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An Amazon Best of the Year Selection
“When it comes to combining offbeat humor and mayhem, it is tough to beat Laurenston.”
—RT Book Reviews
She’s the woman he’s been hired to kidnap. But ZeZé Vargas has other ideas . . . like getting them both out of this nightmare alive. Just one problem. She’s crazy. Certifiably. Because while he’s plotting their escape,...
“When it comes to combining offbeat humor and mayhem, it is tough to beat Laurenston.”
—RT Book Reviews
She’s the woman he’s been hired to kidnap. But ZeZé Vargas has other ideas . . . like getting them both out of this nightmare alive. Just one problem. She’s crazy. Certifiably. Because while he’s plotting their escape,...
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Set on a charming North Carolina island, the latest novel in National bestselling author Rochelle Alers' unforgettable, heartfelt Book Club series tells of one woman whose past comes calling-even as a new beginning beckons . . .
Cherie Renee Thompson is finally ready to dive into change. After two summers vacationing on Coates Island, she's now a permanent resident, studying to be a teacher, and has formed invaluable friendships with two remarkable...
3) Belinda
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Maria Edgeworth takes on issues of gender and race in her early editions of "Belinda", and although later editions tone down some controversial material to appease audiences, the alterations were most likely made by Edgeworth's father. Edgeworth's story centers around Belinda, a young woman who is navigating the complicated path of courtship and the limitations of domesticity. When Belinda is sent to live with the fashionable Lady Delacour, in hopes...
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Her name means "miracle" in Sanskrit: Kimaya was the first baby to survive after several miscarriages, and grew up in a mansion at the top of Mumbai's Pali Hill, surrounded by love and privilege. But at eleven years old, she develops a rare illness that requires her to be confined to a germ-free ivory tower in her home. Rahul Savant shows up to wash Kimi's windows, and as years pass he becomes her eyes to the outside world, and she becomes his inspiration...
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The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope - The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), by Anthony Hope, is an adventure novel in which the King of Ruritania is drugged on the eve of his coronation and thus is unable to attend the ceremony. Political forces within the realm are such that, in order for the king to retain the crown, his coronation must proceed. Fortuitously, an English gentleman on holiday in Ruritania who resembles the monarch is persuaded to act as...
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"An assassination plot that could end the Civil War, and a hidden enemy that could destroy a secret league of unsung heroes ... Daniel Cumberland, born free in Massachusetts, studied law with dreams of helping his people--dreams that died the night he was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Daniel is rescued, but he's a changed man. When he's offered entry into the Loyal League, the covert organization of Black spies who helped free him, he seizes the...
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FEVERED FATES
New to the U.S. soccer scene, not to mention the English language, compact yet explosive Chilean soccer legend Rio Vidal is driven to define a role on his new team, Atlanta Skyline. But he must also adapt to a new culture—and accept that he can't do it alone. His beautiful interpreter, Eva, has been his voice, his refuge. But she is becoming so much more. If only he could convince her he isn't like the other men she's...
New to the U.S. soccer scene, not to mention the English language, compact yet explosive Chilean soccer legend Rio Vidal is driven to define a role on his new team, Atlanta Skyline. But he must also adapt to a new culture—and accept that he can't do it alone. His beautiful interpreter, Eva, has been his voice, his refuge. But she is becoming so much more. If only he could convince her he isn't like the other men she's...
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Former boxing champion Dante "Blood and Guts" Lattanza is being featured in Personality magazine's "Sexiest Men Alive" issue, and reporter Christiana Artis has the scoop. There's just one hitch: she'll have to fly to her elusive subject's home in Canada. But once she lays eyes on Dante's chiseled physique and sultry Italian looks, she decides it was worth every mile. Too bad his icy demeanor doesn't match his hot body.
Since he lost his last fight...
Since he lost his last fight...
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Un livre puissant, poignant, percutant!
À cté de Mère, Tatie Danielle fait dans la soie...
Seul le temps, ainsi, peut-être, que la raison et la bienveillance, viendra un jour à bout de ce triste fléau qu'est le racisme. Il faut bien savoir rêver!
Lucas est blanc et partage sa vie depuis 30 ans avec son épouse Adanna, qui elle, a la peau noire. Jusque-là, rien d'extraordinaire, direz-vous. Et pourtant... Pendant tout ce temps, la mère d'Adanna...
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Kyle Roberts just wants to drink, a good rump in the sheets and an occasional blunt. She's self destructive and doesn't care, wallowing in her misery with a grin.
Jackson Carter just wanted to show her that there was more to life than drinking it away. The two embark on a tumultuous and rocking affair that leaves Kyle questioning....was it worth spiraling into love?
11) Room service
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"Heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans"-- Provided by publisher.
"Sometimes you go in search of a new beginning. Other times, it finds you. Tonya Martin enjoys her job as a chef for a Wall Street bank, her East Harlem walk-up, and the freedom to live and love by her own rules -- right up until the day she finds herself downsized. But a spontaneous trip to...
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World champion surfer Ty Butler is living the good life. Success, travel, women, and an endless summer. Then a quick stop in his hometown brings him face-to-face with the only thing he's ever loved more than surfing-Summer Campbell, the girl that got away. A decade on, and seeing her still gives him a rush. When he finds out she's single, Ty decides it's time to take up where they left off.
Ten years ago, Summer committed the ultimate sin of falling...
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Aaron Sanderson has wanted Jasmine Campbell since high school, but as a teen, he didn't stand a chance. Ten years have passed, and Aaron has all the confidence he needs to deal with the opposite sex. He figures he knows just how to get to Jasmine too-with an aloof demeanor and a firm hand-he just never realized how firm she'd want that hand to b
Jasmine's back in Leyton's Headland and determined to make up for past mistakes by keeping her sister's...
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A few bad math jokes. So much pie. If there's one thing that might get my dad, a retired math teacher, to visit Toronto and have a real conversation with me for the first time in seventeen years, it's a big nerdy Pi Day party. And hopefully this party—and seeing the tech company I built from nothing—will finally be enough to impress him and make him forgive me for everything I did when I was a teenager. But it's got to be a really great party. That's...
15) Deep Water Tears
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Rachel cannot imagine a life away from 'Binda', her home in the bush, where the Macquarie River flows alongside her back door. Her childhood days are spent with her neighbour and biracial best friend, Darel; exploring and learning about the Australian bush and the Wiradjuri (aboriginal) culture, through the teachings of his part-aboriginal mother. At their favourite meeting place, the dividing fence between the two properties, they share all their...
16) Until Her
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There is always a light at the end of every dark tunnel. But who ever analyzes the journey to get there? There are doors leading to different outcomes, Windows slightly ajar, offering other paths, and cracks in the wall alluding to the outer arena called life.Jackson's been through it all.Highs.Lows.Twists.Turns.But he'll always remember her.He'll fight for her.Almost die for her.Walk through hell and back for her.Because until her, there was no him.Betrayal...
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Ed watched as Sasha and Solu rode away from the Krehbiel farm on their horse they called Buck. He had to wonder, were they as happily married as he and Katrina were? Would he ever see Sasha again? Probably not if they were moving all the way to Montana to be teachers there. Then he felt a little guilty; although he loved Katrina with all his heart, he had to admit that he still had feelings for Sasha and wondered if she still had any feelings for...
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Ed was a sixteen-year-old conservative Mennonite farm boy growing up on the family farm in Central
Kansas in 1884. One day, while riding Copper, his well-trained and beloved horse, to get the cows home for milking, Ed noticed something behind a sand plum thicket. Not getting a very good look at what it was behind the thicket, his curiosity drove him back there after the milking was done. Whatever it was behind the thicket left a small pile of sand...
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Finding your soulmate doesn't always mean it's the person you expected.
Riku Hiroshi spends his days in the shadow. A skilled and lethal ninja, he is at the top of his game. The one thing, he is missing is that special someone to share his life with, but how can he when danger lurks around every corner? His carefully manicured life is thrown into chaos the day his path crosses Natasha Smith, and he saves her life.
A young teacher visiting Japan,...
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A Table for Us is a modern love story. It narrates the emotional journey of the protagonist, Opshora-her struggle to strike a balance between her heritage and the world she inherits as a second-generation immigrant in America.
Opshora is a Bengalee American, an anthropologist. She falls in love with Antonio, an Italian American chef. Antonio cooks with fanatical passion and "some crazy" to produce culinary miracles. He bakes tarts, pastries and chocolate...