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4361) Jane Eyre
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Jane Eyre ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order. All of which circumscribe her life and position when she becomes governess to the daughter of the mysterious,...
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2023.
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"For renowned chef Mickey Campbell, this wedding isn't just a welcome excuse to return to the place she first learned to cook at her grandmother's side. It's also a chance to regroup while she figures out a way to tell her smoldering head chef boyfriend that she's mismanaged their restaurant into the red. Mickey's mother, Hedy, is still mourning the passing of her adored father three years earlier, and she isn't sure she's ready to welcome a new man...
4363) Joseph
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Turner Home Entertainment/Warner Brothers Entertainment
Pub. Date
1995
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The story of Joseph, son of Jacob, who was sold into slavery by his brothers and later rises to power in Egypt.
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Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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Sarah has spent the last few weeks wondering what’s going on between her and Robert. They got close during their class project, but then he had to rush off and she hasn’t seen him since. She’s starting to think that she’s wasting her time. That is, until she gets a phone call from him saying that his father wants to meet her. In the blink of an eye everything changes and suddenly things start getting serious. But when Rob’s father makes...
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Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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Sarah can’t believe that her boyfriend has just proposed to her and that he’s expecting a prompt answer. When she finally gives it to him she does so on one condition, that he must meet her father. Sarah hasn’t seen her father since she left for college, but she’s hoping that the idea of marriage might mend their troubled relationship. Little does Sarah know that it isn’t her father she should be worrying about, but Rob, who has a secret...
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Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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Sarah has been left with nothing—not even hope. The person she trusted the most has deceived her and now she doesn’t know what to do. All she knows is what she is being forced to do. If she doesn’t get a job quickly then she’s going to lose her place at college. Robert can’t believe he’s messed things up so badly. It isn’t even his own pain that he’s bothered about. It’s the fact that he’s hurt Sarah. He knows that he has to make...
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Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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Sarah went to college to learn. She went for the classes and to prove her father wrong about what women could really achieve. But all she’s managed to do, so far is mess things up. Without knowing how, she’s ended up with two men after her and no idea about which one she wants to be with. The clock is ticking and she knows that neither of them will wait forever. Robert can’t believe that his friend has gone after Sarah. James knew just how much...
4368) At the Edge of the Woods
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* An American Booksellers Association "Indies Introduce" Pick!
Haunting, gorgeously descriptive, and spellbinding, At the Edge of the Woods is a magnificent and assured debut novel that delivers all the resonance and significance of an instant classic.
Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the Italian Alps, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals. She spends her days climbing the mountains...
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"Few have failed to be charmed by the witty and independent spirit of Elizabeth Bennet in [this] Austen's beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to...
4371) The call of the wild
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Kidnapped from his California home and sold to prospectors embarked for the Yukon Gold Rush, Buck, a pampered house dog who has known comfort all of his life, finds himself thrust into a brutal world of cruel human masters, savage fellow sled-dogs, and an unforgiving wilderness full of hardship and misery. In the wilds, Buck earns the love of a man as rugged as he is, and he reacquaints himself with his true animal nature, a noble heritage passed...
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Speedy Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2016
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Lucy has always known that she was different from the other kids in her home. Of course, it doesn’t help that she suffers from a recurring nightmare that wakes her up with a scream on her lips and sweat pouring down her back. The nightmare is driving her crazy. She’s too scared to sleep, she’s too tired to live and she feels as though it’s never going to get better...until Daniel shows up, that is. Daniel knows why Lucy is suffering from nightmares....
4373) Lola at Last
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story.
Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk.
(The boat was barely on fire, for the record—and all the partygoers were just fine.)
Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her:...