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21) O pioneers!
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The novel that first made Willa Cather famous, O Pioneers! is a powerfully mythic tale of the American frontier told through the life of one extraordinary woman.
No other work of fiction so vividly evokes the harsh beauty and epic sweep of the Nebraska prairies that Cather knew and loved. Alexandra Bergson, one of the great heroines of American literature, is a young Swedish immigrant at the turn of the twentieth century who inherits her father's...
22) True colors
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The three Grey sisters try to keep the family together, despite their different personalities, but when a stranger comes into town loyalties are tested and secrets are revealed after a scandalous crime awakens the family and the town.
23) The lost man
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Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere. So the eldest brother returns with his younger sibling to the family...
26) Quicksand
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Eve Duncan novels volume 8
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Johansen's blockbuster bestselling character--Eve Duncan--returns in this high-octane thriller that pits Eve against her ultimate nemesis.
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Cedar Cove series volume 2
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Grace, a seemingly reserved librarian, shows the town of Cedar Cove what she is truly made of when her husband mysteriously vanishes, forcing her to call upon her inner strength and courage to help her two daughters deal with his disappearance.
29) Without mercy
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Originally published: New York : Kensington Books, c2010. Includes a sneak peek of Devious! (p. [529]-536). When her troubled sister Shaylee is sent to an elite boarding school called the Academy, a place where several girls have disappeared, Jules gets a teaching position there to keep an eye on Shay and discovers that something evil lurks in the halls.
30) Odd hours
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Odd Thomas novels volume 4
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Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
32) Eleven on top
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 11
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Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now. Stephanie is stalked by a maniac returned from the grave for...
33) The mission song
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Bruno Salvador, the orphaned love child of a Catholic Irish missionary and a Congolese woman, is inspired by his mentor at a discreet sanctuary for the secret sons of Rome, to train as a professional interpreter in the minority African languages, and becomes a British agent with conflicting loyalties.
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The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world.
By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained—by Thea's passionate embrace of women's suffrage, and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea's brother, Tom, who
...35) Long time coming
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A woman is reunited with the man she has loved for years and must reveal the secret that will jeopardize her chance for happiness at last. The world-famous astronaut Law Kincaid shows up at Hibbs's determined to discover who is sending him anonymous letters claiming he'd fathered a son he knows nothing about.
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she 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, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 15
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New Jersey bail-bonds office worker Lula is a witness to celebrity chef, Stanley Chipotle, losing his head, literally. Now Lula and Stephanie Plum, a bond enforcement officer, are on the hunt to identify the killers before Lula is next on the chopping block. Meantime, security expert Carlos M anoso, aka Ranger, has recruited Stephanie for a top secret mission. Someone on the inside at Rangeman is leaking client information, determined to bring the...
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One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales, of Ratty sculling his boat on the River, Badger grumpily entertaining his friends in his comfortable underground home, and the exasperating Toad being driven into one tangle after another by his obsession with motor cars.
40) Lethal justice
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Sisterhood series volume 6
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Alexis spent a year behind bars for the millions her former bosses steal from people...the Sisterhood will help her get even.....
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