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21) A Midnight Clear
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Christmas Eve, 1814 . . .When heavy snow forces Russian Princess Tatiana Denisova to abandon her journey to London, the only establishment with room to spare is the scandalously improper Klaus Haus, Canterbury's most infamous brothel. What would her brother-not to mention his irritatingly attractive best friend, Aleksandr Orlov-say?Tatiana hasn't seen either man since they returned from the war, so when Aleks arrives to escort her home, she doesn't...
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Nick Evangelista and his wife, Kristen, co-founded Pearland School of Music, where 600 students take music lessons each week. Nick started by teaching group piano classes 12 years ago. His love for group instruction led him to create a group piano course which has also helped other teachers conduct fun and focused piano classes. Nick's recent interest has been how AI can augment private and group music education to improve student engagement while...
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"When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summer of 1967, the unlikely pair become fast friends, working alongside one another in a record store and spending every spare moment together. But after an unspeakable incident on one devastating August night, they don't see one another for ten years...until Margot suddenly reappears in Thea's life, begging for help and harboring more than one dangerous...
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No matter what your style—traditional, contemporary, farmhouse—we have the inspiration you need to make your kitchen beautiful and functional. Plus, gain even more style points by taming drawer and cabinet clutter with our handy tips and tricks. Finally, dreaming of a place to organize all your kitchen staples? Even if all you have is an empty wall, a spare cabinet, or an extra shelf, you can carve out space for a hardworking pantry. Transform
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Experience the adventures of the author's life as seen through the eyes of his loyal dog. This memoir shines its torch beam on the bond between man and dog. Martin the dog is Healy's saviour from drink and violence. Filled with warmth and affection, his spare compelling writing shows how a dog can really be a man's best. Prose, sparse and powerful combined with his brutal honestly reveals many of his flaws. So authentic that you forget Healy is the...
26) Viper
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They call me the villain. The screw up. The rock cliche that broke up the band. My nights are whiskey, women, repeat. My days are tabloid headlines. I'm on a crash course to nowhere. Now my best friend's little sister is standing on my doorstep, begging for my spare bed and my secrecy. But the Hannah staring back at me is far from the little girl I remember. She's got ghosts.I've got demons. We both know her big sister's the reason I'm sitting at...
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How can a knight fight magic?
Christopher Fredrico loved the quiet life of a scholar-in-training. Plenty of spare time to spend with his friends. But the night Crown Prince Tyler came to dinner, everything changed.
Falsely accused of stealing a magical artifact and banished under threat of death, Chris leaves the only home he knows.
But as he and his three friends travel towards the coast, they find a riddle that may save a kingdom --- or cost them...
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What do you get when you have an IQ that is off the charts, the inability to let go of someone you love and a lot of spare parts? The man of your dreams, of course. Dr. Aeron Braxton is on the verge of unveiling her newest creation--a droid who can pass as either human or Vanos.An alien race took the man she loved away from her, but her revenge is at hand. Aeron has rebuilt Brad into a living, breathing killing machine she hopes will save the outer...
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Venture capitalist Vlad Snezhinsky excels at two things: making money and being a dad. Still struggling through a bitter divorce, he has zero interest in starting a new relationship. That is, until he meets Klara Lazarev. Klara doesn't have time for romance. She's too busy forging her own path in life: scrambling to finish her senior thesis, applying to grad school, writing innovative software in her spare time. Besides, she's been burned before....
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From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the...
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Frank tends the garbage heap in the monster realm, just on the other side of the human world. In his spare time, he builds inventions out of garbage scraps. One of his inventions is of a human-inspired robot, with a stained T-shirt as the body. But Frank can't seem to get the robot to work. One strange night, a bolt of lightning transforms the invention into a real human child! Frank names him "Stain." Curious and energetic, Stain wreaks havoc on...
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These stories offer myriad view of ourselves. Men, women, children, teens, adults, oldsters, each with a certain self to face down. From a neo-noir gumshoe to the vast empties of a lost child, a dropped wallet to the end of our universe, Wilderness of Mirrors seeks to mix it up. Of course nobody ever really shakes their own approach, not that they shouldn't try. What you won't find are stories of cruelty. That being said life in time spares nobody;...
33) Drew
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Let me ask you a question. Have you met your soulmate? I did, then promptly lost her. Because what happens in Vegas stays there, right?
Wrong.
I'd never been the relationship type, but I've spent every spare second of the past twelve months wondering what if. What if I hadn't slept through my alarm? What if I hadn't lost her number? What if I'd known her name?
But I came up blank. That was until I found her. Emerson Reeves. My forever. Giving me...
34) Blind Ambition
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This New York Times bestseller is an insider's account of the fall of Richard Nixon and has remained an indispensable source into Nixon's presidency. Blind Ambition is an autobiographical account of a young lawyer who accelerated to the top of the Federal power structure to become Counsel to the President at thirty years of age, only to discover that when reaching the top he had touched the bottom. Most striking in this chronicle is its honesty....
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Enjoy a collection of 3 witty, emotional, feel-good historical romances from New York Times bestselling author Erica Ridley:ONE NIGHT FOR SEDUCTIONWhen a duke attempts to marry off a timid wallflower, he never suspects she's living a double life... or that his career-and heart-will soon be in danger!ONE NIGHT OF PASSIONThe one obstacle between an adventuress and her chance for independence is a stubborn, sexy suitor whose passionate embrace voids...
36) Luvya Getcha
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Jazzy Beckett touches a skeletal hand that is sticking out of a riverbank…and all at once, she is lost to the owner of that hand, a girl named Carolyn Crossley, also known as CC.CC was murdered back in the 60's by a man named Max Trumain. Now it is up to Jazzy's husband Richard to find Max Trumain. But if Richard fails, then Jazzy will die. No ifs, no buts. CC will drown Jazzy in the river. Jazzy who is pregnant, if only just, and expecting the...
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When second chances are sprinkled with magic…Madeleine's had her wings clipped. She's been demoted from general fairy godmothering to patching up mortals' love lives. After scoring two happily-ever-afters, she's hopeful her sentence might be reduced. But then she gets some bad news.Sam's had a mad crush on Maddie since they were kids. Too bad he had to report her for failure to perform her professional fairy godmothering duties. Any hope he had...
38) Spirit Breather
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America was still a young nation experiencing growing pains. As more white people migrated into the Colorado Territory, forcibly displacing its original tenants, the inevitable result was tension.This is the story of three men who would leave their mark on this American frontier: Emerson Granger, a peaceful man born in an isolated homestead on the Colorado front range, during an episode of horrific violence; abolitionist Silas Soule, who came west...
39) The Three Ages
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A brilliant historical satire teeming with inventive flourishes, Buster Keaton's THREE AGES is a silent comedy of truly epic proportions. This clever parody of D. W. Griffith's INTOLERANCE follows Buster's hard-luck romantic adventures throughout world history: form the dawn of man in the Stone Age, through the gladiatorial arenas of Ancient Rome, to the city streets of the American Jazz Era. By flavoring the ancient stories with bits of modern comedy...
40) The Polar Terror
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Kaddy Chaak's career is in jeopardy, her social life is non-existent, and instead of spending the holidays at home with everyone she loves, she's in the hospital with her chronically-ill, probably-dying nephew Everett, wondering if her dead sister could have fixed this. The one bright note in an otherwise bleak winter is a potential visit from the Polar Terror, the only super villain north of the 66th parallel, to make little Everett's hospital wish...
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