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When deep-sea mining for gold and silver in the Pacific Ocean triggers a series of earthquakes, threatening a nearby island, Benji Franklin is called upon to use his amazing problem solving skills--and personal submarine--to stop the shaking and save the island's people from disaster.
82) Mortmain Hall
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"Journalist Jacob Flint finds himself framed for murder after a surprise witness helps a man accused of a "blazing car" killing escape the gallows. To save himself, Jacob needs to discover what links these strange events to a remote estate on a northern coast, Mortmain Hall. But the house party culminates in tragedy when a body is found beneath the crumbling cliffs. Rachel Savernake, who's been invited to the party, proposes an intricate - and dangerous...
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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....
84) See no evil
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Twelve-year-old Nettie's sheltered and privileged life changes after her beloved tutor mysteriously disappears and Nettie, aided by the son of a household employee, begins to learn the truth about her father, whose wealth began with trafficking in illegal aliens.
85) Bloodline
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Elizabeth Rolfe, only child of one of the world's richest men, has everything. When her father dies in a mysterious accident, she discovers that her inheritance includes far more than his international pharmaceutical company. Surrounded by desperate, cash-hungry relatives, she faces betrayal and sabotage and is pursued by an assassin who silently stalks her.
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"San Francisco, 1906. Violet is one of three people grateful for the destruction of the big earthquake. It leaves her and her two best friends unexpectedly wealthy--if the secret that binds them together stays buried beneath the rubble. Fearing discovery, the women strike out on their own, and orphaned, wallflower Violet reinvents herself. When a whirlwind romance with the city's most eligible widower, Harry Carlyle, lands her in a luxurious mansion...
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"In the glittering ballroom of London's most exclusive gentleman's club no one is more powerful than its mysterious proprietress, Vienne La Rieux. A shrewd businesswoman, Vienne treasures her hard-won independence and has her eye on a prize that could make her England's richest woman...until the only threat to her heart arrives, sending her controlled world into chaos. Lord Trystan Kane is as familiar with success as he is with the exquisite Vienne....
88) Cinder
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Lunar chronicles volume 1
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As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
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"Biltmore House, a palatial mansion being built by the Vanderbilts, American "royalty," is in its final stages of construction in North Carolina. The country's grandest example of privilege, it symbolizes the aspirations of its owner and the dreams of a girl, just as driven, who lives in its shadow. Kerry MacGregor's future is derailed when, after two years in college in New York City, family obligations call her home to the beautiful Appalachians....
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Recruited to the debate team of an elite California prep school, sixteen-year-old Tanner is sucked into the high life and shadowy secrets of his partner, a playboy known as Duke, in this contemporary retelling of The Great Gatsby.
Tanner McKay was recruited by Bannerman Prep after he argued his public school's debate team to victory last year, and now Bannerman wants that championship trophy. Debate is Banner's ticket to a scholarship to Stanford...
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The world's funniest kindergartner is back with four more silly escapades in one audiobook.
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook
Someone has taken Junie B.'s new black furry mittens! And they kept them! So when Junie B. finds a wonderful pen, she should be allowed to keep it, too. Right?
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
Lucille is having a slumber party at her nanna's big giant house! For Grace and Junie B., sleeping at nanna's...
Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook
Someone has taken Junie B.'s new black furry mittens! And they kept them! So when Junie B. finds a wonderful pen, she should be allowed to keep it, too. Right?
Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal
Lucille is having a slumber party at her nanna's big giant house! For Grace and Junie B., sleeping at nanna's...
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Dyamonde Daniel books volume 1
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Dyamonde Daniel may be new in town, but that doesn't stop her from making a place for herself in a jiffy. With her can-do attitude and awesome brain power she takes the whole neighborhood by storm. The only thing puzzling her is the other new kid in her class. He's awfully grouchy - but Dyamonde's determined to get to the bottom of his frowning attitude and make a friend. Readers will fall in love with Dyamonde Daniel, the spirited star of a new series...
94) 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.
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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...
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"Antes de que la señal luminosa del cinturón de seguridad se hubiera apagado, había surgido una química intensa entre Alexio Christakos, un magnate de la aeronáutica, y Sidonie Fitzgerald. Acostumbrado a tener breves aventuras con mujeres superficiales, Alexio se quedó cautivado por su inocencia y decidió disfrutar de una noche de placer entre sus brazos. Sidonie estaba decidida a solucionar su vida, y no a comenzar una aventura con un magnate...
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What happens after all your dreams come true? In these uplifting tales of faith and fortune, delve into the lives of three people whose hearts—and wallets—are on the line when an unexpected windfall tests them like never before. . .
Showers of Blessings Angela Benson
Assistant pastor Ronnie has a shameful secret: he's a compulsive gambler. And just when it seems he's run out of luck, he finds salvation in a miraculous...
Showers of Blessings Angela Benson
Assistant pastor Ronnie has a shameful secret: he's a compulsive gambler. And just when it seems he's run out of luck, he finds salvation in a miraculous...
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"They are the families listed in the exclusive and discriminatory Green Book created by the niece of Edith Roosevelt's social secretary. They have old money and manners, but when one of their own is found murdered, everything about their legacies is called into question. A compulsively readable novel in the vein of The Bonfire of the Vanities-by way of The Nest-about what Washington, DC's high society members do away from the Capitol building and...
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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,...
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