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1) Secrets
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At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, a young man she met at one of her mother's business conferences. Years later, she traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia, where the now-widowed Jeff lives with his young daughter. Cassie becomes the child's nanny, but, even though she sees the object of her desire every day, Jeff has yet to even notice her. Then, one day, she hears shots coming from the mansion of Althea Fairmont, an eccentric...
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Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 2
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When Keane Winters, the man she has had a crush on for years, walks back into her life--and into her pet shop--Willa Davis is determined to make him never forget her again and throws a coin in the fountain, making a special wish and letting the mistletoe do its work.
3) Six years
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
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M xiao shuo volume XXV
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2015.
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中文(繁體)
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After the love of his life marries another man, who subsequently dies, college professor Jake Fisher attends the funeral, only to discover that the deceased's widow is not in fact his former love, and that his life may have been based upon a carefully constructed fiction. Traditional Chinese edition of Six Years by the New York Times bestselling mystery suspense novelist Harlan Coben. Coben is winner of the Edgar Award, the Shamus Award, and the Anthony...
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[2023]
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English
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"A bighearted novel about motherhood, friendship, moving on, and love of all kinds. Ever since Beth Bailey was a girl, she's been in love with her best friend's older brother, Mark. She's continued to hold out hope that maybe, someday, he'll love her back. But now Beth is thirty-five years old, and on the day of Mark's wedding to another woman, she finally accepts the wake-up call she needs to move on. Beth's dream of marrying her first love may be...
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"This beautiful, spare novel of platonic unrequited love springs into being around the singular character of the stoic, exacting Professor Elizabeth Finch. Neil, the narrator, takes her class on Culture and Civilization, taught not for undergraduates but for adults of all ages; we are drawn into his intellectual crush on this private, withholding yet commanding woman. While other personal relationships and even his family drift from Neil's grasp,...
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Mississippi volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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John Waters is a husband and father happy with his lot in life, though he has not always felt that way. Years earlier he escaped an obsessive love affair, which he feared might consume him. The woman in question disappeared after Waters married, and later he heard that she was killed in New Orleans. But now, Waters has an uneasy feeling that she has resurfaced to trouble him - and entice him - once again. A woman he meets casually stuns him with a...
10) Monsieur Pain
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2017.
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Español
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"En la primavera de 1938, monsieur Pierre Pain, acupuntor y seguidor convencido de las teorías mesméricas, recibe el cometido de tratar el hipo de un sudamericano abandonado a su poca suerte y escasos medios en un hospital de París. Lo que a priori parecía un extraño caso de fi ebre alta, no obstante, se presenta ante sus ojos como un entramado de proporciones inimaginables y abre la puerta a preguntas cuyas respuestas Pain tendrá que desvelar....
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Jonesy volume 2
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2017.
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English
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"Jonesy is just like and other rebellious teenager, except that she has the power to make people fall in love with anything or anyone-- but herself! The adventures of the teenage cupid, with a penchant for plaid, continues here-- Crushes are still unbearable, high school still stinks, and getting a date is still impossible!"--Page 4 of cover.
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Jonesy volume 1
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[2016]
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English
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"Jonesy's a typical disaffected teenager-- makin' zines nobody reads, posting pictures of her favorite pop groups on her blog, and watching anime on the weekends. But Jonesy has a secret-- she can make anybody fall in love with anyone-- or anything-- she wants! But there's only one catch-- Jonesy's powers don't work on herself, and she's gonna find out the hard way that shooting Cupid's arrow ain't all it's cracked up to be"--Page 4 of cover.
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[2020]
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English
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Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
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[2021]
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English
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"Wei Wuxian was once one of the most outstanding men of his generation, a talented and clever young cultivator who harnessed martial arts, knowledge, and spirituality into powerful abilities. But when the horrors of war led him to seek a new power through demonic cultivation, the world's respect for his skills turned to fear, and his eventual death was celebrated throughout the land. Years later, he awakens in the body of an aggrieved young man who...
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