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42442) The sister effect
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Language
English
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Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Abigail is shocked to discover her elite boarding school is really a cover for a huge spy ring, and must undergo Spy Training 101 in order to save her mother, who happens to be the spy ring's top agent.
42444) Rosie Revere, engineer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young aspiring engineer must first conquer her fear of failure.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Captivating [... ] Herrick weaves a rich tapestry of family lore, dark secrets, and love." --Brunonia Barry, New York Times bestselling author of The Lace Reader and The Fifth Petal Perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Jio, comes a lush imaginative novel that takes readers into the heart of a mysterious English country garden, waiting to spring to life. Every garden is a story, waiting to be told". At the nursery she runs with her sisters...
42446) The Replacement Wife
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Becca Whitney has always lived with the knowledge that her aristocratic family disowned her as a baby. So when she receives a summons to return to the ancestral mansion, she's intrigued. Theo Markou Garcia needs a wife -- or at least someone who looks strikingly similar to his infamous fiancée. Becca would be the perfect replacement ... The deal: masquerade as the Whitney heiress in exchange for your own true fortune, but do not fall for your husband!...
42447) Ravensdale's Defiant Captive
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
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 when...
42448) The Virgin's Secret
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Leo Parnassus has returned to Athens to head the family empire. A New Yorker since childhood, he finds life is certainly different here with family feuds and expectations to marry and produce heirs! Amid all this tradition, the beautiful girl who catches Leo's eye is a welcome distraction. She may be a lowly waitress, but Angel has her secrets ... Leo will be pleased to discover she's a virgin, but not that she's the daughter of his adversary! Or...
42449) What the Greek Can't Resist
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One night to change everything ... CEO Arion Pantelides is always in control -- but for one night he gave in to oblivion with a stunning stranger. Yet his passion is quickly matched by fury when Arion -- prizing honesty above all else -- discovers the woman who came undone in his arms has only recently been widowed ... Perla Lowell's marriage was a painful sham, so now -- penniless and alone -- she refuses to let this dark-hearted Greek intimidate...
42450) Angel of Darkness
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A billionaire plots revenge upon a beautiful model, but a surprise baby changes everything in this classic romance by a USA Today–bestselling author.
Top model Kelda Wyatt is thrilled at the prospect of a photo shoot in Tuscany, until she learns Angelo Rossetti hired her. Caught in a compromising situation with the handsome Italian billionaire years ago, Angelo accused Kelda of setting him up, and vowed to punish her.
Now Angelo will take...
42451) Luckiest girl alive
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Language
English
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Description
"In a riveting debut novel that reads like Prep meets Gone Girl, a young woman is determined to create the perfect life--husband, home, and career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all. Twenty-eight-year-old New Yorker Ani FaNelli seems to have it all: she's a rising star at The Women's Magazine, impossibly fit, perfectly groomed, and about to marry Luke Harrison, a handsome...
42452) Dragon Day
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Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A Seattle Times Best Mystery of the Year: After serving in the Iraq War, a woman finds another kind of danger in China in this nonstop thriller ( Booklist , starred review). Ellie McEnroe is an Iraq War veteran living in Beijing, where she represents the work of cutting-edge Chinese political artists. She has one bum leg, a taste for dumplings and beer, and a sweet-tempered rescue mutt for a roommate. She also has Chinese Domestic Security on her...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) was the father of the famous "Brontë Sisters"-Anne, Charlotte, and Emily-three of Victorian England's greatest novelists, but he was also a fascinating man in his own right, and not nearly as unsympathetic a character as Elizabeth Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë would have us believe. Born into poverty in Ireland, he won a scholarship to St. John's College, Cambridge, and was ordained into the Church of England. He...
42454) Arthur and the golden rope
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Imagine a vault so cavernous that it could contain all the world's greatest treasures and relics, from mummified remains of ancient monarchs to glistening swords brandished by legendary warriors. Who could be in charge of such a vault and how did he come into possession of such a unique collection? Who is Professor Brownstone?
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Can he persuade his Cinderella... ... they're meant for one another? Billionaire Raoul Fontesquieu is starting a new life with his recently discovered son -- and everything must be perfect for Alain's arrival. Enter temporary housekeeper Cami Delon! Exquisitely beautiful both inside and out, Cami enchants Raoul with her kind yet cautious nature. But will he be able to convince her that she fits perfectly into his privileged world... because she already...
42456) Should You Keep a Secret?
Author
Publisher
Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two women have learned something shocking about their friend's husband-and revealing it could either save her or destroy her . . .
During a night out at the pub, Stella and Carly accept an invitation to a local party, but the scene they find there is not what they expected. It's a swingers' event-and their friend Jesse's husband is there among the swingers.
Now the two women aren't sure what to do. Stella, who works with Jesse at the library,...
42457) A Christmas Affair
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Hot festive nights with the boss! Cathy Gilbert has worked hard for her dynamic boss, international tycoon Dominic Reynolds, for five long years-and she's been in love with him for most of that time! But enough is enough. Cathy's realised that if Dominic, with his supercool exterior, hasn't noticed her by now, he never will. And it's...
42458) The woman who lost her soul
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
Description
"When the humanitarian lawyer Tom Harrington travels to Haiti to investigate the murder of a beautiful, seductive photojournalist, he is confronted with a dangerous landscape of poverty, corruption, and voodoo."--Publisher's website.
42459) In the darkroom
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger riddle of identity consuming our age. 'In the summer of 2004 I set out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project began with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had absconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful dodger...
42460) A house in the sky: a memoir
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could...
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