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Tasmania, 1874. Growing up in the impoverished tenements along the Hobart Rivulet, Harriet Brown is used to doing whatever it takes to survive. Including, at just twelve years old, shearing off her hair and pretending to be a boy to secure a job as label-paster at the George Peacock and Sons jam factory. Four years later, the deceit becomes too much to bear and Harriet risks everything on the chance at a future with her ambitious friend and workmate Henry Jones. But this decision forces her into a new deception: play the role of expert jam maker, or else be cast out onto the streets.

Summer is here and so is the heat! Working at The Whiskey Bar is just something Buck does to pass the time. Having successfully invested his trust fund years ago, the man doesn't have to do much of anything except enjoy life. But he has dreams of opening his own business. Opportunity knocks, and Buck has the chance to get his own storefront a few doors down from his best bud's bar. The only obstacle in his way is five foot three inches of curvy sassiness, also known as Jan, his buddy's new wife's bestie.

Three sisters in 1920s struggle to make ends meet and protect their mother from their violent father. Milly works in Southwells jam factory. Elsie dreams of a career on the stage, while little Amy runs wild with her friends. All three of the girls fear the unforgiving temper of their father and their courageous attempts to protect their defenseless mother will have dramatic, disastrous consequences for them all.

What was supposed to be a day of morel hunting turns into work for Stormy Morgan and her fiancé, Hunter Ryan, when they accidentally stumble across a body. The victim was a few years behind them in school and almost never left her home.

When Shay Zucconi’s step-grandmother died, she left Shay a tulip farm—under two conditions. First, Shay has to move home to the small town of Friendship, Rhode Island. Second—and most problematic since her fiancé just called off the wedding—Shay must be married within one year.

Bullies never get what’s coming to them. No, I didn’t put poison in their food - I am a jam maker, and food is sacred. But I did plot the most epic plan of revenge. I needed to get one over on the biggest baddest high school bully and prove that I wasn’t the awkward pushover anymore, just like Weston wasn’t the obnoxious teenager anymore. Now, he was a powerful billionaire. Though he’s taller, sexier, bigger, I need to stay on my guard. I know men like Weston don’t really change. Or did he?

In the final installment of Amy Clipston’s bestselling Amish Marketplace series, a young widow struggling to raise her son dreams of one more chance at love. Since her husband died seven years ago, Leanna Wengerd has done her best—caring for her son, Chester, and running her Jam and Jelly...

Clam jam. Definition: the female equivalent of a cock block. Example: You're chatting with a guy you're interested in, and your friend comes along and lays claim to him. That's my life - except it's worse. My friend who keeps "jamming" me is my gay roommate. Fact: He went home with three - yes, three - of the guys I had been so sure were into me. Fact: He's really pissing me off. I'll never manage to get a boyfriend before the age of 50 if he keeps this up. Fact: Secretly, I wonder what it would be like if he weren't gay.

The year is 1909, and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. At 29, she is happily married to her work helping single mothers on the streets of New York. Unfortunately, Angus McCairn - her new stepfather - controls the purse strings to her substantial inheritance. Angus insists she quit...

Andie Carson has to do three things to inherit her grandmother’s lottery winnings - sober up, spend a month running her grandmother’s Georgia coffee shop, and enter homemade jam in the county fair. If she can’t meet those terms, the money goes to the church, and Andie gets nothing. She figures her tasks will be easy enough, and once she completes them, Andie plans to sell the shop, take the money, and run back to Boston.

Meet Bryan Baker, a builder/architect with a big heart and a fondness for sweets - something he's been indulging more since a recent breakup. When he throws his back out lifting holiday turkeys, his doctor brother reads him the riot act and prescribes a fitness program. So he joins a local gym and meets Melanie, a friendly and very pretty personal trainer. He's immediately smitten, but is sure she's way out of his league.

Kurz vor dem 40. Geburtstag, geschieden, Single. Martina sieht dem neuen Lebensjahr kritisch entgegen. Langfristige Ziele hat sie nicht, aber wenigstens einen groben Plan: Alexander, ein ehemaliger Studienkollege und „rein zufällig“ ihr neuer Zahnarzt, soll der neue Mann an ihrer Seite werden. So verlässt sie seine Praxis zwar mit einem Weisheitszahn weniger, aber immerhin mit der Einladung zu einem Date.

Cuando la abuelastra de Shay Zucconi muere, le deja una granja de tulipanes... Pero antes deberá cumplir con dos condiciones: La primera es que Shay tiene que mudarse al pequeño pueblo de Friendship, en Rhode Island. La segunda, y más complicada, sobre todo porque su novio acaba de cancelar la boda, es que Shay debe casarse en el transcurso de un año. Casarse es lo último en lo que piensa Shay, pero está dispuesta a hacer lo que sea para salvar el único hogar de verdad que ha tenido. Noah Barden estuvo enamorado de Shay Zucconi en el instituto, pero nunca se animó a decírselo.