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Poor relation volume 5
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The poor relations are once again scrounging around for a plan for solvency. This time it is Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue. After happening on Sir Randolph's lovely daughter Frederica, the Colonel devises a plan to force Sir Randolph to settle his bill and to save Frederica from her fate.
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Poor relation volume 6
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The poor relations' hard-earned success is in stark contrast to the plight of their latest guest, Lady Jane Fremney. Lonely and bankrupt, Lady Jane has decided to commit suicide. But when Miss Tonks uncovers her plans, the poor relations go into action again to rescue her.
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Poor relation volume 1
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Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if they were to transform her decrepit home into a posh hotel, offering their guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility? With the help of other down-and-out aristocrats, they do just that, and the Poor Relation is born.
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A Jeremiah Halstead western volume 2
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"Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead keeps the peace in the mining town of Silver Cloud, Montana. But an old enemy has declared war against him. Ruthless and clever, Ed Zimmerman would have become the leader of one of the west's deadliest and hell-bent outlaw gangs. Zimmerman has offered a generous bounty to every desperado willing to put a bullet through the U.S. Deputy Marshal's heart. A death sentence won't stop Halstead from enforcing the law....
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"Living in a lighthouse with her dog, Lindsey Bakewell is lulled to sleep at night by the sound of Lake Michigan's waves--and gets up at the crack of dawn to start the day at her bakery cafae. But someone in Beacon Harbor is about to rock the boat with murder... After a career on Wall Street, Lindsey is making a different kind of dough in a pretty lakeside village, and the upcoming blueberry festival--including the pie-eating contest her bakery is...
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Poor relation volume 2
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The oddly assorted group met some time ago and started The Poor Relation hotel. The hotel must go on. And so poor, faded Miss Tonks has been persuaded to steal something valuable enough from her rich sister to set the poor relations on their feet.
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"Rodeo Drive bridalwear designer Rayne McGrath expected her thirtieth birthday to start with a power lunch and end with champagne, lobster, and a diamond engagement ring from her fiancae. Instead, flat-broke and busted, she's on a plane to Ireland where she discovers that she's inherited a run-down family castle. Uncle Nevin's will contains a few caveats--for example, if Rayne doesn't turn McGrath Castle around within a year, the entire village will...
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2022
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Ann Stilwell, working as a curatorial associate at New York City's gothic museum, finds hidden medieval tarot cards and gets caught up in a game of power, seduction, and ambition that turns deadly.
"The Secret History meets Ninth House in this sinister, atmospheric novel following a circle of researchers as they uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York's famed Met Cloisters. When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City,...
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Poor relation volume 4
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Just when everything at the Poor Relation Hotel seems to be running smoothly, in comes another batch of poor relations. A dishonest Lady Carruthers and her daughter Arabella, and the incorrigible Mrs. Budge. It is up to the poor relations to deal with the lazy Mrs. Budge, find Arabella a husband, and trounce her terrible mother.
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Poor relation volume 3
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Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. Then Sir Philip comes up with a plan. He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off gentle Mrs. Budley goes to the bleak castle, where the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and, in fact, quite handsome.
12) A Family Affair
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Life's biggest dilemmas can provide its sweetest rewards. Anna McNichol knows how to take charge. Raised by a single mother, she's worked to ensure her three children have every advantage she didn't. And while her marriage has its problems, she values commitment and believes in "till death do us part." Now an empty nester, she's at the peak of her career and ready to seize the opportunity to focus on her future. But life can change in an instant,...
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A Jeremiah Halstead western volume 1
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"Silver Cloud, Montana. A mining town welcome to all seeking to make their fortune. And a place where a lawman has to watch his back before some hardcase empties his pistol into it. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jeremiah Halstead is escorting notorious outlaw John Hudson across the territory for trial when he's ambushed by a pack of Hudson's men anxious to rescue their partner from his custody. Halstead puts the blast on them, but outnumbered and outgunned,...
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2021.
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"An epic generational saga from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Dray, based on the true story of an extraordinary castle in the heart of France and the remarkable women bound by its legacy in some of humanity's darkest hours. Most castles are protected by powerful men. This one by women ... A reluctant resistor ... 1940. French schoolteacher and aspiring artist Marthe Simone has an orphan's self-reliance and wants nothing to do with war....
15) Beautiful
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Veronique Vincent graces the covers of magazines and walks the runways of haute couture shows across the globe, yet she prefers spending time at home or with her boyfriend. An explosion at Zaventem Airport in Brussels changes her life forever: Veronique finds herself hospitalized and alone after the blast kills both of the people she loved most. Severely injured, she plunges into seclusion and struggles to discover what truly matters in life. When...
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2023
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"The Tri-County Summer Solstice Celebration has come to town, and even among local artisans, athletes, and marching bands, Hannah attracts fans of her own while serving lip-smacking pink lemonade desserts. But the mood sours when a body turns up, leadingrevelers to wonder if the festivities mark both the longest day of the year and the deadliest... A retired professional MLB player has met a terrifying end--and, considering the rumors swirling about...
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"They wondered if they would ever find their way back--back to the village, back to a life of meaning, back to each other. Corfu 1946--In a poor Greek community, ten-year-old Marco is perhaps the poorest of them all. But it wasn't always that way. His grandmother once worked for the royal family where Marco's mother played alongside young Prince Phillip himself. Now Greece is on the brink of civil war, and Marco's mother still clings to the desperate...
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"In "The White Streak," twenty-one-year-old Jimmy Babcock, a former football star, but now a worker at the local bank run by William Parker in the town of Dresser, which has changed from cattle country to one made up of oil and alfalfa fields. When Parker fires Jimmy, all Jimmy can think is how he will hurt Muriel Aiken, his fianc�ee, who wants to marry. When his father signs over the old family homestead to him that is in serious need of repair,...
20) Triple Cross
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Alex Cross volume 30
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2022.
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"Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence. Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating. Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses. The writer, Thomas Tull,...
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