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Valentine and Proteus are devoted comrades ― until they travel to Milan and meet Silvia, the Duke's ravishing daughter. Torn between the bonds of friendship and the lure of romance, the two gentlemen are further bedeviled by Proteus's prior commitment to Julia, his hometown sweetheart, and the Duke's disdain for Valentine. Thus the stage is set for a comic spree involving a daring escape into a forest, capture by outlaws, and the antics of a clown...
2) Ruled
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Outlaws novels (Elle Kennedy) volume 3
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Reese must choose between the two men who want to claim her... or does she?
3) The wives
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Imagine that your husband has two other wives. None of you know each other, and due to this unconventional arrangement, you can only see him once a week. But you love him so much you don't care. Then, one day, you find a note with the name Hannah on it. Unable to help yourself, you track her down, and, under false pretenses, strike up a friendship. When Hannah shows up to your coffee dates with bruises, you realize she's being abused by her husband--who,...
4) Born to love
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Night riders volume 3
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Honor demands she can never be his . . . Weary of war and the endless cycle of vengeance, former Night Rider Holt Price returns to Galveston, Texas to reconnect with the woman he once promised to marry. He's content to live a quiet, loveless life . . . until he meets the doctor's brown-eyed daughter, and his whole world changes in an instant. Felicity Moore is everything Holt never realized he needed. Kind and compassionate yet beautifully fierce,...
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The Age of Innocence is a 1920 novel by American author Edith Wharton. It was her eighth novel, and was initially serialized in 1920 in four parts, in the magazine Pictorial Review. Later that year, it was released as a book by D. Appleton & Company.
It won the 1921 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making Wharton the first woman to win the prize. Though the committee had initially agreed to give the award to Sinclair Lewis for Main Street, the judges,...
6) Hidden
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When Jeff Manning is struck and killed in a car accident walking home the two women in his life are devastated: his wife, Claire and his co-worker, Trish. Both have to learn to deal with their grief in different ways.
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The final novel by Charles Dickens, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", was unfinished at the time of his death in 1870. The novel revolves around John Jasper, choirmaster and opium addict, who is the guardian of his orphaned nephew Edwin Drood. Before the death of his parents, Edwin was promised to marry Rosa Bud, another orphan, but their affections have cooled upon reaching adulthood. Rosa has also attracted the affections of Jasper, her teacher, as...
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The Professor (1857) is English writer Charlotte Brontë's first novel. Rejected by several publishing houses, Brontë shelved the novel in order to write her masterpiece Jane Eyre (1847). After her death, The Professor was edited by Brontë's widower, Arthur Bell Nichols, who saw that the novel was published posthumously. Based on Brontë's experience as a student and teacher in Brussels-which similarly inspired her novel Villette-The Professor is...
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Max Brand wrote hundreds of stories, books, films, and TV shows. His output was so voluminous that though he died in WWII, posthumous books have been published approximately every four months since. This book collects three stories from his early work in Western pulps.
"Señor Coyote" was first published under Frederick Faust's pen name John Frederick in two installments in Argosy (6/18/38 - 6/25/38). It was the last Western short novel Faust wrote....
10) One in three
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Both of them loved him. One of them killed him...Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The 'other woman' is now his wife — but Louise isn't ready to let Caz enjoy the life that was once hers, or to let go of the man she still loves. As Louise starts to dig into Caz's past, the two women's pretense of civility starts to slip. But in trying to undermine each other, they discover more about...
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Jasmine Pritchett needs a job. A pathway to financial independence. When Transform, the local gym, initiates an expansion to offer fitness classes, she sees her opportunity. Armed with several instructor certifications and even more persistence, she finds herself interviewing for the job in front of two of the sexiest men she's ever laid eyes on.
Maddox Gibson craves control. He's been trying to regain his zest for life since being discharged from...
12) Longing
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In nineteenth century South Wales, Siân Jones, the illegitimate daughter of an English lord, takes a job as a governess under mine owner Alexander Hyatt and finds herself unexpectedly torn between him and the man she is engaged to marry--the leader of a revolutionary movement against English mine owners.
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"Raven loves the night life, chasing women and her next high. Men and women fall under her spell at first sight, but she only has eyes for women. She has a little secret that could cause catastrophic results for her anyone who encounters her, and it could potentially lead her into a sticky situation. Valencia longs to be loved. Going home to an empty bed every night is starting to wear thin, until she meets Wanya 'Kidd' Brown. Unfortunately, they...
15) The real thing
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Every girl's got one - that old boyfriend they never quite fell out of love with . . .
Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband ogles the nanny more than she should allow. And keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time occupation. But she's settled and happy. No seven-year itch for Tessa.
Except at the back of her mind is Patrick Cameron. Gorgeous, moody, rebellious,...
16) Anna Karenina
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Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and adultery set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures...
17) Ocean state
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"In the first line of Ocean State, we learn that a high school student was murdered, and we find out who did it. The story that unfolds from there with incredible momentum is thus one of the build-up to and fall-out from the murder, told through the alternating perspectives of the four women at its heart. Angel, the murderer, Carol, her mother, and Birdy, the victim, all come alive on the page as they converge in a climax both tragic and inevitable....
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Meriel Schellden knows that marrying Craig McTiernay will strengthen the ties between their clans. When a mere formality becomes a kiss far from platonic, Meriel must questions her true intentions. Craig finds duty can not make him forget how Meriel's touch made him feel, and when a surprising rival comes forward for her attentions he needs to decide if he should listen to his heart.
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"Natty and Sean Wainwright are happily married. Rock solid, in fact. So when Natty's oldest friend, Eve Dalladay, appears--just as their daughter collapses on a school trip in France--Natty has no qualms about leaving Eve with Sean to help out at home while she flies to France to see her daughter. When Natty returns two weeks later, Eve has slotted into family life a little too well. Natty's husband has fallen in love with her friend. Sean's sorry,...
20) Marrying Jonah
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Wells Landing volume 6
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Life isn't always as simple as it seems for the Amish community of Wells Landing, Oklahoma. Neither is love...
Everyone in town knows that Sarah Yoder is enamored with Jonah Miller, even though he's been with his girlfriend, Lorie, for years. But all that changes when Lorie runs off with another man. Inconsolable, his faith in love shattered, Jonah resists everyone's attempts to ease his pain-until the unexpected happens one night.
Jonah is filled...
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