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This must be the place This must be the place Anna Winger Walter Baum has one of the most famous voices in Germany, if no longer a famous face. A former television star, he's been dubbing Tom Cruise's lines into German for fifteen years, since he returned f… OL11914246W
No place like home No place like home Mary Higgins Clark I cannot believe I am standing in the exact spot where I was standing when I killed my mother...When she was ten Liza Barton shot her mother dead, trying to protect her from her violent stepfather. T… OL13066W
The Bell The Bell Iris Murdoch A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey, home of an enclosed order of nuns. A new bell, legendary symbol of religion and magic, is rediscovered. Dora Greenfield,… OL1326304W
The good mayor The good mayor Andrew Nicoll In a busy little city in a forgotten corner of the Baltic, in an office on the square, the beloved mayor of Dot lies on his office floor, peering beneath his door. Tibo Krovic has come to work from h… OL13775325W
Justice Hall Justice Hall Laurie R. King Justice Hall (Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes #6) by Laurie R. King Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of The Moor, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger poun… OL14860209W
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Snow Flower and the Secret Fan Lisa See Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer in Yongming County, and to her family is just another mouth to feed until she can be married off. But when she is six years old she is brought before the ambit… OL14927217W
American Women Writers American Women Writers Edith Wharton,Louisa May Alcott,Kate Chopin,Edna Ferber [The Awakening][1] / Kate Chopin -- A whisper in the dark / Louisa May Alcott -- Selected stories / Edna Ferber -- The house of mirth (an extract) / Edith Wharton. [1]: https://openlibrary.… OL14943618W
You Don't Have to be Good You Don't Have to be Good Sabrina Broadbent Bea is in her late forties, has a dead-end job with the Council in Cambridge, and is married to Frank, a feckless would-be writer with extra-mural distractions. Bea's successful sister, Katharine, th… OL15177901W
The wrong mother The wrong mother Sophie Hannah Sally Thorning is watching the news with her husband when she hears an unexpected name - Mark Bretherick. It's a name she shouldn't know but last year Sally treated herself to a secret vacation away … OL15626773W
Come Back to Sorrento Come Back to Sorrento Dawn Powell Originally published as *The Tenth Month, Come Back to Sorrento* joins *My Home Is Far Away* and *Dance Night* as the third of Dawn Powell's so-called "Ohio novels" to be re-issued. Here Powell turns… OL15694656W
The constant companion The constant companion M C Beaton Writing as Marion Chesney ''I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion.'' So it was that quiet, reserved Constance came to the household of the haughty but beautiful L… OL15802166W
Gemma Bovery Gemma Bovery Posy Simmonds Presents a graphic novel about Gemma Bovery, a young woman who married a carpenter and then persuades him to move away from London, his ex-wife, and their children; but life in the Normandy countrysi… OL16025889W
Mr. Lincoln's Wife Anne Colver Mr. Lincoln's Wife Anne Colver Anne Colver “Here is a fresh telling of the story of 'the most maligned woman in American history.' Here is a memorable portrait of the proud, paradoxical woman who was one of our most fascinating First Ladies.”… OL161204W
The Awakening & Other Stories (Athenaise / At the 'cadian Ball / Awakening / Belle Zoraide / Desire… The Awakening & Other Stories (Athenaise / At the 'cadian Ball / Awakening / Belle Zoraide / Desire… Kate Chopin Contains: [The Awakening][1] Wiser than a god. -- A point at issue! -- A shameful affair. -- Miss McEnders. -- At the 'Cadian Ball. -- [Desiree's Baby][2] Madame Celestin's divorce. -- A L… OL16551541W
A Song In The Daylight A Song In The Daylight Paullina Simons Larissa Stark is a beautiful woman who plays many roles in her life: wife, mother, devoted friend. She has everything she ever wanted, until a chance encounter with a stranger changes Larissa's idyll… OL17419015W
The truth about love The truth about love Jane Elizabeth Varley Sally has just moved into a Victorian house in London. She's a woman with an outwardly enviable life . Yet beneath an apparently happy exterior, Sally struggles with the legacy of Edward's past: his … OL17875164W
Diary Diary Chuck Palahniuk Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma… OL18937W
Whitefern Whitefern V. C. Andrews "The long-awaited sequel to My Sweet Audrina, one of V.C. Andrews's strangest, most beloved books--and now a Lifetime movie! Whitefern swallowed Audrina's childhood--and now the sprawling Victorian m… OL19063893W
Lady of light Lady of light Kathleen Morgan Lady of Light (Brides of Culdee Creek #3) by Kathleen Morgan 4.13 · Rating details · 1,308 ratings · 48 reviews Infused with the same warmth and excitement of the two previ… OL19201W
The rumor The rumor Elin Hilderbrand Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Saturday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this su… OL19662877W
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