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"Three grown siblings confront their father's role in their mother's disappearance in this arresting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob. Jane Larkin disappeared without a trace in November 1976. When ten-year-old Miranda arrives home from school that autumn afternoon, finding her mother's pocketbook in its usual spot in the front hall, she assumes her mother will be back any minute. But as the hours tick by, alone...
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"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
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The Count of Monte Cristo (Paris, 1844-45), by French novelist and playwright Alexandre Dumas, is one of the most popular novels ever written. This book presents a tale of love and revenge in the post-Napoleonic era. Edmond Dantes, a nineteen-year-old sailor from Marseilles, is soon to be captain of his own ship and to marry his beloved, the beautiful Mercedes. But spiteful enemies provoke his arrest on his wedding day, and he is condemned to...
5. Gitanjali
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When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...
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The central idea of ACRES OF DIAMONDS is that we don't need to look elsewhere for opportunity, achievement, or fortune-the resources to achieve all good things are present in our own community. A man wanted to find diamonds so badly that he sold his property and went off in futile search for them; the new owner of his home discovered that a rich diamond mine was located right there on the property. Conwell elaborates on this theme through examples...
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"Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Paul's story is told by rock music's foremost biographer, with McCartney's consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the façade and sheds new light on his childhood—blighted by his mother's death but...
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2013
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In Iran, where homosexuality is punishable by death, seventeen-year-olds Sahar and Nasrin love each other in secret until Nasrin's parents announce their daughter's arranged marriage and Sahar proposes a drastic solution.
12. Killer's Pet
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Sopris Page Press
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2019
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English
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This is book 3 and the finale of the Bone Breakers MC trilogy! I f**ked her like I owned her. Antonia thought I was a single dad in need of a babysitter. She didn't know the bloody secrets that hid in the shadows of my home. But when the war raging inside my club threatens to consume us both, she's forced to learn: I'll fight like hell to protect what's mine. CAL My life changed in an instant when the baby landed on my doorstep. A son I never knew...
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American Baptist minister and lawyer, Russell Conwell was the founder and first President of Temple University who is probably best remembered for his inspirational speech "Acres of Diamonds", in which he puts forth the idea that one need not look elsewhere for opportunity, but rather all the resources for achieving success exist in one's own backyard. This idea is exemplified in the parable of a man, who sells his farm and abandons his family in...
14. Relentless Chase
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I ran. Will the sexy, green eyed billionaire, computer hacker find me?I'm lost without Sebastian.I miss his tattooed kisses all over my needy body.I miss how his tongue shatters my core.His delicious touch calms me.Can we overcome the lies and betrayal?My ex-boyfriend had a change of heart.He wants me back.Who do I choose?Sydney thinks she can run from me.There is no where she can hide.I will find her and claim her sexy curves. I'll make her remember...
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It may be thought by some that in the pages which follow I have painted in too lurid colors the horrors of a foreign invasion of England. Realism in art, it may be argued, can be carried too far. I prefer to think that the majority of my readers will acquit me of a desire to be unduly sensational. It is necessary that England should be roused to a sense of her peril, and only by setting down without flinching the probable results of an invasion can...
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"There's no contingency to my love or desire for you, Ady. I've waited years for you. Trust me when I say, now that I've got you, I'll wait as long as you need." I've longed to hear the words of love from a good man.A dependable man.For so long, I didn't believe I'd ever deserve more than what I'd been offered.He made me see I was wrong.I deserved love. Happiness. Him.Brantley Marbury.The hero I didn't know I needed.The man who stole my heart with...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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When Stephanie is told she's pregnant and that she is sick on the same day, she faces an impossible choice… After trying for a baby for so long, finding out I was pregnant was supposed to be the happiest day of my life. But in the same breath as the news I had been waiting years to hear, the doctor told me I was seriously ill. If I carry my baby to term, I will almost certainly die. If I proceed with treatment, my baby will not live. My husband...
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They've survived broken marriages and battered hearts… …but can these fated mates trust each other enough to find true love? When I escaped my abusive marriage, I was a broken shell of a woman. I was never smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough. Now I'm finally free and happy and stronger than ever. There's still a hole in my heart where a loving husband and children should be, but it's a small price to pay for my freedom. A trip to the Rocky...
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Julie Patra Publishing
Pub. Date:
2018
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English
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CONTINUING CARRIE AND REID'S STORY (read their first book: Dirty Rich Obsession)In this lifetime there is one person who will own you, who will know you, who will understand you like no one else could possibly understand you. That person for me is Carrie. I didn't want to love her. I didn't want to need her. But now that she's my world, no one is going to take her from me. Yet the minute I propose, that's exactly what the universe tries to do. It...
20. Buttercup Baby
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For fans of Amy Daws, Tessa Bailey, and Carrie Elks!TommyIt's the classic trope: your best friend has a beautiful little sister, you're bound to fall for her.It's the classic trope, but we thought we were past that because Emory had always been a kid sister to me, albeit ridiculously beautiful.Then she comes home after four years away and I catch myself fantasizing about some very unbrotherly things I'd like to do to her. And I can't do anything about...