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81) Dominicana
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"El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar...
82) Once a rebel
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Rogues redeemed volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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As Washington burns, Callista Brooke is trapped in the battle between her native England and her adopted homeland. She is on the verge of losing everything, including her life, when a handsome Englishman cuts through the violent crowd to claim that she is his. Callie falls into her protector's arms, recognizing that he is no stranger, but the boy she'd once loved, a lifetime ago. Lord George Gordon Audley had been Callie's best friend, and it was...
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Amazon Crossing
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"In post-Cultural Revolution China, in the fading village of Freshwind, the fates of two households are shifting. The Bais, once the most powerful family in the region, have fallen from status. Their beautiful daughter, Snow Bai, an embodiment of tradition, pursues a career in a vanishing art form. The Xias, enthusiastic members of the Party, are on the rise. Their favorite son, Wind Xia, is a citified politician whose marriage to Snow Bai could unite...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Forced to marry an American heiress to save his family, Graeme Parr, Earl of Montclair, vowed their marriage would be in name only. Abigail Price thought handsome, aristocratic Graeme was her knight in shining armor, rescuing her from her overbearing father. But when she was spurned by her husband on their wedding night, Abigail fled home to New York. Now, years later, Abigail has returned. But this sophisticated, alluring woman is not the drab girl...
85) Shielded
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Shielded volume 1
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The kingdom of Hálendi is in trouble. It's losing the war at its borders, and rumors of a new, deadlier threat on the horizon have surfaced. Princess Jennesara knows her skills on the battlefield would make her an asset and wants to help, but her father has other plans. As the second-born heir to the throne, Jenna lacks the firstborn's--her brother's--magical abilities, so the king promises her hand in marriage to the prince of neighboring Turia...
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Glittering Court volume 1
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Razor Bill, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"For a select group of girls, the Glittering Court offers a shot at a life they've only ever dreamed of, one of luxury, glamour, and leisure. To high-born Adelaide, whose wealthy family is forcing her into a loveless marriage, the Glittering Court represents something else-- the chance to chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea. After a chance meeting with the dazzling Cedric Thorn, Adelaide poses as...
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Europa Editions
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2018.
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English
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"[A] dark, elegant novel" of two women in ancient Greece, based on the great tragedies of Sophocles (Publishers Weekly).
Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king—her husband-to-be.
Jocasta struggles through this miserable marriage until she is unexpectedly...
Thebes is a city in mourning, still reeling from a devastating plague that invaded every home and left the survivors devastated and fearful. This is the Thebes that Jocasta has known her entire life, a city ruled by a king—her husband-to-be.
Jocasta struggles through this miserable marriage until she is unexpectedly...
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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2023.
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Español
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"VELASIN VIN AARO nunca hab�ia planeado casarse, mucho menos con una muchacha de la vecina regi�on de Tithena. Cuando una desagradable confrontaci�on revela su preferencia por los hombres, Vel teme haber arruinado la uni�on diplom�atica antes de que pudiera empezar. Pero mientras su familia est�a dispuesta a repudiarlo, le enviade Tithenai tiene una soluci�on diferente: que Vel se case con el hermano de su antigua pretendiente. CAETHARI...
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Adrian X Isolde volume 1
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English
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"In order to end a years-long war between vampires and mortals, Isolde must wed vampire king Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev. But surviving the vampire court doesn't prove to be nearly as difficult as resisting the intense attraction between her and Adrian"--
90) Once a spy
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2019.
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English
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Hoping to find new meaning in his life, British intelligence officer Simon Duval resigns his commission and returns to England, where he finds his cousin's widow, Suzanne Duval, the Comtesse de Chambron. Working as a seamstress, living in reduced circumstances among London's French émigré community, Suzanne has had a life as complicated as Simon's own. While both believe they are beyond love and passion, their sympathetic bond leads him to propose...
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Maya Mirza's unlucky-in-love past seems to be turning around when she ends up in an arranged marriage to the on-paper perfect man; but as she heads to her wedding in Pakistan, she finally meets the man of her dreams, who isn't the man to whom she is arranged to be wed.
92) Promised
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Fooled by love once before, Margaret vows never to be played the fool again. To keep her vow, she attends a notorious match-making party intent on securing the perfect marital match: a union of convenience to someone who could never affect her heart. She discovers a man who exceeds all her hopes in the handsome and obliging rake, Mr. Northam. There's only one problem. His meddling cousin, Lord Williams, won't leave Margaret alone. Condescending and...
93) The tea chest
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Boston, 1773: Emma Malcolm's father is staunchly loyal to the crown, but Emma's heart belongs to Noah Winslow, a lowly printer's assistant and Patriot. But her father has promised her hand to Samuel Clarke, a rapacious and sadistic man. As his fianc�ee, she would have to give up Noah and the friends who have become like family to her-as well as the beliefs she has come to embrace. After Emma is drawn into the treasonous Boston Tea Party, Samuel...
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Wild wicked Highlanders volume 1
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"London socialite Amelia-Rose Baxter is nobody's fool. Her parents may want her to catch a title, but she will never change who she is for the promise of marriage. Her husband will be a man who can appreciate her sharp mind as well as her body. A sophisticated man who loves life in London. A man who considers her his equal - and won't try to tame her wild heart ... Rough, rugged Highlander Niall MacTaggert and his brothers know the rules: the eldest...
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2021.
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English
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She was a child caught in a riptide in the Caribbean Sea. He was a teenager from the East Coast on vacation with his family. He dove in to save her, and that single terrifying moment changed both their lives forever. Ten years later Jack Ryder is a daring secret agent with the FBI and Eliza Lawrence still lives on that pristine island. She's an untainted princess in a kingdom of darkness and evil, on the brink of a forced marriage with a dangerous...
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Dos Duques de Wyndham volume 2
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Ediciones Urano
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"Amelia Willoughby ha estado prometida al duque de Wyndham toda su vida. De hecho, habían pasado apenas seis meses de su nacimiento cuando se firmaron los papeles y se celebró el pacto que la convertiría en duquesa. Desde entonces, no ha hecho más que esperar a que Thomas Cavendish, el distante, glacial y arrogante duque, decida por fin tomarla por esposa. Aunque Amelia sospecha que el duque tiene otros asuntos en mente, y que sus planes matrimoniales...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Austria 1767: Maria Carolina Charlotte--ninth daughter and sixteenth child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria--knows her position as a Hapsburg archduchess will inevitably force her to leave her home, her family, and her beloved country. But not yet. The Hapsburg family is celebrating a great triumph: Charlotte's older sister, Josepha, has been promised to King Ferdinand IV of Naples, and will soon take her place as queen. Before Josepha can journey...
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"Ambitious, sly, and lethally intelligent, Gideon Hawthorne has spent his life clawing his way up from the gutter. For the last ten years, he's acted as the Duke of Windemere's fixer, performing the duke's dirty work without question. Now Gideon's ready to quit the duke's service and work solely for himself. But Windermere tempts Gideon with an irresistible offer: one last task for Messalina Greycourt's hand in marriage. Witty, vivacious Messalina...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
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The pirate Florian, born Flora, has always done whatever it takes to survive—including sailing under false flag on the Dove as a marauder, thief, and worse. Lady Evelyn Hasegawa, a highborn Imperial daughter, is on board as well—accompanied by her own casket. But Evelyn’s one-way voyage to an arranged marriage in the Floating Islands is interrupted when the captain and crew show their true colors and enslave their wealthy passengers. Both Florian...
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Roca Editorial
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2023.
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Español
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"El amor tiene un sonido. Suena como mil latidos del coraz�on al mismo tiempo. Vuelve Kiera Cass, la autora best seller mundial de La Selecci�on con una novela repleta de amor y sentimientos.La princesa Annika ha tenido una vida llena de comodidad, pero ninguna cantidad de lujos puede cambiar el hecho de que es incapaz de controlar su propia vida. El rey, una vez su amado padre, se ha vuelto fr�io, y Annika pronto se ver�a obligada a casarse...
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