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2022.
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Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. It's been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she's almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it's time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn't ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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""Mothers fly away like migrating birds. This is why farmers have daughters." A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mother, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it's been just the three of them-her mother has brought home guests at times, but none have ever stayed. Yet when her mother brings home a six-foot tall...
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Texas Rangers (Carla Neggers) volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Delighted with her purchase of a run-down, nineteenth-century carriage house on Boston's North Shore, graphic designer Tess Haviland stumbles upon a skeleton inside the basement wall, a body that mysteriously vanishes when she brings her neighbor over to see it.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"A broken promise reveals a terrifying legacy in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of When All the Girls Have Gone. A painter of fiery, nightmarish visions throws herself into the sea--but she'll leave some of her secrets behind ... Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother....
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Birmingham Family saga volume 2
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Left destitute after the death of her patron, Cerynise Kendall turns for help to the object of her youthful infatuation, the dashing sea captain Beauregard Birmingham. Happy to help his old friend by providing passage to the Carolinas and even an offer of temporary marriage, Beau and Cerynise soon find their affection turning to passion and love.
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"New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay's Flowers of Darkness explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris. CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa Katsef has had ominous discomfort, the...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 4
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.
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English
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As a sixteen-year-old, Tessa Cartwright was found in a Texas field, barely alive amid a scattering of bones, with only fragments of memory as to how she got there. Ever since, the press has pursued her as the lone surviving "Black-Eyed Susan," the nickname given to the murder victims because of the yellow carpet of wildflowers that flourished above their shared grave. Tessa's testimony about those tragic hours put a man on death row. Now, almost...
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Cottage tales of Beatrix Potter volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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When Beatrix Potter returns to her new hometown of Sawrey after some time away, she finds the village threatened by a mysterious outsider who plans to destroy the pristine shoreline of Lake Windermere by constructing a number of villas.
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Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
They're not looking for love ... Until love finds them! On paper it just shouldn't work. Jess is a bohemian artist, who loves her life in the close-knit Martha's Vineyard community, while Jordan is a millionaire bachelor, CEO and a bright lights, big city guy. There's no denying the attraction between them, but neither is in the right place for a relationship. However, Fate and an adorable little girl entrusted to their care have other ideas ...
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Bannon brothers volume 1
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English
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Ann was just three when she was taken in the night from her family's historic Virginia mansion more than twenty-five years ago. Hugh Montgomery never stopped wondering what happened to his little girl. The Montgomerys, socially prominent descendants of horse-and-hounds Tidewater aristocracy, launched a heartbreaking search, but no trace of the missing girl was ever found. Bannon knows the chances of finding her now-alive or dead-are slim, yet he can't...
12) The doll factory
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"In 1850s London, the Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching the dazzling spectacle, two people meet by happenstance. For Iris, an arrestingly attractive aspiring artist, it is a brief and forgettable moment but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by all things strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition...
13) Stars of fortune
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To celebrate the rise of their new queen, three goddesses of the moon created three stars, one of fire, one of ice, one of water. But then they fell from the sky, putting the fate of all worlds in danger. And now three women and three men join forces to pick up the pieces... Sasha Riggs is a reclusive artist, haunted by dreams and nightmares that she turns into extraordinary paintings. Her visions lead her to the Greek island of Corfu, where five...
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[2023]
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English
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"In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob’s Ladder in search of someone—or something—they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men,...
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