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81) Grace under fire
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"A Navy SEAL will need every bit of his extensive skill set when he appoints himself as bodyguard to a woman determined not to need one in this thrilling new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Isabel Grace MacKenna had a hundred things to do today. Killing someone wasn't one of them. It was supposed to just be a quick visit to Boston for the Buchanans' anniversary party. But after getting lost, she ends up with a wounded...
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Edward Dugan left his home in Boston with a bequest from his father--mining certificates giving him ownership of the Christabel mine. Although they have a face value of 250,000 dollars, the mine has been declared worthless. However, Henry Christian, the man who originally sold the mining stock to Dugan's father, has offered to buy back the stock certificates for 1,500 dollars. Since he has no money, Dugan decides to walk the 3,000 miles to Potts Valley...
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Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears. The Empire is convinced that Agatha is the person responsible for the Long War (and...
84) The secret hours
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Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone,...
85) The imperfects
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The Millers are far from perfect. When their grandmother, Helen, passes away, they find the Florentine Diamond, a 137-carat yellow gemstone that went missing from the Austrian Empire a century ago, hidden among her possessions. As the Millers race to determine whether they are the rightful heirs to the diamond, they uncover a past more tragic and powerful than they ever could have imagined.
86) A bone to pick
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Aurora "Roe" Teagarden's stalled personal life gets a lot more exciting when Jane Engle, a member of Roe's disbanded crime study club, dies and leaves her a substantial estate, including a house with a skull hidden in a window seat and a murder to solve.
87) Howards End
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The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist intersect at an estate called Howards End. There, the lives of three families become entangled. The Wilcoxes, who own the estate, are a wealthy family who made their fortune in the American colonies. The Schlegel siblings-Margaret, Helen, and Tibby-are lively socialites whose spirited and active lifestyles are...
88) Bleak house
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Bleak House, Dickens's most daring experiment in the narration of a complex plot, challenges the reader to make connections - between the fashionable and the outcast, the beautiful and the ugly, the powerful and the victims. Nowhere in Dickens's later novels is his attack on an uncaring society more imaginatively embodied, but nowhere either is the mixture of comedy and angry satire more deftly managed. Bleak House defies a single description. It...
89) Secondhand bride
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Challenged to find a wife before he can inherit the family ranch, Jeb McKettrick quickly marries schoolteacher Chloe Wakefield in Tombstone but leaves her without waiting for an explanation when he hears she already has a husband, and sparks really begin to fly when Jeb crosses paths with his supposed mate again when she comes to town with her reputation in shreds in hopes of securing a teaching job.
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Ascendant King Jaron believes that his kingdom, Carthya, is at peace, so he and his bethrothed, Imogen, are sailing home from a trade mission when their ship is attacked by Prozarians, and Jaron and several of his friends are taken prisoner; the Prozarian captain seems to believe he had something to do with his parents' deaths and they also know a great deal about Jaron's long-missing older brother, Darius, the rightful heir to Carthya--who may be...
93) The hidden room
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"Marly, Sai, and Isla are back on the hunt. After finding Mr. Summerling's hidden treehouse, they've discovered a new set of clues for them to follow, leading them straight to the heart of their mysterious neighbor's life: his house. The same house Marly has been living next to all of these years, which, they discover, is filled with hidden rooms and staircases. With just a few scraps of papers as clues, and Mr. Summerling's angry son on their tails,...
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Eighty-two-year-old Olivia Morrow, in failing health, struggles to decide whether to reveal a secret that will surely destroy the reputation of her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun being considered for beatification, and deprive the profligate nephews of world-famous doctor Alex Gannon of their inheritance.
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Private detective Agatha Raisin, looking for a low-key case, is hired by the pompous Robert Smedley who is convinced his wife is cheating on him, but things become complicated when Smedley is poisoned, and Raisin's attention is divided when she stumbles across the body of missing teenager Jessica Bradley.
98) Best kept secret
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Archer, the Clifton Chronicles continues with Best Kept Secret.
1945, London. The vote in the House of Lords as to who should inherit the Barrington family fortune has ended in a tie. The Lord Chancellor's deciding vote will cast a long shadow on the lives of Harry Clifton and Giles Barrington. Harry returns to America to promote his latest novel, while his beloved Emma
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"The Empire of Vishir has lost its ruler, and the fight to save Seravesh from the Roven Empire is looking bleak. Moreover, Askia has been captured by power-hungry Emperor Radovan, who plans on making her his wife simply so he can take her magic as his own, killing her in the process ... The jewel Radovan has put around her neck will pull her power from her in thirty days. Worse, Vishir might not even have that long, as the two heirs to the throne...
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