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2024.
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"Solenne Bonet is DoS--a Descendant of Slave--and has always known that her destiny would be in the service of men. At school, it is what she has been trained for, waiting for an algorithm to assign her to a white man, one of the thousands who sign up to be contract holders. She knows that there are girls who hope to be more than Maid or Mammy, who whisper about how they will get a white man to sign their freedom, how they will be sweet, but not sweet...
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Weston Gallagher is falling hard-for the wrong woman. One night of passion has haunted him for years. Now he's got a second chance to get the girl of his dreams ... but there's just one problem: She hates him. Eight years after he stormed out of Wildwood, California, West has returned to his hometown as a firefighter. His friends and family are thrilled he's back-with the exception of Harper Hill. His sister's best friend is all grown up and in all...
43) Limehouse Nights
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"Thomas Burke paints an enduring portrait of London's East End At the beginning of the twentieth century, the East End of London was a filthy and violent neighborhood, a place where a man was more likely to get a knife in his stomach than a good dinner. It was worlds away from the fashionable district it has become more than a century later. In this gripping collection of stories, author Thomas Burke traverses the area and offers glimpses of life...
44) The partner plot
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2024.
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"Two former high school sweethearts get a second chance in this marriage of convenience romance. To Violet Greene, fashion is everything. As a successful celebrity stylist, she travels all over the world, living out her dreams. Professionally, she's thriving, but her personal life is in shambles. After surviving a very public breakup with her ex-fiance six months ago, Violet is now determined to focus on her career. But life hands her something--or...
45) My luck charm
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"It’s early morning at the cabin. A girl tucks her honeybee good luck charm in her pocket and sets out to catch fish for everyone’s breakfast. She can smell the pine trees, hear the birds, and see the squirrels. But when her line snaps taut and a fish is right on the rock with her, gasping for air, her excitement turns into concern." --publisher's website
46) Stark Realities
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"A thrilling World War One adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. It is October 1918 and Germany is suing for peace. All U-boats have been ordered home from patrol. Among them is U81, commanded by Otto von Mettendorff : young, dynamic, and infatuated with a girl who works near Wilhelmshaven, the port U81 is now returning to. Unfortunately, U81 is holed by a destroyer on its way home. Meanwhile in London, Anne Laurie , a...
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2024.
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Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania, feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't, the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't...
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From actresses Tia and Tamera Mowry comes the second book in their delightful Twintuition series about the superspecial -- and sometimes supernatural -- bond between sisters! In Double Trouble , identical twins Cassie and Caitlyn Waters have adjusted to small-town life in Aura, Texas, but they're still not used to seeing visions of the future. And their Sight is only getting stronger as their twelfth birthday nears! But even with this new gift, neither...
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2024.
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"When it comes to seeing the future—do you really want to know? Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale equestrian team. But when she comes back from her junior year abroad with newfound confidence, she finds that the group has been infiltrated by a mysterious intruder: Annelise Tattinger. A talented tarot reader and a brilliant rider, the enigmatic Annelise is unlike anyone Rosie has ever...
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In 1950s London, a career girl decides it's high time she snared herself a husband, in Margery Sharp's high-spirited New York Times–bestselling novel Professional dog photographer Louisa Datchett is indiscriminately fond of men. And men take shocking advantage of her good nature when they need their problems listened to, their socks washed, their prescriptions filled, and employment found. But by the age of thirty, Louisa is tired of constantly...
51) Lammas
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"A serving girl vanishes in this mystery story set in sixteenth-century Scotland... Elspet, a serving girl at the harbor inn, has been told for years by the inn's owner, Walter Bone, that she is ugly and that no man will ever want her. Then, after years of being shut away from the world, she unexpectedly catches the attention of a young laborer and realizes she has been lied to all these years. She meets her lover in secret at the Lammas day fair,...
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Special Agent Riley Kincaid was fearless when it came to hunting ruthless criminals. But he was clueless when it came to marriage. Even a pretend one. Now, faced with a gorgeous single mother who needed protection from the killer next door, Riley was forced to play the doting husband and loving father ... then walk away when the danger had passed. Too bad nobody warned him that Lana Tyler and her little girl could stir up feelings Riley had firmly...
53) Woman in Black
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"Best friends as girls, a housekeeper's daughter and a daughter of privilege find their fortunes reversed when they meet as adults in this sweeping saga of secrets, betrayal, and friendship by " New York Times-bestselling author Eileen Goudge The caretaker's cottage is the only home fifteen-year-old Abigail Armstrong has ever known. She and her mother, Rosalie, work for the well-to-do Meriwhethers. Lila Meriwhether is Abigail's best friend, and Abigail...
54) Swanna in love
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[2024]
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"It's the summer of 1982 and fourteen-year-old Swanna Swain is the only one left at camp. The place is a ghost town by the time her mother Val finally shows up six hours late--stoned and radiant--in a Ford pickup driven by Borislav, her new young Russian lover. Assuming she is headed home to her air-conditioned Upper West Side apartment, Swanna and her lovable younger brother Madding are instead dragged to Vermont-- to an artist colony where kids...
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Wales is a Celtic country and the Celts have always treasured oral learning and recitation. Indeed they have a passion for committing facts to memory rather than relying on the written word. So it is no surprise, as we can see from Anne Ross's study, that Welsh folklore and story-telling is so rich and varied. In addition to examining the part played by the medieval church in this oral tradition, individual chapters cover legends associated with place-names;...
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"A deeply validating manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America today, and an argument that the former needs a reboot-from journalist and proud divorcée Lyz Lenz. Studies show that nearly 70 percent of divorces are initiated by women-women who are tired, fed up, exhausted, and unhappy. We've all seen how the media portrays divorcées: sad, lonely, drowning their sorrows in a bottle of wine....
57) Mary Wolf
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Permanently on the road, a teenage girl struggles to keep her family together
Sixteen-year-old Mary Wolf can remember when her family lived in a house, when her father was a successful insurance executive who would jump through sprinklers with his briefcase just to make her laugh. But he never got back on his feet after his business collapsed, and he had to move the whole Wolf family into a giant RV, taking them on the road for a permanent...
Sixteen-year-old Mary Wolf can remember when her family lived in a house, when her father was a successful insurance executive who would jump through sprinklers with his briefcase just to make her laugh. But he never got back on his feet after his business collapsed, and he had to move the whole Wolf family into a giant RV, taking them on the road for a permanent...
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Leo Haggerty put his life on the line to investigate a mysterious woman Her name is Sarabeth Timmons, and she grew up tough. A twelve-year-old runaway, Sarabeth spent her teen years squatting and turning tricks, and her twenties on the road with one of California's roughest motorcycle gangs. Nothing good has ever happened to her-until now. Sarabeth has come forward to claim a $630,000 inheritance. Finally, she tells the court, her life can begin anew....
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2024.
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"College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies to lovers, second chance romance, the highly anticipated companion novel to the TikTok sensation The Cheat Sheet-from the New York Times bestselling author of Practice Makes Perfect. Nora Mackenzie's entire career lies in the hands of famous NFL tight end Derek Pender who also happens to be her extremely hot college ex-boyfriend. Nora didn't end things as gracefully as...
60) Fate breaker
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Realm breaker volume 3
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"Armed with Taristan's sword, the only Spindleblade left in existence, Corayne must stop him and Queen Erida from bringing forth their demon god to destroy the world"--
Change your fate--or kneel to it. The Companions are scattered and hopeless, torn from each other. After Corayne barely escapes with her life, she must forge on alone, leaving her blade broken and her allies behind her. Her only consolation--Corayne now has Taristan's sword, the only...
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