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61) The impersonator
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen year old Jessie Carr, sole heiress to her family's vast fortune, disappeared without a trace. Years later, her uncle Oliver Beckett thinks he's found her when he sees a young actress in a vaudeville playhouse who is a dead ringer for his missing niece. But when Oliver confronts the girl, he discovers he's mistaken. Orphaned young, Leah has been acting since she was a toddler. So Oliver convinces Leah to impersonate Jessie, claim the fortune,...
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Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary novel about a strong-willed woman who disguises herself as a man in order to fight beside her husband in the Civil War, inspired by a real female soldier's letters home Rosetta doesn't want her new husband Jeremiah to enlist, but he joins up, hoping to make enough money that they'll be able to afford their own farm someday. Though she's always worked by her father's side as the son he never had, now that Rosetta is a wife she's told...
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Language
English
Description
"Lady Hawksworth, your husband is not dead..." With those words, Lara's life turned upside down. Hunter, Earl of Hawksworth, had been lost at sea. Or so she'd been told. Their unhappy marriage -- with its cold caresses and passionless kisses - was over. But now a powerful, virile man stood before her, telling secrets only a husband could know, and vowing she would once again be his wife in every way. While Lara couldn't deny that this man with the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
"John Lago is an intern at one of the biggest law firms in Manhattan. He clocks eighty hours a week getting coffee, answering phones, and doing all of the shit work no one else wants to do . . . and he doesn't make a dime. But John isn't trying to claw his way to the top of the corporate food chain. He was hired to assassinate one of the firm's high profile, heavily guarded partners. His internship is the perfect cover--enabling him to gather intel...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life in the Caspian Republic has taught Agent Nikolai South two rules. Trust No One. And work just hard enough not to make enemies. Here, in the last sanctuary for the dying embers of the human race in a world run by artificial intelligence, if you stray from the path - your life is forfeit. But when a Party propagandist is killed - and is discovered as a 'machine'--he's given a new mission: chaperone the widow, Lily, who has arrived to claim her...
66) Pretty revenge
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Gallery books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kerrie O'Malley, jobless and in an unfulfilling relationship, can isolate the singular moment in her life when things veered off course--the night she was irrevocably wronged by someone she looked up to. Eighteen years later, when Kerrie sees the very woman who destroyed her life on television, a fire ignites inside her. The stakes are high. The risks are perilous. But she'll stop at nothing to achieve the retribution she deserves. Jordana Pierson...
Author
Series
Orphan monster spy series volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Germany, 1940. Still hiding in plain sight as "Ursula Haller," Sarah Goldstein gathers information for Captain Floyd at parties. He has learned of a German doctor who went rogue in West Africa after discovering a tool of germ warfare known as "the Bleeding" that could wipe out whole nations. As they get closer to the doctor, and see more effects of "the Bleeding" in the communities they pass through, their trip turns from caper to nightmare. Sarah...
Author
Series
A Braxton novel volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
v, 365 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Determined to prove her worth as a budding archaeologist, Ginesse Braxton vows to solve one of the world's greatest mysteries--to find the location of the lost city of Zerzura. Unfortunately, no man dares take the risk of escorting the resolute young scholar across the open desert. But on her way to Egypt, Ginesse engages in a daring deception: She will switch places with Mildred Whimpelhall, who is traveling to meet her fiancé. Years before, cynical...
69) Lady pirate
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Series
Language
English
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After masquerading on the high seas as the priate Captain Red, Valoree has learned she is named heir to Ainsley Castle. However, she cannot claim her birthright unless she is married and pregnant. So, the pirate must become a lady, with the help of her cutthroat crew, in order to find a husband.
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Language
English
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"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace....
71) If I were you
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
455 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1950. In the wake of the war, Audrey Clarkson leaves her manor house in England for a fresh start in America with her young son. As a widowed war bride, Audrey needs the support of her American in-laws, whom she has never met. But she arrives to find that her longtime friend Eve Dawson has been impersonating her for the past four years. Unraveling this deception will force Audrey and Eve's secrets--and the complicated history of their friendship--to...
72) In a fix
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Snagging a marriage proposal for her client while on an all-expenses-paid vacation should be a simple job for Ciel Halligan, aura adaptor extraordinaire. A kind of human chameleon, she's able to take on her clients' appearances and slip seamlessly into their lives, solving any sticky problems they don't want to deal with themselves. No fuss, no muss. Big paycheck. This particular assignment is pretty enjoyable ... that is, until Ciel's island resort...
Author
Series
Wild wicked Highlanders volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
497 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do--not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match... The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows. The...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Jessica Fletcher's favorite gin rummy partner, Mimi Van Dorn, checks into the brand-new Clifton Care Partners, a private hospital that's just opened up shop in town, for a simple procedure -- one that leads tragically, and inexplicably, to her death. Seeking justice in her inimitable fashion, Jessica decides to pursue her own investigation on the hospital and its shadowy business dealings. On the trail of what initially appears to be medical malpractice,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
319 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Gemma's favorite kind of beach is an empty one. Social interactions are too much for her to handle. She always says the wrong thing--if she manages to say anything at all. She can't even bring herself to speak to her longtime crush, Beau Booker, without losing sleep over her own awkwardness. During a solo outing to her favorite beach, Gemma realizes--to her horror--that the popular kids from school have shown up to throw a party....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A haunting, wildly imagined novel by the acclaimed author of History of a Pleasure Seeker ("the best new work of fiction ... in many moons; a classic"--The Washington Post); set in the first decades of twentieth-century colonial Cape Town and in a spirit-filled forest of secrets and magic powers. It is 1914. Germany has just declared war on France. Piet Barol, the handsome, irresistible figure of Mason's much-admired, sensuous History of a Pleasure...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
575 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
After fleeing his cousins? train heist, Theophil Garrison runs into a fatally ill minister and assumes his identity before continuing on to the holy man?s new post in Fairland, Kansas, where he becomes enmeshed in the community and its people.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather's stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time. The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, and under the care of Dr. Thomas...
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