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"I don't take orders. Not from you or anyone." Holly Perez has one last chance to sort out the train wreck her life has become. But being housekeeper to reclusive CEO Julius Ravensdale is as close to a prison as Holly could imagine. Julius may be devastatingly gorgeous, but he's also brooding, formal and completely off-limits! Julius is renowned for his ironclad control, but provocative whirlwind Holly pushes him to his breaking point! Especially...
8602) Fists of Rage
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Coauthors Arketa Williams and Ti'Ara "Ti" Walpool want to shine a light on abuse that is often overlooked and very seldom discussed. With this controversial project, they are breaking their own silences. Having fallen prey to physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, these two young women are ready to stop just existing and start living. They no longer want to think of themselves as just another number. Rightfully considering themselves victors, they...
8603) The Master Craftsman
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In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in The House of Faberge, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history-an unknown Faberge Egg that Peter Karl Faberge secretly, created to honor his divided allegiance to both the people of Russia and the Imperial Czar's family. When Alma and her husband escaped Russia for their native Finland in 1921, she took the secret with her, guarding her past connection to the Romanov family.
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8604) This is what happens
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How is it that the girl who got the top marks in high school ends up, at fifty, scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets for minimum wage, living in a room above Vera's Hairstyling, in a god-forsaken town called Powassan?
Feminist theorist Dale Spender wrote, in Women of Ideas and What Men Have Done to Them, "We need to know how patriarchy works. We need to know how women disappear...." Although Spender spoke of women who disappear from the historical...
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In the spring of 2000, Heather Ingram, a 30-year-old high school teacher in a small town on the coast of British Columbia, was convicted of the sexual exploitation of a minor for having an affair with a 17-year-old student. A straight A student who graduated at the top of her high school class and won the award for top student in the secondary education program at the University of British Columbia, Ingram went on to become one of the most popular...
8606) Love Is the Answer
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Peach Avenel is a broken woman. She thought she had a loving marriage. She thought she would be starting a family. She thought she had a successful career... Peach was wrong. She has a life that no longer fits, filled with broken dreams. When a tumbled down house with a neglected garden comes into her life by serendipitous circumstances, Peach feels something stir within her and although she prefers Jimmy Choo shoes to gum boots, she is drawn to the...
8607) Larenzo's Christmas Baby
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This night, Emma. That's all it can ever be."
But Larenzo Cavelli lied. One blissful wintery night in his bed changed Emma Leighton's life forever. By dawn she knew two things: Larenzo would spend the rest of his life behind bars, and he would never see the baby their union had made.
Two years later, Larenzo's name is cleared and he will get his life back...starting with Emma. It was deception that imprisoned the self-made Sicilian, so what will...
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The bad girl who stole his heart … Valerie Willis has done it all: tattoos, one-night stands, even strip poker. And now she can add getting a messy public divorce to that list. Back in her hometown of Rock Canyon, Val just wants to bury her head and wait for the scandal to pass. But when she suddenly finds herself at a singles' weekend face-to-face with former flame Justin Silverton, hiding from her heart-and the sexy Marine-won't be that simple....
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There's a simmering attraction between these two independent women and their handsome new bosses... But will it lead to the weddings they both deserve? Find out in these two heart-warming romances from Betty Neels and Michelle Major.
Matilda's Wedding
When her father is forced to retire and her family's finances become strained, plain Matilda Paige applies to be Dr. Henry Lovell's new receptionist. And does her best to ignore her instant attraction...
8610) Mr. Temptation
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Businesswoman Zara Anders always keeps it professional at work-until she meets sexy billionaire Daniel. But their scorching affair is threatened when Zara learns Daniel's secret... Will his racy business proposal tempt her back to the bedroom?
After a messy breakup with an unfaithful ex, Zara Anders swears off men, vowing to focus on her career running an estate agency for the elite. And then she meets Swedish billionaire Daniel Lazenby: strong,...
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One of the most fascinating comments often made about Dorothy l. Sayers is that she wrote 'real' novels. Catherine Kenney considers why Sayers mysteries tend to strike astute readers this way, and in so doing, suggests her place not only in the history of detection, but in the larger tradition of the English novel which she admired. Gaudy Night, for example, bears striking similarities to nineteenth-century English fiction, especially the novels...
8612) Take Me
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Don't turn away from me. If you want this, you have to watch. You can't pretend you don't want it, that you don't want me.
Sydney is in freefall. Her life has just been turned upside-down by a devastating loss and Travis Howell is standing with his arms open, ready to catch her. But can she let him? For years Sydney's fought her feelings for the boy next door. He's all man now, but Sydney can't forget the social divide between them.
After sharing...
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El destino le iba a poner un príncipe en su camino.
Rafael, el príncipe regente, solía evitar los escándalos, como interrumpir la boda de la princesa heredera Amalia. Sin embargo, Rafael acababa de enterarse de que Lia estaba esperando un hijo suyo. Él era ilegítimo y eso lo obsesionaba, y no estaba dispuesto a permitir que se repitiera el pasado.
Habían educado a Lia para que fuera la reina perfecta y solo se rebeló cuando estuvo entre los...
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Entangled Objects is a contemporary pilgrim's progress, the story of three very different yet interconnected women. As the story advances, their overlapping lives reveal the mysterious entanglement of quantum behavior.
Fan is a struggling adjunct professor. When she and her husband move to Korea so he can investigate the cloning of human cells, she finds herself having an affair, even as her husband gets caught trying to publish falsified research.
Filomena...
8615) Who Needs Paris?
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Who needs Paris? Certainly not Kate Miller. Ever since she was a student at the Sorbonne in the '60s, she's avoided Paris like the plague. But now it's 1977, and her life as a documentary filmmaker in Los Angeles is going nowhere. She's smart and clever, but dark memories of that youthful past have shut her down.
When a French TV director offers her a job in Paris, she senses it may be her only chance to free herself of those memories. Kate reluctantly...
8616) Women in Law
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Stories of women of peace, justice and rights, who have distinguished themselves in a world ruled by men. Women who have made a decisive contribution to the vindication of rights or the drafting of legal treaties, some of which are in force to this day. Sometimes promoters, at others formidable supporters, all have worked without reserve, with the courage of those who never stop believing. Opposed and hindered, they have nevertheless managed to impose...
8617) Taking Over Me
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He's everything she didn't know she needed…Allison would rather fix computers than worry about sex. That is, until the newest barista in town changes everything. All it takes is one hot stare with his sinful baby blues to remind her she's not just one of the guys. She has lusty needs only he can fulfill.Patrick's coffee shop is on the verge of an epic failure, until Allison takes charge of his computer system. He may not know anything about motherboards,...
8618) Temporal Verse
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A Timely volume of poetry from a half mad Poet about topics from life and the times we live in.
8619) My Angel
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Thomas Sanders and Virginia Wallace were bonded together in the past due to a bet, but each one continued their path thinking that what happened wouldn't affect their lives.
However, five years later, they found each other again in a remote town near Texas. During that time, Thomas tried to get over the sequels his failed marriage caused him and led him to destruction. Virginia, for her part, watches how her work life is truncated and she is set...
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What if you knew from the beginning how your relationship was going to end?
When Jill Hopper first met Arif, they were living in a shared house on the island of Osney in the River Thames. Surrounded by willow trees, birds and reflections, it was an idyllic home. But no sooner had they begun to fall in love than Arif was given the news that he had only a few months to live. Everyone told Jill to walk away, but she was already in too deep.
Years later,...
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