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Self-published
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"Pete desires a wife and family with all of his heart, but waiting is hard. Then the woman of his dreams reenters his life, and his hopes soar. Love and happiness, however, seem to stay out of his reach. All the while, Pete must keep up with some challenging interruptions. Charlie wants adventure. But life on the Missouri prairie in 1860 is not the stuff dreams are made of. Charlie wants to go his own way and is struggling to submit to God's plan....
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The new economics of love and marriage-and who benefits. The realities of single parenting in the US have long carried a connotation of hardship-not just in finances, but in the wrenching day-to-day challenges of parenting without a net. As marriage rates in the US continue to drop, and as single-parent households become increasingly concentrated at the lower end of the income spectrum, it begs the question: what does all this mean for a country...
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Trafalgar Square Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A young woman's struggle with marriage and motherhood on some of the most remote ranches in the American West. Jolyn Young grew up in the "real" northern California-the forgotten area at the tip-top of the state with small towns, extreme poverty, and about 40 miles to the Oregonian mountains. In a childhood defined by a subdivision, she decided she wanted to be a cowboy, and two years out of college, she saw that dream through, taking a job at a...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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"One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming and emotionally poignant novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate. It is an ordinary Monday and harried London literary agent Emma is flying out of the door as usual. Preoccupied with work and her ever growing to-do list, she fails to notice her lovely husband...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The second book, following last year's My Brilliant Friend, featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a classic holiday romance about a woman who gives birth in a blizzard and the doctor who comes to her rescue.
When Dr. Derek Taliferro delivers Kathleen Fields’s baby during a snowstorm on Christmas Day, all his protective instincts are aroused by the sight of the beautiful mother and baby. Knowing Kathleen needs a strong shoulder to lean on, he proposes a way to keep the new...
When Dr. Derek Taliferro delivers Kathleen Fields’s baby during a snowstorm on Christmas Day, all his protective instincts are aroused by the sight of the beautiful mother and baby. Knowing Kathleen needs a strong shoulder to lean on, he proposes a way to keep the new...
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Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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The “stunning conclusion” to the bestselling saga of the fierce lifelong bond between two women, from a gritty Naples childhood through old age (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries...
The Story of the Lost Child concludes the dazzling saga of two women, the brilliant, bookish Elena and the fiery, uncontainable Lila, who first met amid the shambles of postwar Italy. In this book, life’s great discoveries...
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Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Part of the bestselling saga about childhood friends following different paths by “one of the great novelists of our time” (The New York Times).
In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the...
In the third book in the New York Times–bestselling Neapolitan quartet that inspired the HBO series My Brilliant Friend, Elena and Lila have grown into womanhood. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the...
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Heart of Cheyenne volume 1
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English
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"Invited by a friend to help establish the newly formed town of Cheyenne, Edward Vogel is prepared to leave the haunting memories of his wife and son's deaths behind him. The only problem is the corrupt new railroad town wants family men who can establish law and order, and desperation leads Edward to his friend Marybeth with a proposition of marriage. After her father's death leaves her with no means of support, Marybeth Kruger has no choice but...
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