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After three of her novels flop for lack of publicity, lawyer Abby Chandlis hires male model Jack Jermaine to stand in as the author for her fourth. As expected, Jermaine's hunky looks cause sales to skyrocket. But Jermaine is more than just a model, he is a soldier of fortune and as people die round her, Abby wonders if she hasn't signed a pact with the devil.
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"The Margrave of Thornbeck has two weeks to find a noble bride. What will happen when he learns he has fallen for Avelina, a lovely servant girl in disguise? But something else is afoot in the castle. Something sinister that could have far worse--far deadlier--consequences. Will Avelina and Lord Thornbeck be able to stop the evil plot?"--
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Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be. The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back. She is the perfect girlfriend. And she'll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants. True love hurts, but Juliette knows it's worth all the pain..."Dust jacket...
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Eve Duncan novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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The forensic sculptor, Eve Duncan, is hired to rebuild the face of a corpse, discovering in the process on a political conspiracy in Washington. The president has been killed and a double has been put in his place. By the author of And Then You Die.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
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English
Description
The beloved actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder's first novel, My French Whore, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It's almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists, and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he is-and never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything,...
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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 12
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English
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It's early 1938, and Maisie Dobbs is back in England. On a fine yet chilly morning, as she walks towards Fitzroy Square--a place of many memories--she is intercepted by Brian Huntley and Robert MacFarlane of the Secret Service. The German government has agreed to release a British subject from prison, but only if he is handed over to a family member. Because the man's wife is bedridden and his daughter has been killed in an accident, the Secret Service...
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MCD / Farrar Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Discovering her brother has committed suicide, a successful yet lonely author with a hit dystopian novel begins responding to texts as her late brother on her phone and becomes more and more untethered from reality
9) Tandem
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Series
Many-worlds trilogy volume 1
Publisher
AudioGo
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Fans of Matched, Across the Universe, and The Hunger Games will love this captivating tale of rebellion and romance that spans parallel worlds. Everything repeats. You. Your best friend. Every person you know. Many worlds, many lives-infinite possibilities. Welcome to the multiverse. Sixteen-year-old Sasha Lawson has only ever known one small, ordinary life. When she was young, she loved her grandfather's stories of parallel worlds, inhabited...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"In 1905, a tourist agent and amateur antiques collector named Armand de Potter mysteriously disappeared off the coast of Greece. His body is never recovered and his wife is left to manage his affairs on her own. But as she starts to piece together his life, she realizes that everything was not as he had said. Infused with details from letters and diary entries, the [book] twists forward and backward through time, revealing a lost world of fake identities,...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Caine arrives at Heatherbrae House, she is smitten--by...
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Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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Brussels, 1943. Twelve-year-old street orphan Helene survives by living as a boy and selling copies of the country's most popular newspaper, Le Soir, now turned into Nazi propaganda. Helene's world changes when she befriends a rogue journalist, Marc Aubrion, who draws her into a secret network which publishes dissident underground newspapers. The Nazis track down Aubrion's team and give them an impossible choice: use the voice of the resistance to...
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Elemental trilogy (Sherry Thomas) volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When Bane, the monstrous tyrant who bestrides the entire mage world, demands that Titus hand over Iolanthe or watch as his entire realm is destroyed in a deadly rampage, Iolanthe and Titus decide to infiltrate Bane's crypt, the most ferociously guarded fortress in Atlantis.
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Barbour Fiction
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Second daughter of a baron—and a little on the mischievous side—Ella Pemberton is no governess. But the pretense is a necessity if she ever wishes to get inside of Wyckhorn Manor and attain the truth. Exposing the man who killed her sister is all that matters. Lord Sedgewick knows there’s blood on his hands. Lies have been conceived, then more lies, but the price of truth would be too great. All he has left now is his son—and his hatred. Yet...
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English
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"To follow her dreams, she must sacrifice everything. Sisters Nora and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime - to escape their poor Irish farm and travel on the Titanic to a new life in America. Delia is to become a treasured governess for a rich family, while Nora has only a lowly maid's position. But when disaster strikes, and Delia dies, a small misunderstanding leads to Nora taking Delia's place as governess. As Nora grows closer to her...
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Lara, Lady Hawksworth, is sure her husband died in a shipwreck off the south Indian coast, but three years later someone answering to the name of Hunter, Lord Hawksworth, reappears. He's accepted by everyone save his uncle, who'd claimed the earldom in his absence, and Lara, who had hated being married to him. How Hunter wins Lara with his exquisite lovemaking and becomes a better husband than the man who left her is the heart of this sweetly sensual,...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands is the story of Emily Shepard, a homeless teen living in an igloo made of ice and trash bags filled with frozen leaves. Half a year earlier, a nuclear plant in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom had experienced a cataclysmic meltdown, and both of Emily's parents were killed. Devastatingly, her father was in charge of the plant, and the meltdown may have been his fault. Was he drunk when it happened? Thousands of people are forced...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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Hank Mallone knows he's in trouble when Maggie Toone agrees to pretend to be his wife in order to improve his rogue's reputation. Will his harebrained scheme to get a bank loan for his business backfire once Maggie arrives in his small Vermont town and lets the gossips take a look? Maggie never expected her employer to be drop-dead handsome, but she's too intrigued by his offer to say no . . . and too eager to escape a life that made her feel trapped....
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Series
Sinful suitors volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"When spymaster Baron Fulkham meets the stunning Princess Aurore of Chanay, he's sure she's actually the mysterious actress he met years ago in Dieppe. But as he pursues his suspicions, he uncovers a plot of attempted assassination and betrayal that could very well destroy his career, expose his own dark secrets-- and ruin the woman he's rapidly falling for"--
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Wild Wicked Highlanders volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do - not even by his exasperated English mother, who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match. The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows. The...