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Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson, Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
3) Happy now?
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English
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In the weeks after her husband's suicide, Claire Kessler tries to come to terms with the truth about her marriage and her grief after she moves into her younger sister's guesthouse, but therapy appointments are little help, her concerned father begins to follow her everywhere, and an unread suicide note lays on her coffee table.
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Publisher
eLectio Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In the Summer of 2016, Anne sits in her late husband’s arm chair in the house where they had spent over sixty years together. Despite being surrounded by family, she misses him terribly as she reminisces about their time together on this earth, thinking back on all the miracles and wonders they had shared, as well as the struggles and disappointments. Anne’s youngest granddaughter Eva enters the room carrying an old tin box--a box that had been...
6) Wicked widow
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Series
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English
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With over 25 million books in print, best-selling author Amanda Quick is a favorite of readers who relish historical romances. In her works, including Mistress, Mischief, and Affair, Amanda Quick offers delicious romantic thrillers set in the opulent world of Regency-era London. The widow Madeline Deveridge is both admired and feared by Society. Devastatingly beautiful, she is rumored to have killed her wealthy husband. Artemis Hunt is a handsome...
7) The blessing
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Language
English
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When wealthy, hard-driving corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break from his business and his husband-hunting girlfriends for a Christmas visit to his hometown in Abernathy, Kentucky, he has no idea what his physician brother, David, has in store for him. It seems that Amy Thompkins, a whimsical young widow with definite artistic talent, has captured David's heart, but courting her with a demanding baby in tow has been difficult. In...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A widow goes house-hunting in Barsetshire in this witty, moving novel by an author of “graceful stories of upper-class English life” ( The New York Times ). One rainy summer, amid the social and cultural changes of postwar England, Mrs. Macfadyen wrestles with the loss of her beloved husband after just five years of happiness. Life has left her uprooted--but where can she replant herself? The hunt for a new house (preferably not too close to her...
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English
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Lorca spends her life poring over cookbooks, making croissants and chocolat chaud, seeking out rare ingredients, all to earn the love of her distracted chef of a mother, who is now packing her off to boarding school. In one last effort to prove herself indispensable, Lorca resolves to track down the recipe for her mother's ideal meal, an obscure Middle Eastern dish called masgouf. Victoria, grappling with her husband's death, has been dreaming of...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"An 80s romp with big hair and even bigger secrets! Grab your popcorn and settle in for this incredibly fun and twisty read." -- Jeneva Rose, New York Times bestselling author of You Shouldn't Have Come Here 1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine...
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English
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"Insightful, richly entertaining . . . Evison writes humanely and with good humor of his characters, who, like the rest of us, muddle through, too often without giving ourselves much of a break. A lovely, forgiving character study that's a pleasure to read." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
With Bernard, her husband of fifty-five years, now in the grave, seventy-eight-year-old Harriet Chance impulsively sets sail on an ill-conceived Alaskan...
13) 30 days
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Series
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English
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Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mate, but not Alyssa Barrow. She met Rob at nineteen, and they were set to live happily ever after-until he became ill. In his final days, Rob urged his beautiful, young wife not to abandon happiness-or pleasure. He even left her a special gift, a sexy game plan to help her move on: Thirty cards with instructions for thirty days of passion. You'll know when the time is right, he'd said. Now it's...
15) The guardian
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Four years after losing her husband, twenty-nine-year-old Julie Barenson considers falling in love again and wonders if she should choose sophisticated Richard, who treats her like a queen, or down-to-earth Mike. But when she eventually picks one man, the other man's jealousy turns into a deadly obsession.
16) Summer magic
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c1963
Language
English
Description
After losing her fortune, a widow moves her family to the country.
17) Sail
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
20) Every Sunday
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Language
English
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Description
Peter Pezzelli's remarkable debut, Home to Italy, won the hearts of readers and critics alike. Now, with Every Sunday, Pezzelli has created another unforgettable tale about life, love, family and friendship.
In Providence, Rhode Island, everybody knows Nick Catini. Street smart, with a quick wit and a larger-than-life personality, Nick is the go-to guy, the owner of Catini's Hardware who's there to score friends tickets to the big game or fix his...
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