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1261) Curious toys: a novel
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Language
English
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"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
1262) Faith of the fallen
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Series
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English
Description
Richard, the Lord Rahl and the Seeker of Truth, and his beloved Kahlan must fight for good in the midst of evil, but they must do it separately after Richard is captured by a Sister of the Dark; and, consequently, their loyalties are furiously tested.
1263) Matchup
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"Matchup takes the never-before-seen bestseller pairings of FaceOff and adds a ... new twist: gender, [in which] eleven of the world's best female thriller writers from Diana Gabaldon to Charlene Harris are paired with eleven of the world's best male thriller writers, including John Sandford, C.J. Box, and Nelson DeMille"--
1264) Tinhorn's Daughter
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Series
Publisher
Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sunset Maloney is about to find big trouble in the Big Sky country of Montana. Like Alan Ladd as Shane, he's riding into the middle of a ruthless land grab, and his fight for what's right takes an unexpected turn . . . in the face of a young, attractive woman. Slim Trotwood is a cruel, greedy tinhorn-a gambler with little money and less skill-who's determined to take possession of all the land in Puma Pass, whether by fraud or by force. And Sunset's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Description
A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK!
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Critics' Pick).
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new...
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life, from the best-selling author of Maine and Saints for All Occasions (named one of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of the Year and a New York Times Critics' Pick).
Elisabeth, an accomplished journalist and new...
1266) The measure of a man
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Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
p2000.
Language
English
Description
In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career. His body of work is arguable the most morally significant in cinematic history, and the power and influence of that work are indicative of the character of the man behind the many storied roles. Here, Sidney Poitier explores these elements of character and personal values to take his own measure - as a man, as a husband, and father, and as an actor. Poitier...
1267) Let love find you
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Hiring professional matchmaker Devin Baldwin to help her secure a husband after two unsuccessful seasons on the marriage mart, Lady Amanda takes riding lessons from Devin to secure the interests of a titled horseracing fan, a situation that is complicated when Amanda and Devin fall in love.
1268) 21st birthday
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Series
Women's Murder Club volume 21
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"Detective Lindsay Boxer vows to protect a young woman from a serial killer long enough to see her twenty-first birthday. When Tara Burke goes missing with her baby girl, all eyes are on her husband, Lucas. He paints her not as a missing person but a wayward wife--until a gruesome piece of evidence turns the investigation criminal. ADA Yuki Castellano sizes Lucas up as a textbook domestic offender ... who suddenly puts forward an unexpected suspect....
1269) Worthy Brown's daughter
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Matthew Penny, a young lawyer, arrives on the frontier with nothing but shattered dreams. Unable to face the memories that await back home, he joins the handful of lawyers practicing in Portland, Oregon-which in 1860 is just a riverfront town in a state less than a year old. Worthy Brown, a slave from Georgia, journeys west with his master, Caleb Barbour, who promises to reward Worthy and his daughter, Roxanne, with their freedom if they help him...
1270) In dreams
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2010.
Language
English
Description
Drawn to a castle in the forests of Ireland, a beautiful young woman becomes the link to a stranger's past, and the curse that has trapped him forever in the eternity of his own dreams.
1271) Out of the rain
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Series
(Virginia C.).Umbrella lady volume 2
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
When she finally finds the father who abandoned her, thirteen-year-old Saffron Faith Andrews is shocked when he insists she pretend to be his niece so he can continue to con his new wife's family, making her wonder if it is better to face the world alone.
1272) Listening still
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English
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From the bestselling author of When All is Said comes a delicious new novel about a young woman who can hear the dead - a talent which is both a gift and a curse.
Jeanie Masterson has a gift: she can hear the last words of the dead.
Passed down from generation to generation, this gift means she is able to make wrongs right, to give voice to unspoken love and dying regrets. She and her father have worked happily alongside each other for years, but...
1273) Shades of twilight
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love for her cousin, Webb. But everyone expected Webb to marry their ravishing cousin, Jessie. When he did, Roanna's desire became no more than the stuff of dreams, until the night Jessie was found bludgeoned to death.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 14
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder, aimed at the heart of the United States; a way to steal the president's nuclear launch codes. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country? The U.S. Government is convinced of his treason, and is...
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Publisher
Listening Library/Random House Audio Publishing
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Nate the Great: "When Nate gets an urgent call from Annie about a lost picture, he immediately plunges into his new and baffling case with the cool detachment of a Sam Spade. Nate, the boy detective who likes to work alone, solves the mystery and tracks down the culprit. In the process, he also discovers the whereabouts of Super Hex, the missing cat"--Publisher.
Nate the Great goes undercover: "Nate the Great has his first night case! Somebody is...
1276) Experiencing heaven
Author
Publisher
revell
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Ninety minutes after dying in a car wreck and ascending to heaven, Dan Piper miraculously returned to life on earth. His faith in God was severely tested as he faced an uncertain and grueling recovery. The experience dramatically changed Piper's life. Now he shares his story, encouraging those who are recovering from serious injuries and dealing with the loss of a loved one.
1277) Black lightning
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
When the serial killer whose story Seattle journalist Anne Jeffers has pursued for five years is finally executed, Anne breathes a sigh of relief. But is it over? Within days a similar murder occurs, and soon Anne begins to wonder if the wrong man was executed.
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 3
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2004.]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Four contend for power over the Iron Throne and the Land of the Seven Kingdoms; alliances shift, and betrayal is always an option. House Lannister's head, Joffrey, rules uneasily. Joffrey's enemy, Lord Stannis, is disgraced and enthralled. Robb of House Stark still rules the North, implacable in his enmity towards his Lannister foes, even as they hold his sister hostage. And the exiled queen Daenerys, mistress of the world's last three dragons, makes...
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