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Something Borrowed meets Must Love Dogs in this big- hearted debut about friendship, love, and a German Shepherd named Joe. Savannah "Van" Leone has been in love with Peter Clarke ever since she literally fell head over heels in front of him on the first day of college. Now, six years later, instead of standing across from him at the altar, Van's standing behind her best friend Janie as maid of honor, trying to mask her heartache and guilt as Janie marries the only man Van's ever loved.
check for this and similar titles in Novelist PlusThe Ultimate Book of Top 10 Lists: A Mind-Boggling Collection of Fun, Fascinating, and Bizarre Facts on Music, Movies, Sports, Crime, Celebrities, History, Trivia, and More
From crime, movies and music to science, history and literature, this book offers an incredible array of intriguing top-10 lists, including: Poisonous Foods We Love to Eat. Gruesome Fairytale Origins, Secret Societies, Amazing Film Swordfights Tips for Frugal Living, and Fascinating Graveyards You Must See . A very fun read.
Her Mother's Hope
The first in an epic two-book saga by beloved author Francine Rivers, this sweeping story explores the complicated relationships between mothers and daughters over several generations.
check for this and similar titles in Novelist PlusDays of Grace: A Novel
At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter Grace, are like no-one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and too naïve to understand ...... What happens next is a secret that she keeps for more than fifty years, a secret that she can begin to reveal only when, elderly and alone, Nora knows that she is close to the end.
check for this and similar titles in Novelist PlusIn Pursuit of Silence: Looking for Meaning in a World of Noise
Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Listening to doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.
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