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Ginger Kelly wakes up in 1924 in tranquil Cocoa Beach, Florida, after fleeing to safety with disgraced Prohibition agent Oliver Anson Marshall, and her newly-orphaned young sister, Patsy. But Marshall is reinstated to the agency with suspicious haste to patrol for rumrunners on the high seas. When he promptly disappears, Gin hurries north to rescue him, only to be trapped in an agonizing moral quandary by Marshall's desperate mother. In 1998, Ella...
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"From the beloved and best-selling Anne Tyler, a sparkling new novel about misperception, second chances, and the sometimes elusive power of human connection. Micah Mortimer is a creature of habit. A self-employed tech expert, superintendent of his Baltimore apartment building, cautious to a fault behind the steering wheel, he seems content leading a steady, circumscribed life. But one day his routines are blown apart when his woman friend (he refuses...
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Stereotypes of redheaded women range from the fun loving scatterbrain to the fiery-tempered vixen or the penitent prostitute. Red-haired men are often associated with either the savage barbarian or the redheaded clown. But why is this so? Harvey begins her quest in prehistory and traces the redhead gene as it made its way out of Africa with the early human diaspora, only to emerge under Northern skies. She goes on to the modern age of art, and literature,...
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What is pleasure?
Everyone will think about this question only for a few minutes. It is easier to ask than to explain, right? The world is ruled by sex, drugs, and imaginary family values. These are the three main pleasures that people experience in the City of Angels.
Amongst this, there is a separate caste of people as well – escorts. Over here they are the best, the largest collection for every taste with over ninety percent coming from far...
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The Redhead volume 1
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"Grace Sheridan is back. Ten years after discovering that looks and talent are a dime a dozen in Los Angeles, she's wriggling into a pair of badass jeans and ready to show the film industry that there's way more to her than just a head of gorgeous red curls. And Hollywood's newest Brit super-hunk Jack Hamilton certainly sees a lot to like. Grace is trying to restrain herself from jumping a man who is nearly a decade her junior, but Jack is making...
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Stage actress Grace Sheridan juggles her dream role in a new Off-Broadway play with her relationships with the latest "it" Brit actor and the creator of her new show.
As their careers catch fire, Grace and Jack find themselves on opposite coasts. In New York City, Grace loves being onstage, in a musical written by her old college flame, Michael. In L.A., Jack can scarcely keep up with the throngs of women who track him everywhere he goes, the endless...
8) Redhead
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An American gangster brings his bloody business to 1930s Britain in this suspenseful thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author.
Amateur boxer Martin Storm's visit to New York seemed like it was a success. That is, until his car was machine-gunned and the police had to smuggle him out of the country . . .
But Storm finds no safety at home, either, and the search begins to find the man who is hunting him down.
He soon discovers that he...
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Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what it would look like under a white veil with the man of her dreams by her side. However, her life takes a harrowing turn in 1944 when she is forced out of her home and sent to the most gruesome of places: Auschwitz. Upon arrival, Rosie's head is shaved and along with the loss of her beautiful hair, she loses the life she once cherished. Among the chaos...
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Can this grumpy billionaire and feisty pharmacist discover the love that neither one knew they wanted?Carmen:All l wanted to do after my long shift was to go home and ride out the storm like everyone else. A simple error has me delivering much-needed medication to the sexy and prickly billionaire that came in earlier that evening. I probably could have found someone else to do it, but l longed to see him once more. Walter:I screwed up my first meeting...
13) Redhead
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Marnie Young is a sweet girl who wouldn't hurt a fly. But one night, without warning, she has a violent seizure. Two days later, she wakes up in a hospital room. As her vision comes into focus, she sees 17 doctors and nurses dead on the floor, blood everywhere. Soon she discovers the shocking truth: Marnie has become lethal, and everyone who comes within three feet of her dies instantly!
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Jennie Redhead mysteries volume 1
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"When Mary Corbet walks into private investigator Jennie Redhead's rundown Oxford office one pleasant spring day in 1974, she is a desperate woman. Although sh'e convinced her daughter has been murdered, she can get neither the police nor her husband to agree with her. Jennie is not convinced either, but more out of compassion than conviction agrees to take the case. The only clue she has to go on is a fragment of an obscure 17th century poem she...
15) The Redhead
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One of the best reads I have encountered in a while. If you like Jeffrey Archer, you will relish this exciting fast moving yarn The London Critic Inc. Excellent feasible plots; not too many characters; no padding; none of that tedious habit of giving same sounding names to confuse us; a truly ingenious mind A good bit of rough sex; well described thuggery scenes; shes quite an incredible girl this Red. You will either love or hate her The Cronicle....
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Nicholas is a twelve-year-old with red hair whose dad just remarried. This makes Nicholas a redheaded stepchild. Literally. And, tomorrow at lunch, the biggest boy in grade six plans to beat him up-he even made a Facebook event about it.
Should Nicholas skip school? His new stepmom, a chain-smoking, ex-Jehovah's Witness golf pro named Mary-Anne, doesn't want him playing hooky. His secret alter ego, the fabulous and charismatic Rufus Vermilion, thinks...
17) Dead Redheads
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When New Orleans FBI Agent Angel Blondeaux is called to investigate the ritualistic murder of six young woman, she is plunged into a world of darkness and mystery. As she delves deeper into the case, she realizes that this isn't just one twisted killer with a sinister motive - the conspiracy goes much deeper. As the body count rises, Angel finds herself falling for the next victim, a beautiful and enigmatic woman named Sonja. But can she protect her...
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Excerpt: "There was Delaney's red-haired trio-Red Gilbat, left fielder; Reddy Clammer, right fielder, and Reddie Ray, center fielder, composing the most remarkable outfield ever developed in minor league baseball. It was Delaney's pride, as it was also his trouble. Red Gilbat was nutty-and his batting average was.371. Any student of baseball could weigh these two facts against each other and understand something of Delaney's trouble. It was not possible...
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Young retiree, Matty Cruz, is beginning to feel at home in Couper, Washington, a tree-filled city nestled on the banks of the Columbia River which also happens to have the highest violent-crime rate in the Pacific Northwest.In the third book of the completed Matty Cruz Adventure series, Matty has learned to handle herself in her new, more dangerous environment, and she's even made a friend or two kind of and adopted a dog. Still, something is missing...
20) Memories of the Future: (Post) Steve Redhead, Cultural Studies and theories for a still-born cent
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What has happened to Cultural Studies in the last 50 years? This book answers this question. Part biography, part polemic, Memories of the Future asks how - today - activism and courage can return to research, teaching and citizenship.
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