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On a luminous spring day in Venice, Commissario Brunetti and his assistant Vianello play hooky from the Questura in order to help Vianello's friend Marco Ribetti, arrested during an environmental protest. They secure his release, only to be faced by the fury of the man's father-in-law, Giovanni De Cal, a cantankerous glass factory owner who has been heard in the bars of Murano making violent threats about Ribetti. Brunetti's curiosity is piqued, and...
82) Safely home
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English
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A soul-stirring story of two college friends who reconnect after 20 years. One is living life apart from God in comfortable corporate America while the other is living for Christ under intense persecution in China.
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Harlequin presents volume 4043
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Harlequin Presents
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Playboy CEO Ezio Angelos will do anything to save the deal of a lifetime. Even persuade his prim personal assistant, Matilda Raven, to take a six-month assignment in Greece...as his convenient bride! Orphaned Tilda is desperate to give her young brother a fresh start before he self-destructs. Ezio's offer is her best chance and it's clear he intends to keep things strictly business. Yet since exchanging vows, their every interaction sizzles. Is Tilda...
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Harlequin Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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"Gemma Butler has a grand vision to transform the fledgling Christmas celebrations in Dover, Mississippi, and bring visitors to the town. It's also the single mom's last chance to provide for her son and revive her event planning business. But Gemma's not the only one with something to prove. Linc Montgomery has the weight of the family business on his shoulders. And he'll go down swinging before he'll let anyone disrupt the traditions he holds dear....
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Pub. Date
2003
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433 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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There was no doubt that the woman who called herself Evie Shaw was the key to the high-tech conspiracy that threatened Robert Cannon's computer company - and he meant to take her down personally. But as he trailed her into the heart of a long, hot Southern summer, he found himself questioning everything he believed. For he was face-to-face with a breathtaking passion - for a woman who had to be as guilty as sin...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
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ix, 318 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew, a young London businessman with a good heart and an ordinary life, which is changed forever when he is plunged through the cracks of reality into a world of shadows and darkness--the Neverwhere. If he is ever to return to the London Above, Richard must join the battle to save this strange underworld kingdom from the malevolence that means to destroy it" --
90) Texas proud
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
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Center Point Large Print edition.
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542 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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Texas Proud: "Before he testifies in an important case, businessman Michael 'Mikey' Fiore hides out in Jacobsville, Texas. On a rare night out, he crosses paths with softly beautiful Bernadette, who seems burdened with her own secrets. He hears whispers about a life-threatening condition, her solitary existence. This doesn't stop him from wanting her, which endangers them both. Their bond grows into passion...until shocking truths surface." -- Page...
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Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
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346 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"When confident and handsome Eric Larson is sent to a rural Montana town to work in the local branch of his uncle's financial company, he's determined to exceed everyone's expectations, earn a promotion, and be back in Seattle by the end of summer. Yet nothing could prepare him for the lessons this small town has in store. At forty-six years old, eccentric and outspoken Eunice Parker has come to accept her terminal illness and has given herself one...
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Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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283 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"Corporations rise quickly in today's China, and none are more successful than the Bashful Goose Snack Company. Founded by the self-made Papa Hui, the company is a national treasure, as is his beloved pet goose. Meanwhile, Papa Hui's daughter, Kelly, is desperate to prove herself to her father, and take her rightful place as the heir to his empire. But Lulu, the woman with the most lustrous hair in China, and Wang Xilai, the disturbed celebrity hair-stylist...
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HQN
Pub. Date
[2021]
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361 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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First Kiss at Christmas: Not many women still have "first kiss" on their Christmas list, but somehow Kayla Harris is permanently in the friend zone with men. So when veteran Tony DeNunzio shows up in her preschool classroom with his nephew, Jax, her focus is solely on helping the troubled little boy adjust. But as Tony takes on a volunteer role at the school, she can't help noticing his softer side is as appealing as his rugged male presence. Tony...
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Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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First edition.
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289 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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"Set against the construction of the Eiffel Tower, this novel charts the relationship between a young widow and an engineer who, despite constraints of class and wealth, fall in love. In February 1887, Caitriona Wallace and Emile Nouguier meet in a hot air balloon, floating high above Paris a moment of pure possibility. But back on firm ground, their vastly different social strata become clear. Cait is a widow who because of her precarious financial...
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Pub. Date
2017
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Large print edition.
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284 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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Baby by blackmail! Shy Suki Langston desired Ramon Acosta for years, and one shocking night he gave her pleasure beyond her wildest imaginings. But when an unexpected pregnancy ended in tragedy, Suki knew that any hope of a future together was extinguished... Then the arrogant magnate returns, determined that Suki will provide him with an heir! Ramon's outrageous demand reignites both Suki's longing for a child, and the burning memory of his touch......
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Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
286 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
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English
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"Dea Caracciolo has spent her whole life feeling inferior to her twin sister--and never more so than when she first met billionaire Guido Rossano... Since then Dea's worked hard to put her old self behind her, and to see life from a glass half-full perspective. For Guido, enchanting Dea is the one who got away. So when fate throws them together again Guido seizes his chance like the ruthless billionaire businessman he is! But can he win the only prize...
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Colorado cowgirls volume 2
Publisher
Northern Lights Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Charity Courtney is at her wit's end trying to save her boardinghouse from a bank foreclosure. Short of money but not short of marriage proposals, she dreads putting aside her fairy tale dreams of love and having to settle for a marriage of convenience. But with the need to provide for her two younger sisters, she doesn't have any other options. While visiting Fairplay, wealthy railroad magnet Hudson Vanderwater hears of Charity's plight. Although...
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Library of America volume 59
Pub. Date
1992
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898 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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BookShots, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
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114, 13 pages ; 18 cm.
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English
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When an advertisement for a wife appears on a billboard promising $10,000,000 to the lucky bride, three women find themselves interested by the mysterious man.