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ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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Slow Carb for Life offers a balanced diet of (s)low-carb, nutritious, and delicious food in normal sized portions with the promise of a trimmer physique, increased energy, and lower cholesterol and blood pressure. Dr. Harv and Patricia Haakonson have based their approach on four years of personal trial and error, hard science, sound research, and feedback from thousands of readers who have offered personal experience and testimonials to customize...
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English
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John Haw is a recently divorced man who is having a rough time adapting to single life. He hates his environment and his job; but most of all he hates his ex-wife. While having a terrible day at work, John is robbed then suspended all in the same day. Just before the straw can break the camel's back, John meets an incredible Asian woman that turns out to be the spark he needs to turn his luck around. In a split second, his entire life is changed...
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"When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But she will never wake again--for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board"--Page...
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Avalon Bay volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Mackenzie Cabot has spent most of her twenty years pleasing the other people around her so she is going to Garnet College in the expensive beachside town of Avalon Bay in South Carolina when she would really rather focus on her growing internet business; Cooper Hartley is a local boy who usually tends bar and disdains the rich, spoiled college kids he sees every day--but MacKenzie and Cooper fall for each other, until money and family come between...
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"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife's...
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Remixed classics volume 5
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English
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"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicolas Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...
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English
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"The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace. Kingfisher Lodge, nestled in a canyon on a mile and a half of the most pristine river water on the planet, is known by locals as "Billionaire's Mile" and is locked behind a heavy...
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Publisher
Covenant Communications
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Louisa Cox is tired of fortune hunters pursuing her dowry, so when Lady Kellen offers to help her find an eligible suitor, Louisa eagerly accepts and makes a list of what she wants in a husband. The man selected is Paul Sheldon, who has one thing in his favor: he is unaware of her fortune. What Louisa did not anticipate was his curious behavior--or being so attracted to him. When Paul catches wind of the matchmaking organization his mother and her...
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English
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"When Terry Rourke is invited to the spare-no-expense beach wedding of his hedge fund manager brother, he thinks that his biggest worry will be flubbing the champagne toast. But this isn't the first time Terry has been to the Hamptons. As the designer tuxedos are laid out and the flowers arranged along the glittering surf, Terry can't help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial that rocked the very foundations of the town-- and his family....
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Publisher
"Inostranka"
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Russian
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"Umopomrachitelnoe sostoianie i vpravdu mozhet svesti s uma! A znaete pochemu? Potomu chto u kogo-to drugogo deneg eshche bolshe, chem u vas, i etot kto-to mimokhodom lishit vas takoi privilegii, kak liubimyi stolik v ekskliuzivnom restorane ili ekstrennyi vyzov lichnogo -- luchshego v mire! -- vracha. No chto udivitelno -- nakhodiatsia liudi, kotorykh ne volnuiut podobnye problemy! Naprimer, Nik IAng, potomok izvestnogo roda i naslednik grandioznogo...
11) Mrs England
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English
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In a house full of secrets, the nanny hides her own. West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant...
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Sons of Somerset volume 1
Publisher
Draft Horse Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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With his deceased father's woodworking business now failing, Edward Steele will do anything to see its return to prosperity, even if that means accepting work from the Coventry family far outside of Bath. His two goals? Finishing this new task swiftly and making as few acquaintances as possible. But such things are easier said than done, especially when the Coventry's daughter finds it necessary to spy on him at every turn. Marianne Coventry doesn't...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"Maxim Trevelyan, conde de Trevethick, ha seguido a la mujer que ama hasta lo más profundo de Albania. Ha luchado por ella y ha vencido, y ahora tiene que casarse... a punta de escopeta. Pero ¿puede un canalla reformado como Maxim convertirse de verdad en un buen marido o su mala reputación y los escandalosos secretos de su aristocrática familia destrozarán su recién lograda felicidad?Alessia Demachi ha desafiado y burlado a secuestradores y...
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"Reformed gangster Jack Robinson is working hard to bolster his image in Gilded Age New York City society as he prepares to become a new father. But when Hayden Norcross, the man who nearly ruined his wife, is shot in cold blood, Jack knows the police will soon come knocking on his door. Frank Malloy has to agree - things don't look good for Jack. But surely a man as unlikeable as Hayden had more than a few enemies. And it's soon clear that plenty...
16) Risky business
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Joel's wealthy suburban Chicago parents are going on vacation and leaving him in charge of the house. They trust their college-bound 17-year-old son but they shouldn't. Every kid's dream is every parent's nightmare. No sooner do Joel's parents step on the plane than he raids the liquor cabinet, has a joyride in Dad's Porsche, and has a night of passion with a young call girl named Lana.
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