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643) Checkmate
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Big bet volume 6
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English
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"No more games--the Mafia wants Jason and his team dead, and it wants them dead yesterday. Jason and the others can see only one way out: to fake their deaths and flee the country. Is this the end of Jason's story? Will this be the end of his life?"--
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"By the author of Walking on Eggshells, a compellingly readable journey into the realm of family secrets, offering lessons and insights for those who are hiding the truth and those who discover what has long been hidden. Secrets, large and small, are a fact of human life. This book explores the impact of keeping secrets and the power of truth. Secrets can damage our sense of self and our relationships. Even so, Jane Isay has found, people survive...
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"In 1972, as I was starting graduate school, a friend died in a car accident. He was a troubled man, a Vietnam veteran who never quite settled into life after returning home from the war. Late at night while his wife Susan slept in their bed, his car crashed into a tree many miles away from where he should have been. In the weeks that followed, a group of us spent a lot of time with Susan. We took her out and taught her how to get drunk. We hugged...
646) Aquel día
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Español
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"Tras 365 días, el fenómeno mundial emitido por Netflix, llega por fin su esperadísima continuación. Una excitante historia de sexo de alto voltaje, lujo y poder que no olvidarás. Una pasión sin medida. Un mundo donde no existen los límites ni la clemencia. Y un solo día que podría cambiarlo todo. La relación entre Massimo y Laura es cada vez más ardiente y su amor se afianza mientras ella se adentra en los códigos del sórdido mundo...
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Television journalist Velez-Mitchell asks a disturbing question: Are killers like Scott Peterson and Andrea Yates all that different from the rest of us? When journalists break the story of a kidnapping, a brutal rape, or a family slaughtered, we ask: What kind of monster would do this? This book exposes the hidden motivations behind 21 recent crimes. People lie to protect secrets, big and small--but leading a double life can land you in prison, and...
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A la orilla del viento volume 30
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Español
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En el norte de Turambul había una señora que era la peor señora del mundo. A sus hijos los castigaba cuando se portaban bien y cuando se portaban mal. Los niños y todo el vecindario se echaban a correr en cuanto veían que ella se acercaba. Hasta que un día se cansaron de ella y decidieron hacer algo para poner fin a tantas maldades.
The worst woman in the world enjoys tormenting her children and irritating her neighbors, until eventually everyone...
650) Fat chance
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English
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Alison, an overweight dental assistant, falls into an online relationship with her long-time friend and crush, Justin. But there's one problem: she used the photo of her attractive friend in her online dating profile, and that's who Justin thinks he's dating. Alison spends the summer balancing both versions of herself with Justin, struggling to love herself and see herself in the way her Heavenly Father sees her: beautiful.
651) Intoxicating
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Harlequin blaze volume 648
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English
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"Playboy Wyatt DeSalme is playing spy games--infiltrating tiny Bella Notte winery and using his highly developed senses of taste and smell to learn company secrets. But his most intoxicating discovery is the woman in charge ... . Workaholic Kiara Romano lives for her family's island vineyard, and she's always been antiromance ... but she's positively drunk on Wyatt's soulful eyes and electrifying touch. Their steamy trysts around Idyll Island are...
652) Romantyczna gra
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Polish
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Wszystko wydawało się proste--A jednak--Szarvas Meadow wplątuje się w kłopoty. Devlin Fitzwilliam przyłapuje ją na włamaniu do jego rezydencji. W przypływie desperacji, Meadow stwierdza, że cierpi na amnezję. Devlin zaś, wmawia jej, że ona jest jego żoną. Gdy wyszukana gra wychodzi na jaw, Meadow nie potrafi powstrzymać coraz gorętszych uczuć do Devlina-- A niebezpieczna rozgrywka nabiera tempa, gdy pojawia się kto chce ich zabić.....
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"In The Spectacle of Illusion, professional magician-turned experimental psychologist Dr. Matthew L. Tompkins investigates the arts of deception as practised and popularised by mesmerists, magicians and psychics since the early 18th century. Organised thematically within a broadly chronological trajectory, this compelling book explores how illusions perpetuated by magicians and fraudulent mystics can not only deceive our senses but also teach us about...
654) Głos sumienia
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Polish
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"Elitarna szkola Saint Ambrose Preparatory dla chlopcow. To stad wychodza w swiat przyszli politycy, filmowcy i ludzie sukcesu. To oni sa przeznaczeni do zycia pelnego przywilejow i splendoru. Ale za ta basniowa fasada kryja sie samotnosc, brak milosci i wielka niepewnosc. A jednoczesnie glod zycia, jaki niesie ze soba mlodosc. Kiedy do szkoly zostaje przyjetych ponad sto uczennic, swiat mlodych ludzi stanie na glowie. I tylko iskra wystarczy, by...
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Criterion collection volume 938
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English
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Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
656) Shimla mirchi
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Hindi
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While on holiday, Avi meets Naina and falls in love with her. Smitten, he decides to stay and work in her cafe. He confesses his love in a letter, however it's Naina's mother who mistakenly reads it. A man under the spell of love decides to stay back and start working at the place he had come down for a vacation. He reverts to sending a letter to the woman he had fallen for, but the woman uses the vagueness of the letter to boost her mother's confidence,...
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"Nora Roberts enters the Danger Zone with two novels of passion and intrigue in one volume"--Back cover.
The art of deception-"He has supposedly come to her father's estate looking for respite. But Kirby Fairchild can't shake the feeling that handsome Adam Haines isn't quite the man he pretends to be. She couldn't be sure. But what she does know without a doubt is that as the days and nights wear on, the attraction she feels for this man is only...
660) The elites
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Hundreds of years into the future, when Neo-Babel is the only surviving city, Silver has become an Elite, a guard of the city's Council. But when her parents go missing, she is forced to confront the world beyond the walls of the city. Silver is plunged into a world of slums and dissidents, of secret splinter groups and deeply guarded secrets and dirty truths about Neo-Babel. Only one city has survived: Neo-Babel, a city full of cultures -- and racial...