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In a world gone forever, at a time of mystery and cruelty, in an ancient land of breathtaking beauty and exotic surprise...here, you'll discover Spring Moon, pampered child of a noble house, privileged daughter of destiny, a courageous woman who triuphs over her world's ultimate tragedy.
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"...Bushnell spoofs and skewers her way through pop culture, celebrity worship, fame, and the meaning of identity, when a famous writer must resort to faking her own death in order to get her life back from her most infamous creation--Monica. With her trademark wit and style, Killing Monica is Bushnell's sharpest, funniest book to date"-- Provided by publisher.
44) Sun Born
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A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body...
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"As a successful mystery author, Bailey Briggs writes about murder, but nothing prepares her for actually discovering the dead body of the founder of her hometown of Humble Hills, Colorado. Bailey grew up at Honeybuzz Mountain Ranch and was raised by her beekeeping grandmother, Blossom Briggs, aka Granny Bee, and her two eccentric sisters, Aster and Marigold--which is why she drops everything to come home and help Granny Bee after a bad fall. A broken...
46) The Honeybee Man
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Fred, a beekeeper whose hives are on the roof of his Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, tends his bees and distributes their honey to his neighbors. Includes facts about bees and beekeepers.
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In the shattered Anasazi world, War Chief Browser and his second, Catkin, are horrified when a messenger from the Mogollon is murdered before divulging a secret concerning Poor Singer's prophecy. With his entire world in peril, Browser must determine who could want the young Mogollon warrior dead. But whom can he trust? The matron Blue Corn, or her conniving war chief? The Mogollon elder, who has his own desperate agenda? If they can find the answer,...
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In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known. No sooner has Everard Hume lost his father, Lord Wedderburn, than Lady Hedley arrives with...
51) Made in Korea
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"Two entrepreneurial Korean-American teens butt heads-and fall in love-while running competing Korean beauty businesses at their high school"--
52) Brave new world
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towering classic of dystopian satire, BRAVE NEW WORLD is a brilliant and terrifying vision of a soulless society⁰́₄and of one man who discovers the human costs of mindless conformity. Hundreds of years in the future, the World Controllers have created an ideal civilization. Its members, shaped by genetic engineering and behavioral conditioning, are productive and content in roles they have been assigned at conception. Government-sanctioned drugs...
54) The hopefuls
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"A brilliantly funny novel about ambition and marriage from the best selling author of Girls in White Dresses, The Better Half tells the story of a young wife who follows her husband and his political dreams to D.C., a city of idealism, gossip, and complicated friendships among young Washington's aspiring elite. When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles, the ubiquitous Ann Taylor suits, the...
56) Venomous
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Since age eight, New York City high school junior Locke Vinetti has experienced bouts of overpowering anger, but now that he has friends who accept him and a true girlfriend, "the venom" threatens to destroy all that he loves.
57) Company: a novel
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At Zephyr Holdings, no one has ever seen the CEO. The beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else, but does no work. One of the sales reps uses relationship books as sales manuals, and another is on the warpath because somebody stole his donut. In other words, its an ordinary big company. Or at least, thats what everyone thinks. Until fresh-faced employee Jones starts investigating. Soon Jones uncovers the companys secret. It plunges...
59) Shadow account
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Investment banker Conner Ashby is routinely checking his e-mail when he receives a missent message hinting at corporate fraud on an enormous scale. Shortly after viewing the e-mail, Ashby's apartment is ransacked and his mistress murdered. Determined to find the connection between the e-mail and the attempt on his own life, Ashby plunges into a world of high-stakes financial deception and danger.
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At fifteen winters, Salamander becomes the leader of his clan after His brother is killed. He inherits his brother's two wives and is forced to marry his enemy's daughter to forge an alliance for the trade goods his people need. Young Salamander is forced by circumstance to become a man quickly.