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Lady Allegra Nesbitt, an iconoclast, is appalled when her father, Oxie, tells her they're going to London to find her a husband, then, when they arrive, they're shunned. Five years earlier when her father inherited the title of earl, her parents went to London to take their place amongst the ton, but Regency society was contemptuous of Oxie's elaborate jokes and her mother's country manners. Now no one welcomes them except their neighbor, Armand Gauthier,...
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Politics meets passion in this MacGregors novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts.
Alan MacGregor knows what he wants—and it's spirited shop owner Shelby Campbell. But Shelby has her reasons for keeping the dashing senator at arm's length, including the centuries-old feud between their families...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
Alan MacGregor knows what he wants—and it's spirited shop owner Shelby Campbell. But Shelby has her reasons for keeping the dashing senator at arm's length, including the centuries-old feud between their families...
A NORA ROBERTS CLASSIC AVAILABLE DIGITALLY FOR THE FIRST TIME
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Project Gutenberg
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Tomorrow I shall leave by the Messina boat, which calls at Paola. It is now more than a twelvemonth since I began to think of Paola, and an image of the place has grown in my mind. I picture a little marina; a yellowish little town just above; and behind, rising grandly, the long range of mountains which guard the shore of Calabria. Paola has no special interest that I know of, but it is the nearest point on the coast to Cosenza, which has interest...
5) Fox Crossing
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A Fox Crossing Maine Novel volume 1
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Center Point Large Print
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English
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Crossing paths with a black cat is said to bring bad luck.
But crossing paths with The Fox is a whole other story . . .
SOME SAY THE FOX IS GOOD LUCK
In the mountain village of Fox Crossing, Maine, everyone knows the story of The Fox. According to local legend, one of the town's founders crossed paths with a curious-looking fox with a distinctive white ear and paw. The unusual fox sighting not only inspired the town's name, it sparked a fantastical...
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Thorndike Press
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(large print) ;
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At the age of fourteen, Jessica Kellerman was wildly infatuated with Evan Dryden. But that was just a teenage crush and now, almost ten years later, she's in love--truly in love--with his older brother, Damian. But everyone, including Damian, believes she's carrying a torch for Evan!
7) Love bites
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Argeneau volume 2
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Love Spell
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English
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After Rachel Garrett, a gorgeous coroner, saves his life, vampire Etienne Argeneau returns the favor by giving her the gift of immortality and his eternal love.
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Viz Media
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Shojo Beat ed.
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"Resolving to focus on his girlfriend, Mayuka, during her time of need, Ren buries his growing feelings for Ninako. Meanwhile, Ninako sees a different side of Ando when they run into his ex-girlfriend. What happened to Ando in the past, and how was Ren involved?"--Provided by publisher.
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Viz Media
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Shojo Beat ed.
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"Ren opens up to Ninako, and her feelings for him escalate to the point where she wants to risk everything to become his girlfriend. But when she realizes that doing so might jeopardize Ren's friendship with Ando, will she go through with it?"--
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VIZ Media
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Shojo Beat ed.
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"Ninako's feelings for Ren continue to stir, especially since he seems to be sending her mixed messages. One minute he's avoiding her and the next minute he's holding her to hide her away from Ando! Could seeing Ando's interest in Ninako be causing some subtle changes inside Ren?"--Provided by publisher.
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Viz Media
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"Once Ninako realizes that she's fallen for Ren, she confesses her feelings to him even though she knows he has a girlfriend! Meanwhile, a new semester brings an outgoing guy called Ando into Ninako's life--is Ando just an outrageous flirt or will he turn out to be Ninako's savior?"--Provided by publisher.
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St. Martin's Press
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First Edition.
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Follows the experiences of a wounded World War II soldier who falls in love with a mysterious Danish woman during his convalescence in London before realizing that she may not be who she claims to be.SOMETHING TO REMEMBER YOU BY, begins on Christmas, 1944. In a foxhole in Bastogne, Belgium, the innocent yet charmingly clever protagonist, Corporal Tom Cole, is injured. Wilder moves the action to a romantic wartime London with dimly lit blackout-compliant...
13) Creative Unity
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Project Gutenberg
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Civility is beauty of behavior. It requires for its perfection patience, self-control, and an environment of leisure. For genuine courtesy is a creation, like pictures, like music. It is a harmonious blending of voice, gesture and movement, words and action, in which generosity of conduct is expressed. It reveals the man himself and has no ulterior purpose. Our needs are always in a hurry. They rush and hustle, they are rude and unceremonious; they...
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Project Gutenberg
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First published in 1903, "The Kempton-Wace Letters" is a novel co-written by Jack London and Anna Strunsky. Published anonymously, it constitutes a profound discourse on the philosophy of love and sex, presented as a series of letters between a young scientist and an elderly poet.
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Project Gutenberg
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Barry Craven is an adventurous but troubled Englishman who, after suffering a tragic loss, suddenly becomes guardian to a young woman whom he eventually marries. The Shadow of the East is a tumultuous story driven by one man's shame and need for redemption.
A wealthy Englishman, Barry Craven, has unexpectedly followed in his father's footsteps. Despite their strained relationship, their personal lives have become intertwined. This leads to a shocking...
16) After the Storm
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Project Gutenberg
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After the Storm was written by the very popular nineteenth-century American author who articulated and disseminated the values, beliefs, and habits of middle-class life in pre-Civil War America. T.S. Arthur (June 6, 1809 — March 6, 1885) was a popular 19th-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854), which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. He was...
17) Fool for love
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Duchess quartet volume 2
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Beeler Large Print
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English
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The Woman
Lady Henrietta Maclellan longs for the romantic swirl of a London season. But as a rusticating country maiden, she has always kept her sensuous nature firmly under wraps -- until she meets Simon Darby. Simon makes her want to whisper promises late at night, exchange kisses on a balcony, receive illicit love notes. So Henrietta lets her imagination soar and writes...
The Letter
A very steamy love letter that becomes shockingly public....
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Center Point Large Print
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"USA Today bestselling author Andrea Penrose's atmospheric mystery series sends newlywed sleuths, Lady Charlotte and the Earl of Wrexford, beyond the glittering ballrooms and salons of Regency London and through a web of international intrigue to save loved ones from harm...Charlotte, now the Countess of Wrexford, would like nothing more than a summer of peace and quiet with her new husband and their unconventional family and friends. Still, some...
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California Newsreel
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This documentary sheds valuable light on all aspects of Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, including the daunting challenge of securing investment and a venue for this production about a working class Black family, the casting process, artistic debates and finally its public reception. The film features interviews with the play's original cast members, Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Louis Gossett, Jr. and Glynn Turman, director Lloyd Richards,...
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Harlequin Books
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Friendship? Melissa Stone has done a fine job of avoiding her former best friend Cooper Ford. She was devastated when she discovered her husband was cheating on her, and felt doubly betrayed that Cooper had known all along ... Forgiveness But she can't ignore him forever- especially now that they're working together on a charity project! And as she and Cooper get closer again, she confides in him her plans to start a family- alone. Fatherhood! Cooper...
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