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2) Emma
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When her former governess finds happiness as the bride of a local widower, the brilliant and beautiful Emma Woodhouse — one of Jane Austen's immortal creations — flatters herself that she alone has secured the marriage and that she possesses a special talent for bringing lovers together. The young heiress next busies herself with finding a suitable husband for her friend and protégé, Harriet Smith, setting off an entertaining sequence...
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When U.S. intelligence reports there's something going on in Russia, President Jack Ryan and his youngest daughter, Katie, determine the Russians are about to launch a super missile submarine, and the race is on to find its location and decide if it poses a threat to the continental U.S..
4) Eileen
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Dreaming of life in the city while caring for her alcoholic father and working in a 1960s boys' prison, a disturbed young woman is manipulated into committing a psychologically charged crime during the holiday season.
6) Lucky
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Lucky Santangelo volume 2
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Follows the life and career of Gino Santangelo's powerful and ruthless daughter, Lucky, who finds herself in mortal rivalry with her former best friend, heiress Olympia Stanislopoulas.
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[2018]
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In 1944 British bomber pilot Hugo Langley parachuted from his stricken plane into German-occupied Tuscany. Badly wounded, he found refuge in a ruined monastery and in the arms of Sofia Bartoli. Nearly thirty years later, Hugo's estranged daughter Joanna finds an unopened letter to Sofia while arranging her father's funeral in England. Joanna travels to Tuscany to try to understand her father's secret history, but soon discovers that some would prefer...
8) Rabbit cake
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She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking, for exactly eighteen months. Elvis investigates the strange circumstances of her mother's death and finds comfort, if not answers, in the people (and animals) of Freedom, Alabama.
9) Open season
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As Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett races against time to save an endangered species, he finds himself plunged into a deadly mystery that soon threatens his family and the life he loves.
10) Thick as thieves
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While a woman investigates her absent father's involvement in a 20-year-old heist that ended in murder, two vengeful accomplices wait for a corrupt district attorney to make a fatal mistake.
12) His secret child
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A mysterious man shows up at a dog rescue and discovers the child he didn't know he had-- and falls in love with the foster mother caring for her and wanting to adopt her.
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Jessie Sasser, a young woman in 1960's North Carolina, resents the moonshining operation her family has conducted for generations, blaming it for her mother's death. When her father insists that moonshining is in her veins, Jessie devises a plan to destroy the stills. Her scheme escalates an old rivalry and reveals long-held grudges.
15) Never knowing
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St. Martin's Press
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2011
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Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies.
16) Heavenbreaker
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Synali von Hauteclare, the illegitimate daughter of a commoner and a duke, survives an attack by an assassin hired by her father and plans her revenge by riding and fighting on a giant robot, Heavenbreaker.
17) What we find
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Sullivan's Crossing volume 1
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Maggie Sullivan has hit a wall in her high-stress career in neurosurgery. After an emergency high-risk procedure, Maggie is in the middle of a wrongful death lawsuit. Her eccentric father, Sully, welcomes her home with open arms, but circumstances demand Maggie must take on more responsibility than she'd planned. When quiet hiker Cal Jones lends a hand, Maggie is suspicious of his eagerness to help. Can they learn to find peace and healing-- and perhaps...
18) Tough customer
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2010
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Late one night Atlanta PI Dodge Hanley receives a phone call from his lost love, Houston realtor Caroline King, who asks him to come to Texas to help catch Oren Starks, a creepy over-the-top stalker who's out to kill Dodge and Caroline's 30-year-old daughter, Berry Malone. Dodge hasn't seen Berry since the day she was born. When Starks takes a shot at Berry in Caroline's house, hitting a work associate of Berry's instead, Dodge rushes to the rescue....
19) Thief of Corinth
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Young Ariadne flees her mother's home to live with her father in ancient Corinth, only to find that the man is secretly an infamous thief, but when she and her father meet a Jewish rabbi named Paul their lives are profoundly changed.
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Happily Inc volume 6
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An independent businesswoman and single mother offers support to her neighbor and secret crush during a holiday season shaped by a prickly daughter's pregnancy, a painful secret, difficult past mistakes and an unexpected second chance at love.