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1) Life support
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A medical mystery on a racket to rejuvenate the old. It features Toby Harper, a doctor in a retirement community in Boston which caters to the rich. Toby's suspicion is aroused when patients admitted to her hospital exhibit symptoms of a rare disease. By the author of Harvest.
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Miles Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to justice. Then Miles meets Sarah Andrews, Jonah's second-grade teacher. A young woman recovering from a difficult divorce, Sarah moved to New Bern hoping to start over. Tentatively, Miles and Sarah...
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When Jeremy Malory hires Danny, a young woman who grew up on London's streets disguised as a boy, as his upstairs maid, he secretly intends to make her his mistress. But Danny surprises him with her dreams of becoming a refined lady and a gentleman's wife. As she transforms from urchin to elegant beauty before Jeremy's eyes, she unwittingly captivates the charming scoundrel. Now high society tongues are wagging: Who is this mysterious newcomer, and...
5) Rex Mundi
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Chivers Press
Pub. Date
1989
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English
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Holiday on Corfu and an oddly assorted package party, ranging from General Findlay-Duncan and his faded wife to a couple of tough Cockney skin-divers. harry Gilmour, a middle aged antiquarian book dealer, can hardly believe his luck when one of the party's highly attractive girls is drqwn to him. Life seems grand; but there are disquieting intimations the lurking Swede; the fortress - like villa; the mysterious scrap of paper which Harry happens...
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Dales Large Print Books
Pub. Date
1981
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English
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Accused of witchcraft and hunted by Louis XIV fantical Inquisitor, Marietta Riccardi is only rescued from being burned alove by the intervention of Leon de Villeneuve - the Lion of languedoc. Small wonder that she falls in love with. Yet Leon is on his way to marry his childhood sweetheart, Elise, and to him Marietta is nothing but a tiresome peasant girl.......