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Harper volume Book 2
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A storm brings a floating circus to the City of Clouds, and when Harper and her friends attend they move ever closer to the secret of her origins.
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More than a year has passed since Marjan, Bahar, and Layla, the beautiful Iranian Aminpour sisters, sought refuge in the quaint Irish town of Ballinacroagh. Opening the beguiling Babylon Cafe, they charmed the locals with their warm hearts and delectable Persian cuisine, bringing a saffron-scented spice to the once-sleepy village.
But when a young woman with a dark secret literally washes up on Clew Bay Beach, the sisters' world is once again turned...
84) Raven summer
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Led to an abandoned baby by a raven, fourteen-year-old Liam seems fated to meet two foster children who have experienced the world's violence in very different ways as he struggles to understand war, family problems, and friends who grow apart.
85) The orphan house
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"1934: Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs in the English countryside. But everything changes the day she sees him carrying a newborn baby that he says he found near the broken front gate. A baby she recognizes ... Present Day: Arriving at her father's beloved cottage beside the Thames, Sarah Jennings is hoping for peace and quiet, and an escape from her difficult divorce. But when she finds her father unwell and poring...
86) The lost city
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Omte origins volume 1
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Abandoned as a baby and raised by trolls of mixed blood, Ulla Tulin embarks on a mission to find her parents, meeting handsome Pan Soriano along the way and learning that her mother may be connected to the Omte royal family.
88) True colors
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In 1952 Vermont, ten-year-old Blue decides to set out in the middle of her town's sesquicentennial celebration to find the mother who abandoned her as a baby, but a series of events reminds her that she already has everything she needs.
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Mo and Dale mystery volume 4
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"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
93) Factotum
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(David M.),Monster blood tattoo volume 3
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Accused of being a monster instead of human, Rossameund Bookchild looks to monster-hunter Branden Rose for help, but powerful forces are after them both, believing that Rossameund holds the secret to perpetual youth.
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Letras de bolsillo) volume 198
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Una novela ambientada en una isla remota de Australia, donde una pareja sin hijos vivir tranquilamente la ejecución de un faro, hasta que un barco que transportaba a un bebé se lava en tierra.
A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.
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This is the story of the savage, tormented foundling Heathcliff, who falls wildly in love with Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of his benefactor, and the violence and misery that result from their thwarted longing for each other. A book of great power and strength, it is filled with the raw beauty of the moors and an uncanny understanding of the terrible truths about men and women. It is an understanding made even more extraordinary by the fact that...
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"Teacher has lost himself, becoming just another wandering Outsider. At first, Shiva doesn't want to believe, but as she realizes she's been forgotten, she falls into despair. Will the two of them ever truly connect again? Meanwhile, the truth of the world--and the machinations of gods--begins to come to light within the Inside. Humanity makes a choice. A little girl makes a choice. Their actions lead the way to a future that must not come to pass."--Provided...
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Great Expectations: "Nothing is quite as it seems for young orphan Pip in this superb retelling of Dickens' classic coming-of-age novel..." -cover.
Jane Eyre: "When a lonely young governess falls in love with the father of her new student at Thornfield Hall, things finally appear to be going well for Jane Eyre. However, Jane and Mr. Rochester are haunted by the mysteries of their past lives..." -cover.
Wuthering Heights: "The fiery romance of Heathcliff...