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  This Charming Man

  by Marian Keyes

  Paddy de Courcy is Ireland's debonair politician, the "John F. Kennedy Jr. of Dublin." His charm and charisma have taken hold of the country and the tabloids, not to mention our four heroines: Lola, Grace, Marnie, and Alicia. But though Paddy's winning smile is fooling Irish minds, the broken hearts he's left in his past offer a far more truthful look into his character. Narrated in turn by each woman, This... (more)
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  Insatiable: Book 1

  Insatiable

  by Meg Cabot

  Sick of hearing about vampires? So is Meena Harper.But her boss is making her write about them anyway, even though Meena doesn't believe in them.Not that Meena isn't familiar with the supernatural. See, Meena Harper knows how you're going to die (not that you're going to believe her. No one ever does).But not even Meena's precognition can prepare her for what happens when she meets —... (more)
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  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

  by Rebecca Skloot

  Rebecca Skloot takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the “colored” ward of Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1950s to stark white laboratories with freezers full of HeLa cells; from Henrietta’s small, dying hometown of Clover, Virginia — a land of wooden slave quarters, faith healings and voodoo — to East Baltimore today, where her children and grandchildren live and struggle with the legacy of her... (more)
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  Fever: Book 5

  Shadowfever

  by Karen Marie Moning

  MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister's murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals that... (more)
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  Wild Ride

  by Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer

  When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn’t expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she’s the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in Dreamland. That would be bad enough,... (more)
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  The Brightest Star in the Sky

  by Marian Keyes

  The Brightest Star in the Sky follows seven neighbors whose lives become entangled when a sassy and prescient spirit pays a visit to their Dublin townhouse with the intent of changing at least one of their lives. But what will this metamorphosis be and who will the sprite choose? There's Matt and Maeve, the newlyweds struggling to overcome the first obstacle in their storybook romance; Lydia, the brassy but... (more)
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  A Visit From the Goon Squad

  by Jennifer Egan

  Jennifer Egan’s spellbinding new work circles Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Bennie and Sasha never discover each other’s pasts, but the reader does, in intimate detail, along with the secret lives of a host of other people whose paths intersect with theirs in the San Francisco 1970s music scene, the demimonde of Naples,... (more)
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  The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

  by Aimee Bender

  The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really a devastating curse. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake is a luminous tale about the enormous difficulty of loving someone fully when you know too much about them. It is heartbreaking and funny, wise and sad, and confirms Aimee Bender’s place as “a writer who makes you grateful for the very existence of... (more)
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  Lucy Kincaid: Book 1

  Love Me to Death

  by Allison Brennan

  Six years ago, Lucy Kincaid was attacked and nearly killed by an online predator. She survived. Her attacker did not. Now Lucy’s goal is to join the FBI and fight cyber-crime, but in the meantime, she’s volunteering with a victim’s rights group, surfing the Web undercover to lure sex offenders into the hands of the law. But when the predators she hunts start turning up as murder victims, the FBI takes a whole new... (more)
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  Upyr: Book 1

  Devil at Midnight

  by Emma Holly

  For years, mercenary captain Christian Durand has done everything he can to protect his men from his power hungry father. When a beautiful ghost appears to offer comfort, he assumes the strain has finally pushed him over the edge. The specter claims she’s his friend from another life--a tale the cynical soldier finds difficult to believe. Grace Gladwell has her own experience with abusive fathers. Thanks... (more)
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  Upyr: Book 2

  Angel at Dawn

  by Emma Holly

  No woman should forget her soulmate, yet Grace Gladwell remembers nothing of Christian Durand, the medieval soldier she captivated during a fractured moment in time—when she was just a specter, a heartbeat away from death. Then, Grace could have been Christian’s savior. Now, she’s a symbol of more betrayals than he can count. He knows he’d be better off not remembering . . . except for the scrap of his broken... (more)
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  GhostWalkers: Book 9

  Ruthless Game

  by Christine Feehan

  A woman on the run, with more to live for than she imagined, collides with a danger more lethal than she feared in the all-new Ghostwalker scorcher by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan…
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  Gods of Night: Book 3

  Eternal Prey

  by Nina Bangs

  Utah knows all about vengeance. Vampires killed his brother, and that act demands only one response. He frees his beast and destroys every bloodsucker he finds. But he never expected to meet a leader of his immortal enemies who was so beautiful, bewitching…and mortal.Lia understands her destiny. She has a duty to stop the rogue vampires who are intent on wiping out the human race along with any nonhumans... (more)
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  Immortals After Dark: Book 11

  Dreams of a Dark Warrior

  by Kresley Cole

  He vowed he'd come for her...Murdered before he could wed Regin the Radiant, warlord Aidan the Fierce seeks his beloved through eternity, reborn again and again into new identities, yet with no memory of his past live, only an endless yearning.She awaits his return...When Regin encounters Declan Chase, a brutal Celtic soldier, she recognizes her proud warlord reincarnated. But Declan takes her... (more)
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  The Tracers: Book 4

  Snapped

  by Laura Griffin

  SOPHIE BARRETT THINKS SHE’S LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. SHE MAY BE DEAD WRONG.On a sweltering summer afternoon, Sophie Barrett walks into a nightmare. A sniper has opened fire on a college campus. When the carnage is over, three people—plus the shooter—are dead and dozens more are injured. Sophie escapes virtually unscathed. Yet as details emerge from the investigation, she becomes convinced that this wasn’t the... (more)
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  Farm Boy

  by Morpurgo Michael

  The sequel to the phenomenon that is Michael Morpurgo's War Horse! Farm Boy is set fifty years after War Horse. It is the story of how a grandfather (the son of Albert the hero of War Horse) and his granson face the grandfather's deepest shame--something he's kept secret his whole life... He never learned to read. As the two study together the grandfather revisits the beloved characters from the first book... (more)
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  The Chronicles of Chrestomanci

  The Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Volume I

  Charmed Life / The Lives of Christopher Chant

  by Diana Wynne Jones

  In this multiple parallel universes of the Twelve Related Worlds, only an enchanter with nine lives is powerful enough to control the rampant misuse of magic--and to hold the title Chrestomanci... The Chants are a family strong in magic, but neither Christopher Chant nor Cat Chant can work even the simplest of spells. Who could have dreamed that both Christopher and Cat were born with nine lives--or that they... (more)
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  Twenties Girl

  by Sophie Kinsella

  Written with all the irrepressible charm and humor that have made Sophie Kinsella’s books beloved by millions, "Twenties Girl" is also a deeply moving testament to the transcendent bonds of friendship and family.
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  Under the Cajun Moon

  by Mindy Starns Clark

  What Secrets Can Be Found by the Light of the Cajun Moon?   New Orleans may be the “Big Easy,” but nothing about it was ever easy for international business etiquette expert Chloe Ledet. She moved away years ago, leaving her parents and their famous French Quarter restaurant behind. But when she hears that her father has been shot, she races home to be by his side and to handle his affairs—only to... (more)
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  The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

  aka, The Lost Book of Salem

  by Katherine Howe

  "A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe's talent is spellbinding." --Matthew Pearl, author of The Poe Shadow and The Dante... (more)