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The Strange Woman is a tale about passion, obsession, friendship, and the healing power of nature, played out in a place where past and present meet.
In a remote Yorkshire valley, in 1621, a baby girl is born to the poet Edward Fairfax and his wife, Dorothy. The baby dies four months later. Her death triggers shocking events that reverberate to this day.
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Legends, superstitions, and mysteries set the stage in Vallée Fleurie, a small town situated between mountains and forests.
A simple breeze caused unexplainable sensations. The flight of a butterfly could change the course of history.
Envy, hate, ambition and family conflicts are at the center of the events.
Lydia, a skeptical person must try to interpret premonitory dreams and confusing messages from a subtle, yet disturbing, presence.
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"When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she'll forgo as a confirmed spinster. Everything is going perfectly ... until she discovers the most beautiful man she's ever seen tied up in her carriage and threatening to ruin the Year of Hattie before it's even begun. When...
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An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the disappearance of a hospital administrator — a beautiful, emotionally fragile young woman who's vanished without a trace.
And in an old, dark, rambling London house, nine-year-old
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"While building a pipeline near the Okavango Delta, a contractor unearths the skeleton of a long-dead Bushman. Kubu and Scottish pathologist, Ian MacGregor, are sent to investigate, and MacGregor discovers eight more skeletons. Then an elder of the nearby village is murdered at his home. The local police believe it was a robbery, but Kubu thinks otherwise. So does a strange woman who claims it was an angry river spirit. The situation gets more confusing...
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"The Tenants of Malory" is a sensational novel about two warring families, Verney and Fanshaw, and their mixed relationship. Arthur, the nephew of Lord Verney, cannot choose between his feelings for Margaret Fanshaw and in his favor. Through this novel, the author asks the question – How many moral principles are people willing to sacrifice for a brief sense of superiority? It took a few seconds to give Tom the opportunity to explain the scene,...
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"Call me the Puppeteer." Young Zoe - homebound and bored - is fascinated by the strange woman who lives across the hall, even more so when she finds her collection of masks and guns. But curiosity is never a good idea when the vigilante-medium Hollow Girl is your neighbour, and Zoe is about to bear witness to terror beyond belief. Because when someone becomes an open door for the dead, they can't always control who or what comes through.
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Take four men, a green dog, an impossible espionage task, mix together and drop into an alternative World War I snowstorm. The narrator has to juggle three different identities and has to keep track of which of his alter egos speak which languages. They all ought to be killed at any moment, and any other moment, but they still occasionally find time to feast. There are bats everywhere in midwinter. They are following wild goose chase, but there are...
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He's the ruler of a Tiger Pride spending the holidays in his solitary cabin in the woods. Will this scroogey Tiger find love where he least expects it? She's a nail technician on her way to a client's house before her Christmas vacation. When her car spins out of control on the icy road, and crashes into a tree, she is stranded with no help in sight until he happens upon her.Saving the strange woman from certain death will put a damper in his plans...
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Wolverine stars in a story that stretches across the decades! What bizarre threat could require Logan to do what he does best every ten years? Who is the woman he is fated to keep reacquainting himself with? And how deep a connection do they share? Find out as Charles Soule - the writer who killed Wolverine and brought him back - unveils a hidden chapter in Logan's long history! It begins in the final days of World War II as Nazis force a French sorceress...
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Have you ever wondered could there be a gateway in time? What if the impossible was possible? What if you survived one disaster only to wake to find yourself in another? What if everything that you understood was gone, vanished? Friends and family are gone forever. How would you respond?
Pixie fights her changed circumstances and refuses to believe the possible. Every day is a struggle to find her footing in her new world.
Two Feathers grieves a...
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Not all love stories have a happily ever after....
All Lydia de Lisle Edwards wants from her new marriage is to love and be loved by the handsome man who rescued her from the embarrassing, and potentially life shattering, ramifications of conceiving a child out of wedlock. However, as Lydia gets to know Isaac Edwards, along with the strange woman who serves as a mother-figure to her new husband, and the terrifying doctor specializing in women's health--particularly...
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SHORT STORY) Kylah McCombs finds her life turned completely upside down when her overwhelmingly handsome neighbor manages to get control of the water rights to her ranch. Michael Beasty has no intention of cutting off the water supply to the McCombs ranch, but he can't tell Kylah until he figures out how to resolve the issues that threaten his own ranch. So when Kylah's redneck fairy god mother shows up on a Harley to save the day, she convinces Michael...
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Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you…When teacher Leo Tyndale moves to the small English town of Sandercombe after five years in India, he does not expect that his time at the local school will be a long one.But a brief encounter with the beautiful -and fiercely independent – Hestia Royce soon has him changing his mind.As he settles in to his new position, Leo finds that his mind increasingly wanders to Hestia.She is...
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When Rachel Bixby moved to the small town of Pine Haven, Kansas, she believed she was far enough away from her ex-husband that she and her daughter could get a fresh start and no one would ever find them. Everything was going according to plan until a strange woman began showing up everywhere they went. Rachel immediately worries this woman is connected to her ex-husband, but the woman refuses to speak, so Rachel gets no answers. When kidnappings...
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Who is the strange woman, and what is it about her that both attracts and worries James? Suddenly in over his head, James is horrified to discover the woman seems to be, quite literally, living in the past! He goes along with her apparent madness until he realizes that a spate of other, seemingly impossible, happenings are now occurring around the world, practically each minute. Swept up in her deeds, from the tragic to the heroic, James has to battle...
19) The Wanderer
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In The Wanderer, Michael of the charmed life continues his erratic career as an adventurer with an interlude which takes him through much of the 16th century Islamic empire. The holocaust in Rome singed his conscience a bit, and he decided - with his brother in arms, the bull-like Andy, to seek peace in a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. But, Fate decreed otherwise. The pilgrim ship was seized by the infidels. Michael, chameleon like in his loyalties,...
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A Clowder of CatsA Joy Forest Cozy Mystery
Dr. Joy Forest's Madagascar research is disrupted when a beautiful woman with violet eyes breaches the security of her home by paranormal means and insists Joy look for her missing cat. Although Joy agrees to, she does so for the sake of the cat, more than for the strange woman.
As Joy searches for the missing Booji, she finds several other cats, unearthing the mysteries of the people they belong to along...
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