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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers; however the first edition contained...
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2022.
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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
4) Mary Anne
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An ambitious, stunning, and seductive young woman, Mary Anne finds the single most rewarding way to rise above her miserable cockney world: she will become the mistress to a royal duke. In doing so, she provokes a scandal that rocks Regency England. Mary Anne glitters with sex, scandal, corruption, and the privileged world of high society. Based on the true story of one of du Maurier's own distant relatives, Mary Anne's love of money and the men who...
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2021.
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Seventeen-year-old Evie, devastated by her father's death and the knowledge that he was leaving his family for his pregnant mistress, finds strength through a prestigious photography class and handsome classmate Declan.
Evie Parker is devastated in the wake of her father's sudden death, but she knows something her mother doesn't: the day of his heart attack, her dad was planning to move out. He had been dating his twenty-two-year-old receptionist,...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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When her late husband leaves his half of their wedding planning business to his girlfriend, Liv Goldenhorn, who never saw this coming, finds herself shackled to her polar opposite in every way, whose inexperience may be just what the company needs.
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"The novel follows the plight of Abulhassan, an elderly pharmacist and respected alchemist, whose honesty over the years has won him the sultan's friendship. When his protege, the young prince of Persia, falls in love with the sultan's mistress, Abulhassan must choose between betraying his oldest friend and betraying his most beloved one."--Jacket.
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Warner
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1995.
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English
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This popular national seller recounts the amazing life of one of the Old West's most famous and courageous women. Katherine Horony, also known as "Big Nose Kate," her love and devotion to John Henry "Doc" Holliday, D, D.S., a colorful icon of the wild and dangerous times in Tombstone, Arizona of the 1880's. Re-live Kate's life as only the gifted Ms. Jane Candia Coleman could possibly portray; who has been called "America's Chekov." Also, experience...
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Milan, 1492: When a sixteen-year old beauty becomes the mistress of the Duke of Milan, she must fight for her place in the palace, and against those who want her out. Soon, she finds herself sitting before Leonardo da Vinci, who wants to ensure his own place in the ducal palace by painting his most ambitious portrait to date. Munich, World War II: After a modest conservator unwittingly places a priceless Italian Renaissance portrait into the hands...
14) Circle of stones
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St. Martin's
Pub. Date
1999.
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English
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The author of the 1.5 million-copy bestseller Sacajawea now brings to life an extraordinary historical saga, capturing the breathtaking castle intrigue of medieval Wales and the passions that drove men and women to explore new horizons. History would call her Brenda, the mistress of a powerful Welsh prince. But when she arrives at Gwynedd Castle, she is only a naive girl who cannot control her desire for Prince Owain-- until he decides to murder her...
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She Writes Press
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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"New York 1915. Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion, and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst's mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly...
16) Jamesland
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Knopf
Pub. Date
c2003.
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English
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Jamesland, the buoyant second novel by Michelle Huneven, critically acclaimed author of Round Rock, is a witty, sophisticated, and deeply humane comedy of unlikely redemption. When thirty-three-year-old Alice Black discovers a deer in her dining room after fighting with her boyfriend, she wonders if shes going crazy. Pete Ross, forty-six, knows hes crazy. Hes wrecked his marriage, slashed his wrists, and done time in a psychiatric...
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Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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"¿Por qué el escritor de misterio más famoso del mundo desaparecería durante once días? ¿Qué hace que una mujer esté lo suficientemente desesperada como para destruir el matrimonio de otra mujer? ¿Qué tan profundamente puede una persona anhelar la venganza? En 1925, la señorita Nan O'Dea se infiltró en el rico y enrarecido mundo de la autora Agatha Christie y su marido, Archie. En todos los sentidos, ella se convirtió en parte de su vida,...
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