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1) Hissy fit
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Keeley Murdock's wedding should have been the social event of the season in Madison, Georgia. But when she catches the groom with the maid of honor at the rehearsal dinner, Keeley throws the hissy fit of the century, cancels the wedding, and begins a series of events culminating in sweet revenge against her cheating ex-fiance.
3) Persuasion
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Twenty-seven-year old Anne Elliot is Austen's most adult heroine. Eight years before the story proper begins, she is happily betrothed to a naval officer, Frederick Wentworth, but she precipitously breaks off the engagement when persuaded by her friend Lady Russell.
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This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
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2015.
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Español
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La poderosa y hosca figura de Heathcliff domina Cumbres Borrascosas, novela apasionada y tempestuosa cuya sensibilidad se adelantó a su tiempo. Los brumosos y sombríos páramos de Yorkshire son el singular escenario donde se desarrolla con fuerza arrebatadora esta historia de venganza y odio, de pasiones desatadas y amores desesperados que van más allá de la muerte y que hacen de ella una de las obras más singulares y atractivas de todos los...
7) The Saint
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Highland Guard novels volume 5
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[2012]
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English
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"Magnus MacKay is the ultimate Highlander: tough, proud, able to master any terrain and to best his enemies. Called 'the Saint' for his refusal to discuss women, as well as for his cool and steady leadership, Magnus hides a painful truth. It isn't virtue or piety that keeps him silent, but a wound of love and loss that cuts so deep he cannot bear to speak of it. But when the woman who refused him is betrothed to his friend and fellow Guardsman, Magnus...
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At 17, Rosalind "Lin" Townsend finds herself pregnant and alone. Her father, deeply religious yet cruel, throws her out of the house. Nick Pemberton, her baby?s father and the man she naively hoped might marry her, rejects her. Yet even at the lowest point in her life, Lin vows to succeed on her own terms, and to give her son, Will, all the love and happiness she?s been denied. Nineteen years later, Lin has made good on her promises. She?s the owner...
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2019.
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Español
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"Un amor sorpresivo. Una ruptura incomprensible. Dos caras de una misma moneda. ¿Cómo puede convertirse el amor más luminoso y feliz en violencia que lastima, en ausencia que duele? La anónima protagonista de esta novela ha sido expulsada de la vida del ser amado. Viviendo una relación feliz y estable con un hombre, descubrió el verdadero y más completo amor en una mujer. Sin pensarlo dos veces, tomó el riesgo y se lanzó hacia un romance...
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2024.
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English
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"Jen has dumped Andy, and he's handling the breakup in exactly the way all his friends and family might have expected: very, very badly. Crashing at his mother's house and obsessively photographing his hairline, Andy embraces the rites and rituals of every breakup-the ill-advised decision to move onto a houseboat, the forced merriment of a lads' night out, the accidental late-night text to the ex-all resulting in a never-ending shame spiral. Even...
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[2006]
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English
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Your own daughter...one of the popular girls?
On the first day of middle school, Lydia Meadows, a former lawyer turned full-time mother, is startled to discover that her daughter Erin is one of the popular girls, a tight foursome whose mothers are also great friends. Lydia has always thought of popular girls as ambitious little manipulators who enjoy being cruel. But, Erin is kind and well-adjusted. Maybe this popularity thing won't be so bad after...
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Twig and Turtle volume 6
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January 2022
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English
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Lately, Twig's been having a tough time. Her best friend is too busy to hang out with her. And she isn't for a special dinner with her favorite pop star. It's all so unfair! When Dad realizes Twig is feeling low, he tells her to go out and look for ways to be turned down. The more you do it, the less it hurts. Soon, Twig and her whole family have turned hunting for nos into a fun game.
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From the moment of his adoption by the Earnshaws, the foundling boy Heathcliff devotes himself to their young daughter Catherine. Growing up together, the two share a love that blossoms into romance, until Catherine's hurtful betrayal. But Heathcliff's emotions know no bounds and acknowledge no limits--not even death. Determined to secure the family estate of Wuthering Heights as his own, the tyrannical Heathcliff vents his bitterness on his and Catherine's...
15) Borrowed & blue
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2015.
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Something borrowed: After a night of indiscriminate partying, Rachel sleeps with a close friend's fiance and is consumed with guilt, until the intensity of her feelings forces her to make a difficult choice. Something blue: Her belief in the power of beauty shattered when her fiance dumps her for a plain woman, a pregnant Darcy flees to London and struggles to rebuild her glamorous life before realizing that her past methods no longer work.
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