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1) Loveless
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The loveless meeting is a somber collision of two souls traversing parallel paths, devoid of the spark and resonance that typically accompanies the union of hearts. It's a moment shrouded in a sense of emptiness and disconnect, where the absence of genuine connection casts a pall over the encounter. In the absence of love, the meeting feels hollow, as if two strangers pass each other by in the vast expanse of existence, their paths crossing momentarily...
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Elizabeth McGee never thought she'd set foot in Loveless, Texas, again. But after the reading of her father's will, Elizabeth learns she's inherited her grandmother's house and all of the personal contents. If that wasn't enough to knock her off her feet, she soon discovers that JD Carmichael, her lost love from high school, is the contractor who has been hired to finish renovating the house. JD once had the world by the tail. But after a premature...
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Analise woke up in the hospital to find that her parents were dead. Her father's business partner has inherited the ranch she grew up on. To make matters worse her father's will stipulates she cannot receive her inheritance until she turns twenty-one. Now penniless and homeless, she agrees to a marriage of convenience with her father's business partner.After turning twenty-one and with her inheritance in hand, she no longer wishes to be trapped in...
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The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed relationship he believes might save him. His younger sister Tess is considering, or resisting, a convenient but loveless marriage to a wealthy, narcissistic novelist. Ryland Richter, an alcoholic insurance executive...
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Set again the majestic backdrop of northern Arizona is the little town of Oater's Creek. The Brazilian Bean coffee shop is a popular place in town, and it is there that David first met Angel.They soon become lovers, but their future together seems doomed, for Angel is trapped in a loveless marriage with a brutal husband. Only the death of her husband Richard Carlson will provide Angel with the means to escape the bounds of his brutality. Desperately...
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Secrets Trilogy, Book 2 Now that his best friend is blissfully married, Severus Granville, Earl of Swithland, finds himself dealing with a wholly unfamiliar urge-to settle down and produce an heir. But among the bevy of beauties vying for his attention, none hold his interest except for one: Penelope. Clumsy, intelligent, appealing Penelope is the one woman with whom he could escape...but she's expected to marry another. Afraid she'll be labeled an...
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A rebellious lass who is forced to wed.A groom still mourning his lost wife and child.It's not a recipe for a happy union in the Highlands of Scotland..."That wildcat in the Chisholm clan," is the way most people describe Mairi Chisholm. Mairi makes no secret of the fact that she would rather be out taking down a wild pig with her childhood friend Iain, the fletcher's son, than plying a needle with the women.Her father, tired of her rejection of one...
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This book displays at their height the wit, sensibility and psychological penetration that distinguish Miss Stafford's work. There are nine stories and a novella. They range in mood from the title story, a comic portrait of a resourceful child-criminal named Lottie Jump, to "The End of a Career," an elegiac and ironic tale of the declining years of a great beauty. In "A Reasonable Facsimile" Dr. Bohrmann, a retired professor philosophy, is unexpectedly...
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As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool, only friendship and community can keep the women of Weaver Street smiling.
The neighbours on Liverpool's Weaver Street have always looked after each other, but when the Second World War takes many of the husbands, brothers and sons away to fight, the women's friendships are more important than ever.
Matriarch Kitty Conlon is missing her son Patrick, proud...
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The day Jan Neuman saw the tanks rumble through his peaceful mountain town in 1938 would be the first of a chain of events – the war; the German occupation of his country; the brutal reign of the SS commandant Klaus Fuchs who sends his friend to a concentration camp; the liberation by the Americans and the subsequent occupation by the Russians, and the communist coup d'état that would force him into exile.The communist government sees him as an...
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