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This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. The book quickly became an international best-seller. Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet,...
3) Night storm
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Wheeler
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c1990.
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Dear Reader, You met Alec Carrick in Night Fire. He returns full force-and believe me, this man's got force--in Night Storm, the third novel of the Night Trilogy which I wrote in the Fall of 1988. The Paxtons are shipbuilders in Baltimore. Alec Carrick is an English nobleman who wants to buy them out. Genny Paxton isn't at all what she seems. She dresses like "Eugene" and wants to build her own sailing ships without male interference. Alec, a man...
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Wheeler Publishing, Inc
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[1991]
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He called himself Peregrine, and like the falcon he was wild and free. He was superbly handsome, fabulously wealthy, overwhelmingly seductive. He cut a dazzling swath through Victorian Londonand wove a web of desire around beautiful and proud Lady Sara St. James, pledged to wed another man. In Peregrine's arms Sara learned the meaning of forbidden passionand forbidding mystery. Only the burning power of love could pierce Peregrine's...
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Nan and Jinny St George have both wealth and beauty in generous supply. In the New York society of the 1870s, however, only those with old money can achieve the status of the elite, and it is here that the sisters seem doomed to failure. Nan's new governess, Laura Testvalley, herself an outsider, takes pity on their plight and launches them instead on the unsuspecting British aristocracy. Lords, dukes, marquesses and MPs, it seems, not only appreciate...
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Darkness has fallen on the city of Portland, Oregon. One by one, the wives of affluent and respected men are vanishing from their homes. The only clues to their disappearance are a single black rose and a note that reads "Gone, But Not Forgotten." It is the rebirth of a horror that has already devastated a community at the opposite end of the country -- and, as it did then, terror and death will follow. Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is trapped...
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I now pronounce you husband and wife. There are few phrases as sobering, with the possible exceptions of "We have lift-off" and "This country is at war." Yet as they have done for centuries, millions of courageous men and women continue to walk down the aisle every year, without so much as a job description. Now, in her most autobiographical book, Erma Bombeck puts it all in loving and laughing perspective, as she looks back on her own forty-three-year-but-who's-counting...
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Wheeler
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c1993.
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English
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When the wagon that hauled the swindling McDougal sisters to jail came under attack, Anne-Marie watched Abigail and Amelia ride off safely with dashing rescuers, and cursed her own luck. She was abducted by a Crow warrior. No doubt Creed Walker returned the sentiments. It wasn't exactly a picnic landing in jail, hiding a cache of gold, and running from a horde of Mexican bandits. Besides, he knew Anne-Marie hadn't meant to shoot him in the leg. Like...
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Wheeler Publishing, Inc
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[1993]
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Struggling to maintain a facade of family harmony for the sake of their religious beliefs and three grown children, Winifred and Daniel Coulson begin a legacy in which their youngest son, Donald, must choose between the values of the past and present.
11) Acceptable risk
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Wheeler Publishing Inc
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[1994]
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English
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When neuroscientist Edward Armstrong begins dating Kimberly Stewart, a descendant of a woman who was hanged as a witch at the time of the Salem witch trials, he takes advantage of the opportunity to delve into a pet theory: that the "devil" in Salem in 1692 had been a hallucinogenic drug inadvertently consumed with mould-tainted grain. In an attempt to prove his theory, Edward grows the mould he believes responsible from samples taken from the Stewart...
12) One true thing
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A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia.
13) Wild horses
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Thomas Lyon, a film director, hears the dying secret of Valentine Clark, a man who knew everyone in the racing world.
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American agent Harry Latham has penetrated the fortresslike mountain hideaway of the Brotherhood of the Watch, a neo-Nazi organization that was born in the days after the fall of the Third Reich. After three years in deep cover, and on the eve of his most spectacular success, Harry Latham has disappeared. Drew Latham, Special Officer for Consular Operations in Paris, is frantic to discover his older brother's fate. But when he receives the sudden...
15) Dear Emily
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A woman helps a man through college, they marry and he dumps her--old story. What is new is that the protagonist, Emily Thorn, doesn't spend the rest of her life weeping. Instead, she finds herself a handsome physical fitness instructor and launches a chain of fitness centers for women. By the author of Serendipity.
16) Wonder boys
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In his first novel since The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Chabon presents a hilarious and heartbreaking workthe story of the friendship between the "wonder boys"Grady, an aging writer who has lost his way, and Crabtree, whose relentless debauchery is capsizing his career.
17) Deep waters
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Charity Truitt and Elias Winter, two of the Pacific Northwests most powerful corporate figures, are both facing crises of career and the heart. Fate has brought them together in Washingtons tiny Whispering Waters Cove, each eager to downsize and simplify. Theyre both determined to avoid mergers of any kindbut when they meet, the attraction is nothing short of blue-chip. And they definitely have at least one thing in...
19) The inheritance
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An Italian orphan, reared in an English family, is ever reminded of her humble birth. But a mysterious will sheds new light on her true birthright.
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