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Roots of chaos volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door. Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic. Across the dark sea, Tané...
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English
Description
A catastrophic, unexplainable plane crash leaves three hundred and thirty dead — no survivors. Among the victims are the wife and two daughters of Joe Carpenter, a Los Angeles Post crime reporter.
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any...
A year after the crash, still gripped by an almost paralyzing grief, Joe encounters a woman named Rose, who claims to have survived the crash. She holds out the possibility of a secret that will bring Joe peace of mind. But before he can ask any...
4) Celebration
Author
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Finders Keepers, dazzles readers once again with the unforgettable story of one woman's life--the betrayal that nearly destroys her, the love that helps her heal, and the struggle to find the truth about herself and the man she thought she knew...
An only child who lost both parents during her first year at college, wealthy heiress Kristine Kelly had made her husband her whole world. But she didn't...
5) The witness
Author
Series
Badge of honor volume 4
Language
English
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Description
A robbery ends in murder, the killers claim to be terrorists, and the only co-operative witness fears for his life. Police officer Matt Payne knew the dangers of his profession - but he never thought that he himself would need protection.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
The author presents a collection of three animal-themed essays. In The Toad, the Turtle, and the Duck, a group of complete strangers bitterly discuss the order of things within the animal kingdom. In Hello Kitty, a miserable alcoholic cat attends AA. In The Squirrel and the Chipmunk, two lovers are torn apart by their quarrelling families
8) Fire the sky
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
In a world where stick-thin women adorn fashion magazines and silver screens, plus-sized private eye Savannah Reid is grateful for the wild success--and fabulous fashion tips--of full-figured model Cait Connor. When Cait is found dead after months of extreme dieting, everyone assumes the risky regimen did her in. But then a second full-figured model meets an untimely end, and it's time to weigh the facts...and search for suspects.
At first it seems...
10) Rose daughter
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Beauty grows to love the Beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay, and through her love he is released from the curse that had turned him from man to beast
11) Puss in boots
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1990
Language
English
Formats
Description
A cat, smart and cunning, clever and mischievous, but very helpful: he is just the sort of friend we'd all like by our sides. The youngest of three orphan brothers is left destitute after his parents' death. But such an apparently sad situation takes a quite unexpected turn for the better when he inherits what appears at first to be a small, quite ordinary cat. But it turns out to be the greatest inheritance of all! Our cat is not only clever and...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
From the Man Booker Prize-longlisted novelist, a shocking story of voyeurism, betrayal, and the gray areas between truth and fiction that reflects our era of tabloid media and fake news. In the aftermath of Brexit, the body of a young woman is found by the river Thames, and the tabloids are aflame, accusing Mr. Wolphram, the woman's former teacher and the ultimate media quarry: mysterious, friendless, and eccentric. Charged with investigating this...
18) The Whopper
Author
Publisher
Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A little boy named Percy tells a lie, which turns into the Whopper, a hungry and persistant monster. As Percy's guilt grows, the Whopper does too, until finally ... the Whopper easts Percy! It is only when the the Whopper threatens to also eat Percy's brother that Percy finally speaks up --
19) Stone soup
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Series
Language
English
Description
Three wise monks trick a poor, frightened community into finding happiness by teaching them the magic of generosity
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