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"Cuando Louise se enterade que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse a la residencia donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero. Sobre todo, no quiere...
3) Safe House
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A deadly virus is bearing down on the world and Emerson Mackenzie, CEO of PharmaScience Technologies-now back in its ancestral home of Port Kenneth, Tennessee-opens up the historic Mackenzie house on the family's defunct sheep farm to six people: himself, his wife Tess Cartieri, his house manager, two members of his board of directors, and his executive assistant, Taylor Alexander. Taylor won't abandon Emerson, but at the same time, they don't want...
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The screenplay for McCarthy's classic film, bearing in full measure his gift-the ability to fit complex and universal emotions into ordinary lives and still preserve all of their power and significance
In the spring of 1975 the film director Richard Pearce approached Cormac McCarthy with a screenplay idea. Though already a widely acclaimed novelist, the author of such modern classics as The Orchard Keeper and Child of God, McCarthy had never before...
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Amelia never expected to have her heart broken twice in her lifetime, but that's exactly what happened. She lost everything when her husband died unexpectedly, leaving her to pick up the pieces of her heart. Every corner reminded her of the man she was supposed to spend forever with, making her feel as though she hit the end of the road for love. Amelia is forced to face all her demons when her past collides with her present, testing her in ways she...
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Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.
The Web and the Root features the three initial sections of the The Web and the Rock, widely considered to be the book's strongest material. A prequel to You Can't Go Home Again, it is the story of George Webber's...
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Luc Barbon, upon discharge from the army, was on autopilot heading to the Ozarks. His plan was to bury himself in an educational foxhole, insulated from the insanity of the Vietnam War and national angst. Somewhere he could rewrite his story.He is on a mission to leave a past of self-doubt and fear of commitment behind only to find himself in an enclave of passion and prejudice. Love and learning dissolve in an unforeseen twist of fate.After an inhospitable...
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Delve into this scandalous friends-to-lovers romance, part of the Lockwood Lightning series from USA TODAY bestselling author Jules Bennett. Their engagement may be fake but the chemistry is as real as it gets! Especially when one kiss with her best friend… changes everything. Josie Coleman has the perfect plan to get rid of her bothersome ex-husband: pretend she's about to marry again. But her fake engagement to her best friend, Reese Conrad,...
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In this contemporary romance, a socialite enlists her brother's BFF to pose as her husband for the holidays, but their pretend love soon gets all too real.
Headstrong socialite Stefanie Ferguson is in hot water. She needs a fake husband to deflect a rumor that could wreck her family's political ambitions. Desperate, she turns to the only available bachelor she knows, security specialist Emmett Keaton-who has to say yes to her proposal because he's...
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On a sultry South Carolina island, sunlight teases out the darkest secrets of the heart, in this novel from the author of An Undisturbed Peace.
Joe and Abigail Becker, a Jewish couple from Boston, have inherited a house on Sweetgrass Island in South Carolina's Lowcountry. Though they feel like fish out of water, the couple is excited to give the South a try-and maybe even find it a place to finally call home.
Their Boston friends are convinced...
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A pregnant runaway bride on the road to Nashville is rescued by a handsome music producer in this sweet romance.
Country music producer Tucker Tate is laser focused. But finding a pregnant runaway bride forces him to slow down. Zoe Parker has a voice like an angel-and nowhere to go. So when he moves her and her baby into his condo, it's just business . . . until it's not. Will broken rules lead to broken hearts? Or is Tucker writing his very own...
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After ten years of silence, Bruce Colletto shows up at Lydia's door asking her to marry him, and he just expects her to go along with it? Wildest idea ever, right? Yet, she finds herself agreeing to his crazy scheme. Will this end up being her greatest blessing or the worst decision of her life?A Promise so Sweet is the conclusion to the Something Borrowed collection. You can read Hanady and Keenan's story in Always Been Yours by Jaycee Weaver, Leilah...
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What do you do when the past dictates you present?Tragedy sent Holden Armstrong to the bottom of a liquor bottle. He spent a year there before coming to his senses and has been fighting the addiction since. But giving up alcohol is easier than forgiving the man who took his family away from him. And then there's Izzy. She calls him every time she needs a designated driver. He's happy to pick her up any time she needs a ride, but the alcohol causes...
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Just a kiss at New Year's
That was all Natalia Serrano had intended. She couldn't believe she had slept with a complete stranger! Lia had never done anything so out of character in her life. Now, against all odds, she was pregnant-and she had no idea how to find her mysterious, memorable lover.
It had been months since Shane Fortune had been in Red Rock. But no amount of time could have prepared him for the revelation that Lia was expecting. His...
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Sleeping with the enemy...
wasn't part of her revenge plan...was it?
Seduce and destroy. That's the plan...until Mary McKenzie starts falling for powerhouse Nashville entertainment lawyer Brandon Talbot. Soon avenging her mother's tragic betrayal becomes a treacherous game as this man awakens Mary's deepest desires. But Brandon's putting a plan of his own into play for winning his mysterious lover's heart. Which means uncovering all her secrets......
17) The Dryline
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An engineer gets caught in the gears of a deadly conspiracy in this thriller of new technology and ruthless oilmen set in Luling, Texas.
Once known as the "Toughest Town in Texas," Luling is about to see a whole new kind of trouble when oil money and murder collide. Former NASA engineer Tom Seiler has been helping his brother, Don, with a new oil extraction system potentially worth billions. But when a worker is found dead on the outskirts of Luling,...
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To secure his legacy, a terminally ill billionaire makes a shocking proposal to his beautiful assistant in this contemporary medical romance.
With six months to live, Charleston heir Jonathan Tarleton must set his affairs in order. He knows that his family's business would be safe in the hands of his dedicated assistant, Lisette Stanhope. But the only way to leave her in charge is to marry her first. He tells himself that their contract marriage...
19) Sundowners
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Fifteen years ago, siblings Coil and Cassiopeia suffered an incident in the woods behind their family home. An incident that neither of them are willing to remember. Something that nearly killed Cass and left Coil accused as her abuser. An act that robbed young Coil of his artistic potential, yet boosted his little sister into an almost overnight sensation in the art world.
Now, the self-exiled Coil has come home to deal with his world-famous sister...
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A rock star who doesn't know his own mind. A rising star who knows exactly who and what she is. And a romance that will either lift them both up... or bring them both down. RIVERSLila Potter. Sunshine Girl. Rising star. And as of this week, my agent's new favorite project-and one, I'll add, that replaces her old favorite project, which was me. The agent-and for all I know, the record label and my publicist, too-have decided that I'm no longer worth...
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