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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Sometimes a yacht, a bold bucket list, and a kiss with a handsome stranger are all a person needs to dive into the deep end of life. For the last year, yacht stewardess Jo Walker has attempted to complete a bucket list of 30 things she wants to accomplish by her birthday. Jo has almost everything she's ever wanted, including a condo on the beach (though she's the youngest resident by thirty years), and an exciting job (below deck) that lets her travel...
82) Finding Glory
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Gina Townsend is trying to be a mother to her six-year-old niece, Amanda Jane, but the girl's biological father isn't helping matters. Reed Hollingsworth has returned to Glory, no longer the scruffy, gangly boy Gina remembers, but a sexy and successful man. Reed feels betrayed that neither Townsend sister bothered to tell him he was a father until he had money, but he's not about to shirk his responsibilities. So when he demands Gina move in with...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Tired of being average, sixteen-year-old Annie auditions for a television show while visiting her great-aunt in New York City and soon finds her life turned upside-down, as the amazing benefits of fame are overcome by temptations and the ever-present paparazzi.
84) Steadfast mercy
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Posen, Michigan. After the tragic death of her parents, Jonica Muller must return to the Amish community she left in shame. Tasked with settling her father's estate, she plans to keep her visit as brief as possible so she can return to start a life with Ephraim, a widower who has offered her and her five-year-old son the stability of a family. But her father's sister, Aenti Edna, is showing signs of a slipping mind. Caleb is a young farmer working...
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Language
English
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Description
Meet Josefina Montoya, a nine-year-old girl growing up in New Mexico in 1824. Josefina and her sisters have been struggling ever since MamA died a year ago. When MamA's sister, TIa Dolores, comes to live on their rancho, the girls are overjoyed. But TIa Dolores has lots of new ideas! She starts a family weaving business. And she teaches the girls to read, something MamA never learned to do. Josefina worries that all of TIa Dolores's changes will make...
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Come home to Safe Haven, South Carolina, where the best Christmas surprises aren't the ones under the tree. Holly Gibson has one wish this Christmas season: to find her young niece's father. And she's traveled hundreds of miles to the small town of Safe Haven to make that wish come true. But the mysterious Cash O'Dwyer is nothing like she expected. Strong and kind, he makes her heart beat faster. And suddenly that little secret she's keeping about...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The art of Auntieology and Uncleology is a sacred craft, but ten-year-old Leo has an Uncle Mo--a clueless stationery supply salesman with good intentions--who just doesn't get it. Yet. The Secret Society of Aunts & Uncles is a madcap, magical adventure into the heart of what it means to have an aunt or uncle--how we learn to keep each other close and how we find love in the simplest things"--
89) Night letter
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After spending six years in a juvenile detention center, eighteen-year-old Travis Hollister returns to his grandparents' hometown of Panama City, Florida, searching for his aunt Delia, with whom he has a passionate obsession."--
90) Logic
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In her second novel, Vernon returns to the Deep South to conjure up a chilling allegory about the dangers of silence, a girl lost in shame and fear, and a family and community too scarred by their own wounds to save her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books, A Thomas Dunne Book
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Thwarting her sister-in-law's efforts to marry her off to a decidedly unwanted suitor, the sharp-witted Miss Dido Kent is sent to live with a wealthy hypochondriac aunt and investigates the disappearance of a visiting heiress.
93) Ivory apples
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
" Ivy--and her sisters, Beatriz, Semiramis, and Amaranth--have a secret. Their Great-aunt Maeve is actually Adela Madden, author of the fantasy classic, Ivory Apples. Generations of obsessive fans have searched for Adela, but the mysterious creator of Pommerie Town is now a recluse in rural Oregon. Shy and bookish, Ivy is the first in her family to discover the even deeper secret that her Great-Aunt protects. Magic is real--and despite what a charismatic...
94) Threadneedle
Author
Publisher
HarperVoyager
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Anna's Aunt has always warned her of the dangers of magic. Its twists. Its knots. Its deadly consequences. Now Anna counts down the days to the ceremony that will bind her magic forever. Until she meets Effie and Attis. They open her eyes to a London she never knew existed. A shop that sells memories. A secret library where the librarian feeds off words. A club where revelers lose themselves in a haze of spells. But as she is swept deeper into this...
95) Frankie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Frankie Vega is angry. Just ask the guy whose nose she broke. Or the cop investigating the burglary she witnessed, or her cheating ex-boyfriend, or her aunt who's tired of giving second chances. When a kid shows up claiming to be Frankie's half brother, it opens the door to a past she doesn't want to remember. And when that kid goes missing, the only person willing to help is a boy with stupidly blue eyes, a criminal record, and secrets of his own....
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The second in the delightful Dear Miss Hermione mystery series from Anastasia Hastings--when you represent the best-loved Agony Aunt in Britain, fielding questions from both irate housekeepers and heartbroken mothers is par for the course... "Dear Miss Hermione--what is a mother to do?" Sensible Violet Manville and her very ladylike half-sister Sephora are absolutely bored, thank you very much. And though neither of them would ever admit it aloud,...
Author
Series
Heartsong presents ; 1121
Publisher
Love Inspired Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Ansley Potter just found out she's an aunt ...of three endearing orphaned children. Only Seth Dobson isn't planning to relinquish custody of his nephew and nieces. But Ansley didn't come all the way to Prairie Chicken, Kansas, to give up without a fight. She's determined to be part of the children's lives, even with the handsome farmer opposing her at every turn. As the children's paternal uncle, Seth is happy to do his Christian duty. Just when...
99) The eye of love
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1957]
Language
English
Description
Martha, our heroine, made her first appearance in The Eye of Love. She was a young orphan taken in by her spinster aunt Dolores. The main story belonged to Dolores, but Martha played an important role as her artistic talent was spotted and her inclination to plough her own course became clear. --fleurfisher.wordpress.com.
Author
Publisher
Morgan James Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"With the unexpected news of her pregnancy, Molly's husband persuades her to leave her job in a bustling DC restaurant and move to the old-fashioned, run down house in small-town Pennsylvania that had belonged to his Aunt Tish. On the day they arrived, she already felt trapped in a life she didn't want. A century earlier, the same house was home to the adventurous Tish, who yearns to leave the family delicatessen behind to travel west and paint mountain...
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