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Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
82) Spellbound
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Max Westin. Sex incarnate. She could smell it, feel it with his proximity. Everything about him was a little rough, a little gritty. He was a primitive creature. Just like her. He held her hand a little too long, his gaze, under thick lashes, clearly stating his intention to have her. To tame her... "Victoria." Her name, just one word, but spoken with such possession she could almost feel the collar around her neck. "It's in your nature," he murmured....
Author
Series
Most wanted novels volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
He is everything I crave, all I desperately want and he is everything I can't have. Evan Black embodies my every fantasy. He is brilliant, fierce, and devastatingly handsome. But he is also headstrong, dangerous, and burdened with secrets. My family warned me to stay away, that I could never handle Evan's dark dealings or scarred past. Maybe I should have listened. Maybe I should have run. But our desire is undeniable, and some temptations you just...
Author
Series
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Lila and Elena are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls...
Author
Series
Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Kidnapped by a human trafficking ring that demands that she help transport a high-profile starlet or risk the murder of her best friend, maverick information specialist Vanessa Michael Munroe is plunged into a harrowing underground world under the brutal control of a shadowy overlord.
86) The cutting edge
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Brett Rutland was Carter Engineering's top troubleshooter, so it was only logical for him to be sent to the LA office to crack a case of embezzlement. Brett was a hard man ; he had to be, in his line of work, so it hit him like a sledgehammer when he fell in love with Tessa Conway. Half the men in the office had been in love with her for years, but Brett was the first she'd loved in return. Their love was perfect, too perfect to last. One day Brett...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
As a tribute to her late father, a legendary sports journalist, Tuesday Jones is planning a cancer benefit, with racing memorabilia and a drivers' meet and greet being auctioned off. Donating a vintage stock car is ex-racing star Diesel Lange. When Tuesday looks into his piercing blue eyes, she feels like it would be so easy to lose herself -- but can she trust him with her fragile heart?
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"After almost twenty years together, Stella and Simon are starting to run into problems. An up-and-coming rock musician when they first met, Simon has been clinging to dreams of fame even as the possibility of it has grown dimmer, and now that his band might finally be on the brink again, he wants to go on the road, leaving Stella behind. But when she falls into a coma on the eve of his departure, he has to make a choice between stardom and his wife...
Author
Series
Shadowdance novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Thren Felhorn is the greatest assassin of his time. All the thieves' guilds of the city are under his unflinching control. If he has his way, death will soon spill out from the shadows and into the streets. Aaron is Thren's son, trained to be heir to his father's criminal empire. He's cold, ruthless -- everything an assassin should be. But when Aaron risks his life to protect a priest's daughter from his own guild, he glimpses a world beyond poison,...
90) Summer days
Author
Series
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Locked in an unexpected land dispute, Rafe Stryker is trapped in the one place he vowed never to return to -- the Castle Ranch in Fool's Gold, California. He made millions facing ruthless adversaries in the boardroom but nothing could have prepared him to go head-to-head against stubborn, beautiful Heidi Simpson. No one is more surprised than Rafe to discover that he's finding Heidi -- and life as a cowboy -- much more compelling than he wants to...
91) Tangle of need
Author
Series
Psy-Changeling series volume 11
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Adria, wolf changeling and resilient soldier, has made a break with the past -- one as unpredictable in love as it was in war. Now comes a new territory and a devastating new complication : Riaz, a SnowDancer lieutentant already sworn to a desperate woman who belongs to another. For Riaz, the primal attraction he feels for Adria is a staggering betrayal. For Adria, his dangerous lone-wolf appeal is beyond sexual : it consumes her. It terrifies her....
92) Dare to love
Author
Series
Dare novels (Carly Phillips) volume 1
Publisher
Carly Phillips
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Since finding out his father had another family on the side, Ian Dare swore to be the upstanding, responsible man his cheating parent had never been. When it comes to his relatives, he gives his all but in relationships he offers the bare minimum. But one glimpse of sensual Riley Taylor arouses his dominant and protective instincts and Ian is entranced. He will do anything to possess her...and does. But any future with Riley must include him extending...
Author
Series
Cowboys and brides volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Colton Nelson was twenty-eight years old when he won the Texas lottery and went from ranch hand to ranch owner overnight. Now he's desperate to keep the gold diggers away. It shouldn't be too hard to find a pretty girl and hire her to pretend to be his-one-and-only. Laura Baker's got mixed feelings about this -- she's on the ranch to work, not to be arm candy. On the other hand, being stuck for a while in the boondocks with a gorgeous cowboy isn't...
Author
Series
Lords of the Underworld volume 8
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Possessed by the demon of Defeat, Strider cannot lose a challenge without suffering unimaginable pain. For him, nothing stands in the way of victory. Until Kaia, an enchanting Harpy, tempts him to the razor's edge of surrender. Known among her people as the Disappointment, Kaia must bring home the gold in the Harpy Games or die. Strider is a distraction she can't afford because he has an agenda of his own ...
95) Sleigh Belles
Author
Series
Sassy belles volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas, Southern style! With her hair perfectly coiffed, nails freshly manicured and a heavy trail of perfume wafting behind her, local news reporter Dallas Dubois is sure she's about to kick her career -- and maybe her love life -- into high gear. The director of the Tuscaloosa children's Christmas play has fallen ill, and Dallas is ordered by her station manager to take the reins. Everyone is shocked -- especially Cal Hollingsworth, who...
Author
Series
Novel of the Others volume 11
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
As a research grunt at a local television station, Abby Baker tends to blend into the background, which is where she's most comfortable. But when she ends up being the last resort to cover a hot story, Abby discovers a whole new side to her personality when she is possessed by a fiend--a type of rogue demon. Suddenly everyone wants a piece of her. And now the demon Rule--also a hunter of his own kind who have gone astray--is Abby's only hope.--P....
97) Dare to desire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Quarterback Alex Dare had it all -- an all-star football career and his choice of willing women -- until injury forces him into early retirement. When he is offered a ground-breaking position with a rival team, he's intrigued, but there's a catch. He'll be working alongside the same woman he callously hurt when she got too close for comfort. Social worker Madison Evans grew up in foster homes and knows what it means to have-not. She isn't impressed...
98) The evening hero
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Dr. Yungman Kwak is in the twilight of his life. Every day for the last fifty years, he has brushed his teeth, slipped on his shoes, and headed to Horse Breath's General Hospital, where, as an obstetrician, he treats the women and babies of the small rural Minnesota town he chose to call home. This was the life he longed for - the American dream. He immigrated from Korea after the Korean War, forced to leave his family, ancestors, village, and all...
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English
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When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship...
100) Wolf haven
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
She's caught in her past until he shows her a future ... Some things can never be forgotten. A helicopter crash in Afghanistan. Capture. Torture. Now U.S. Navy nurse Skylar Pascal is struggling to regain control of her life after a trauma that nearly destroyed her. After losing so much, an ideal job at the Elk Horn Ranch in Wyoming offers Sky something she thought she'd never find again ... hope. Former SEAL Grayson McCoy has his own demons. But something...
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