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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, following three generations of a family seeking the answers to a strange secret. Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India's Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...
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"The greatest writer of his time."-Edmund Wilson
"One of the great poets of the novel, a genius of his art"-Edgar Johnson
"His characters are marvelous, his insights wonderful…you don't expect reality but you get something bigger and better."-Ruth Rendell
The Old Curiosity Shop was initially published in a weekly serial, "Master Humphrey's Clock", between 1840 and 1841. Charles Dickens' story of the frail and innocent orphan had become such...
3) Justine
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Alexandria quartet volume 1
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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This “very remarkable novel”—first in the acclaimed Alexandria Quartet—tells a haunting story of love, desire, and deception in the Egyptian city pre-WWII (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).
Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exquisite and...
Set in Alexandria, Egypt, in the years between World Wars I and II, Justine is the first installment in the distinguished Alexandria Quartet. Here Lawrence Durrell crafts an exquisite and...
5) The Rebels
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Kent family chronicles (John Jakes) volume 2
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Philip Kent fights for his new country during the Revolutionary War, in the historical family saga from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
The engrossing follow-up to The Bastard finds Philip Kent standing as a Continental solider at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In a bold move, Kent has taken up arms for the future of his new family. Spirited and unwavering in his dedication to his adopted homeland, Kent...
The engrossing follow-up to The Bastard finds Philip Kent standing as a Continental solider at the Battle of Bunker Hill. In a bold move, Kent has taken up arms for the future of his new family. Spirited and unwavering in his dedication to his adopted homeland, Kent...
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Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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From the author of Their Guilty Pleasures: In postwar England, a young woman reopens her late father's nightclub and faces his criminal past.
Southampton, 1945. Food, fuel, and other necessities continue to be scarce in England, but when former Wren Victoria Teglia's reopens her late father's Club Valletta, it's an event that excites potential members with the desire—and the money—to be entertained. Victoria
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Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Amid the dangers of WWII England, three women risk everything for love "sacrificing much to achieve their dreams . . . in this pleasurable historical romance" (Booklist).
Southampton, 1940. As three women navigate the struggles of wartime England, their difficult choices—in love and survival—will bring them together and change their lives forever.
For housewife Jenny, her husband's word is law.
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The Odyssey Press
Pub. Date
1969.
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English
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The novel "Little Dorrit", published originally between 1855 and 1857, is a work of satire on the shortcomings of the government and society of the period. Much of Dickens' ire is focused upon the institutions of debtor's prisons-in which people who owed money were imprisoned, unable to work, until they have repaid their debts. The representative prison in this case is the Marshalsea where the author's own father had been imprisoned. Most of Dickens'...
10) Simply sensual
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Harlequin
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2001.
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English
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Do the job. Take the money and run. Until, in a flash, love changes everything.
In retrospect, Ben Callahan should have known this job was trouble.
Way more than his normal P.I. fee and unlimited expenses, just to watch over one woman and report back? Alarm bells should have sent him running back to New York. But with his Mom needing assisted living care, Ben takes Emma Montgomery's tempting offer to watch over her granddaughter.
Then he meets...
11) Doctor Thorne
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Oxford University Press
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1989.
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English
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The breathtaking love story of an illegitimate girl and the young noble who would choose her above all. Gender issues and economic hardships are dealt with deftly in Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and arguably the saga's finest love story. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, this Victorian novel is one of Anthony Trollope's most optimistic and engaging works. When Henry Thorne seduces local...
12) Getaway
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Kensington Books
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2017
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English
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Third in the haunting three-part series featuring four old friends and a house with a secret past—from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
Old friends reunite for an adventure unlike any they've faced before in the latest novel by beloved storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.
As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around,...
Old friends reunite for an adventure unlike any they've faced before in the latest novel by beloved storyteller and #1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels.
As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around,...
13) Hideaway
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Godmothers novels volume 7
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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First in the three-part series featuring four old friends and a house with a haunted past: "Reading Michaels is always a rewarding experience." —RT Book Reviews
The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they've never faced before . . .
There are no secrets between...
The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they've never faced before . . .
There are no secrets between...
14) Spirited Away
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Godmothers novels volume 7
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Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Second in the three-part story starring a group of Southern ladies facing a haunting mystery together, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they've never faced before . . .
Sophie can no longer deny that something strange is going...
The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they've never faced before . . .
Sophie can no longer deny that something strange is going...
15) Haven Point
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave on Maine's rocky coastline. In 1944, Maren Larsen is a blonde beauty from a small Minnesota farming town, determined to do her part to help the war effort--and to see the world beyond her family's cornfields. As a cadet nurse at Walter Reed Medical Center, she's swept off her feet by Dr. Oliver Demarest, a handsome Boston Brahmin whose family spends...
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Love in Boston volume 1
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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**Fool her once, as her best friend. Fool her twice…as her fake fiancé?** Top Boston interior designer Jules Brogan has no shortage of work. So why say yes to designing a yacht with Noah Lockwood-her former best friend who disappeared from her life ten years ago after one smoldering encounter? Especially since the job requires posing as Noah's fiancée! But what are old friends for…especially if she can coax him into one more kiss?
17) Destiny
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Berkley
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2012.
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English
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When she encounters Nash Barron at his brother's wedding, Kelly Moss keeps her distance from him, despite the attraction that still lingers between them, because of a secret from her past that she knows he can never forgive.
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Kensington Books
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English
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When Poppy Higgins left Yorktide, Maine, for Boston, she pictured future visits home as brief diversions from her real life in the big city. Fate had different ideas, and at twenty-five, Poppy has been called back to care for her two younger sisters following their father's death.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 61
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John Harmon returns to England as his father's heir. Believed drowned under suspicious circumstances--a situation convenient to his wish for anonymity--John evaluates Bella Wilfer whom he must marry to secure his inheritance. The story is filled with colorful Victorian characters and incidents -- the faded aristocrats and parvenus gathered at the Veneering's dinner table, Betty Higden and her terror of the workhouse and the greedy plottings of Silas...
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