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81) Komplikacje
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Polish
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"Ludwik XVI, jeden z najsłynniejszych luksusowych hoteli w Paryżu, ponownie otwiera swe podwoje. Szacowni stali goście przybywają w towarzystwie nowych osób. Nikt spośród nich nie zapomni tej wizyty. Odnosząca sukcesy konsultantka artystyczna pojawia się w hotelu po raz pierwszy od czasu brutalnego rozwodu. Nie wie, że znajdzie tu nową miłość. Mężczyzna, który pragnie zakończyć swoje życie, ratuje życie kogoś innego. Pewna para...
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"When Terry Rourke is invited to the spare-no-expense beach wedding of his hedge fund manager brother, he thinks that his biggest worry will be flubbing the champagne toast. But this isn't the first time Terry has been to the Hamptons. As the designer tuxedos are laid out and the flowers arranged along the glittering surf, Terry can't help but take another look at a decades-old murder trial that rocked the very foundations of the town-and his family....
83) Be true to me
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Told in two voices, Jean, a rich girl, and Fritz, an outsider, compete for the affection of handsome newcomer Gil during the summer of 1976 at an exclusive Fire Island enclave, and discover their competition has higher stakes than either can imagine.
84) Poor Mallory!
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 39
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English
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Mallory, whose family is suddenly short of money, takes a baby-sitting job and needs the help of the Baby-sitters Club in adjusting to her new employers' wealth.
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Afton Teachout has been an outcast in her small town for twenty years-ever since she was accused of murdering her mother’s lover in a blackout fit of rage. That is, if one believes the malicious lies. Living with her grandmother, working a hotel night shift, and relying on pills to get a day’s sleep, Afton is due a little luck. It comes in the form of an unexpected financial windfall. With her newfound wealth, Afton sets a secret plan in motion...
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Everyman's library volume 252
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English
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"After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last has grown bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. In a novel that combines tragedy, comedy, and savage irony, Evelyn Waugh indelibly captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy and sterile generation' between the wars."...
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"From a swashbuckling pirate fantasy to a meditation on American morality-- two classic Steinbeck novels make their black spine debuts. In awarding John Steinbeck the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Nobel committee stated that with 'The Winter of Our Discontent, ' he had "resumed his position as an independent expounder of the truth, with an unbiased instinct for what is genuinely American." Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of the novel,...
88) Wicked pleasures
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A saga set throughout the latter half of the 20th century traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate respective agendas from their Hamptons summer homes and English countryside manor, while a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers.
90) Holding the line
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"A widow at just 30 years of age, Rose Finlay is determined to put all ideas of marriage and family behind her and pursue an independent life. But when she notices a young woman about to be led astray by a roguish aristocrat, bitter memories from her past arise, and she feels compelled to intervene. The unintended consequences of her efforts will ultimately force Rose to reexamine her life in a new light. As the overseer of his two widowed sisters'...
91) Great
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In this contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby, seventeen-year-old Naomi Rye becomes entangled in the drama of a Hamptons social circle and a tragedy that shakes the summer community.
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"Five years ago, Orlando Duncan created the drug HEAT. When he is awakened by an alarm in his lab, he discovers that robbers have taken over a million tabs of HEAT. Billionaire Alexander Cora's company is a front for one of the largest smuggling rings in the world. Niles Monroe, the handsome hit man and Paris Duncan's one true love, is back from the dead, and it's only a matter of time before he comes looking for her. These rich and powerful people...
93) Fire color one
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Following her fortune-hunting mother's plan, a teenaged arsonist meets her wealthy, dying father, the owner of a priceless art collection, only to discover that the stories she has been told about him all her life might not have been true.
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Blue bloods volume 6
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English
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Schuyler Van Alen and her love Jack Force go their separate ways after their trip to Florence, Italy, with Schuyler going to Egypt to fulfill the Van Alen legacy, while Jack returns to Manhattan to face his twin sister, Mimi, but things get even more complicated when Mimi jets off to Egypt while the Coven threatens to fall apart around her.
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Benji Franklin kid zillionaire volume 2
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English
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Twelve-year-old Benji Franklin's problem-solving skills are put to the test when he is asked to find a way to stop an asteroid that is headed right for Earth.
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Hotlanta volume 2
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English
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Wealthy and beautiful African American twins Sydney and Lauren both face boyfriend problems as they continue to delve into a murder mystery that somehow involves both their father and stepfather.
99) To be the best
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Paula McGill O'Neill runs Harte department stores but when an opportunity to expand the stores upsets the balance between business and family, Paula makes a mistake that could cost her everything.