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9121) Meet Me in Venice
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Four mysterious words prompt antiques dealer Precious Rafferty to embark on a quest across Europe to uncover their meaning. Preshy, at age thirty-eight, loves her American-in-Paris life, but thinks that she'll never be swept off her feet-until she meets Bennett James. As their whirlwind courtship progresses, though, she realizes that there is much about his business life in Shanghai she doesn't know. Then she receives an urgent message from Lily Song,...
9122) Deed to Death
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National best-selling author D.B. Henson's Deed to Death is a riveting tale of one young woman who loses everything in a heartbeat. Toni Matthews suffers cruelly when her fiancé Scott falls to his death at a construction site just days before their wedding. Living alone in their custom-built home, Toni is shocked when police rule Scott's death a suicide. Toni knows Scott would never have given up on life, and she's determined to somehow prove her...
9123) Sleepwalker
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Ten years after the catastrophe, a great fallen city has risen again. Ten years after, a horror begins anew ... or never truly ended. The nightmare of 9/11 is a distant but still painful memory for Allison Taylor MacKenna-now married to Mack and living in a quiet Westchester suburb. She has moved on with her life ten years after barely escaping death at the hands of New York's Nightwatcher serial killer. The monster is dead, having recently committed...
9124) But Not For Love
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Texas tradition volume no. 29
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Fort Worth lawyer Ben Carpenter is facing an almost unwinnable case against a powerful Dallas businessman. It could shatter Ben's career. When his friends throw him a riotous 30th birthday party, at first Ben is depressed. But someone suggests they go to the Cinco de Mayo festival in Mexico. Now armed with booze and litle green pills, the party sets off for the border. What Ben doesn't know is that he is heading straight for a strange confrontation--with...
9125) Rust & Stardust: A Novel
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Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her captor, whose story shocked the nation and inspired Vladimir Nabokov to write his controversial and iconic Lolita, Rust & Stardust is a heart-pounding audiobook by award-winning author T. Greenwood, who at last gives a voice to Sally herself.
Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she has no way of knowing that 52 year-old...
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Renowned voice actor Jim Weiss presents Dickens' beloved story of miserly Scrooge, ghostly visitors, and human compassion. The O. Henry and Bret Harte masterpieces also included here will make holiday literature year-round favorites on this masterful recording. Includes three stories: A Christmas Carol, The Gift of the Magi, and Dick Spindler's Family Christmas
9127) The Real Thing
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Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he's hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he's confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry's search for the “the real thing” in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort...
9128) Honeydew: stories
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Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor. Her latest work, gathered in this stunning collection of twenty new stories, is an occasion for celebration.
Pearlman writes with warmth...
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This fresh account of Massachusetts's infamous Bulger brothers unveils a stunning criminal alliance, and with its dual biography format, goes deeper than the New York Times bestselling Black Mass. For the first time, journalist Howie Carr reveals the real story behind the infamous Bulgers-two brothers from South Boston who grew up to control a state. With political corruption on one side and deadly force on the other, the Bulgers shared a diabolic...
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Grammy Winner: Best Spoken Word Album for Children
In addition to her acclaimed performances on film- including her Academy Award-winning role in Roman Holiday- Audrey Hepburn was also a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF, an organization dedicated to the lives of children. As one of her final projects for young listeners, Hepburn left the world a treasure of exquisitely told fairy tales. This recording features Mary Sheldon's...
9131) A perfect view
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"While camping, Cici finds out that she experiences nature differently as a fairy, which turns all her plans upside-down"--
9132) Rock Bottom: A Novel
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Ten years ago, a pregnant seventeen-year-old, Angela Joy Palladino, fled her hometown, Scotia, West Virginia, as a pariah. Over time, AJ succeeded in establishing herself as an environmental activist, dubbed "The People's Champion," only to be forced to retreat from the spotlight in the wake of a crushing media disaster.When AJ is offered a job with a lawyer who is crusading against mountaintop removal mining, she is torn. As a single mother of a...
9133) Off season
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#1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Summer and Mrs. Everything channels Shirley Jackson and Stephen King to bring us a chilling tale of an author willing to do anything to revitalize her career.
Sarah Vernon has spent twenty years trying to make it as a novelist…and she’s never even come close. None of her novels has sold more than five thousand copies, and she’s never earned enough money to make fiction her full-time job. After her...
9134) Legacy of a Lawman
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For thirteen years he was sided by Dave Adams, also a deputy marshal, and a white man. Bennie Reeves was Bass Reeves' son and a barber, a good one before he shot down his unarmed wife who had been cheating on him and then disappeared. U.S. Marshal Leo E. Bennett, known as Doc because he had been a physician before his appointment in federal law enforcement, had reservations about handing the warrant to Bass Reeves to be served against Bennie. For...
9135) Fireborn
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Souls of fire volume 1
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From New York Times bestselling author Keri Arthur comes a brand new series featuring heroine Emberly Pearson-- a phoenix capable of taking on human form, and cursed with the ability to foresee death Emberly has spent a good number of her many lives trying to save humans. So when her prophetic dreams reveal the death of Sam, a man she once loved, she does everything in her power to prevent that from happening. But in saving his life, she gets more...
9136) Montauk
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An epic and cinematic debut from Nicola Harrison, Montauk captures the glamour and extravagance of a summer by the sea with the story of a woman torn between the life she chose and the life she desires.
Montauk, Long Island, 1938. For three months, this humble fishing village will serve as the playground for New York City's wealthy elite. Beatrice Bordeaux was looking forward to a summer of reigniting the passion between her and her husband, Harry....
9137) The battle for Wondla
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Eva Nine is at her bravest in the final book in the New York Times bestselling trilogy from the fantastical mind of Tony DiTerlizzi. All hope for a peaceful coexistence between humankind and aliens seems lost in the third installment of the WondLa trilogy. Eva Nine has gone into hiding for fear of luring the wicked Loroc to her companions. However, news of the city Solas being captured by the human leader, Cadmus Pryde, forces Eva into action once...
9138) Once in a Blue Moon
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Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls' mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care. Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore...
9139) Lieberman's Folly
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Detectives Abe Lieberman and Bill Hanrahan have been partners a long time-long enough to call each other "Rabbi" and "Father Murphy." Lieberman is sixty, a grandfather, and a devout Jew. Hanrahan is a lapsed Catholic who's been hitting the bottle pretty heavily ever since his wife walked out on him. They may be flawed, but they're good cops. But even good cops have bad days.
On a hot Chicago afternoon, Lieberman would prefer to be watching his beloved...
9140) Bitter Harvest
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Megan Sawyer should be shouting from the barn roof. Washington Acres survived its first year, the cafe has become a hot spot for locals, and Winsome's sexy Scottish veterinarian is making house calls-and not just for the animals! But as summer slips into fall and Winsome prepares for its grand Oktoberfest celebration, beer isn't the only thing brewing. When the town pub's owner is killed in a freak accident, Megan suspects something sinister...
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