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"They say trouble comes in threes, and Bertie Wooster soon learns why. It all begins when his aunt Dahlia asks him to steal a silver cow creamer illegally obtained by her husband's silver rival. Then comes the telegram from Gussie Fink-Nottle begging Bertie to come to Totleigh Towers to mend the rift between him and his soppy fiancě, Madeline Bassett. To top it all off, Bertie must contend with Roderick Spode, the menacing, black shorts-wearing,...
3) Work song
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Morrie Morgan looks for a job in Butte, Montana while on the run from Chicago gangsters, and as he tries to get the attention of Grace Faraday, an attractive widow who runs the boardinghouse where he resides, he learns that the local mining company is trying to force her off her property through dubious methods.
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Sophie Heller's family emigrated from Germany to Victory, a small town in Illinois, before World War II began. Now that the war has affected the town, the townspeople discriminate against Sophie and her family. When a train derails by accident, the Heller family is blamed. A teacher from the local high school comes to Sophie's rescue, and despite their cultural differences, a romance starts to bloom.
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"A Gentleman of Leisure is a comic novel dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks--who starred in the film version; in "Hot Water, J. Wellington Gedge is the man who has everything--but finds himself caught in a series of international events. "Summer Moonshine involves a complicated love quadrangle and what is probably the ugliest home in England; and "Carry On, Jeeves is a collection of stories in which Jeeves takes charge and a familiar bevy of individuals...
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Adam Newman once had it all. But then he lost it.
Now Adam yearns to reunite with his estranged wife, Evelyn, and recapture the Edenic life they once had running Paradise Dogs, the roadside hot-dog restaurant now legendary throughout central Florida.
He has a few obstacles along the way. For starters, there's his impending marriage to Lily. There's also the matter of a quarter million dollars' worth of diamonds that he mislaid, along with what appears...
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Typical - just when Bertie thinks that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world, things start to go wrong again...There's young Bingo Little, who's in love for the umpteenth time and needs Bertie to put in a good word for him with his uncle; Aunt Agatha, who forces Bertie to get engaged to the formidable Honoria Glossop; and the troublesome twins, Claude and Eustace, whose antics when let loose in London know no bounds. Add to that some...
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"Keeper and Kid is a marvel. I dare you. Open this book and try to put it down." ---Ann Hood, author of The Knitting Room
Eight years ago, James Keeper fell in love with his upstairs neighbor in Boston, a sassy pastry chef with gray eyes and a fierce attitude. They got married, found a dog, and shopped for cilantro. But conflicting schedules and a real estate deal gone bad took its toll on the twenty-somethings in love. One divorce later, the hand-me-down...
11) The journey
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Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
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Jeeves and Wooster volume 12
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Jeeves comes to the rescue when Bertie Wooster finds himself in possession of a stolen necklace, a possible trip to the altar with Lady Florence Craye, and facing the ire of Lady Craye's former admirer.
13) Good faith
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Joe Stratford thinks he is living out the American dream, but when he makes one wrong decision, his whole world comes crashing down around him and he must find a way to rebuild.
14) The foreigner
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Financial analyst Emerson Chang travels to Taipei to scatter his mother's ashes and settle a dispute over the inheritance with his brother, who is embroiled in the Taiwanese criminal underworld, which he pulls Emerson into against his will, risking everything Emerson holds dear.
15) The healing
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Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
17) All that man is
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Here are nine men. Each of them is at a different stage in life, each of them is away from home, and each of them is striving - in the suburbs of Prague, in an over-developed Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a crap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. --
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Sam Grandy and Roy Courtright, best friends since childhood, find their fundamental differences putting a strain on their relationship as they grow older, but the situation becomes unbearably tense when Sam has a heart attack and Roy, in his concern for his friend, becomes too attached to Sam's wife.
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"While staying with his Aunt Dahlia to help out in the election at Market Snodsbury, Bertie Wooster comes up against the familiar horrors of Florence Craye, his former fianc�ee, and Roderick Spode, head of the Black Shorts, in a plot tangle from which, as usual, only the ingenuity of Jeeves can save him"--P. [4] of cover.
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"Bertie Wooster (a young man about town) and his butler Jeeves (the very model of the modern manservant)--return in their first new novel in nearly forty years: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells by Sebastian Faulks. P.G. Wodehouse documented the lives of the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster for nearly sixty years, from their first appearance in 1915 ("Extricating Young Gussie") to his final completed novel (Aunts Aren't Gentlemen) in 1974. These two were...
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