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After the death of her father, Georgiana Hartley returns home to England - only to be confronted with the boorish advances of her cousin. Knowing no one, she flees to Dominic Ridgely's state, hoping the nobleman will bestow a neighborly kindness upon her.
The viscount hears Georgiana's plea to find her a position as a lady's companion with barely concealed ill humor. A lovely innocent such as Miss Hartley subjected to that wretched existence?...
The viscount hears Georgiana's plea to find her a position as a lady's companion with barely concealed ill humor. A lovely innocent such as Miss Hartley subjected to that wretched existence?...
2) Blue shoe
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The discovery of a small blue rubber shoe and other trifles left years ago in her deceased father's car, sends Mattie Ryder and her brother on a quest to uncover the secrets of their childhood, and brings Mattie, in the throes of divorce and single motherhood, to a new understanding of her parents and herself.
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Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps--and nothing about weres. Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works--and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it. But there's a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race...
5) Bed of lies
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One very bad night, after more than a few drinks, the most perfect guy in the world falls apart and ends up in bed with Julie. She understands. It happens. It doesn't have to mean anything, she claims, but she's lying to herself. One night in bed with Zach -- who happens to be her childhood best friend's older brother -- and there goes Julie's carefully constructed life and his. Soon, they can't stop thinking about each other, can't stop wanting each...
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CIA superagent Mitch Rapp battles global terrorism in a high-octane follow-up to The New York Times bestselling Separation of Power -- another chillingly authentic adventure from the master of the political thriller. Mitch Rapp's cover has been blown. After leading a team of commandos deep into Iraq to prevent Saddam Hussein from joining the nuclear arms race, he was publicly hailed by the president as the single most important person in the fight...
7) The playboy
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Local police officer and eligible bachelor Rick Chandler asks runaway bride Kendall Sutton to pose as his pretend lover after his "desperately ill" mother asks him to provide her with grandchildren.
8) Bad move
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Paranoid writer Zack Walker moves his family from the city to the safety of the suburbs, but when he stumbles across the body of a dead environmentalist in a nearby creek, havoc ensues as he goes in search of the killer.
9) Two time
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All ex-boxer, ex-corporate executive Sam Aquillo wants to do is hammer a few nails into his ramshackle cottage, drink a great deal of vodka, hang out with his dog, Eddie, and stay out of trouble. But trouble seems to find him anyway. When a car bomb outside a trendy waterfront restaurant kills a prominent financial consultant and injures Sam and his lawyer friend Jackie Swaitkowski, he is drawn into the investigation. Where the police have met roadblocks,...
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Katherine O'Conner spends her days writing Christmas letters for other people, making their lives sound interesting and dramatic, perfectly happy with the lack of interest and drama in her own life, until Dr. Wynn Jeffries shows up and changes Katherine's views of the world and sparks a passion she didn't know existed.
11) Deadly Gamble
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"She's got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but her home-sweet-home is Bad-Ass Bert's Biker Saloon. She'd love to go deep undercover with an irresistibly hot cop, but he's got baggage as big as his biceps. She's survived a mysterious tragedy, but Mojo Sheepshanks hasn't quite figured out who she really is or how to get on with her life. And now the wisecracking Mojo is seeing ghosts--the real, ectoplasmic kind--and turning up baffling clues...
12) Fool me once
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"Olivia Lowell always believed her father's claim that her mother died in childbirth, until the shocking day a lawyer informs her that her mother has just passed away, leaving her a fortune. The money comes with a caveat--and a confession. In her will, Olivia's mother reveals that she and two college friends committed a crime long ago, and now she wants Olivia to track down her accomplices and convince them to come clean. Feeling betrayed by her father,...
13) Iris and Ruby
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The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
16) Sharp objects
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Words are like a road map to reporter Camille Preaker's troubled past. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, Camille's first assignment from the second-rate daily paper where she works brings her reluctantly back to her hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. Since she left town eight years ago, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with...
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Taking what he hopes will be his first long-term job, lonely department store security officer Chaz McConnell reaches out to a four-year-old child, while Gloria Bailey, a charity worker who has taken in a single pregnant woman and a cantankerous senior, struggles with ensuing personality clashes.
20) Comfort and joy
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Contains four stories of contemporary holiday romance, including Fern Michaels' title work in which professional gift wrapper Angie Bradford, constantly at odds with Josh Eagle, manager of the Eagle Department Store where her business is based, needs a miracle to save the day when a storm threatens to destroy the Christmas shopping season, and Josh appears ready to give up on the store.
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