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21) Three queens
Author
Series
Filthy rich vampires volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"As the Winter Solstice falls, Thea Melbourne and Julian Rousseaux return to the social season. Now, with their bond at its strongest--and most irresistibly intense--they face new tests and the vampire elite that hope to tear them apart. Until Thea receives devastating news that leads them to the ancient, winding streets of Venice, where Julian's past beckons--along with the monster he once was. As forgotten magic stirs in Thea's blood, Julian has...
22) A touch of chaos
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Series
Language
English
Description
"The World Will Burn. Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever--but he did. A fight for humanity and battles between gods, it's a world Persephone never thought she would see. To end the chaos, she must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become--Goddess, Wife, Queen of the Underworld. Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves, now she will...
23) Magpie Lane
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers. As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging, an eerie and ancient house, a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost...
Author
Publisher
Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"After an eight-hundred-year slumber, the volcanoes in Iceland’s most populated region are showing signs of life. Earthquakes dominate the headlines. Echoes of the devastating eruptions in the past stir unease in the people. Volcanologist Anna Arnardóttir has spent her entire life studying the volcanic powers under the earth’s crust, but even she cannot fathom the catastrophe at hand. As a series of eruptions threaten most of Iceland’s population,...
Author
Series
Rogues to riches volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Falsely imprisoned Quinn Wentworth marries pregnant widow Jane Winston in order to help her, but when he is saved from execution by the discovery that he is the heir to a dukedom, they must live with their marriage of convenience.
26) SS-GB
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1941 and Germany has won the war. Britain is occupied, Churchill executed, and the King imprisoned in the Tower of London. At Scotland Yard, Detective Inspector Archer tries to do his job and keep his head down. But when a body is found in a Mayfair flat, what at first appears to be a routine murder investigation sends him into a world of espionage, deceit, and betrayal"--
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Emily thinks she's lost everything...until a mysterious painting leads her to what she wants most in the world. The new novel from the author of international bestsellers The Sweetness of Forgetting and The Life Intended shows why her books are hailed as "engaging" (People), "absorbing" (Kirkus Reviews) and "enthralling" (Fresh Fiction). Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad ran out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The nationally best-selling author of House of Leaves and Only Revolutions has crafted a powerfully chilling novella--a ghost story for grownup readers. Late one evening at a party at an East Texas ranch house, five orphans gather to hear a story about a quest for a terrible weapon. Before them lies a long black box with five latches. As the owner of the box settles into a curious tale of revenge, the children grow more and more captivated, even...
29) The new house
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Three couples. Three houses. One home to die for ... Stacey and Felix are the glamorous owners of the stylish, modern Glass House, with its pool and floor-to-ceiling windows. Now they're downsizing, but Stacey can't sell to just anyone. She needs the right buyer, who will keep her secrets. Millie and Tom have always imagined living in the Glass House. Now it's for sale. With property prices booming, if they can sell quickly, it could be theirs. But...
Author
Series
Wars of the Roses volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The brilliant retelling of the Wars of the Roses continues with Margaret of Anjou, the second gripping novel in the new series from historical fiction master Conn Iggulden. As Traitors Advance ... A Queen Defends It is 1454 and for over a year King Henry VI has remained all but exiled in Windsor Castle, struck down by his illness, his eyes vacant, his mind a blank. His fiercely loyal wife and Queen, Margaret of Anjou, safeguards her husband's interests,...
Author
Series
Albany cycle volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
This tale, set during the Depression, tells about Francis Phelan and other inhabitants of skid row in Albany, New York. Ironweed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is the best-known of William Kennedy's three Albany-based novels. Francis Phelan, ex-ballplayer, part-time gravedigger, full-time drunk, has hit bottom. Years ago he left Albany in a hurry after killing a scab during a trolley workers' strike; he ran away again after accidentally - and fatally...
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Series
Publisher
BellaRosa Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Young widow Louise Pearlie becomes embroiled in a perilous game of mafia bosses, Nazi spies and banished royalty in this wartime novel of suspense. It's 1942 in Washington DC. Louise Pearlie is now a chief file clerk at the legendary OSS, the precursor to the CIA, and enjoying being an independent, working woman despite wartime privations. But a casual friendship struck up with Alessa di Luca, a secretive war refugee, sucks Louise into a dangerous...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Despite her husband's aging, Wilmet Forsyth would like to believe she has changed very little. She cultivates a friendship with three unmarried priests and Piers Longridges, a man of unfathomly different character altogether.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Toulouse, Louisiana finding your one true love happens sometime around high school. If you re lucky, he might be the man you thought he was. But as four friends are about to find out, not every girl has luck on her side in this charming debut novel perfect for fans of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Desperate Housewives. Laura Landry s quarterback husband was her ticket out of Toulouse. But when a devastating football injury sidelines...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amara, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Lt. Grayson Masters is focused on graduating the Apache helicopter course, and the last thing he needs is his gorgeous new roommate Samantha Fitzgerald distracting him. While her smart mouth and free spirit are irresistibly irritating, he can't deny their off-the-charts chemistry, no matter how hard he tries. Having just been expelled from college, Sam has no business digging for Grayson's secrets while she's hiding her own, but that doesn't stop...
Author
Series
Glamourist histories volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In a Jane Austen-inspired alternate universe, two sisters, one beautiful and the other skilled in the glamour arts, test the limits of their gifts on an unscrupulous suitor.
Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1961.
Language
English
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Description
The Renaissance was a turbulent time of plotting princes, warring Popes, the powerful de'Medici family, the fanatical monk Savonarola and the brilliant young artist Michelangelo Buonarroti all brought together in this classic work by Irving Stone.
40) Beach colors
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
While renowned designer Margaux Sullivan was presenting her highly praised collection during New York City's Fashion Week, her husband was cleaning out their bank account. A week after he disappeared, the bank foreclosed on Margaux's apartment and business. She returns to the small coastal town of Crescent Cove, Connecticut, where she once knew love, joy, and family before she put them behind her on the climb to fame. Margaux is soon rediscovering...
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