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61) Gamine
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Une histoire passionnante,
qui va de rebondissement en rebondissement!
L'histoire de Gamine se déroule à Saint-Raymond-de-la-Tour, petit village de la province de Québec o tout se sait, et o tout se colporte. Née dans les années 70, on peut dire que Gamine n'est pas la fille de parents ordinaires, son père étant prêtre et sa mère... une ex-prostituée. Lorsque plus tard elle apprendra la vérité sur ses origines, elle en sera si choquée,...
62) Love Carries On
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The war threatens all she holds dear...
Jessica Raeburn lives with her family in a small flat in Edinburgh and works as a department store cashier. She finds herself bored, distracted and dreaming of a more exciting life. One filled with glamour and glitz and excitement. One like she sees in the movies. So when she is hired to work in the box office at the Princes Street cinema, she is thrilled – to be so close to the films and stars she loves...
63) Blood Of A Rebel
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Who says you can't come home again?
All his life, Cole Johnson has felt something is missing. That there is a piece of himself he is desperate to find. He needs answers. Answers his parents refuse to give. Hitting the open road, he finds more than he bargained for. When secrets from the past are exposed, a new enemy makes his move.
The road ahead is perilous. Blood will be shed, lives will be changed, and ghosts will be resurrected. The Black Rebel...
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This story opens on a burgeoning mining town in Transylvania during the fading years of the 19th century. Life goes on uneventfully, save for the occasional trouble caused by the greedy local baron. Three young men-a poor Romanian, a gypsy, and a rich Hungarian-are bound by a strong friendship that is frowned upon by the town elite. During a trip to the baron's forbidden lands, one of the men discovers a mysterious artifact that symbolizes humanity's...
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"This contemporary romance Boxed Set includes 5 full length By The Lake,
The McAdams Sister Lakeshore Novels PLUS Novella:
Lakeshore Secrets, Book 1
Lakeshore Legend, Book 2
Lakeshore Love, Book 3
Lakeshore Candy, Book 4
Candy Crumble, Book 4.5
Lakeshore Lyrics, Book 5
Sneak Peek: Sunset Thunder
Kate McAdams was forced six years ago to leave her beloved hometown of Willow Valley, leaving behind her family and the only man she's ever loved, Marc Caliendo....
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After my parents separated, my mom and I moved into my grandparents home. During this change in my life, my grandpa gave me very special gifts. They were not of material value, but rather gifts of kindness, love and imagination. Through dozens of letters that were left for me inside a small, white mailbox, my grandpa created a magical world as seen through the eyes of a wise old woodchuck named Woody. These letters, which often arrived every day,...
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The story moves back and forth in time from the arrival of Thea from her isolated village in arctic Norway in search of a new life in the near wilderness of a small town and logging camp on the shore of Lake Superior to the travails of her orphaned son, Odd, some twenty years later. When Thea's aunt and uncle do not meet her boat as planned, she's initially left abandoned with no money or prospects and without speaking the language. Befriended by...
68) Njal's Saga
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Considered to be one of the finest of the Icelandic sagas, "Njal's Saga" or "The Story of Burnt Njal" was written sometime in the thirteenth century by an unknown author and is the longest and most developed of the Icelandic sagas. The source material for the saga was historical but probably drawn largely from oral tradition. The story relates events that took place between 960 and 1020 AD, involving blood feuds in the Icelandic Commonwealth. It features...
69) Out of the Black
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Earth has fallen.
Mired in politics and frustrated by inaction, Commander Finn Radko and the crew of the HMCS Vimy Ridge begin a bold plan, unsanctioned by the Commonwealth they serve, to assemble a task force capable of striking a major blow against the ril-galas occupation force.
Meanwhile on Earth, the mysterious woman known only as Hunter sets in motion a plan of her own, to bring hope to the ever-dwindling number of survivors sheltering within...
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Tragedy and passion threaten to overwhelm the Harvey Family once again1944: War lashes the Harvey family. Emilia, now happily married to Perry Bosweld and expecting his child, worries about her son Will in the RAF, while Ben Harvey is horrified when he's suddenly faced with the daughter he'd turned his back on. When Emilia and Ben hurl painful truths at each other, Ben takes it badly, and disappears as a Special Operative Executive behind enemy lines...
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Twenty-one year-old Rosie Ross has graduated from college in 1955, and now prepares for a Catholic marriage. By the time she is thirty-three, she has had six children and is spiritually and emotionally fulfilled by caring for them full time, even though she senses her physical exhaustion. She also realizes she needs to get away from the husband who isolates and belittles her. As the children become more self- reliant and independent, it opens the...
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The first of the Eddie Todd trilogy which starts in the 1950s and continues to the present. Book one follows the lives of three women who come from different backgrounds and cross paths with Eddie Todd. Each has a story to tell. You will be intriqued from the first page to the last.
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Meet Dolly Devoy, the brash new girl at Dublin's Jacob's Biscuit Factory… An unforgettable Irish saga set over the Easter Uprising and the First World War. Dolly Devoy, a bold young Dubliner, has become very sure of herself since being promoted to work in the office of the local biscuit factory. Too sure of herself. She should be a lord's daughter, like Alice Delahunt, to be that confident. For Alice, the path looks smooth, with a glittering marriage...
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'…does he know who I am?'
'He knows nothing of you, my lord. He believes my cousin, Master Chuonn, is the head of the snake about to strike.' The assassin laughed without mirth. 'But in truth, we are just its eyes.'
'And its fangs,' the cloaked figure added.
'Yes, and its fangs,' he agreed before bowing. Without another word, the shadowed assassin disappeared back into the blackness from whence he came.
The cloaked figure remained for another...
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Alaska Wildlife Trooper, Will Trippet, partnered with his old schoolmate, Gordy Ponset, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife officer to patrol Mystery Creek Road on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula to check bear baiting stations. While investigating tracks of an all terrain vehicle they discover a poached moose. The poacher lay dead at the scene, killed by a brown bear. This grisly scene ignites an investigation that took a year to complete. The poacher came from a family...
76) The Promise
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On a desperate journey to America, Rebecca Neville promises the dying wife of the Earl of Stanmore to raise and care for her newborn son, James. Once in the New World, Rebecca begins her new life, as a mother...
TO CHERISH
Ten years later, the Earl of Stanmore learns of the fate of his family. He sends to the colonies for his young heir so he can raise him as a peer of the realm. With no intention of forsaking her vow, Rebecca returns to England...
77) Sugar and Spice
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An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties-Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters-and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own.
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Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo | Includes Analysis Preview: Everybody's Fool, a novel by Richard Russo, is set in the fictional town of North Bath in upstate New York. There, over the course of one weekend, a crew of local eccentrics juggle long-standing grudges, acute crises, and surreal weather events to the best of their limited abilities. Along the way, readers learn about their troubled pasts. At Hilldale Cemetery, Douglas Raymer, chief of...
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An enthralling fourth trip to the house at Badgers Brook sees a young woman facing tension at home and in the office Meriel Evans has worked for her father's estate agency ever since she left school. While happy there, she knows she must carve a career of her own, so lands a job with Cwm Derw's Ace Estate Agency. Soon she discovers her new boss, George Dexter, dislikes her father intensely, though she cannot understand why. Just what is at the root...
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As a research scientist it is Lani Donatelli's dream to make a difference in the lives of people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. There's only one problem, and it's a huge one - she's lost her funding from the big pharmaceutical companies and her research lab is in danger of closing down. Without funding her experiments are at a standstill. On top of that, she has one month to come up with the money to clear months of arrears with the leasing...
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