Small Life

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It’s The Holiday Season in Willow Heights, and the whole town is a buzz. Sienna Winter thought she had it all figured out until her family surprised her out of the blue. Now that her secret is out, she realizes where she went wrong. As she tries to piece her life back together, she finds out it might not be as easy as it seemed, but with the support of her family, friends, and a handsome newcomer, her Christmas wish might just come true. Follow along on your favorite characters’ stories with this warm small-town women’s fiction book about family, forgiveness, and the true meaning of ...

In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated, doom scrolling, lacking a sense of purpose or community...it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the dire state of American democracy and do nothing, because why try when the odds are never in our favor?

December 1965. ‘Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly, his young colleague Barry Laverty, and their assorted friends, neighbors, and patients are enjoying all their favorite holiday traditions: caroling, trimming the tree, finding the perfects gifts for their near and dear ones, and anticipating a proper Yuletide feast complete with roast turkey and chestnut stuffing. There’s even the promise of snow in the air, raising the prospect of a white Christmas.

She’s searching for answers. He wants to be left alone. If he joins her quest, can he risk the damage to his heart? When military author Delanie Jonnson loses her father in the Mid East conflict, she writes the book that will explain the withdrawal and give her peace. As she delves into her research, she discovers a military chatroom and meets Mad Dog who challenges her motive. Zane Gallivan believes moving to a small town will give him the solitude he needs to come to terms with his war injury. What he hadn’t expected was his attractive neighbor Delanie to be concerned about his ...

Amazon Bestselling Author Kathleen Ryder brings you The Alice Diaries Taught by her mother to hate herself, rejected for being an Indigenous Australian, Alice is tired of the life she has. A new year brings new resolutions, Alice is determined that this is the year she completely overhauls her life…If she can just make it through January! Navigating life as a middle-aged woman coping with racism, single parenthood, interfering relatives, mean bosses, and sexy white men is not as easy as Alice thought it would be. Will finding herself mean losing everything else? An emotional journey of ...

Shaken by her parents’ divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious boyfriend, Nikki Werner seeks solace at her uncle’s farm in a small Missouri hamlet. She’ll spend the summer there, picking up the pieces of her shattered present so she can plan a better future. But what awaits her at the ancestral farm is the past—one she barely knows.

In the finale book of the Winding Creek series, "The Fresh Start," we explore the enduring bond between mother and daughter. As secrets unfold and unexpected revelations come to light, Stella and Julie navigate the complexities of their relationship, striving to mend the fractures of the past and build a future defined by love and understanding. This heartfelt story invites readers on an emotional journey of forgiveness, and the transformative power of family. "The Fresh Start" is a tender exploration of the ties that bind us, proving that, even in the face of life's challenges, the ...

Royalty...it was more than just a word to her. It was her life. But not for long. Marlie loved her family dearly, even when she didn’t like them very much. But their life wasn’t the life she wanted for herself. Maggie had always fulfilled her responsibilities, she’d always done exactly as she was expected to...she knew no other way. Until now...until after reading a letter from her father suggesting she visit her niece and learn how to do as she pleased every once in a while, including the joy of eating pizza at her slightest whim. The last thing Maggie expected when she showed up at ...

After 17 years at sea, Linda Greenlaw figured it was time to take a break from her career as a swordboat captain. She felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut - a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom were her relatives. She would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and get to know them again; become a professional lobsterman; and find a guy, build a house, have kids, and settle down. But all doesn't go as planned.

Christmas in Christmas Beach was always magical, but for Norah Wells, it was also a reminder of everything she'd lost. After years of keeping her heart closed off, the last thing she expects is for an adorable stray dog to lead her back to Matt Gray, her girlhood best friend and the man she never dared to love. Now twenty years later and a successful veterinarian, Matt never forgot Norah or the connection they shared. As he prepares for his clinic's big Christmas adoption event, fate brings Norah to his door with a mischievous Irish setter named Paddy in tow. As they work together to find ...

Welcome to Christmas Town, Maine! Fans of Hallmark movies set in small towns with quirky characters will enjoy this collection of small town, clean holiday romances! Grab your yearbooks, call your friends, pack your suitcase, and return to Christmas Town High School for a 10-year reunion. The first order of business is to unearth the class time capsule, which reveals a promise ring among the many treasures. Whose ring is it? That remains to be seen. Everyone's coming back to Christmas Town for the event - the class president, homecoming king and queen, the jock, the nerd, the friend to ...

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives are on the line with every decision. In this book, Atul Gawande explores how doctors strive to close the gap between best intentions and best performance in the face of obstacles that sometimes seem insurmountable.

Now that Joy is back in Rocky Ridge, she’s hoping she’s made the right decision. Though life with her husband in LA had been turbulent, she’d at least had a job and a steady income. Now she’s got to rebuild from the ground up and jobs aren’t as plentiful in the small mountain town as they were in the city. Her daughter is depending on her, so this move to her home town has to work. Running into Joy was the last thing Aaron expected. She’d been his best friend and his biggest crush back in the day. They tried to date once. He’d been smitten and she’d decided that a guy with ...

Liz Weston’s life has reached rock bottom. Her husband dumped her, her life savings are gone, and her apartment is being turned into condos that she can’t afford. Maybe she shouldn’t have taken early retirement last year? In her late 40s, she has limited possibilities for employment. When her elderly father passes away, she heads to her hometown to clean out the family home. Staying at the beachside inn is a blessing because there’s no way she’ll sleep in her childhood home. But when she befriends Jane Miller, the owner of Tides, her life slowly starts to change.

A first novel with all the assurance of a mature writer at the peak of form and ambition, Mohawk is set in upstate New York and chronicles more than a dozen lives in a leather town, long after the tanneries have started closing down. Ranging over three generations - and clustered mainly in two clans, the Grouses and the Gaffneys - these remarkably various lives share only the common human dilemmas and the awesome physical and emotional presence of Mohawk itself.

Some bonds can never be completely broken…though they can be damaged to the breaking point…When Claire and Pamela meet alone for the first time in over a year both know there is much to be said…but does it need to be? Both sisters struggle with all that has taken place in recent years and the knowledge that rehashing it would do little but deepen the chasm between them. Each are aware that this meeting was…destined. And that it is up to the two of them to decide what path it takes and where they go from there. But sometimes the unexpected happens… The Andersen Saga is a story of ...

Struggling in his role as a newly single father, former army medic Kevin O’Brien moves home to Chesapeake Shores. He wants a haven for himself and his toddler son, surrounded by the family he knows he can count on and a future that’s nothing like his past. But Kevin is suddenly facing a risk he hadn’t anticipated...in the form of Main Street bookseller Shanna Carlyle. Shanna immediately recognizes Kevin as a wounded soul - she’s had way too much experience with the type.

When her late husband’s pension fund dries up, Mrs. Entwhistle gets a job as a newspaper reporter to supplement her income. Assigned to cover book clubs and PTA meetings, she stumbles into a nest of criminal activity. Her editor tells her to stick to her beat, but do you think she listens? This feisty seventy-eight (going on seventy-nine) year-old lady is not about to sit back and allow her small town to fall victim to cunning crooks. Hop aboard with Mrs. Entwhistle, newly-minted crime-fighter, as she rides again.

Step back in time to the tiny farm community of Osage Bend, Missouri, circa 1930-1945… Part memoir, part how-to manual, The Bumpy Road paints a vivid picture of life on the farm during the Great Depression. The author, recounting stories from his boyhood, brings to life the everyday trials and tribulations of his family and neighbors as they struggle to survive under daunting economic conditions. The hard work they put in was a given (to them), and their solutions to everyday problems were ingenious by necessity. And yet, they still found time to socialize and make the church the center ...