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"Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English...
2) The sea wolf
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
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Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renowned musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped...
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Man can move easily enough in the three dimensions of space - why not the fourth: Time? An intriguing after-dinner conversation takes an unexpected turn when the host produces a small machine, which promptly disappears into thin air. It has been sent into the future, he says. Or maybe the past. As his skeptical guests try to fathom what they have seen, the host unveils a full-size machine, nearing completion. At a similar gathering one week later...
6) Carrie
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El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se transformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hasta llegar al terrible momento de la vengaza. Esta novela fue...
8) Just Kate
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Just Kate: Ever since Kate Blake's sister died in a car accident, it's been just her. Just Kate to keep her family together. Just Kate to live up to her senator father's expectations and her mother's idea of perfection. But now, after a painful betrayal by those she loves, she decides it's time to live for herself and claim what she wants. And what she wants is Sean Harris. The only man she's ever loved. And her late sister's husband. But y ears have...
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Home Sweet Home? To heal the wounds left by a broken marriage and the death of her beloved stepson, Libby Kincaid returned to the ranch where she grew up. But instead of the solace she craved, she found Jess Barlowe-sexy, alluring...and mad as hell. For years Jess had been her constant opponent, and now malicious rumors tarnishing her reputation seemed only to enrage him further. But soon these adversarial sparks ignited into a fire of passion, and...
10) Picture me dead
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AN ARRESTING AFFAIR Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police trainingbut nothing has prepared her for the shocking discovery of a body on the highway. When she links the body to Detective Jake Dilessios case, they are forced to work together to find the killer. The body discovered has marks identical to the victims of a cult leader Jake put behind bars five years ago. Is this a copycat killing, or have Jakes deepest fears been realized? Is...
11) Eragon
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Eragon, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage, is shocked to discover a dragon egg and soon finds his life weaved into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
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"Sierra's homecoming: Sierra McKettrick felt like a fraud. She might be moving to her family's ancestral ranch with her son, but being a McKettrick by blood wasn't enough to make her fit in. To make matters worse, from the moment she'd met the Triple M's ranch hand, he'd gotten under Sierra's skin. With his rugged body and tender compassion, Travis Reid was a temptation she didn't need or want. But as Sierra began to form a connection to one of her...
13) Yours and mine
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Yours and mine: "Marriage is an experience that single mom Joanna Parsons doesn't plan to repeat, no matter what her eleven-year-old daughter, Kristen, thinks. Tanner Lund feels the same way. Like Joanna, he got divorced after a short, disastrous marriage. And like her, he's raising his eleven-year-old daughter, Nicole, alone. But Kristen and Nicole have other plans in mind--and it involves the best friends becoming sisters. Both Tanner and Joanna...
14) Almost paradise
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Almost paradise : "Summer camp director Jeff Roarke has a strict policy against romance in the workplace--even if his office is in the forest. Jeff runs a prestigious program and has no tolerance for anything that will distract the campers ... or the counselors. But when Sherry White joins the team, Jeff finds it difficult to follow his own rules. Looking for a summer escape, and a break from her eccentric stepmother, Sherry jumps at the opportunity...
15) Eclipse
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Bella debe escoger entre su amistad con Jacobo, un hombre lobo, y su amistad con Eduardo, un vampiro, pero cuando es acosada por una misteriosa cadena de asesinatos, los tres deben decidir si su vida personal es maas importante que el bienestar de una ciudad.
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them...
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Ready for romance: "As a teenager, Jessica Kellerman was in love with one of the boys next door, Evan Dryden. Now an adult, Jessica is working for the Dryden brothers at their law firm. Evan finds her past crush amusing, but there's a bigger problem--Jessica has actually fallen for Evan's brother, Damian. No one will let Jessica forget her girlish infatuation, least of all Damian, who's trying to be the ultimate matchmaker and set Jessica and Evan...
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At Home in Stone Creek: "It's hard for Ashley O'Ballivan not to feel a little lonely. After all, everyone in her family is marrying and having babies--except her. She hasn't had a booking at her bed-and-breakfast in far too long. And she hasn't seen or heard from the handsome, mysterious man who broke her heart in months. But then Jack McCall suddenly reappears--with no explanations and no promises. Ashley knows Jack has secrets, secrets he says he...
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Completely Smitten : "Haley Foster had lived her entire life in a box. Guided by her preacher father and the residents of her tiny hometown as to what to do, what to wear and even who to marry, she'd lost herself along the way. But no more. Now she was going to live on her own terms and do all the things good preachers' daughters didn't do. Starting with Kevin Harmon."--P. [4] of cover.
Hers for the Weekend : "Piper Jamieson needed a date with no...
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Classic, collectible romances from our bestselling authors. THE SECOND TIME AROUNDAs a young secretary, Ivy McKenzie had been hopelessly in love with tycoon Ryder Calaway. But their searing passionand Ryder's cool rejectionsent innocent Ivy running. Now, five years later, Ryder's magnetic virility was just as dauntingand harder to escape. Ryder always got what he wanted. Except Ivy. For years he'd waited and longed for her. Now she was free, and Ryder's...
20) Against the wind
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When she is forced to return to the home town she hated, widow and single mother Sarah Allen turns to Jackson Raines, with whom she went to high school, for help when her late husband's criminal past comes back to haunt her.