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Bouncing Back February 2020
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Been there, married that
by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Agnes Murphy Nash is the perfect Hollywood wife - she has the right friends, the right clothes and even a side career of her own as a writer - until her bigshot producer husband decides it is time to end their marriage.
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Gravity is the thing
by Jaclyn Moriarty
Abigail Sorensen has spent her life trying to unwrap the events of 1990. It was the year she started receiving random chapters from a self-help book called The Guidebook in the post. It was also the year Robert, her brother, disappeared on the eve of her sixteenth birthday. She believes the absurdity of The Guidebook and the mystery of her brothers disappearance must be connected. Now thirty-five, owner of The Happiness Cafe and mother of four-year-old Oscar, Abigail has been invited to learn the truth behind The Guidebook at an all-expenses-paid retreat. What she finds will be unexpected, life-affirming, and heartbreaking. A story with extraordinary heart, warmth and wisdom.
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I almost forgot about you
by Terry McMillan
Feeling stuck and restless in spite of her great friends, family and career, Dr. Georgia Young confronts long-standing fears to embark on a wild journey that may or may not give her a second chance at love.
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Life on loan
by Ashley Farley
After thirty years, college friends Lena Browder and Olivia Westcoat have met again by chance at an unexpected crossroads: an airport lounge in Atlanta. Lena is running away from home and her demanding family. Olivia is trying to find her way after a painful divorce. With their old selves in the rearview, they toast to a new beginning - and it starts with a spontaneous dare.
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Master of his fate
by 1933- Bradford, Barbara Taylor
A charismatic and ambitious businessman in Victorian England faces the tragic ruin of everything he has worked to achieve before a royal summons gives him a chance to prove his talents.
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Queen sugar
by Natalie Baszile
Hoping for a new start when she unexpectedly inherits a sugarcane farm, Charley moves to Louisiana, where she confronts her grandmother's judgmental beliefs while balancing the farm's overwhelming challenges with the needs of her homesick daughter, her troubled brother and her own yearning heart.
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Talk to me
by 1962- Kenney, John
Losing his job and reputation in the wake of an ill-timed live tirade, a disgraced television anchor finds himself reconnecting with his family and the man he used to be.
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The broken road
by Richard Paul Evans
A first entry in a new trilogy that explores the possibilities of second chances follows the experiences of Chicago celebrity Charles James, who struggles with nightmares about his painful childhood in spite of adult successes until a twist of fate causes him to be declared dead and reeling with wonderment about what to do next.
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The nobodies
by Liza Palmer
When her employer goes out of business, a talented journalist reinvents herself at a tech startup where her co-workers are decades younger, only to stumble on the story of a lifetime. By the author of Conversations with the Fat Girl.
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The solace of water
by Elizabeth Byler Younts
Tells the story of two women, one white and one black, in racially charged 1956, who fight personal battles of freedom and form a friendship that neither expected.
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Things you save in a fire
by Katherine Center
When a family emergency compels her move from Texas to Boston, a skilled firefighter becomes the only woman in her new firehouse and navigates discrimination, low funding and her private edicts about falling in love with another firefighter.
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This could change everything
by Jill Mansell
A novel from a best-selling author follows Essie Phillips, who has to adjust to a huge change in her life after being fired for accidentally emailing a private rant about her boss to everyone in her address book.
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For additional reading ideas, talk with your library staff!
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