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A RomaJuliette Christmas Special by Chloe Gong
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsRoma and Juliette being 15 and happy, which was truly a fleeting time. This takes place four years before the events of These Violent Delights, so there are no spoilers. “The year was 1922, and nothing was impossible...Categorized as:
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Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsNow available in trade paper with an eye-catching new cover from the bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis: Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncovering the truth behind his favorite story. The answer provides hope and healing and a magical journey for anyone whose life has ever been changed by a book... -
Deny by Tricia Mingerink
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll lies have consequences. Promoted to the top rank among King Respen’s assassins, First Blade Leith Torren hides his involvement with the Resistance. How many lies will it take to protect his secret? Renna Faythe has done nothing but survive for the past four years, but now Leith’s courage inspires her to try to be something more. If only she could figure out what that duty might be... -
Tarnished Crown by Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison
Rowan was finally going to do something right. Marry for love and for her kingdom. Keep her people safe. Until an archaic law enslaved her to the most feared man in all of Socair, a man who treats her like a pawn and calls her his pet.But when enemies emerge from unexpected places, she’s forced to realize that being Evander’s property might just be the only thing keeping her alive... -
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The First Judgement by Wendy Alec
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe saga continues… Banished from heaven, Lucifer, King of Perdition, presides over hell. Fired by hatred, he has a single goal: to lure unwitting mankind into damnation. And little by little, he is succeeding.But the omens point to a shift in the balance of power. A star burns brightly over planet Earth, heralding the arrival of a child king. The Nazarene... -
Crimson Kingdom by Robin D. Mahle, Elle Madison
Rowan thought she had escaped being a prisoner.But even in Lochlann, she is chained by the memories of everything she left behind in Socair.Of everyone she left behind.With her people clamoring for war, the responsibility falls on Rowan to enter into a marriage alliance to keep her kingdom safe. That should be easy, considering she’s already received proposals from half the clans in Socair...Categorized as:
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Cage of Destiny by Jennifer Anne Davis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDestined from birth to be the next empress of Emperion, Allyssa grew up at court weighed down by the expectations of the crown. Kingdom and duty always came first.Until now.Having survived the brutal kingdom of Russek, she is given the choice to walk away and live a peaceful, quiet life. But it also means giving up everything she knows and everyone she loves...Categorized as:
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Deliver by Tricia Mingerink
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratings2018 Alliance Award FinalistCan something broken ever heal? Martyn is broken. After torturing his best friend, he doesn't belong anywhere in Acktar. No matter how far he runs, he can't lose his guilt. Leith is broken. While healing from the torture he received at Nalgar Castle, he struggles to find his new role. But can a Blade ever run from his past? The country is broken... -
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsLittle Women or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888). Written and published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, the novel follows the lives of four sisters — Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March — and is loosely based on the author's childhood experiences with her three sisters...Categorized as:
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Self-Made Boys by Anna-Marie McLemore
New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city’s glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future—and his life as a man—and benefit his family... -
Little Women: by Louisa May Alcott with Original Illustrations by Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 48 ratings›Litte Women‹ gilt in den USA als einer der erfolgreichsten und beliebtesten Klassiker und hat Autorinnen wie Simone de Beauvoir, Elena Ferrante, Doris Lessing, Zadie Smith und J. K. Rowling in ihrem Schreiben beeinflusst...Categorized as:
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Daddy Long-Legs Illustrated by Jean Webster
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsDaddy Long-Legs is a book written by Jean Webster and first published in 1912. It tells the story of Jerusha Abbott, who grew up in an orphanage but was sent to college by a mysterious benefactor she calls Daddy Long-Legs. In college she falls in love with a young man who wants to marry her, but she refuses because she is an orphan...Categorized as:
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Enflamed by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsDuring a time when legends were born . . .ENFLAMEDThe most beautiful noblewoman in the kingdom, the lowly knight who can never have her, and the forbidden love they share.When Sylvi Prestegard discovers that her father has arranged for her to marry a wealthy nobleman known for his thieving ways, she’s desperate to avoid the union...Categorized as:
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Exiles by Jaye L. Knight
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsExiled after their defeat in Samara, the Resistance struggles to find allies in their quest to restore King Balen to his throne and put an end to the emperor’s tyranny. When the crete people refuse to lend their aid, Balen leads a group to Dorland to reason with them and win their support... -
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Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott
From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic romantic comedy that’s What If It’s Us meets Bridgerton.What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?Audrey Cameron has lost her spark... -
A Harvest of Thorns by Corban Addison
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA beloved American corporation with an explosive secret. A disgraced former journalist looking for redemption. A corporate executive with nothing left to lose.In Dhaka, Bangladesh, a garment factory burns to the ground, claiming the lives of hundreds of workers, mostly young women... -
Viva Jacquelina! Being an Account of the Further Adventures of Jacky Faber, Over the Hills and Far Away by L.A. Meyer
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe vivacious Jacky Faber returns in the tenth tale in L. A. Meyer’s Bloody Jack Adventures, a rip-roaring young-adult series applauded for its alluring combination of adventure, romance, history, and humor. Once again under the thumb of British Intelligence, Jacky is sent to Spain to spy for the Crown during the early days of the nineteenth-century Peninsular War... -
The Magnolia Sword: A Ballad of Mulan by Sherry Thomas
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCHINA, 484 A.D. A Warrior in DisguiseAll her life, Mulan has trained for one purpose: to win the duel that every generation in her family must fight. If she prevails, she can reunite a pair of priceless heirloom swords separated decades earlier, and avenge her father, who was paralyzed in his own duel...Categorized as:
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Christie, Agatha - The ABC Murders by Christie Agatha
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsWhen Alice Asher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already looking into the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one letter down, twenty-five to go.There's a serial killer on the loose. His macabre calling card is to leave the ABC Railway Guide beside each victim's body... -
Lovely War by Julie Berry
Read the novel New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network Kate Quinn called "easily one of the best novels I have read all year!" A sweeping, multi-layered romance set in the perilous days of World Wars I and II, where gods hold the fates--and the hearts--of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette...Categorized as:
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Fortress of Snow by Melanie Dickerson
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen her father dies and her brother, Warin, abandons her, Mazy is forced to seek help from her beloved older brother Sir John, who is training knights at the great estate of Strachleigh. While there, she becomes friends with the kind and loyal Sir Berenger. Circumstances then force them apart: Berenger goes to Prague, while Mazy and her brother move to London...Categorized as:
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Grace in Autumn: - A Novel - by Lori Copeland
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's November, and as the island residents prepare for the coming months of cold and snow, they are surprised by God's unexpected lessons of humility, trust, and hope. Authors Lori Copeland and Angela Hunt revisit the Island of Heavenly Daze in the second book of the highly acclaimed series about a small town where angelic intervention is commonplace and the Thanksgiving feast a community affair... -
Veil of Winter by Melanie Dickerson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShe’s hounded from every side by treacherous elements and foes, but her greatest enemy lies within.In the mountains near France, the medieval Princess Elyce is being forced to marry, thus forming an alliance that will enrich her father but enslave her kingdom. Instead, she chooses to feign her death and flee to Prague to beg King Wenceslaus to help save her people...Categorized as:
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Cloak of Scarlet by Melanie Dickerson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this exciting retelling of the classic Little Red Riding Hood fairytale, Melanie Dickerson sweeps readers away into a thrilling adventure and a charming romance.Violet—so named because of the unusual color of her eyes—knows almost nothing about her birth mother. She has formed a close bond with her grandmother, who fills her heart with dreams of true love...Categorized as:
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The Passion of Dolssa by Julie Berry
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsI must write this account, and when I have finished, I will burn it. Buried deep within the archives of a convent in medieval France is an untold story of love, loss, and wonder and the two girls at the heart of it all. Dolssa is an upper-crust city girl with a secret lover and an uncanny gift... -
A Thousand Heartbeats by Kiera Cass
#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Selection series Kiera Cass is back with her most epic novel yet—a sweeping enemies-to-lovers standalone romance.“Love has a sound. It sounds like a thousand heartbeats happening at the same time.”Princess Annika has lived a life of comfort—but no amount of luxuries can change the fact that her life isn’t her own to control...Categorized as:
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The Man He Never Was by James L. Rubart
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhat if You Woke up One Morning and the Darkest Parts of Yourself Were Gone? Toren Daniels vanished eight months back, and his wife and kids have moved on—with more than a little relief. Toren was a good man but carried a raging temper that often exploded without warning. So when he shows up on their doorstep out of the blue, they’re shocked to see him alive. But more shocked to see he’s changed... -
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsSomewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage... -
Endurance by Zaya Feli
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWith their victory short-lived and enemies lurking around every corner, odds are stacking against Ren in his attempt to recover the throne of Frayne. Ren, Anik, and a handful of inexperienced soldiers are sent to Fort Endurance, Frayne's highest security prison... -
The Otherworld by Abbie Emmons
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOrca Monroe wants only one thing for her eighteenth birthday: to experience the Otherworld—the mysterious “mainland” across the sea that her father has forbidden her from visiting. Growing up in a lighthouse on a remote island, Orca has lived isolated from the world… until one day when she finds a cell phone washed up on the beach...Categorized as:
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Eighty Days by A.C. Esguerra
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA pilot wants nothing more than to fly. Or so he thought, until he crosses paths with a mysterious thief whose tricks draw him into unchartered territory and new adventure. In a life where the truth changes as quickly as clouds in the sky, the pilot must decide for himself what freedom really means.“Map A Course, Arrive Safe Home. That’s The Measure Of Your Achievement... -
The Last Summer by Judith Kinghorn
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsI was almost seventeen when the spell of my childhood was broken...It was the beginning of summer and, unbeknown to any of us then, the end of a belle epoque.. -
Thunder on the Right by Mary Stewart
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsJenny Silver's trip to the Pyrenees is intended to be more than a welcome holiday in a beautiful part of France. Perturbed by a letter from her cousin Gillian who has been like a sister to her, Jenny has come to Gavarnie in an attempt to discover why Gill has entered a convent. On arrival, however, she finds herself caught up in a mesh of intrigue... -
Velvet Undercover by Teri Brown
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsSamantha Donaldson’s family has always done its duty for the British Crown. In the midst of World War I, seventeen-year-old Sam follows in their footsteps, serving her country from the homefront as a Girl Guide and messenger for the intelligence organization MI5... -
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Savannah from Savannah by Denise Hildreth Jones, Denise Hildreth
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsI'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself. It is a place known to most as Savannah. It is a place known to me as home. I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return. But I did not return out of a mere longing for home. I returned because I have something to prove to home. I am Savannah...from Savannah... -
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsEmmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN's debut novel, Nineteen Steps, is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.Love blooms in the darkest days…It’s 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on... -
Nineteen Steps by Millie Bobby Brown
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsEmmy-nominated actress and producer MILLIE BOBBY BROWN's debut novel, Nineteen Steps, is a moving tale of love, longing, and loss, inspired by the true events of her family's experience during World War II.Love blooms in the darkest days…It’s 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on... -
At Sea by Emma Fedor
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Cara and Brendan first meet, she’s fresh out of college, recovering from the recent death of her mother and spending time on Martha’s Vineyard while trying to figure out her next steps. She’s swept away by Brendan’s humor and charm and intoxicated by his thrilling, dangerous secret: he claims that he can breathe underwater.He shows Cara his gills...Categorized as:
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Green Mansions: Adventure Novel by William Henry Hudson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsGreen Mansions is an exotic romance about a traveler to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl. Abel, a young man of wealth, fails at a revolution in Venezuela, near the end of the 19th century, and flees Caracas into the uncharted forests of Guayana... -
The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThe inspiration for the critically acclaimed Starz miniseries The White Queen , #1 New York Times bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings to life Margaret Beaufort, heiress to the red rose of Lancaster, who charts her way through treacherous alliances to take control of the English throne... -
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 48 ratingsA Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse... -
One Last Thing by Rebecca St. James, Nancy N. Rue
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTara had always imagined her happily ever after. But her fiancé’s secrets are changing this story into one she doesn’t even recognize. Tara Faulkner and Seth Grissom grew up next door to each other in Savannah’s historic district. Their parents are best friends. They finish each other’s sentences all the time. Their fairy-tale wedding is a foregone conclusion . . -
Stone Field by Christy Lenzi
Rated: 3.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a small town on the brink of the Civil War, Catrina finds a man making strange patterns in her family’s sorghum crop. He’s mad with fever, naked, and strikingly beautiful. He has no memory of who he is or what he’s done before Catrina found him in Stone Field. But that doesn’t bother Catrina because she doesn’t like thinking about the things she’s done before either... -
The Last of August by Brittany Cavallaro
Rated: 3.52 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsWatson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense...Categorized as:
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