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1) Bed of roses
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2009
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Since she was a little girl, Emma Grant has always loved romance. So it's really no surprise that she has found her calling as a wedding florist. She gets to play with flowers every day and work with her three best friends in the process. She couldn't ask for a better job.
And on the surface, Emma's love life seems to be thriving. Slim and sultry, she brings color into every room she enters, just like the arrangements she creates. Though men swarm...
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Emma is sitting on a turbulent plane. She's always been a v. nervous flyer. She really thinks that this could be her last moment. So, naturally enough, she starts telling the man sitting next to her - quite a dishy American, but she's too frightened to notice -all her innermost secrets. How she scans the backs of intellectual books and pretends she's read them. How she does her hair up like Princess Leia in her bedroom. How she's not sure if she has...
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each audiobook retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Sail the seas in good weather and bad on the ship H.M.S. Bounty. Flounder in a hurricane as you try to round Cape Horn. Sail to the South Seas the long way, around the Cape of Good Hope and through the...
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Published in 1850, David Copperfield is Charles Dickens' eighth novel and the one that most closely follows the author's own life. A coming of age story, it describes David's life from childhood with a difficult stepfather, his schooling, his entry into the workforce, his courtship and marriage(s) and his eventual success as an author. Filled with colorful characters like Wilkins Micawber and Betsey Trotwood, and unforgettable villains like Uriah...
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Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance while working at Vows wedding planning with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. She appreciates Parker's older brother Delaney, on whom she's had a mega-crush since childhood, but is convinced that the Ivy League lawyer is still out of her reach-- or so she thinks.
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Following the international success of Tara Road, Maeve Binchy offers Scarlet Feather, an enchanting and richly plotted new tale of family, friendship, honesty, and deception. This time out, the beloved author sets her story against the dynamic social and economic whirl of modern Ireland, tracing the interconnected destinies of an engaging cast of Dubliners over the course of a single unforgettable year. The novel opens with an uncharacteristically...
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2009
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Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmeline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love. Photographer Mackensie Elliott has suffered a tough childhood and has a bad relationship with her mother, which makes her wary of commitment. But when she meets Carter Macguire, she can't stop herself...
9) Black Beauty
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From the beginning, Black Beauty was recognized as an extraordinary horse; one who was gentle but spirited, swift yet steady, and a fitting companion for man, woman, and child. But when his kind owners are forced to sell him, Black Beauty finds himself going from a happy life, filled with rolling pastures and open spaces, to one of misery, surrounded by cobblestones and narrow streets. Yet, inspired by his mother's advice, Black Beauty triumphs...
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At the age of fourteen, Jessica Kellerman was wildly infactuated with Evan Dryden. But that was just a teenage crush and now, almost ten years later, she's in love - truly in love - with his older brother, Damian. But everyone, including Damian, believes she's carrying a torch for Evan!
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Tired of being harassed by U.S. law enforcement agents, the drug lords have assassinated three high-ranking American officials, and that is just the beginning. The Message is clear: Leave us alone. But the Colombians have gone too far. U.S. agents slip quietly over the border, deploying covert-action teams in Colombia. But how much action is too much? And who is the real enemy? Jack Ryan and a field agent known only as Mr. Clark, must find out. They...
12) The snow bride
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A Snowbound Christmas . . .
A Second-chance bride!
Practical Jenna Walsh has done something impratical. she's met a man on the internet and now, a month before Christmas, she's going to Alaska to marry him. Dalton Gray seems to be everything she wants in a husband -- sensitive, gallant, romantic . . .
On the flight to Fairbanks, she has the misfortune to sit beside Reed Kenner, who obviously isn't sensitive, gallant, or romantic. However, he's not...
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With the same incomparable style and warm, inviting voice that have made her beloved by millions of readers far and wide, New York Times bestselling author Fannie Flagg has written an enchanting Christmas story of faith and hope for all ages that is sure to become a classic.
Deep in the southernmost part of Alabama, along the banks of a lazy winding river, lies the sleepy little community known as Lost River, a place that time itself seems to have...
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Secrets can really kill your career. Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a past to hide. Her popular co-anchor has a scandal he'd die to keep secret. The president's pretty wife wants desperately to avoid an indecent exposure. A parish priest knows a terrible truth. And a killer has a secret agenda that reaches from New York City's streets to the White House-it includes the time and place where Eliza Blake will have to die …
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Sean King and Michelle Maxwell volume Book 2
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Following their collaboration in SPLIT SECOND, ex-Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have gone into partnership and are investigating the robbery of some secret documents at the residence of the incredibly wealthy Battle family. It seems like a straightforward case of domestic burglary, but soon they begin to suspect links to larger, more terrifying events now shaking the prosperous town of Writghtsburg . . . The unidentified corpse...
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If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions...
17) The desert crop
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Money was tight in the farming communities around Fellburn in the 1880s, so when Hector Stewart announced to his children that he was to marry Moira, a wealthy distant relative, it was Daniel the youngest who guessed the purpose of the union. This book focuses on Moira and a family conflict.
18) Just one look
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A convicted hitman suddenly confesses to a twenty-year-old murder - the slaying of a District Attorney's sister. Why he chose this moment to reveal his secret, he refuses to reveal... A businessman tries to go on the run from his family home when an old photograph turns up in a new roll of film. A photograph of him as a young man. But on leaving his house, he is immediately snatched by a vicious, trained killer and bundled into the back of a waiting...
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The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a young man charged with a random street killing, he assumes it is just another of the many senseless murders that hit D.C. every week. As he digs into the background of his client, Clay stumbles on a conspiracy...
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The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: rivalries, wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. When the Wheeler family approaches Derek Mitchell about defending Creighton Wheeler for his uncle's murder, he jumps at the chance. But Derek soon discovers that Julie Rutledge, Paul's mistress, wants to prevent him from defending Creighton. Although Julie is convinced that Creighton is responsible for...
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