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21) The witness
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"A brand new novel -- and a stunning new heroine -- from the #1 New York Times bestselling author"--
"Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man's seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive. The events that followed changed her life forever. Twelve years later, the woman now known...
22) Pasión prohibida
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382 pages ; 22 cm
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"Finalmente liberada de su cruel y depravado marido, Serena Riverton ha decidido no volver a caer jamás en las redes del matrimonio. Pero, para su desgracia, sus hermanos tienen otros planes para ella. Con el objeto de cubrir sus deudas de juego, han decidido desposarla con un noble rico. Serena huye en medio de una noche tormentosa y termina topándose con lord Francis Middlethorpe, un hombre en apariencia aburrido y completamente inexperimentado...
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1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Pasco is so fed up with his nagging and nitpicking wife Dana that he comes up with an ingenious plan to end the unhappy union. He finds her a boyfriend by hiring a professional seducer nicknamed 'El Taiger' to whisk her off her feet and out of the marriage. But even the best laid plans can backfire when love is involved.
24) The last station
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1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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In honor of his newly created religion, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy renounces his title, property, and family in favor of poverty and celibacy. For the Countess Sofya, his wife of nearly fifty years, this is the last straw! After she discovers his plans to leave the rights to his iconic novels to the Russian people rather than his own family, she decides to use every trick of seduction in her considerable arsenal, to fight for what she believes is...
25) Showgirls
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1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Nomi Malone has what it takes to make it as a Las Vegas showgirl-- what she doesn't have is a way in. To survive, she accepts the only job available: lap dancing at a seedy club. And when she meets Cristal, Vegas' reigning showgirl, Nomi wants everything she has-- including her boyfriend. And as Nomi dives deeper into the world she so desperately desires, a rivalry between the two women heats up. The battle for the spotlight becomes so fiercely competitive...
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336 pages ; 25 cm
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"In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Sato hires Kaitaro, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Sato has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitaro's job is to do exactly that - until he does it too well. While...
28) Por primera vez
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412 pages ; 19 cm
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"La bella Grace está asustada: la han secuestrado, la han llevado a una casa perdida en el campo y le han dicho que debe satisfacer todos los deseos del hombre con quien la van a encerrar... o perderá la vida. Pero Grace no es una cualquiera. Lo arriesga todo para salvar su virtud y trama una huida audaz, a pesar de lo intensa que es la tentación de este hombre tan hermoso. Hay algo en sus ojos que la hace dudar, quizá no sea tan cruel como le...
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372 pages ; 21 cm
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Wounded and near death, a young Union Army corporal is found in the woods of Virginia during the height of the Civil War and brought to the nearby Miss Martha Farnsworth Seminary for Young Ladies. Almost immediately he sets about beguiling the three women and five teenage girls stranded in this outpost of Southern gentility, eliciting their love and fear, pity and infatuation, and pitting them against one another in a bid for his freedom. But as the...
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453 pages ; 24 cm
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a year's worth of daily wisdom and guidance, distilled from the lessons of his six previous books and from never-before-published work Robert Greene, the bestselling author, philosopher, and life guide for millions of people, applies the wisdom of centuries to his mission of revealing the secret truths about the essential forces shaping our lives. His readers look to him to answer their most elemental...
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438 pages ; 20 cm
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"Through charm, drive, and diligent effort, Octave Mouret has become the director of one of the finest new department stores in Paris, Au Bonheur des Dames. Supremely aware of the power of his position, Mouret seeks to exploit the desire that his luxuriantly displayed merchandise arouses in the ladies who shop, and the aspirations of the young female assistants he employs. Charting the beginnings of the capitalist economy and bourgeois society, Zola...
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