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"Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch...
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"An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother and uncovers shocking secrets in this immersive and atmospheric saga perfect for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Perry. Cornwall, 1730: A young girl known only as Red travels with her father making a living predicting fortunes using the ancient Cornish method of the Square of Sevens. Shortly before he dies, her father entrusts Red's care to a gentleman...
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Foul lady Fortune volume 2
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In 1932 Shanghai, exposed national spy Rosalind Lang must rescue fellow spy, Orion, whose memories of Rosalind were wiped, and find a cure to a dangerous chemical weapon before it lands in the hand of foreign invaders.
Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she's been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she's barely left her bedroom in weeks, plotting her next course...
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"A sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein. Switzerland, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the whole of Europe in ash and cloud. Amid this "year without a summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley arrive at Lake Geneva to visit Lord Byron and his companion John Polidori. Anguished by the...
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2023.
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San Francisco, 1952. Detective Evander "Andy" Mills has started a new life for himself as a private detective--but his business hasn't exactly taken off. It turns out that word spreads fast when you have a bad reputation, and no one in the queer community trusts him enough to ask an ex-cop for help. When James, an old flame from the war who had mysteriously disappeared, arrives in his offices above the Ruby, Andy wants to kick him out. But the job...
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Drop dead dukes volume 2
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"Bold and adventurous, Prudence Thorne is not the kind of woman to stand by meekly when someone she loves has been wronged. And she’s quite certain that Jasper Vincent, Duke of Montford, somehow duped her father into racking up enormous gambling debts. When fate offers her a chance to blackmail Jasper into forgiving her father’s losses, she seizes it . . . only to have her scheme backfire. Jasper enjoys London’s illicit delights too much to...
8) Whale fall
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"In 1938, a dead whale washes up on the shores of remote Welsh island. For Manod, who has spent her whole life on the island, it feels like both a portent of doom and a symbol of what may lie beyond the island's shores. A young woman living with her father and her sister (to whom she has reluctantly but devotedly become a mother following the death of their own mother years prior), Manod can't shake her welling desire to explore life beyond the beautiful...
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"Protecting a penniless widow. With a marriage in name only!When Andrew Benton discovers his brother has cheated Clara Albright out of her wealth, and that she's now almost destitute, he feels obliged to offer the only thing he can - marriage. Having sworn against love, after witnessing the devastation it leaves behind, Andrew can only promise Clara a comfortable life for her and her children. Only he didn't foresee the inconvenient attraction blossoming...
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A deal they both agreed to. An attraction they never expected... Widowed Susanna isn't looking to remarry, but her late husband's debts mean she's open to an old friend's proposition... Last time she saw Quinton Langford he was content with being a physician, but after unexpectedly becoming an earl he needs a wife to navigate Society. Susanna agrees to his proposal of a paper marriage... never expecting long-buried feelings to resurface and threaten...
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Southern belles in London volume 2
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She trusted him with her life... But what about her heart? After the American Civil War propels widow Clara and her daughter to England, they're given refuge by the enigmatic Marquess of Clairmount. Being a damsel in distress doesn't come easily to independent Clara - so, finding his estate in disarray, she seizes her chance to help him. As she plays the role of Marchioness her attraction to the guarded Marquess is bittersweet... as this Cinderella...
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To claim what should be his... He must claim her! Piers of Grevershire might have been born illegitimate, but he'll fight for the land he knows is his. To do so he must win Lady Gwendoline's hand in marriage! What starts as a secret mission of vengeance soon becomes more, as Gwen's unique fire ignites a powerful connection between them. And when they're married he finds earning Gwen's trust means revealing his true identity - and the betrayal that...
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2024.
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In 1866 Paris, Baroness Sylvie Devereux and her estranged sister, fraudulent spirit mediums, target the de Jacquinots, who believe they are being haunted, hoping to scare them out of their gold, but the sisters are faced with inexplicable horrors, making them question whether they really are at the mercy of vengeful spirit.
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"Caught between the warring French and English on Canada's rugged shores in 1755, Sylvie Galant is forced from her Acadian home and family and is alone in colonial Virginia. Now the enemy soldier who once tore her world apart might be the key to restoring her shattered past"--
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King's knights volume 4
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Wed to a stranger. Awakened by his touch. Part of The King's Knights. As the new wife of stoic knight Benedictus Monceaux, innocent Adela finds herself in a whole new world... Their union is one of convenience and power, but her feelings for the warrior unsettle and excite her. Hiding an inner strength, Adela knows she can be a strong ally to her husband - but she must walk a fine line between duty and desire, both at court and in the bedchamber......
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A position too good to refuse? A desire too strong to deny! After being abandoned at the altar, housekeeper Kate Winters has finally found peace working at a grand house. Until her new employer Lord Henderson unexpectedly returns, resolved to sell his estate... Determined to remind the brooding Earl of the beauty of his home, Kate begins to discover the allure of the man behind the title. Scarred by her past, does she dare risk her future by surrendering...
18) LONG ISLAND
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OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "Stunning." —People * "Dazzling yet devastating...Tóibín is simply one of the world's best living literary writers." —The Boston Globe * "Momentous and hugely affecting." —The Wall Street Journal *
From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey,...
From the beloved, critically acclaimed, bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving novel featuring Eilis Lacey,...
19) ATLAS MANEUVER
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Cotton Malone novels volume 18
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"1945. In the waning months of World War II, Japan hid vast quantities of gold and other stolen valuables in boobytrapped underground caches all across the Philippines. By 1947 some of that loot was recovered, not by treasure hunters, but by the United States government, which told no one about the find. Instead, those assets were stamped classified, shipped to Europe, and secretly assimilated into something called the Black Eagle Trust. Present day....
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"The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly-and dangerously-collide in this dramatic debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a city at war with itself. Philadelphia, 1837. When nineteen-year-old Charlotte escaped from the deteriorating White Oaks plantation four years ago, she'd expected freedom to look completely different from her former life as an enslaved housemaid. Instead, she's locked away playing...