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1) Lavinia
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Excerpt: ""I shall never get over it." This is a phrase that has issued from the same lips very often before; and in general Lavinia Carew listens to it silently, in the impatient confidence that at her next visit to Mrs. Prince, that lady will have got over "it" so completely as to have forgotten that "it" ever existed. She is silent now, but from an opposite reason to that which has hitherto tied her tongue. In her opinion neither Mrs. Prince nor...
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Lavinia Kent-a four-time Golden Heart Award nominee and one of the most exciting talents in the new generation of historical romance writers-explores What a Duke Wants in this darkly sensuous tale of a woman running from a secret past who finds herself in the arms of a handsome reluctant English nobleman whom she desires intensely but dares not love. Any reader who has ever been entranced by the passionate romance of Anna Campbell, Stephanie Laurens,...
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"Les cicatrices de l'école" est le témoignage poignant d'une expérience personnelle de harcèlement scolaire. Il dépeint le parcours tumultueux d'une victime qui a trouvé le courage de se dresser et de faire entendre sa voix. L'auteure vous plonge dans les années de calvaire qu'elle a endurées, décrivant les premiers signes de maltraitance, ses sentiments confus et les obstacles rencontrés, mais aussi les sources de force qui lui ont permis...
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Few cities anywhere are as vibrant, historically rich, and just plain fun as New Orleans. But it's not a "dummy proof" destination. Too many travelers leave town wondering what all the fuss is about.
That doesn't happen to those carrying this book. Written by travel experts Lavinia Spalding and Tami Fairweather, Frommer's EasyGuide to New Orleans introduces travelers to the experiences other visitors miss; and has the type of insightful commentary...
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When bodyguard Brent Hawthorne moves to India to start a new business, he thinks his biggest problems are going to be the language barrier and coping with the intense heat in Mumbai. But when he starts working for one of Bollywood's top actors, Rajkumar Khan, Brent has to rethink that estimation.Raj is not only handsome and sexy but also secretly gay, and sparks fly the instant the pair meet. But Raj is being blackmailed and the unknown sender of...
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Die Kurzgeschichten-Anthologie "Mixtum Compositum-Bellas Kurzgeschichtensammlung" beinhaltet 4 Kurzgeschichten zu wichtigen Tagen:
Kapitel 1 (Silvester) Die Geister, die ich rief
Kapitel 2 (Earth Hour) Als der Himmel verschwand
Kapitel 3 (Weltnaturschutztag) die Botschaft der Tiere
Kapitel 4 (Welthundetag) Glück muss Hund haben
Das Buch kann natürlich unabhängig dieser Tage gelesen werden, man kann sich aber an diesen Tagen gerne zu Bella, die...
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An accidental time travel led her to find love in the arms of a Duke from the past. Olivia is finally rebuilding her life and career after a painful divorce. While on a business trip to England, she is driven off the road by a mysterious force, only to come to her senses in the opulent mansion of a handsome Duke. The year is 1872. The wealthy and powerful Duke of Avondale has forsworn love after the death of his wife, for which he blames himself....
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An architecture office of vampires, and a nature-loving fae living in a forest, all set in the beautiful and historic town of Weimar, Germany. Enter the exciting world of the Vampires and Fae of Weimar!
He was whole, just in a different way than her. Still, they had so much in common.
A fae forestry specialist, Ashley Thompson, comes from the States to Weimar, Germany. Her task is to help the Thuringian Fae with curing a mysterious illness in the...
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Margaret Lavinia Anderson is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Windthorst: A Political Biography and has contributed widely to issues in German and European History.
What happens when manhood suffrage, a radically egalitarian institution, gets introduced into a deeply hierarchical society? In her sweeping history of Imperial Germany's electoral culture, Anderson shows how the sudden opportunity...
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Catch God's vision for His universal Church! See in the Bible God's vision and provision for His people to be filled with the mighty power of His Holy Spirit!
For a fresh perspective from our earthly human position into our spiritual potential, join the author on a delightful journey into realms of perhaps unexperienced possibilities. You're in for a surprise as you follow human spiritual progress compared with one of nature's tiniest creatures:...
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Miss Morton mysteries volume 2
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"Lady Caroline is happy to be back amid the swirl of London society, guiding her employer's daughter, Dorothy Frogerton, through her first Season. Dorothy has been declared "an original" by a patron of the exclusive social club, Almack's, and is sifting through potential suitors. Mrs. Frogerton, meanwhile, finds her own diversions, including spiritualist gatherings at the home of Madam Lavinia, and begs Caroline to come along. Caroline is skeptical...
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Summary of Kathleen Grissom's The Kitchen House is a coming-of-age story about Lavinia, an Irish immigrant who grows up at Tall Oaks, a tobacco plantation in antebellum Virginia.
When Lavinia's parents, who owe passage to Captain James Pyke, die en route to America, Lavinia is taken in by the captain and his family. She is put to work as an indentured servant and sent to live in the kitchen house with Belle, the captain's illegitimate daughter. Lavinia...
14) King Devil
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A historical mystery set in early twentieth-century New England from the acclaimed author of the Peter Shandy series. Upon graduating from an academy for respectable young ladies, Lavinia Tabard heads to the New England countryside and her rich cousin Zilpha's summer cottage with the low expectations of a charity case. Lavinia intends to endure Zilpha's saccharine sweetness and her "companion" Tetsy's bullying ways only until she can plan an escape...
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The author of the bestselling Cazalet Chronicles brilliantly captures the coming-of-age hopes and yearnings of an adolescent English girl during World War I The fourth child born to a struggling musician and a mother who's an incurable romantic, Lavinia lives an unremarkable existence. But a visit to a sprawling country estate transforms her world and becomes the touchstone for the rest of her life. Lavinia is sixteen when she's invited to a...
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Lavinia Spencer había estado ahorrando afanosamente para agasajar a su familia con una verdadera cena de Navidad. Días antes de las fiestas, su hermano fue víctima de una estafa que los dejó endeudados y al borde de la ruina. Hasta que un misterioso benefactor se ofreció a saldar la deuda. La inocente Lavinia se quedó atónita al saber lo que deseaba a cambio el apuesto William White. ¿Estaba dispuesta a aceptar aquel regalo envenenado por...
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Marrying in name only…
Could lead to more than they expected
Single mother Lavinia Simmons's world is turned upside down when she discovers her late husband gambled away their home. A quick marriage of convenience to bachelor Noem Witzel in return for caring for his niece and nephew is the solution both Lavinia and Noem need. Neither of them is looking for romance. But what if these perfect strangers have other ideas?
From Love Inspired:...
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Lavinia Markov tried to break free.
Yet no matter how hard she tried, she failed to save the people she loved the most. Now separated from her family, she has to learn to find a new one in her team. She has to live with nightmares, desperate for any distraction that might help her forget the peace stolen from her, while new experiments were the nightmares of Parker and Persephone.
But as Lavinia starts to trust her team, it becomes apparent...
19) Carnival of Love
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A CONVENIENT HUSBAND
Rescuing Lavinia Renshaw from a Venetian canal was one thing. Accepting her surprising proposition of marriage was quite another. Maxim Purnell thrived on taking risks. However, his situation was complicated enough without taking on a wife.
But there was no denying Lavinia had succeeded in piquing his curiosity-;and desire. To come in to her considerable legacy she needed a husband, and she intended their arrangement to be a...
20) Dust spells
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Ever since the dust storms arrived and turned her world upside down, ambitious Stella Fischer spends her mornings hiding moonshine in laundry stacks for delivery before returning home to help her sisters--Lavinia and Mattie--run their family home turned boarding house, hoping to make enough money to finally escape to Hollywood. She has no time for distractions, especially from Lloyd, the handsome drifter who works as a hired hand at the boarding house....