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42) Morrigan's cross
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English
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"In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea... Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire...
44) Promise me
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Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
It's been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero, but all that changes when he asks two neighborhood high school students to make him a promise: that they will call him if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Quirky and fun-loving American heiress Daisy Bowman is the last unmarried Wallflower. Her exasperated father has informed her that if she can't find a husband by the end of her third London season, she will be forced to marry a man she hates-the ruthless entrepreneur Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, so she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone . . . anyone . . . other than Matthew. What she doesn't count...
46) Snow blind
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
Description
The explosive new thriller from the freshest, quirkiest voice on the mystery scene today finds the Monkeewrench team and its law-abiding counterparts on the Minneapolis P.D. on the case when dead policemen start showing up inside snowmen.
47) The tenth circle
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Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life, a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until,...
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Pub. Date
2006
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English
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When she discovers her husband to be has left for Vegas to marry someone else, Brandi Michaels spends a sultry night with a gorgeous Italian named Roberto for revenge. Brandi soon becomes the target of a killer, and somehow her new lover is more of a stranger than she thought.
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730L
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English
Description
A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
52) Bleeding Kansas
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English
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The late-twentieth-century descendants of anti-slavery emigrants worry about maintaining religious superiority over a rival family while launching a harassment campaign against a Wiccan newcomer, an effort that is challenged by a young man's military service.
53) Blood brothers
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
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English
Description
Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen, and three friends--Caleb, Fox, and Gage--must battle against evil with the women who love them by their sides.
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance! Internationally bestselling author Jackie Collins marks her twenty-fifth novel with "another page-turning tale packed with intrigue, revenge and romance," (Publishers Weekly on Lovers and Players), one not to be missed. And it's all about her most popular heroine-the wildly beautiful Lucky Santangelo-still every bit as strong, sexy, and seductive as ever. But Lucky is older and wiser, and hot to reclaim her...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
239 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Special Agent Paul Chavasse investigates the murder of a gangland boss and uncovers a deadly conspiracy that reaches throughout the world and leads to the doors of some very ruthless and powerful men.
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Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
477 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
Description
Offers a program of healthy food habits that can be practiced anytime and anywhere, with four seasons of strategies for cooking and shopping, accompanied by tips and tricks for living with style and pleasure, all without gaining weight.
57) High profile
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Pub. Date
2007
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English
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Paradise, Massachusetts police chief Jesse Stone must investigate the murder of a controversial talk-show host and a young woman, found dead a few days later. The medical examiner reveals a heartbreaking link between the victims.
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English
Description
Jack Higgins, the undisputed master of action and suspense is back with a brand new adventure featuring the unstoppable Sean Dillon.
For intelligence operative Sean Dillon, it is a routine passport check. But the events it will lead to will be as bloody as any he has ever known. The man he stops at Heathrow airport is Caspar Rashid, born and bred in England, but with family ties to a Bedouin tribe fiercely wedded to the old ways, as Rashid has just...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Four mysterious words prompt antiques dealer Precious Rafferty to embark on a quest across Europe to uncover their meaning. Preshy, at age thirty-eight, loves her American-in-Paris life, but thinks that she'll never be swept off her feet-until she meets Bennett James. As their whirlwind courtship progresses, though, she realizes that there is much about his business life in Shanghai she doesn't know. Then she receives an urgent message from Lily Song,...
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Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As each holiday season approaches, some revel in welcoming the New Year ahead; others quietly mourn the passing of time gone by. "We can't hold on to the past," says Master Quilter Sylvia Compson, "but we can keep the best part of 'Auld Lang Syne' in our hearts and in our memories, and we can look forward to the future with hope and resolve." As Sylvia, a late-in-life newlywed, has discovered, love can enter our lives at any age. Yet before she can...