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Victoria Barnett has it all. A great career. A handsome and loving husband. A beautiful home in the suburbs and a plan to fill it with children. Life is perfect -- or so it seems. Then she's in a terrible accident... and everything falls apart. Now Victoria is unalbe to walk. She can't feed or dress herself. She can't even speak. She is confined to the top floor of her house with twenty-four-hour care. Sylvia Robinson is hired by Victoria's husband...
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Gemma may not have been the prettiest girl in town, but she was something better, kind and conscientious, which made her a wonderful caregiver. To her patients, she really was a gem of a girl! So when she unexpectedly found herself out of work, Ross, a distinguished professor, asked Gemma to accompany him to Holland to care for his invalid sister. Gemma accepted, even though she knew Ross was never likely to see her as anything more than his sister's...
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At the age of five, little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in the Alps. Everyone in the village is afraid of him, but Heidi is fascinated by his long beard and bushy gray eyebrows. She loves her life in the mountains, playing in the sunshine and growing up among the goats and birds. But one terrible day, Heidi is collected by her aunt and is made to live with a new family in town. Heidi can't bear to be away from her grandfather;...
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Sheridan Montgomery leads a charmed life as the wife of Eliot, U.S. ambassador to Venezuela. But an attack on their lives cripples Eliot, and they retreat to a remote Mexican village. As Sheridan quietly cares for her husband, she sees her dreams slipping away. Luke Traynor shatters their reverie when he arrives to tell Sheridan of her father's heart attack and the evidence implicating him in a conspiracy. Sheridan returns to Chicago to untangle the...
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Gabriel Fairchild's valor during battle earns him the reputation of hero, but costs him both his sight and his hope for the future. Abandoned by the fiancée he adored, the man who once walked like a prince among London's elite secludes himself in his family's mansion, cursing his way through dark days and darker nights.
Prim nurse Samantha Wickersham arrives at Fairchild Park to find her new charge behaving more like a beast than a man.
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Married after a whirlwind courtship during World War II, suburban housewife Ellen Jones copes with the fact that her husband George is now a bedridden invalid. Increasingly paranoid and quick to anger, George is convinced that Ellen is having an affair with their old friend (and George's physician), Dr. Ranney Grahame. Afraid for his life and certain that Ellen and Ranney are conspiring to kill him by overdosing on his medication, George composes...
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"Guillermo descubre tras una ventana a una niña que llora. Su nombre es Elisa y va en silla de ruedas. Elisa le pide que busque a su abuelo que se ha escapado del centro en el que estaba. Guillermo empieza a investigar el lugar donde puede estar el abuelo y también el tesoro que dejó a su nieta y que parece estar relacionado con una colección de libros muy valiosa."--
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With his subversion of the state charge cleared up, Kazuma and Aqua are living a life of laziness thanks to their hard-earned reward money. Not content to idle away their days, Darkness and Megumin come up with a plan to revitalize the two slackers by taking them on a vacation to Alcanretia, known for its water, hot springs, and ... the Axis Cult's headquarters!?