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1) Soft focus
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Two corporate executives battle each other during a hostile takeover in Seattle and land in bed. They are the hero and heroine of a romantic mystery involving computer-software shenanigans, murder and lots of steamy sex. By the author of Eye of the Beholder.
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Two pregnant teenagers -- one in privileged Newport, Rhode Island, one in a poor, remote Irish village -- have nothing in common except for the stunning fact that both are virgins. Private detective & former nun Anne Fitzgerald is called by the Archdiocese of Boston to investigate & to watch over the girls as they come to term. But Anne hasn't been told the secret prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima known only to the Pope: one of these girls will give...
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"Fame has taken its toll on classical violinist Caroline Waverly, whose grueling tour climaxed in an all-too-public breakup with the conductor who was her lover. Now Caroline, tightly coiled and cooly reserved, has come back to peaceful Innocence, Mississippi. She has inherited her grandparent's home, a beautiful place where she spent warmly-remembered summers as a child." -- Back cover.
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Worn out from nursing soldiers at a Milwaukee hospital and struggling to recover from a traumatic love affair, Amanda Starkey returns to her family's rural Wisconsin farm to stay with her beloved sister, Mattie, and a young niece, Ruth. An Oprah Book Club selection and bestseller in hardcover, Drowning Ruth, now in paperback, is a stunning portrait of the ties that bind sisters together and the forces that tear them apart. Schwarz's first novel explores...
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For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive. Everyone tells him it?s time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife...
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In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America.
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Maya Angelou, one of the best-loved authors of our time, shares the wisdom of a remarkable life in this best-selling spiritual classic. This is Maya Angelou talking from the heart, down to earth and real, but also inspiring. This is a book to be treasured, a book about being in all ways a woman, about living well, about the power of the word, and about the power do spirituality to move and shape your life. Passionate, lively, and lyrical, Maya Angelou's...
11) Then came heaven
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A nun falls in love with the father of two girls she teaches in the Polish community of 1950s Browerville, Minnesota. It happens after the girl's mother is killed in an accident. A tale of frustrated desire, until she leaves the Church for him.
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Eleven-year-old asthmatic Reuben Land chronicles the Land family's odyssey in search of Reuben's older brother, Davy, who has escaped from jail before he can stand trial for the killing of two marauders who came to their Minnesota farm to harm the family. A first novel. Reprint.
14) Dying to please
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Sarah Stevens, a butler/bodyguard, thwarts a burglary at her employer's estate. The newspaper story attracts the attention of a stalker, who then sets in motion a murderous plan to have Sarah for himself.
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In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, the Essex was rammed and sunk by an enraged sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, decided instead to sail their three tiny boats for the distant South American coast. They would eventually travel over 4,500 miles. The next three months...
16) Hide and seek
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The heroine is Maggie Bradford, who shoots her first husband, an army officer who abused her, and gets away with it. Maggie becomes a singer and songwriter, her fame grows and she falls in love with a soccer star. They marry, it's a big event and everything goes well until Maggie kills him for abusing her daughter. Does Maggie attract dangerous abusers, or is she simply too quick on the trigger? A trial will tell because this time there will be a...
18) Affair
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England, early in the 19th century, Charlotte Arkendale is an industrious young woman who provides a very special service. Wealthy women hire her to check the qualifications of their suitors. When one of Charlotte's loveliest clients is murdered, she hires the darkly handsome Baxter St. Ives to be her assistant and bodyguard. But as they pool their powers of deduction and begin to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder, they...
19) The guest list
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Satisfied with her life and a new relationship, Abby Mitchell is most happy to be reunited with her sister, who was separated from her after their parents died. The siblings are planning a sumptuous party, unaware that an uninvited guest is coming, one who'll do anything to help keep the past hidden.
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In Mississippi, strategist Tom Quinlan is ordered to make a senator's second wife less threatening. Ronnie has a body, is younger than the senator's children and voters don't like her. As Tom molds Ronnie, they fall in love, then the senator is shot and Ronnie becomes a suspect. Fortunately, a prostitute does like Ronnie and identifies the real killer.