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Shortly after the death of her husband, a wealthy Southern widow is visited by an impoverished young woman with a small boy. A mistress? A son? Julia Springer can't believe it, only to discover that the whole town has known for years. But she will rise to the occasion when the boy is kidnaped.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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From Lauren Willig, author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Ashford Affair, comes The Other Daughter, a tale full of deceit, passion, and revenge.
Raised in a poor yet genteel household, Rachel Woodley is working in France as a governess when she receives news that her mother has died suddenly. Grief-stricken, she returns to the small town in England where she was raised to clear out the cottage...and
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When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji's true identity as a child born from a liaison between an officer and a geisha. But when the truth about Benji surfaces, it will splinter this family's fragile dynamic, sending repercussions spiraling through their close-knit rural...
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Wilkie Collins was the first great detective novelist. His dark and complex mysteries influenced the work of other writers, such as Anthony Trollope and Charles Dickens, with whom he developed a close personal friendship. Swinburne found his work worthy of serious criticism, and T. S. Eliot credits him even more than Poe with the invention of the modern detective novel and the popular thriller. Before such works as The Woman in White, The Moonstone,...
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Series
Songbird novel volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maybe in the wide-open country she can learn to breathe again. Happily married and owner of two successful boutiques, Jade longs to begin a family with her husband, Max. But when she discovers that Max has an illegitimate son-who he wants her to help raise-Jade's life is turned upside down. She flees to her childhood home, a rambling Iowa farmhouse, with enough room to breathe. There-while her mother's health grows fragile, and the tug of her first...
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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiv, 377 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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He made himself an island until something unexpected washed ashore. When Holton lost his wife, Adele, in a freak accident, he shut himself off from the world, living a life of seclusion, making drifwood sculptures and drowning his pain in gin. Until twenty-three-year-old Libby knocks on his door, asking for a job and claiming to be a friend of his late wife. When he discovers Libby is actually his late wife's illegitimate daughter, given up for adoption...
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"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
10) Bleak house
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English
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With their estate entangled in an interminable legal case, the young wards of the court Richard Carstone and Ada Clare are taken into the benevolent care of the kindly John Jarndyce. Ada's companion, the gentle and good-hearted Esther Summerson, is devoted to the old man and, although she loves another, becomes betrothed to him. But behind Esther's supposed orphan past lies a dark secret that leads tragically to deceit, blackmail and murder. And as...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
253 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Lara Chandler has come home to the Rocking B Ranch, though not for Carson Blackridge. Four years ago he cruelly rejected her, and her love turned to hate. But the chance to research the history of the ranch on a business footing is one she just can't pass up. Carson is waiting, though, and he is determined to show her that he's long regretted the way he treated her.
12) My fair princess
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English
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Ordered home to England to find a suitable husband, willful beauty Gillian Dryden, the illegitimate daughter of a prince, is sent to the Duke of Leverton to be transformed from a tomboy into a blushing debutante, but her outrageous behavior sets the town on its ear and brings the Duke to his knees.
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Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
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While seeking redemption in London's underworld for a past that haunts her, Lady Lavinia Kent encounters her first love, Finn Trewlove, who broke her heart years earlier, and discovers that he is not the man she thought he was.
14) Dad by choice
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Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
245 p. ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A mystery baby, an expectant uncle and a pregnant teenager! Dr. Abby Maitland was used to existing in a goldfish bowl, but life at her family's renowned maternity clinic had never been tinged by scandal…till now! Kyle McDermott knew that raising his sister would be challenging, but he never figured he'd be challenging Marcie's decision not to marry her baby's father! Abby had her hands full. Ethically, she had to support the administration of Maitland...
15) The bastard king
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Series
Scepter of mercy volume 1
Publisher
Roc
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Series
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English
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" A new addition to the New York Times-bestselling Stone Barrington series. After an eventful trip to Bel-Air and a reunion with his sophisticated (and very wealthy) former love, Arrington Calder, Stone Barrington is back in New York, and he's looking to stay closer to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld. But Arrington has other plans for Stone...including introducing him to the child he fathered many years ago"-- Provided by...
19) Julia
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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A tragic tale of love and the bonds of marriage. Teenager Judah Jacobs is employed regularly as a babysitter by Peter and Joyce Kane. When Joyce is taken to hospital, Judah allows herself to be seduced by Peter. They embark on an affair, and eventually, once Judah is pregnant, Peter leaves Joyce and they embark on a new life together. Tragedy strikes when their son dies from leukaemia and Peter finds comfort in the arms of Judah's sister, Syria. Judah...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
199 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An uproarious novel about a Brazilian man's often sordid, lifelong search for a possibly imaginary half-brother, born in Germany just before the Second World War"--
"In 1960s São Paulo, teenage car thief and budding lothario Ciccio comes home each day to a house stuffed with books. His father, a scholar, cold and aloof, has spent his life acquiring them; his mother, by necessity, has spent her life organizing them. Ciccio himself feels like an...
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