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The Mark of Zorro (1924) is a novel by Johnston McCulley. Originally published as, The Curse of Capistrano (1919), McCulley's novel was, rereleased to capitalize on the success of the 1920 silent film of the same name starring Douglas Fairbanks. Beloved by generations of readers and moviegoers alike, Zorro is, recognized as a symbol of justice and rebellion throughout the world. "Outside the wind shrieked and the rain dashed against the ground in...
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Harlequin
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[2012]
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English
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It Was Nothing Short of Shocking! Heather Sunshine" Conway was a respectable, small-town widow cheerfully waiting tables to make ends meet. Her brother-in-law, single father Lucas Drury, was a scandalous celebrity -- the Shadowmaster. Only their shared desperation over Lucas's runaway son could have plunged them into a night of dangerously explosive desire ... Yet Heather sowed hope in Lucas's haunted soul. And, during the darkness of night and the...
3) Risk Factor
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Sourcebooks
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[2021]
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English
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"A sleeper that deserves wider attention." -The New York Times
As 1965 draws to a close, Constable Cody Parker of Center Springs, Texas, has a frightening sense of gathering storm clouds. His dreams prove accurate when he is ambushed and nearly killed on a lonely country road during an unusually heavy snowfall. The attack leads locals to worry that a terrifying killer known as "The Skinner" has returned.
As his nephew, Cody, recovers, Constable...
4) Desert Rain
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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She is a contradiction, one woman with two lives. She is Shannon, one of the world's great beauties, her face and figure gracing the fashion pages of the world's most elegant magazines. She is also Holly, a fragile innocent, haunted by painful memories of her past -- and by dreams of the man who once shared her secrets. She is assured yet vulnerable, irresistible yet untouched. Destiny has brought Holly Shannon North back to Hidden Springs, where...
5) Expectations
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Harlequin
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[2016]
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English
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A reader-favorite contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak. With her son, Ryan, Jenna's moved back to Mendocino, where she's living and working at the Victoriana Bed and Breakfast. It's owned by the elderly Durhams - whose grandson, Adam, was her first love. And, in some ways, her last ... But that was 15 years ago, before Adam abandoned her and his family for the bright lights and big city. For a successful career...
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HarperCollins
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Feline sleuth Joe Grey, his fur already standing on end because of the return of the sinister Azrael to Molena Point, California, begins to suspect the yellow-eyed cat is involved in a string of robberies and worse crimes plaguing the normally quiet town.
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Married sleuths cross paths with married assassins in this "priceless" mystery by the bestselling author of the Jane Whitefield series ( The New York Times ). Sid and Ronnie Abel are a first-rate husband-and-wife detective team, both ex-LAPD. Ed and Nicole Hoyt are married assassins-for-hire living in the San Fernando Valley. Except for deadly aim with a Glock 17, the couples have little in common -- until they're hired to do damage control on the...
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Open Road Distribution
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[2015]
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English
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A racially fueled incident exposes the fissures that sit beneath the surface of friendships and families, causing even more damage than the massive earthquake that separates them, The Earth Breaks in Colors is a powerful story of race and redemption. Whisper and Odelia are eleven-year-old girls who find refuge in the quiet corner of innocent friendship. Their Southern California homes each play host to an undercurrent of secrets. For Whisper that...
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The Permanent Press
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[2016]
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English
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Floyd Salas projects the reader into the slender body of his fifteen-year-old prize-fighter hero Aaron D'Aragon. We see through Aaron's eyes the structured underworld of a California prison farm dominated by sadism operating under the protection of the no-squeal code of the victims.
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The Permanent Press
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[2016]
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English
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In this first novel, Sofia Shafquat combines the insightful humor of Cathy Guisewite with a fresh new literary voice and a quintessentially California milieu. She speaks to women of the nineties who still remember lifetimes spent waiting for elusive and resistant men. What makes them such shadows? What would it have taken to make them real?
11) Dog Soldiers
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HarperCollins
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[1997]
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English
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"In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers -- and the price of survival was dangerously...
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Grace Valley trilogy volume 3
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In the peaceful town of Grace Valley, neighbors are like family -- and just as meddlesome, too. June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks -- and the swell of her belly. Happily, DEA agent Jim Post is back in June's arms for good, newly retired from undercover work and ready for new beginnings here in Grace Valley. Expecting the unexpected...
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Sourcebooks
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2010.
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English
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So engrossing, so transporting, so moving, I didn't want it to end! A beautiful, lyrical read-I loved every last word of it! -Alyson Noël, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of The Immortals series What is the soundtrack of your life? After living in twelve places in eight years, Calle Smith finds herself in Andreas Bay, California, at the start of ninth grade. Another new home, another new school...Calle knows better than to put down roots. Her...
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“A mesmerizing storyteller who seems almost unnaturally able to enter the tormented inner lives of her characters.”
—Denver Post
Black Dahlia & White Rose is a brilliant collection of short fiction from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates, one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. These stores, at once lyrical and unsettling, shine
...15) The Cliff House
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HQN Books
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[2019]
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English
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Three women--two sisters and their aunt--and the cliff house on the northern California coast that served as a beacon to them all… After the death of their mother, sisters Daisy and Beatriz Davenport found a home with their aunt Stella in the beautiful and welcoming town of Cape Sanctuary. They never knew all the dreams that Stella sacrificed to ensure they had everything they’d ever need. Now, with Daisy and Bea grown, it’s time for Stella...
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"Excellent….These Joe Grey mysteries will stay popular for many years to come."
-Tampa Tribune
Kirkus Reviews says that award-winning author Shirley Rousseau Murphy has "raised the stakes of the feline sleuth genre."In Cat Playing Cupid, Murphy's fourteenth delightfully sophisticated whodunit to feature Joe Grey and his furry friends Dulcie and Kit, the feline P.I. is on a mission to stop a crime spree that endangers love on Valentine's...
17) Secrets
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HarperCollins
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[2009]
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English
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"For scorching sensuality and raw passion, Brenda Joyce is unrivaled.--- Romantic Times Brenda Joyce has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most sensuous voices in historical romance fiction. Anyone who doesn't know it yet certainly will, once they are privy to Joyce's steamy and sensational Secrets. This classic tale of duty, desire, and temptation from the New York Times and USA Today bestseller is back for a new generation to savor -- and...
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HarperCollins
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[2012]
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English
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"Bockoven is magic." -- New York Times bestselling author Catherine Coulter A fabulous repackaging of this deeply emotional novel from the bestselling author of Beach House and Another Summer, Georgia Bockoven's Things Remembered is a heartrending tale of family and the healing power of love. This intensely moving story follows a young woman's difficult homecoming to Northern California where, despite painful memories of her past, she must make peace...
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Open Road Distribution
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2015.
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English
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Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis's creative talent as his own. He decides to hold troubled, talented Curtis in his desert estate, where the macabre secrets of Red's life are waiting to be unearthed. Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California...
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Hell hath no fury like a feline enraged. Though Joe Greyand Dulcie are merely housecats, they each have astrong sense of justice -- to complement their uncannyability to read, speak, and use the telephone. And they'refurious that Max Harper, police chief of Molena Pointand preferred target for Joe's harmless pranks, has beenaccused of a gruesome double murder.
The fleet-footed sleuthing duo is intent upon restoringan old friend's good name. But finding...
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