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3101) Hang the moon: a novel
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2023.
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"Most folk thought Sallie Kincaid was a nobody who'd amount to nothing. Sallie had other plans. Sallie Kincaid is the daughter of the biggest man in a small town, the charismatic Duke Kincaid. Born at the turn of the 20th century into a life of comfort and privilege, Sallie remembers little about her mother who died in a violent argument with the Duke. By the time she is just eight years old, the Duke has remarried and had a son, Eddie. While Sallie...
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"Born on Christmas, Angela Stark has always hated the holiday. Bad things always seem to happen and this year is no exception when she is fired and evicted on the first day of December. She was living and working as a maid in San Francisco. Who will hire her at this time of year, especially if they learn why she was fired? Her only family is Sam, an elderly and quite vocal orange cat. Her only option is to stay temporarily with her best friend Jane,...
3103) Ruby among us: a novel
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In this captivating read from author Tina Ann Forkner, Ruby Among Us examines the power of memory and how it reaches across generations, seeking to be known.
Lucy DiCamillo is safely surrounded by her books, music, and art—but none of these reclusive comforts or even the protective efforts of her grandmother, Kitty, can shield her thoughts from the mother she longs to recall. Lucy senses her grandmother holds the key to her lost memories, but Kitty...
3104) The longest road
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The poignant and captivating story of one young woman's journey across America during the Dust Bowl years. After a violent dust storm leaves their mother dead and the family farm in ruins, twelve-year-old Laurie Field and her younger brother, Buddy, believe their world has ended when their grieving, debt-ridden father brings them to live with their reprobate grandfather in the Oklahoma Panhandle, promising to send for them when he finds one of those...
3105) An independent woman
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The dazzling conclusion to Fast's Immigrants saga brings a memorable close to the story of the Lavette family In the sixth and final installment of the Immigrants saga, Fast revisits the charismatic Barbara Lavette. In this emotional farewell, Barbara, the rock and matriarch of her family, marries a Unitarian priest, and together they travel the world. Though Fast wrote over eighty books, including Spartacus, April Morning, and Freedom Road, his Immigrants...
3107) If he's wild
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"Lady Alethea Vaughn Channing is haunted by a vision of a man in danger-- the same man who she has seen in dreams time and time again. She doesn't even know his name, and yet she feels the connection between them, knows she is the only one standing between him and disaster.But rakish Lord Hartley Greville is capable of protecting himself, as he has proven more than once in his perilous work as a spy for the crown. If he's to carry out his duty, he'll...
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La Faute de l'abbé Mouret est un roman d'Émile Zola paru en 1875, le cinquième volume de la série Les Rougon-Macquart. Faisant suite à La Conquête de Plassans, c'est le second ouvrage de la série qui traite du catholicisme. Le thème en est la vie d'un prêtre déchiré entre sa vocation religieuse et l'amour d'une femme.
Le héros, Serge Mouret, est le fils de François et de Marthe Mouret, personnages principaux du précédent roman. Ordonné...
3109) Dawn
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This classic debut novel is a dramatic Victorian-era family saga of love and greed from the author of the Allan Quatermain series.
Brantham Abbey has been in the Caresfoot family since the reign of King Henry VIII, after a knight sold the property to one of their ancestors. The current head of the household is "Devil" Caresfoot, and through his fifty years of leadership, the family has come to live opulently. But all that can change . . .
On...
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THE ONLY MAN TO SEE BEYOND HER COLD BEAUTY...
Disgraced lady Charity West lives in the dark world of the city's seedy underbelly. She's used and abused, yearning for freedom, and her distrust of men runs deep...until she meets Highland rogue Logan Gilvry.
Whisky runner Logan lives outside the law and is used to looking danger in the eye. Charity may just prove to be his most dangerous challenge yet. Her beauty is unrivaled, but it's her fire...
3111) A Safe Haven
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Four orphans struggle to find new lives and fresh hope in this poignant historical saga from the author of To Dream Again and Daughter of the River.
When Amy Kennedy is sent from Lambeth Workhouse to Devon alongside her closest friends Seth, Jed and Daisy, it finally seems like life is taking a turn for the better. But life at the seaside is not the safe haven they'd hoped for.
Though Amy finds a happy escape from her difficult job in...
3112) Torn Series
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Pamela Ann... comes a novel about friendship, betrayal and second chances.
"The best kind of revenge is to let him see how strong and beautiful you are, with or without him."
When Emma realized that she fell in love with the notorious womanizer, Carter Mason-the badass Soccer athlete-she bailed and jumped ship, knowing quite well how this will turn out if Carter ever finds out about how she felt about him.
Newly single, Emma parties in Hollywood amongst...
3113) Fire Wolf
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For the sake of her family, she accepts to tutor Alpha's granddaughter. She also becomes a part of the Werewolf academy. Her life was normal. Until, she comes face-to-face with Alphas's king, Dastien. She couldn't rein the tug. She feels at her heart in his presence and his absence, she couldn't take him off of her mind. She couldn't comprehend, why was this happening to her? Emma knows the shifters' world is full of danger. She isn't made for it....
3114) Ravished by the Rake
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Danger and desire volume 1
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Rough seas ahead for childhood friends reunited on a ship bound for England from India in this sexy historical romance adventure.
Vivacious lady Perdita Brooke prides herself on her social poise . . . except when faced with devastatingly dashing Alistair Lyndon. The dreamy young man Dita once knew is now a hardened rake, who clearly does not remember their passionate night together . . . however much it's emblazoned on her memory!
Now Dita has...
3115) The Forgotten Daughter
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When an heiress on a secret mission gets into trouble, she just might uncover her heart's true desire in this Roaring 20s romance.
Minnesota, 1925. Quiet and reserved, Josie Nightingale has always been the odd girl out. While her sisters swoon over guys at their father's swanky resort, she's busy trying to change the world! Which isn't easy with Eric 'Scooter' Wilson watching her every move.
She might be out of his league, but the day Scooter...
3116) The Journey
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The gravestone's inscription reads, "A man of courage. He made the greatest sacrifice of all. " At the final resting place of Barney Davidson, in the hills of Bedfordshire, Ben Morgan first encounters Lucy and her grown daughter, Mary, on a snowswept afternoon in 1952. It is a meeting that will profoundly change all three -- a mother bowed but unbroken by stark tragedy, a young woman strangely untouched by the harshness of the world, and a loner seeking...
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A highlander seeking revenge must keep his promise to help a beautiful widow in this Scottish historical romance.
Dundee, Scotland, 1822. Though he bears the scars of betrayal, Andrew Gilvry was once a devastatingly handsome man. Though he craves vengeance for his brother's treachery, he has returned to Scotland to fulfill a noble promise made to a dying man. The widowed Rowena MacDonald has been entrusted to his care, and Drew must do all he can...
3118) Reflections
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A historical saga "continues to develop themes of family and community, forgiveness and atonement in this . . . upbeat [yet] emotionally fraught, sequel" (Booklist).
When an old lover reappears, it has far-reaching consequences for those in the Cornish village of Portcowl . . .
Beth Tresalie has been happily reconciled with her estranged mother for over a year, and is looking forward to her best friend Kitty Copeland spending Christmas...
3119) Leaving Shades
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When Beth returns to her childhood home, she discovers that much of her life has been based on deception...After a tragic miscarriage, Beth Tresaile returns to Owles House, the place of her miserable childhood, accompanied by her best friend, Kitty Copeland. Beth is determined to get revenge on her estranged mother, Christina, who neglected and abandoned her. But Beth slowly begins to discover that much of her childhood was built on deception.
Kitty...
3120) The Queen's lady
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Thornleigh novels volume 1
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London, 1527. Marry or serve: for Honor Larke, the choice is clear. Unwilling to perish of boredom as an obedient wife, she leaves the home of her ward to attend Her Majesty, Queen Catherine of Aragon. But life at Henry VIII's court holds more than artifice for an intelligent observer, and Honor knows how to watch--and when to act...
Angered by the humiliation heaped upon her mistress as Henry cavorts with Anne Boleyn and presses Rome for a divorce,
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