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"In the year 4 BCE, an ambitious courtier is called upon to seduce the young emperor--but quickly discovers they are both ruled by blood, sex and intrigue. In 1740, a lonely innkeeper agrees to help a mysterious visitor procure a rare medicine, only to unleash an otherworldly terror instead. And in present-day Los Angeles, a college student meets a beautiful stranger and cannot shake the feeling they've met before. Across these seemingly unrelated...
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When Lili meets Ben by chance one hot summer's day, it feels like fate. But life is about to take them in different directions, and so they agree to meet the next July, in the beautiful hidden garden where they first laid eyes on each other. But one of them never shows up... Five years later, Ben still wonders how he got things so wrong -- he let the love of his life slip between his fingers. And then a stranger, Alice, arrives in his tiny Scottish...
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"Tessa Stafford will do anything for her daughter, Isabel ... even stay on the run to protect Isabel from her narcissistic grandmother. But when her car breaks down in Painted Pony Creek, Tessa gets caught up in the warm embrace of the town and feels safe enough to build a life for them both. When Tessa and her adorable daughter blow into town, Jesse McKettrick is smitten. He's always wanted a family of his own. But the walls around Tessa are impenetrable,...
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The very last novel that Gene Stratton-Porter wrote before her death. The tale of a wounded World War I veteran, a beekeeper and an impish tomboy all helped by each other. A book that examines the healing power that nature and kindness can have upon someone's life. Gene Stratton Porter's optimism and confidence in nature are on full show in this distinctly American tale of adventure, hope, and healing. Many films have been influenced by it.
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In a blink of an eye, the tables turned.
I'm Damien Sinclair, a man always in control.
I thrive on the knowledge that my word is the final-gospel. In the millisecond I hesitated... Gabriella Crystal stepped in. I'm damn glad she did, but I will forever be in her debt.
Ella holds not only my heart, but my future, my company, and everything I hold dear in her hands. The love we once shared is palpable, a glowing ember in the dying ash. To save my...
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1399: Constance of York, Lady Despenser, proves herself more than a mere observer in the devious intrigues of her magnificently dysfunctional family, The House of York. Surrounded by power-hungry men, including her aggressively self-centred husband Thomas and ruthless siblings Edward and Richard, Constance places herself at the heart of two treasonous plots against King Henry IV. Will it be possible for this Plantagenet family to safeguard its own...
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Amy está perdida y no sabe cuál es el camino correcto.
Summer odia las mentiras, y él le ha mentido.
Brooke está cansada de esperar a que él la quiera.
Tres amigas, tres maneras diferentes de entender qué es el amor, cómo aparece y por qué debemos dejarlo
entrar. Y es que llega cuando menos te lo esperas. Es silencioso, cobarde y está lleno de dudas.
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What sort of mother would leave her all alone… a gripping and heart-wrenching domestic drama that won't let you go. Lily, who is almost three years old, wakes up alone at home with only her cuddly toy for company. She is afraid of the dark, can't use the phone, and has been told never to open the door to strangers. But why is Lily alone and why isn't there anyone who can help her? What about the lonely old woman in the flat below who wonders at...
9) The Pearler's Wife: A Gripping Historical Novel Of Forbidden Love, Family Secrets And A Lost Mome
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The year is 1912. Nineteen-year-old Maisie Porter watches from the deck of the SS Oceanic as England fades from view. Her destination is Buccaneer Bay in Australia's far north-west. Her fate: marriage to distant cousin Maitland Sinclair, a man she has never met. When Maisie arrives in her new home, she finds a stifling small town bound by Victorian morals. Shocked at her new husband's callous behaviour towards her, she is increasingly drawn to William...
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Sechs Monate hatten Louisa Clark und Will Traynor zusammen. Ein ganzes halbes Jahr. Und diese sechs Monate haben beide verändert. Lou ist nicht mehr das Mädchen aus der Kleinstadt, das Angst vor seinen eigenen Träumen hat. Aber sie führt auch nicht das unerschrockene Leben, das Will sich für sie gewünscht hat. Denn wie lebt man weiter, wenn man den Menschen verloren hat, den man am meisten liebt? Eine Welt ohne Will, das ist für Lou immer noch...
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Three-book boxed set of small town love stories rich with emotion, ripe with secrets, scandals and sexual tension.
Dalton Wheeler vanished from Morning Star, Texas nearly forty years ago under suspicion of murder, leaving behind him a trail of secrets, scandal and lives torn apart in the wake of his reported death. The woman he loved married another, and life went on.
Now the main characters in this tragedy are all gone, and in the wake of the...
12) Higher Demon
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No matter the demon, the hunter's role is clear...
A thousand years ago, my great-something uncle founded the Collective, a secret organization dedicated to protecting humanity from demons. The hunter tradition has been passed down over the generations, from parent to child, secure in the knowledge that the Collective is a community of safety and knowledge.
But betrayal sucks, and six years ago, it turned my world-and the Collective-upside down. After...
13) Texas Hope
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Secrets divide a family...can love reunite them?
For Michael Cavanaugh's entire life, his mother has kept a shocking secret: that she was married once before she married his father, and she gave birth to that man's child. Stunned that the mother who'd loved him so would abandon a child and furious with his mother's deceit, he sets out to find the older brother he has always wanted.
Ian McLaren, the favorite son of Sweetgrass Springs, has a full...
14) Thrust
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Zayne wants control. Zayne Andino wants his life back. Zayne is sick of being a bargaining chip, but he can't anger his father without jeopardizing his own status as agent in the Lunar Council Enforcement Agency. The best he can do is shut down his emotions and act like none of it bothers him.
Talli refuses to be tamed. Talli Paolao should be skating through life. But Talli's first mating went horribly wrong, leaving him with scars that might never...
15) Texas Bad Boy
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thinks Lacey DeMille is the next thing to royalty, a society girl with beauty, brains and money-but sexy Texas bad boy Devlin Marlowe knows better. Twenty years after being exiled in disgrace for daring to want her, the boy from the wrong side of the tracks has sweet revenge in his grasp...for only he knows that her whole life is built on a lie.
And revenge may be more costly than either of them can imagine.
16) The Right One
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Wrong never felt so right.
Morgan Cantrell is a survivor. After running away from an abusive husband, he's finally divorced and starting over, but it's hard. Of course he doesn't mean to set off the smoke detectors in the building or short out the electricity in his apartment. Mistakes happen. The last thing he wants is to draw the attention of his growly, moody-ass super. Every time they meet, it's like oil and water - they just don't mix.
Leo...
17) For Lucy
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From USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Jewel E. Ann comes a novel so heartfelt and real it redefines the meaning of love.
I'm the wrong guy in the right place the night I steal Tatum Bradshaw from another man. When she mistakes me for her blind date, I decide she deserves a man who shows up on time...like me. Emmett Riley, Mr. Punctual.
Once I confess my true identity and convince her I'm not a creep-just a thief-it's only a...
18) Texas Rebel
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Jackson Gallagher's teenage rebellion cost him everything: his home, his family and the girl who could only love him in secret. Seventeen years later, a wildly successful tycoon, Jackson is drawn back to Sweetgrass Springs to confront his past: the father who banished him, the small town that turned its back on him...and the woman he has never been able to forget.
The last person Veronica Butler is ready to see is the man who made her believe they'd...
19) Texas Magic
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Empire builder Dominic Santorini is surrounded by women angling to share the luxurious life his wealth will buy. Eccentric, colorful tomboy Lexie Grayson encounters a hot guy in a hotter classic car broken down on the side of the road, and an afternoon as his mechanic leads to a scorching night with a man she knows only as Nikos-but when dawn arrives, he's vanished, never to be seen again.
She buries her heartache in her new job, staging an extravaganza...
20) Texas Charm
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He's been leaving all his life…
Jeanette Carson has been a fixture as a waitress in Ruby's Cafe ever since high school. Walker Roundtree is country music's brightest star, known by all for his laid-back charm and irresistible appeal to the opposite sex. Ever since his first visit to Sweetgrass Springs, there have been verbal fireworks between him and Jeanette as she proved to be the only woman immune to his charm.
Now their paths have crossed...
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