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1) La dérive
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À la croisée des chemins volume tome 1
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Connor Fitzgerald et son épouse Ophélie Vaillancourt vivent un quotidien de misère avec leurs treize enfants. Le salaire de mécanicien pour le Canadien Pacifique de Connor ne suffisant pas à nourrir sa famille, les enfants sont contraints de contribuer très jeunes à la subsistance et aux tâches de la maisonnée, quitte à s'exiler.
C'est ainsi que Marjolaine, l'aînée, se retrouve séparée de son jumeau Henry pour la toute première fois....
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Powder River novel volume 1
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Grudges run deep between two ranch families. And so do secrets…
There's no avoiding anyone in Powder River's small community-not even a bitter rival. For years, Cooper McKenna has been thrown together with Tilly Stafford, competing against her at summer rodeos. With all the bad blood between their families, he never imagined they'd be forced to work together. Then Tilly's younger sister is shot, and Cooper comes under suspicion.
Determined...
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It's the wedding of the season, and all of Newport is abuzz...
Despite its beauty, Newport is a place Cass Coventry would prefer to forget. But after a long absence, she's back in her hometown to celebrate her sister's engagement-even if she's marrying into the family that stole the Gilded Age Coventry mansion out from under them a decade ago.
The moment Cass pulls up to the estate, she's in for one surprise after another. The bride-to-be is hiding...
7) Charles
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La biscuiterie Saint-Claude volume tome 2
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Direction Laval, une banlieue pleine de promesses o une mère déterminée s'échine à redonner un sens à sa vie.
Charles, le frère de Gabrielle, habite toujours avec leur mère, à Laval-des-Rapides. Vieux garçon, la quarantaine bien entamée, le comptable se découvre de belles affinités avec Carole Thibault, la meilleure amie de sa sœur. Pendant que le couple apprivoise ces balbutiements amoureux, Gabrielle, elle, s'interroge sur un éventuel...
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Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.
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"High-powered businesswoman Lana Rubicon has a lot to be proud of: her keen intelligence, impeccable taste, and the L.A. real estate empire she's built. But when she finds herself trapped 300 miles north of the city, convalescing in a sleepy coastal town with her adult daughter Beth and teenage granddaughter Jack, Lana is stuck counting otters instead of square footage--and hoping that boredom won't kill her before the cancer does. Then Jack--tiny...
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Forced to come back home and reunite with her remaining siblings, July Weaver, whose testimony nine years earlier put her father--the Pacific Lake Killer--away for the murder of her sister and other girls, uncovers new evidence that makes her question everything, including if she blamed the wrong person.
13) Never back down
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Hunting the one man who puts fear into her heart-and who could destroy everything she loves-Susannah Faulkner, who has lived a dangerous and violent life, journeys across the U.S., contending with both new and old friends and foes, to take down her evil equal.
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Moonglow Cove volume 4
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When Samantha said "I do" to Luca Ginelli, she knew she'd found a reliable soulmate--a strong, sexy man who'd stand beside her through thick and thin. And so she'd started her wedding day filled with joyful expectation, only to have her dreams shattered when the man she married years before shocking, unexpectedly, reappears, insisting she was still his wife! Seven years before, Luca's brother, Nick, had stubbornly set off in a sailing adventure, ignoring...
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Esther Wilding's search for explanations after the death of her sister, Aura, takes her from Tasmania to Denmark and on to the Faroe Islands, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven cryptic fairytales about selkies, swans and women, alongside verses Aura had secretly had tattooed on her body.
16) Touched: a novel
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."--
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One hundred years after her family was transformed by greed during the Klondike Gold Rush, Anna Bush grapples with moral conflict and questions of justice as she travels to the Klondike to bequeath her would-be inheritance to the First Nations peoples who paid the price for its creation.
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One day a con man met an heiress, wooed her, married her, had two kids ... and kept on conning. Jillian Moorewood is the oldest child from that meet-cute-gone-wrong marriage. The stable one. The sensible and dependable one. The one who protects and fixes. The one who went to prison to save their sorry butts. Now, thirty-nine months later, she's out and she's more than a little pissed. Finally home she finds the scheming clan in full family fleecing...
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In 'What Happens on Vacation', workplace enemies Margaret and Jagger win a vacation, which they each bring their widowed parents to. When their parents fall in love, they go from co-workers who dislike each other (but also accidentally had sex one night) to step siblings who dislike each other (but also accidentally had sex one night!). But maybe they dont dislike each other as much as they initially thought they did?
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