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This tragic love story reveals the destructive effects of wealth and social hypocrisy on Lily Bart, a ravishing beauty. Impoverished but well-born, Lily realizes a secure future depends on her acquiring a wealthy husband. Her downfall begins with a romantic indiscretion, intensifies with an accumulation of gambling debts, and climaxes in a maelstrom of social disasters.
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Naomi has begun to believe that she isn't meant to find love, but she might receive more than she has ever hoped for this Christmas.
Twenty-four-year-old Naomi King has all but given up on marriage and children. As Christmas approaches, Naomi is certain that her life will be spent as an old maid, helping with the family's quilting business and taking care of her eight siblings. Then she meets Caleb, a young widower with a 7-year-old daughter, and...
3) Nightwalker
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Classic paranormal romantic suspense from the queen of the genre, New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.
One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she's collecting her winnings, a man stumbles through the crowd, a knife protruding from his back, and crashes into her, pinning her to the table.
Hired to investigate the murder, private detective...
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"Every summer since college, twenty-nine-year-old Courtney has traded the familiarity of the Midwest for the allure of Nantucket. Now an established university professor, she finds herself caught between two lifestyles and two very different men. Because this summer has taken an unexpected turn and now she must decide what she really wants."--
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New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Jodi Thomas pens contemporary romances that tug at listeners' heartstrings. When Allie Daniels unexpectedly inherits property on Twisted Creek from a mysterious uncle, she and her nana open the place as a cafe for local residents. There, Allie is treated to a revolving cast of intriguing characters, including the handsome Luke Morgan.
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Amelia Lockwood doesn't mean to sound greedy. She's got a fabulous career in television, a posh apartment, and four fiercely loyal and wickedly funny friends. The only thing she's missing is a husband. So she swallows her pride, signs up for dating boot camp, and enlists the help of a professional-an acidic New Yorker with a black belt in "tongue fu"-who'll help Amelia apply proven business-marketing principles to finding her dream man. Amelia's first...
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c2008
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x, 364 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
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Wilhelmina Cooper is told that the key to her biological father's identity lies somewhere in her family's history. She buries herself in the research of her twisted family tree and finds that a chorus of voices from the town's past -- some sinister, all fascinating -- rises up around her to tell their side of the story.
10) Valley of dreams
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Wild West wind volume 1
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As one woman tries to find the hidden valley of her father's dreams in the 1906 Black Hills, she also discovers courage, faith and romance.
11) The midwife
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Since the day Rhoda Mummau was baptized into the Old Order Mennonite Church and became the head midwife of Hopen Haus, she's been torn between the needs of the unwed mothers under her care and her desire to conceal the secrets of her past. Contact with the outside world could provide medical advantages, but remaining secluded in the community gives her the anonymity she craves. Graduate student Beth Winslow is on a path she never would have chosen....
12) Valerie
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Orchard Valley trilogy volume 1
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Rediscover Orchard Valley, where three sisters will each find love in this favorite series from author Debbie Macomber.
Valerie rushes home to Oregon when her father suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters gather at his side, praying he'll live.
The last thing Valerie expects at a time like this is to fall in love-and with a man like Colby Winston, yet. She's a take-charge, big-city businesswoman; he's a renowned heart surgeon who...
15) Stephanie
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Orchard Valley trilogy volume 2
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Return to Orchard Valley in this classic romance for the keeper shelf by #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Stephanie Bloomfield returns home to Orchard Valley, Oregon; her father has suffered a heart attack, and all three sisters are gathering at his side. Fortunately, by the time Steffie arrives, he's already begun to recover. But Steffie has other worries, too. She'd fled Orchard Valley three years earlier because of her humiliating...
16) Courting Cate
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Courtships of Lancaster County volume 1
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Cate Miller has scared off every suitor. Pete Troyer has never failed at anything. Could he be the one to finally tame the fiery Cate?
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Tradd Street novels volume 1
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Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog—and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets. Enter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. So he turns...
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Sweet magnolias series volume 4
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Although she feels that the holidays are a season of misery, Jeanette Brioche is pushed into working on the town's annual Christmas festival with the sexy new town manager, Tom McDonald. But with romance in the air, Jeanette and Tom take a fresh look at their painful pasts and a hopeful look into the future.
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Miss Julia series volume 16
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Frustrated with her life in the trailer park, Etta Mae Wiggins dreams of something better, but her ambition to marry a wealthy elderly man is challenged by the man's scheming children, her ex's underworld enemies, and her former flame Bobby Lee.
20) The untelling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Aria is no stranger to tragedy. Fifteen years ago, a family outing took the lives of her father and baby sister, leaving remaining members of this fractured family struggling with their own guilt-real and imagined. At twenty-five, Aria believes she can reinvent herself through her planned marriage with all its promise of a family of her own. Her infertility changes her life as swiftly and irrevocably as the urban landscape around her. With prose that...
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