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Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebrate, she bakes a cake. Ruth sees it as an outward manifestation of an inner need to nurture her family—which is a good thing, because all of a sudden that family is rapidly expanding. First, her...
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Once an aspiring writer, Olga traded literary ambition for marriage and motherhood; when Mario dumps her after 15 years, she is utterly unprepared. Though she tells herself that she is a competent woman, nothing like the poverella (poor abandoned wife) that mothers whispered about in her childhood, Olga falls completely apart. Routine chores overwhelm her; she neglects her appearance and forgets her manners; she throws herself at the older musician...
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"Peeling apples for tartes tatin, an Ohio mother wonders how to exist in a world of distraction and fake facts, besieged by a tweet-happy president and trigger-happy neighbors, all of them oblivious to what Dupont has dumped into the rivers and what's happening at the factory farm down the interstate--not to mention what was done to the land's first inhabitants. A torrent of consciousness, narrated in a single sentence by a woman whose wandering thoughts...
4) Cruel intent
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When her contractor's unfaithful wife is brutally murdered, former TV anchorwoman Ali Reynolds sets out to prove the husband's innocence in spite of skepticism on the part of Ali's detective boyfriend, a situation that strains their relationship and catches the attention of the real killer.
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On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien...
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Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 7
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c1995
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292 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
9) Stay close
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English
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A bored suburban wife, a documentary photographer-turned-paparazzo, and a detective who cannot let go of a cold case hide secrets from their loved ones only to have the past return in dangerous ways.
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Mommy-track mysteries volume 5
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
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1st ed.
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312 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Mommy-track mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
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1st ed.
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314 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Special circumstances volume 1
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Baen
Pub. Date
c2006
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323 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
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1st U.S. ed.
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339 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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What happens when your not-so-secret celebrity crush walks right into real life and changes everything? Mormon housewife Becky Jack--seven months pregnant with her fourth child--is about to find out when she meets celebrity hearththrob Felix Callahan.
17) The big nap
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Mommy-track mysteries volume 2
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Berkeley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2001
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227 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Wednesday novels volume 1
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2008
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Center Point large print ed.
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375 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
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First edition.
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371 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
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English
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"In the early 1900s, housewife Hulda Klager reads a book that changes her life forever, leading her to develop over 200 new varieties of lilacs that she gives away or sells to individuals as a way of sharing beauty. Her commitment to creation--struggling against flooding rivers and the vagaries of hybrid plants--while living through family losses and challenges is a story of perseverance and generosity that culminates when, in a time of great need,...
20) Flying at night
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
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First edition.
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viii, 325 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An emotionally charged novel about family -- the slow accumulation of wrongs that drive us apart and the unlikely paths that lead us home again. Piper Hart has poured all her energy into raising her son, Fred, while her often-absent husband, Isaac, has poured all his energy into a career defending the wrongly accused. She's always told herself her son is perfectly normal, but somewhere deep inside her rests a tiny suspicion that all is not well. Her...
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