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Rebel of the sands volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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Desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, Amani meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army and she unlocks a powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself.
12642) Tail of the moon: 13
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Description
After the devastating attack on Iga, Usagi becomes a better-skilled ninja. Even as Usagi takes solace from her friend Yuki and vows to move forward, she struggles to come to terms with her tragic losses. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Goemon is still alive in the capital! Usagi heads off to investigate, but she'll be surprised to see how much he's changed.
12643) Tail of the moon: 7
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Frustrated with her lack of ninja skills, the leader of a prestigious ninja village sends his granddaughter, Usagi, to marry Lord Hanzo and bear him lots of ninja babies, but Lord Hanzo has no interest in her childbearing potential.
12644) Tail of the moon: 14
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Usagi must decide whether she'll continue to hold on to her feelings for Hanzo or give up and marry Yuki instead. She becomes even more torn when Yuki reveals that the mysterious ninja who saved Usagi earlier may have been Hanzo himself.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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"The extraordinary love story of an American blueblood and a German aristocrat--and a riveting tale of survival in wartime Germany. Sigrid MacRae never knew her father, until a trove of letters revealed not only him, but also the singular story of her parents' intercontinental love affair. While visiting Paris in 1927, her American mother, Aimee, raised in a wealthy Connecticut family, falls in love with a charming, sophisticated Baltic German baron,...
12646) Goddess of Spring (CD)
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017
Description
After stumbling upon an Italian Goddess cookbook, Lina thinks shes found a way to save her failing bakery. Lina agrees to exchange souls with Persephone, the Goddess of Spring, so that shell breathe new life into the bakery.
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Pub. Date
2007, c2006
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A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there...
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Pub. Date
2020.
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"In fierce, agile poems, Felon tells the story of the effects of incarceration - canvassing a wide range of emotions and experiences through homelessness, underemployment, love, drug abuse, domestic violence, fatherhood, and grace - and, in doing so, creates a travelogue for an imagine life. Reginald Dwayne Betts confronts the funk of post-incarceration existence in traditional and newfound forms, from revolutionary found poems created by redacting...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners...
12653) Love*com. Vol. 5
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Heartbroken by rejection, Risa decides to give up on ever getting together with him. But a chance encounter with her musical hero helps Risa get back in the fighting spirit.
12654) Autumn lover
Author
Series
Only series volume 5
Pub. Date
p2007
Description
"Returning to her Wyoming ranch at the Civil War's end, Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home, though it means enlisting the aid of a dark and dangerous stranger who lives for revenge alone. Hunter Maxwell has suffered from the savagery of outlaws and the faithlessness of a woman. And he will trust no female-- nor will he rest until...
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
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The first Pulitzer Prize for literature awarded to a woman was for The age of innocence, Edith Wharton's elegant portrait of desire and betrayal in Old New York. In the highest circle of New York social life during the 1870s, Newland Archer, a young lawyer, prepares to marry the docile May Welland. But before their engagement is announced, he meets the mysterious, nonconformist Countess Ellen Olenska, May's cousin, who has returned to New York after...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause--despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss--until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom Iris dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's never heard of. In an effort to run from her own grief and discover...
12659) Hex Americana
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Ken Takamoto is a wannabe racer stuck at home for the summer, with only his mother for company. Dante Willow is a ghost stuck in the car he crashed while racing his rival twenty years ago. When they meet by chance, Ken has the answer to both their problems: enter the local racing league Hex Americana and win the annual Grand Prix. If they win, Dante can pass on to the afterlife and Ken can keep Dante's fixed-up car to go anywhere he wants. What starts...
12660) Glass sword: kneel or bleed
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Mare Barrows blood is red-the color of common folk-but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from Maven, the prince-the friend-who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by Maven, now a vindictive king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other...