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Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley  |
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
Amarilly comes from modest means, but has big ambitions. Life for Amarilly means living in a large working-class family and dating her bartender boyfriend. But when she meets a wealthy artist, she questions her past and her future. With the talented sculptor Gordon, she seeks new possibilities. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Sanine  |
Sanine
A smart, powerful, attractive man, Sanine indulges his every lust and longing, regardless of the consequences. The young Russian man is not concerned with morality, but with enjoying every pleasure available during the last years of the oppressive Romanov regime. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Ishmael, or In The Depths  |
Ishmael, or In The Depths
Originally a serialized novel, Ishmael follows a man born poor, presumed illegitimate, yet possessed of great inner strengths. In this 19th century rags-to-riches story, Ishmael has many adventures and romances on his rise to the top. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Single Parents Cash and Sources Guide  |
Single Parents Cash and Sources Guide
This action-oriented resource guide gives helpful contact information on obtaining financial assistance, finding free help for clothes, food, shelter, baby items, housing and car repairs, and links to groups who are ready to help single parents. Categories: Business & Finance, Self-help, Other Non-fiction |
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Enhanced  |
Enhanced
In this futuristic tale of transgenic beasts and tribulation saints, a teen is one of millions offered the chance for stem cell therapy with DNA by a mystery organization of billionaires – therapy that will change the architecture of their bodies forever. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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Between Friends |
Between Friends
What secrets are held between friends? Drene, a dramatic, moody sculptor, shares many secrets with his childhood friend, Graylock. Women wed and wooed, death courted and shunned, sanity doubted and restored, these are all part of the dramas between the lifelong friends and sometimes enemies. And to think it all starts when a woman comes between friends. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Tristan and Iseult  |
Tristan and Iseult
A Cornish knight and an Irish princess fall in love in this medieval legend that may have formed the foundation for the King Arthur stories. The chivalric Tristan and the beautiful Iseult fall in love under the power of a magic spell so strong they will sacrifice everything to be together. Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Love and Life  |
Love and Life
Aurelia plays Psyche, Lady Belamour is Venus and Sir Amyas Belamour is Cupid in an 18th century retelling of the classic myth of love and soul. Sir Amyas falls in love with Aurelia before she even knows him, and her generosity leads the recluse out of his darkened rooms into the light of love. Categories: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Depression and Other Symptoms of Modern Culture  |
Muse Power: How Recreational Music Making Heals Depression and Other Symptoms of Modern Culture
Making music together can help our culture heal and builds community by providing a powerful and unique model. This easy-to-read guide explores the modernization of music and how that has affected everyday people. Categories: Education, Entertainment, Other Non-fiction |
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The Ghost of Guir House  |
The Ghost of Guir House
A mysterious missive from young Dorothy Guir draws Mr. Henley from his New York City home to remote regions of Virginia. 1890s spiritualism infuses this weird, ghostly tale of a spirit romance and a mysterious crime that Mr. Henley's must attempt to solve. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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This Side of Paradise  |
This Side of Paradise
Amory Blaine is a romancer, seducing attractive women at Princeton and in New York after World War I. He learns of true love the hard way, though, falling for women who cannot reciprocate. His deepest relationship may in the end be with himself. Category: Historical Romance |
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Women in Love  |
Women in Love
Two sisters, one a teacher and one an artist, meet and fall in love with two men who live near to them in England in the 1910s. The two couples become friends, often with very differing views on society and relationships. This sexually-charged book was the basis a 1969 file for which Glenda Jackson won an Academy Award for Best Actress. Category: Romance |
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Beyond the City  |
Beyond the City
The girl next door is much more than ordinary in this surprising domestic romance by Arthur Conan Doyle. A remarkable departure from his famous detective stories, Beyond the City explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Honourable Mr. Tawnish  |
The Honourable Mr. Tawnish
A fashionable London gentleman, Horatio Tawnish seeks the hand of the daughter of Sir John Chester, who has nothing but disdain for Mr. Tawnish. Tawnish must overcome his reputation as an effeminate dandy if he is to win the woman he loves. Categories: Historical Romance, Regency Romance |
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Madame Bovary  |
Madame Bovary
Emma expects all the passion, wealth, and beautiful things that come with high society when she marries Charles Bovary. When her romantic view of the world clashes with her new country life, she seeks excitement outside her marriage, living in the ecstasy of extremes. Category: Historical Romance |
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Jess the Journeyer  |
Jess the Journeyer
Jess steps into the fantasy world his great, great grandfather wrote about a world of dragons, zyglots and magic and finds that he is the only one who can stop the evil wizard from destroying his new found world Categories: SciFi & Horror, Other Fiction |
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The Wanderer's Necklace  |
The Wanderer's Necklace
Olaf, taunted by his bride-to-be, enters the Wanderer's Tomb despite rumors of hauntings. Inside he is enchanted by a beautiful necklace, and dreams of its owner. Knowing her remains a dream until his fiance elopes with another and Olaf is left to find love through the reincarnated necklace wearer. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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East of the Shadows |
East of the Shadows
Francis Heathcote has lived in a dream world since his accident and cannot tell the past from the present. Is the girl at his side truly his long lost Philippa? He believes she is, not realizing the decades that have gone by. When he awakens fully, he must decide if this Philippa is the right one. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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A Daughter of the Land  |
A Daughter of the Land
Kate Bates feels the weight of the world on her shoulders, left to care for her aging mother while her siblings acquire land and education. To get a life of her own, she will have to pursue her dreams against the wishes of her parents. Will a wealthy suitor help or hurt her in her quest? Category: Romance |
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The Brimming Cup  |
The Brimming Cup
A young couple could hardly choose a more idyllic place to settle down and raise a family than the small town of Ashley, Vermont, the home of Marise and Neale and their children. Yet, Marise feels a certain excitement is missing between her and the reticent Neale. Enter rich Eugenia from New York City, who has her sights set on igniting Neale's passions. Will she succeed, and if she does, who will ultimately benefit from his affections? Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance |
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Alisa Paige - A Book Sample  |
Alisa Paige - A Book Sample
Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, Chambers brings all of the fiery passion of wartime back to the homefront in this historical romance. We move between New York and Virginia as a young soldier strives to do his duty on the battlefront and keep love alive with rich widow Ailsa Paige back home. Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance |
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The Green Mummy  |
The Green Mummy
Professor Braddock finds a mummy swathed in green bandages, with a mysterious note attached, and a treasure inside. It appears to be a royal Egyptian mummy, and uncovering its secrets sets off dramatic twists and turns for the professor and everyone around him. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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A Bicycle of Cathay |
A Bicycle of Cathay
A restful bicycling vacation in the country takes a young professor down more adventurous paths than he had planned. Staying with various families along the way, he meets beautiful women, receives marriage proposals, survives a bear chase and more. An amusing, romantic story. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Man of the Desert  |
The Man of the Desert
The private car parked in the train station has a small Arizona town buzzing. When the Radcliffe family finally emerges, all eyes are on Hazel Radcliffe, a true beauty who brings all sorts of trouble to town, including an affection for lonely missionary John Brownleigh. Category: Western Romance |
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Clementina  |
Clementina
The year is 1719. The scene is a desolate section of road between Florence and Bologna. When Mr. Charles Wogan finds his horse has gone lame, it seems that Fate has put him here for a purpose. Little does he know that purpose will involve protecting the life of Princess Clementina. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Rector of St Marks |
The Rector of St Marks
This little romance book tells the story of two young couples and their romantic adventures and misadventures. A misplaced letter and an honorable silence are attempts at keeping each of these couples apart. Category: Romance |
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Far from the Madding Crowd  |
Far from the Madding Crowd
Gabriel Oak, a shepherd, falls in love with Bathsheba, a vain young beauty who refuses to give up her independence to marry him and she moves away. Years later he finds her again and becomes a victim of unrequited love as Bathsheba moves through life with several eligible suitors. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 1  |
A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 1
This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained. Category: Other Fiction |
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Bressant |
Bressant
Incredibly intelligent, yet inexperienced in life and love, Professor Valeyon's new student, Bressant, poses a challenge to the teacher and his instantly smitten daughters. Sophie and Cornelia vow to never fight over the young man, but it seems some promises are made to be broken as this love triangle develops. Category: Romance |
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The Amazing Interlude |
The Amazing Interlude
Drawing on her own experience as a World War I correspondent, Rinehart brings us into the world of American Sara Lee Kennedy, who is nursing wounded soldiers in Belgium. There, Sara Lee meets a passionate man who sweeps her into an otherworldly romance and a mystery that begs to be solved. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Great Chain on Urantia |
The Great Chain on Urantia
A baby boy covered in fur is left at a monastery in Bhutan, an Asian country that honors the yeti. He survives an invasion by the Chinese cavalry and escapes. Follow his life to Canada while he struggles with his identity, finds his mother and uses physics to challenge space and time. Categories: SciFi & Horror, Spirituality, Other Fiction |
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The Daughter of the Chieftain |
The Daughter of the Chieftain
A band of Iroquois warriors hold hostage Linna, the young daughter of Delaware Chieftain, Omas. Omas is never far behind as the bandits run with the girl. The kidnappers may be fierce, but Omas, the young Ben Ripley, and Linna herself are clever. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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The Rainbow |
The Rainbow
The prequel to Women in Love, The Rainbow follows three generations of one family, the Brangwens, and the sexual dynamics and relationships of the family members. Though considered tame today, The Rainbow was banned in Britain for its frank look at sensual desires. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Flight of the Monarch  |
Flight of the Monarch
Nineteenth century, Hayley Lawrence, lives with her father on Canada's Amhearst Island. His over-protectiveness and interference by others, threaten to keep her from the man she loves. As she attempts to surrender her desire for Austin Sommers, a long-kept secret is revealed. Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance |
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Sir Nigel  |
Sir Nigel
In service to King Edward III, Sir Nigel Loring must prove himself worthy of the hand of his the Lady Mary by performing three deeds in her honor. On his way to the altar, Nigel rescues a woman from dishonor, fights a pirate leader, and battles against the Spanish at sea, among other heroic feats. Category: Historical Romance |
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Graustark  |
Graustark
An arranged marriage awaits Princess Yetive and Prince Lorenz when the prince is mysteriously murdered. The accused assassin is none other than the true love of the Princess, American Grenfall Lorry. To avoid execution and marry the Princess, Lorry must clear his name with the royalty of Graustark. Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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The Lady of the Shroud  |
The Lady of the Shroud
Adrift off the coast of the fictional Blue Mountains is a small coffin containing a white-shrouded woman. She rises, soaking wet, from the sea, and seeks refuge in the Castle of Vissarion in the middle of the night. The rich young Rupert Leger lets the mysterious beauty in, but who is she? Category: Vampire Romance |
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Indian Summer |
Indian Summer
Theodore Colville returns to Florence, the city of his heartbreak twenty years earlier. Now a middle-aged man, he encounters former flame Lina Bowen, her daughter Effie and their friend, the young and beautiful Imogene Graham, who develops a crush on him. Which way will he turn? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Daisy In The Field  |
Daisy In The Field
In this third installment of the Wetherell series featuring Daisy Cardigan, the young heroine is troubled by a passion for the forbidden. She knows her family will not approve of her loving a Northern army officer who is also a farmer's son. Yet she cannot seem to help herself. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Atlantida  |
Atlantida
To ascend to her throne, Queen Antinea, descended from Atlantis, must fill her Saharan cave with lovers. Willing to inspire kidnapping and murder to collect her human treasures, Antinea also invites scrutiny. Will her investigators stop her, or fall prey to her otherworldly charms? Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Nell of Shorne Mills |
Nell of Shorne Mills
The small, rural town of Shorne Mills is not used to strangers. The sudden appearance of an unknown man on horseback changes things in town, and in the life of Nell, who first encounters the man. This romantic novel's alternate title, One Heart's Burden, intimates that strong emotions surely follow the newcomer into town. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Jazz - Then and Now  |
Jazz - Then and Now
This is a well-researched, detailed history of the musicians and music of the jazz form. It covers the various trends, venues and geographical influences that contributed to the music form called jazz. Categories: Entertainment, History, Other Non-fiction |
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Cabin Fever  |
Cabin Fever
Bud Moore enters into a partnership with a prospector in the Western wilderness and looks forward to a life of adventure and fortune. Little does he know how much soul-searching will go on in the cabin they share, especially when a child enters their lives and changes their destinies. Categories: Romance, Western Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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The City of Delight  |
The City of Delight
The dramas of a nation form the backdrop for the drama of love in The City of Delight. The colorful crowds of Jerusalem bring Jews, Persians and Romans together to confront their differences. The tension in the air only adds to the desperate passion of young love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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At the Time Appointed  |
At the Time Appointed
How does a man construct his identity when he has lost his memory? In this romance novel, a mining accident erases a young engineer's memory and gives him the chance to create his character afresh, leading to a new life of struggle and adventure. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Baby Mine  |
Baby Mine
In a comedy of misunderstandings, Zoie Hardy tries proving her love for her husband Alfred by becoming a mother. Unfortunately, Zoie's idea of motherhood involves bringing home several other women's babies. Can Alfred see through his wife's zany antics to the true love that lies underneath? Category: Romance |
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Atma - A Romance |
Atma - A Romance
Soaring poetry and exotic Indian locations create a dramatic setting for this story of the Sikhs struggles in the 1840s. Atma Singh must try to regain the sapphire of fate and the honor of his people in this historical novel touched with adventure and romance. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Anna Karenina - Part 3  |
Anna Karenina - Part 3
Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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SEX - Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English |
SEX - Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English
This practical and frankly-worded self-help book was written as a guide to sexual behavior and relationships between men and women and to explain the scientific knowledge of the day about sex. The book was was published in 1922, about 35 years after Henry Stanton's death. |
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Scaramouche  |
Scaramouche
A young aristocrat finds himself in the middle of battles romantic and revolutionary as the French Revolution begins. He embraces every role that comes his way: the theater's Scaramouche, a clever lawyer, a cutthroat politician, a skilled swordsman, and a passionate lover. Category: Historical Romance |
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