Kristin Hannah
1) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively...
2) Home front
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"From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harm's way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens,...
3) Fly away
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A follow-up to "Firefly Lane" returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tully's mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives.
4) Firefly Lane
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Kate Mularkey is thrilled when Tully Hart moves in across the street, and the two form an immediate friendship that remains strong through the next thirty years, until one act of betrayal threatens to destroy both their lives and the friendship that has seen them through life's highs and lows.
5) Magic hour
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c2006
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Dr. Julia Cates child psychiatrists whose career was ruined and confidence shattered is called back to her hometown by her sister Ellie, a police chief, when a six year old girl emerges from the heart of the Olympic National Forest. The child is locked in a world of unimaginable fear and isolation. The media descend on Julia and once again her competence is challenged, but nothing is more important to her than saving the child.
6) True colors
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2009
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In a small Washington town, the Grey sisters once-solid world is broken apart by jealousy, passion, and betrayal until one of their family is arrested and tried for murder.
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c2005
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Recently divorced high school librarian Joy Faith Candellaro, facing Christmas alone after being betrayed by her husband and sister, decides to flee California in search of a holiday adventure, but a plane crash and fate place her in the path of widower Daniel O'Shea and his young son, and set the stage for a bit of Christmas magic.
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2001
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When Nora Bridge left her husband and her two daughters 10 years ago, she took the only route she could see, and assumed she still had her daughters' love. Now, though she is distant from her own daughters, Nora is the hostess of a radio advice show, where she advises listeners that "family comes first." When a scandal breaks and Nora hits rock bottom, she finds she has to rely on the two people she has betrayed most deeply: her daughters, Ruby and...
10) Between sisters
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2003
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383 p. ; 25 cm.
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Half-sisters Meghann Dontess, a high-powered lawyer, and Claire Cavenaugh, a single mother who helps run a campground, meet again years after being abandoned by their mother when Claire announces her intention to marry thrice-divorced country crooner Bobby Austin, but the sisters learn they may have waited too long for a reunion when Claire is diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor.
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Die einmalige Kraft einer Frauenfreundschaft.
Im Sommer 1974, zum Sound von Fleetwood Mac und Abba, lernt die Außenseiterin Kate die schöne, aufregende Tully kennen, die alles zu haben scheint, was ihr fehlt. Aus den sehr unterschiedlichen Mädchen werden Freundinnen, die weder Tullys Karrierestreben noch Kates Entscheidung für Kinder und Familie trennen kann. Jahrelang umschiffen Tully und Kate die Klippen jeder engen Freundschaft - Eifersucht,...
12) Die vier Winde
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"Von einer meisterhaften Erzählerin der Roman zur Zeit." Delia Owens
Texas, 1934: Seit der Weltwirtschaftskrise sind Hunderttausende arbeitslos, und in den Ebenen der Prärie herrscht Dürre - zu viel wurde gerodet, nach Missernten droht das Land von Sandstürmen davongetragen zu werden. In dieser unsicheren, gefahrvollen Zeit muss Elsa Martinelli eine schwere Entscheidung treffen: Soll sie um das Land kämpfen, das sie liebt und das die Heimat...
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Ich bin hier und werde niemals aufhören, auf Dich zu warten.
1974: Als Lenora Allbright mit ihren Eltern nach Alaska zieht, ist die Familie voller Hoffnung, das Trauma des Krieges, das der Vater in Vietnam davongetragen hat, hinter sich zu lassen. In Matthew, dem Sohn der Nachbarn, findet Leni einen engen Freund, und aus ihrer Vertrautheit entwickelt sich bald eine junge Liebe. Doch auf die Schönheit des Sommers in Alaska folgt unweigerlich die...
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America has spoken, and now it is time our hearts collectively listen. From the riots in Baltimore and the majority of Americans living below the poverty line, it is time we concern ourselves with America's future. This book is a collection of citizens across America who are tired of the problems politicians in Washington keep ignoring. It is time we stand up against police brutality, domestic violence, and deplorable living conditions of those working...
16) Night road
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2011
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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385 p. ; [558 p. Large print] ; 25 cm.
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After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
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2014
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9 Compact discs (approximately 10 hrs.) : digital stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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Summer Island: "Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mother, a nationally-syndicated 'moral and spiritual counselor' as the main fodder for her cynical, rather bitter humor. Her mother Nora, long divorced from Ruby's father, is a woman whose past is just about to catch up with her -- in the form of blackmail by a former lover. After an accident (an attempted suicide?) Ruby returns to care for her stricken...