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His Lady Mistress [Secure]
by Elizabeth Rolls
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DOWNTRODDEN SERVANT OR GRACIOUS LADY?When Max, Earl Blakehurst, meets Verity he sees a downtrodden servant. He doesn't recognize her as the daughter of a colonel under whom he used to serve, the girl he'd once helped years before. The life Verity's now living is untenable. So he proposes a shocking solution--he will set her up as his mistress.It's only once that Verity's finally agreed, once Max is beginning to lose his heart to her, that he discovers her true identity. Max is taken aback; he wo... more info>> (Published: 2005)
Category: Romance
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Slow Hands [Secure]
by Leslie Kelly
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This is Maddy Turner's lucky day. The civilized society girl just bid on sexy rogue Jake Wallace at a charity bachelor auction--and won! But Maddy knows Jake's dirty little secret. And it should keep her from trying out her new boy toy. Too bad she can't stop herself from indulging in raw, quite uncivilized sex all the same....Jake Wallace is utterly bewitched by Maddy--and utterly bewildered. How can this tantalizing woman melt so rapturously under his ministrations one moment, then turn into a... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Stranded With a Spy [Secure]
by Merline Lovelace
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When Mallory Dawes, suddenly infamous in the States, decided to take that vacation to France, her problems were just beginning: a lost passport. A car swept out to sea. Missing travelers' checks. And a mysterious, if intriguing, man who always seemed to turn up just when she was in trouble...Cutter Smith--code name: Slash--was told to keep the beautiful blonde in his sights. But as his interest in her veered from the professional to the intensely personal, Cutter knew the cost of falling in love... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Category: Romance
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Snowbound [Secure]
by Janice Kay Johnson
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When a blizzard strands Fiona MacPherson and her students in Oregon's Cascade Mountains, their only hope of survival is to seek shelter at Thunder Mountain Lodge. Their host is John Fallon, a handsome, enigmatic war veteran haunted by secrets and scars that may never heal. John Fallon never imagined he'd be playing host to this captivating teacher and her eight teenage charges. But when his solitude is shattered by their arrival, his world shifts on its axis. He needs Fiona--but does she need hi... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Category: Romance
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Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch [Secure]
by B.J. Daniels
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After Hudson Savage betrayed her, Dana Cardwell hoped never to lay eyes on the seductive cowboy again. Until a bunch of old bones showed up on her family ranch. Suddenly her former lover was back in her life in a big way--to investigate a decades-old crime.Five years ago, Hud left town with a heart load of regrets. But now, as acting interim marshal, he had a job to do. And this time he wasn't walking away. Because now Dana's life was on the line--as the unsuspecting target of a killer who stil... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Category: Romance
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Homespun Bride [Secure]
by Jillian Hart
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Montana Territory in 1883 was a dangerous place--especially for a blind woman struggling to make her way through an early winter snowstorm. Undaunted, Noelle Kramer fought to remain independent. But then a runaway horse nearly plunged her into a rushing, ice-choked river, before a stranger's strong, sure hand saved her from certain death. And yet this was no stranger.Though she could not know it, her rescuer was rancher Thad McKaslin, the man who had once loved her more than life itself. Losing... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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A Very Special Delivery [Secure]
by Linda Goodnight
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It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life could be, but she was touched by this stranger's faith in her abilities. Once the storm had passed, though, and her guests returned home, normalcy eluded Molly. The Hunters' presence had brought much-needed joy to her quiet world, but their absence thre... more info>> (Published: 2006)
Category: Romance
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Hide In Plain Sight [Secure]
by Marta Perry
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"Please God, if you're listening, keep Rachel safe." She couldn't turn her back on her family in their time of need. So when her sister was injured, financial expert Andrea Hampton traded the big city for Amish country to help turn her grandmother's house into an inn. But life with the Plain People took a treacherous turn when a string of accidents and pranks threatened her family. Someone didn't want the secrets the old house harbored to come to light. Trusting anyone--even the handsome carpent... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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Baby Bonanza [Secure]
by Maureen Child
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Twins? The startling revelation that his affair with Jenna Baker had produced two little boys was almost impossible to grasp. Tycoon Nick Falco had never considered himself the settling-down type, yet now that fatherhood had been thrust upon him, he was determined to give his sons his name. But their mother wasn't about to let him back into her life ... at least not without those three little words Nick had never, ever said. (Published: 2008)
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Dancing In the Moonlight [Secure]
by RaeAnne Thayne
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Lieutenant Magdalena Cruz had come home?And though all she wanted was to be alone, infuriatingly handsome Dr. Jake Dalton--of the enemy Daltons--wouldn't cooperate. And she needed him to, because the walls around her heart were dangerously close to crumbling every time he came near." Jake had spent most of his life trying to get closer to Maggie, with little to show for it. But she was the woman he'd always wanted, and no injury in the world could change that. Now if only he could convince her... more info>> (Published: 2006)
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The Bride's Baby [Secure]
by Liz Fielding
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Events manager Sylvie Smith is organizing a glittering fund-raising event: a wedding show in a stately home. She has even been roped into pretending to be a bride...a bride who's five months pregnant! The bride everyone is talking about! It should be every girl's dream to design a wedding with no expense spared, but it's not Sylvie's. Longbourne Court was her ancestral home, and she's just discovered that the new owner is Tom McFarlane--her baby's secret father. Now Tom's standing in front of h... more info>> (Published: 2008)
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Once A Cowboy [Secure]
by Linda Warren
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Brodie Hayes is a former rodeo star, now a rancher--a cowboy, through and through. But when he finds out some shocking news about the circumstances of his birth, he begins to question his identity. Luckily, private investigator Alexandra Donovan is there to help him find the truth about who he is. Along the way, he discovers that even a man who thought he'd be alone for the rest of his life can fall in love. For Brodie, love was something you did once--and for always. But is Alex the type of wo... more info>> (Published: 2007)
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4th Wish
by Ed Howdershelt
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A beach, a bottle found, and a beautiful woman. Just another day in paradise, right? Nope. That would be too easy. This is a new take on an old story. (Published: 2008)
Words: 9447 - Reading Time: 26-37 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Ghost Rider: Stories by Jonathan Lowe
by Jonathan Lowe
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In one story, a man rides an offroad motorcycle among the ghost towns of Southern Arizona, searching for clues to his grandfather's legacy. In another, a wimp buys a Harley to spite his mother-in-law, then rides to meet his destiny at an abandoned Titan missile base in the desert. Next, a former playboy faces a woman's revenge at his class reunion, and a bachelor living near the Mexican border acquires a family he never expected, thanks to a portal that opens--not to Mexico--but to another world... more info>> (Published: 2007)
Words: 40590 - Reading Time: 115-162 min.
Category: Mainstream
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The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward--A New Approach
by James A. Baker III, Lee H. Hamilton
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The long-awaited report from the congressionally commissioned Iraq Study Group. (Published: 2006)
Words: 31975 - Reading Time: 91-127 min.
Category: Politics/Government
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
by Washington Irving
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The original ghost story! Irving's classic tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman set in the Hudson River Valley of early America. (Published: 1819)
Words: 11773 - Reading Time: 33-47 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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Lord Jim
by Joseph Conrad
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At its heart, this classic novel is a book about the sea. Published in 1900, Lord Jim was originally intended as a short story. It grew to a full-length book as Conrad explored in great depth the perplexing dilemmas of lost honor and guilt, expiation and heroism. An English boy from a simple village has bigger dreams than most around him, so he embarks at an early age into a sailor's life. Haunted by guilt over an act of cowardice, Jim becomes an agent at an isolated East Indian trading post. Th... more info>> (Published: 1900)
Words: 130424 - Reading Time: 372-521 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
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18 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales including "The Bell," "The Dream of Little Tuk," "Elderbush," "The Emperor's New Clothes," "The False Collar," "The Fir Tree," "The Happy Family," "Leap-Frog," "The Little Match Girl," "The Naughty Boy," "O. T.--A Danish Romance," "The Old House," "The Real Princess," "The Red Shoes," "The Shadow," "Snow Queen," "The Story of a Mother," "The Swineherd." (Published: 1872)
Words: 56659 - Reading Time: 161-226 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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1001 Arabian Nights [Volume 1 of 16]
by Sir Richard F. Burton
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Bawdy and exotic, 1001 Arabian Nights features the wily and seductive Shahrazad, who saves her own life by telling tales of magical transformation, genies and wishes, flying carpets and fantastical journeys, terror and passion to entertain and appease the brutal King Shahryar. First introduced in the West in 1704, the stories of The Thousand and One Nights are most familiar to American readers in sanitized children's versions. This edition, based on Richard F. Burton's unexpurgated translation, ... more info>> (Published: 1885)
Words: 174837 - Reading Time: 499-699 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
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Little Women is the story of the four March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--in a family that has been loved by readers young and old for generations. Whether they are putting on plays, forming the Pickwick Club, or entertaining Laurie, the lonely boy next door, the sisters and their mother play and work together to maintain an interesting and fun household while their father is away at war. (Published: 1869)
Words: 185894 - Reading Time: 531-743 min.
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Captains Courageous
by Rudyard Kipling
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The only one of Kipling's novels to be cast in an American setting, Captains Courageous endures as one of literature's most cherished and memorable sea adventures. Harvey Cheyne, spoiled millionaire's son, tumbles overboard from a luxury liner--only to be rescued by the crew of a Gloucester schooner. Thus begins the boy's second voyage into the rugged rites and ways of sailors. Like all Kipling's masterworks, Captains Courageous is an interweaving of art and moral purpose. Angus Wilson has said ... more info>> (Published: 1897)
Words: 52276 - Reading Time: 149-209 min.
Category: Classic Literature
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The Call of the Wild
by Jack London
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An adventure of the 1896 Klondike Gold Rush, The Call of the Wild is one of America's best-known novels, and has been continuously in print since it first appeared in 1903. (Published: 1903)
Words: 31819 - Reading Time: 90-127 min.
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White Fang
by Jack London
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In the desolate, frozen wilds of Northwest Canada, a wolf-cub soon finds himself the sole survivor of the litter. Son of Kiche--half-wolf, half-dog--and the aging wolf One Eye, he is thrust into a savage world where each day becomes a fight to stay alive. (Published: 1906)
Words: 72130 - Reading Time: 206-288 min.
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The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
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Deeply moving study of the tyrannical and rigid requirements of New York high society in the late 19th century and the effect of those strictures on the lives of three people. Vividly characterized drama of affection thwarted by a man's sense of honor, family, and societal pressures. A long-time favorite with readers and critics alike. (Published: 1920)
Words: 102266 - Reading Time: 292-409 min.
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Vision
by N. D. Hansen-Hill
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Dustin Mallory is a man trapped by the past. He is no more a victim than his friends, whose reach at times extends beyond the grave, or whose thoughts take unwanted strolls through other people's minds. If the past can come forward enough to taunt Mallory's present, is there a chance he can influence it? Alter a fate that's too harsh to accept? Or will he spend the rest of his life hovering between reality and revelation? Dependent on strangers for his personal salvation? It is what he now fears... more info>> (Published: 2001)
Words: 81650 - Reading Time: 233-326 min.
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