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#1 New York Times best-selling author Susan Wiggs continues her remarkable Lakeshore Chronicles series with the long-awaited story of a woman at the crossroads of love....

Every week for twenty years, three friends meet in a leafy enclosure under the Verrazzano Bridge: Gertie, a feisty Norwegian divorcée and former athlete; Maria, a family-obsessed Italian American widow; and Corinna, a book-loving, hash-smoking eccentric. Together they sit and watch the sea as the ships - and the last years of their lives - sail by. On the eve of Gertie’s eightieth birthday, they realize that time is running out. Gertie decides she wants to travel the world. Maria secretly plots to reunite Gertie and Corinna with their estranged families. And Corinna falls in love.

Living in the small town of Heavenly, Pennsylvania, Claire Weatherly has come to admire the Amish for their wholesome, honest way of life. But she also knows that nothing is as simple as it seems - especially when murder disturbs the peace.

The quiet town of Heavenly is buzzing with excitement over the latest guests at the local inn, Sleep Heavenly. Toy manufacturer Rob Karble is in town to meet the members of the Amish community who will soon be crafting a new toy line for his company. But when word gets out that Karble intends to use the Amish designs without employing the Amish to make them, someone sends the interloper to his final reward.

Claire Weatherly has fled a high-stress lifestyle for a slower pace - in Amish country: Heavenly, Pennsylvania. She only planned a short visit but instead found herself opening an Amish specialty shop, Heavenly Treasures, and settling in. Claire loves her new home, and she’s slowly making friends among the locals, including Esther, a young Amish woman who works in the shop. So when the store’s former owner, the unlikable Walter Snow, is murdered, and the man Esther is sweet on becomes a suspect, Claire can’t help but get involved.

Judith Scott was born with Down syndrome. She was deaf, and never learned to speak. She was also a talented artist. Judith was institutionalized until her sister Joyce reunited with her and enrolled her in an art class. Judith went on to become an artist of renown with her work displayed in museums and galleries around the world. Poignantly told by Joyce Scott with Brie Spangler, Unbound is inspiring and warm, showing us that we can soar beyond our perceived limitations and accomplish something extraordinary.

Hope Beiler needs Aaron Kanagy’s help. She is determined to give her sister a beautiful new bed frame as a wedding present, and Aaron is the best carpenter in Charity Creek. Unfortunately, she can’t move past something he said last year...and there’s unexplained animosity between their fathers that makes interacting difficult. Aaron wishes he could spend more time honing his woodworking craft, but his parents need help running their gift shop. When Hope approaches him with a solution that will allow them both to achieve their goals, he accepts.

One woman's memory of miscarriage, heartbreak, and abusive leadership in the work-place. In Can a Girl Catch a Break? Nadean Barton take you step by step in her life and the journey of what she endured growing up, in her relationships, and at work. You will learn that you can also be vulnerable in any given situation. Her motivation to write this audiobook came about after suffering a horrific miscarriage and in the midst of it where her boyfriend left her to miscarry.

Have you ever experienced unconditional love? The kind that doesn’t only happen in fairy tales but has been around you - between old couples that you know, between someone and their pets, or between friends that are so into one another, nothing can separate them? Love comes in various forms. And for virtually everyone, their first experience of love is the one they get from their cradle bed. Parents, arguably, are wired to shower love on their children.

Have you ever felt hopeless after a loss? Are you looking for some encouragement? #IMUST, a book written by two time author Chidi Wosu, a Ted X Alum, as well as executive coach for several Fortune 500 companies, gives her take on how to manage grief. In this book the juxtaposition of the Bible to real life metaphors gives it's readers easy to grasp spiritual encouragement. This book will help you navigate the different stages of grief with God instead of on your own. With God, you MUST get through this!

Sloane would rather curl up with a John Hughes movie than walk the halls of Grover High. However, all of that is about to change because on the first day of school she runs into none other than Mr. Sixteen Candles himself, Jake Ryan. Okay, he's not really Jake Ryan, but Gabe has the khakis, sports car, and trademark charm to fit the role. Sloane hopes to pull a Molly Ringwald and win him over with her quirky sense of humor and even quirkier fashion sense, but what she doesn't know is that she and her seemingly untouchable celebrity crush have a lot more in common than they think.

Three years ago, Anne Bennet broke it off with her summer love. At the time, her roommate's advice to drop the dead weight and start boarding school without a boyfriend seemed like a good idea. But now, Christopher is attending Shelfbrooke Academy, and Anne isn't so sure she made the right choice. The more time she spends around Christopher, the clearer it becomes that the two belong together. Too bad Christopher wants nothing to do with the girl who broke his heart with little explanation and no apology.

Sage Cassidy is falling for a boy from out of this world. When Adam appears in the lake one spring night in an explosion of light, Sage learns he is more than just the boy who visits every summer and leaves her to dream about him all winter. Adam is part alien, and he is caught in a cosmic custody battle between a human mother and a powerful otherworldly father.

This is a fictional story centered on the life of an innocent brown-colored girl growing up in a "normal" African family, who was discovered without permission. Cici is a girl just like any other, but has a tough time navigating through life to discover her true worth. She learned from a young age to trade her body for what she wanted so desperately - love!

From an anti-other political climate comes a novel that gives voice to outcasts tyrannized by power. Boy in the Hole is the gripping account of Jacob, a boy wrestling to understand himself, his family, and the world in which he lives as he grows up in the Deep South in the '70s. Emerging from a family of sexual deviancy and alcoholism masked by religion and wealth, Jacob learns to define who he is, but struggles to find the balance between faith and sexuality. To embrace his true identity, he must go on an exodus to face his demons and overcome the pressures to conform.

On a winter night, young university professor Janet Jobbe is rushed to the emergency room and pronounced dead. She miraculously returns to life, and after discharge from the hospital embarks on a journey into her mind to determine what has happened. She remembers her life had entered a downward spiral. And her beloved Lucius had started canceling dates.

1960 - Black, African, female, and a student at Cambridge. Who would have thought it? As Mama often said, her only reason for sending me to school was because she wanted someone to read her letters to her. December 1960 - Raped, broken, and all alone in a foreign land, the system became my family. I have had my baby and given up my child to the care system. It’s been more than four decades since Cambridge, my life couldn’t be better. In one moment, my peace is shattered, and secrets are revealed. As they say, "the time of reckoning has come".

Freed from OCD is an impressive account and exhaustive study of living with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) for 10 years. Dr. George Shank gives clarity to its destructiveness of life with family, friends, and colleagues. The story follows his OCD from its inception, to his becoming housebound, to its demise and the freedom that followed. His wife, Joyce, then gives an account of living and suffering with him, conveying the bond that kept them together amid the traumatic years.

Emotional intelligence, more than IQ and technical know-how, gives a valuable competitive edge to organizations and is crucial to the success of individuals. Used to its full advantage, you can learn to improve relationships to achieve your desired outcomes, perform better in interviews and develop your decision making on a day-to-day basis.

This is a short story of a young woman driving south in the time of the Korean War. Loosely told, it is fiction based on the history of Monteverde, Costa Rica.