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Family Ties
Annie Ferguson - a bright, talented young Manhattan architect - had the world in the palm of her hand...until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children. Suddenly, her own life seemed indefinitely on hold. Years later, she is as independent as ever, with a satisfying career and a family that means everything to her. Annie is comfortable being single and staying that way, but with her nephew and nieces now young adults, with careers as diverse as fashion editor, law student and rebellious artist, she is facing the empty nest with some trepidation.
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The Mulberry Tree
Lillian Manville, the devoted wife of business titan Jimmie Manville, had always taken the blessings of her life for granted - until the devastating news of Jimmie's death turns everything upside down. Lillian is bewildered to learn that Jimmie has willed her nothing but the rundown farmhouse of his Virginia childhood and left his fortune to his greedy brother and sister. All Lillian has now is a house she's never seen - and Jimmie's cryptic note alluding to a mysterious scandal that had haunted her late husband since his Virginia boyhood. To escape the relentless paparazzi hounding her in the wake of her husband's death, Lillian changes her name, gives herself a dramatic makeover and sets herself up in the old Manville farmhouse.She has no inkling that these transformations merely mark the start of a thrilling journey of discovery about her own resilience, about the endurance of love - and about the shocking secret that plagued the dark corners of her husband's mind.
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Happy Ever After
Childhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmeline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women have struggled to find love. But now, with her three best friends happily settled in relationships, only workaholic Parker remains single. Her business is her life and she devotes all her energies to it. But someone is about to divert her focus ...
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The One Minute Millionaire
THE ONE MINUTE MILLIONAIRE is a fable that teaches a practical but inspiring lesson in creating true wealth - whether you aspire to become a millionaire or simply beat credit-card debt and have enough money to live on without worrying. The core of the book is a parable about Michelle, a widowed mother whose life is on the brink of ruin; unless she can raise a million dollars quickly she will lose custody of her children. And, coupled with this, is Robert Allen's practical advice for achieving financial success. His advice parallels the action in Michelle's story, as he urges us to identify our fears and doubts, and eliminate from our lives all the roadblocks that limit our potential. Find out how to transform Restraining Forces into Driving Forces...whether your goal, like Michelle's, is to become a millionaire or just simply to save for the future. Together these two stories work as a powerful tool of self-discovery, an inspirational lesson in unlocking the winner in all of us.
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His Desert Rose
THE SHEIK's CAPTIVE! Prince Hassan al Rashid has all the trappings of an international playboy. But beneath his designer suit lies the heart of a true desert prince. Determined to save his country from ruin, Hassan decides to attract the world's attention by kidnapping Rose Fenton! Darling of the media, Rose has never met anyone as powerful and ruthless as Hassan. He's her ultimate fantasy man -- but will his pride ever allow him to see her as suitable marriage material?
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The FrenchMan's Bride
A most unlikely wife Hallie Linn can't fall in love with gorgeous millionaire Frenchman Vincent Rolland -- it's too complicated, too difficult, it will change her life forever. Vincent, too, has reasons for not getting involved with Hallie, but he wants her -- as his bride.... Wonderfully unique every time, Rebecca Winters will take you on an emotional roller coaster! Read on to find out how Hallie and Vincent overcome all the odds stacked against them and unite in marriage forever....
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Year Of The Tiger
1962. The Cold War heats up as the space race begins. And one scientist, living under house arrest in Chinese-controlled Tibet, holds the key to victory. Paul Chavasse is inserted into Tibet on a desperate mission that may be the West's only hope of beating the Soviets to the moon. He must locate--and smuggle out--Dr. Karl Hoffner. But enemies are everywhere--from Chinese occupiers and distrustful natives to Soviet agents shadowing their every move. Fighting for their lives, Chavasse and Hoffner must race across one hundred rugged miles to freedom, as the future of space travel--and the world--hangs in the balance...
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The Coffin Dancer
Detective Lincoln Rhymes, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, is put on the trail of the Coffin Dancer, a cunning professional killer who has continually eluded the police. Rhymes —-a quadriplegic since a line-of-duty accident — must use his wits to track this brilliant killer who's been hired to eliminate three witnesses in the last hours before their grand jury testimony. Rhyme works with his eyes and ears, New York City cop Amelia Sachs, to gather information from trace evidence at the crime scene to nail him, or at least to predict his next move and head him off. So far, they have only one clue: the assassin has a tattoo on his arm of the Grim Reaper waltzing with a woman in front of a coffin.
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Where Are You Now ?
From America's Queen of Suspense comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy -- a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. ("Mack") went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother's Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack's sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother's Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: "Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me." Mack's cryptic warning does nothing to deter his sister from taking up the search, despite the angry reaction of her mother, Olivia, and the polite disapproval of Elliott Wallace, Carolyn's honorary uncle, who is clearly in love with Olivia. Carolyn's pursuit of the truth about Mack's disappearance swiftly plunges her into a world of unexpected danger and unanswered questions. What is the secret that Gus and Lil Kramer, the superintendents of the building in which Mack was living, have to hide? What do Mack's old roommates, the charismatic club owner Nick DeMarco and the cold and wealthy real estate tycoon Bruce Galbraith, know about Mack's disappearance? Is Nick connected to the disappearance of Leesey Andrews, who had last been seen in his trendy club? Can the police possibly believe that Mack is not only alive, but a serial killer, a shadowy predator of young women? Was Mack also guilty of the brutal murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her? Carolyn's passionate search for the truth about her brother -- and for her brother himself -- leads her into a deadly confrontation with someone close to her whose secret he cannot allow her to reveal.
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The Brethren
Trumble is a minimum-security federal prison, a “camp,” home to the usual assortment of relatively harmless criminals–drug dealers, bank robbers, swindlers, embezzlers, tax evaders, two Wall Street crooks, one doctor, at least five lawyers. And three former judges who call themselves the Brethren: one from Texas, one from California, and one from Mississippi. They meet each day in the law library, their turf at Trumble, where they write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, practice law without a license, and sometimes dispense jailhouse justice. And they spend hours writing letters. They are fine-tuning a mail scam, and it’s starting to really work. The money is pouring in. Then their little scam goes awry. It ensnares the wrong victim, a powerful man on the outside, a man with dangerous friends, and the Brethren’s days of quietly marking time are over.
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Legacies
OF A FAMILY DIVIDED BY HATRED, AND A PASSION TWO PEOPLE COULD NOT FORGET Debutante Diane Parmalee was a U.S. Army officer's daughter; Lije Stuart was the handsome Harvard educated son of the part-Cherokee Stuart clan. Nothing, not even their different worlds, seemed able to stop their love--except a tragic legacy. The wealthy Stuart family burned with the memory of the government's forced march of the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears. Now, as the nation exploded in civil war, Lije's family split in a violent feud, driving Lije to do the one thing Diane could not forgive--fight for the South. At his father's side, Lije was riding away on a journey of blood and sorrow, perhaps forever. The lovers' only hope was another legacy: a passion strong enough to reunite them before betrayal and death claimed their hearts...
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Surrender To Love
Under the midnight moon of Ceylon, on the night of her debutante ball at the Governors palace. Alexa Howard met her cousin, Nicholas Dameron. And in the sardonic curl of his hard, sensuous lips, in the commanding arrogance of his eyes, Alexa beheld the fierce, implacable passion that would render her helpless to the trembling slavery of desire. EVERY KIND OF LOVE A WOMAN CAN BE MADE TO FEEL Within the golden softness of Alexas alluring gentility flowed the insatiable fires of an innocent womans awakening love--and the fury of a betrayed womans lust for revenge. Through the nightworlds of Naples, Rome, Paris and London, she was pursued by men who heartlessly wanted her beauty. But her soul was possessed by the man whose touch was unbearable ecstasy, whose cruelty was ravishing torment, whose tenderness was passions fulfillment. Nicholas Dameron had taken her virtue and mocked her pride. But his love was the offering of every pleasure a woman has ever dared to dream of.