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"Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancé. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she's on a plane to Ireland where she discovers that she's inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin's will contains a few caveats--for example, if Rayne doesn't turn McGrath Castle around within a year, the entire village will...
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Dr. Todd Thomas sees at least one side to his sister Katie's disastrous arrival in Victor City: she has finally met his best friend Murphy. However, their first encounter was more explosive than he ever could have expected. Murphy is looking forward to stepping down from his post as sheriff, and maybe even finding a wife and beginning a family. But first he must discover the truth of what happened during the stagecoach robbery that left three men...
26) Beauvallet
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A delightful Elizabethan romance in which notorious pirate Sir Nicholas Beauvallet takes the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Sylva as captive...and vows to win the heart of the Spanish beauty!
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Joining the Navy during the Napoleonic Wars is a chance for Frederick Wentworth to find glory and make his fortune. Never does he think that he will fall in love. But at a private ball while on shore leave in Somerset, he meets the graceful and intelligent Miss Anne Elliot - and his heart is lost. Sadly, their engagement meets resistance from Anne's godmother, and he returns to sea a bitter and broken man. -- from cover
28) Newport summer
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Years of familial excess have depleted the Camberly family coffers. With London creditors threatening certain doom, the Earl of Camberly launches a desperate venture into Newport society, hoping to trade his title for an American heiress' wealth. Audrey St. Clair knows what she wants, and its not an English Earl. Audrey dreams of pursuing music at a Viennese conservatory, But first she must thwart her parents' matchmaking efforts. When Audrey encounters...
29) The crying girl
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"Hazel Wilmot calls Amanda Vickers, her former student and the editor of Roaming New England Magazine, with a story idea about a haunted New Hampshire inn. Amanda is intrigued, but before she can get there Hazel dies suspiciously in a fall while exploring the abandoned inn. Amanda decides to investigate. Accompanied by her young associate editor, Marcie Ducasse, Amanda travels to Shadsborough, and discovers that neither Hazel's death nor the stories...
30) East wind, rain
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes this provocative, compelling novel of irrevocable consequences for people thrust unwittingly into a devastating war of nations and American identity-based on a little-known true event.
December 1941. The inhabitants of Niihau lead a simple life. Mostly Hawaiian natives, they work the ranch of Niihau's eccentric haole owner, who keeps his island totally isolated from the outside world,...
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"Living in a lighthouse with her dog, Lindsey Bakewell is lulled to sleep at night by the sound of Lake Michigan's waves--and gets up at the crack of dawn to start the day at her bakery café. But someone in Beacon Harbor is about to rock the boat with murder... After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival--including the pie-eating contest her bakery is...
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"He may be a Texas Ranger But he only has eyes for the outlaw's beautiful daughter... Texas Ranger Matt Taggert is on the trail of a wanted man. He has good reason to believe that Ellie-May's late husband was involved in a stagecoach robbery, and he's here to see justice done. But when he arrives in town, he discovers the thief has become a local hero...and his beautiful young widow isn't too happy to see some lawman out to tarnish her family's newly...
33) New beginnings
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Marjory is faced with some difficult decisions when her mother dies, and she must find a new destiny for herself and her family. With the help of Walter Wilkins, the young man assigned to drive their team, Marjory must find a courage equal to the task ahead of her and the strength to accept what may be the hardest thing of all-true love.
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Honey Butler has hit middle-age and writer's block at the same time. Off she heads to a Florida beach house to get her mojo back. Her journey to renewal takes her back to memories of Creola, the wise woman who helped raise her; at the same time Honey is befriended by an Aunti Mame-ish neighbor who turns out to have the same wise world view as Creola.
36) Lulu's Café
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"When a damaged young woman is given a chance to reclaim her life in a small South Carolina town, she must reckon with the dark secrets she left behind in order to accept the love she deserves. On the run from a violent past, Leah Allen arrived in tiny Rivertown, South Carolina, battered and broken, but ready to reinvent herself. By a stroke of fate, Leah is drawn to the Southern hospitality of a small café, looking for a warm meal but finding so...
37) Sprig muslin
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A dashing man of honor... En route to propose to his sensible acquaintance Lady Hester, Sir Gareth Ludlow finds young, pretty Amanda wandering unattended and knows it is his duty to bring her back to her family. This turns out to be a challenge as Amanda seems to possess an imagination as intriguing as it is dangerous. A shocking refusal... Lady Hester stuns both him and her family when she refuses him. At her age, no one would expect her to turn...
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For fans of The Birth of Venus, Girl with a Pearl Earring, and The Other Boleyn Girl, Amy Hassinger, author of Nina: Adolescence, delivers this historically lush, lyrical and thoroughly enthralling novel about the forbidden love between a woman and a holy man, and about the moral and spiritual struggles of faith. In 1896, the priest in a small village in southern France suddenly came into possession of immense wealth. This much is true. What no one...
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When her husband leaves her for a younger woman, Rose Franklin buys a camper and sets off-away from her heartache and anger. She finds herself spending a couple of days in Shady Grove, a camp site along the Mississippi River in West Memphis, Arkansas. While there, a respected and well-liked man in the community seems to commit suicide for no apparent reason. Could it somehow be connected to the ancient slave burial ground that he was researching?...