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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes the gripping story of a woman who loses everything--her husband, her home, her sense of self and safety, and her freedom. Sydney Wells's perfect life with her wealthy, devoted husband vanishes when he dies suddenly in an accident. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers he has failed to include her in his will. With Andrew's vicious daughters in control of his estate, and no home or money,...
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Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy,...
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"Make Something Up is a compilation of 21 stories and one novella (some previously published, some not) that will disturb and delight. The absurdity of both life and death are on full display: In "Zombies," the best and brightest of a high school prep school become tragically addicted to the latest drug craze: electric shocks from cardiac defibrillators. In "Knock, Knock," a son hopes to tell one last off-color joke to a father in his final moments,...
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El libro aborda los procesos identitarios en la configuración socio-espacial del espacio urbano y la identidad como factor catalizador del espacio público, tratando de contribuir al debate abierto, donde las ideas y las culturas no tienen fronteras. Desde un enfoque multidisciplinar este trabajo pretende convertirse en un marco de reflexión sobre la importancia de la identidad y el espacio público ante los nuevos retos de la ciudad moderna del...
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Three novellas tell of Elisa, as Alodia discovers her sister's true potential as the bearer, friend Mara tells how she came to be in the rebel camp where Elisa is taken by her kidnappers, and guard commander and true love, Hector, discovers a secret he must keep forever.
11) On the line
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When up-and-coming chef Mateo Castillo collapses, he and his family undergo genetic testing, but the answers the testing reveals leaves Mateo asking more questions.
13) The liar's crown
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"Everything about my life is a lie. As a hidden twin princess, born second, I have only one purpose--to sacrifice my life for my sister if death comes for her. I've been living under the guise of a poor, obscure girl of no standing, slipping into the palace and into the role of the true princess when danger is present. Now the queen is dead and the ageless King Eidolon has sent my sister a gift--an eerily familiar gift--and a proposal to wed. I don't...
14) Dead of winter
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"Authentico Foods Inc. has been a part of Detroit's Mexican town for over thirty years, grown from a home kitchen business to a city-block-long facility that supplies Mexican tortillas to restaurants throughout the Midwest. Detroit ex-cop and Mexican town native August Snow has been invited for a business meeting at Authentico Foods. Its owner, Ronaldo Ochoa, is dying, and is being blackmailed into selling the company to an anonymous entity. Worried...
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When the lights go out one night, no one panics. Not yet. The lights always come back on soon, don't they? Surely it's a glitch, a storm, a malfunction. But something seems strange about this night. Across Europe, controllers watch in disbelief as electrical grids collapse. There is no power, anywhere. A former hacker and activist, Piero investigates a possible cause of the disaster. The authorities don't believe him, and he soon becomes a prime suspect...
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"My twin sister is the true queen of Aryd. She survives, hiding and clinging to life in the desert, while I reign as the false queen alongside the monstrous King Eidolon. There's only one escape from this gilded prison: Reven. My Shadowraith. My heart. Only the shadows that he struggles to control are growing more sinister, more powerful. It's just a matter of time before they turn on him...and on me. Even escape doesn't mean true freedom, though,...
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Meren isn't the stand-in princess anymore-she's earned the title of Queen of Aryd. Even if most of her people don't know it and she's not actually in Aryd at the moment. Things can't get any worse. King Eidolon possesses her throne, her amulet, and her Shadowraith. Meanwhile, she's stuck on the run with a ragtag group of warriors and friends, wielding a nymph's curse that grants her a power not her own, holding on to a promise to get Reven back, and.struggling...
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"In the first twenty years of the twenty-first century, New York City has been convulsed by terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, social injustice, and pandemic. [This book] weaves the voices of some of the city's best talkers into an indelible portrait of New York in our time-and a powerful hymn to the vitality and resilience of its people"--Provided by publisher.