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Cousins' war volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
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Descended from Melusina, the river goddess, Jacquetta always has had the gift of second sight. As a child visiting her uncle, she met his prisoner, Joan of Arc, and saw her own power reflected in the young woman accused of witchcraft. They share the mystery of the tarot card of the wheel of fortune before Joan is taken to a horrific death.
22) Endless nights
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Pub. Date
2011.0
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When penniless Michael Rogers discovers the beautiful house at Gypsyś Acre and then meets the heiress Ellie, it seems that all his dreams have come true at once. But he ignores an old womanś warning of an ancient curse, and evil begins to stir in paradise. As Michael soon learns: Gypsyś Acre is the place where fatal "accidents" happens.
24) The Other Woman
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2005.
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At first, Ellie is thrilled to be accepted into the loving Cooper clan and have Dan's mom, Linda, as her "adopted" mother. But then Ellie starts to wonder, how has the intimate civil ceremony she always dreamed of turned into a black-tie affair? And what can Dan and his mother possibly have to talk about on the phone twice a day? When Ellie discovers she's pregnant, she realizes that Linda has only been rehearsing for the real takeover and, in the...
25) Fatal Error
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Alison Reynolds mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
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After successfully completing training at the Arizona Police Academy, Ali Reynolds is furloughed by the Yavapai County Sheriffś Department because of budget cuts. So when Brenda Riley, a former TV journalist gone to seed, asks for help in finding her online fiancé, Ali is game.
26) True Love
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After she mysteriously inherits a nineteenth-century Nantucket house, Alix Madsen gets drawn into the unsolved disappearance of her ancestor two hundred years ago and begins to have feelings for Jared Montgomery, who lives in the property's guesthouse.
27) Wedding belles
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When Georgia announces her plan to marry a notorious family friend, her four best friends investigate his past only to find a slew of unanswered questions and surprises, while Georgia herself struggles to change their minds.
28) The dressmaker
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Tess, an aspiring seamstress, can't believe her good luck when she meets and is hired by famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon to be a personal maid on the Titanic. On board, Tess catches the eye of two men, one a roughly-hewn but kind sailor and the other an enigmatic Chicago millionaire. Then, on the fourth night, disaster strikes. Amidst the chaos and desperate urging of two very different suitors, Tess is one of the last people allowed on a...
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Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a...
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"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice...
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Jason Richter novels volume 2
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The elite American unit known as Task Force TALON continues to battle a Russian terrorist group known as the Consortium, whose leader, Yegor Zakharov, seeks to exploit the porous Mexican border to infiltrate the U.S. and has allied himself with a mysterious Mexican smuggler of drugs and people. When U.S. Border Patrol agents are massacred, the National Security Agency adviser proposes such radical steps as using robots and nanotechnology to protect...
34) Gambit
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 37
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In this confounding whodunit, Wolfe breaks almost all of his rules. Nero is Wolfe accepting a case largely because a pretty woman appeals to his vanity concerning his detecting ability and genius. His new client Sally Blount, first encountered him not in his office, but in the front room, feeding Webster's New International Dictionary.
35) White Fire
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Pendergast novels volume 13
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Special Agent Pendergast arrives at an exclusive Colorado ski resort to rescue his protégée, Corrie Swanson, from serious trouble with the law. His sudden appearance coincides with the first attack of a murderous arsonist who with brutal precision begins burning down multimillion-dollar mansions with the families locked inside. After springing Corrie from jail, Pendergast learns she made a discovery while examining the bones of several miners who...
36) Holiday on ice
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Pub. Date
1997
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6 stories on 3 cds includes: Intro & Santaland diaries; Season's greetings to our friends and family & Based on a true story; Front row center with Thaddeus Bristol & Dinah, the Christmas whore, & Christmas means giving.
37) Twilight
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When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
38) Motor mouth
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At the start of this cool comedy thriller from bestseller Evanovich, her second novel to star Alexandra "Barney" Barnaby (after 2004's Metro Girl), Barney and her unfaithful NASCAR racing honey, Sam Hooker, find themselves in trouble after discovering the shrink-wrapped body of ruthless businessman Oscar Huevo in a rival racer's car hauler. The pair must pull together to protect a high-tech gizmo that can revolutionize racing-and save their lives....
39) Covenant child
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The press called them "Billion Dollar Babies," heirs to one of the largest fortunes in the country. But upon the deaths of their father and grandparents, the court system rips the three-year-olds from the arms of the stepmother who loves them and places them with their cruel maternal grandparents. Though Eloise and Deke Krebbs plan to win that fortune for themselves, what they get for the purpose of raising the children they squander in gambling casinos...
40) Safe haven
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"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...