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I am doomed to remember a boy with a wrecked voice-- not because of his voice, or because he was the smallest person I ever knew, or even because he was the instrument of my mother's death, but because he is the reason I believe in God; I am a Christian because of Owen Meany. In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that...
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A sexy novel, rich with love, laughter, and steamy passion that sizzles with New York Times best-selling author Lisa Kleypas’s hallmark sensuality and delicious tension.
Millionaire Texas playboy Jack Travis lives for pleasure. He has money, women, and no commitments, and that’s just the way he likes it. Then a gorgeous stranger with an infant appears on his doorstep, rocking his carefree world.
Columnist Ella Varner liked her independent life...
3) Navy baby
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It was a night she'd never forget...two strangers coming together in one breathless moment of intense need and heart-stopping desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of rugged naval seaman Riley Murdock—a man she never thought she'd see again....
Riley has been searching for the elusive Hannah for months—ever since that night of searing passion left him shaken to the very depths of his soul. Now fate has finally...
Riley has been searching for the elusive Hannah for months—ever since that night of searing passion left him shaken to the very depths of his soul. Now fate has finally...
4) Oceans apart
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A riveting story of secret sin and the healing power of forgiveness. Airline pilot Connor Evans and his wife, Michele, seem to be the perfect couple living what looks like a perfect life. Then a plane goes down in the Pacific Ocean. One of the casualties is Kiahna Siefert, a flight attendant Connor knew well. Too well. Kiahna's will is very clear: before her seven-year-old son, Max, can be turned over to the state, he must spend the summer with the...
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"Kit Noonan's life is stalled: unemployed, twins to support, a mortgage to pay--and a frustrated wife, who is certain that, more than anything else, Kit needs to solve the mystery of his father's identity. He begins with a visit to his former stepfather, Jasper, a take-no-prisoners Vermont outdoorsman. But it is another person who has kept the secret: Lucinda Burns, wife of a revered senior statesman and mother of Malachy (the journalist who died...
6) Foxmask
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Foxmask is a book of a fantasy duet from Juliet Marillier, weaving history and folklore into a saga of adventure, romance, and magic.
The Norseman Eyvind, a fierce and loyal Wolfskin, came to a new land on top of the world to find his destiny. With his priestess bride Nessa he saved the land and weathered the treachery that was caused by Eyvind's blood-sworn friend Somerled. After much pain and sorrow the two lovers have managed to create a society...
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Christy Award nominee Nicole Baart delivers "this beautifully written, heartwarming" (Library Journal) tale. Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old half-brother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a better life. And then the man who abandoned her six years ago rocks her happy world with one question: "Do I have...
8) Rift zone
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In the turbulent years after the rise of the Berlin Wall, Germany stood dangerously divided between freedom and Communism. Dodging border patrols and guard posts, a silent few were able to cross the borders of the Iron Curtain to deliver needed supplies, always at the risk of their own lives.
This is the past Faith Whitney knew. The daughter of an active smuggler of religious paraphernalia, Faith was raised on the danger that such a life brought...
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If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later or had taken the subway instead of waiting for a cab, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. She would still be the privileged daughter of a doting father and a loving mother. Her life would still be perfect—with only the tiny cracks of an angry junkie for a brother and a charming drunk with shady underworld connections for an uncle to mar the otherwise flawless whole....
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From the author of Cloud Atlas, now a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Susan Sarandon, and Hugh Grant, and directed by Lana and Andy Wachowski and Tom Tykwer Number9Dream is the international literary sensation from a writer with astonishing range and imaginative energy-- an intoxicating ride through Tokyo' s dark underworlds and the even more mysterious landscapes of our collective dreams. David Mitchell follows his eerily precocious,...
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OPERATION: Daddy Boot Camp. SUBJECT: Three-year-old Blue, the daughter whom-until three days ago-U.S. Marine Curt Blackwell didn't know existed. MISSION: Fatherhood. Bedtime stories. Plaiting hair. Holding hands. COMPLICATIONS: Preschool teacher Jessie Moore. They had a past, but Curt avoided those waters. Unlike Blue's fear of monsters under the bed, a woman's emotions truly spelled danger. And he was growing defenseless against this woman's warmth...
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Hired by the wealthy Linton family to confirm that their teenage daughter, a mentally deficient young girl who is constantly protected, has somehow become pregnant, turn-of-the-century midwife Sarah Brandt investigates when one of the prospective fathers--and suspects--turns up dead, the victim of poison.
14) Oreo
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A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City Oreo is raised by her maternal grandparents in Philadelphia. Her black mother tours with a theatrical troupe and her Jewish deadbeat dad disappeared when she was an infant, leaving behind a mysterious note that triggers her quest to find him. What ensues is a playful, modernized parody of the classical odyssey of Theseus with...
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Magazines regularly devote gossip column inches to Greek magnate Ari Zavros, and the new supermodel gracing his arm -- and his bed -- each week. Tina Savalas is nothing like Ari's usual playmates, but this ordinary girl hides the most scandalous secret of all: four years ago her passionate fling with Ari left her pregnant ... Her bombshell revealed, Ari can see only one solution -- the innocent Tina is perfect for the role of Good Greek Wife ... and...
17) Against the edge
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A child he's never met. A danger he's never known. Deep in the humid, rank heart of the Louisiana bayou, a survivalist group has something that belongs to former Navy SEAL Ben Slocum: his son. That he's a father is news Ben didn't expect. But once the shock wears off, the confirmed bachelor takes in what social worker Claire Chastain is saying: that Sam is in the custody of an abusive degenerate, that they've disappeared... and that Ben is now the...
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Catherine Sanderson and her daughter, Phoebe, have always been as close as a mother and daughter could be, except for one secret between them: the identity of Phoebe's father. Catherine, busy working with refugee and immigrant women through her small firm, Babylon Sisters, has taken on a powerful new client. She doesn't have much time for Phoebe's complicated questions of paternity-that is, until Phoebe's real father, B. J., a renowned investigative...
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Billionaire Luc Sabbatini may have ruthlessly cast Bronte from his life ... but he'd be lying if he said he'd forgotten this sweet ballerina. That's why he's back, and ready to reawaken their lost passion. Only this time he finds Bronte isn't quite so biddable! Her better judgment is urging her to walk away. Bronte has been lured into Luc's lair before ... This time, however, the secret she's hiding will have its repercussions!
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Billie's wedding day should have been the happiest of her life. She was marrying the father of her baby ... her secret baby. But tycoon Alexei Drakos had suffered amnesia, so he had no recollection of the incredible night he'd spent with Billie a year ago ... Tonight he was expecting his new bride to be a virgin ... Billie knew that a marriage laced with hidden surprises was not likely to last. If only for their son's sake, she had to convince Alexei...
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