratory rat named Algernon become the joint objects of a scientific alteration to see if Charlie can become "normal." Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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I couldn't put this book down. It has a rich story told through the eyes of 2 different characters, who will both steal your heart. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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This is a book full of adventure and unexpected surprises. Mattie leaves Iowa in a covered wagon bound for Colorado with a new husband she barely knows and finds love in ways she never expected. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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All-Time Favorite! Pope Joan tells of the ninth-century woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to become the only female ever to sit on the throne of St. Peter. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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1000 white women moving west to intermarry with the Cheyenne tribe. The adventure of a lifetime! Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Set in the South during the 1960's, The Help will entertain you, challenge you, and consume you till the last page. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Set in the 1930s, hard times have hit, the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. Add a dark secret and women banding together to support one another. You'll love it! Collection: Adult Fiction |
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The Red Tent combines rich storytelling with a valuable achievement in modern fiction: a new view of a Biblical women's society. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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The Lost Symbol is exactly what Brown's fans have been waiting for . . . his most thrilling novel yet. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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The Mermaid Chair is a vividly imagined novel that brings to light a woman's self-awakening with the witt and power that only a writer of Sue Monk Kidd's ability could create. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name. Collection: Adult Fiction |
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Taking place in 1916 Idaho, Katie Jones has dedicated her life to the campaign for women's suffrage. Until now she has successfully avoided marriage, fearing it would obscure her message. Will her growing love for childhood chum Ben Rafferty compromise her calling? Collection: Adult Fiction |
