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1) Every breath
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Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
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The friends of the title are two beautifully realized characters, both idealists in their very different ways. Ted Mundy, the bighearted son of a pukka Indian Army officer, leads a life in which his inborn kindliness and lack of self-regard are turned to what he sees as good causes. With Sasha, the crippled son of an old Nazi who turns bitterly against that past only to be tormented by the rise of a new brutalism in East Germany, he forms a double-agent...
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"Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she's known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community's past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block -- her neighbor Theo....
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1907. After tragedy leaves its mark on Rebekah Hardin's family she plans to help her parents and six siblings honor her beloved brother's memory and alleviate their poverty by working as a guide in the dangerous cave system. Kentucky's renowned Mammoth Cave presents profitable opportunities in for hardworking, capable men, but Rebekah is determined to do the job-- even if it means disguising herself. Under the wing of experienced guide Tolly Sanford,...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
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English
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Miranda Trent's business, combining Appalachian adventure tours with art and a bit of moonshine, is the perfect place for an outdoor sporting goods company to hold an employee retreat. Miranda has lots of teamwork-fostering activities planned, but the executive running things prefers a more competitive spirit. In fact, after the workers are split into teams, they're told that only the winners will keep their jobs, and tensions begin to spike. Even...
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Desert roses volume 3
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Bethany House
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English
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As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves has been secretly asked to assist the law enforcement groups in finding the thief. When all evidence points in her direction, will the truth be revealed in time?
8) Move it!
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Red Chair Press
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English
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"Some people work at a job in an office. Some have a job in a factory or on a farm. A person's job can be any place. A job may require unusual skills and talents. Check out some of the jobs here and you may say "Wow! What a Job!" Maybe there is one just right for you. In this book, readers discover careers that keep us on the move through all kinds of transportation from Planes to Buses and Trains"--
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Kensington Books
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When Things Go Really South
No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson opens her own literary travel agency in Atlanta after her divorce. But during her first group's tour of an old plantation modeled after Tara from Gone with the Wind-complete with a full cast of actors-things go south really fast. The actor playing Clark Gable playing Rhett Butler is found dead, apparently the victim of a fatal dose of Southern in-hospitality. Before anyone...
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Dead Man Overboard!
Delilah Dickinson's literary travel agency is a hit! But the latest package tour, a leisurely steamboat trip down Huckleberry Finn's Mississippi, delivered one dead passenger. As it turns out, Ben Webster made a few enemies before he expired by trying to slug a roulette dealer. Delilah knows the steamship's no-nonsense head of security definitely is dirty and low-down and just plain old mean... But could he be a murderer? Pretty...
11) Pasta imperfect
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Pocket Books
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English
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The discount travel package to Italy seemed like a great deal: Emily Andrew could lead her globe-trotting Iowans on the trip of a lifetime and bring her family to boot. Maybe she should have read the fine print ... Sharing their itinerary with a group of hyper-competitive aspiring romance writers is just a prelude to more Machiavellian drama than an Italian opera. First, their hotel burns to the ground. Then, when Emily's lost luggage turns up found,...
15) Just kill me
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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English
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After taking a summer job with a Chicago ghost tour company, eighteen-year-old Megan is interrogated for murder, when the reports of "real" ghost sightings increase along with the number of missing tourists.
16) My life in ruins
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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English
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Georgia came to Greece to follow a man. Cast aside, she finds herself alone and adrift in this foreign land. Eventually, her passion for history leads her to a job as a tour guide. But Georgia is bored, and has lost her 'kefi' (Greek for mojo) to boot. Thankfully, Georgia's latest batch of tourists is a more lively bunch than she's anticipated, and in between bouts with rival tour guide Nico, she manages to form a genuine connection with wisecracking...
17) The clock
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Warner Home Video
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English
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A soldier on a two-day pass meets an office worker who agrees to show him New York City. They spend the day together and find themselves falling in love.
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Full screen and widescreen versions.
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Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the regid respectability of the town they live in.
Love in the afternoon: A middle-aged playboy, Frank Flannagan, who is smitten by Ariane, the daughter of a detective hired by a man who believes Frank is having an affair with his wife.
Mogambo: Victor Marswell, a safari guide who captures wild animals...
20) Love in bloom
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Four Petal Press
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English
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"Hating Cameron Hunter shouldn't be this easy. I'm basically a golden retriever puppy. I love everyone and want everyone to love me. But Cameron is the singular exception to my "love everyone" rule, and the hatred goes both ways. First of all, he's one of THOSE guys. The kind that looks like he belongs on the cover of Yacht Club Weekly. Second of all, he's way too good at his job. The man is a walking Wikipedia. His walking tours of historic downtown...
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