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At 40, Tara Lawson's world falls apart. A painful divorce and the loss of her job as a journalist leave her reeling. But it's the news of her beloved grandmother's passing that draws her back to her childhood home in Seagrove, South Carolina, to settle the estate. In the midst of her grief, Tara unexpectedly reconnects with Noah, her childhood best friend. Now a successful sea glass artist, Noah's steadfast presence becomes a comforting anchor. Together, they revive their old tradition of hunting for sea glass, a simple joy that begins to heal Tara's emotional wounds.

Joy Bartlett needs a blueprint before she takes a single step in any direction. She loves seeing what she's getting into before committing, and just because half of her Supper Club has moved 1200 miles away doesn't mean she's going to start packing boxes. She is terribly lonely in Sweet Water Falls without Bea, Cass, and Lauren, and as another member of their monthly dinner party gets ready to leave Texas in the rear-view mirror, Joy starts creating her own blueprint.

Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan must match wits with the most dangerous of psychopaths. A man for whom life and death is no more than a game. A killing game. Browse other Iris Johansen programs.

In 2019, Greta Morgan was on the rise. She had toured with Vampire Weekend, collaborated with Jenny Lewis, and garnered critical acclaim with her own musical projects. But in March 2020, after contracting COVID-19, she was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a neurological disorder with no known cure that left her unable to sing. Her once crystalline voice now reduced to a hush, she saw her career come to an abrupt standstill.

As a journalist, Suzanne O'Malley began covering the murders of Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary Yates hours after their mother, Andrea Yates, drowned them in their suburban Houston home in June 2001. Over 24 months, O'Malley interviewed or witnessed the sworn testimony of more than a hundred participants in this drama, including Yates herself.

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death in her Cambridge, Massachusetts apartment.

Ethan Greene wants no part of the rodeo circuit he left six years ago. Instead, he's spent the last year reinventing himself, trying to become a man he can be proud of. But when feisty, champion barrel racer, Brynn Bowman, shows up at Three Rivers Ranch to recruit him to be the second part of a two-man roping team, Ethan finds himself saying yes - but only for one year, just to help out a friend.

Learn how to speak and understand Modern Standard Arabic quickly and easily with Arabic For Dummies Audio Set, which allows you to practice your skills whether you're at home or on the road. From three hours of instructional material, learn basic greetings, vocabulary, how to ask for directions, get help when you need it most, expressions, grammar, and other essentials that will allow you to start communicating right away.

In the charming town of Pineville, boutique owner Andrea Larsen is grappling with the overwhelming sense of loss during the Christmas season. The absence of her beloved Mama casts a somber shadow over what should be a joyous time, making every festive decoration and twinkling light feel like an unwelcome reminder of her loneliness. As Andrea navigates through the holiday hustle and bustle, she can't help but reflect on the choices she made in the past, particularly her hasty judgment of her former boyfriend, cowboy Lawrence Collins. Little does Andrea know, Lawrence hasn't forgotten about her.

For years, Christian women have been told, "If you just prayed more, had more faith, and trusted Jesus, you'd have more peace." But what does it mean when a Christian momma continues to worry? How does she reconcile her feelings of fear with her faith in God? And how does she raise her children in a home full of peace when she feels anything but peaceful?

Meg needs to make a decision about her upcoming wedding, but will her choice shock her mother, Julie? William makes a life-changing decision, but then everything keeps falling apart. How will it affect his relationship with Janine?

In-depth narratives on recovery, our fellowship, common questions, but without the personal stories.

A contemporary cowboy retelling of the classic fairy tale Cinderella. Cal Hodgkins, cowboy veterinarian at Bowman's Breeds, isn't planning to meet anyone at the masked dance in small-town Three Rivers. He just wants to get his bachelor friends off his back and sit on the sidelines to drink his punch. But when he sees a woman dressed in gorgeous butterfly wings and cowgirl boots with blue stitching, he's smitten. Too bad she runs away from the dance before he can get her name, leaving only her boot behind....

Pastry chef extraordinaire, Grace Lewis has moved to Three Rivers to help Heidi Ackerman open a bakery in Three Rivers. For Grace, this venture represents more than just a professional opportunity; it's a chance to escape the remnants of a failed cupcakery and start anew, far away from the judgmental gazes and whispered rumors that haunted her past. She doesn't expect to run into Jonathan Carver, her high school sweetheart and now a skilled carpenter at Three Rivers Ranch.

A new resident moves to town to take over his late grandfather's veterinary business. Will he find the love of his life or a woman who drives him nuts? Meanwhile, Dawson and Julie find out some disturbing news about their son. Janine and William anxiously wait for a birthmother to choose them. Will the adoption process go smoothly? Tabatha is almost finished with her pregnancy, but she still hasn't decided whether to keep her baby or pursue adoption. Celeste gets an amazing surprise from Ben as he tries to woo her.

Having grown up in a lighthouse, loneliness is all Isabelle Thornton has ever known—and all, she assumes, she ever will know. But when her lightkeeper father rescues a young man from the lake, her sheltered world is turned upside down. Out of the Storm, bestselling author Jody Hedlund’s first novella, introduces listeners to Beacons of Hope, a new series set in the 1800s amid the romance, history, and danger surrounding the Great Lakes lighthouses of Michigan.

One Hundred Years of Exile: A Romanov’s Search for Her Father’s Russia is the story of one woman’s journey through 100 years of history to find peace with her father. Tania Romanov Amochaev and her father were both exiled from their homelands as infants; both knew life in refugee camps. Their shared fate does not lead to mutual understanding.

Heath Dutton has spent the last three years trying to heal his wounds, but no matter how many places he travels, his heart is still broken when he arrives in Seagrove. Will a current resident help heal his heart and turn out to be his soulmate? Colleen and Tucker arrive back in Seagrove after months of travel, but they're keeping a big secret that could cause a rift between Colleen and her mother. Janine is adjusting to being a new mother, but when she ends up in the ER with her new baby girl, will everything turn out well?

In this fifth book of the South Carolina Sunsets series, there's a wedding happening! Which of our couples is walking down the aisle, and will everything go off as planned? Or, is there always just a little bit of drama threatening to throw everyone for a loop? If you love Southern women's fiction, this is the series for you!

Houston firefighter Jeff Taylor is a fireman's fireman. He's not afraid of anything, and no situation is too dangerous to keep him on the sideline if lives are at stake. Lisa Matheson runs a semi-successful ad agency that's on the brink of falling apart. Her employees are incompetent and her schedule has become exhausting. When she takes on a client with a brilliant idea for a big conference, she thinks that maybe, finally this is her lucky break.