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Gulf Coast chronicles volume 1
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English
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"A fesity young Frenchwoman gets more than she bargained for when she flees to the New World as a mail-order bride"--
4) The typist
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190 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Assigned to post-World War II Japan in the first year of the occupation, military typist Van finds his distinctly Western values tested by the culture, his duties as a babysitter for General MacArthur's son, and startling news from his young war bride.
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392 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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English
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With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. When a pretty junior turns up dead, and every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, Heather thinks it can't get any worse. And then her long-lost mother shows up....
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367 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"April 18, 1906: A massive earthquake rocks San Francisco just before daybreak, igniting a devouring inferno. Lives are lost, lives are shattered, but some rise from the ashes forever changed. Sophie Whalen is a young Irish immigrant so desperate to get out of a New York tenement that she answers a mail-order bride ad and agrees to marry a man she knows nothing about. San Francisco widower Martin Hocking proves to be as aloof as he is mesmerizingly...
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404 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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As a single mom, Robyn Caldwell always put her kids first. Now they're grown, but her daughter has become the most demanding bride ever, and her son won't even consider college. Meanwhile her best friend is on the brink of marital disaster and her ex is making a monumentally bad decision that could ruin everything. When her great-aunt Lillian invites her to Santa Barbara for the summer, Robyn hops on the first plane! One by one, everyone she loves...
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viii, 263 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Lily Davis Woodward was married for just days before her husband was sent abroad to fight in World War II. Now he and the other solder's are returning, and Lily and the small town of Toccoa, Georgia, plan a big celebration. Jake Russo, a handsome Italian immigrant, also back from war, is responsible for the elaborate fireworks display the town commissioned. After a chance encounter in a starlit field, he steals Lily's heart and soul fulfilling her...
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379 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Una una historia de amor propia de los cuentos de hadas con una trama de misterio en forma de maldición. Hay elementos de bella y la bestia, de La cenicienta o El jorobado de Nôtre Dame. "La reina del romance sobrenatural". Usa Today Nicoletta conoce demasiado bien la maldición que persigue a la dinastía Scarletti. Siempre había creído que sus milagrosos dones sanadores la harían especial y que ningún hombre la controlaría jamás, pero cuando...
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"Khai Diep has no feelings. Well, he feels irritation when people move his things or contentment when ledgers balance down to the penny, but he doesn't experience big, important emotions like love and grief. Rather than believing he processes emotions differently due to being autistic, he concludes that he's defective and decides to avoid romantic relationships. So his mother, driven to desperation, takes matters into her own hands and returns to...
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vi, 358 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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After listening to her closest friends' latest travails in love, parenting, and careers, superstitious bride-to-be Nicole (Nic) believes she has the perfect recipe for everyone's happiness: a bridal shower cake pull in which each ribboned silver charm planted in her cake will bring its recipient the magical assistance she needs to change her destiny. Melissa (Mel), still ringless after dating the same man for six years, deserves the engagement ring...
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The story of four women "as they negotiate one of Manhattan's swiftly changing neighborhoods, extreme weather, and the perils and unease of twenty-first-century life--
"In Sunken Cathedral, Kate Walbert tells the stories of four women living in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, more or less now. Two, Marie and Simone, friends for decades, are widows in their seventies, yet robust, engaged, appetiteful, even ready to find love again. They were immigrants,...
13) La novia gitana
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403 pages ; 24 cm.
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Español
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"Susana Macaya, una joven gitana educada como paya, desaparece tras su despedida de soltera. El cadáver es encontrado dos días después: la víctima ha sido brutalmente torturada siguiendo un ritual insólito y atroz. Su hermana Lara sufrió idéntida suerte siete años atrás, en vísperas de su boda, pero el asesino cumple condena en prisión: ¿alguien ha imitado sus terribles métodos o hay un inocente encarcelado? La inspectora Elena Blanco,...
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McBrides of Montana volume 1
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454 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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"The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister secretly places an advertisement for a mail-order bride. Kit McBride knows that Buck's Creek, Montana, is no place to find a wife. Between him and his three brothers -- plus little Junebug -- they manage all right on their own, thank you very much. But unbeknownst to Kit, his sister is sick to death of cleaning, cooking, and mending for her big brothers,...
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