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1382) Bounty hunter guardian
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"Everyone believes Amanda Stowe killed her husband--except for a mysterious woman who promises her evidence will clear Amanda's name. Amanda has to meet her ... even if it means jumping bail and praying she'll reach Alaska before law enforcement closes in. If Chance Walker has learned anything as a bounty hunter, it's that only the guilty run. When he captures Amanda, he's ready to bring her to justice. But attacks against Amanda make Chance reconsider....
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
A very merry mix-up: A woman sets out to meet her fiance's family at Christmas and winds up at the wrong house. Once the mistake is corrected, she realizes that her bond with the wrong family--and their eligible son--was stronger than her bond with the right one.
The Christmas ornament: Widow Kathy Howard is having a hard time facing her first Christmas without her husband when she meets Christmas tree lot owner Tim Pierce who helps her see that...
1385) A streetcar named Desire
Pub. Date
2006
Description
Follows the emotional disintegration of a Southern woman whose last chance for happiness is destroyed by her vindictive brother-in-law.
1386) Inshallah a boy
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws." --container
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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In the late 1930s, civil war gripped Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life irreversibly intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage...
1390) Red Widow: Season 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Housewife Marta Walraven adores her husband, children and their idyllic Northern California life together. But beneath the suburban dream lies a dark and dangerous world, and when life presents unforeseen tragedy, the perfect facade comes crashing down. Now Marta must drop all illusions, embrace her new reality, and dig deep to discover reserves of courage, resilience and ingenuity she never knew she had.
1391) Heartland
Pub. Date
2000
Description
"In 1910 Elinore Randall, a widow, and her seven-year-old daughter travel by train to face two great unknowns-- a strange land and life with a man they have never met. Elinore has contracted by mail to keep house for Clyde Stewart, a rancher living in the remote frontier near Burntfork, Wyoming. Captivated by the vast landscape, Elinore acts quickly on her secret passion: to homestead a piece of land of her own. But fulfilling her year's contract...
1392) The Home-Wreckers
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen, married the boss's son at twenty, and was only twenty-five when her husband was killed in a motorcycle accident. Determined to continue the business, she takes the life insurance money, buys a small house, flips it, then puts the money into her next project. But that house is a disaster and a money-loser, which rocks her confidence. Then, Hattie...
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Description
When she is recruited into the Office of Strategic Services by a family friend and legendary WWI hero, young widow and brilliant French teacher Anna Cavanaugh risks everything to help liberate France from the shadows of occupation and free herself from the shadows of her former life.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
The color of rain: When Gina loses her husband on Christmas Day, she soon finds a kindred spirit in another parent at her kids' school, Michael, who loses his wife at the same time. As they help each other and their children though grief, they grow closer and fall in love. However, family and friends cause them to question whether being together is a good idea. Based on a true story.
The dancing detective: Detective Constance Bailey, a no-nonsense...
1395) One for the blackbird, one for the crow (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
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Description
Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse. Losing her husband to...
1397) The widow of Rose House
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"It's 1875, and Alva Webster has perfected her stiff upper lip after three years of being pilloried in the presses of two continents over fleeing her abusive husband. Now his sudden death allows her to return to New York to make a fresh start, restoring Liefdehuis, a dilapidated Hyde Park mansion, and hopefully her reputation at the same time. However, fresh starts aren't as easy as they seem, as Alva discovers when stories of a haunting at Liefdehuis...
1398) Conspiracy of angels
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"This tale is set in the year 1810 and follows hot on the heels of the story recounted in Sacrifice. An ex-slave is shipwrecked on the shore of Skomar Island and two strange objects found on his person end up in the possession of Mistress Martha Morgan of Plas Ingli. This leads her to involvement in the anti-slavery movement and into very grave personal danger as her own enemies have to be rescued from a man who has a very sinister mission." --
Author
Pub. Date
2019
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Description
10 books, 1 discussion guide, 6 week checkout. SUMMARY : "This richly imagined novel tells the story behind The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud. Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece for the screen, seventy-seven-year-old Maud Gage Baum sets about trying to finagle her way onto the set. Nineteen years...
1400) Jackie
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A searing and intimate portrait of one of the most important and tragic moments in American history, seen through the eyes of the iconic First Lady, then Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. The film places us in her world during the days immediately following her husband's assassination. Known for her extraordinary dignity and poise, here we see a psychological portrait of the First Lady as she struggles to maintain her husband's legacy and the world of A...