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Lucia Vega is on a winning streak. Her book, Throw Away the Key, has taken the country by storm. And now it's being made into a movie. After years of chasing it, she can finally taste freedom. Reece Carras is one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. Handsome, rich, and generous, he's everything girls like her aren't supposed to dream of. But dream she does. And in his strong arms she finds a freedom she never even knew existed. Falling in love was...
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Joaquín, a young man whose perception of love is affected by a distant and broken upbringing, struggles to balance a connection between his best friend Carol (a reckless photographer) and the unexpected arrival of a romance that questions his expectations of happiness. In Spanish with English subtitles.
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Not all monsters are make-believe.
When a badly mutilated body washes up on the shores of Loch Ness, DCI Jack Logan's dream of a quiet life in the Highlands is shattered.
While the media speculates wildly about monster attacks, Jack and the Major Investigations Team must act fast to catch the killer before they can strike again.
But with Nessie-hunters descending on the area in their dozens, and an old enemy rearing his ugly head, the case could...
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Blood's Thicker Than Water is a story of Sex, Money, Murder and family ties in the heart of the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Two crews collide and leave a blood-bath in the streets; News reporters and local on-lookers are left speechless as Police and Medical personnel scrape up the pieces that the M.O.B and Yayo Boyz violently left behind.
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"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister has a very inconvenient habit of killing her boyfriends. "Femi makes three, you know. Three and they label you a serial killer." Korede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality...
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Blood Is Thicker Than Water is a modern take on the age-old dilemma faced by many heroes and heroines throughout the ages-when faced with the life-and-death choice of family you're born to versus family you choose, what's your decision? Lisa is a happily married African American woman whose dysfunctional family creates constant upheaval, which culminates in their pressure on her to save the life of her drug-addicted brother instead of her loving husband...
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It all seems straightforward. There's been a tragic accident: the old man fell asleep in his chair, woke up in the dark, fell and hit his head on the mantelpiece. But the Crime Scene Manager isn't happy. There are just too many details that aren't quite right and Charles Michaelson's accident becomes a suspicious death.
And, as DCI Warren Jones investigates, he and his team discover that all is not as it appears to be in the dead man's caring family...
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Some people do sensational acts to attract mass, or world attention to themselves. Why some cowards even defected to their country's enemy? This story is, described and examined, this kind of people, 2 defectors from the Soviet Union, who defected to the United States. These defectors lived privileged lives in the Soviet Union (they were not poor). One was-Svetlana Alliluyeva (daughter of the President of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin). And, another...
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Get the Summary of Kerry Washington's Thicker than Water in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Thicker than Water" is a deeply personal narrative by Kerry Washington, chronicling her life from her early days on the set of "Scandal" to the complexities of her family history. Washington shares her experiences filming her final scene as Olivia Pope, reflecting on her character's evolution and her own sense of liberation....
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Flash Gordon volume 17
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Flash intercepts a baby who's been marked for death, which leads him and Aura to the Deviates' lair, where they learn a shocking secret. Meanwhile, Zarkov & Baylin search for the lost rift blaster; and Joe ends up aligned with the enemies.
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Wolfblood volume 4
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Rhydian is reunited with his father – but why has he really come? And why is Dacia so interested in him and the wild Wolfblood's?
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Give Some Chenoa, a single mother struggling to graduate high school and attend college, seems to get herself into situations that her sister, Deloris, believes are a result of naivety and lack of experience. After being abandoned by her son's father, Lance, and victimized by her teacher, Mr. Smith, when he tries to redefine the meaning of "extra" in extra credit, Chenoa steps out on a limb and decides to trust men again when she meets Sean, the fire...
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Why isn't there more revenge in the world? The courts are constantly failing victims of crime, just as they failed Antonina Downing. So much so that she determined to set out on a course of action that would put right the wrongs that had been done to her. Except that her plan spiralled out of control and led in a direction she least expected, towards a second catastrophe.
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Arctic Air volume 11
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Krista's mother pays a visit to Yellowknife and throws Krista's life into turmoil.
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Legends aren't built overnight. In fact, they take decades of hard work, long days, and selfless sacrifice-if one is lucky. Huerta Cigars is a result of the combined passion of patriarch Alejandro Huerta, who emigrated from pre-Castro Cuba to Nicaragua, and his sons Roberto and Manuel. Their unwavering dedication to their dream of producing the best cigars made for a success. Upon Roberto's passing he left the cigar empire to his only daughter, Sofia,...
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Gold Medal Families volume 3
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As Diver Steele Johnson continues to mend from a recent triceps injury, his family turns to their faith for guidance. Boxer Jajaira Gonzalez focuses on losing 6 pounds before her Olympic Trials fight in just 2 weeks.
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Tiger and Bunny volume 17
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Troubled by the recent events, Kotetsu decides to take a vacation and visit his hometown.