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1) Rememory
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
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Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his window's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation on memories that lead him to unexpected and dangers places....
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"A gripping and atmospheric debut that is at once a chilling gothic mystery and a love letter to Victorian fiction. It's 1852 and Margaret Lennox, a young widow, attempts to escape the shadows of her past by taking a position as governess to an only child at an isolated country house in West Country, England. Isolated from the village, Margaret soon starts to feel that something isn't quite right. There are strange figures in the dark, tensions between...
3) Night moves
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English
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Available digitally for the first time
Was she foolish or wise to follow her instincts?
The house had stood vacant for ten years, but Maggie Fitzgerald knew she could call it home. An award-winning songwriter, Maggie had sought peace and solitude from the Los Angeles celebrity hounds after her husband's accidental death. Instinct had brought her east, to the small Maryland town of Morganville.
Instinct
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666. An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between...
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Widow rules volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In desperate need of a husband, young widow Constance Lysander, about to give birth to her late husband's child, offers the Earl of Sykeston, a war hero--and her childhood best friend--a marriage of convenience that becomes so much more.
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Island sisters volume 1
Language
English
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"Death at High Tide is the first installment in the delightful Island Sisters series of cozy mysteries by Hannah Dennison, featuring two sisters who inherit an old hotel in the remote Isles of Scilly off the coast of Cornwall and find it full of intrigue, danger, and romance. When Evie Mead's husband, Robert, suddenly drops dead of a heart attack, a mysterious note is found among his possessions. It indicates that Evie may own the rights to an old...
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English
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"Kate Potter used to love Christmas. A few years ago, she would have been wrapping her presents in September and baking mince pies on Halloween, counting down the days and hours to Christmas. But that was before Kate's husband left for the army and never came home. Now she can hardly stand December at all. Kate can't deny she's lonely, yet she doesn't think she's ready for romance. She knows that her son, Jack, needs a Christmas to remember--just...
10) The duke
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Victorian rebels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Imogen Pritchard is thrown back together with Cole Talmage, the Duke of Trenwyth, who seduced her years earlier when she was a maid in a brothel, first as his nurse and later as his neighbor after she becomes a wealthy widow.
11) Bonita Faye
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English
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"It woulda been easier for Bonita Faye Burnett to stay barefoot and ignorant in the blurred border between Arkansas and Oklahoma. But, no, she had to go out and take life in her own hands."--Page 2 of cover
12) Letting go
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Surrender trilogy (Maya Banks) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In her sensational Breathless Trilogy, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maya Banks tested the boundaries of desire. In her new trilogy, there's only one thing left to do: cross them. And never have the consequences of erotic exploration been so irresistibly inviting, so shockingly intimate, and so totally unexpected; Josslyn found perfection once, and she knows she'll never find it again. Now widowed, she seeks the one thing her beloved husband...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only...
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Bad boys of Crystal Lake volume 2
Language
English
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"In the small town of Crystal Lake, Christmas is a time for sledding, hot chocolate, and cozying up to the fire with those you love. For Jake Edwards, it's also a time to come home and face the music. He thought there would never be anything harder than losing his brother. Turns out there is: falling in love with his brother's widow, Raine."--Page 4 of cover.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For children's book author Imogen, an idyllic life in the English countryside seems like the perfect fit for her and her husband. But when tragedy strikes, Imogen is left widowed, and finds herself moving into Storybook Cottage alone with only her monstrously narcissistic cat for company. After discovering she is pregnant, Imogen grows determined to embrace a new start in Middlemass, with its duckpond, cricket matches and village fêtes. The only...
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English
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For nearly twenty years, unassuming and overweight Lillian has done anything to please her husband, a self-made billionaire, and in return she has received a life beyond her wildest dreams. But when James dies suddenly in a plane crash, Lillian's pampered life comes to an abrupt halt, since he bequeathed all his riches to his siblings, except for an old farmhouse in Virginia. Lillian's unexpected circumstances quickly transform her, and with the help...
17) Weeds season 1
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Language
English
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When Nancy Botwin faces both sudden widowhood and poverty, she's determined to do anything to keep her kids in suburbia, including taking a job as the neighborhood pot dealer!
"'Weeds' is well written and engrossing, and has a slick balance of satire and soap opera."--New York Times
"...'Weeds' packs a merrily subversive comic energy."--Detroit Free Press
"The most talked-about comedy in ages. "--Newsweek.com
"...highly addictive..."--TV Guide
"...Sharp...
18) Manhattan night
Publisher
Grindstone
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Reporter Porter Wren meets attractive widow Caroline and she asks him to solve the bizarre death of her filmmaker husband, Wren is unable to refuse, or resist her. But when a rich mogul blackmails him into investigating Caroline, the reporter realizes this job could cost him everything.
19) A woman's heart
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Irish Castlelough trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ireland--a land of unbridled spirit, ancient legends, whitewashed cottages and storybook castles. A place where anything can happen and there are no strangers---until now.
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English
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"From the author of the international bestseller The Sweetness of Forgetting, named one of the Best Books of Summer 2012 by Marie Claire magazine, comes a captivating novel about the struggle to overcome the past when our memories refuse to be forgotten. In this richly told story where Sliding Doors meets P.S. I Love You, Kristin Harmel weaves a heart-wrenching tale that asks: what does it take to move forward in life without forgetting the past?...