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Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sophie Heller and her family left Nazi Germany for a better life in Victory, Illinois. But when war fever sweeps the town, the Hellers become targets of suspicion, threats, and attacks. Sophie, working as a newspaperwoman, begins an investigation to uncover the truth. Cole Ambrose, a physically disabled local teacher, becomes her unexpected ally, and love.
2) Work song
Author
Series
Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 2
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Samuel, a lonely linguistics lecturer, wakes up on New Year{u2019}s Day, he is convinced that the year ahead will bring nothing more than passive verbs and un-italicized moments--until an unexpected visitor slips into his Barcelona apartment and refuses to leave. The appearance of Mishima, a stray, brindle-furred cat, becomes the catalyst that leads Samuel from the comforts of his favorite books, foreign films, and classical music to places he{u2019}s...
4) The healing
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Can a man burdened by memories of yesterday find hope in the land of tomorrow? Will peace-loving Samuel and Esther fight for their newfound love? How will God manage to untangle these star-crossed lovers before any damage is done?
5) The journey
Author
Series
Kentucky brothers volume 1
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Titus Fisher, an Amish carpenter, journeys into a Kentucky Amish community where he seeks a new beginning and meets the beautiful and unique Suzanne Yoder. She can't cook but can do woodworking, and she painfully resembles Phoebe, Titus's ex-girlfriend.
Author
Series
Seduction volume 1
Publisher
Dafina Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the approval of the Wodehouse estate, acclaimed novelist Sebastian Faulks brings Bertie and Jeeves back to life in a hilarious affair of mix-ups and mishaps. When young man about town Bertie Wooster, nursing a broken heart, agrees to help his old friend Peregrine Woody Beeching, whose own romance is failing, hilarity and chaos ensue as Jeeves, the very epitome of the modern manservant, steps in to save Bertie from himself.
Author
Series
The McCord brothers volume 2
Language
English
Description
Every family needs its black sheep, and Austin "Lucky" McCord is happy to oblige. The bad-boy bull rider lives fast and loose, until his business partner leaves him an unexpected bequest. Suddenly Lucky is sharing custody of two children with Cassie Weatherall, one of the few homegrown women he hasn't bedded. And not from lack of trying. Cassie fled her messy past to become a celebrity therapist in LA. So why does it feel so right to come back and...
9) Spring
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"James is a man with a checkered past--sporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer, almost a dot-com millionaire--now alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job she'd intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfolds in 2006, at the end of the money-for-nothing years, as a chance meeting leads to an awkward tryst and James tries to make...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009, ©1971
Language
English
Description
After saving his master so often in the past, Jeeves may finally prove to be the unwitting cause of Bertie Wooster's undoing when the Junior Ganymede, a club for butlers in London's West End, requires its members to provide details about their employers. When information is inadvertently revealed to a dangerous source, it falls to Jeeves to undo the damage.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"the story of two single, thirty-something men who still live with their parents and who are . . . nice. They take care of their parents and play board games together. They like to read. They take satisfaction from their work. They are resolutely kind. And they realize that none of this is considered . . . normal. Leonard and Hungry Paul is the story of two friends struggling to protect their understanding of what's meaningful in life. It is about...
13) Cicatriz
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Simon Sax podría ser un tipo afortunado. Es joven, listo y está punto de convertirse en multimillonario si vende su gran invento -un asombroso algoritmo- a una multinacional. Y, sin embargo, se siente solo. Su éxito contrasta con sus nulas habilidades sociales. Hasta que un día vence sus prejuicios y entra en una web de contactos donde se enamora perdidamente de Irina, con la inexperiencia y la pasión de un adolescente, a pesar de los miles...
15) See me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. At 28, he's focused only on walking a straight line - getting his teaching degree, working out at the gym religiously, and avoiding all the places and people that proved so destructive in his earlier life. The last thing he's looking for is a serious relationship. But when Maria Sanchez crosses paths with him on a rainswept night in North Carolina, his plans are upended in a way that will rattle...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A large-hearted and optimistic novel, Extraordinary Adventures is the latest from the New York Times bestselling Daniel Wallace. Edsel Bronfman works as a junior executive shipping clerk for an importer of Korean flatware. He lives in a seedy neighborhood and spends his free time with his spirited mother. Things happen to other people, and Bronfman knows it. Until, that is, he gets a call from operator 61217 telling him that he's won a free weekend...
Author
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Shaw had a breakdown, but he's getting himself back together. He has a single room, a job on a decaying London barge, and an on-off affair with a doctor's daughter called Victoria, who claims to have seen her first corpse at age fourteen. It's not ideal, but it's a life. Or it would be if Shaw hadn't got himself involved in a conspiracy theory that, on dark nights by the river, seems less and less theoretical... Meanwhile, Victoria is up in the Midlands,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p1995
Language
English
Description
Whenever a problem arises in his own relationships or in the lives of his friends, Bertie wooster is certain to have an ingeniously complex solution. Luckily for Bertie and his friends, he also has his gentleman's gentleman, Jeeves, to straighten out the resulting chaos!
19) Falling for Max
Author
Series
Publisher
Carina Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Max Crawford has reached the point in life where he's starting to think about settling down. Unfortunately, he's always been a little awkward when it comes to social interactions, and working from home doesn't help. He spends so much time alone, painting beautiful, historically accurate model trains that half of Whitford has begun to joke that he may be a serial killer. Not exactly prime husband material. Tori Burns has found happiness in Maine, thanks...
Author
Series
Wicked widows volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Young widowed Georgina Mowbray is settling into her role as Lady Russell's companion quite well--until the lady's nephew Dominic, the Earl of Coniston, arrives in Bath for a visit. Georgie's always found him shallow and too smooth, and trusts him as much as she trusts most men...which is to say, not at all. But Con turns out to be more intriguing than she remembers--and completely irresistible... Pretty, practical Georgie is nothing like the women...
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