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61) Cutting loose
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Renovating the old Walcott mansion is Devlin Kavanagh's dream job, but ever since the prissy owner spotted him jet-lagged and hit hard by a couple of drinks, she's been on his case. Jane hides behind her conservative manner, but her seductive blue eyes hint at a woman just dying to cut loose.
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Nine years after her toddler is abducted in a cruel act of vengeance, CIA agent Catherine is unable to accept that she will never find her son and taps forensic sculptor and fellow victim of a lost child Eve Duncan for assistance in establishing her son's age-progressed appearance.
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"Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on...
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"Somerset Lake is the perfect place for Trisha Langly and her son to start over. As the new manager for the Somerset Cottages, Trisha is instantly charmed by the property's elderly residents and her firecracker of a new boss, Vi Fletcher. But Trisha is less enchanted by Vi's protective grandson Jake. No matter how tempting she finds the handsome lawyer, Trisha knows that if Jake discovers the truth about her past, she'll lose the new life she's worked...
65) The great fire
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In the aftermath of World War II, young men and women living in Europe and Asia reconstruct their lives, including a soldier who learns that material goods and success are not enough, and a woman in Japan who tends to her dying brother.
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"As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church,...
67) Fix that clock!
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A construction crew rebuilds an old clock tower that has become home to rats, bats, mice, and an assortment of birds.
68) All things new
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In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation. The bitter realities of life after the war cannot be denied and Josephine soon realizes she must rely on Lizzie, one of the few remaining servants to teach her all she needs to know Jo struggles to rebuild her life--and her faith in God.
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Photographers from the U.S. Army's Signal Corps were with the troops that drove back Hitler's troops and occupied Germany at the end of WWII. Soon photos of death camps and starving POWs shocked the home front, providing ample evidence of Nazi brutality. Yet did the faces of the defeated Germans show remorse? The victors saw only arrogance, servility, and the resentment of a population thoroughly brainwashed by the Nazis. In fact, argues Dagmar Barnouw,...
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The Civil War was over by the spring of 1865, and all the Confederate armies had surrendered, but for the victors, the peace was marred by the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. The long, painful process of rebuilding a united nation free of slavery began. The 13th Amendment, ratified in December 1865, ended slavery in the United States.
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With Lincoln's assassination, his "team of rivals" was left adrift. President Andrew Johnson, a former slave owner from Tennessee, was challenged by radical Republicans in Congress, who wanted to punish the defeated South. When Johnson's policies placated the rebels at the expense of the black freed men, radicals in the House impeached him for trying to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton. Even William Seward, Lincoln's closest ally in his cabinet,...
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Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist 'Dear Calpurnia', has insight into everybody's problems, except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a 'Dear Birthmother' letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's a perfect adoptive mother material, with a stable home and income, only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left...
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Orphaned at an early age, Jane grew up the hard way, but she was given a new life, a loving family, and a chance to pursue her interest in one of the greatest archaeological finds ever unearthed. Now someone was trying to destroy that new life before it could even get started. The past is returning with the kind of vengeance that knows no mercy. The countdown has already begun, and it's approaching zero faster than anyone thinks.
76) Reconstruction
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A history of Reconstruction, the period after the Civil War during which programs were implemented to bring the Confederate States back to the Union.
77) The Waratah Inn
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After the death of their grandmother, Kate Summer and her two sisters return to decide what to do with their inheritance--the family's Waratah Inn and find they are also faced with a family mystery to solve.
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Bindi Summer, the hard-working manager at The Waratah Inn is tired, feeling low, and wondering where her life is headed. Then, she is blind-sided by a shock revelation and the sudden arrival of her ex-boyfriend, who show up at the inn, questioning his decision to leave her almost two years earlier.