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We've identified the following books, authors, and series that you might enjoy. Sometimes we provide great suggestions on the first try, while in other cases we need to adjust our approach. If you like a book we suggest, we can find more like it. If you don't like a book, tell us that too! We'll adjust our suggestions as we find out more about your preferences. With your suggestions, I focused on your love of small town life and books set in Scotland. Miss Julia is currently a 19 book series set in a fictional small North Carolina town and a lot of people who read the Mitford series love her series as well. Happy Reading!
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Here are your suggestions; click on a title to place a hold:
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Miss Julia speaks her mind : a novel by Ann B. RossRecently widowed and newly wealthy, Miss Julia is visited one day by Hazel Marie who claims that her nine-year-old son is the bastard child of Julia's late husband, and when Julia is left to care for the child, she reveals the scandal that precipitated her husband's death.
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The liar by Nora RobertsDevastated to learn that her unfaithful husband had actually married her using an alias, Shelby returns with her young daughter to her Tennessee hometown and pursues a new relationship before her husband's past poses dangerous threats.
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Britt-Marie was here : a novel by Fredrik BackmanWalking away from her loveless marriage and taking a job in a financially devastated town, 63-year-old Britt-Marie uses her fierce organizational skills to become a local soccer coach to a group of lost children, becoming a vital community member along the way.
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The bookshop on the corner : a novel by Jenny ColganA "literary matchmaker" who takes joy in pairing readers with perfect books moves from the city to a sleepy village where she becomes a bookmobile driver and rediscovers her senses of adventure and home while searching for a happy ending of her own.
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Still life by Louise PennyChief Inspector Armand Gamache of Canada's Sûreté du Quebec is called to Three Pines, a tiny hamlet south of Montreal, to investigate the suspicious hunting "accident" that claimed the life of Jane Neal, a local fixture in the village.
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The readers of Broken Wheel recommend by Katarina BivaldA Swedish tourist opens a bookstore in Broken Wheel, Iowa, to honor her deceased pen pal and makes some unconventional choices that threaten to bring long-hidden secrets to light as she attempts to share her love of reading with the locals.
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The postmistress by Sarah BlakeThe stories of a small Cape Cod postmistress and an American radio reporter stationed in London collide on the eve of the United States's entrance into World War II, a meeting that is shaped by a broken promise to deliver a letter.
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The last painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic SmithHalf a century after reluctantly painting a forgery of the only surviving work by a seventeenth-century female Dutch artist, Ellie Shipley curates an exhibit of women Dutch painters and risks exposure when both the original and her forgery arrive.
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Looking for Peyton Place by Barbara DelinskyThe death of her mother brings writer Annie Barnes back to the New Hampshire mill town of her youth to investigate the pollution caused by the local paper mill, a contamination that may have been the cause of her mother's fatal illness.
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The year of pleasures : a novel by Elizabeth BergFollowing the death of her husband, Betta Nolan fulfills her promise to him to move to a small town and build a new life for herself, following her as she strives to cope with her grief and find pleasure and solace in the ordinary things of everyday life--a warm bath, good food, the beauty of nature, art, and her garden.
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44 Scotland Street by Alexander McCall SmithAfter taking a job at an Edinburgh art gallery, twenty-year-old Pat rents a room from her landlord, the handsome and cocky Bruce, at 44 Scotland Street, and soon discovers that she has also acquired some colorful new neighbors, including Domenica, an eccentric widow; Bertie, a child prodigy; and his overbearing mother, Irene.
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Thorn in my heart by Liz Curtis HiggsA retelling of stories from Genesis, set in eighteenth-century Scotland, finds Jamie and Evan McKie vying for the attention of their father, while Leana and Rose McBride compete for the love of the same man, setting in motion a thorny love triangle marked by parental manipulation and sibling rivalry. Original.
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At the water's edge : a novel by Sara GruenWhile her brother, Ellis, and his friend attempt to find the Loch Ness Monster in an attempt to get back into her father's good graces, Maddie is left on her own in World War II-era Scotland and experiences a social awakening.
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The winter sea by Susanna KearsleyCarrie settles into the shadow of Slains Castle in Scotland, creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors, and starts to write about the Jacobite invasion of 1708. When she can no longer tell the difference between today and centuries ago, is she dealing with an ancestral memory-- a memory that might destroy her?
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The Cracked Spine by Paige SheltonDelaney Nichols uproots herself from her quiet Kansas town and takes a job at The Cracked Spine in Edinburgh, only to put on her investigating cap when someone in her new life ends up dead.
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