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1. The borrowed life of Frederick Fife: a novel

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Author:
Johnston, Anna, 1983-
Average Rating:
3.6 stars
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"Frederick Fife was born with an extra helping of kindness in his heart. If he borrowed your car, he'd return it washed with a full tank of gas. The problem is there's nobody left in Fred's life to borrow from. At eighty-two, he's desperately lonely, broke, and on the brink of homelessness. Fred's luck changes when, in a bizarre case of mistaken identity, he takes the place of Bernard Greer at the local nursing home. Now he has a roof over his head,...

2. Everyone here is lying

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Author:
Lapena, Shari, 1960-
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3.9 stars
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"William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter, Avery, unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper. Hours later, Avery's family declares her missing. Who took Avery Wooler?"--

3. A family affair

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Author:
Carr, Robyn
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3.8 stars
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Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in 'till death do us part.' Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant, and when her husband dies suddenly, Anna's carefully constructed...

4. The fixer upper

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Author:
Andrews, Mary Kay, 1954-
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3.7 stars
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After her boss in a high-powered Washington public relations firm is caught in a political scandal, fledgling lobbyist Dempsey Jo Killebrew is left unemployed and broke. Out of options, she reluctantly accepts her father's offer to help refurbish Birdsong, the old family place he recently inherited in Guthrie, Georgia. All it will take, he tells her, is a little paint and some TLC to turn the fading Victorian mansion into a real-estate cash cow. But...

5. It's better this way: a novel

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Author:
Macomber, Debbie
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4 stars
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"After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning--but is the past truly behind her?"--

6. Just for the summer

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Author:
Jimenez, Abby
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4.4 stars
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"Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea... and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...

7. The night we lost him: a novel

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Author:
Dave, Laura
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3.5 stars
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"When the patriarch of a famed hotel empire dies under suspicious circumstances, his daughter and her estranged brother join forces to find out what happened, unraveling a larger mystery about who their father really was. From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and Reeses Book Club Pick The Last Thing He Told Me comes a riveting mystery wrapped in an epic love story"--

8. The only one left: a novel

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Author:
Sager, Riley
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4.4 stars
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"The Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. It's now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDerre arrives to care for Lenora after the previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on a typewriter. One night,...

9. The summer getaway

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Mallery, Susan
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4 stars
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"One woman takes the vacation of a lifetime in this poignant and heartwarming story about the threads that hold a family together... Single mom Robyn Caldwell needs a new plan for her future. She has always put her family first. Now, with her kids grown, she yearns for a change. But what can she do when her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, her son won't even consider college, her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and...

10. Troubles in paradise: a novel

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Author:
Hilderbrand, Elin
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Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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As drama unfolds around her and her family after the death of her husband, who was leading a double life, Irene Steele gets some help from a mysterious source and a new beginning in the paradise of St. John after the truth is finally revealed.

11. A week at the shore

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Author:
Delinsky, Barbara
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4 stars
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"One phone call is all it takes to lure Mallory Aldiss back to her family's Rhode Island beach home. It's been twenty years since she's been gone--running from the scandal that destroyed her parents' marriage, drove her and her two sisters apart, and crushed her relationship with the love of her life ... But that phone call makes it clear that something has brought the past forward again--something involving Mallory's father"--