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The lives of two young sisters, Emilia and Luzia dos Santos, seamstresses in early nineteenth-century Brazil, diverge sharply after Luzia is kidnapped by an outlaw band of cangaceiros led by the infamous Hawk, and Emilia marries into a wealthy, politically connected family, and while Luzia becomes notorious for throwing her lot in with her captors, and Emilia learns to navigate high society, they remain loyal to the point of risking their lives for...
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Eloise, a Harvard graduate student researching spies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, begins a romance of her own as she uncovers the story of Lady Charlotte Landsdowne, a determined young woman who is not about to let go of her dreams of romance with Robert, Duke of Dovedale, even if it means becoming caught up in a world of espionage.
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Sandy Shortt has made a living out of helping people find things since a childhood classmate disapppeared twenty years earlier, and, while searching for Jack Ruttle's missing brother, stumbles upon the obscure place where all lost things go and finds herself searching for a way back home, and back to Jack.
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Anna Zarides arrives in Constantinople in 1273 to prove the innocence of her twin brother Justinian, who has been exiled for conspiring to kill a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely, using her skills as a physician to get close to key players in her brother's fate. Then she meets Giuiliano Dandolo, a ship's captain conflicted not only by his own mixed heritage, but by his growing feelings for Anastasius.
125) A bend in the stars
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In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape...
126) Valensteins
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On a cold, dark night perfect for scaring, Fran is making a valentine, causing other members of Fright Club to howl and hiss over the idea of being in love.
127) The bird king
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G. Willow Wilson’s debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year, and it established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King, a stunning new novel that tells the story of Fatima, a concubine in the royal court of Granada, the last emirate of Muslim Spain, and her dearest friend Hassan, the palace mapmaker. Hassan has a secret―he can draw maps of places he’s never seen and...
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"The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko is comic and staggeringly tragic, often both in a single sentence . . . . A grittier, Eastern European, more grown-up The Fault in Our Stars." --Eowyn Ivey, author of The Snow Child. Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is alife-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books,...
129) Of Neptune
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When Emma's grandfather, the Poseidon king, suggests she and her Syrena love, Galen, visit a small town called Neptune, they find themselves in the middle of a power struggle that threatens not only their love but their ocean kingdoms.
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Meet Bella Bree MacGowan ... smart, sexy and wanted for murder. Bella is furious that Lt. Miles Brooks thinks she's actually capable of murder. If he'd concentrate on finding clues, instead of trying to pin the death of her boss on Bree, he might actually catch the perp. If Brooks won't look for clues, then Bree will, regardless of the danger. Finding clues isn't as easy as it seems and Bree looses her boyfriend and her job while in the pursuit of...
131) Of Triton
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When her mother's reappearance in the Syrena world turns the two kingdoms -- Poseidon and Triton -- against one another, Emma must risk everything she loves and reveal herself -- and her Gift -- to save a people she's never known.
133) Pride & prejudice
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Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters making good marriages. Life is uneventful until the arrival...
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"In this retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider. A scandal and vicious rumor in the Binat family have destroyed their fortune and prospects for desirable marriages, but Alys, the second and most practical of the five Binat daughters, has found happiness teaching English literature to schoolgirls. Knowing that many of...
135) My Lady Jane
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Lady Jane Grey is about to be married to a stranger at the age of sixteen, in preparation for taking the throne from her cousin, King Edward. Caught up in a tangle of lies and conspiracies, Lady Jane soon realizes that she just may end up losing her head over it.
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I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery. But to me ... he's one of us. Nine of us came here, but sometimes I wonder if time has changed us -- if we all still believe in our mission. How can I know?
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