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1) Beguilement
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Fleeing her family farm after becoming pregnant, unwed Fawn Bluefield encounters a patrol of enigmatic soldier-sorcerers under the leadership of Dag, a knife-bearing, one-handed patroller who comes to Fawn's rescue when she is kidnapped by a dangerous magical entity.
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"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancae, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't dead....
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"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. Now, a forgotten voice brings new information about that terrible time, causing Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Can she finally lay down yesterday's pain and move on? In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor, an Indiana girl who is studying abroad for the semester. Alice's life is so good now, totally...
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"Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is 'paralysed by triviality', measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties-- routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself. First published...
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Contains two romance novels set in the small town of Promise, Texas, including "Nell's Cowboy, " in which Nell Bishop, a widowed mom, decides to turn her property into a dude ranch, not expecting her first guest to steal her heart; and "Lone Star Baby, " in which attractive preacher Wade McMillen must decide whether it is the minister or the man in him that is having such a strong response to Amy Thornton, an abandoned, pregnant woman who shows up...
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On a hill above the Italian village of Ravello sits the Villa Cimbrone, a place of fantasy and make-believe. The characters that move through Michael Holroyd's new book are destined never to meet, yet the Villa Cimbrone unites them all.
A Book of Secrets is a treasure trove of hidden lives, uncelebrated achievements, and family mysteries. With grace and tender imagination, Holroyd brings a company of unknown women into the light. From Alice Keppel,...
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Who would want to kill ordinary guy Arnie Meister? Reporter andsmall-town sleuth Merry Kramer was on the trail of the supposed killer when she uncovered more murder suspects than she ever thoughtpossible—an ex-wife, an ex-girlfriend and suspiciousbusiness associates. Nothing added up.
But with Merry embroiled in the story, danger wasn't far behind.And those she thought trustworthy—even charming Curt Carlyle—might not be who they seem….
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"In 1960, free-spirited Doreen is a recent high-school grad and waitress in a Chicago diner. She doesn't know Margie, sixteen and bookish, who lives a sheltered suburban life, but they soon meet when unplanned pregnancies send them to the Holy Family Homefor the Wayward in rural Illinois. Assigned as roommates because their due dates line up, Margie and Doreen navigate Holy Family's culture of secrecy and shame and become fast friends as the weight...
11) Bulletproof
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"Maci Bookout was just a normal, slightly overachieving high school girl in Chattanooga, Tennesse. But then she got prergnant, and everything turned upside down. Even as she rose to fame on MTV's hit series Teen Mom, Maci was struggling to balance life as a single teen mom with her own hopes and dreams ..."--Back cover.
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"In a remote Chinese mountain village, Liyan and her family align their lives around the farming of tea. Life goes on as it has for generations--until a stranger appears, bringing the modern world to the lives of the Akha people. Li-yan, one of the few educated girls on her mountain, begins to reject customs that shaped her early life. When she has a baby out of wedlock, she leaves her near an orphanage. While Li-yan leaves her village for an education,...
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