Category: Books
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You and Me and Us
“Tomorrow is as much for you as it is for your dad and me. It’s about you and me and us. Our family.”
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Pretty Things
“Nothing is ever as pure as it seems at first glance; there is always something more complicated to be found if you peel back the unmarried surface of pretty things.”
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Beach Read
“(She) has been a lot of people in the twenty years I’ve known her, and I’ve had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them. That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
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Little Secrets
“Four minutes. That’s all it took to steal a child. A lollipop, a Santa suit, and two hundred and forty seconds.”
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One Perfect Summer
When Serenity Alston swabbed her cheek for 23andMe, she joked about uncovering some dark ancestral scandal. The last thing she expected was to discover two half-sisters she didn’t know existed. Suddenly, everything about her loving family is drawn into question. And meeting these newfound sisters might be the only way to get answers.
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Undercover Bromance
“History was built by thousands of women who thought they were just housewives or just secretaries or just seamstresses until the day they got fed up and decided to fight back.”
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The Red Lotus
“I still thought we might be okay. Do nothing — nothing more– lie low, and it will all go away. And then he told me he had done exactly the opposite of what I had asked, and I knew for sure the walls were closing in. And it was all because of that ER doctor. She was like a dog with a bone.”
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My Dark Vanessa
“There must be a point where you’re allowed to be defined by something other than what he did to you.”
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Wild at Heart
“I also sensed the tectonic shift somewhere deep inside – my time in Alaska had changed me in ways I couldn’t pinpoint but also couldn’t ignore. Who I was and who I am now seem like two different people.”
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Eight Perfect Murders
“Disclaimer: While what you are about to read is largely true, I have recreated some events and conversations from memory. A few names and identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the innocent.”
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Keep Me Afloat
“Marriage is like a fence. Just because there are a few broken boards or rotted-out posts doesn’t mean you tear the whole thing down and burn the lumber. You repair the weak spots. You move on.”
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Almost Just Friends
“My mom used to say that the past was just building blocks to the future. That all regrets, mistakes and miscalculations were the foundation, and as necessary as air.”
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If for Any Reason
“Be passionate in other areas, but in matters of the heart, be mindful to use caution. Your heart isn’t something to give freely and without thought. It should be protected at all costs..”
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Oona Out of Order
“The mirror exposed time’s passage, yes, but it eclipsed her heart’s true mileage. The lined face, the extra pounds, the hair chemically treated to hide its gray. Each year the body was hers, but her mind was out of sync with her reflection Always playing catch-up, trying to rearrange the scrambled pieces of her life.”
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In Five Years
“The future is the one that you can count on not abandoning you, kid, he’d said. The future always finds you. Stand still, and it will find you. The way the land just has to run to the sea.” -Marianne Wiggins
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Stories We Never Told
“Just dinner. The innocence of the phrase is deceptive, as deceptive as the dinner itself would turn out to be. Diner with friends, a table for four. Dinner with people she thought she knew and loved. As it turns out, no one is who she believed they were, least of all herself..”
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