Adriana Hunter
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Rock Hard (Complete Collection) This full length novel includes the entire "Rock Hard" series including Rock Hard, Rock Bottom and Rock Solid! Curvy single Kate Preston is about to come face to face with her worst nightmare when she's forced to interview her college boyfriend, now world famous rocker, Gage Stevens. Their breakup was a messy one. Kate wanted Gage to ditch the dream of becoming a rockstar for a "stable" job but Gage refused to give...
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When curvy single and struggling romance author Leila Connors receives a mysterious invitation to spend an all-expense paid week on a tropical island, it simply seems too good to be true. Who is responsible for sending the invitation? Why does the envelope smell of dominant male possession? And most importantly, why her? With a string of failed relationships and a career on the down-slide, Leila feels she has nothing to lose and agrees...
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Curvy nurse Aspyn Montgomery's night takes a sudden turn when a patient she watched die, suddenly turns up at her apartment desperately needing help.Clearly he's not human, yet he touches something in her that no man ever has before.Can fated love triumph over the threat of war?
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When Jace Dawson finds himself rushing into the emergency room of Parkland hospital, there is only one thing on his mind: survival. Two gunshot wounds and a rival club chasing him down, his time is running out. That is until he meets Piper Reece, a curvy nurse who is willing to become a willing accomplice in helping him evade the police force. But what the sweet, plus size single doesn't realize is that this biker bad boy isn't just a threat to her...
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The last thing that curvy publishing agent Callie expected was to find herself caught up in the pages of a wildly erotic story from an unknown author, yet that's exactly what happened. Curious about the mystery man, she agrees to a meeting only to find that the author isn't a stranger at all. In fact, he's all too familiar.Brendan has already hurt Callie once and she's not about to give him the chance to do it again. It doesn't matter that he's the...
6) The anomaly
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"Winner of the Prix Goncourt, this dizzying literary page-turner ingeniously blends crime, fantasy, sci-fi, and thriller as it plumbs the mysteries surrounding a Paris-New York flight. In June 2021, a senseless event upends the lives of hundreds of men and women, all passengers on a flight from Paris to New York. Among them: Blake, a respectable family man, though he works as a contract killer; Slimboy, a Nigerian pop star tired of living a lie; Joanna,...
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xvi, 230 p. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
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Balzac uses food and the art of the table as a connecting thread in his novels, showing how food can evoke character, atmosphere, class, and social climbing more suggestively than money, appearances, and other more conventional trappings. Full of surprises and insights, "Balzac's Omelet" invites readers to taste anew Balzac's genius as a writer.
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"In the early 1920s, in the remote village of Ghamsar, Talla and Sardar, two teenagers dreaming of a better life, fall in love and marry. Sardar brings his young bride with him across the mountains to the suburbs of Tehran, where the couple settles down and builds a home. From the outskirts of the capital city, they will watch as the Qajar dynasty falls and Reza Khan rises to power as Reza Shah Pahlavi. Into this family of illiterate shepherds is...
10) Badawi
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Follows the course of the life of a Syrian orphan boy named Maïouf whose struggles to attain an education lead him to France and Abu Dhabi, where even his great success can't keep him from being drawn back to the life he thought forgotten.
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362 pages ; 24 cm.
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"Inspired by the true story of a former slave who became a saint, this poignant novel explores how a human being can survive the obliteration of her identity, and how kindness and generosity can be born out of profound trauma. She recalls little of her childhood, not even her own name. She was barely seven years old when she was snatched by slave raiders from her village in the Darfur region of southern Sudan. In a cruel twist, they gave her the name...
12) They say Sarah
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165 pages ; 21 cm.
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"A literary sensation in France, this poetic, thrilling debut charts the all-consuming passion between two women and the ruin it leaves in its wake. A thirty-something teacher drifts through her life in Paris, raising a daughter on her own, lonely in spite of a new boyfriend. And then one night at a friend's tepid New Year's Eve party, Sarah enters the scene like a tornado-a talented young violinist, she is loud, vivacious, appealingly unkempt in...
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235 p. ; 21 cm.
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Like all young Israelis, Valérie Zenatti enlisted in the national defense service on her 18th birthday, where for the next two years she endured rigorous training and harsh living conditions, ultimately participating in top-secret missions with the secret service.
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"An eloquent, powerful reckoning with incest and trauma, which made a profound impact with its denunciation of a prominent French public intellectual and the literary and political elite that enabled his abuse. In February 2017, Camille Kouchner gathered with family in Sanary-sur-Mer to bury her mother, who died with none of her five children present. Her passing would stir up old emotions, ultimately leading Camille to publicly confront a long-held...
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The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider.
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"This intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist's work and of the vibrant Surrealist art scene in the 1930s. In 1939, devastated after the revelation that her husband had had an affair with her sister, Frida Kahlo left her home in Mexico and headed for Paris to rebuild her life and rediscover her art. Now, for the first time, this missing part of Kahlo's story is brought to light in exquisite detail. Marc Petitjean takes...
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245 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
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"In this first volume of the full-color illustrated adaptation of his groundbreaking book, renowned historian Yuval Harari tells the story of humankind's creation and evolution, exploring the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be 'human'. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens challenges us to reconsider accepted...
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252 pages : chiefly color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm.
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In the second "Sapiens" volume, Yuval Noah Harari tells the story of how we took over the world; how an unlikely marriage between a god and a bureaucrat created the first empires; and how war, famine, disease, and inequality became a part of the human condition. The origins of modern farming are introduced through Elizabethan tragedy, the changing fortunes of domesticated plants and animals are tracked in the columns of the Daily Business News, and...
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Aventure d'Astérix volume 37
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46 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, map ; 29 cm.
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Famous for their extensive travels around the Known World, this time Asterix and Obelix are going to meet the people of the Italian peninsula: the Italics! To Obelix's delight, the inhabitants of Ancient Italy are not all Romans! Far from it! The Italics want to keep their independence and take a dim view of Julius Caesar and his Legions' plans for total domination. In Asterix and the Chariot Race, Asterix and Obelix embark upon a great adventure...
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