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1) Caraval
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Caraval volume 1
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English
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"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister Tella live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away...
2) Cruel beauty
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English
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Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
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Hawthorne House novels volume 3
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English
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After a night trapped together in an old stone keep, Lady Adelaide Bell and Lord Trent Hawthorne have no choice but to marry. Dismayed, Adelaide finds herself bound to a man who ignores her, as Trent has no desire to connect with the one who dashed his plans to marry for love. Can they set aside their first impressions before any chance of love is lost?
4) Arranged
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English
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"Every single one of Anne Blythe's relationships has ended in disaster, so when fate leads her to the doorstep of a highly secretive arranged marriage agency, she decides to take a chance"-- Provided by publisher.
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Marrying the duke volume 1
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English
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"Every debutante aspires to snag a duke. Elin Morris just happens to have had one reserved since birth. But postponements of her marriage to London's most powerful peer give Elin time to wonder how she will marry Gavin Baynton when she cannot forget his brother, Benedict"--Page [4] of cover.
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Ruinous love trilogy volume 2
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English
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"Contract killer Lachlan Kane wants a quiet life working in his leather studio and forgetting all about his traumatic past. But when he botches a job for his boss's biggest client, Lachlan knows he'll never claw his way out of the underworld. At least, not until songbird Lark Montague offers him a deal: use his skills to hunt down a killer and she'll find a way to secure his freedom. The catch? He has to marry her first. And they can't stand each...
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"In this gripping third volume of the Christelle Dabos's best-selling saga, Ophelia, the mirror-traveling heroine, finds herself on the ark of Babel guarding a secret that may provide a key both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act, to put what she has discovered in the Book of Farouk to use. Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and...
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2014.
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中文(繁體)
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This is the 20-anniversary edition of book one of "The Child of Salt Pan" trilogy originally published in 1994. The story is about the life of a woman who was affected by an ill-fated arranged marriage in a coastal village in Taiwan. The book has won United Daily News (Taiwan) Best Fiction Award and 1994 United Daily News Best Bookman Award, and has been adapted for a TV drama in Taiwan in 1998. Book 2 is titlted "The Olive Tree" and book 3 is "The...
9) Gan lan shu
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Pub. Date
2014.
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中文(繁體)
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This is the remastered second installment of "The Child of Salt Pan" trilogy. Originally published in 1998, the story was set in the 1980s. The new generation of Taiwanese children courageously set off on their life journeys in search for their own answers of love. This book has won national literary awards in Taiwan. The third book of the trilogy is published in April of 2014 to complete the epic trilogy by award winning contemporary Taiwanese...
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"When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. Her gift--the ability to read the secret history of objects--is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic...
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"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her...
12) One heart to win
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Some young ladies marry for money and social standing, a few lucky ones marry for love - but Tiffany Warren is marrying to end a feud. Honoring her mother's promise, Tiffany reluctantly travels west to meet her estranged father and his enemy's eldest son, rancher Hunter Callahan. But in the chaos of a train robbery, Tiffany seizes the opportunity to assume the identity of her father's new housekeeper so that she can assess these men's true character....
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Desperate to help her ailing mother, Philadelphia "Delphie" Carteret agrees to partake in a sham wedding ceremony to her cousin, Gareth. This fulfills Gareth's obligation to marry before his sick uncle passes, and in exchange Delphie's mother will be guaranteed an annuity for life. The plan is perfect. But perfect plans usually go awry. Not only was the marriage ceremony valid, but Gareth's dying uncle makes a miraculous recovery. An imposter is threatening...
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Sydney Dovedale romances volume 1
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[2012]
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English
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When Lazarus Kane answers her ad for a husband in the Farmer's Gazette, Sophie Valentine is enamored by this mysterious stranger, who, unbeknownst to her, has known her for years and has come a long way to find her.
16) The loner
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"Tanner Everett spends most of his time jet-setting around the world. But that hasn't stopped innocent Stasie Bolton, the daughter of a neighboring rancher, from falling head-over-heels for the jet-setting playboy. So Stasie is secretly thrilled when herfather proposes linking the properties in matrimony...which means Tanner will be hers, for good. Despite his globetrotting ways, Tanner can't help but be enthralled by the quiet girl next door. But...
17) Lyon's bride
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Chattan curse trilogy volume 1
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English
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Determined to break the curse that binds him, Lord Lyon, who is in need of a bride, but will die if he falls in love, tasks his former childhood friend Thea Martin with finding him the perfect wife--a task that becomes difficult when she decides that she is his soulmate.
18) Princess in love
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The royal trilogy volume 2
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English
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"Leopold Hunt, Marquess of Cavanaugh, is a secret Royalist with a distant hereditary claim to the throne. He has been groomed to one day overthrow the king and rebuild his family's dynasty. Only one thing stands in his way: the king's daughter, Rose. Princess Rose has loved the marquess her entire life, but she is about to enter a political marriage-one that promises to help keep her father in power. There is virtually no way for Rose to escape her...
20) Dragon heart
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2015.
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English
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Where the Cape of the Winds juts into the endless sea, there is Castle Ocean, and therein dwells the royal family that has ruled it from time immemorial. But there is an Empire growing in the east, and its forces have reached the castle. King Reymarro is dead in battle, and by the new treaty, Queen Marioza must marry one of the Emperor's brothers. She loathes the idea, and has already killed the first brother, but a second arrives, escorted by more...
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