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22) Swimming lessons
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Toy Sooner, who has worked five years to become a strong single mother and a marine biologist at the South Carolina Aquarium, remembers her vow when Olivia Rutledge passed away; as Toy writes a report, her daughter points to a floating object in the sea, a sick sea turtle that needs help.
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With Christmas just around the corner, Thomas Pitt?s sister-in-law, Emily Radley, is suddenly called from London to be with her dying aunt. Leaving her husband and two children behind, Emily makes the long journey to an all-but-forgotten town in the county of Connemara, on the western coast of Ireland. She soon discovers that a tragic legacy haunts the once closeknit community. Violent storms ravage the coast and keep alive painful memories of an...
25) Deadly harvest
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While in Salem, Massachusetts, looking for his friend's wife, who mysteriously vanished, cop Jeremy Flynn is drawn into a murder investigation involving the infamous Harvest Man and teams up with a local occult expert who disagrees with his methods.
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A forty-year-old schoolteacher from Ohio still reeling from the tragedies of the Great War and the influenza epidemic comes into a modest inheritance that allows her to take the trip of a lifetime to Egypt and the Holy Land. Arriving at the Semiramis Hotel, site of the 1921 Cairo Peace Conference, she meets Winston Churchill, T. E. Lawrence, and Lady Gertrude Bell. With her plainspoken American opinions, she becomes a sounding board for these historic...
27) Foreign body
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A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
28) Foundation
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In this chronicle of the early history of Valdemar, Mercedes Lackey's bestselling world, a thirteen-year-old orphan named Magpie escapes a life of slavery in the gem mines when he is chosen by one of the magical Companion horses of Valdemar to be trained as a Herald. Thrust into the center of a legend in the making, Magpie discovers talents he never knew he had--and witnesses the founding of the great Heralds' Collegium.
29) Heart and soul
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A story of family, friends, patients, and staff who are part of a heart clinic in a community caught between the old and the new in Ireland.
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Nell's cowboy: A new visitor to Promise is raising eyebrows. Travis Grant, an "Easterner" with the audacity to write books about the West, is a guest at Nell Bishop's dude ranch. Nell's eyebrows, however, are being raised by Travis' sparkling personality and handsome face. Though she keeps telling herself that it's too soon to fall in love, Nell can't keep her heart quiet. It would seem that Travis can't keep quiet, either, as he seems intent on stirring...
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On a bright Saturday afternoon on the Washington Mall, the daughter of presidential candidate Robert Colgate's closest friend is kidnapped. The abduction rocks the nation's capital, but no one is prepared for the bombshell about to hit the city, an explosive development that erupts when Detectives Hall and Jackson uncover a shocking connection between the kidnapping and the murder of a Washington, D.C. call girl--and a killer whom no one will see...
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After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malory's young daughter is abducted from London's...
34) Oxygen
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A tangled malpractice suit in the wake of an operating room disaster shatters the career and carefully constructed identity of anesthesiologist Marie Heaton, who also struggles with her recently blind father's increasing dependence.
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Prison break trilogy volume 3
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A wanted fugitive must clear his name, reclaim his daughter's trust, and outrun the FBI--and a killer.
37) Remember me?
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When twenty-eight-year-old Lexi Smart wakes up in a London hospital, having survived a car accident, she has lost a big chunk of her memory--three years to be exact. And that's not all. Somehow Lexi went from a twenty-five-year-old working girl to a corporate big shot with a sleek new loft, a personal assistant, a carb-free diet, and a set of glamorous new friends. And who is this gorgeous husband--who also happens to be a multimillionaire?
38) Running hot
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Arcane Society novel volume 5
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Reluctantly paired for a murder investigation by the paranormal Arcane Society, former cop Luther Malone and aura-reading librarian Grace Renquist find their mutual disgust dissolving into a powerful attraction, during a case that is further complicated by operatives for a ruthless underground psychic group.
39) Santa clawed
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Mrs. Murphy mystery volume 17
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As Harry well knows, there?s hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. In fact, it?s this year?s tree that Harry and her husband, Fair, have gone to fetch when they find the one they?ve chosen grimly decorated with a dead body. The tree farm is run by The Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization that tends to AIDS patients. Harry is surprised to find an old high-school friend associated with The Brothers of Love....
40) Show no fear
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Nina Reilly novel volume Prequel
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Future intrepid lawyer Nina Reilly makes her way through law school by working as a paralegal, an endeavor that is challenged by an ex-boyfriend's custody battle, her mother's failing health, and a suspicious suicide.