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61) Something blue
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Thirty years old, successful and stunning, Darcy Rhone used to think that 'being down and out' meant not finding a size four at the Barney's Warehouse Sale. Now she is pregnant, unmarried and recovering from a broken engagement to Dex and the betrayal of her ex-best friend Rachel who stole Dex's affections. Marcus, Darcy's new man and father of her baby, helps her paper over the cracks in her seemingly charmed life, but reality quickly catches up....
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Anna Bouverie is the Rector's wife. She irons his surplices, delivers the parish newletters, and scrimps to get by on the pittance the Church pays while keeping up appearances for the gossipy villagers. As she watches her children suffer from lack of funds, and her husband withdraws into his work. Anna comes to realize that she's willing to do whatever it takes to save herself.
63) Maisie Dobbs
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Young, feisty Maisie Dobbs has recently set herself up as a private detective. Such a move may not seem especially startling. But this is 1929, and Maisie is exceptional in many ways.
Having started as a maid to the London aristocracy, studied her way to Cambridge and served as a nurse in the Great War, Maisie has wisdom, experience and understanding beyond her years. Little does she realise the extent to which this strength of character is soon...
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THE FIRST ROYAL SPYNESS MYSTERY!
The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”*
London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place...
The New York Times bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Constable Evan Evans mysteries turns her attentions to “a feisty new heroine to delight a legion of Anglophile readers.”*
London, 1932. Lady Victoria Georgiana Charlotte Eugenie, 34th in line for the English throne, is flat broke. She's bolted Scotland, her greedy brother, and her fish-faced betrothed. London is a place...
66) Zom-B Angels
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Zom-B volume Book Four
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"Near to giving up hope in a London overrun by zombies, B meets The Angels, a group gathered to fight the living dead and the forces that introduced them"--
69) Foreigners
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Award-winning author Caryl Phillips shares the fact-based story of three foreigners-black men attempting to fit into a white world. Francis Barber worked for Dr. Samuel Johnson, and after the good doctor's death he struggles for respect. Randy Turpin beats Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951, but soon falls into debt and despair. David Oluwale is a Nigerian immigrant who is brutally beaten by Leeds police officers in 1969.
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"Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her behaviour leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile, Elinor is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment."--
71) Strange affair
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Chief Inspector Alan Banks faces his most personal case, from New York Times best-selling author Peter Robinson.
A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased - a policeman who has since gone missing.
The dead woman in the car had been running from something - but she didn't run far or fast enough....
72) The Necromancer
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Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And his secrets aren't safe! Discover the truth in book four of the New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.
The Belief: Sophie and Josh are the twins of prophecy.
The Reality: Nicholas Flamel has been wrong before.
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Bess Crawford mystery volume 9
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Caring for an unstable soldier who believes his distant cousin is responsible for his injuries, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford investigates the patient's claims, only to find herself in unexpected danger.
76) Jane Eyre
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The humble Jane Eyre is plain and penniless, but full of courage and spirit. After being spurned by the only family she has left, she endures years of harsh treatment at a boarding school. When she finally escapes by taking a position as a governess, she finds herself becoming more fully involved with life than ever before. Her melancholy and mysterious master, Mr. Rochester, arouses feelings she never knew she could have...
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‘A lively adventure in the very best of intellectual company’ New York Times
Mary Russell is used to dark secrets – her own, and those of her famous partner and husband, Sherlock Holmes. But what about the secrets of the third member of the Holmes household: Mrs. Hudson? When a man arrives on the doorstep Russell cannot help but believe the revelations he has about their beloved housekeeper, just as she believes the threat of the gun in his...
78) Little women
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Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.
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Verity Kent mystery volume 6
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"March 1920: Life has turned unsettlingly quiet for former British Intelligence agent Verity Kent and her husband, Sidney. But even that false calm is about to end. The French authorities soon request Sidney's help with a suspect who claims to have proof of treason -- shortly before she is assassinated. And Verity, too, is called to investigate a mystery . . . The murder of a Belgian lawyer aboard a train seems at first to be a simple case of revenge....
80) The golem's eye
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In their continuing adventures, magician's apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteenyearsold, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golem's power before it destroys London.
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