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41) Oregon!
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Valor and devotion ride side by side with intrigue and bitter rivalry. Wagon master Whip Holt is desired by two women -- his wife, and Cathy van Ayl Blake, who is married to the supreme commander of the American forces in the Oregon Territory.
42) Sarah Bishop
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Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
43) Love's encore
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Camille Jameson has rebuilt her life as an interior decorator. Now, her greatest professional challenge brings her face-to-face with the man who brought her a lifetime of regrets.
44) Indemnity only
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Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is Chicago private eye V.I. Warshawski's specialty. Her client says he's the prominent banker, John Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone soon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, and he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she been set up and...
45) The lieutenants
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In 1943 Tunisia, Major Robert Bellmon, a tank commander, is captured by German enemies, in a harrowing American saga that views the terrifying and triumphant side of the war through the eyes of one man.
46) Nevada!
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Virginia City! Boom town on the wild Nevada frontier! Atop the silver-rich mountains of the Comstock Lode were the desperate dreamers, thousands of men and women lured by the glittering promise of limitless wealth. But as the bountiful mother lode is mined, the nation itself is being torn apart by a burning confrontation that threatens to destroy America for ever.
47) North and South
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A novel of two families during twenty turbulent, troubled years that culminate in the shattering Civil War.
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Ayla continues on her journey to find others like herself and also in search of love. Driven by her intelligence, curiosity and destiny she goes where the Clan would never have dared go and meets a hostile world of awesome mystery, glacial cold, terrifying beasts and intense loneliness where survival is a constant battle. This is where she rescues a young man named Jondalar, the first of the Others she has seen. Jondalar teaches her the meaning of...
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Anne McCaffrey draws the reader back in time to an earlier Pern to tell the story of one of Pern’s great and true heroines.
An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch.
Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen,...
An air of pleasant anticipation hung so thickly over the Halls, Holds and Weyrs of Pern that it had affected even the businesslike ways of Moreta, the Weyrwoman of Fort Weyr, where her dragon, Queen Orlith, would soon clutch.
Then without warning, a runnerbeast fell ill. Soon myriads of holders, craftsmen,...
50) Bittersweet rain
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After the death of her wealthy husband, a young widow must settle the estate with his son — the same man who once broke her heart. Caroline Dawson survived the town gossips who whispered behind her back. She survived the slow death of her husband, Roscoe Lancaster, the richest man in the county and her senior by three decades. But she feared she might not survive Rink Lancaster, her husband's son. Years before she married, when she and...
51) Darkfall
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They found four corpses in four days, each more hideous than the last. At first the cops thought they were dealing with a psychopath. Soon they heard eerie sounds in the ventilation system and saw unearthly silver eyes in the snow-slashed night.
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Barney Dwyer was a powerful and good-natured young cowpuncher. Unfortunately, his hands were so strong that he broke almost every farm tool he touched. Finally his hot-tempered ranch-owning boss, Dan Peary, lost his patience and fired him, paying Barney off with a mustang so wild that even professional horsebreakers couldn't ride it.
55) Flood
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Private investigator Burke has a new client--a woman named Flood, who is out to avenge a child's death. This case will take Burke straight into the face of danger.
56) Love only once
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"The exquisite niece of Lord Edward and Lady Charlotte Malory, Regina Ashton is outraged over her abduction by the arrogant, devilishly handsome Nicholas Eden?and is determined to make the rogue pay . . . with his heart. A golden-haired seducer, Nicholas has been hardened by a painful secret in his past. And now that he has besmirched Reggie's good name, the hot-tempered lady has vowed to wed him. Her fiery beauty stirs Nicholas as no woman ever has?and...
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No longer alone, Ayla leaves the Valley of Horses that has become her home. Travelling with her is Jondalar, the handsome young man she has nursed back to health and come to love. Together, they embark on a journey that will lad them to the Mamutoi: the Mammoth Hunters. But as she gradually settles into this new life amongst a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla finds herself irresistibly drawn to the magnetic Ranec, their master-carver....
58) The generals
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"They were the leaders, the men who made the decisions that changed the outcome of battles and the fate of continents. No they led America's finest against her most relentless enemy deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia."--Back cover.
59) Honor bound
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"My name is Lucas Greywolf." A raspy voice, as soft and sandy as the wind that blew across the desert, spoke directly into her ear. It was a gentle sound, but Aislinn wasn't deceived. Like the winds it reminded her of, it could be whipped into a fury. . .Aislinn Andrews knows his name because his escape from prison has prompted a statewide manhunt. As lean and menacing as a panther, the fugitive invades her house, her bed, and then takes her as his...
60) Live flesh
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As their worlds collide, an ex-con and his victim struggle to make sense of their violent past and forge a new future When Victor Jenner emerges from prison he finds himself inexorably drawn to the man who put him there-the policeman he'd shot a bullet through and paralyzed for life. But it seems that David Fleetwood isn't the sort to hold a grudge, and neither is his ravishing girlfriend, Clare. But can an ex-con like Victor create a new life,...
