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In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well...
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"Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl--her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother. Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions...
84) Redemption bay
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Haven Point volume 2
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English
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McKenzie Shaw would do anything for her hometown of Haven Point. It may be small, but it's never let her down... unlike gorgeous, infuriating Ben Kilpatrick. He was her childhood hero until he closed his family's factory, leaving the town's economy in shambles. Now his tech firm is considering opening a local facility. For Haven Point's sake, McKenzie has to grit her teeth and play nice. What could a town filled with painful memories ever offer Ben?...
85) The Gilded Age
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2006.
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English
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"This rollicking novel is rife with unscrupulous politicians, colorful plutocrats, and blindly optimistic speculators caught up in a frenzy of romance, murder, and surefire deals gone bust. First published in 1873 and filled with unforgettable characters such as the vainglorious Colonel Sellers and the ruthless Senator Dilsworthy, The Gilded Age is a hilarious and instructive lesson in American history."--Publisher description.
86) Breathe
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In vino veritas volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When business mogul Elijah Masterson travels to the Mexican coast for his chain of luxury resorts, he purchases an emerald green glass sculpture for one of the properties. He is soon fascinated by the fiery temptress who created it. The attraction between them is instant and explosive, but Elijah resists, unsure that a woman as strong-willed as Samantha will ever yield in the way he needs her to.
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Distributed to the trade by Consortium
Pub. Date
c2013
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English
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Nobody knows if Trafalgar Medrano actually travels to the stars, but whenever he is in town he stretches his stories out over at least seven coffees and everyone knows he is the best storyteller in town.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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In this hilarious drink-like-a-fish-out-of-water comedy, a hard-working entrepreneur travels to Europe with his two associates to close the most important business deal of their lives. But the journey quickly spins out of control as the hapless trio encounters all kinds of crazy obstacles, including Oktoberfest bar brawls, hotel foul-ups, foreign GPS directions, and a global fetish festival. In the end, these guys gone wild might just land the deal,...
90) Rush
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Breathless trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Gabe is one of the richest and most powerful men in the country, used to always get what he wants. When he saw Mia walk into his hotel's grand opening, he knew he shouldn't act on his desires, after all she is his best friend's little sister. Ever since Mia was a teenager she has always had a crush on Gabe. She knows he is too old and too out of her league but she is determined to do something to make him notice her. As Gabe pulls her into his world...
91) Trophy: a novel
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"For Fans of Jo Nesbø, Stieg Larsson, and Henning Mankell, a Gripping Nordic Thriller That Was a Bestseller in Denmark. After the death of her industrialist father, Elizabeth Caspersen finds a compromising DVD in his safe: it seems to show two people being hunted to their death in a gruesome, well-organized manhunt. Michael Sander, a private investigator and security consultant, is hired to find out who the victims are and why Caspersen was involved....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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©2015.
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English
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Felícito and Ismael are, each in his own way, quiet, discreet rebels: honorable men trying to seize control of their destinies in a social and political climate where all can seem set in stone, predetermined. They are hardly vigilantes, but each is determined to live according to his own personal ideals and desires{u2014}which means forcibly rising above the pettiness of their surroundings.
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1
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Español
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Cuando la estudiante de literatura Anastasia Steele recibe el encargo de entrevistar al exitoso y joven empresario Christian Grey, queda impresionada al encontrarse ante un hombre atractivo, seductor y también muy intimidante. La inexperta e inocente Ana intenta olvidarle, pero pronto comprende cuanto le desea. Cuando la pareja por fin inicia una apasionada relación, Ana se sorprende por las peculiares prácticas eróticas de Grey al tiempo que...
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Highland Dragons volume 1
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English
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In Victorian England, gossip is often as precious as gold. But the Highlanders are a more mysterious bunch. And if anyone found out what Stephen MacAlasdair really was, he'd be hunted down, murdered, his clan wiped out. As he's called to London for business, he'll have to be extra vigilant -- especially between sunset and the appearance of the first evening star. Mina just wanted to find out more about the arrogant man who showed up in her employer's...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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“Do it yourself” has been the theme of Bernie Marcus’s entire life. By the time he was fifteen, he had held more than a dozen jobs, joined a gang, and worked as a hypnotist in the Catskills. The son of a cabinetmaker and garment worker who survived the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, Bernie overcame a hardscrabble upbringing to author one of the most entrepreneurial stories in American history. Success was far from assured. As Bernie wryly remarks,...
96) Glory Road
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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A decade after her husband's affair drove her home to Perry, Alabama, Jessie McBride has the life she wants: operating her garden shop, Twig, next door to her house on Glory Road, and keeping up with her daughter and mother. When businessman Sumner Tate asks her to arrange flowers for his daughter's wedding, Jessie finds herself drawn to him. Then Ben Bradley, her what-could-have-been from high school, moves back to the red dirt road. Meanwhile her...
97) The other man
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Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Heir to his father's Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a breakup, and under pressure from his exasperated mother, Ved agrees to an arranged marriage. He regrettably now faces a doomed future with the perfectly lovely Disha Kapoor. Then Ved's world is turned upside down when he meets Carlos Silva, an American on a business trip in India....
98) All that I need
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Grayson friends novels volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Lance Saxton is a self-made man who enjoys every moment of his success. Running an auction house allows him to manage his own time and travel the world on a moment's notice -- so why rush to settle down? The question answers itself... until he crosses paths with a beautiful, spirited travel writer who makes him second-guess his sense of independence -- and leaves him wanting more. Fallon Marshall is at the peak of her career as a journalist. Any story...
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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First Impressions - Entrepreneur Vance Banning took a residence in rural Maryland to escape business pressures--and relationships with women pursuing his bank account. To the community, he's a moody, out-of-work carpenter with a chip on his shoulder. To next door neighbor Shane Abbott, he's just a man who needs a little kindness in his life. Vance's suspicions of the stunning beauty's intense interest in him start to fade when he realizes Shane's...
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