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1) Lucky
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English
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"Before Jodie Rattler became a star, she was a girl growing up in St. Louis. One day in 1955, when she was just six years old, her Uncle Drew took her to the racetrack, where she got lucky - and that roll of two-dollar bills she won has never since left her side. Jodie thrived in the warmth of her extended family, and then - through a combination of hard work and serendipity - started a singing career, which catapulted her from St. Louis to New York...
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"When her estranged mother dies, Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading "Go to Paris." But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a childhood trauma, and her mother's negligent parenting style, have kept her strictly confined to her comfort zone, even in adulthood. When her boss encourages her to time off, Stella resigns herself to honor her mother's wishes, even if a spontaneous trip to Paris is the...
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"Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital after school. Meanwhile, Hitler's rise to power and the violence in her very own town have Sophia concerned, but only her mother is willing to share her fears openly....
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Avon
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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"After being freed from the hellish barbarians who held him captive, Ronan Sinclare knows he must return to his clan to claim his powerful heritage. But first he must destroy the woman who ruined everything. Even as he seizes Carissa and makes her his prisoner, Ronan is tormented by memories of the woman he loved and lost: the gentle Hope, whose death by Carissa's hand he has sworn to avenge. Carissa knows nothing but survival. Raised by a brutal...
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2024.
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"Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants When two wealthy white landowners are found dead, the whole country immediately thinks it must be Jerome Washington, the hired help, who killed them. He was standing over the bodies when the police responded to an anonymous call...
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"1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France. Founded by millionaire Anne Morgan, this group of international women help rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen-children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Scholastica, or Tick, has grown up helping her father make candles in his shop. The experience has its ups and downs--while constantly smelling like tallow makes it hard for Tick to keep friends, stray cats love her. Still, she delights in the work and the fact that she can help Papa. Because she's a girl, Tick can never be a true apprentice in the trade, but since she gets to do the job anyway, what does it matter what she's called?...Then one morning...
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Bradwell brothers volume 2
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Golden Owl Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Thea Northcott cannot abide Benedict Bradwell, and the feeling is mutual. Or, is it? Thea: I would do nearly anything to avoid the lecherous advances of an eager earl, including running away from my finishing school and finding employment under a false name. The work turned out to be harder than I expected, however, and the prospect of returning to a life of comfort and a significant reduction of welts on my hands and shadows beneath my eyes just...
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Sage River Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Free legal clinic attorney Hanna Walsh was starting to believe she might have a future with Charleston Police Detective Alex Frank until his ex-wife returns intent on making up for past sins. It;s been over a year and Hanna has tried to move beyond the betrayal and violent murder of her husband. Alex, who helped bring the killer to justice, is becoming more than a friend. Then Alex's ex-wife comes back to town with a shocking secret and all of Hanna's...
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Sage River Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"Hanna and Alex again find themselves in the troubled waters of love and commitment. Alex returns to South Carolina with the promise of a new start but with strings attached that Hanna may never be able to live with. The shocking disappearance of a young woman and suspicious death of the father of one of Hanna's clients puts both Hanna and Alex back in the crosshairs of the ruthless Dellahousaye crime family." --Amazon.
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Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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A stirring, sensual story of a rebellious nobleman drawn to a lovely widow with a shocking past.
12) Windsong Manor
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-seven, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late husband's country estate,...
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Sage River Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Hanna and Alex seem to have found a promising new start for their lives together when Alex encounters a tragic loss and near-deadly run-in with a dangerous crime syndicate. As Hanna tries to help him through his recovery and search for a dangerous killer, the surprise return of a lover from her past sends all hope of her future with Alex into a tailspin." --Amazon.
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly--and dangerously--collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico Territory in this captivating epic from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of Where the Light Enters. Carrie Ballentyne's life was upended in 1845 when she had to leave the only home she'd ever known in the mountains of upstate New York. With her are her widowed mother and younger brother Nathan, but the separation from Bonner, Ballentyne,...
16) La mesa herida
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Publisher
Planeta México
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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¿Hasta dónde está dispuesta a llegar para salvar la obra de Frida?
México, 1935. Cuando descubre que Diego le es infiel con su hermana Cristina, Frida, que atraviesa un periodo de depresión ligado a su imposibilidad de ser madre, utiliza el dolor como inspiración para crear La mesa herida, una enigmática pintura de gran formato que años después formará parte de la primera exposición de artistas mexicanos en la Unión Soviética.
Moscú,...
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Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Isle of Jersey was once a warm and neighborly community, but in 1943, German soldiers patrol the cobbled streets, imposing a harsh rule. Nazis have ordered Grace La Mottée, the island's only librarian, to destroy books that threaten the new regime. Instead, she hides the stories away in secret. Along with her headstrong best friend, she wants to fight back. So she forms the Wartime Book Club: a lifeline, offering fearful islanders the joy and...
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Bride ships new voyages volume Bk. 1
Publisher
Sunrise Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"A new world. A new hope. An unexpected love. What life awaits these brides? With the cotton mills closed and hunger rampant in Manchester, England, Willow Rhodes's family encourages her to join the bride ship bound for the Pacific Northwest, where she is assured of employment. Willow agrees to go with the hope that eventually she can save enough money for her family to join her. Rebellious knuckle-boxing champion Caleb Edwards loves Willow more than...
19) Mi isla
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Publisher
Penguin Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Language
Español
Description
Más de 4.000.000 de ejemplares vendidos.
«Elísabet Benavent es la voz masiva de una generación».
Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, El País
@BetaCoqueta, autora de «Saga Valeria», llega con una novela en la que lleva trabajando desde hace varios años. Una historia especial, diferente y arriesgada, Mi isla habla de límites, de sueños, remordimientos, cambios y, sobre todo, de amor, mucho amor.
Maggie vive en una isla y regenta una casa de huéspedes......
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ALFAGUARA
Pub. Date
2024
Language
Español
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LA NUEVA NOVELA DEL PREMIO CERVANTES
Un magistral relato de aventuras lleno de humor
«Su obra refleja la viveza de la vida cotidiana convirtiendo la realidad en una obra de arte con excepcional altura literaria».
Jurado del Premio Cervantes
Esta es la historia de una princesa de la nobleza rural de los Cárpatos que llevaba una férula ajustada con tornillos de cabeza avellanada y correas de vaqueta en la pierna izquierda. De un peluquero escultor...
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