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Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In late-nineteenth-century Chicago, visionary retail tycoon Marshall Field made his fortune wooing women customers with his famous motto: "Give the lady what she wants." His legendary charm also won the heart of socialite Delia Spencer and led to an infamous love affair. The night of the Great Fire, as seventeen-year-old Delia watches the flames rise and consume what was the pioneer town of Chicago, she can't imagine how much her life, her city,...
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After years of having Rowena MacLawry, the youngest sister of his closest friend, tagging after him, all Lachlan MacTier wants to do is escape. But then Winnie runs off to London, determined to forget Lachlan in the swirl of her debutante Season. When she returns three months later to prepare for her oldest brother's lavish Highlands wedding, Rowena is a changed woman. She's smothered her Scottish brogue, become an arbiter of the latest Paris and...
16446) Touch me now
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When her engagement falls apart, Layla Brooks heads for the one place she's always felt at home - Sag Harbor. Far from the hectic pace of New York City, she can concentrate on her massage therapy business. And business is all she's interested in, despite her friend Melanie Harte's offer of her matchmaking service. Then Maurice Benson checks into the local B & B, and one glance tells Layla that the dark-eyed, intense veteran needs healing, inside and...
16447) Retribution rails
Author
Series
Vengeance road volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Ten years after the events of Vengeance Road, Reece Murphy, who has been forced to join the Rose Riders gang, must work with aspiring journalist Charlotte Vaughn to get free.
16448) A good year
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but while spending time in Provence, Max finds his soul when he...
16450) The escape game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After the Nazis started the bombing blitz of England, Beryl Clarke puts her university education on hold to return to Leeds, care for her mother, and work as a secretary at the Waddingtons game company. While she endures the war at home, her brother James fights the enemy in the air. When he is shot down, injured, and captured, James reunites with a former college friend, American POW Kenneth Bordelon, and they plan to escape the Nazi prison camp....
16451) Holidays at Heartbreaker Bay
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Holiday Wishes: Sean O'Riley shows up for his brother's bachelor weekend and comes face to face with the woman he lost his virginity to a decade ago and has never forgotten. One Snowy Night: It's Christmas Eve and Rory Andrews is desperate to get home. Problem is that Max is her only ride and they have history..."--From the publisher's web site.
16452) The heavenly surrender
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Genieva Bankmans and Brevan McLean had agreed to a marriage of convenience when she responded to his advertisement for a wife. Yet even as their attraction to each other becomes stronger, secrets concerning the McLean family and land threaten their relationship and endanger their lives"--
16453) Kobato / Vol.1: Volume 1
Author
Series
Kobato volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Kobato Hanato, under the tutelage of a blue dog named Ioryogi, must learn the ways of the world to have her dearest wish granted. She undergoes trials of common sense to earn a magic bottle that she will later fill with the suffering of wounded hearts she has healed, all made more difficult by the fact that Kobato is short on common sense and Ioryogi-san is lacking in compassion and patience.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Kat Varland has had enough of chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry. At twenty-six years old, Kat is still living in the shadows of her family in Bayou Bend, Louisiana. Still working shifts at her Aunt Maggie's bakery. Still wondering what to do with her passion for baking and her business degree. And still single. But when Lucas Brannen, Kat's best friend, signs her up for a reality TV bake-off on Cupcake Combat, everything Kat ever wanted is suddenly...
16456) Unplugged
Author
Series
The wired (Donna Freitas) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the App World, Skye is a sixteen-year-old virtual girl without any glamorous downloads or fancy effects. She joined the App World for the promise of a better, virtual life, but she's looking forward to her seventeenth birthday, when she gets to unplug, see her mother and sister again, and decide which world she belongs in once and for all. Without warning, the border between worlds suddenly closes. Skye is trapped, and her only chance to unplug...
16457) While he was away
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Penna Weaver's boyfriend goes off to Iraq, she's left facing life without him. When he stops writing, she knows in her heart he'll come home--but will he be the same boy she fell in love with?
16458) Windswept
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welsh widow Catrin Price is haunted by a family death curse. Any man whom she marries without first drinking from an ancient Druid chalice sold by her ancestor long ago is unquestionably doomed. But when she hunts it down to purchase it, the chalice|s former owner ends up dead. Who will believe her innocent with the man|s treasure in her hands? Now she lives in fear of discovery, afraid to trust, afraid to give away her heart&
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"In a finely woven series of flashbacks and correspondence, Lev Termen, the Russian scientist, inventor, and spy, tells the story of his life to his "one true love," Clara Rockmore, the finest theremin player in the world. In the first half of the book, we learn of Termen's early days as a scientist in Leningrad during the Bolshevik Revolution, the acclaim he receives as the inventor of the theremin, and his arrival in 1930s New York under the aegis...
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