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2282) Lista życzeń
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Polish
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"Happily married to her college sweetheart, Poppy lived a blessed life with the husband of her dreams. Then everything changed. She is no longer a wife. She is no longer the envy of her single friends. Now, people look at her with pity as they whisper a single word behind her back. Widow. Years after her husband's tragic death, years of pain and sorrow and wishing for the life she'll never get back, Poppy decides to finish Jamie's birthday list. She'll...
2285) Her unlikely cowboy
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Suzie Kent will do anything for her troubled teen son. Even if it means turning to her late husband's best friend for help. Rancher Tucker McDermott is convinced that the fresh air and hard work of Sunrise Ranch will do Abe and Suzie a world of good. But Suzie is not so sure that the man she blames for her husband's death knows best. Soon, spending time with the strong, handsome cowboy revives Suzie's spirits--and her heart. Can they heal their past...
2286) Río muerto
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Español
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"Se cuenta y se vuelve a contar, con estas mismas palabras que he estado usando,la fábula real de la madre que un día bisiesto fue de verdugo en verdugo pidiendo a los gritos que los mataran a ella y a sus dos hijos porque les habían dejado la familia sin padre". A las afueras de Belén del Chamí, un pueblo que aún no consigue aparecer en el mapa de Colombia, el mudo Salomón Palacios es asesinado a unos pasos de su casa. Después de los primeros...
2287) Concho Valley
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"No vengeance is more deadly than that of a grief-stricken woman whose husband has been violently killed. In the case of Louella Snow, her grief was intensified by the briefness of her marriage to Luke. And her determination to make his killer pay was in no way lessened by the fact that it was a woman, Nina Telfors, whom she held responsible for Luke's death. Lou Winters, a newcomer to Concho Valley, had his own reasons for cutting into the vengeance...
2289) Netherworld
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Chronicles of Diana Furnaval volume 1
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English
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In nineteenth-century Victorian England, a young widow finds that she has inherited more than her late husband's property: The Furnavals serve as the ancestral keepers of supernatural portals scattered around the globe. When demonic entities begin crossing over from the Netherworld, Lady Diana realizes that a war is brewing, and she must be the one to confront it.Accompanied by a young Chinese sailor named Yi-kin, her feline guardian Mina, and a mysterious...
2290) Regret to inform
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In this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn took a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband died. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
2291) Monster's ball
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Hank Grotowski is an embittered prison guard. He works with his son, Sonny. They both live at home with his racist father, Buck. Death Row inmate, Lawrence Musgrove, has just been executed and a horrible tragedy has happened at home. Hank mets Leticia, a young black woman, struggling to make ends meet. If only he knew that she is Musgrove's widow. Hank and Leticia quickly fall in love to ease each other's pains.
2292) Home to you
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Virgin River: Melinda needs a change after violence in Los Angeles took her beloved husband from her; but when she accepts a job as nurse practitioner and midwife in Virgin River in rural California, she gets something very different than she bargained for.
When lightning strikes: Desperate to save her PR firm, which has accumulated a roster of A-list clients, Gail DeMarco agrees to pose as high-profile actor Simon O'Neal's wife so that he can get...
2295) The Wilder widows
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"Four Widows. Four Wishes. One Wild Adventure. When Sylvie's husband passed away, she'd barely hung her black dress back in the closet when three widows on Wilder Lane showed up on her doorstep. Who had time to properly mourn when an adventure spanning the globe awaited her? After putting their own needs on the back burner to raise their families, Sylvie, Doris, Alice, and Marge struggle to find purpose now that their children are grown, and their...
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"Wilma's Wish by Wanda E. Brunstetter: Wilma Hostetler has been courted by Israel Zook for the last year, and he's recently proposed marriage. But when his sister dies, leaving him to care for five young nephews who openly dislike Wilma, she has second thoughts of starting with a ready-made family and decides to call off the wedding. Can anything be done to restore the relationship, or will Israel seek another wife?" -- Back cover.
"Martha's Miracle...
2297) Blood red roses
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In the aftermath of the War of Independence, a series of murders strike a village in Maine. One of the victims is a loyalist who fled to Canada. But how come no one knew he was back? By the author of Hearts and Bones.
2298) The last in love
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"Abby Williams lost her husband--and the future she envisioned--to a roadside bomb in a foreign land, so a kitchen fire is no big deal. When the local firemen show up to put out the blaze, the army widow finds herself attracted to one hot volunteer firefighter...until she realizes it's Justin Donovan, a man five years her junior. Justin has long carried a torch for Abby. But after she got married ten years ago, he put her out of his mind, left Ardent...
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In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises-and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder? After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie's hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis 'Pretty' Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Incorporated,...