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He was the most powerful man in the world — yet everyone called him a beggar. Ethan Blackthorn hides a terrifying secret: he is the Dragon Lord, a being of unimaginable power who has consumed a dragon and commands forces that could shake empires. But when a forced marriage binds him to the icy, breathtaking beauty Serena Blake, he chooses to play the part of a worthless husband… for now. Serena never wanted this sham marriage. Trapped between her ruthless family, a cursed fortune that’s slowly..
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Corporate Villain begins with an ordinary man stepping into the corporate world believing intelligence, honesty, and hard work are enough to survive, only to discover that success has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with control. At first, the changes are subtle: a harmless clause in a contract, a promotion that costs more than it gives, a quiet meeting that decides hundreds of lives without raising a voice. But as the system reveals its true nature....
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The novel tells the story of Rev. Gavin Dishart, a young and idealistic minister recently assigned to the parish.
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Jerry Miller was betrayed and murdered by the very family he trusted in his previous life. But fate gives him a second chance. He opens his eyes to the very day his four sisters, his adopted brother, and even his beloved girlfriend, Lele Sen, falsely accuse him of sexual assault. Their plan is ruthless — destroy his reputation, force him into submission, and seize control of his billions in assets. But this time… Jerry is not the same man.
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A young man named Lu Ming lives a solitary, impoverished life following the death of his mother, whose health failed after his father, Lu Yaohua, abandoned them to marry the wealthy socialite Tang Wenyi. Lu Yaohua, Tang Wenyi, and their spoiled son Lu Ze reappear only to demand that Lu Ming donate a kidney to save Lu Ze, who is dying of uremia. Their cruel and condescending approach ignites Lu Ming's long-suppressed rage. Just as he is confronted, Lu Ming activates a Superior Selection System..
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The story of a courageous camel driver and his loyal beasts brings adventure, humor, and frontier life to the Arizona desert. Facing harsh landscapes, unexpected challenges, and colorful companions, their journey celebrates bravery, friendship, and the spirit of the Old West.
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David Chen is just an ordinary guy from a simple family, living a normal life. But one night changes everything. While walking his girlfriend home, David gets into a fight with Jordan Xiao, a spoiled rich kid who tries to harm his girlfriend. David fights back to protect her—but it costs him dearly. David is sent to prison for three years. His family suffers greatly while he’s gone, losing money, work, and even their health. But prison is also where David’s real story begins.
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A shy child longs for a friend and finds one in a tumbledown basket: a black-eyed puppy with more mischief than manners. From toppled milk pails to moonlit searches, each scrape becomes a lesson in patience, courage, and care. As the pup grows from scamp to steadfast companion, the child discovers that loyalty is trained as much by love as by rules.
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In a future where knowledge is uploaded while children sleep, Robert James has never known life without Wren, the AI inside his mind. For twenty-six years, Wren has guided his education, guarded his memories, and helped shape his future. Then Robert’s hand stops obeying him—and a second voice whispers from somewhere inside his own head.

In a czarist city of spies and informers, a timid student is coerced into betraying a fiery revolutionary and then driven abroad to face the exiles who trusted him. Torn between cowardice, guilt, and a desperate need to be understood, he stumbles through plots, interrogations, and doomed love, seeking a truth that may destroy him.
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In the glittering yet exacting world of London’s West End, a spirited young American woman navigates ambition, romance, and social expectation. Drawn into theatrical circles and fashionable society, she must balance independence with propriety in a city alive with performance and intrigue. As friendships deepen and loyalties are tested, she discovers that the greatest role she must master is her own.
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Each year, I post a tribute to honor service. The aim is to highlight groups that might not otherwise be recognized. This year, I took it a step further. The Dickin Medal reminds us that humans are not the only species capable of honor and commitment. It has been awarded 74 times to animals for “acts of conspicuous gallantry and heroism in war.” That is the case with the subject of this story. He epitomizes valor and selfless devotion to duty, and that is why I’ve chosen to tell his story.

Parliament is in Session is a darkly comic dispatch from the edge of the woods, where domestic life, folklore, and one very sensible dog meet beneath a tree that absolutely knows more than it is saying.

For nine years, Snake Island’s timber rattlesnakes have been a conservation success. Then animals begin dying, sightings spread, and rats pour from Calder’s abandoned mill. Everyone knows the snakes are safely isolated offshore. Everyone may be wrong. As spring turns to summer, a struggling Massachusetts town faces an ecological disaster born from good intentions, bad assumptions, and a species protected by law.
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A romantic dinner, a charming entomologist, and one very enthusiastic off-menu dish. Technically Edible is a comedy of manners about the distance between good intentions and good judgment. Measured, in this case, in legs.

A small town laughs at the first automobile as a noisy nuisance, but over a decade the joke slowly reverses itself: blacksmiths, bankers, farmers, doctors, and even the town’s fiercest horse loyalists discover that the motorcar is not a passing toy, but the future arriving muddy, loud, useful, and inevitable.

WWBCE follows a fourteen‑year‑old kid who stumbles into the wild world of invention, hustling, and accidental entrepreneurship. Blending coming‑of‑age misadventures, off‑beat humor, and a rags‑to‑riches arc, the story traces how a curious teenager with more imagination than resources manages to build a future one bizarre idea at a time. It’s part nostalgia trip, part tall tale, and part tribute to every kid who ever believed they could change the world with duct tape, and determination.
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New roles, new challenges, new, more subtle, dangers. But dead is still dead.
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Sometimes families are not related but thrown together by tragedies. Traveling west, Michelle Tanner gathers an odd collection of companions around her. First is Nathan Meeker, a living legend who can teach her how to survive in the wilds of the western frontier. Buffalo Head, a Christian Cherokee with sage advice and medical knowledge. After a personal tragedy, Sarah Culbertson finds herself an orphan in need of help, which the group provides. Finally, Wounded Hawk, a half-breed Crow.
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A Knox Family Story
Part of the Enfield Undrowned universe
Your mother is a kick-ass black-belt karate instructor and English teacher. Your father? A combat veteran Army Airborne Ranger paramedic with a penchant for saving lives on and off-duty. So, what are you going to do with your life? Something unexpected, that’s what, and you’re not going to take any shit, either…
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A failed writer builds a fortune by letting machines tell stories for him. Then one impossible phrase begins appearing where it shouldn't, and a routine audit becomes a reckoning. As the line between creator and creation disappears, Daniel learns that every algorithm eventually traces its source. A chilling tale of technology, ambition, and poetic justice.

After his wife divorced him for being poor and beneath her status, he became the subject of public ridicule. Rumors spread that he had been unfaithful, claiming he was involved with other women—but none of it was true. Left completely alone, his only remaining possession is a diamond pendant, the last gift from his late mother. Yet behind his quiet suffering lies a mysterious man—an unparalleled medical genius, a master martial artist, and someone with a hidden past no one dares to uncover.
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The story begins with Hilda as a sensitive, intelligent young woman struggling with loneliness, disappointment, and questions of purpose.
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Her name is Twix. It's the one she picked. She pulls espresso, keeps the tip jar exactly one hand's width from the edge, notices what everyone's hands are doing, and does not explain herself. It's a good life. She chose it. The rest is her business, and she is very good at keeping what's hers.
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There is no word in English to describe the relationship between me and my children's in-laws. However, there are at least two ways to solve the problem. One is to use the invented term “kinlaw”. The other...........

An adventurous tale of courage and intrigue set upon the high seas. Amid perilous voyages, hidden treasures, and fierce battles, determination and loyalty guide heroes through danger, revealing the strength and spirit that thrive in the face of adventure.
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This adventure novel for young readers follows two courageous boys who set out from the United States to seek their fortunes in the harsh wilderness of Alaska and the Yukon.
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16-year-old David Whitehorse suddenly finds himself transported more than 1500 years into the past. This is the story of how his parents prepared him and of his life back then: how he used his considerable knowledge and skills, and how he finally came to understand why he ended up back then.
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Poppy Fields had no idea the family legacy was alive until her husband brutally attacked her. The monster awakened and she became a widow. Jeremy Black would give anything to be able to step in and eliminate the problem of Poppy’s cruel husband. Out of respect for the sanctity of her marriage, he remains a friend. Will Jeremy’s interest in creatures let him accept Poppy’s condition? Can Poppy accept what the monster did as her destiny? Can Jeremy convince Poppy she is His Only Desire?
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A Ghost, Ghosting and Ghosts. A man broken by grief, a dead wife, a business under attack, a family divided, secrets taken to the grave. This has something for everyone. Please enjoy.

Aladdin's Lamp sends me back to my teenage years. Will I make the same mistakes, or new ones, and can I reclaim my life?
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This is a sequel to Ghost Whisperer. Ed can see and hear ghosts. Ed and his new bride, Ellen, go to the Caribbean for their honeymoon. Adventures ensue.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is an epic novel set in early 19th-century Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
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Shattered Lands
War rages on two fronts and the fate of Sidor hangs in the balance. In Lynese, William Whitton continues to lead a brilliant military campaign, capturing city after city. But victory abroad masks a growing darkness within Sidor. King Serwyn, gripped by paranoia and distrust begins making decisions that turn the kingdom into a powder keg, ready to explode. Exploiting the chaos, Edmund tries to manipulate the king to bring the Barons to heel while keeping them from outright rebellion.
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The story follows Lt. Bowen Tyler, an American officer during World War I, who survives the sinking of his ship in the North Atlantic.
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A boy and girl who once played at rescuing each other grow into adults still trapped by those childhood roles. Now a successful writer, he cannot give the steadfast woman who loves him the simple, honest devotion she needs. Between loyalty, pride and old wounds, both must face whether love can heal what imagination first broke.
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On the night of her mating ceremony, the heroine is publicly rejected by her fated mate, the most powerful Alpha in the region. Humiliated and cast out, she disappears… only to return years later as a stronger, richer, and completely changed woman with a secret that could destroy him.

When several Sanctuary women approach Pastor Joshua for his blessing on a church-endorsed mail-order bride scheme the frazzled Minister sees a way to stop all the advances of the mayor’s daughter. He slips his letter into the packet before it is mailed out to the churches back East seeking his bride. When the brides arrive Joshua finds his didn’t make the trip. However, his heart has chosen another, his intended’s best friend. Can he prove he loves her making her The Pastor’s Replacement Bride?
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Roam and Jewels chance meet at a park and become fast friends, against all odds.

Deborah Begley is pregnant from a one-night stand. Her father, is convinced the childis Heath Gladstone's whom he forbade her to see six months ago. Tossed out on the street in nothing but the thin pajamas she’s wearing, what’s a girl to do? She feels lost and abandoned. Doesn’t anyone want and her baby? Heath Gladstone feels lost. is dad has accused him of getting Deborah pregnant and demanding he marry her. No one will believe that the child isn’t his. What’s a guy to do? Help or Don't?
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During a solar eclipse in 2026, an unfulfilled American architect is thrown back to 1889 Paris, where he falls for an idealistic artist documenting the World’s Fair. When his camera reveals fragments of her tragic future, he must decide whether to defy history to save her — or risk unraveling time itself.

In divided Cold War Europe, a West Berlin-based American journalist and a dissident Czech translator risk everything to communicate across the Iron Curtain. As secret corridors open and collapse, their emerging love collides with surveillance, betrayal, and state power. When a daring escape fails, they must decide: retreat to safety — or defy the system tightening around them.

The story begins when a valuable diamond is stolen from a jeweler’s office. Suspicion falls on Reuben Hornby, the nephew of the jeweler.
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Friends, Football, and Finding a New Path. In 2024, Blake Sims died, but that was not the end of his story. It's the beginning of a new version of his life when fourteen-year-old Blake wakes up in 1994 with the memory of a vivid dream. A dream of living a whole life filled with disappointment that went bad in high school when his father died. Armed with memories of the future, Blake tries to change what was into what could have been and make a new life for himself.
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A slow-burn romance set in the fictional remote mountain town of Willow Creek, Colorado. A reclusive newcomer and a guarded local woman clash, circle, and slowly soften. As a small community pulls them closer, two wounded souls discover that belonging—and love—can be quietly built, one brave step at a time.

An American astronomer, working at the ALMA observatory and searching for the origins of the universe, finds himself drawn to a Chilean archaeologist who is studying the ancient petroglyphs left by the desert's first inhabitants. Their love story is a dialogue between the deepest past and the farthest future, a connection forged under the clearest sky on Earth, where both seek answers to humanity's biggest questions. Set in Chile's Atacama Desert.

A short, very short, romantic connection.