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1) The choice
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"Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life-- boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies-- he holds the vague conviction that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is, until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite his attempts to be neighborly, the appealing redhead seems...
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"Allison believes Godmade her a promise. So why didn't her life turn out the way she expected? Allison did everything she could do to rescue her marriage, but her husband left anyway. Their marriage is over. She retreats to the mountain home she inherited from her great-aunt Emma, a woman she thought she'd known well. But the trunks she discovers in the attic hold keepsakes, photographs, and journalsthat reveal secrets;and the stories of a kindred...
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On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until-- at their father's behest-- they both come home for Christmas. What...
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A plethora of subplots unnecessarily complicates a convincing romance in this standalone contemporary romantic thriller from bestseller Krentz (When All the Girls Have Gone). After the mysterious death of eccentric artist and cult survivor Hannah Brewster, art gallery owner Virginia Troy-a fellow survivor who believes Hannah was trying to warn and protect her-tracks down private investigator Cabot Sutter. As children, Virginia and Cabot survived a...
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We've never been more educated and entertained. We have technological tools our parents could only dream of, and we are saturated with information, amusement, and recreation. Yet more than ever, we are starving for hope. School shootings are all too familiar. Depression is on the rise. And more people than ever are orchestrating their own deaths. In America alone, the suicide rate has increased 24 percent in fewer than twenty years. If a disease saw...
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2023.
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"A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love. Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she didn't expect that would mean traveling to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack....
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"Nina and Marie were best friends-- until Nina was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Before she died, Nina asked Marie to fulfill her final wishes. But her mistake was in thinking Marie was someone she could trust. What Nina didn't know was that Marie always wanted her beautiful life, and that Marie has an agenda of her own. She'll do anything to get what she wants. Marie thinks she can keep her promise to her friend's family on her own terms. But...
10) The covenant
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McCain chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
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295 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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English
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"It was a time of uncertainty in the infancy of the growing nation. The Wild West was open and beckoning to displaced men and families, and many chose to travel to the unsettled frontier, dreaming of new homes, land, and even riches. But few reckoned on those that had lived in those lands for centuries, the native peoples: Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, and more. Elijah McCain, fresh from the Union army -- where he had attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel...
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[2010]
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1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.
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[2006]
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32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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"After a long winter's hibernation, Bruno the marmot wakes up to discover the most beautiful dandelion outside his burrow. The two quickly become friends and they play together all spring long. But when summer comes, the dandelion asks Bruno to help her, and to trust her that everything will be fine. So as she asks, he blows her seeds away into the wind only to find that he's left without a friend anymore. He's sad at the loss of his dandelion, but...
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Ten tiny breaths volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
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312 pages ; 21 cm
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English
15) Promise
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Hallmark hall of fame volume LXV
Pub. Date
[2009]
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1 videodisc (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Bob, a feckless bachelor, promised his mother that at her death he would care for his schizophrenic younger brother D.J. but he becomes apprehensive when the time comes. Facing up to his responsibility, Bob tries his best, but his set ways and D.J.'s erratic behavior mix like oil and water. Giving his promise one last shot, Bob takes D.J. on a fishing trip to the secluded lake where they vacationed as children. Here, the rush of memories transforms...
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[2009]
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1 videodisc (approximately 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Honesty may be the best policy, but when Franklin decides to bake a batch of unpalatable cookies for his friends, he learns how feelings can be hurt if the truth isn't handled with care.
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"Widow Minerva Jenkins has lived alone in her small mountain home for 40 years where she has guarded her husband's deathbed request. When a young reporter comes calling and inquires about a rumored box of gold on her property, an unlikely friendship forms. Will she go to her grave with her husband's secret, or will the weight of it be the death of her?"--
""When Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, she married a man who moved her to the mountains....
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2008.
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1 videodisc (approximately 53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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While on the set filming, Bob the Tomato decides to respond to a fan's letter about 'waiting.' Meanwhile, everyone's patience is tested by spitting camels, a confused nurse, and a distracted film crew. Children learn that God always keeps His promises, even if they have to wait a while.
20) The promise
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2014.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
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English
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On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But the frail old woman, holding on with the strength of heroes, says the thief can't have it without giving something in return: the promise. It is the beginning of a journey that will change the thieving girl's life--and a chance to change the world, for good.
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