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Florida Made: The 25 Most Important Figures Who Shaped the State

By: George S. LeMieux & Laura E. Mize

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Florida Made: The 25 Most Important Figures Who Shaped the State

By: George S. LeMieux & Laura E. Mize

Florida is in many ways both the oldest and newest of the megastates. Once an insect-ridden swampland, it is now a top destination for tourism, business, agriculture and innovation. The ideas and actions of a colorful cast of characters--from beloved cultural icons to political heroes and even a socialist dictator--transformed the peninsula. A Barbados native rescued Florida's orange industry after the catastrophic 1835 freeze. Known as the "Grande Dame of the Everglades," Marjory Stoneman Douglas worked tirelessly to save the state's vast, incomparable wetlands from annihilation in the early twentieth century. In the mid-1800s, a Florida doctor developed a precursor to modern air conditioning. Join former U.S. senator George LeMieux and journalist Laura Mize as they profile and rank, according to impact, the twenty-five trailblazers who have changed the state forever.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467140031

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Close Call

By: Laura DiSilverio

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Close Call

By: Laura DiSilverio

Mistaking a killer's phone for her own, Sydney Ellison is drawn back to a past she thought she'd left behind for good After living through the media shaming of a political sex scandal when she was in college, Sydney Ellison fears notoriety above all. So when she stumbles onto a plot to assassinate a senator, she resists contacting the police. Before she can make herself do the right thing, the assassin tracks her down and kills her fiancé. Now a murder suspect and a killer's target, Sydney reluctantly enlists the aid of her estranged sister, who betrayed her fifteen years earlier. Sydney must overcome her distrust and put all she has worked for on the line to stop the killer and his employer before more people die. Praise: Named one of Library Journal's Best Books of 2016 in Mystery "DiSilverio's excellent plotting in her stand-alone thriller will keep readers on the edge of their seats...A treat for Megan Abbott fans."—Library Journal(starred review) "This stand-alone has a fast-moving plot that's so engrossing."—Kirkus Reviews "Twisty, intriguing, and terrific! An engaging heroine with a heart-breakingly complicated secret, a bitter family feud, conspiracy in the nation's capital, and non-stop suspense. Fans of David Baldacci . . . will cheer this emotional and exciting thriller. Loved it!"—Hank Phillippi Ryan, Agatha, Anthony and Mary Higgins Clark Award-winning author of Say No More

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738749621

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9780738749624

Russia in Flames

War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921

By: Laura Engelstein

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Russia in Flames

War, Revolution, Civil War, 1914-1921

By: Laura Engelstein

Laura Engelstein, one of the greatest scholars of Russian history, has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.

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Oxford University Press

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0199794219

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9780199794218

Infants and Children

Prenatal Through Middle Childhood

By: Laura E. Berk

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Infants and Children

Prenatal Through Middle Childhood

By: Laura E. Berk

Now published by SAGE! A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, Ninth Edition is relied on in classrooms worldwide for its clear, engaging writing style, exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, first-rate coverage of developmental neuroscience, rich examples, and long-standing commitment to presenting the most up-to-date scholarship. Renowned professor, researcher, and author Laura E. Berk takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment and offering research-based, practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives. The Ninth Edition’s extensive revision strengthens the connections among developmental domains and brings forth the most recent scholarship, representing the changing field of child development. Infants and Children: Prenatal Through Middle Childhood, Ninth Edition is a briefer version of Infants, Children, and Adolescents, Ninth Edition offering the first 13 chapters for child development courses that do not cover adolescence. Included with this title: LMS Cartridge: Import this title’s instructor resources into your school’s learning management system (LMS) and save time. Don’t use an LMS? You can still access all of the same online resources for this title via the password-protected Instructor Resource Site. Learn more.

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SAGE Publications

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1071895125

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9781071895122

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 1

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 1 of 8, TOC and pages 1-504. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1312619406

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Life, Love, and Letting Go

By: Laura A. Fisher

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Life, Love, and Letting Go

By: Laura A. Fisher

Life, Love and Letting Go, is a collection of poems by Laura A. Fisher that were written between the years of 1996-2006. The poems speak about the many aspects of life. It speaks of family, love, lust, lost, slavery, pain, war and many other things. I began writing in elementary school where my 5th grade teacher Ms Quattlander told me I had a way with words. There are so many things that people neglect to notice, or are yet to understand; so through my poems I want to help them to see life in a different light. Notice things theyve ignored and open up both their minds and hearts to things that they have long ago shut out and cast away. If you enjoyed this book, look out for my next book Inside the heart of a glass knight.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1469111772

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Conceiving the Future

Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938

By: Laura L. Lovett

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Conceiving the Future

Pronatalism, Reproduction, and the Family in the United States, 1890-1938

By: Laura L. Lovett

Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807868108

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9780807868102

Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R

By: Laura M. Chihara,Tim C. Hesterberg

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Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R

By: Laura M. Chihara,Tim C. Hesterberg

This thoroughly updated second edition combines the latest software applications with the benefits of modern resampling techniques Resampling helps students understand the meaning of sampling distributions, sampling variability, P-values, hypothesis tests, and confidence intervals. The second edition of Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R combines modern resampling techniques and mathematical statistics. This book has been classroom-tested to ensure an accessible presentation, uses the powerful and flexible computer language R for data analysis and explores the benefits of modern resampling techniques. This book offers an introduction to permutation tests and bootstrap methods that can serve to motivate classical inference methods. The book strikes a balance between theory, computing, and applications, and the new edition explores additional topics including consulting, paired t test, ANOVA and Google Interview Questions. Throughout the book, new and updated case studies are included representing a diverse range of subjects such as flight delays, birth weights of babies, and telephone company repair times. These illustrate the relevance of the real-world applications of the material. This new edition: • Puts the focus on statistical consulting that emphasizes giving a client an understanding of data and goes beyond typical expectations • Presents new material on topics such as the paired t test, Fisher's Exact Test and the EM algorithm • Offers a new section on "Google Interview Questions" that illustrates statistical thinking • Provides a new chapter on ANOVA • Contains more exercises and updated case studies, data sets, and R code Written for undergraduate students in a mathematical statistics course as well as practitioners and researchers, the second edition of Mathematical Statistics with Resampling and R presents a revised and updated guide for applying the most current resampling techniques to mathematical statistics.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119416531

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9781119416531

Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

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Rectors Remembered: The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 8

By: Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch

Volume 8 of 8. Sources & Index to a genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.

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Lulu.com

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1312620420

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The Masqueraders Series

Caprice, Mischief, Beguiled, Emerald and Sapphire, and The Gamble

By: Laura Parker

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The Masqueraders Series

Caprice, Mischief, Beguiled, Emerald and Sapphire, and The Gamble

By: Laura Parker

Five scorching-hot, suspense-filled, historical romances from “a most inventive storyteller” where deceit hides forbidden love—until the disguises come off (RT Book Reviews). In Caprice, a young widow decides on a lark to disguise herself as the mysterious Princess Soltana El Djemal—only to catch the heart of a dashing Lord who vows to discover her true identity. In Mischief, a bold young woman falls for an infamous spy while escaping Persia in 1808, but it’s when she sees him again in England that the real adventure begins. In Beguiled, a mysterious man and a desperate heiress set out to con the upper crust of nineteenth century New York—but the games they’re playing against each other are far more dangerous. In Emerald and Sapphire, a French nobleman’s secret double life as a thief is revealed—by the only woman capable of stealing his heart. And in The Gamble, a viscount masquerades as a notorious highwayman, only to discover that a woman’s heart is the hardest jewel to steal. “Laura Parker’s innovativeness and beautiful style of writing keep her a head above the rest.” —Affaire de Coeur

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Diversion Books

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1626816247

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9781626816244

Infants, Children, and Adolescents

By: Laura E. Berk

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Infants, Children, and Adolescents

By: Laura E. Berk

A best-selling, chronologically organized child development text, Laura E. Berk’s Infants, Children, and Adolescents, takes an integrated approach to presenting development in the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social domains, emphasizing the complex interchanges between heredity and environment, providing exceptional multicultural and cross-cultural focus, and offering research-based practical applications that students can relate to their personal and professional lives.

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817

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SAGE Publications

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1071895095

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Losing Sleep

Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety

By: Laura Harrison

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Losing Sleep

Risk, Responsibility, and Infant Sleep Safety

By: Laura Harrison

New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safety New parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structural causes, the discourse around infant sleep safety often suggests that individual parents can protect their children from these tragic outcomes, if only they would make the right choices about safe sleep. Harrison argues that our understanding of sleep-related infant death, and the crisis of infant mortality in general, has burdened parents, especially parents of color, in increasingly punitive ways. As the government takes a more visible role in criminalizing parents, including those whose children die in their sleep, this book provides much-needed insight into a new era of parenthood.

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279

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NYU Press

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1479801186

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9781479801183

Food & Beverage Market Place, Volume 1

Manufacturers

By: Laura Mars

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Food & Beverage Market Place, Volume 1

Manufacturers

By: Laura Mars

This information-packed 3-volume set is the most powerful buying and marketing guide for the U.S. food and beverage industry. Anyone involved in the food and beverage industry needs this "industry bible" on their desk to build important contacts and develop critical research data that can make for successful business growth. This up-to-date edition boasts thousands of new companies, updates and enhancements; 16 Industry Group Indexes-the fastest way to find business-building contacts; more product categories than ever-over 10,000; 45,000 Companies in 8 different Industry Groups: Manufacturers, Equipment Suppliers, Transportation, Warehouses, Wholesalers, Brokers, Importers, Exporters; Over 80,000 Key Executives; Better Organization for Third Party Logistics Listings include detailed Contact Information, Sales Volumes, Key Contacts, Brand & Product Information, Packaging Details and so much more. Food & Beverage Market Place is available as a three-volume printed set, a subscription-based Online Database via the Internet, as well as mailing lists and a licensable database.

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1592374247

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9781592374243

Beguiled

The Masqueraders Series - Book Three

By: Laura Parker

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Beguiled

The Masqueraders Series - Book Three

By: Laura Parker

Everything has a price — except for love, and revenge… "Laura Parker's innovativeness and beautiful style of writing keep her a head above the rest." — Affaire de Coeur In the darkest hours of her life, disgraced heiress Philadelphia Hunt is approached by a handsome stranger, a Brazilian jewel-miner named Eduardo Tavares. He makes an outrageous proposition—disguise herself and join him in a devious con to swindle America’s upper crust out of their riches. Philadelphia is desperate, and intrigued, by both this enchanting stranger and his promises of her return to high society. But a deeper masquerade is afoot. Little does Philadelphia know that the man responsible for her father’s disgrace and suicide is Eduardo himself, the very man in whose arms she is discovering the scorching heat of desire. And little does Eduardo know that Philadelphia’s thirst for vengeance cannot be quenched. Nor can their passion, as secrets and betrayals set this pair of lovers on a path that will lead to a new life—or to their destruction… "Parker has fun with her characters and their assumed personae, and her love scenes successfully evoke an air of sensuality." — Publisher's Weekly

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Diversion Books

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1626812004

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9781626812000

Broken Dreams: A FREE Heartwarming Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

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Broken Dreams: A FREE Heartwarming Medical Romance

By: Laura Scott

A heartwarming medical romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Laura Scott! Medical drama from the Monroe Family! Can she rebuild her broken dreams? After losing Shane Reinhart, the man she’d hoped to marry, registered nurse Amber Monroe is desperate to put the pieces of her life back together. To do that, she must break free of her family obligations. Moving on shouldn’t be so difficult, but things become complicated when Dr. Nick Tanner enters the picture. Former trauma surgeon turned patient; Nick has come to Milwaukee to return Shane’s personal items to Amber Monroe. Nick’s body and spirit are broken, but meeting the Monroe family begins to heal him in a way he hadn’t thought possible. Yet it’s clear Amber has a plan, one that doesn’t include him. Letting her go isn’t easy. Unless he can find a way to convince her that love is an adventure, too... Enjoy this clean and wholesome medical romance where a family of medical professionals overcome adversity to find love! Fans of Lynn Shannon, Christy Barritt and Lisa Phillips will enjoy this book!

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Laura Iding

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1962275043

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9781962275040

A Tale of Two Murders

By: Laura Thompson

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A Tale of Two Murders

By: Laura Thompson

A riveting account of the notorious “Ilford murder” by the New York Times bestselling author of The Six. The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity. A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause ce´le`bre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she—who had denied knowledge of the attack—was arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt.

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375

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Simon and Schuster

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1681779374

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9781681779379

Rereading the Imperial Romance

British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje

By: Laura Chrisman

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Rereading the Imperial Romance

British Imperialism and South African Resistance in Haggard, Schreiner, and Plaatje

By: Laura Chrisman

Chrisman's book demonstrates how South Africa played an important if now overlooked role in British imperial culture, and shows the impact of capitalism itself in the making of racial, gender and national identities. This book makes an original contribution to studies of Victorian literature of empire; South African literary history; African studies; black nationalism; and the literature of resistance."--BOOK JACKET.

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Clarendon Press

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0198122993

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9780198122999

A Cowboy's Christmas Reunion

An Anthology

By: Sasha Summers,Laura Marie Altom

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A Cowboy's Christmas Reunion

An Anthology

By: Sasha Summers,Laura Marie Altom

A HAPPY REUNION? Way back when, Hunter Boone thought he and Josie Stephens had something that would last forever. Then she got her ticket out of town and took off—alone. The hurt nearly tore him apart. By the time Josie realized she'd made a mistake, Hunter had already married. Now Josie's back in Stonewall Crossing, and while instant fire flares between them, she can't come between the now single dad and his son. As the whole town gets ready for Christmas, Josie finds it hard to avoid Hunter. No matter how much he tempts her with the promise of a future together, she has to tell herself—for her own survival—that relationships just aren't her thing… ALSO INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME A HOME FOR CHRISTMAS by Laura Marie Altom

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267

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Harlequin

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1460388402

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9781460388402

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