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1) The pursuit
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey's wonderfully delightful sequel to Say You Love Me.
What was to be a grand adventure for Melissa MacGregor-an escape from the wilds of her Scottish home into the whirl of the London social scene-seems to pale before the promise in the passionate gaze of Lincoln Ross Burnett. Though they exchange but a few words before parting after a chance encounter on her grandfather's lands, Melissa instantly...
4) The diviners
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Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
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Mansfield Park is a study of three families-the Bertrams, the Crawfords, and the Prices-with the isolated figure of the heroine, Fanny Price, at its center. Fanny's quiet passivity, her steadfast loyalty and love for the son of the family who regard her as the poor relation, and who have taken her under their roof, are not appreciated until they are tried against the brilliant and witty Mary and Henry Crawford, the unfortunate consequences of whose...
12) Bad hare day
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2003
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Uncle Herbert the Hare, the best hairdresser in town, has his hands full when his niece Holly spends time at his salon
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[2023]
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English
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Helen, an introvert who designs invitations to parties and galas to which she’s not welcome, at her uncle Peter’s insistence, prints an extra invitation to attend a soiree with Peter as her plus one, and what starts out as an innocent lark becomes much more.
15) Fort
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2015.
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English
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"A middle-grade summer adventure about two boys who build an awesome fort and tangle with two older bullies"--
16) The Silver Arrow
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2020.
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Kate's humdrum life is transformed when her eccentric Uncle Herbert brings her a colossal locomotive train, the Silver Arrow, as her eleventh birthday gift, leading her and her younger brother on a mysterious quest.
17) Starter villain
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2023.
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"Inheriting your uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might think. Particularly when you discover who's running the place. Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan. Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano...
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Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
20) The Rose legacy
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2018.
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Orphaned Anthea Cross hopes to finally find a home with her long-lost uncle, but she soon learns not only that he secretly breeds forbidden horses, but that she can communicate with them.--Provided by Publisher.
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