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1) Making waves
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In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for twenty-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old house and beauty shop, she's taken over the business, and her husband Tim, recently crippled in an accident, is beginning to cope not just with his disabilities but also with the loss of his dreams.
Once a promising artist who gave up art for sports, Tim paints a sign for Donnette's shop, Making Waves. The...
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Welcome to Book One in the Blessings, Georgia series of Southern contemporary romance from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Sharon Sala. With the support of her handsome, unassuming friend Mike Dalton, LilyAnn Bronte is finally ready to put the past in the past. It's never too late to find the love you missed. Mike Dalton has secretly loved LilyAnn Bronte since they were all children together in the small town of Blessings, Georgia....
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Gansett Island volume 20
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Finn McCarthy, the youngest of the McCarthy cousins, is at a crossroads. As the lease on his Gansett Island rental comes to an end, he's making plans to return to his real life on the mainland. He's enjoyed the nearly two years on Gansett with his boisterous fun loving family, but it's time to get back to the life he put on hold when he came to the island for his cousin's wedding and never left. With renovations to the Wayfarer, the family's latest...
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This small town has one beauty shop, one bar, one hardware store... and the one man she's been waiting for all her life. Last Chance, South Carolina. As soon as Wanda Jane Coblentz sees the name of the town, she can't help but buy a one-way bus ticket - even if it means she's left with just five dollars in her pocket. Jane's hoping to leave her troubles behind and make a fresh start. But when she's drawn to a man playing fiddle in his worn black Stetson...
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"Presley Cline has put aside dreams of Hollywood stardom and come back to Ellery, Tennessee, to work in a beauty shop. In truth, the dreams in question were more her mother's than her own. Presley may have the face and body of a movie icon, but she lacks the stomach for it. Yet a loving relationship and normal home life seem almost as unattainable as an Oscar. Being able to see and speak to dead people certainly isn't helping. Presley's first job,...
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Set adrift when her mother sells the salon that has been a neighborhood institution for decades, Nora Rolvaag takes a camping trip, intending to do nothing more than roast marshmallows over an open fire and under a starry sky. Two chance encounters, however, will have enormous consequences, and her getaway turns out to be more of a retreat from her daily life than she ever imagined. But Nora is the do-or-die-trying daughter of Patty Jane, who now...
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'Name: Stella Sweeney. Height: average. Recent life events: dramatic.' One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number (for the insurance, it turns out). That's okay. She doesn't really like him much anyway (his Range Rover totally banjaxed her car). But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella...
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"Lana Lee's plate is already plenty full. Running her family's Chinese restaurant in Cleveland's Asia Village is challenging on the best of days. But just when Lana thinks she might be able to catch her breath before the weekend--which she's eager to spend with her equally overworked boyfriend, Detective Adam Trudeau--Lana witnesses a car accident in the parking lot. And now she has no choice but to get involved. June Yi, of Yi's Tea and Bakery,...
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"After a sudden change of plans, a remarkable woman and her loyal group of friends try to figure out what she's going to do with the rest of her life--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How Stella Got Her Groove Back and Waiting to Exhale. Loretha Curry's life is full. A little crowded sometimes, but full indeed. On the eve of her sixty-eighth birthday, she has a booming beauty-supply empire, a gaggle of lifelong friends, and a husband...
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A comedy on two sisters running a beauty parlor in Minneapolis which they turn into a women's support center. One sister is Patty Jane, whose husband skipped town just before she gave birth, the other is Harriet, whose rich boyfriend was killed in a plane crash before they could marry. A first novel.
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Lark is in Last Chance, South Carolina, looking into her father's past and stirring up trouble without meaning to; Ruby Rhodes' son Stone, the chief of police, has his hands full trying to keep up with Lark as well as avoiding the town's matchmakers and their plans for Lark and Stone.
13) Suspicions
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When an abandoned baby girl is left on her doorstep with a mysterious note, Noelle Gordon, the owner of the hottest beauty salon on the south side of Chicago, is filled with uncertainty about her marriage and will stop at nothing to find the truth.
14) The summer house
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Lily Bishop wakes up one morning to find a good-bye note and divorce papers from her husband on the kitchen counter. Having moved to Alabama for his job only weeks before, Lily is devastated, but a flyer at the grocery store for a hair stylist position in a local retirement community provides a refuge while she contemplates her next steps. Rose Carrigan built the small retirement village of Safe Harbor years ago--just before her husband ran off with...
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The world's funniest kindergartner is back with four more silly escapades in one audiobook.
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook
Someone has taken Junie B.'s new black furry mittens! And they kept them! So when Junie B. finds a wonderful pen, she should be allowed to keep it, too. Right?
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
Lucille is having a slumber party at her nanna's big giant house! For Grace and Junie B., sleeping at nanna's...
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook
Someone has taken Junie B.'s new black furry mittens! And they kept them! So when Junie B. finds a wonderful pen, she should be allowed to keep it, too. Right?
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
Lucille is having a slumber party at her nanna's big giant house! For Grace and Junie B., sleeping at nanna's...
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Eleven years ago, LilyAnn Bronte was the Peachy-Keen Queen of Blessings, Georgia the prettiest, smartest, and most popular girl in town, going steady with the star quarterback, a high school career on the fast track to success. Then Randy Joe was killed in Iraq, and somehow LilyAnn just let herself go to seed. Ruby, Mabel Jean, Vera, and Vesta of the Curl Up and Dye have been itching to give LilyAnn a makeover, but she knows it would take more than...
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A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women-two of them haunted by a shared tragedy-whose lives intersect in unexpected and sometimes explosive ways
When Adjoa leaves Ghana to find work in the Ivory Coast, she hopes that one day she'll return home to open a beauty parlor. Her dream comes true, though not before she suffers a devastating loss-one that will haunt her for years, and one that also deeply affects Janice, an...
19) A dyeing shame
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"When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime-- and her neighbors' secrets. But discovering, and blabbing, secrets got Tami killed and Myrtle soon learns her sleuthing isn't just dangerous-- it's deadly."--P. [4] of cover.
20) Leaving Eden
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When Glamour Day, which promises a complete makeover, comes to the Klip-N-Kurl beauty parlor in Eden, Virginia, Tallie Brock sees it as the opportunity to pursue her dreams of Hollywood stardom, unaware of her mother's pursuit of the same goal.
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