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1) Bleak House
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"Bleak House" (1853) is one of Dickens' most ambitious works and established his reputation as a mature novelist capable of writing about the most serious issues while maintaining a talent for the blackest humour and comic farce. Narrated in turns by ward of court, Esther Summerson and an unnamed narrator whose outlook both compliments Esther's and challenges it, the stories of Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually depleted under the...
2) Summer
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"Charity Royall lives in the small New England village of North Dormer. Born among outcasts from the Mountain beyond, she is rescued by lawyer Royall and lives with him as his ward. Never allowed to forget her disreputable origins Charity despises North Dormer and rebels against the stifling dullness of the tight-knit community surrounding her. Her boring job in the local library is interrupted one day by the arrival of a young visiting architect,...
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It's 1964. Eleven-year-old Fin and his glamorous, worldly, older half sister, Lady, have just been orphaned. Lady, whom Fin hasn't seen in six years, is now his legal guardian and his only hope. That means Fin is uprooted from a small dairy farm in rural Connecticut to Greenwich Village, smack in the middle of the swinging '60s. He soon learns that Lady -- giddy, careless, and obsessed with being free -- is as much his responsibility as he is hers....
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Ten-year-old Helen and her summer guardian, Flora, are isolated together in Helen's decaying family house while her father does secret war work in Oak Ridge. Helen lost her mother at three, and the beloved grandmother who raised her just died. Fiercely imaginative, she is desperate to keep her house's ghosts and stories intact. Flora, her mother's first cousin, is determined to do her best for Helen. Their relationship and its fallout will haunt Helen...
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Guncle volume 1
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"Patrick O'Hara is a bit out of his league. Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for week-long visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. So when tragedy strikes and Patrick finds himself suddenly taking on the role of primary guardian, he is, honestly, overwhelmed. Patrick has no idea...
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Ann Radcliffe's orphaned heroine Emily St. Aubert finds herself imprisoned in her evil guardian Count Montoni's gloomy medieval fortress in the remote Apennines. Terror is the order of the day inside the walls of Udolpho, as Emily struggles against Montoni's rapacious schemes and the threat of her own psychological disintegration. A best-seller in its day and a potent influence on Sade, Poe, and other purveyors of eighteenth and nineteenth-century...
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In fifteenth-century England, when his father's murderer is revealed to be his guardian, seventeen-year-old Richard Shelton joins the fellowship of the Black Arrow in avenging the death, rescuing the woman he loves, and participating in the struggle between the Yorks and Lancasters in the War of the Roses.
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When single attorney Steven Creed becomes guardian of an orphaned five-year-old boy, he trades his big-city law firm for a ranch near his McKettrick kin in the close-knit community of Stone Creek, Arizona. When Steven takes on the pro bono defense of a local teen, he meets his match in the opposing counsel, beautiful, by-the-book county prosecutor Melissa O'Ballivan.
10) Handle with care
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Veteran movers volume 3
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"Evan Griffith has had many careers in his life. But who knew working for his family's moving company would hold just as much action as his stint in the Marine Corps? On an unforgettable job, Evan finds himself taken by a teenage conman and confronted by a woman wielding a knife - and promptly falls head over heels for her. Kenzie Sykes is doing her best to raise her little brother and keep him out of jail - all while dealing with her own broken...
11) Four in hand
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Four in hand: After roguish Max Rotherbridge inherits the dukedom of Twyford and the Twinning sisters as wards, he must figure out a way to protect them from his disreputable friends and win the heart of the oldest sister, Caroline.
The dissolute duke: After circumstances force them to marry, Taylen Ellesmere, Duke of Alderworth, leaves his new wife and disappears. Three years later, having barely survived the scandal, Lady Lucinda has placed one...
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Razor Bay volume 1
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"He's the last man on earth she should want... For a guy she's fantasized about throttling, Jake Bradshaw sure is easy on the eyes. In fact, he seriously tempts inn manager Jenny Salazar to put her hands to better use. Except this is the guy who left Razor Bay--and his young son, Austin, whom Jenny adores like her own--to become a globe-trotting photojournalist. He can't just waltz back and claim Austin now. Jake was little more than a kid himself...
13) Dark tribute
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"New York Times bestseller Iris Johansen is back with another high octane thriller that will leave your mind racing and your heart pounding. Despite her tragic childhood, violin prodigy Cara Delaney has finally found peace in her career as a professional musician and stability in her relationship with her guardians, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan and ex-Navy SEAL Joe Quinn. If only Jock Gavin, Cara's lifelong friend and a man with his own twisted history,...
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Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug has always looked out for his nephew Desmond Pepperdine. He provides Des with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls and Internet porn. Des, however, desires only books to read and a girl to love. Then Lionel - once again in a London prison - wins millions in the lottery...
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"Colby is living her best life: as a beloved food blogger, she gets to fulfill her childhood dreams of exploring the world. Being constantly on the move suits her just fine after a series of heartbreaks have taught her that settling down is not in her stars. But Colby's world comes to a halt when she's named the co-guardian of her best friend's two adorable children. Not only does she need to put down roots-fast-but to honor her friend's wishes, she'll...
16) Tick tock
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Michael Bennett mysteries volume 4
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Detective Michael Bennett is pulled away from vacation and his ten children when an unexploded bomb is discovered in New York City. Teaming up with FBI Agent Beth Peters, Michael quickly discovers that the botched bombing was only a sample of things to come.
17) Carmen and Grace
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"Carmen and Grace have been inseparable since they were little girls--more like sisters than cousins, survivors of a childhood marked by neglect and addiction and a system that never valued them. For too long, all they had was each other. That is, until Doña Durka swept into their lives and changed everything, taking Grace into her home, providing stability and support, and playing an outsize role in Carmen's upbringing too. Durka is more than a...
18) These old shades
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Justin Alastair, Duke of Avon, is called "Satanas" by friend and enemy alike. In the aristocratic circles of London and Louis XV's Paris, he has a reputation as a dangerous and debauched rake. Late one evening, the Duke stumbles upon Léon, a red-headed urchin fleeing a beating at his brutal brother's hands. On a whim, Avon buys the boy and makes him his page. But it soon becomes clear that Léon is not what he seems. When the grubby Léon turns out...
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He knows all about women, or so he thought... Dexter Yates leads a charmed existence in London, with money, looks, and girlfriends galore. Life's fantastic until Dex's sister dies and his world changes overnight. Astonishing everyone, including himself, Dex leaves the city behind, takes charge of his eight-month-old niece Delphi, moves to a beautiful Cotswolds village, and sets about working on his parenting skills. His neighbors, including cartoonist...
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"In this heartrending debut, Fatimah Asghar traces the intense bond of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. The youngest, Kausar, grapples with the incomprehensible loss of her parents as she also charts out her own understanding of gender; Aisha, the middle sister, spars with her "crybaby" younger sibling as she desperately tries to hold on to her sense of family in an impossible situation; and Noreen,...
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