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"1980s Manhattan shimmers like the mirage it was, as money, power, and invincibility seduce a group of young Wall Street turks. Together they reach the pinnacle, achieving the kind of wealth that grants them access to anything--and anyone--they want. Until, one by one, they fall"--
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"Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created."--Amazon.com
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Television news anchor Dana Evans is beautiful and intelligent. She is also fearless, having been a correspondent during the Bosnian war. But when she begins to investigate a string of murders that has wiped out one of America's most prominent families, she is shocked by evidence that points to powerful, international forces.
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On a sultry August day in 1922, Jay Gatsby is shot dead in his West Egg swimming pool. To the police, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of murder/suicide when the body of George Wilson, a local mechanic, is found in the woods nearby. Then a diamond hairpin is discovered in the bushes by the pool, and three women fall under suspicion. Each holds a key that can unlock the truth to the mysterious life and death of this enigmatic millionaire. Daisy...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Kay Lansing marries Peter Carrington, who has a shadow of suspicion hanging over him regarding the death of a neighbor's daughter two decades earlier and the drowning of his first wife four years before; Kay begins to doubt her husband's innocence and uncovers memories that may cost her life.
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For Widow Rose Raber, it's been a year of tragic loss and difficult decisions. She thought providing for her young daughter was the greatest challenge she faced. Until her dying mother revealed that Rose was adopted-and her birth mother is someone with much to lose if the secret comes out. As Rose struggles to reconcile the truth with her faith-and her troubling curiosity-outgoing newcomer Matthias Wagler is another surprise she didn't expect. His...
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2060 New York. Some murders receive more attention than others, especially those in which the victim is a prominent businessman, found in his Park Avenue apartment, tied to the bed, strangled with cords of black velvet. Thomas Anders' scandalous death is a source of speculation to the public - and humiliation to his family. But the facts don't add up. Physical evidence suggests that the victim didn't struggle. A security breach indicates that the...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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A calculating killer who calls himself The Teacher is taking on New York City, killing the powerful and the arrogant. Discovering a secret pattern to The Teacher's lessons, Detective Mike Bennett realizes he has just hours to save New York from the greatest disaster in history.
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"I've been following her for the past few days. I know where she buys her groceries, where she works. I don't know the color of her eyes or what they look like when she's scared. But I will." One night, Mia Dennett enters a bar to meet her on-again, off-again boyfriend. But when he doesn't show, she unwisely leaves with an enigmatic stranger. At first Colin Thatcher seems like a safe one-night stand. But following Colin home will turn out to be the...
10) The husband list
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In New York City in 1894, Caroline Maxwell, having difficulty finding a man to marry from her mother's list of possible suitors, begins to fall in love with her brother's friend and adventurous Irish American Jack Culhane, but worries his lack of a title and family legacy and forces pulling them apart will ruin their relationship.
11) Beach road
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A struggling Long Island lawyer, Tom Dunleavy, recruits a Manhattan superlawyer, Kate Costello, to help him defend a local man accused of murdering three people near a movie star's mansion in East Hampton. The nation is watching what is expected to be a "trial of the century."
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Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesley's promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have...
13) Alone
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An elite sniper is forced to question his instincts when he is accused of shooting the wrong man.
14) The Perfect ruin
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A brutal tragedy ended Ivy Hill's happy family and childhood. Now in her twenties and severely troubled, she feels she hasn't much to live for--until the day she discovers the name of the woman who destroyed her world: Lola Maxwell. As Ivy infiltrates Lola's elite circle and becomes her new best friend will she embed herself into deception and secrets that are too dangerous to survive?
15) The power trip
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Russian billionaire Aleksandr and his supermodel girlfriend invite five powerful and famous couples on his yacht's maiden voyage. Russian mobster Sergei has a grudge against Aleksandr and hires a pirate to take the yacht and its passengers for ransom.
16) Burning wild
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Leopard people volume 3
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Bred for his leopard-shifting abilities, billionaire Jake Bannaconni lives in an emotional vacuum after a tragic twist of fate left him to raise his infant son alone. But when his path crosses that of the enigmatic young Emma Reynolds whom he hires as his son's nanny, Jake becomes inflamed by a passion that he has never fathomed.
17) Eyes only
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"Lush, exclusive Spyder Island is home to many of the world's billionaires. Years ago, Gretchen Spyder, daughter of the island's namesake, gave her twin babies up for legal adoption. Now Gretchen and her father are trying to get them back. The twins' adoptive parents are a loving but poor couple, completely outgunned by the Spyders' wealth. Their only hope lies with Myra Rutledge and her formidable Sisterhood, who are as ready as ever to fight the...
18) A good woman
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Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island. But everything changed on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic shattered her family and her privileged world forever. When she is betrayed, and pursued by a scandal she does not deserve, Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France, hoping to...
19) Love
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May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L: all women obsessed with Bill Cosey. The wealthy owner of the famous Cosey's Hotel and Resort, he shapes their yearnings for father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend, yearnings that dominate the lives of these women long after his death. Yet while he is either the void in, or the center of, their stories, he himself is driven by secret forces - a troubled past and a spellbinding woman named Celestial....
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