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"Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seems limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is closed. A charity student at a boarding school, he has...
2) Razor sharp
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Sisterhood series volume 14
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English
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The Sisterhood will stamp out injustice—wherever they find it. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Under the Radar.
When it comes to repaying a debt, the women of the Sisterhood—Myra, Annie, Kathryn, Alexis, Yoko, Nikki, and Isabelle—never forget. And now one of their allies needs help only they can give. A powerful attorney with a cut-throat reputation, Lizzie Fox has just taken on a high-profile
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English
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Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...
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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
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Punto de lectura volume 4/14
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Punto de Lectura :
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
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Series
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Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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"India Black, full-time madam and occasional secret agent, is feeling restless, when one of Disraeli's men calls on her to meet the prime minister--alone. Even though all her previous meetings have been organized by the rakishly handsome spy French, it's been decided this is a mission India must attempt on her own. Revolt has spread across Europe and reached the shores of England--anarchists have begun assassinating lords and earls, one by one....
10) Stone mad
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Karen Memory volume 2
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Readers met the irrepressible Karen Memory in Elizabeth Bears 2015 novel Karen Memory, and fell in love with her steampunk Victorian Pacific Northwest city, and her down-to-earth story-telling voice. iO9--28 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books Well Worth Checking Out in March, Unbound Worlds--20 Best New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Books--March 2018, The Verge--15 new science fiction and fantasy books--March 2018, Kirkus--18 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
c2013.
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English
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It's the nineteenth century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she's been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads south to meet her lover, a man as charismatic as he is merciless, and the only person who can quell her mysterious fits. He has a plan to make them both rich chasing a pirate's buried treasure rumored to be buried in a settlement called Middle Bayou.
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A house of ill repute is in danger of being shut down unless the proprietor's boyfriend - the sheriff - can pull some strings.
A sheriff and a proprietress join together not only in romance, but to fight a big city TV crusader in his efforts to expose the Chicken Ranch to public scandal, and thus close it down.
A town's sheriff and regular patron of a historical whorehouse fights to keep it running when a TV preacher targets it as the Devil's playhouse....
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2010.
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Français
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Madam Marie-France provides a glamorous life for some of the most alluring and desirable women in Paris, but also treats them as virtual slaves. Among the dozen employees are a cheerful girl with a regular adoring john, a regal beauty who disdains all the men fighting for her services, a long-legged stunner reaching the end of her career, and a sweet and trusting new girl who winds up in bed with a very rough customer.
16) The bone orchard
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Tor
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Sara A. Mueller's The Bone Orchard is a fascinating whodunit set in a lush, gothic world of secrets and magic--where a dying emperor charges his favorite concubine with solving his own murder, and preventing the culprit, which undoubtedly is one of his three terrible sons, from taking control of an empire. Charm is a witch, and she is alone. The last of a line of conquered necromantic workers, now confined within the yard of regrown bone trees at...
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