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I survived volume 23
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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
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2024.
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San Fransisco, 1906. Two women hoping to change their fortunes, have their paths cross, when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, whose collection of Chinese antiques include the legendary Phoenix Crown and whose patronage changes the women's lives. When Henry disappears, their lives are thrown into chaos. But when the crown surfaces five years later, the women are brought together in one last quest for justice.
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2023.
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"Let Us Descend is a reimagining of American slavery, as beautifully rendered as it is heart-wrenching. Searching, harrowing, replete with transcendent love, the novel is a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader's guide through this hellscape. As she struggles through the miles-long...
4) The women
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"'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins...
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Daughters of England volume 9
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To the world she has committed an unforgivable sin . . . Is it possible for people to be possessed? That's the question happily married Zipporah Ransome asks herself when she journeys from Clavering Court to her family's ancestral home in Eversleigh. At nearby Enderby House, a mysterious place connected to her notorious grandmother Carlotta, Zipporah discovers the power of her untapped desires-and the price of their fulfillment. Enigmatic...
6) Absolution
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American women - American wives - have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution they take center stage. Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands...
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Two Lives Saved, One Love Discovered, in A Season to be Sinful, a Historical Regency Romance from Jo Goodman
An orphan raised in the sanctuary of a French abbey, Lily Sterling flees to the bustling city of London to escape the clutches of an unwanted English lord. But fate has other plans. She soon finds herself ensnared by the very man she sought to evade, once again escaping, this time into the dangerous streets of Holborn, where she takes in and...
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She's under his protection-but her heart may be in danger too-in this novel by a national bestselling author "in the upper tier of thriller writers" (The Providence Journal).
Ever since forensics analyst Shaye Mallory survived a police-station shootout, Detective Cole Walker has felt personally responsible for her well-being. Then another shooter takes aim at Shaye. Cole decides the only thing he can do is stay right by her side until he finds...
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Blood, death, and duty-the title bequeathed to the heir of the royal executioner becomes a burden too heavy to bear.
In this omnibus edition collecting volumes 1-3 of the original manga series, Shin'ichi Sakamoto masterfully fictionalizes the true life of Charles-Henri Sanson, the "Gentleman of Paris," who performed nearly three thousand executions in 18th century France.
Born into a family of executioners, Charles-Henri Sanson must take up...
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"December 6, 1941: Best friends Frank and Stanley have it good. Their dads are Navy pilots stationed at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, and the boys get a front-row view of the huge battleships and the sparkling water. Yes, World War II is raging in Europe and in Asia, but the US isn't involved in the war, and the boys are free to dream about becoming comic book creators. They've even invented a superhero of their own, in the style of Batman, Superman, Captain...
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In book three of the bestselling Women of Surprise series, narrator Kimberly Austin brings Tracey J Lyons' Making Over Maggie to life! Maggie Monroe, the third of the Monroe cousins, has always been headstrong, and straightlaced. When aunt Margaret hires a flamboyant drifter named Samuel Clay to be Maggie's second hand in the opening of the new Surprise dance hall, Maggie finds her peaceful, staid existence turned upside-down.
The dance hall was her...
13) Appalachian song
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"Forever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she's tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943. As Bertie and her four sisters tenderly nurture Songbird back to health,...
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Harlequin historicals volume 1141
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Raising the stakes...;
As the unacknowledged son of the lecherous Lord Westleigh, John "Rhys" Rhysdale was forced to earn a crust gambling on the streets. Now he owns the most thrilling new gaming establishment in London.
Witnessing polite society's debauchery and excess every night, Rhys prefers to live on its fringes, but a mysterious masked lady tempts him into the throng.
Lady Celia Gale, known only as Madame Fortune, matches Rhys card for...
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In 1948 Cleveland was America's sixth largest city; by 1969 it was the twelfth. For Easterners, Cleveland is where the Midwest begins; for Westerners, it is where the East begins. In the summer of 1948, fourteen-year-old David Zielinsky can look forward to a job at the docks. Anne O'Connor, at twelve, is the apple of her political boss father's eye. David and Anne will meet-and fall in love-four years later, and for the next twenty years this pair...
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Raj quartet volume 3
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Third in the epic quartet about the end of the Raj: "Scott throws us into India, wretched and beautiful . . . His contribution to literature is permanent." -The New York Times Book Review
India, 1943: In a regimental hill station, the ladies of Pankot struggle to preserve the genteel façade of British society amid the debris of a vanishing empire and World War II. A retired missionary, Barbara Batchelor, bears witness to the connections between...
17) Nichiren II
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In 13th-century Japan, disease, famine, violence, and natural disasters plague society. Samurai lords, blindedby power, shirk any responsibility to protect the citizenry. Religious leaders care more about currying favor withthe powerful than helping common people find hope and a positive way to deal with their suffering. But oneunknown Buddhist monk dares to speak the truth to power, insisting that all human life is precious and that thegovernment...
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Heirs of Saint Camber volume 1
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In an alternate Middle Ages, a new chapter begins in the magnificent fantasy saga of the Deryni, as the magical race faces annihilation by royal enemies and a radical church These are the darkest days for the Deryni of Gwynedd, the magical race that once ruled this medieval kingdom but now find themselves despised and hunted by the governing regents following the death of King Cinhil. Dead also is Camber of Culdi, who served as the Deryni's most faithful...
19) The proper wife
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A Virtuous Virgin--That's What He Needed
A thrifty, industrious, wholesome bride! Certainly not an exotic aristocrat like Clarissa Beaumont, who set trends and dazzled suitors with equal passion. A more unsuitable wife St. John Sandiford found impossible to imagine! Why then couldn't he get Clarissa out of his mind--or his heart?
A Good Set-Down--That's What He Deserved!
Though Sinjin Sandiford was rightly called "hero," he could sometimes fall...
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Passion and secrets simmer behind the elegant façade of Victorian London in A Bride by Moonlight, another deliciously intriguing romance by Liz Carlyle that features the dangerous men of the mysterious St. James Society.
Faced with murder charges, Lisette Colburne never imagined aligning herself with Scotland Yard-not with the scandalous life she's led. But when Commissioner Royden Napier proposes-that in exchange for her freedom-she pretend to...
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