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Willa Cather's darkest and most dramatic work, My Mortal Enemy is an agonisingly honest examination of marriage, love, and the evolution of a single person's life.
This 1926 novella depicts a life set for fortune that ultimately results in spite and bitterness. Myra Henshawe, an Irish Catholic, abandoned her uncle and her fortuitous inheritance, instead eloping with her true love, an Ulster Protestant. But is love alone enough to sustain a marriage?...
9562) Motional Blur: A Novel
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Motional Blur tells the story of a disaffected surfer, Luke Andersen, who drives for a black car service part-time. When he's summoned for a fare involving a five-and-a-half hour ride from Santa Barbara to Las Vegas, this obligation ruins his birthday plans, even though he tries to refuse but doesn't succeed.
When they reach Vegas, his mysterious fare, Charles Gearhart, a man in his mid-60s, tells Luke to keep going. What should have been a day drive...
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Ashburton reunion volume 1
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Returning from India
To a forbidden liaison…
Joshua Ashburton hasn’t seen his brother for years and heads straight to his London town house. A ball is underway filled with the cream of society, including one Lady Elizabeth Hummingford. Captivated by her vitality and sparkle, he’s shocked to learn she’s all but engaged to his brother! It’s a loveless, convenient match, but how can Josh persuade her she’s chosen the wrong brother when...
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Des belles anecdotes légères qui donnent le sourire aux lèvres !
Rédigé sous forme de chroniques, ce roman raconte les tribulations d'une petite fille délurée de 0 à 12 ans et son évolution au sein d'une famille pleine de fantaisie et d'humour.
Accordez-vous un moment de plaisir en lisant ces mini-chroniques : une écriture agréable et poétique, des situations drles et des souvenirs d'enfance qui rendent nostalgiques...
EXTRAIT
Aujourd'hui,...
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The USA Today–bestselling author reveals her own poignant story of love, hardship, and second chances in this autobiographical romance novel.
Small town girl Tara Gumser dreamed of one day writing her own romance novels-even though she'd never been kissed before meeting her college boyfriend, Tim Barney. Tara fell hard for the hunky tennis ace. But while Tim was wild for this gifted young woman who was certain of her destiny, he wasn't so ready...
9566) Dangerous Ages
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This book contains Dame Rose Macaulay's 1921 novel, "Dangerous Ages". A young writer with a sizeable family returns to college as a way to spend her free time, but finds that she is perhaps not as sharp as she once was. Sick of her chaotic family, she decides to settle down, but realizes that her boyfriend was no longer willing to wait and has fallen for someone else... and her own niece, no less. Struggling with all the commitments that come with...
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**An imperfect proposal…**But a perfect match?
Major James Rossington, Viscount Austerfield, survived Waterloo, but can he survive the season as London’s most eligible bachelor? Convinced his battle scars make him unlovable, and to escape society’s matchmakers, Ross proposes a wedding in name only to shy, sensible Carenza Bettridge. Liberated from her cruel stepmother and bullying half sisters, she blossoms into a confident, altogether desirable...
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Harlequin® Superromance brings you four new novels! Experience powerful relationships that deliver a strong emotional punch and a guaranteed happily ever after. This Superromance box set includes:
THE CLOSER HE GETS
Brothers, Strangers
Janice Kay Johnson
Homicide detective Ryan Carter returns to his hometown determined to solve the twenty-five-year-old mystery of his sister's murder and is stunned to find his estranged brother, Bran Murphy,...
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She must choose…
…her queen—or love!
As the queen’s new lady-in-waiting, Mathilde Gosselin tumbles straight into Parisian palace intrigue when she meets courtier Henry Wright, who she discovers is a spy! Mathilde’s loyalties are now divided—between this enigmatic, courageous man and her queen. And amid the turmoil, her falling for the unsuitable, illegitimate Henry means they’ve no choice but to hide their new love from the world…
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Evelyn is intoxicating. She's self-assured, mercurial, dominant and mischievous. But she's also mean, and as much as her best friends Katie and Maeve crave her approval, theirs is a threesome held together by fear.
As the girls grow up and start to look beyond their small Irish village, they must step out of Evelyn's shadow. This mesmerising debut, brilliantly evocative of rural Ireland, is a compellingly readable portrait of the places, and people,...
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Accompagnez Nicolas dans la fin de ses explorations, ses aventures et ses recherches, jusqu'à son retour dans son pays, devenu méconnaissable.
La vie de Nicolas, délaissé volontaire, fut sans cesse décorée d'explorations et de recherches, de douces et dangereuses aventures, appelée vers d'autres paysages toujours plus séduisants.
Vieillissant, il rentre chez lui avec quelques regrets.
Hélas son pays qu'il croyait aimer est devenu un peuple...
9572) Tales of Mystic Park
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Tales of Mystic Park is a collection of short stories that follows the lives of various families in Northwest Pennsylvania from the Civil War to today, showing the effects of the war on each generation. Through tears and laughter, each family has a compelling story to tell as the years pass by. The theme that connects them all is that the effects of war never end as they each struggle to cope with the future. Both tragedy and comedy, the stories in...
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It's 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women's history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject.
Digging deeper into Kate's life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related-closely. Driven to...
9574) Blurred Fates: A Novel
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Kate Whittier has it all-a loving, even-keeled husband, two great kids, and a beautiful home in Southern California. But Kate is living a lie. In a desperate attempt to create for her children the safe, happy family she never had, she has been hiding dark secrets for decades-things she's convinced make her unworthy of her wellborn husband, Jacob, and the privileged life he has provided.
Then, one ordinary evening, always dependable Jacob confesses...
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La crise économique de 1929 contraint Alexandre Froideval, fils d'un industriel parisien, à chercher un travail et à devenir précepteur chez les Sertignac, une famille aristocratique de Haute-Savoie. Son élève, un jeune rebelle, refuse l'enseignement et la discipline. Entre les exigences du père et la résistance du fils, le précepteur doit user de patience et de ruse pour apprivoiser l'adolescent, tout en essayant de résoudre le mystère...
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Début du 20e siècle, Agua Amarga, Espagne. Une famille de pêcheurs, accablée par la pauvreté et la misère, quitte sa terre natale pour tenter sa chance en Algérie. Après une traversée à la rame, Francisco Carmona Marín s'installe avec femme et enfants à Mostaganem, province d'Oran, o il va travailler de ferme en ferme comme bracero. Ainsi commence le destin français d'une famille espagnole en terre d'Algérie. Plus qu'une traversée de...
9577) Winter on the Mersey
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Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and country. Her life as a WREN means she is kept busy much of the time, but when Kitty finds herself stationed back home on Merseyside, she meets up again with Frank Feeny, the brave young officer who has always held a place in her heart.
Britain is on the verge of victory, but will Kitty embrace the future and learn to love again?...
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Tis the season to be ... pregnant? Catch up with Cleo and Scott in this fabulously feel-good festive read.
Being pregnant with her ex-boyfriend's baby is the last thing on Cleo Jones's Christmas wish list. Scott might have been the man of her dreams once upon a time, but things change and now Cleo faces a future as a single mum... Or does she?
Scott won't let Cleo go through this alone; whatever their differences he's vowed to be there, from antenatal...
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Extrait: "On était au milieu de l'hiver. La neige couvrait le sol; les rues étaient presque impraticables; la Seine était prise, et l'on aurait pu sans danger faire passer des charrettes sur le canal Saint-Martin. Le coin de la rue Popincourt et de la rue Saint Sébastien était le théâtre d'un combat acharné."
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A Regency love story with complex characters and deep emotion…
Is a paper wedding
…the only solution?
Returning from battle, Officer Jonah Grant is shocked to find his frail sister abandoned by her husband and their life savings squandered. Which is why a chance encounter with wealthy independent neighbor Frances feels like fate! He and Frances both find it hard to let down their defenses, but take refuge in each other's company. If they...
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