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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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From New York Times bestselling author Joanne Harris comes a richly imagined and captivating novel of two colliding worlds. Deep in the heart of London, a photographer walks the streets and captures whatever catches his eye: an old man drinking coffee; a beautiful woman sipping champagne in St. Pancras station; a cloud of moths, disturbed, taking flight across the sky. But with each photo, he captures something unseen by the eye, and as each negative...
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Aidee Ladnier
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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Sanderson always envied the townies, all smiling faces and holding hands at his performances. He wanted the happy ever after that came with real life, not the pretend one in the twinkling fairy lights of the Moonlight Market. So when the Weaver of Dreams conjured him a normal life, college classes instead of performances, a chance at a boyfriend instead of an audience, he ran for daylight. Now a year later, he's learned that connecting with someone...
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"Brody Green is finding it hard to recover after being dumped by his fiancée, Jenna Jones, then watching her walk down the aisle with someone else. Jenna is determined to make up for her love defection and find him the perfect woman, but Brody is done with love. First a divorce, then a broken engagement. From now on he's keeping things light, no commitments. Luckily Brody's business is booming. Beach Dreams Realty is the best real estate company...
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
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Pub. Date:
2019
Lexile measure:
810L
Language:
English
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Kimi Nakamura loves nothing more than transforming the outfits of her friends into expressions of their "Ultimate Selves" but her mother thinks it is a waste of time. After a huge fight, Kimi makes the decision to accept her grandparents' invitation to Kyoto where she is surrounded by her heritage, which is simultaneously foreign and familiar, and the environment helps her understand her mother better than ever before.
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Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
English
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On May 30, 1593, London's most popular playwright was stabbed to death. The royal coroner ruled that Christopher Marlowe was killed in self-defense, but historians have long suspected otherwise, given his role as an "intelligencer" in the queen's secret service. In sixteenth-century London, Marlowe embarks on his final intelligence assignment, hoping to find his missing muse, as well as the culprits behind a high-stakes smuggling scheme. In present-day...
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The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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From the late nineteenth century through World War II, popular culture portrayed the American South as a region ensconced in its antebellum past, draped in moonlight and magnolias, and represented by such southern icons as the mammy, the belle, the chivalrous planter, white-columned mansions, and even bolls of cotton. In Dreaming of Dixie, Karen Cox shows that the chief purveyors of nostalgia for the Old South were outsiders of the region, playing...
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University of Georgia Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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Through Others' Eyes includes descriptions of traveling to and from Montgomery, but it focuses on the travelers' descriptions of Montgomery itself. The twenty-eight published accounts between 1825 and 1861 were written by Americans and Europeans with a variety of backgrounds. A few are as objective as can reasonably be expected considering the short durations of the writers' visits. Some are prone to display their preconceptions and prejudices. Most...
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English
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"New York Times bestselling author Jude Deveraux returns to the magnificent, sunny island in For All Time, the second novel in her Nantucket Brides trilogy--this time featuring the next generation of her beloved family of Montgomery-Taggerts. The wedding of Alix Madsen and Jared Montgomery is a glorious affair at an elegant little chapel in the woods, followed by dinner and dancing, all while moonlight blankets the festivities in a romantic glow....
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Publisher:
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Perfect for fans of Sarah Morgan, Jessica Redland and Kate Forster. This boxset contains the books 4-6 in the New York Ever After series: 1. Christmas Miracles at the Little Log Cabin 2. Christmas Promises at the Garland Street Market 3. Moonlight and Mistletoe at the Christmas Wedding ----- Christmas Miracles at the Little Log Cabin Holly is looking for a change. There has to be more to life than the long hours she works as an editor in New York...
13. The Other Ones
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Publisher:
Inhabit Media
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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In "The Net," a girl and her mother arrive at their secluded cabin on a frozen lake to find their fishing net has been attacked, a massive hole ripped through the middle. After the net has been mended and the night's catch eaten, the daughter sits awake playing with a bit of leftover netting string. When she was a girl, her grandmother taught her to make string figures-just as her mother had taught her-a game played by Inuit for generations, but a...
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Publisher:
Spiridus Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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She was thrown to the wolves. But can she lead the pack?Jessica Winters is about to find out that being the Alpha isn't about breeding, it's about leading…something she sucks at!Having recently found out she's the Alpha shifter in an ancient immortal Dacian clan of wolves, Jessica has no idea what that means. The only thing she knows is that having been raised as the daughter of a CEO of a logistics company, doesn't make her a leader. In fact, just...
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Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
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Escape to the breathtaking Cornish Coast this winter, where the ocean sparkles in the moonlight and romance crackles like an open fire. This gorgeous new love story by million selling author Holly Martin is the perfect treat to warm your heart this Christmas. Artist Zoey Flynn hadn't planned to spend her favourite holiday on the shores of Jewel Island, but when her fiancé breaks off their engagement before their Christmas Eve wedding, this Cornish...
17. Chasing Shadows
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Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
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In CHASING SHADOWS, book one in the Sisters of Shadows and Moonlight Series, you are invited to explore a secret world lying just below the surface of our own-a world where Werewolves, Faeries and Vampires live, love, and die amongst us. The race of man is face to face with the stuff of our fondest dreams and darkest nightmares. Safe havens have sprung up to accommodate this untapped market of magical beings. Open-minded humans or the merely curious...