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21) Sleigh Belles
Author
Series
Sassy belles volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Mira
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas, Southern style! With her hair perfectly coiffed, nails freshly manicured and a heavy trail of perfume wafting behind her, local news reporter Dallas Dubois is sure she's about to kick her career -- and maybe her love life -- into high gear. The director of the Tuscaloosa children's Christmas play has fallen ill, and Dallas is ordered by her station manager to take the reins. Everyone is shocked -- especially Cal Hollingsworth, who...
22) A narrow door
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Now I'm in charge, the gates are my gates. The rules are my rules. It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely forty, she is just starting to reap the harvest of her ambition. As the new regime takes on the old guard, the ground shifts. And with it, the remains of a body are discovered....
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Series
Kitty Norville series volume 10
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Kitty Norville has been tapped as the keynote speaker for the First International Conference on Paranatural Studies, taking place in London. The conference brings together scientists, activists, protestors, and supernatural beings from all over the world -- and Kitty, Ben, and Cormac are right in the middle of it. Master vampires from dozens of cities have also gathered in London for a conference of their own. With the help of the Master of London,...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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A seductive, unputdownable psychodrama following one brilliant, ruthless man who will stop at nothing in his pursuit of success. Maurice Swift is handsome, charming, and hungry for fame. The one thing he doesnt have is talent but hes not about to let a detail like that stand in his way. After all, a would-be writer can find stories anywhere. They dont need to be his own. Working as a waiter in a West Berlin hotel in 1988, Maurice engineers the perfect...
Author
Series
Joanne Ross novels volume 2
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland's Black Isle -- the Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and the villagers have no connection with the town. But when two deaths occur on the same day involving the same families from the same estate -- the Black Isle seems as forbidding as its name.
26) Hope flames
Author
Series
Hope novels (Jaci Burton) volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two and finally setting up her veterinary practice in the town she once called home, Emma Burnett is on her own and loving it. Independent and driven, she's not letting any man get in the way of her dreams. Not again. That's fine with Luke McCormack. Divorced and hardly lacking in female company when he needs it, he's devoted to the only faithful companion in his life -- his police dog. Still, there's something about Emma he can't shake. When...
27) Temper
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For fans of the high-stakes tension of the New York Times bestsellers Luckiest Girl Alive and The Lying Game, a razor-sharp page-turner about female ambition and what happens when fake violence draws real blood After years of struggling in the Chicago theater scene, ambitious actress Kira Rascher finally lands the role of a lifetime. The catch? Starring in Temper means working with Malcolm Mercer, a mercurial director whos known for pushing his performers...
28) Tigre blanco
Author
Publisher
Rocabolsillo
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Español
Description
Balram Halwai es un hombre complicado. Sirviente. Filósofo. Empresario. Asesino. Durante siete noches, a la luz mortecina de una ridícula araña, Balram nos cuenta su historia. Nacido en una villa en el corazón de la India, se formó un sueño en su cabeza: el de escapar de la orilla del Ganges, en cuyas oscuras profundidades se han podrido generaciones enteras. Para ello se traslada a Delhi, donde será contratado como chófer. Mientras los otros...
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Ruth Saunders moved to Los Angeles four years ago with the dream of becoming a successful television writer, and now it finally looks like her dreams may be coming true. A network has decided to produce the sitcom she wrote, The Next Big Thing, and is even asking her to be the show-runner. But while Ruth is confident in her ability to write a hit TV show, she may not have what it takes to negotiate the selfish and overbearing world of show business...
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English
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Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
"The white tiger of this novel is Balram Halwai, a poor Indian villager whose great ambition leads him to the zenith of Indian business culture,...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Following an ambitious lawyer who experiences an astonishing vision that could change her life forever"--ǂcProvided by publisher.
When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend's marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year...
32) The broken tower
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 2
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Judah the Foundling chose freedom over betrayal when she leaped from the top of the castle tower. Now she finds herself wandering an unknown forest, far from everything and everyone she loves. For the first time in her life, she's beyond the great Wall that surrounds Highfall castle; for the first time, she's alone. Away from the Seneschal, the power behind the throne; away from Nate Clare, the House Magus who was her teacher, friend, betrayer. Away...
33) Scandalous
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Language
English
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All Sasha Miller ever wanted was a place among the great scientists of her time. But when she falls for the seductive charms of Professor Theo Dexter, she loses her heart -- and the brilliant original theory that was going to jumpstart her career. Sasha is left with nothing -- except an unquenchable thirst for revenge. Eight years later, rich and famous Theo Dexter is the darling of the American media and every woman's fantasy. Every woman except...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in 1948 Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass on to his eldest son. With no head for management, Jean nearly sinks the company, then marries a materialistic young woman who insists they emigrate to Paris and join high society. But there is another reason Jean must leave—he has committed a terrible crime. Youngest son Etienne is sent to make his fortune...
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Her One Mistake, hailed as "chilling, captivating" by New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda, comes a riveting new suspense novel about three ambitious women whose lives are turned upside down in the aftermath of a horrifying fire, which destroys a successful advertising agency and threatens to expose a tangled web of lies. Laura has returned to work at Morris and Wood after her maternity leave, only to discover that the...
36) The unwilling
Author
Series
Barrier lands volume 1
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Unwilling is the story of Judah, a foundling born with a special gift and raised inside Highfall castle along with Gavin, the son and heir to Lord Elbans vast empire. Judah and Gavin share an unnatural bond that is both the key to her survivaland possibly her undoing.As Gavin is groomed for his future role, Judah comes to realize that she has no real position within the kingdom, in fact, no hope at all of ever traveling beyond its castle walls....
Author
Series
Century trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for the rest of their lives. George Jakes, the child of a mixed-race couple, bypasses a corporate law career to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and finds himself in the middle not only of the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but a much more personal battle of his own. Cameron Dewar,...
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English
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"The lives of four artists are forever altered by the desires, protests, and ambitions that lure and unsettle them in this magnetic novel. It's 2011: America is in a deep recession and Occupy Wall Street is escalating. But at the elite Wrynn College of Art, students paint and sculpt in a rarified bubble, dreaming only of disproving the notion that in art, everything has already been done. Louisa Arceneaux is a thoughtful, observant nineteen-year-old...
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Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated by the Boston Globe as "a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs," the seductively weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the lush world that got us all hooked on the NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, drawing us into the secret lives of a polished Connecticut haven and jolting us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide. Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back...
40) To die for
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Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
When her husband is shot dead by her teenage boyfriend, would-be television journalist Suzanne Maretto steps into the role of grieving widow with a brilliant performance. But few suspect her dark side.
"That's the beauty of television. It's like an eye that's on you all the time ... Kind of like God, if you want to get heavy" Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station...
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