Landvik, Lorna
Summary: Reluctantly agreeing to take care of her nephew, Rich, a thirteen-year-old boy with Down syndrome, while his parents take a vacation, actress Geneva Jordan finds her life turned upside down by the youngster.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulverscroft Group Limited 1997
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Summary: With her baby due any day, her husband gone, and suddenly forced to face the world alone, Patty Jane creates her own unique beauty salon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1997
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Summary: Joe was a hockey player and Kristi a cheerleader in high school, now Joe works in the local grocery store. The path Kristi has charged down, on the other hand, is as wild as Joe's is tame--or at least that's how it appears. But who has really risked more? Who has lived more? And who is truly happy? As Joe discovers, sometimes people are lucky enough to be standing in the one place where the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2007
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Summary: Life has dealt the women of Freesia Court many blows, but they have pulled together to face each challenge. As members of the Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons book group, they experience new lives full of laughter and love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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Summary: " A mild-mannered actuary, Fletcher Weschel lives at the crossroads of Bland and Humdrum--or so he thinks until a cosmic contest catapults him into the fantasy world he made up as a boy. Suddenly his childhood bedroom is aswarm with aliens, all bent on discovering the human who best personifies their mission--in this case, the deeply serious pursuit of fun. Ejected from the boring comfort of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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Summary: A film shoot brings romantic intrigue to the woods of Minnesota. Fenny Ness who runs the bait shop is hired to star in the movie, which attracts the attention of Big Bill, a half-Indian musician. Which in turn provokes jealousy in the redhead who runs the local diner. By the author of Your Oasis on Flame Lake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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Summary: Alienating everyone with her public misbehavior and fresh from a stint in rehab, heiress Caroline Dixon is looking to turn her life around, going into seclusion to avoid vicious paparazzi haunting her every move, until a correspondence with her former nanny, Astrid Brevald, and cowboy Cyril Dale teaches her a valuable lesson in truth, forgiveness, love, and redemption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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Summary: "In the small town of Granite Creek, Minnesota, Haze Evans suffers a stroke at the age of 89 and slips into a coma. Haze is a local legend, having written a daily column in the Granite Creek Gazette for fifty years running"-- When Haze Evans first appeared in the small-town newspaper, Granite Creek Gazette, she earned fans by writing a story about her bachelor uncle who brought a Queen of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2019
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Summary: At the dawn of rock'n'roll, a down-and-out woman falls for a budding musician. With a ten-city tour.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Summary: "No one steps up to life's banquet, holds out her tray, and orders, "Grief, please!" Yet as a child, Candy Pekkala was served a heaping helping of it. But every buffet line has a dessert section, and when a cousin calls with a Hollywood apartment to sublet, it seems though Candy is finally offered something sweet. It's good-bye to Minnesota and hello to California, where a girl who has always...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2014
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Summary: "Newly installed at All Souls Lutheran, Mallory "Pastor Pete" Peterson soon realizes that her church isn't merely going through turbulent waters, but is a sinking ship. With the help of five loyal members of the Naomi Circle, the young, bold minister brainstorms fundraising ideas. They all agree that the usual recipe book won't add much to the parish coffers, but maybe one with all the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2022
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Summary: In a novel set during the early days of rock 'n' roll, Violet Mathers, a down-and-out woman, becomes embroiled with a handsome musical pioneer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2017