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"Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide has been toppled in a violent coup d'état, bringing to power a brutal military dictatorship. With turmoil in the streets and an international embargo threatening to destroy even the country's most powerful players, some are looking to gain an advantage in chaos--and others are just looking to make it through another day. American expat Matt Amaker, forced out of his beachfront scuba shop by a drug-smuggling...
2) Wrecker
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When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.
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His plan for seduction went perfectly...until he asked her to marry him! New York Times bestselling author Brenda Jackson returns to the friends and family of the Westmoreland in this Westmoreland Legacy novel.
Two can play the game of seduction.
But after one night together, the rules are about to change...
Westmoreland family friend Jaxon Ravnell is in Wyoming for one reason only: to consummate his fiery attraction to Nadia Novak. But unbeknownst...
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He's a flirt closed off to love. She's a romantic set on taming his wild ways.
Let the sparks fly!
Redford St. James is having too much fun to settle down with just one woman. Until a Westmoreland family wedding reunites him with Carmen Golan. He can't get Carmen-gorgeous, sweet and a hopeless romantic-out of his mind. Even though she's outright said he's husband material! Him! And she believes any heartbreaker can be tamed-by the right person....
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Voluptuous Orlando judge Dominique Kincaid finds lust at first sight in the form of a handsome morning jogger who fuels her fantasies. But when he steps into her courtroom as a hotshot attorney, she finds it hard to remain the Honorable Judge Kincaid. As far as Jordan Prescott is concerned, Dominique Kincaid gives the phrase, "Here comes the judge" all-new meaning. She is everything he wants in a woman and is determined to teach her the bare essentials...
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To control or to be controlled...
Attorney Royce Parker has had the hots for Michelle Kincaid for a couple of years and decides it's time to do something about it. He books a cruise through her travel agency and talks her into joining him as nothing more than a friend. Once together on the high seas, they discover their biggest challenge is fighting the powerful attraction trying to overtake their senses.
Michelle Kincaid has issues. The main one...
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Voluptuous Orlando judge Dominique Kincaid finds lust at first sight in the form of a handsome morning jogger who fuels her fantasies. But when he steps into her courtroom as a hotshot attorney, she finds it hard to remain the Honorable Judge Kincaid.
As far as Jordan Prescott is concerned, Dominique Kincaid gives the phrase, "Here comes the judge" all-new meaning. She is everything he wants in a woman and is determined to teach her the bare essentials...
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Washington, D.C. has always been a city of secrets. Few have been more dramatic than the ones revealed in James Kirchick's Secret City.
For decades, the specter of homosexuality haunted Washington. The mere suggestion that a person might be gay destroyed reputations, ended careers, and ruined lives. At the height of the Cold War, fear of homosexuality became intertwined with the growing threat of international communism, leading to a purge of gay...
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Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos on the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals and humans on the streets of California - and how he discovered what bonds all living creatures.
Dr. Kwane Stewart was questioning his career as a veterinarian when he saw a homeless man with a flea-infested dog outside of a convenience store. In a moment of spontaneous generosity, he offered...
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A groundbreaking study of the first Black female novelist and her life as an enslaved woman, from the biographer who solved the mystery of her identity, with a preface by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
In 1857, a woman escaped enslavement on a North Carolina plantation and fled to a farm in New York. In hiding, she worked on a manuscript that would make her famous long after her death. The novel, The Bondwoman’s Narrative, was first published in 2002 to...
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Second time's the charm: After a chance encounter on vacation, Dylan Emanuel invites his never-forgotten college love Charm Outlaw to his ranch, where their emotions as well as long-buried truths may change their lives forever.
Her secret billionaire: Chef Egypt Cox learns that her secret lover is corporate shark Garrett Forrester, finding his amnesia as well as his secrets threaten their future together.
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As President Obama's time in the White House draws to a close, this celebratory book documents his transformative accomplishments.
Evidence indicates President Barack Obama has been tremendously successful and effective by objective measures. On economic indicators alone, he is credited with the longest streak of job growth in U.S. history, a two-thirds reduction in the federal budget deficit, and the rebounding of the stock market to record highs...
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Broken hearts mend and find one another again in this charming contemporary romance originally published as A Family of her Own in 2004
When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke-and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high price for trusting the wrong man.
Booker Robinson is the man she didn't trust, the man she'd...
14) Cobalt
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A keen young freshman. A siren at a crossroads. A chance meeting that changes everything.
Gina is a mermaid-a siren-on her land cycle and she has found a human mate she loves. In fact, they're engaged, but to overcome a mysterious betrayal she isn't sure she should forgive, she needs some time at sea, ideally above it.
So she stows away on a tall ship.
Seth is a precocious fifteen-year-old working on a school project, researching Cobalt Girl, a modern...
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A steamy opposites-attract story about a playboy CEO determined never to settle down and a hopeless romantic who knows it just takes the right person to reform a rake.
He's closed off to love. She's set on taming his wild ways. Let the sparks fly!
Redford St. James is having too much fun to settle down with just one woman. Until a Westmoreland family wedding reunites him with Carmen Golan. He can't get Carmen—gorgeous, sweet and a hopeless romantic—out...
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Assemble Artifacts
A short story magazine that assembles a thrilling new mix of stories from genres including horror, science-fiction, comedy, and suspense. Buried at the heart of every story in the magazine is a unique artifact, an object that has inspired our storytellers to create a big idea, an irresistible question, a new immersive world, or a sense of wonder. Unearth your next great read with Assemble Artifacts.
"The Family Proof" by Arianna...
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The obituary page of The New York Times isa celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.
The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating...
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From WSJ. Magazine's popular monthly "Columnists" feature, ON POINTis a collection of inspiring wisdom for the modern age.
"Good advice," says writer Cheryl Strayed, "is simply about sharing your perspective." This concise, but powerful insight is one of the countless invaluable lessons shared in On Point. Here, hundreds of luminaries, across a diverse spectrum of professions and backgrounds, offer their hard-won knowledge "On Success," "On Fear,"...