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  • Author:
    Parr, Delia
    Summary:

    CBA best-selling author Delia Parr, acclaimed for her award-winning historical romances, concludes her Candlewood trilogy with this stirring sequel to Refining Emma. In a quaint 1840s village in Upstate New York, the genteel...

  • Author:
    Evans, Lissa
    Summary:

    It's late 1944. Hitler's rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity and it's the coldest winter in living memory. In a large house next to Hampstead Heath, Vee Sedge is barely scraping by with a herd of...

  • Author:
    Dangarembga, Tsitsi
    Summary:

    Anxious about her prospects after leaving a stagnant job, Tambudzai finds herself living in a run-down youth hostel in downtown Harare. For reasons that include her grim financial prospects and her age, she moves to a widow's boarding...

  • Author:
    Reiss, Kathryn
    Summary:

    In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.

  • Author:
    Klassen, Julie
    Summary:

    Some guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own ... When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers and her genteel sisters fear they will be forced to sell the house and separate to...

  • Author:
    Taylor, Sandy
    Summary:

    Dublin, 1952. When Mary Kate Ryan receives a surprise inheritance from the woman who abandoned her as a tiny baby, she's stunned. All her life, she has longed to know why her mother disappeared, and now she's devastated to...

  • Author:
    Loveless, Ryan
    Summary:

    In 1932, after Captain Joshua Pascal’s family loses its fortune, the Great War veteran’s sense of duty compels him to help his mother convert his childhood home into a Jewish boarding house. He’s lived openly as a homosexual among his...

  • Author:
    Dallas, Sandra
    Summary:

    On a train bound for Nalgitas, New Mexico, hookhouse proprietor Addie French encounters Emma Roby, a prim and proper lady seeking a new life with a man she's never met. But when they reach Nalgitas, all that awaits the bride-to-be is a...

  • Author:
    Parr, Delia
    Summary:

    When tragedy strikes, Emma graciously welcomes the needy to her boardinghouse. But when two of these guests prove cantankerous, Emma wonders how she and the others will manage. Compounding the turmoil are legal problems that threaten...

  • Author:
    Locke, M. Louisa
    Summary:

    It’s the summer of 1879, and Annie Fuller, a young San Francisco widow, is in trouble. Annie’s husband squandered her fortune before committing suicide five years earlier, and one of his creditors is now threatening to take the...

  • Author:
    Rapp, Adam
    Summary:

    All Francis Falbo has left is his childhood home, whose remaining rooms he rents to a cast of eccentric tenants. He becomes increasingly entangled in their lives, with results that are disastrous, hysterical, and ultimately healing.

  • Author:
    Soles, Caro
    Summary:

    Precocious ten-year-old Vanessa Dudley-Morris knows lots of secrets. In 1949 when she and her family are forced to move into two rooms on the second floor of 519 Jarvis Street in Toronto, a genteel but somewhat rundown rooming house...

  • Author:
    Neels, Betty
    Summary:

    When Dr Oliver Fforde unexpectedly arrived at Amabel's guest house during a winter storm, he made a lasting impression. Amabel didn't expect to see him again, so it was strange how Oliver seemed to reappear every time Amabel...

  • Author:
    Reynolds, Marilynn
    Summary:

    Frank likes everyone in the Grant Street rooming house where he lives with his mother, but old Mrs. Kazinski up in the attic is his special friend. She will be eighty years old on Sunday. Frank needs to find her the best birthday...

  • Author:
    Parr, Delia
    Summary:

    A widow with family far away, 51-year-old Emma fills her loneliness by caring for her boarding house guests and sharing her own special blend of wisdom and humor. One stormy night, a rap at her door interrupts her musings. The 80-year-...

  • Author:
    Steel, Danielle
    Summary:

    Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her relationship with Todd collapses and he moves out. Her leaky house needs total restoration; yet, as the owner of a struggling art gallery, her mortgage still needs paying. So she...

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