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Language of love volume 5
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English
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A holiday romance about a wealthy businessman who retreats to a rural area to get away from women. However, his gracious, persistent--and beautiful--neighbor has something he just cannot ignore. Together, they discover that love is the greatest Christmas gift of all.
Author
Series
Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
Author
Series
Class of their own romances volume 1
Language
English
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"In 1882, Miss Harriet Peabody is a shop girl with high hopes in New York City, but her love of fashion isn't enough to smooth her launch into fashionable society on the arm of businessman Mr. Oliver Addleshaw, especially in light of their unusual arrangement"--
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Tom Popper, a successful businessman who's clueless when it comes to the really important things in life, until he inherits six 'adorable' penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom's rambunctious roommates turn his swank New York apartment into a snowy winter wonderland, and the rest of his world upside-down. Adapted from the award-winning classic children's book, Mr. Popper's Penguins is a cool blast of fun for all ages.
5) Elon Musk
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era--a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter"--
As a kid in South Africa, Musk was regularly beaten by bullies; he once was in the hospital for a week after...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a chance at meaningful work away from his status-obsessed wife, New York executive Charlie visits West Virginia to oversee a mining project and finds a friendship with Natty, who longs to escape her own unfulfilling existence.
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Language
English
Description
"An injured ex-athlete discovers that giving up on the game of life is not an option... As far as former NFL star Jake Masters is concerned, dreams are risky propositions. Years ago he came achingly close to achieving his ambition of playing in the Super Bowl--before a spinal injury ended his career. Confined to a wheelchair, unwilling to take a chance on another risky surgery that could restore his mobility, Jake now stays cocooned behind the imposing...
Author
Series
Swift River Valley novels volume 8
Language
English
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"Felicity MacGregor loves organizing social events for others, but her own personal life is a different story. After a brief but failed attempt at a career as a financial analyst, she returned to Knights Bridge, where she enjoys running a thriving party-planning business. Then Felicity's life gets a shake-up when her childhood friend Gabriel Flanagan returns unexpectedly to their tiny hometown. Now a high-flying businessman, Gabe always vowed to get...
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When he and Melanie Hart are mistaken for a couple, tycoon Richard Carlton convinces her to pretend they are engaged to bolster his reputation and teach his matchmaking aunt a lesson, but his plan backfires when he falls in love with her.
Author
Language
English
Description
After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phone's owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations. I 've lost it. The only thing in the world I wasn't supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnus's family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents...
11) The predators
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Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Harold Robbins's historical novel of the twentieth century, The Predators, is the defining work of the author's spectacular career.
The Predators combines in one novel the finest attributes of A Stone for Danny Fisher and The Carpetbaggers. It will take you on a wild odyssey through the gaudy and reckless life of Jerry Cooper-his struggles to survive in Depression-era New York, his years in Europe during the Second World War, his friends, his lovers,...
12) Babbitt
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Language
English
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Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to reexamine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire of the American social landscape created a sensation upon its 1922 publication. Babbitt's name became an instant and enduring synonym for...
13) Safely home
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Language
English
Description
A soul-stirring story of two college friends who reconnect after 20 years. One is living life apart from God in comfortable corporate America while the other is living for Christ under intense persecution in China.
15) Old dogs
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Two friends and business partners find their lives changing when they unexpectedly have to care for seven-year-old twins while trying to manage the biggest business deal of their careers.
16) Nine lives
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When a workaholic businessman buys his daughter a cat for her birthday, he becomes trapped in the cat's body and must learn how to reconnect with his family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Heartwarming
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Can a love built on lies......survive the truth?Serena Stanhope fears her dark past might ruin the life she's built as a successful shop owner. Especially when handsome Logan Masterson suddenly arrives in town asking questions about her background. He seems to have his own secrets, but the pair share an instant connection and Serena finds herself falling for Logan. He could destroy everything--or he could be the chance at love she thought she'd never...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Enterprises Limited
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Chuck Mikkelson knows Shana doesn't remember him...or that she wanted a divorce. But now she's back in his home, and he vows to save their union at all costs. This may be the only second chance he has to win back his wife. Will their rekindled passion be enough to convince her to stay when her memory returns?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin Special Edition
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The lure of big-city finance launched Jordon Lawrence away from Shelter Valley--and broke the heart of his fiancée, Mia Jones. But the once picture-perfect couple donated embryos while they were together, and they live on...in the form of orphaned four-year-old twins! When Jordon is tapped to be the girls' guardian, the first person he thinks to turn to is Mia. Finally, the dream of motherhood is within her grasp...if they can mend the wounds of...
20) A man of honor
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Series
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English
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"The prequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's New York Times bestselling and dazzling saga A Woman of Substance. Opening five years before the start of A Woman of Substance, A Man of Honor begins with 13-year-old Blackie O'Neill facing an uncertain future in rural County Kerry. Orphaned and alone, he has just buried his sister, Bronagh, and must leave his home to set sail for England, in search of a better life with his mother's brother in Leeds. There,...
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