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81) The pledge
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A college student in New England is killed in a hazing and the dean gives the investigation to a part-Indian student, expecting the youth to rule suicide in gratitude for membership in a fraternity. But Mark Jessy is a man with backbone and his probe leads to the uncovering of a fraternity with criminal ties worldwide.
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Language
English
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Zoe Bascombe has never said no to her family. When she blew her Juilliard audition, she caved to their wishes and went to business school. But when her mother dies and leaves instructions for Zoe to spread her ashes at a place called Wind Chime Beach, she defies her brothers and starts out for a New England town none of them has ever heard of and discovers a side of her garden club mother that her wildest dreams hadn't imagined. Zoe has another family....
86) Little women
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Language
English
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"The beloved story of the March girls is a classic American feminist novel, reflecting the tension between cultural obligation and artistic and personal freedom."--
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Series
Cape Light novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Two unexpected newcomers to Cape Light will teach its residents to put the past behind them and surrender to the power of forgiveness--and love.
89) Heaven and earth
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them--which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her--and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control. Distraction soon arrives in the handsome form of MacAllister...
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Language
English
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Neve Halloran and her daughter Mickey are starting a new life near a wildlife sanctuary in South County, Rhode Island. Mickey becomes friends with a lonely boy who is also fascinated by the creatures of the coasts and Neve is drawn to a man who has devoted his life to the sanctuary.
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Series
Cape Light novels volume 6
Language
English
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Description
As the spirit of the season spreads through the seaside hamlet of Cape Light, town mayor Emily receives an unexpected and precious Christmas gift: a baby girl tucked away in a decorative cradle set up outside the church, with a note begging whoever discovers the child to take care of her. Now, in the midst of the year's most joyous season, Emily must come to terms with her duty to her family, her own feelings of regret and loss-and what her heart...
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Series
Angel Island volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
While filming a movie on Angel Island, actress Charlie Miller falls for local fisherman Colin Doyle after he rescues her from drowning.
Author
Series
Fortune's Rocks Quartet volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Description
In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.
Author
Series
Cape Light novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
In a town like Cape Light, there's always room in the inn. But when hardships bring people together under one roof, things don't always go smoothly.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In Cape Light, Christmas brings unexpected gifts that will never be forgotten as a wounded soldier returns home from the war in Afghanistan and a fiercely independent woman and mother finds the tables turned on her and her old friend.
Author
Series
Angel Island volume 2
Language
English
Description
Liza Martin has booked a June wedding, the first major event at her inn, and hopes everything comes together after noticing tensions between the bride and groom.
100) The road taken
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Language
English
Description
Rose Smith and her daughters witness the great changes in the country through the twentieth century.