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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...
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Thirty-two-year-old New Hampshire search-and-rescue worker Delia Hopkins, a soon-to-be-married mother of a five-year-old daughter, begins having strange flashbacks of a forgotten childhood and learns that her father, whom she always believed to be a widower, kidnapped her when she was four--and that her mother is still alive.
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Jamie's an aspiring stand-up comic in Los Angeles with a growing case of stage anxiety. Siri's a stunning ballerina from New Jersey dealing with a career-changing injury. When the two girls meet at the Rediscover Yourself retreat in Colorado, they discover they are sisters separated as young children by their bitterly divorced parents.
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"After her marriage ends, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a new beginning but is the past truly behind her? It's been nearly six years since Julia Jones had her heart broken. After her husband became involved with another woman, she did everything she could to save their marriage, to no avail. Their two daughters continue to stand by Julia in the wake of their father's behavior--and they've had a tough time getting along...
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Since she was a child, Meg had dreamed of visiting Florence, Italy, and stepping into the place captured in a picture at her grandmother's house. When her dad finally tells Meg to book the trip, she prays it will heal the fissures left by her parents' divorce. But when Meg arrives, her absent father has left aspiring memoir-writer Sofia Borelli to introduce Meg to the ancient city. Sofia claims to be a descendant of the Medicis, and that a Medici...
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"Once upon a time, when her dad married Sage's mom, Daisy was thrilled to get a bright and shiny new sister. But Sage was beautiful and popular, everything Daisy was not, and she made sure Daisy knew it. Sage didn't have Daisy's smarts - she had to go back a grade to enroll in the fancy rich-kid school. So she used her popularity as a weapon, putting Daisy down to elevate herself. After the divorce, the stepsisters' rivalry continued until the final,...
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Chesapeake Shores novels volume 5
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Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of...
8) Eat cake
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Ruth draws on her talent for concocting delectable cakes and desserts when her family begins to disintegrate around her--her husband loses his job, her mother moves in, and her long-estranged father shows up at the door with no place to go.
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"A poignant, romantic, and delightful new novel about a young woman who refuses to believe happy endings are real, from internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans. At twenty-two, Eleanor Bee is sure about three things: she wants to move to London and become a literary superstar, she wants to be able to afford to buy a coffee and croissant every morning, and she doesn't believe in happy endings. She saw what divorce did to her parents, especially...
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"A scandalous divorce years ago means Cynthia Bauer dreads seeing her ex-husband, Russ Shaw. But when Diane, their only daughter, gets engaged, she's adamant she wants her father to give her away at her wedding, despite Cynthia's objections. So, after twenty-five years, Russ is returning to town, determined to do just that. There's no way Cynthia and Russ can avoid each other, but could it be that staying away from one another is the last thing either...
11) Ask again later
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Emily has a tendency to live with one foot out the door. For her, the best thing about a family crisis is the excuse to cut and run. When her mother dramatically announces they've found a lump, Emily gladly takes a rain check on life to be by her mother's side, leaving behind her career, her boyfriend, and those pesky, unanswerable questions about who she is and what she's doing with her life. But back in her childhood bedroom, Emily realizes that...
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"A daughter's riveting, devastating portrait of her relationship with her mother, a brilliant and charismatic woman haunted by childhood sexual trauma. When an eight-year-old Leah McLaren's parents get divorced, her mother, Cessie, flees her conventional life as a suburban housewife in search of a glamorous journalism career. In the chaotic years that follow, with her daughter in tow, Cessie lurches from one apartment, job and toxic romance to the...
13) Loving Donovan
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Campbell clings to her ideals about love despite the unhappy example set by her parents, while Donovan dreams of having a family and playing for the NBA in the face of difficult personal challenges.
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After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father's death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with her dad, delving deeper into the stories she's held about...
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Now in paperback, the acclaimed first novel that movingly charts the intersection of two lives, two worlds — the story of a fierce and untameable young girl, growing up "privileged" in a New England household darkened by her parents' epically unhappy marriage, and the Caribbean nanny who has left her own family a thousand miles behind to live among strangers.
At the heart of this vibrant and emotionally searing novel is a tale of finding a...
At the heart of this vibrant and emotionally searing novel is a tale of finding a...
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"Ida is a married woman in her late thirties, who lives in Milan and works at a radio station. Her mother wants to renovate the family apartment in Messina, to put it up for sale and asks her daughter to sort through her things--to decide what to keep and what to throw away. Surrounded by the objects of her past, Ida is forced to deal with the trauma she experienced as a girl, twenty-three years earlier, when her father left one morning, never to...
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Meet Carter. It's been years since his parents' divorce. But now, with the wedding of his younger brother, he must keep mom and dad from annihilating each other all over again. That's when the real surprises start, including a shocking revelation from his childhood "therapist, " the arrival of his dad's latest wife, his own commitment issues with his gorgeous girlfriend, and confronting the sexy A.C.O.D. from his past.
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"At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silvergate-Dunn catch Josh's father and Khadijah's mother kissing in a natural foods store. As both of their families fall apart, the teenagers sign a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow-- until they meet again at twenty-eight, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people" -- dust jacket flap.
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"Lila Rosetti Sinclair is headed home to Sunshine Bay to make the final plans for her wedding day when she is shocked by two life-changing surprises: a positive pregnancy test and the news that her family's business is struggling. Lila is determined to give this baby the close-knit family that she never had growing up. But the second surprise provides a complication when Lila learns that her fiance's family has invested in the competitor to her family's...
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