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Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, Alaska. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life -and death - of a man they thought they knew. Along...
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Welcome to the future where biological warfare has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. He fends off attacks by The Family-- sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa, another infected survivor, and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.
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In World War II Poland, a prisoner closes his eyes and pictures a sunlit cricket ground. Across the yard of a Victorian poorhouse, a man is too ashamed to acknowledge the son he gave away. In a 19th-century French village, a servant understands the meaning of the Bible story her master is reading. In 1971, a girl steps out of a Chevy with a song . A few years from now, in Italy, a scientist discovers links between time and the human brain, and her...
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Stormlight archive volume 1
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A new epic series by the best-selling writer of Robert Jordan's final Wheel of Time novels introduces the world of Roshar through the experiences of a war-weary royal compelled by visions, a highborn youth condemned to military slavery and a woman who would save her impoverished house.
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Stormlight archive volume 4
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After forming a coalition of human resistance against the enemy invasion, Dalinar Kholin and his Knights Radiant have spent a year fighting a protracted, brutal war. Neither side has gained an advantage, and the threat of a betrayal by Dalinar's crafty ally Taravangian looms over every strategic move. Now, as new technological discoveries by Navani Kholin's scholars begin to change the face of the war, the enemy prepares a bold and dangerous operation....
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Maisie Dobbs novel volume 17
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"In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling series, a series of possible attacks on British pilots leads Jacqueline Winspear's beloved heroine Maisie Dobbs into a mystery involving First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt." --
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2019
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"This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engrossing multi-generational family story, with the Greek isles as a backdrop so beautiful that the reader will want to dive in." -- Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers and Modern Lovers An irresistible, deftly observed novel about family, regret, and vacation by the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding The Wright family...
10. Man, True Man
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2022
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After a spaceship crashes into the planet of Tonath, the lone occupant survives and fights his way to sunlit part of the planet.When a passing freighter finds him and takes him to the Western Starshift Institute of the Way, where the Teacher rules the sunlit part of the planet, Tonath is a planet being torn apart by the forces of nature, and only the Teacher can predict the movement of the stars and interpret the prophecies.Will the Teacher be able...
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2022
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A retired spy gets back into the game to solve a perplexing case and reconcile with his daughter, a CIA officer, who married into the very family that derailed his own CIA career, in this compulsive true-life tale of vindication and redemption, filled with drama, intrigue, and mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Goodnight, It's a real-life thriller, whose stunning conclusion will make headline news. On a sunlit morning...
12. The sunlit night
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"Shortly after her college graduation, Frances flees a painful breakup and her claustrophobic childhood home in Manhattan, which has become more airless in the aftermath of two family announcements: her parents' divorce and her younger sister's engagement. She seeks refuge at a Norwegian artist colony that's offered her a painting apprenticeship. Unfortunately, she finds only one artist living there: Yasha, an eighteen-year-old Russian immigrant raised...
13. Savage Rebel
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2019
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English
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I won't take no for an answer. I claimed my best friend's little sister. I don't give a f**k if she wants this. I don't give a f**k if it's wrong. Tonight, she'll learn the truth: she belongs to me now. I swore I'd keep her safe. That's the last thing I said to him - her brother, my best friend - before he died in my arms. Keeping her safe meant keeping her far the hell away from the Steel Jockeys MC. A little girl like Ruby had no business getting...
14. The Edwardians
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"A convincing account of a watershed epoch, Hattersley's concise yet comprehensive history casts new light on a much-misunderstood era." - Publishers Weekly Edwardian Britain has often been described as a golden sunlit afternoon---personified by its genial and self-indulgent King. In fact, modern Britain was born during the reign of Edward VII, when politics, science, literature, and the arts were turned upside down. In Parliament, the peers were...
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WDM Publishing
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2022
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English
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Kanti Misra loves her family's banyan copse. The sweet scents of leaf and bark, orchids and sunlit sky bring her peace and joy.How could her father promise her in marriage to an outlander? A man who lives in a world of metal and concrete?A true daughter of her copse, Kanti refuses to disgrace her tree or family, but despairs of her betrothed ever truly seeing or understanding her.A dazzling fantasy, "In the Banyan Copse" showcases the necessity of...
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Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd
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2018
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English
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A mother finds out her son is gay; a daughter finds out her two mothers are lesbians; a niece stumbles upon the body of her dead uncle dressed in his wife's sarong kebaya; and an old man's nascent feelings for a Filipino maid lead him back to his suppressed art. "The Man Who Wore His Wife's Sarong", Suchen Christine Lim's short stories of the unsung, unsaid and uncelebrated in Singapore, delve beneath the sunlit island's prosperity and coded decorum....
17. The Willies
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artisanPruett
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2023
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English
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Are you afraid of the dark? Evil lurks, embedded in shadows, and around every corner it awaits and dwells. I invite you to my world of terror-the darkside-the underbelly of the sunlit world that man takes for granted. Now, with that being said, allow me to frighten you more. Once you've entered this book, you've entered the bowels of horror. You can leave at anytime. In fact, you can come and go as you please. Just beware of its macabre, graphic detail,...
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eBookIt.com
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2013
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English
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Who does not remember the story of the Christian missionary in Britain, sitting one evening in the vast hall of a Saxon king, surrounded by his thanes, having come thither to preach the gospel of his Master; and as he spoke of life and death and immortality, a bird flew in through an unglazed window, circled the hall in its flight, and flew out once more into the darkness of the night. The Christian priest bade the king see in the flight of the bird...
19. Journey
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Little Dozen Press
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2015
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English
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Little One was born in the Golden Fields, in a little thatched house amidst the sunlit wheat. It was there she first saw the Living One-a young man with mysterious, laughing eyes. She could not take her eyes away from him. And one day, when he disappeared over the mountains, she followed. The journey is perilous and full of unexpected loneliness, pain, and hardship. Worst of all, Little One is journeying without a heart-the Living One has taken it...
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Harlequin
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2014
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English
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Spending the summer with sexy single dad Duffy March was not exactly what Maggie Lawton had planned for her first vacation in years. Yes, she needed a rest, but sleeping in one of Duffy's guest rooms-with the dangerously attractive man from her past right next door-was certainly not relaxing! Yet that summer in Maine was about to change her life in unimaginable ways. Unexpected kisses on a sunlit beach, entertaining "family" frolics in the surf-all...