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1) Joe Gallant
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Joe Gallant, playboy racecar driver, a man headed down the path of self-destruction. If there was one man Joe despised, it was Harper Morgan, his billionaire father Aaron's best friend–and secret lover. Even though Harper's dead, Joe still can't forgive all the secrets and lies that destroyed his family. Now, years later, when Roberto Morgan, Harper's stepson, shows up in Laredo, hired by Aaron to represent Joe in several endorsement contracts and...
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2014
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Now available in paperback, with a new chapter and reading guide
Douglas Gibson, the editor behind Canada's greatest literary talents, is a terrific storyteller himself. Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Munro's Ontario to James Houston's Arctic. Doug Gibson takes us on an unforgettable literary
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The quilt of the Canadian experience is sewn by one of the nation's greatest treasures Canada is one of the world's most diverse and gorgeous countries, stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, with a wealth of experiences and people to match its incredible size and breadth. The nation's impressive variety is on display in Home Truths, Mavis Gallant's ode to her home country through stories. Gallant moves effortlessly through time and place,...
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She rescues animals in need
Maybe she could save him, too
Feeling more beast than beauty, web designer Olivia Carson hides her physical and emotional scars behind an isolated country life. Only her beloved rescue animals breach her guard. Until a farmhouse remodel brings city-boy contractor Tony Vello crashing into her quiet world. They share similar past pain-and undeniable attraction. But as Olivia's beloved rescue kittens and horses…and her...
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In 1979 Houston TX. was a Boom town fantasy city, but also the Murder capital of America. Colombian Cocaine Cowboys made Houston TX a murder land. Five Mexican American detectives where tasked with stopping this epidemic of drug violence, and missing children. Based on a true story.
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This book is different. It's a new version of a Christmas Carol. Marley is alive and kicking his fellow man along with Scrooge. The old miser is meaner than ever, but so are the ghosts. And what happens when Tiny Tim tells Scrooge that he loves him? Fannie is in heaven and has a request that makes everyone shake their heads.
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When Jennet's rescue collie, Winter, receives a canine heroism award for saving a child from drowning in a pond, the subsequent publicity reaches the ear of a dangerous person. Before long, the life of this gallant collie is in danger and Jennet herself is involved in a quest that may well end in her death.
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See What Started It All...Classic Action Highlights Featuring Tv'S Batman & Robin (In Unaired Footage) Superman, Green Hornet & Kato Too! Shazam! It'S Captain Marvel. Plus...Captain America, Captain Video, Captain Midnight, & Captain Gallant Played By Buster Crabbe Who Was Flash Gordon & Tarzan. There'S Spy Smasher, Nyoka, Dick Tracy, Zorro, Rocket Man, Sheena, John Wayne, Roy Rogers & Much More!
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Embarking on a mad scheme to save herself from being trapped in an unwanted marriage, Jillian disguises herself as a man and boards Vane's ship as his new cabin boy.But to her dismay, her ruse fails miserably - on all counts.Vane ignores her plight and vows he will return her to her father and her betrothed, leaving Jillian desperate to find a way to change his mind. Faced with a pirate's temptation, Vane is forced to decide: return Jillian to her...
10) Mission of Hope
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No one knows who he is or where he's from. But witnesses throughout San Francisco report a masked man in black is bringing supplies-and badly needed hope-to homeless earthquake survivors. Some believe that the city's gallant rescuer is a gentleman of wealth. But others whisper that he is a working-class man with courage as great as his faith. And rumor has it that one of the city's most spirited society belles is helping him against her family's wishes....
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A sugary romcom with a happy ending-the author guarantees it!
Koyuki Shirogane is feared throughout her school for her sharp tongue, so much so that she's become known as "The Queen of Thorns!"
One day, Naoya Sasahara rescues her from a pushy guy's advances. That's when he learns that she's nothing more than a normal girl who's adopted her harsh demeanor as a façade to protect herself. Koyuki ends up falling for the gallant Naoya, while he ends up...
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Marissa, a theater musician, desired an escape from her impoverished existence in 17th century France. After watching Marissa perform, King Louis XIV snatched her from the stage only to cast her in his royal court. Marissa plots a betrothal to a marquis to cement her place among nobility. Her plans are interrupted by Michael, a noble and gallant musketeer. When Michael meets Marissa, his service to the crown is challenged by a passion that overshadows...
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After 20 months in Asia in the early 1960s, Rob Jamison returned home to central Vermont to find no job, his girlfriend curiously estranged, and his idyllic lakeside community misguided, debased and divided. With the help of his Peace Corps buddy and the discovery of a bountiful treasure, Rob is energized to overcome the many daunting challenges confronting him. He starts by initiating a promising career with a leading venture capital company in Boston....
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After her brother is nearly killed while bringing sensitive information to his superiors, Margaret "Maggie" Ingleton takes it upon herself to complete his mission. All she has to do is deliver a letter to London. How hard can it be? Little does she realize that she'll be risking not only her life, but that of the only man she's ever loved.When Colin Stanbury makes a routine delivery to his home city he never expects to pick up a stowaway. Maggie has...
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This is the first modern history for general readers of the entire Jacobite movement in Scotland, England and Ireland, from the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 that drove James II into exile to the death of his grandson, Cardinal Henry, Duke of York, in 1807. The Battle of Culloden and Bonnie Prince Charlie's flight through the heather are well known, but not the other risings and plots that involved half of Europe and even revolutionary America. Based...
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Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi Hakkenden is one of the monuments of Japanese literature. This multigenerational samurai saga was one of the most popular and influential books of the nineteenth century and has been adapted many times into film, television, fiction, and comics.
His Master's Blade, the second part of Hakkenden, begins the story of the eight Dog Warriors created from the mystic union between Princess Fuse and the dog Yatsufusa and born...
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This is an original, never-before-published Regency short story of approximately 12,000 words. Fans of the traditional Regency romances of Georgette Heyer, Barbara Metzger, and Carla Kelly will enjoy this story of a highborn bride about to embark on an important arranged marriage. Before sacrificing herself on the altar of duty, Lady Ann decides to experience one last day of unchaperoned fun. Her attempted escape, however, appears to be foiled when...
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Embark on a whimsical tale of curiosity, adventure, sibling camaraderie, and a sprinkle of delightful misinterpretation in How Do You Rescue a Damson In A Dress?
With eyes sparkling with wonder and a heart buoyed by courage, our young prince gallantly trails behind his elder brother, embarking on what he believes to be a noble quest to rescue a 'Damson in a Dress.' Unbeknownst to him, his brother is on a mission to save a Damsel in Distress.
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In Caroline B. Cooney's classic tale of friendship and first love, a teenage girl discovers that the boy who's always made her life a misery has suddenly morphed into a tall, gorgeous stranger Sunny Compton lives in the third-oldest house in Sea's Edge. She loves life in this timeless New England resort town-until the summer people descend, like the Lansberrys, whose son, Tim (whose name Sunny considers an acronym for "Terrible Infuriating Monster"),...
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Here is the story of the Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry, known as the "Southern Confederates," one of the most well-educated, zealously religious, and unbelievably gallant groups of men to engage in the American Civil War. Using the soldiers' actual letters, memoirs, war records, and obituaries, James R. Fleming documents this immortal "band of brothers," which included five of his own ancestors, as they endure the privations of life on the...
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