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81) Velocity
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Isabel Beebe thinks she's cursed in the romance department. Her teenage crush, Ford Hendrix, ignored all her letters. Her husband left her for another ... man. So Isabel has come home to dust off her passion for fashion and run the family bridal shop until her parents are ready to sell it. Then she'll pursue her real dreams. At least, that's the plan, until sexy, charming Ford returns and leaves her feeling fourteen all over again .... Seeing Isabel...
Author
Publisher
Tate Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When Malola is tasked with sharing with her class what she wants to be when she grows up, she runs to the one place she knows will help her-her favourite room in her favourite museum. But when she asks her favourite paintings what she should be when she grows up, she doesn't expect them to come to life and take her on a journey to find the answer! Follow Malola as she travels through a magical exhibit of paintings and learns about the many inspirational...
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...
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Series
Mastered (Lorelei James) volume 4
Language
English
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Description
"In the searing fourth novel in the Mastered Series, following "Unraveled," only one woman can set a hardened fighter free from his past ... In order to survive a life of tragedy, Deacon McConnell embraced his roughest edges and learned to fight on the streets. Then a life-changing jujitsu seminar led by Sensei Ronin Black led Deacon to become a professional fighter. With his muscular physique and his body covered in tattoos and scars, the MMA fighter...
88) 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....
Author
Series
Renegade angels volume 2
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Elijah Reynolds is the most dominant of lycans, a rare Alpha whose skill on the hunt is surpassed only by his primal sexuality. Vashti is the second most powerful vampire in the world, a lethal beauty with a path of devastation in her wake. They are enemies consumed with a fierce desire. But as war looms, each must decide where their loyalty lies--with their own kind or with the enemy lover they can no longer live without.
90) The bridesmaid
Author
Series
Home to Hickory Hollow volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven-year-old Joanna Kurtz has made several trips to the altar, but never as a bride. The single young Amish woman is a closet writer with a longing to be published something practically unheard of in her Lancaster County community. Yet Joanna's stories aren't her only secret. She also has a beau who is courting her from afar, unbeknownst even to her sister, Cora, who, though younger, seems to have suitors to spare. Eben Troyer is a responsible...
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Series
Deadly angels volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
It's not easy being a Vampire Angel. No one knows that better than Trond Sigurdsson. In the centuries since he last went out drinking and wenching with his Viking buds, Trond has been a gladiator, a cowboy, a ditch digger .... even a sheik. But now he's the baddest of them all: a kick-ass Navy SEAL kicking butts of terrorist immortals with the help of his hotter-than-Hades female partner, police officer-turned-Special Forces operative Nicole Tasso...
92) Summer nights
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Horse whisperer Shane Stryker, who is looking for a sensible woman who will be content with the quiet life of a rancher's wife, sets his sights on small-town librarian Annabelle Weiss, who has a wild side that tests his resolve.
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Language
English
Description
"Paula McLain, author of the phenomenal bestseller The Paris Wife, now returns with her keenly anticipated new novel, transporting readers to colonial Kenya in the 1920s. Circling the Sun brings to life a fearless and captivating woman--Beryl Markham, a record-setting aviator caught up in a passionate love triangle with safari hunter Denys Finch Hatton and Karen Blixen, author of the classic memoir Out of Africa. Brought to Kenya from England as a...
94) Stygian's honor
Author
Series
Breeds volume 27
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Window Rock, Arizona, is the last known location of Honor Roberts, who vanished when she was just thirteen. It was her only sanctuary from Breed research that would surely have ended in her death -- one such insidious experiment should, indeed, have killed her. That she lived is both a miracle -- and a great mystery. Stygian's mision is to find Honor Roberts, no matter the cost. Now, with the help of Liza Johnson, assistant to the chief of the Navajo...
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Series
Those Manning men volume 1
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Rich Manning had known Jamie Warren forever. And he loved her -strictly as a friend. But all that changed the day Jamie asked him to be the father of her as-yet-unconceived child! Rich agreed on one condition: they marry. Suddenly, Rich was discovering a side of Jamie he'd never seen before, and was swept away by a passion sweeter than anything he'd ever known ... a passion that stunned his senses. But could he prove to the headstrong Mrs. Manning...
Author
Series
Legend of Eli Monpress volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Eli Monprerss is brilliant. He's incorrigible. And he's a thief. He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job --- and an opportunity to capture a certain thief. Things are about to get exciting for Eli. He's picked a winner for his newest heist. His target : the Duke of...
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....
98) Stepsister
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
99) Bite me
Author
Series
Pride stories volume 9
Publisher
Brava, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Livy Kowalski has no time for idiots. When you shapeshift into a honey badger, getting through life's irritants is a finely honed skill. Until she gets stuck housing her nutso cousin and dealing with her dad's untimely and unexplained demise. That's where Vic Barinov comes in -- or his house does. Vic can't step outside without coming back to find Livy devouring his honey stash and getting the TV remote sticky. It gets his animal instincts all riled...
100) The professional
Author
Series
Game maker series volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mafiya enforcer Aleksandr "The Siberian" Sevastyan's loyalty to his boss is unwavering, until he is ordered to protect the boss's long-lost daughter, a curvy, tantalizing redhead who haunts hs mind and heats his blood like no other. Grad student Natalie Porter has barely recovered from her first encounter with the dak and breathtaking Siberian when he whisks her away to Russia, thrusting her into a world of extreme wealth and wanton pleasures. Yet...
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