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1282) An affair without end
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When Lady Vivian Carlyle agrees to introduce his American cousins to London society, Oliver, Earl of Stewkesbury, is captivated by this outrageous woman who refuses his marriage proposal and suggests that they become lovers.
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In the winter of 1777, Washington and his demoralized army retreat from Philadelphia, arriving at Valley Forge where they discover that their repeated requests for a stockpile of food, winter clothing, and building tools have been ignored by Congress. In spite of the suffering and deceit, Washington endures all, joined at last by a volunteer from Germany who begins the hard task of recasting the army as a professional fighting force capable of facing...
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Sally Farber has everything a 40-year-old New Yorker could want: a loving doctor husband; two healthy, adorable daughters; great friends; and a charming book editor who used to be her lover and still calls her Cookie. Sally's fourth book is The History of Happiness, and there's the rub. The deeper she digs, the more elusive a definition of happiness becomes, and the more bedeviled she is by the guilty certainty that she isn't as happy as she should...
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A stranger in a strange land, Eire (Waiting for Snow in Havana), one of 14,000 children airlifted out of Cuba in Operation Peter Pan in 1962, describes the classic American immigrant experience in Miami, Fla., with a mix of insightful observation, humor, and heartfelt emotion.
1287) A light at winter's end
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When her sister Hannah leaves her baby with her, Holly, a college dropout and aspiring songwriter who knows nothing about parenting, takes her nephew to the family homestead, where she grows to love him--until Hannah returns.
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"Ernest Hemingway, a literary icon and considered one of the greatest American writers of all time, is the subject of a major documentary by award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This intimate portrait of Hemingway--who brilliantly captured the complexities of the human condition in spare and profound prose, and whose work remains deeply influential in literature and culture--interweaves a close study of biographical events with excerpts...
1289) The seduction of Lady X
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"Dashing steward Harrison Tolly, illegitimate son of the Earl of Ashwood, learns he is the rightful heir to his father's estate. With a wedding on the horizon and a baby on the way, a new life of privilege would be a blessing but for one problem: his heart belongs to another woman. Lady Olivia Carey is his employer's wife. Her callous husband went into a rage when her younger sister returned from Spain pregnant, and Harrison stepped in to save the...
1290) Close to you
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Caitlin Prescott was only a baby when her parents disappeared. Adopted by a wealthy Texas oil family, she became Kate Montgomery, and grew up with no memory of her parents or her two older sisters and brother, who have been searching for her, hoping to right a terrible wrong that was committed twenty-two years ago in a small Texas town. Now an ambitious young news reporter, Kate realizes that she is being stalked soon after landing her dream job at...
1294) CITY OF SECRETS
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When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Francisco's 1940 World's Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. With a strong female protagonist more steel than silk and a mystery that will grip you until the last page, this sequel to the critically-acclaimed City of Dragons will appeal to fans of noir and historical mysteries....
1295) LOVE, GREG & LAUREN
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A husband's day-by-day account of his wife's remarkable recovery" from injuries sustained in the World Trade Center bombing.
1299) A lie for a lie
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After the former wife of a local celebrity is charged with his murder, minister's wife Aggie Sloan-Wilcox seeks divine inspiration to help clear the woman's name.
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