Susanna Burney
1) Abundance
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Marie Antoinette was a child of fourteen when her mother, the Empress of Austria, arranged for her to leave her family and her country to become the wife of the fifteen-year-old Dauphin, the future King of France. Coming of age in the most public of arenas—eager to be a good wife and strong queen—she warmly embraces her adopted nation and its citizens. She shows her new husband nothing but love and encouragement, though he repeatedly
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"As Judy Gruen walked down the aisle and into her Orthodox Jewish future, her bouquet quivered in her shaky hand. Having grown up in the zeitgeist that proclaimed, "If it feels good, do it," was she really ready to live the life of "rituals, rules, and restraints" that the Torah prescribed? Skeptic and the Rabbi is a rare memoir with historical depth, spirituality, and intelligent humor. Gruen speaks with refreshing honesty about what it means to...
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Sophie Heller and her family emigrated from Germany to the small town of Victory, Illinois, well before WWII began. But now that the war has deeply affected the town, local residents are beginning to turn a cold shoulder toward them. Then tragedy strikes when a train is derailed, and the Heller family is unfairly blamed. With paranoia and discrimination threatening to destroy the once peaceful town, the handsome teacher from the high school gallantly...
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On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing...
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Chocolat novels (Joanne Harris) volume 2
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The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at last and keep her daughters, Anouk and baby Rosette, safe. But the weather vane soon turns, and Zozie de l'Alba blows into their lives. Charming and enigmatic,...
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An evocative tale of intrigue, romance, and treachery, Carol Goodman's spellbinding new novel, The Night Villa, follows the fascinating lives of two remarkable women centuries apart. The eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 buried a city and its people, their treasures, and their secrets. Centuries later, echoes of this disaster resonate with profound consequences in the life of classics professor Sophie Chase. In the aftermath of a tragic...
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Harmonia Shae, a time traveler, faces a revengeful fallen sidhe queen set on enslaving humankind. A Sihir magician traps Harmonia's freewill inside a talisman forcing her to submit to three summonses. On the brink of death, she finds an unwanted champion in Tristan Avery. Upon awakening, she is in his house. Frightened, she scrambles to escape his overbearing need to protect her. Time is short, she must find the ambassador of the gates and return...
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Her assignment leads her into the wilderness-right back to the man who stole her heart. Leslie Starr thought she'd left her past behind when she'd joined the Shifter Federal Bureau of Investigation. Unfortunately, the series of violent crimes she's investigating in Wyoming appear to target her best friend Grace, head of the SFBI… and the sister of her ex-fiancé, Roger. Leslie's never fit in with Roger's wolf pack. She doesn't do sweet, subservient,...
9) Fairy Rose
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Lara Clint, a skilled modern day daemon hunter hears a voice beckoning her to awaken and remember her rightful destiny. Spooked and concerned for Sedona, the city of her heart, she is troubled at the reappearance of an ancient fallen angel bent on revenge.
Rafe Avery, a sidhe warrior and Protector of Dreams is challenged to remove the black rose of darkness and help the chosen one to replace the mystic red rose of love. Time has run out. The gates...
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In a celestial battle between duty and desire, Jophiel and Christine must navigate a treacherous path filled with forbidden truths, undeniable magnetism, and the weight of destiny. As a member of the Watcher's Guild, it is Jophiel's duty to observe mortals from a distance, ensuring the harmony between heavenly and earthly realms. But when he stumbles upon Christine Monarch, a pro wrestler with an elusive heritage and an untapped power, everything...
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They're caught between the fates of two worlds - and saving both realms may mean losing each other.
Moira Naesatra has never felt like her fighting skills are up to par with the rest of her fae clan. Maybe that's why she runs a bakery in Pasadena, where human customers buy her mouth-watering confections...and receive a dose of positive magic as a bonus. When a dangerous side of her magic surfaces in dreams and premonitions, she has to rely on the...
12) Agartha
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As a soul catcher's assistant, April Lopez understood demons. But one psychotic sidhe bent on turning the human race into a colony of reptilian zombies sent her into a fate she never expected…an excursion to Middle Earth. The adventure turns her world inside out. Days after her arrival, images of a prior life plague her with more questions than answers. She searches to understand how the pieces are tied together and finds herself in the arms of...
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Margaret Sullivan dines with politicians, rebels, and spies. She is an admired journalist with the Chicago Tribune publishing under a male nom de plume. Her unscrupulous husband is a prominent attorney and power broker with aspirations of his own. They are well-connected members of Chicago's 1880s Irish elite. On her trip to Ireland to research a book she is writing, Margaret meets a charming one-armed Irish rebel named Michael and finds herself attracted...
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Combining the drama of The God of Animals with the powerful realism of Chosen by a Horse, award-winning poet Jana Harris tells the inspiring story of her twenty-four-year relationship with a troubled but beautiful, blood-red feral mare who, in spite of her difficult past, has a talent for healing and helping every human and other being she comes into contact with. When True Colors arrived at Harris' farm, she was in dire shape. She had survived a...
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When I, Grace Isaeva, President of the United States, left my cousin's college graduation, the last thing I expected was my fiancé to attempt to kill me. He drugged and stuffed my body inside a car trunk! I awoke in an alternative universe where Nephilim, angel half-bred, train to guard the human race. If that wasn't strange enough, I harbor a secret I've kept from the American people. I'm an alpha Elfin silver wolf meant to unite the shifter race.
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Thanks to a successful interview with the painfully shy E. B. White, a beautiful, 19-year-old, blue-eyed blonde from the cornfields of Iowa lands a job as a receptionist at The New Yorker magazine. There she stays two decades, becoming general all-around factotum watching and registering the comings and goings, marriages and divorces, scandalous affairs, failures, triumphs, and tragedies of the eccentric inhabitants of the 18th floor. Though she dreamed...
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Discover the practical life skills you need to meet your goals confidently and assertively.
This guide is specifically written to help teens and parents work together to discover:
● How seemingly "boring" tasks like cooking or doing the laundry are a source of empowerment and a fast track to maturity
● That exercise is more than about fitness; it is one of the most powerful means to pulverize anxiety and nip stress and depression in the bud
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18) House on Fire
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How far would you go to keep a promise?
Bernadette Rogers swore she'd never put her father in a nursing home. Does that include euthanizing him to keep her word? Her mother thinks it does. Bernadette isn't so sure. And even if she were, it's not like you can walk into a drug store and buy Nembutal.
As an ICU nurse Bernadette's no stranger to the blunt realities of death, but her mother's request to help her father-who's disappearing into the abyss...
19) The F Place
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If you have ever wondered why some people succeed while others fail to survive, this book is for you. Beneath the placid surface, there is a toxic culture at The F Place. The company is plagued by back-stabbing leaders, drama, lies, scandal, and unhappy employees to the point that both the performance and the well-being of the people in the company are fractured.
Rather than bore the reader with another leadership philosophy, The F Place uses a captivating...
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When bestselling author Jean Carper discovered she had the Alzheimer's gene, she was determined to find out if there was anything she could do to help herself. As it turns out, there was quite a lot. In 100 Simple Things You Can Do To Prevent Alzheimer's, Jean Carper teaches readers how to take simple and effective steps to battle age-related memory loss and prevent Alzheimer's Disease. Based on the latest scientific findings and distilled into...