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21) The awkward age
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Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting...
22) Ink and bone
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Hollows novels volume 05
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2016.
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In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman's mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl's disappearance. For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things...
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A young woman, Cytherea Graye, is forced by poverty to accept a post as lady's maid to the eccentric Miss Aldclyffe, the woman whom her father had loved but had been unable to marry. Cytherea loves a young architect, Edward Springrove, but Miss Adclyffe's machinations, the discovery that Edward is already engaged to a woman whom he does not love, and the urgent need to support a sick brother drive Cytherea to accept the hand of Aeneas Manston, Miss...
24) Inescapable
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Lizzie Engel is used to running away. At eighteen, she left her Mennonite hometown, her family and her faith with plans never to return. Five years later, Lizzie finds she'll have to run again. False accusations at her job, a stalker, and a string of anonymous threatening letters have left her with no other options. This time, however, her escape is back to Kingdom, her hometown. There, with the support of old friend Noah Housler, Lizzie hides out...
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All Beth Gallatin really wanted out of life was to settle down in one town, with one man, and raise a family. But with her father's roaming ways, she's always been denied that dream. With her father's passing, she can, for the first time, dare to claim the rugged Montana frontier as her home. Nick Lassiter has loved Beth since she first came to town, but she always seemed to think of him as a brother. Can Nick and Beth find a love that will last forever?...
26) Queen of babble
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Queen of babble novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Lizzie Nichols has a problem, and it isn't that she doesn't have the slightest idea what she's going to do with her life or that she's blowing what should be her down payment on a cute little Manhattan apartment on a trip to London to visit her long-distance boyfriend, Andrew. But what's the point of planning for the future when she's done it again? See, Lizzie can't keep her mouth shut. And it's not just that she can't keep her own secrets, she can't...
27) Amelia's journey
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Winds across the prairie volume Prequel
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For Ben Haynes it is love at first sight, but can a Boston socialite find true happiness with a cowboy from Kansas?
Once childhood friends, Ben Haynes is taken with Amelia Carlyle when he runs into her at her sister’s wedding. Although he will be returning to Kansas and life on his father’s ranch, Ben calls on Amelia several times, and they find they have more in common than they first realized. As he leaves for Kansas, they...
Once childhood friends, Ben Haynes is taken with Amelia Carlyle when he runs into her at her sister’s wedding. Although he will be returning to Kansas and life on his father’s ranch, Ben calls on Amelia several times, and they find they have more in common than they first realized. As he leaves for Kansas, they...
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Lizzie searches for love volume 1
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2010.
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A hot-tempered, high-spirited teenaged girl who hates housework, dislikes babies, and loves driving fast horses tries to fit in among the members of her Amish community. Based on the true experiences of the author's extended family.
29) Return to me
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Roxy Burke returns home after trying to become a star in Nashville and squandering her inheritance from her grandmother, sparking upset in her family as her sister, Elena, now engaged to Wyatt, the boyfriend Roxy abandoned, resents their father's ready acceptance of Roxy back into the fold, and Wyatt, now a minister, has doubts about marrying Elena; meanwhile, Roxy struggles to accept her father's forgiveness.
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"When she is forced to leave her beloved Prince Edward Island to attend Lakeside Ladies Academy after the death of her parents, the last thing Adelaide Rose MacNeill expects to find is three kindred spirits. The "Ladies of the Lake," as the four girls call themselves, quickly bond like sisters, vowing that wherever life takes them, they will always be there for each other. But that is before: Before love and jealousy come between Adelaide and Dorothy,...
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"A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical novel. In Nina George's New York Times bestseller The Little Paris Bookshop, literary apothecary Jean Perdu was inspired to create a floating bookstore after reading a pseudonymous novel about a young woman with a remarkable gift. The Little Village of Book Lovers is that novel. "Everyone knows me, but none can see me. I'm...
32) Velvet song
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Alyx Blackett and Raine Montgomery were both outcast from their homes. Would their passion end the raging family feud?
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Following the end of the Civil War, three young women flee a vindictive uncle. On their journey they encounter a young pregnant slave who is looking for freedom, a Cherokee Scout who finds a place of refuge for them, and a group of war-weary soldiers who rescue them from a cotton field fire.
35) Embers of love
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In 1885 the logging industry in eastern Texas is booming, and Deborah Vandermark plans to assist her family's business now that she's completed college. Then she meets Dr. Christopher Clayton, sparking her interest not only in medicine and science, but the doctor, too. But when typhoid begins to spread and her best friend's jilted fiancé returns, Deborah wonders if true love can overcome such obstacles--for those dearest to her, and for herself.
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In 1876 Deadwood, South Dakota, twenty-year-old Mattie O'Keefe, having left a job working at a gambling house as a singer, looks for her younger brother while struggling with the temptation of gold mining and the message of a handsome preacher who warns against the storing of riches.
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Emma Raber's daughter volume 3
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In book 3 of the Emma Raber's Daughter series, Amish fiction author Jerry Eicher brings the faith-filled journey of Katie Raber to its happy conclusion. Katie Raber is trying to put her life back together after Ben Stoll's devastating betrayal of her love. When she is baptized into the church, she receives a surprising offer that will keep her close to her Amish community--much to her mother's delight. But soon Ben is back in her life again--and at...
38) Hearts aglow
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The future should be bright for Deborah Vandermark, who is now pursuing her interest in medicine alongside Dr. Christopher Clayton, who is courting her. But the lumber town is resistant to the idea of a woman physician, and she feels thwarted at every turn. A more devastating blow occurs, however, when Christopher breaks off their relationship to return home to his troubled family.
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Kommandant's girl volume 00
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"Paris, 1919. The world's leaders have gathered to rebuild from the ashes of the Great War. But for one woman, the City of Light harbors dark secrets and dangerous liaisons, for which many could pay dearly. Brought to the peace conference by her father, a German diplomat, Margot Rosenthal initially resents being trapped in the congested French capital, where she is still looked upon as the enemy. But as she contemplates returning to Berlin and a life...
40) The 9th girl
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The 9th Girl focuses on the ninth unidentified body to turn up in Minneapolis in 2012, nicknamed Jane Doe 9. When Kovac and Liska take on the case, they discover a shocking fact: This victim has been found without any identifiable characteristics, except for those that peg her as an adolescent girl. Before the investigation is through, the case will take the two detectives deep into the life and death of a teenage girl who wanted nothing more than...
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