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<?=$who;?> Books That Totally Surprised Me These books surprised me by how good they turned out to be. If you've read them please let me know what you think.
List created by Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) - on Aug 15, 2010
List Votes: 2 Books: 29 Contributors: 1 Watchers: 2 List Type: Closed
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BrownEyesBlue
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A Night as Clear as Day by R. J. Rosenblum
After Gaye Foster fled a nightmare marriage to an abusive husband, the quiet town of West Greenlea, New Hampshire, offered the perfect respite. There, with a job as a partner in a rural veterinary clinic and a small, but comfortable, apartment, she would finally be able to start life anew. But...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
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Another Man's Son by Katherine Stone
If Sam Collier's life has taught him anything, it's that promises can't be trusted. . . Especially promises from the people who were supposed to love him. People like his father. . . Ian Collier abandoned him when he was four, and Sam was a drifter for years afterward. He's finally begun to...  more


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Blind Curve (Warner Forever) by Annie Solomon
FROM DARKNESS Bullets are whizzing around him, but he can’t shoot back. In the middle of a weapons bust, undercover cop Danny Sinofsky suddenly goes blind. Now this man who has always looked out for himself can’t cross a room without the help of his mobility instructor, Martha Crowe....  more


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Cry No More by Linda Howard
Count your blessings; they can be snatched away in an instant. It is a sentiment Milla Edge knows too well. With an astonishing blend of savvy, instinct, and passion, Milla displays an uncanny gift for finding lost children. When all seems helpless, desperate souls from across the country come...  more


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Cypress Point by Diane Chamberlain
Mara Sommers and Joelle D'Angelo have been best friends for several years. They have shared everything, including the joy over Mara's first pregnancy. But when something goes terribly wrong during the delivery, Mara is left with brain damage. Alone and grieving, Joelle turns to the only...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
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Duty & Devotion (Faith, Love, and Devotion, Bk 3) by Tere Michaels
After their happily ever after in Faith & Fidelity, Matt and Evan move forward to a new chapter of their lives -- inside the bedroom and out -- with some surprises in store for both. Evan struggles with labels and feelings even as he wants to give in to his baser desires. Matt, now the ideal...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
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Faith & Fidelity (Faith, Love, and Devotion, Bk 1) by Tere Michaels
New York City Vice Detective Evan Cerelli has lost his wife, the only person he ever loved and slept with. He's trying to get on with his life, build a life for his children. Former Homicide Detective Matt Haight is a ladies' man, all sex / no commitment. He's depressed, having a...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Hannah's Dream by Diane Hammond
An elephant never forgets . . . but can she dream? For forty-one years, Samson Brown has been caring for Hannah, the lone elephant at the down-at-the-heels Max L. Biedelman Zoo. Having vowed not to retire until an equally loving and devoted caretaker is found to replace him, Sam rejoices...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Holly by Jude Deveraux
Jude Deveraux, the dazzling New York Times bestselling author of Wild Orchids and Forever and Always delivers a delightful and passionate yuletide tale sure to become a classic this and every holiday season. Hollander "Holly" Latham can't believe her good fortune. After endless calls, letters,...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
The Hot Flash Club (Hot Flash Club, Bk 1) by Nancy Thayer
Meet Faye, Marilyn, Alice, and Shirley. The four founding members of the Hot Flash Club, where the topics of motherhood, sex and men are discussed with double servings of chocolate cake... Faye is an artist and a determinedly cheerful widow. Now she's got a tricky problem to bring to...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
The House On Olive Street by Robyn Carr
When novelist Gabby Marshall dies, she leaves a letter asking her four closest friends, all writers, to organize her literary remains. In the process, they take refuge from their own lives in Gabby's cozy home in Sacramento, Calif. Unsentimental spinster Elly fears her highbrow friends...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Kiss Me While I Sleep (Abridged Audio Cassette) by Linda Howard & Joyce Bean (Nar...
It’s a job that makes a killing. Efficient, professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who can't be touched by the law. Now, after 18 years of service, Lily has been drawn...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
The Last Chance Cafe (Women of Primrose Creek, Bk 5) by Linda Lael Miller
THE LAST CHANCE CAFÉ With acres of land and a house that have been in his family for generations, rancher Chance Qualtrough has deep roots in Primrose Creek.  Now, at the local diner, he is about to encounter his future.  Perhaps it was fate that brought Hallie O'Rourke...  more


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Love & Loyalty (Faith, Love & Devotion, Bk 2) by Tere Michaels
Detective James "Jim" Shea is a Seattle homicide detective who has never taken his work home with him -- until now. A case has gotten under his skin and though it's "over," it isn't for Jim. The emotional toll has left him vulnerable and tied to the victim's dying...  more


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Passing Through Paradise by Susan Wiggs
Less than two years ago Sandra was the happily married wife of Victor Winslow, the favorite son of a town called Paradise, a politician who could do no wrong. Then a mysterious accident took Victor's life, leaving Sandra under a dark cloud of suspicion. Now Sandra has had enough. Her only way...  more


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Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County -- known for its picture-postcard landscapes and bucolic lifestyle. But that peace is shattered by the discovery of a dead infant in the barn of an Amish farmer. A police investigation quickly leads to two startling...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Prospect Street by Emilie Richards
A woman who has lived by everyone else's rules must discover what she is made of when her life crumbles around her. When Faith Bronson's marriage ends abruptly, she finds her privileged life shattered. Only just beginning to face the lie she has lived, she finds sanctuary with her two children...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
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The Ranch (Audio) by Danielle Steel & Ron McLarty
They had been inseparable in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives, settled in different cities, and found successful careers and new roles as mothers and wives. By chance, each would find herself alone for...  more


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BrownEyesBlue
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The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood...  more


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Silent Snow (Weatherman, Bk 2) by Steve Thayer
Rick Beanblossom is the Twin Cities' top investigative reporter. He has it all. A beautiful wife. A brand-new son. But on the March first anniversary of the 1932 Lindbergh kidnapping, all that will change-when history repeats.... At the height of a savage Minnesota blizzard,...  more


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Son of the Morning by Linda Howard
A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of fragile, old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the intriguing legend of the Knights of the Templar -- long fabled to hold the key to...  more


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Sons of Fortune (Audio CD) (Abridged) by Jeffrey Archer & Paul Michael (Narrator)
Jeffrey Archer returns with a powerful tale of twins separated by fate and reunited by destiny.  In Hartford, Connecticut, in the late 1940s, a set of twins is parted at birth.  Nathaniel Cartwright goes home with his parents, a schoolteacher and an insurance salesman, while his twin...  more


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Sundays at Tiffany's (Audio CD) (Unabridged) by James Patterson & Gabrielle Charb...
As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother Vivienne Margaux, the powerful head of a major New York theater company has no time for her. But she does have one friend -- Michael -- and no one can see him but her. But Michael can't stay with Jane forever, and on her eighth birthday, her...  more


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Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) -
Sweet Baby by Sharon Sala
LITTLE GIRL LOST... It all happened a long time ago, so long ago that Tory Lancaster no longer remembered being a little girl who came home to an empty house. Tory is a woman now, trying to leave behind a legacy of abandonment and sorrow, desperate to love but forever afraid to trust. Only...  more


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Wednesday's Child by Gayle Wilson
Susan Chandler's husband vanished without a trace... along with their one-year-old daughter. Now, seven years later, their car has been pulled from a river in some backwater Mississippi town, along with the body of her husband and an empty baby seat. The local sheriff is calling it an accident,...  more


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While My Sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky
Molly and Robin Snow are sisters, and like all sisters they share a deep bond that sustains them through good times and bad. Their careers are flourishing—Molly is a horticulturist and Robin is a world-class runner—and they are in the prime of their lives. So when Molly receives the...  more


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The Missing (FBI Psychics, Bk 1) by Shiloh Walker
True love never dies. HER PSYCHIC GIFT DROVE AWAY THE MAN SHE LOVED -- AND YEARS LATER HAS DRAWN HIM BACK TO HER... As a teenager, Taige Branch hated her psychic gift.  No one could understand -- except for Cullen Morgan, the boy who stole her heart.  He did his best to...  more


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Home Before Dark (Audio Cassette) (Abridged) by Susan Wiggs & Tanya Eby
In her career as a photojournalist, free-spirited Jessie Ryder has seen the world through her camera lens. But she's never traveled far enough to escape a painful moment that has haunted her for the past sixteen years: the day she gave her baby daughter away. Now, facing a life-altering...  more


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Left to Die (Alvarez & Pescoli, Bk 1) by Lisa Jackson
NOTHING'S MORE TERRIFYING... One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work -- but soon, very soon, they will... THAN BEING LEFT...  more


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Comment added 3/25/15 by Nancy D. (miz-firefly) - :
Son of the Morning made me a Fan. The funny thing is I almost gave up on it. I LOVED her writing and the story started out with a BANG. Then slipped into neutral. I actually said to myself 'if this doesn't pick up I'm quitting. Then BAM! Off to the races!

Comment added 8/28/10 by Keitha M. (kmama):
I loved Sundays at Tiffany's. I was pleasantly surprised too.

Comment added 8/21/10 by Nancy W. (BrownEyesBlue) - :
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