Keltner, Kim Wong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Trade 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KELZentner, Alexi.
Summary: A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZENJio, Sarah.
Summary: "In the summer of 1942, twenty-one-year-old Anne Calloway, newly engaged, sets off to serve in the Army Nurse Corps on the Pacific island of Bora-Bora. More exhilarated by the adventure of a lifetime than she ever was by her predictable fianc,̌ she is drawn to a mysterious soldier named Westry, and their friendship soon blossoms into hues as deep as the hibiscus flowers native to the island....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2012
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Summary: Two women are connected across time by the city of Paris, a mysterious stack of love letters, and shocking secrets, sweeping from World War II to the present--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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Summary: "Set amidst the Seattle music scene of the 90s as well as the present day, Always parallels the past and present in a unique love story about a woman who discovers what she's willing to save and what she will sacrifice"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Blackberry Winter and The Violets of March comes a gripping, poignant novel about the kind of love that never lets go, and the heart's capacity to remember. While enjoying a romantic candlelit dinner with her fiance, Ryan, at one of Seattle's chicest restaurants, Kailey Crane can't believe her good fortune: She has a great job as a writer for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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Summary: "Born during a Christmas blizzard, Jane Williams receives a rare gift: the ability to see true love. Jane has emerged from an ailing childhood a lonely, hopeless romantic when, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives from the midwife who delivered her, specifying that Jane must identify the six types of love before the full moon following her thirtieth birthday, or face...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION JIOLim, Roselle
Summary: "Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes - or misfortunes - in tea leaves. Ever since she can remember, Vanessa has been able to see people's fortunes at the bottoms of their teacups. To avoid blurting out fortunes, she converts to coffee, but somehow the fortunes escape and find a way to complicate her life and the lives of those around her. To add to this plight, her romantic life is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2020
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMLim, Dominic
Summary: "Quito Cruz might be a composing and piano genius, but he's a few notes short of success. Broadway, here I don't come. But Quito knows what the problem is. Or rather who. Because ever since that night in college-with pretty-boy jock Emmett Aoki--his inspiration has been completely MIA ... Now Quito's beloved dad wants him to put on a charity performance in his hometown. And there's one hella...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIMCollins, Jim
Summary: Peter Russell is a deeply romantic guy who believes the woman of his dreams is destined to sit next to him on an airplane. Holly is a pretty, strawberry blonde woman who reads Thomas Mann for pleasure. As Pete sits next to her, he falls deeply in love, and asks for her telephone number. Later that night in his hotel room, he discovers that the page from her book that contained her telephone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown, and Co. 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLFergus, Jim.
Summary: Heading west to join the search for the kidnapped son of a wealthy Mexican landowner, Ned Giles meets a troubled Apache girl, imprisoned in a Mexican jail, whose fate forces him to make a choice that will change his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2005
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Summary: Drifting through life on his good looks and his wife's money, apathetic Chicago attorney Sam finds his world shattered by a violent incident and journeys to the side of a television personality nun in the hope of acquiring forgiveness and spiritual peace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KOKSummary: Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWEELaw, Kim
Summary: Sassy tomboy Ginger Atkinson would rather be captaining a deep-sea fishing boat than baking pies, yet she still wishes she had a man to bake for. Sure, the pretty redhead is happy running her late father’s Turtle Island ferry business, but everyone in the world is finding love except her. Stuck on the wrong side of thirty, she’s trying to accept singlehood by building a dream home—for one. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC LAWRobb, J.D.
Summary: The secrets of desire are unlocked in this collection of paranormal passion and suspense that features a never-before-published Eve Dallas novella by J. D. Robb, as well as other works by Mary Blayney, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Mary Kay McComas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ROBFarrington, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FARWinton, Tim.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINBoykin, Kim
Summary: April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has cherished her time studying to be a music teacher at Columbia College in South Carolina, but as graduation approaches, she can’t wait to return to her family — and her childhood sweetheart, Brooks — in Alabama. But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter from her mama telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her own sister. Devastated,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOYIzzo, Kim
Summary: After her family's home is sold, a Jane Austen devotee decides to find out if she can, indeed, marry for money when she is forced to choose between Mr. Rich and Mr. Right. Set in Scotland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC IZZKim, Juhea
Summary: "An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIMWright, Kim
Summary: "Kelly Wilder becomes recently widowed from a much older wealthy man with whom she spent her married life doing charity work, building a lovely home, and, as she says, "pretending to be a whole lot more conservative and stupid and nicer than I really am." Now, with too much time and money on her hands, Kelly has absolutely no idea what happens next. So on a whim she signs up for a ballroom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WRIMcNeil, Gil
Summary: Jo Mackenzie had succeeded in rehabbing her Gran's wool shop in Broadgate, a lovely seaside town in England. Her Stitch and Bitch class is popular; her two young boys, Archie and Jack, have settled in; and her Gran's getting married. But Jo's liaison with Daniel Fitzgerald, a globe-trotting photographer, has ended, leaving Jo to sort out what's next. Big changes and a bevy of stressful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction McNSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: A new schoolteacher has a small 1880s Nebraska town up in arms over her newfangled teaching methods in this charming prairie romance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION SAWSawyer, Kim Vogel.
Summary: Struggling to keep the Brambleville Asylum for the Poor running, Christina Willems turns to reclusive mill owner Levi Jonnson to take in a young blind boy named Tommy Kilgore. When an old adversary challenges Christina, will she find an unlikely ally --or more-- in the aloof Levi? Can Levi reconcile with the rejection that led to his hermit-like existence and open his heart and life to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013