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Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle, beautiful thirty-three-year-old triplets, seem to attract attention everywhere they go. Whenever they're together, laughter, drama, and mayhem seem to follow. But apart, each is very much her own woman, dealing with her own share ofups and downs. Lyn has organized her life into one big checklist, juggling the many balls of work, marriage, and motherhood with expert precision, but is she as together as her datebook would...
2) Flying home
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English
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Twenty-three years ago, Guenter and Karyn Schrader were killed in a plane accident in India, leaving their four-year-old daughter and orphan. Now grown, Liana is plagued by questions about her parents and her own inability to form a romantic relationship with a man she's starting to care about. Adopted by her mother's sister, she has always felt like an outsider in the family, and her disjointed memories—and nightmares—of the past make
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Luke Millward is a man who does not know he is lost. His girlfriend loves him; his career is going well; and every night he falls asleep knowing that his life is good and meaningful. Only when the past reveals its twisted smile in a phone call and the disconnected voice asks him to come find his father in post-Katrina New Orleans is Luke compelled to find out what kind of man he truly is. Recovering Charles is for every family who's had its share...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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This novel is a portrait of three siblings who have lived in the shadow of unresolved grief since their mother's disappearance when they were children. Everyone in Emlyn Springs knows the story of Hope Jones, the physician's wife whose big dreams for their tiny town were lost along with her in the tornado of 1978. For Hope's three young children, the stability of life with their preoccupied father, and with Viney, their mother's spitfire best friend,...
Publisher
SunWorld Pictures
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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"James Reed is quite content with the successful life he's built for himself, complete with beautiful girlfriend and great reputation in his big city career. But after receiving an urgent call about his father's health, James reluctantly returns home to help with the family business, Reed Mill Bed & Breakfast. There he returns to menial work he eagerly left years before, and a brother he clashes with. Though he yearns to leave as quickly as he...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Joseph Jacobson is the twelfth of thirteen siblings, all of whom are employed by their father’s successful Colorado advertising company. But underneath the success runs a poisonous undercurrent of jealousy; Joseph is his father’s favorite and the focus of his brothers’ envy and hatred. When the father seems ready to anoint Joseph as his heir, the brothers make their move, forcing Joseph from the company and his Denver home, severing his ties...
9) The letters
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Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
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Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. Sam goes to the arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. Hadley rents a cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. At opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
2013, 2012
Language
English
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"Country music's hottest young superstar, Jana Kramer, plays the lead role in this romantic tale of a prodigal daughter's inspirational journey home. When her husband is arrested, wealthy New York socialite and singer Faith Carraday (Kramer) returns to her Southern roots and the family she left behind years ago. Amongst the beautiful fields of rural North Carolina, Faith will try to rebuild her shattered life, her marriage and her belief in herself....
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HFC Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Kate and Melanie haven't spoken to each other in years since a hurtful scene at Melanie's wedding. Their parents, Wendy and Al, have let the pain of their daughters' absence drive a wedge between them, and their tensions have led to a separation. Kate is determined to reunite the entire family for Christmas, and has the perfect spot...their old family home. The only problem is there's someone else living there now." -- container
13) The sugar queen
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young woman whose family secrets—and secret passions—are about to change her life forever.
Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet....
Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter is her favorite season, she’s a sorry excuse for a Southern belle, and sweets are best eaten in the privacy of her closet....
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout returns home to Maycomb to visit her father. There, she struggles with personal and political issues, as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
15) To survive caregiving: a daughter's experience, a doctor's advice, on finding hope, help, and health
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Publisher
Infinity Publishing.com
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�1995
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
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Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
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English
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"A senior partner at a prestigious New York law firm, Kate Morgan couldn't be prouder of her three grown children. Tamara, Anthony, and Claire all went to great schools, chose wonderful career paths, and would have made their father proud. A single motherfor years after the death of her husband, Kate keeps a tight rein on her family, her career, and even her own emotions, never once asking herself if she truly knows her children . . . or if her hopes...
19) Sh*t my dad says
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Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Tuesdays with Morrie meets F My Life in this hilarious coming-of-age book about a son's relationship with his foul-mouthed father by the 29-year-old comedy writer who created the massively popular Twitter feed of the same name.
20) That evening sun
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead, only to find it's been leased to an old enemy, the volatile Lonzo Choat. After Abner intervenes to protect Choat's daughter from her drunken father's abuse, events spiral toward a startling, violent climax.
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