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1) Redwood Bend
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Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Katie Malone and her twin boys' trip along the beautiful mountain roads to Virgin River is stopped short by a tire as flat as her failed romance. As she stands by the side of the road pondering her next move, Katie hears a distinct rumble. The sight of the sexy, leather-clad bikers who pull up beside her puts her imagination into overdrive. Original.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Single mom Lynn Morrow is determined to put food on the table for her son and daughter. Her soon-to-be-ex-husband has failed to meet his obligations time and again - but it turns out that Ed is struggling with his own demons. Enter contractor Mitch Franklin, an unlikely knight in shining armor. A widower with two grieving sons, Mitch once admired Lynn from afar. Now he sees in her not only the sweet girl who got away, but a woman desperately in need...
3) The newcomer
Author
Language
English
Description
Single dad and Thunder Point's deputy sheriff Mac McCain has worked hard to keep everyone safe and happy. Now he has found his own happiness with Gina James. The longtime friends have always shared the challenges and rewards of raising their adolescent daughters. With an unexpected romance growing between them, they are feeling like teenagers themselves; suddenly they cannot get enough of one another. And just when things are really taking off, their...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Description
Josie and her husband have split up, she's been sued by a former patient and lost her dental practice, and she's grieving the death of a young man senselessly killed. When her ex asks to take the children to meet his new fianc�ee's family, Josie makes a run for it, figuring Alaska is about as far as she can get without a passport. Josie and her kids, Paul and Ana, rent a rattling old RV named the Chateau, and at first their trip feels like a vacation:...
5) The Hero
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In a moment of desperation, Devon McAllister takes her daughter and flees a place where they should have been safe and secure. Her plan is to escape to somewhere she can be invisible. Instead, an offer of assistance leads her to Thunder Point, an Oregon town with a willingness to help someone in need. As the widowed father of a vulnerable young boy, Spencer Lawson knows something about needing friendship. But he's not looking for anything else. Instead,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kimberly Welch lost her husband to a heart attack in the blink of an eye, but she's losing her daughter slowly, in the day-to-day tension. Chet Leonard lost his teenage son in a car accident, then his wife abandoned him and their two remaining boys. Sometimes you just have to let the memories hurt, and leave well enough alone. But when Chet volunteers to help tame Kimberly's daughter's horse, everyone gets more than they bargained for.
When 84-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
When he is hired by a Scotsman in Heartbreak Creek to purchase thoroughbreds, Rayford Jessup, who has a way with damaged horses, travels to England where his life is forever changed by a traumatized horse and a beautiful Englishwoman.
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Language
English
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Description
"From star-crossed matches to unexpected love triangles, summer on Nantucket always holds the promise of romance in this sensational novel from New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer. Lisa Hudson feels more alive than she has in a long time after hiring hunky carpenter Mack Whitney to renovate her old Nantucket home. There's no denying the spark growing between them--despite the fact that Mack is ten years her junior. But her twentysomething...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Widower James Claussen, widow Olivia Wallace, and single mom Missy Monroe and their families spend Christmas at the lodge in Icicle Falls, Washington, where not everything goes as planned and some receive the most unexpected gifts of all.
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Series
Zimmerman restoration trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Waterbrook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It wasn't easy to move back to the Old Order Mennonite community from which quiet, responsible Suzanne Zimmerman was shamefully sent away as a pregnant teen. Returning twenty years later to take care of her mother, Suzanne and Alexa -- the daughter she raised as her own -- have spent months rebuilding relationships with her family. Now with the upcoming wedding of their biological daughter, Suzanne and Paul find themselves drawn to one another once...
11) Yours and mine
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Enjoy again this classic heartwarming romance by one of the genre's most popular authors, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber.
Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter alone. But the girls...
12) The unseen world
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"The moving story of a daughter's quest to discover the truth about her beloved father's hidden past. Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science lab in 1980s-era Boston. Home-schooled, Ada accompanies David to work every day; by twelve, she is a painfully shy prodigy. The lab begins to gain acclaim at the same time that David's mysterious history comes into question. When...
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
With her close-knit Amish community and Widows' Club of Paradise Valley rallying behind her, Joy Lehman, raising her children, including her wheelchair-bound son, and running a thriving bakery alone, gets an unexpected second chance at love when her widowed brother-in-law steps in to help.
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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"Former Navy SEAL Peter "Grunge" Greene's lonely but comfortable life is upended when his longtime ex-girlfriend unexpectedly dies in a car crash, leaving him sole custody of their 15-year-old daughter, Maddie. They move to San Diego to start a new life together, but Maddie quickly falls in with the wrong crowd and soon goes completely AWOL. New to town with no one to turn to, Peter is frantic to track down his daughter and accepts help from his beautiful...
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 52
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
©2004
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
16) Getting lucky
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
"After being the center of nasty gossip in her last hometown, all Julie Donovan wants in Saint Jo, Texas, is a quiet, uneventful life for her and her daughter. Devoted single dad Griffin Luckadeau will do anything to protect his own. When he thinks Julie is scheming to steal his ranch out from under him to benefit her own daughter, sparks really begin to fly. Julie and Griffin can't seem to cross paths without a scuffle. But when the dust settles,...
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English
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Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage. Then everything changes. Will the possibility of...
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Series
Amish marketplace volume 4
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
"In the final installment of Amy Clipston's bestselling Amish Marketplace series, a young widow struggling to raise her son dreams of one more chance at love. Since her husband died seven years ago, Leanna Wengerd has done her best--tending to her son, Chester, and running her Jam and Jelly Nook at the Amish market. Though she enjoys seeing her cousins and customers at the marketplace, she wishes she could find more time for her rebellious teenage...
19) Blended
Publisher
Warner Brothers Pictures
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week.
20) One perfect lie
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...