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Drew O'Connor, still broken-hearted over the loss of his betrothed three years earlier, wins a bride in a game of chance whom he plans to keep as a servant and caretaker of his young niece, but instead finds himself saddled with a woman who is argumentative, cannot cook, claims to be the daughter of an earl--and is totally captivating.
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"Los Angeles, 1928. An up-and-coming journalist, Daisy Washington anonymously chronicles fierce activism and behind-the-scenes Hollywood scandals to save her family from poverty. But power is also fueled by racism, greed, and betrayal. Chicago, 1968. For Frankie Saunders, fleeing across America is her only escape from an abusive husband. But her rescuer is her Aunt Daisy, still reeling from her own shattered past. Daisy will do whatever it takes to...
65) The lie
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Berlin investment counselor Nadia Trenkler, having by chance met unemployed divorcée Susanne Lasko and realized they look exactly alike, asks Susanne to pose as her during a weekend with her husband so she can spend time with her lover, and when Nadia disappears, Susanne decides to continue the charade, which results in Susanne getting caught up in a deadly web of lies.
67) Low Country Hero
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A single mother starts fresh in smalltown South Carolina, helping a rugged contractor renovate homes in this clean & wholesome romance series launch.
Sunny, carefree days splashing in the ocean-it's the life Anna George has always wanted for her five-year-old twins. And now that they've made it to Safe Haven, South Carolina, she won't let anyone stand in her way. Not the abusive ex she's just escaped and not the rugged contractor who caught her...
69) Woman last seen
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"Leigh Fletcher: happily married stepmom to two boys goes missing on Monday. Kai Janssen: married to wealthy Dutch businessman Daan and vanishes the same week. Detective Clements knows that people disappear all the time--far too frequently. Most run away from things, some run toward and others are taken but find their way back. A sad few never return. These two women are from very different worlds. Their disappearances are unlikely to be connected....
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Kitty has lived her life without having to grow up, working as a children's book reviewer, visiting her husband who lives in the apartment next door, and fostering a growing obsession to replace the child she lost, but when a family secret threatens to ruin Kitty's life, she is thrust into the real world and must face her problems like a grown up.
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When an audit finds money missing from the minister's discretionary fund at Aleford's First Parish Church, suspicion falls on Faith's husband, the Rev. Thomas Fairchild, the only person with access to the account. To complicate matters, Ursula Rowe, Faith's friend Pix Miller's elderly and ailing mother, asks Faith's help in dealing with the disquieting letters she's recently received. Secrets, the kind that fester and can make even strong people ill,...
73) Four blondes
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A portrait of the romantic intrigues, liaisons, betrayals, and victories of four modern Manhattan women--a B-list model, a sex columnist, an artist, and a "Cinderella" who rues the day she snagged that very eligible bachelor.
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Faith, her catering business lagging, takes over the management of the cafe at Aleford's Ganley Art Museum and soon finds herself caught up in investigating the links between a fake Romare Bearden and an unidentified corpse that has shown up as an unintended part of an art installation.
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"Simi Desai is thirty years old and her husband is dying of cancer. He has two last wishes in his final months. First, that she'll have his baby so that a piece of him lives on, and second, that she'll reconcile with her old flame, who just happens to be their mutual best friend. So over the course of their last summer together, Simi's husband plans a series of big and small adventures for this unlikely trio, designed to help them say goodbye to each...
76) Rejoice
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Brooke and Peter Baxter's troubled marriage is further challenged when their three-year-old daughter's life is threatened from a pool accident and both parents struggle to deal with their own guilt and pain.
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Thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell embarks on an emotional journey into the past when she is the victim of a hit-and-run driver, and in the haze of recovery, believes she is visited by her uncle, the Catholic priest who raised her following the deaths of her parents, and who she had been told died shortly after she was removed from his care at the age of nine following a housekeeper's charge of sexual abuse.
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
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c2005
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241 p. ; 23 cm.
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Lora, a schoolteacher, is driven by jealousy and mistrust to investigate Alice, the Hollywood wardrobe assistant who has stolen her brother's heart, and soon finds herself involved in the same shady activities she found so condemnable in Alice.
80) Good husbands
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Three wives, one letter, an explosive secret that will change everything. He said, she said. Whom do you believe? Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: more than two decades ago, unbeknownst to them, their husbands committed a sexual assault. Or was it something else; a night of drunken regrets, just a horrible misunderstanding? It was a secret that remained buried for years. One unsuspecting morning,...
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