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2022
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Luna--or depending on who's asking, Rose--is the white-passing daughter of an immigrant mother who has seen what happens to people from her culture. This world is prejudicial, and she must hide her identity in pursuit of owning an illegal jazz club. Using her cunning powers, Rose negotiates with dangerous criminals as she climbs up Kansas City's bootlegging ladder. Luna, however, runs the risk of losing everything if the crooked city councilmen and...
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Rilla is getting married. Except she isn't. She's running away - from her confused fiancé Simon, her big mad family, and the memories nipping at her heels. Her sister Rose would know what to do in such times of crisis. But the trouble is, Rose the crisis. She disappeared years ago, and Rilla's heart went missing too. Where is Rose? And who is Rilla without Rose? If she's to rescue some happiness out of all this chaos, she needs to find out. Everyone...
3) Retribution
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Lady Gregory arrived in Purgatory with just one thought-do everything she could to rescue her daughter and Lily. Now, alone with the two girls, she must find a way to escape or be trapped forever with the nuns who run the orphanage on the other side of death.
But time is running out for her, because back on the Other Side the Night Brothers run wild in the city streets with Charles and Rose struggling to stay alive.
When all she's worked to save...
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Place to Call Home volume 12
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With Regina on the run, George and Jack press Rose for information on her whereabouts. As tensions come to a head, Regina and Sarah face a desperate confrontation.
5) Duramen Rose
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WWI
the Spanish Flu
a boy who runs away to war
and struggles to find his way home
again thereafter
soldiers, hobos, dead men, and his Valkyrie
a modern American epic of war and innocence lost
this is Duramen Rose
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She makes him feel alive again
But can he heal her heart too?
Single dad GP Joe Thompson's priorities are his daughter and his patients. It might've earned him a brooding reputation, but since losing his wife romance has been off-limits...until he meets locum nurse Rose McIntyre! Her warm smile and live-for-the-moment attitude soothe a pain Joe believed would never fade. But can Joe stop Rose running from her own secrets...and find comfort in his...
7) In the Deep
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A wedding to die for...
Hearts are on fire as psychic Rose Hartford tries to change her destiny. Caught between her bound lover, Deidrick Rhyan, and her well-to-do fiancée, the dark and mysterious Giovanni Boracelli, Rose finds herself in the middle of a war between the immortals. After a life of cheating death, she must choose a side once and for all.
Deidrick has been fighting for Rose since the day he saw her, and after centuries of loopholes...
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers were going to be a one-time act for a friend's album release party.
Forty years later the funk rock band is arguably one of the best known and the longest running in the United States.
Everything that happened in 1983 set the course for the rest of the band's career. The scrappy band quickly rose to scene-wide fame, playing all over Los Angeles and gaining fans and media attention wherever they performed. Before...
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Bricklaying in a park is not the pastoral interlude Jack hoped for. Possibilities of love with Liz, who runs the greenhouses, are thwarted by Ian, the bullying park manager, who has his own schemes afoot. Or there's Rose, Liz's sister, made homeless and sleeping secretly in the bowling green pavilion. But for the park workers, it's all hands on deck as they prepare for the coming of the Mayor. Until murder intervenes, with Jack too involved.
10) Run Turkey Run
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It is that time of the year, and Turkey finds himself on top of everyone's Thanksgiving dinner list as the main dish.He must hide.Finding a good hiding place can be challenging, especially when the best hiding places are already taken. But somehow, Turkey is able to evade his pursuers.His luck finally runs out, and Turkey is cornered. Will he be able to evade his pursuers one more time and come out SMELLING like a rose?
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Fulfilling his last dream was supposed to make Mack happy, but instead, it almost killed him.Approaching the end of his life, Mack - an old rusty cyborg, decides to go on one last date. But when he is rejected time and time again, Mack must learn to let go of everything he knows about love, before his battery runs out."The Rose Maker" is a cyberpunk romance drama, the fifth book in a sci-fi series that features compelling A.I. characters, raw emotion,...
12) Edge of Shadows
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From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author CJ Lyons comes the long awaited conclusion of her Shadow Ops trilogy!
They hide in the shadows to protect our country... can they protect their hearts?
The Special Threats Response Team hunts terrorists out of the reach of conventional law enforcement.
Their leader, Rose Prospero has already faced her own worst fear: five years ago she was captured and tortured when the CIA abandoned her behind...
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A woman with nothing to lose. A man who knows too much. A secret that could destroy them all.
Rose Hancock is no stranger to danger, fear, or pain. Her whole life has been shaped by the purists--a shadowy splinter group within America's most powerful secret society. When the leader of the Trinity Masters has her partner-in-crime shot, Rose has nothing left to live for except revenge.
Before she can take her revenge, she's kidnapped and wakes up...
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Great escapes (HarperCollins) volume 3
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Are you ready for some of the most exciting, death-defying escape stories ever told? The third installment in the unputdownable Great Escapes series is here—perfect for fans of the I Survived series!
Civil War, 1863. Virginia. Union soldiers Colonel Thomas Rose and Major A. G. Hamilton were captured by the Confederate Army and taken to Libby Prison—one of the most horrific prisons ever run.
Few ever made it out of the overcrowded, vermin-infested...
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Her former one-night stand is now her roommate. Oops. When electrical engineer and depressed plushie enthusiast Rose Pang decides to go out alone one evening, she certainly doesn't expect to meet easygoing landscaper Cal. They spend an enjoyable night together, and the next day, romance is on her mind. Cal promises to text…but he never does. Hurt, Rose tries her best to forget about him. But several months later, in a terrible twist of fate, Rose...
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The Rose Garden is a story of Man,
his greed and his broken world,
his sleepwalking to a disaster of his own making.
This is a story of Man,
it tells why things reached to the catastrophic point,
and warns of his unprecedented end.
This is a story of Man,
whose time is running out.
This is a story of Man,
his survival or extinction on the Planet Earth.
This is a story of Man,
it advises him to open eyes wide and save the World for his children's sake....
17) A Lethal Lesson
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Back home in the Kootenays after her Arizona honeymoon, Lane offers her assistance when neither the outgoing teacher, Rose, nor her replacement, Wendy, show up at the local schoolhouse one blizzardy Monday in December. But when she finds the teachers' cottage ransacked with Rose unconscious and bleeding, and Wendy missing, Lane delivers Rose to the hospital in Nelson and turns the case over to her exasperated husband, Inspector Darling, and his capable...
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Maira moves into a new house with her daughter. She notices how extraordinary relationship her daughter has with the roses in the garden. However, she has no time to investigate the truth. One night, she sees her daughter out in the garden, standing in the middle of the roses. She seems to be talking to them. Maria immediately runs out! What do you think Maria sees in the garden? What happens when she goes there? Why don't you discover it yourself?...
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Queenstown, County Cork. 1920 For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker. For eight hundred years Ireland has made numerous bids for her freedom but now, at last, liberation from British rule is...
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She thought it was love.
Rose Romanov is a mafia princess, and everything that entails. Violently over-protective parents. A giant extended family, all ready to kill anyone who looks at her wrong. Learning to run a business that isn't exactly on the right side of the law. So, naturally, when she meets a nice guy who isn't in the life, she falls hard...Right up until the she discovers her new boyfriend isn't a civilian at all.
But he betrayed her.
When...
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