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He needed a baby to close a business deal,But Sheikh Karim is about to get way more than he bargained for…Karim Al-Ahsan has a problem; he's caught in a lie, having told an old-fashioned business partner that he's a family man, with a wife and baby of his own. Now with little option other than to find and hire a mother and son to portray his family, Karim searches for the perfect candidates to prove that he's a man of integrity…Hallie Jameson...
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The epic life saga of the tenth-century king of Norway from the British author of The Thirsty Sword and other historical adventures.
Norse history comes alive in this story of a Viking who became a king. Though he had a humble start in life-orphaned as a child and sold into slavery-Olaf became known for bringing the Roman Catholic religion to the early Norwegians.
Olaf's heroic life-from his time in King Valdemar's court to his Viking...
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The history of the life of every individual who has, for any reason, attracted extensively the attention of mankind, has been written in a great variety of ways by a multitude of authors, and persons sometimes wonder why we should have so many different accounts of the same thing. The reason is, that each one of these accounts is intended for a different set of readers, who read with ideas and purposes widely dissimilar from each other. Among the...
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The classic satirical play of gossip gone horribly and hilariously wrong from a master dramatist. "My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's." Lady Windermere has a happy marriage-or she believes she does, until one of London society's gossips, the Duchess of Berwick, arrives with her daughter to voice her suspicions about an affair Lord Windermere appears to be having. And the duchess's testimony is not the only evidence either....
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Rediscover the Joys of Life with "Rediscovering Hobbies and Passions After 50"In the "Living Fully After 50 Series," the first gem we present is "Rediscovering Hobbies and Passions After 50," a comprehensive guide that invites you on a transformative journey. This book is not just about finding ways to pass the time; it's a road map to a fulfilling, enriching, and exciting phase of life that begins at 50. Why this book?Reaching 50 is more than a milestone....
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This time, good things will come in fours…After many years of putting blood, sweat and tears into this most personal of projects, top researcher Madeline Palmerston has developed a revolutionary new fertility treatment, one she's confident will give hope to thousands of women. The only problem? A corrupt government intent on blocking the drug from being tested.Desperate to see her breakthrough helping couples worldwide, Maddy hatches a plan: she'll...
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Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize
Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother.
With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney's first novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society and of family.
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A woman searches desperately for the truth about the JFK assassination-and about her father's possible role in it . . .
Maureen Finn is at a White House ceremony honoring the memory of her father, Sean.
Robert Novak is in New York, watching the event on TV-his gaze fixed on Maureen.
Soon afterward, Novak approaches Maureen and hands her a photo of her dad in the company of Lee Harvey Oswald. When he tells her that her father was involved...
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Racial tensions threaten to sink the US in this sequel to the Pulitzer Prize–winning Advise and Consent from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author.
From Allen Drury, the twentieth-century grand master of political fiction, comes a novel of the United Nations and the racial friction that could spark a worldwide powder keg.
International tensions rise as ambassadors and politicians scheme, using the independence of a small African...
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I want to lose weight, but dieting just doesn't seem to work.
I've tried everything, and I'm still three sizes too big.
Help! I hate the way my body looks.
Sound familiar? Like many women and men, perhaps you have tried virtually every wtight-loss plan that exists only to give up in disappointment and despair. Have you faithfully counted fat grams and calories? Have you subjected yourself, week after week, to the humiliation of hearing what your...
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This riotous chronicle of the ins and outs and ups and downs of collegiate romance was the basis for the iconic television show starring Dwayne Hickman, Bob Denver, and Tuesday Weld Including stories first published in Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post, this bestselling collection follows the romantic escapades of Max Shulman's famed collegiate Don Juan. Like most undergraduates, Dobie Gillis is a bit scattered-sometimes he's as quick as...
12) The Victim
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She's killed her husband-and now she must convince the police that she is not the villain but the victim . . .
Caron Rivers appeared to have it all. Lovely home. Loving spouse. Happy marriage. But behind closed doors, things were not what they seemed.
Why did Caron snap and kill Bill? Now she finds herself at the police station, facing questions about exactly what happened and what led to the shocking event. With Bill dead, she is free to...
13) The Far Arena
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Released from the Arctic ice after two millennia, a former Roman gladiator must contend with his haunted memories while trying to make sense of a strange new world. While conducting exploration in the frozen Arctic, Texan Lew McCardle, a geologist working for the Houghton Oil company, discovers something remarkable: a body encased in the ice. More remarkable still, the skills of Russian researcher Semyon Petrovitch bring the man miraculously back...
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How well do you know your friends? When Beth, Megan and Joanne meet at university, they become, inseparable friends who'd do anything for one another, even agreeing to keep what happens one shocking night a secret. Now in their forties and outwardly successful, each of the three has dealt with what happened in their own way. But, secrets and lies leave their mark. When Megan, decides to tell her fiancée the truth about that night, it threatens to...
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This biography digs beneath the famous legend to present a nuanced and revealing portrait of a serious-mined monarch.
As the last Queen of France before the French Revolution, Marie-Antoinette was mistrusted and reviled in her own time, while today she is portrayed as a lightweight incapable of understanding the events that engulfed her. But who was she really? In this new account, John Hardman redresses the balance and sheds fresh light on her story.
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In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved quickly from protest to war. In Revolutionaries, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian shows how the private lives of these men...
17) Jaran
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The first book of Kate Elliott's epic Novels of the Jaran, set in an alien-controlled galaxy where a young woman seeks to find her own life and love, but is tied to her brother's revolutionary fate In the future, Earth is just one of the planets ruled by the vast Chapalii empire. The volatility of these alien overlords is something with which Tess Soerensen is all too familiar. Her brother, Charles, rebelled against them at one time and was rewarded...
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A lawyer and his investigator must discover why his client accused of a gruesome murder remains silent in this dark legal thriller.
One freezing December night, the body of young, vulnerable, Lizzie Barnsley is found on the side of an isolated canal. When blood from her stiletto heel matches that on a wound on the head of Peter Box, police swiftly declare him the prime suspect in her murder.
Criminal lawyer, Dan Grant, is called in to provide...
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"Superbly written . . . There is more than one terrific twist and the clever cliff-hanger chapter-endings will keep you compulsively turning the pages." -Daily Mail
Hollywood, 1978
Tragedy sends troubled film star Vivien Lockhart into the arms of Giovanni Moretti-and it seems her fortunes have finally changed. Until she meets his sister and learns that her new husband's past holds dark secrets . . .
Tuscany, Present day
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The National Book Award–winning, New York Times–bestselling history of Yiddish-speaking immigrants on the Lower East Side and beyond. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, two million Jewish immigrants poured into America, leaving places like Warsaw or the Russian shtetls to pass through Ellis Island and start over in the New World. This is a "brilliant" account of their stories (The New York Times). Though some moved on to Philadelphia,...
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