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Diana Quincy returns with a steamy affair between an Arab-American woman who inherits a run-down castle in the English countryside and the duke who asserts the castle is his, in the first book in a brand-new Victorian historical romance series.
Anthony Cary, Duke of Strickland, inherits his spendthrift father's title and can finally restore the family castle to its former glory. But at the reading of the will, Strick is stunned to learn that his...
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2024.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
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This memoir takes us on a journey of an Indian-American woman having endured an abusive marriage for decades. Viera Gossai narrates firsthand the effects of cultural norms, conventions, expectations after her divorce, and finally her restoration and awakening to a sense of herself. There are numerous predefined social norms created by our society that far too frequently accepts the distressed and depressed life of an abused married woman, but often...
64) Phillis Wheatley
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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish biography provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will be inspired by the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to have a book published in the United States. With a visually appealing layout, this book features...
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A free-spirited American woman unexpectedly finds herself in an "out of the box" international adventure. Once laden in darkness, she begins living the American dream-only to give it all up to go sail the seas, which leads to a "Holy Spirit trail," a quest which takes her deep into the vast jungle. There God opens heaven's door of provision to care for abandoned and abused children in Guatemala.
Through the many twists, turns, and roadblocks of the...
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A CASTLE OF MY MEMORIES tells the incredible true story of Ruth "Kitty" Taquey, an American woman with an unbreakable spirit. After following her heart to Austria to be with her budding artist husband Victor Planckh, she found herself trying to live while war waged around her. She faced the Gestapo, American bombers, the Russian army in Vienna, starvation rations, and the loss of her two lovers during World War II. Through her Christian faith, her...
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Bree Washington, a young African-American woman, has always wanted to become a doctor. When her father loses his job, she is forced to find other means to raise money to continue her schooling. Loving to dance, she becomes an exotic dancer. Bree figures her dancing days will be history after she gets her medical degree.Though being a doctor gives her a sense of fulfillment, Bree fears life is passing her by. Alone without any family of her own, more...
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A white woman. A black man. And their forbidden love.
Can endurance and faith sustain the love between a white woman and a black man, threatened by rejection, guilt, and racial injustice? Can love alone reconcile their starkly different worlds, lighting the way to a bright future together?
When graduate student, Tori Pendola, a white American woman, and Jebuni Kalitsi, a Ghanaian exchange student and heir to his tribe's chieftaincy, fall deeply...
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Ann Thomas is an attractive lawyer and an African American woman. She has inherited a remote farm outside of Atlanta once owned by her grandmother, a former slave. Unknowingly to her, her grandmother was once in a romantic relationship with a well-to-do African man back in the year 1890. But the romance went sour when Ann's grandmother decided to marry someone else. Things were quiet, and through the years the jilted African man had...
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Daredevil volume 9
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The stunning and lushly illustrated debut of Marvel's next screen sensation! She is Echo. A deaf young Native American woman with the uncanny ability to assimilate the skills of others by sight. Dancing, piano playing - even hand-to-hand combat! Though Maya Lopez and Matt Murdock meet as seemingly kindred souls, their secret identities are very much at odds. For Maya is seeking vengeance against her father's killer - who the Kingpin claims is Daredevil!...
71) Sister Rebel
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Theresa Bonpane's memoir Sister Rebel is an inspiring and powerful read for anyone interested in the world of activism and social justice. The book charts Bonpane's journey from a young Irish American woman, to a Maryknoll sister working in Chile, to a dedicated peace activist and director of the Office of the Americas. Along the way, she shares her experiences working alongside notable figures such as Howard Zinn and Martin Sheen, and how they helped...
72) Hidden Prey
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DangerTori Cox, a talented and sought-after musician, heads back to her roots to a small southwest town in Arizona as she flees an abusive relationship. When she arrives she witnesses the execution of a federal agent by the head of the Jimenez Cartel. The drug cartel kingpin orders his men to kill Tori before she can testify. DesireLandon Walker, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, rescues Tori from members of one of the most...
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"A remarkable experience of little reported events.
The Second Empire of France was, by the early 1860's in good health. France had acquitted itself well in the Crimea and in the war against Austria. The idea of a European monarch on the throne of Mexico was not a new one. France was attracted to the idea of a 'Latin' influence in America and thus the opening chords were struck of what would eventually be-to quote the author-'A Dance of Doom', the...
74) End Game
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Some decisions can be the death of you.
After ten years of a brutal apocalypse, Sarah Donovan doesn't want much.
Just a place where she can live where people aren't trying to kill her.
A place where she can raise her daughter and live without fear.
Unfortunately, it's all a little more than any sane person should hope for.
In the thrilling climax to the Irish End Game series, Mike and Sarah launch into the unforgiving North Atlantic in a retrofitted...
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Have you ever wondered why relationships are so hard? Could it be that you have an enemy working against you? You do. We all do.
Under the façade of our seemingly ordinary lives, a profound spiritual battle wages for our relationships, our marriages, and our very souls. “The Unseen Battle: An Unexpected Love Story” rips through that façade to reveal the life-and-death struggle between good and evil in the life of Abby, an ordinary American...
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IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet the first American woman to travel to space!
Sally Ride was the first American female astronaut to go to space. She worked on a space shuttle for two different missions. But Sally Ride did more than just travel to space. She also was a teacher, an author, and a professor. Learn more about her amazing life in this new biography!The WHEN I GROW UP easy readers are the perfect introductory biography series. Each book takes the reader on a journey...
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In Hollywood, a screenwriter gets involved in an impossible murder. In a steamy tropical jungle, a sinister American woman pushes the natives too far and gets exactly what she deserves: a rusty knife buried deep in her back. At least, that is the way the movie is supposed to end. But when the loathsome starlet Caresse Garnet learns her character is about to be killed off, she refuses to die, forcing the studio to rewrite the ending the night before...
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England 1814
Quiet and Demure…
Two words not associated with Mrs. Amelia Chase, a woman from America on the run from her past with a healthy love for Shakespearean insults.
Opinionated – Yes
Nosy – Most definitely
Daring and Outrageous – Perhaps
In sum, all things irresistible to a broody, sexy Scotsman with a delicious brogue. A man with the power to evoke sparks with a look, sizzle with a touch, and fire with a moan.
And he's looked…...
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Masters of Horror volume 7
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Detective Dwight Faraday is a burned-out cop demoted to the "weird calls" desk until a series of bizarre murders suddenly grabs his attention: Several men killed by massive blunt-force trauma while in a state of sexual arousal, all last seen in the company of a sexy Native American woman. But when it's discovered that these corpses were trampled into hamburger by what appear to be hooves, Faraday must hunt a killer who may not be totally human. Will...
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A German-American woman copes with a pandemic, and her neighbors' hostility during the Great War.
Stuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving themselves over to the hatred only war can engender.
Set in 1918 in the farm country at the heart of America, The Meaning...