Emily Beresford
81) Cinders
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Cynthia "Cyn" Robinson has only ever wanted three things: the approval of her stepmother, to save lives as a firefighter, and the attention of her dream girl, Marigold Grimm.
A socialite who most of the town refers to as Grimm Falls royalty, Marigold is so far out of Cyn's league that even dreaming about her could be considered inappropriate.
And Cyn has all but given up on her stepmother, who refuses to accept a daughter who does not delight in...
82) Burden of Power
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It could be said that Terra Olson has achieved her dream of being an archeologist . . . if you were liberal with the exact details of her duty as Freya's chosen.
Granted, she's hunting down magical treasures. Doing it at the behest of an eccentric curator and the goddess herself to prevent Freya's sacred belongings from falling into the wrong hands falls outside the job description she'd imagined.
Add in preventing the devious Villon's organization...
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Why don't thieves and mages get along?
Because thieves remind mages too much of themselves.
Thief Kaylin is trying to keep her crew alive in Waypoint, the last bastion of civilization before the remains of a once-great half-elven city in the shadows of Ziammotienth. Many venture out to the ruins. Most do not return.
Is Tolan's Doom just a legend, or is it much more? Adventure and intrigue swirl around Kaylin as she fights for her crew and gets...
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As the world around us increases in technological complexity, our understanding of it diminishes. Underlying this trend is a single idea: the belief that our existence is understandable through computation, and more data is enough to help us build a better world. In reality, we are lost in a sea of information, increasingly divided by fundamentalism, simplistic narratives, conspiracy theories, and post-factual politics. Meanwhile, those in power use...
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An irresistible rogue in disguise...
When renegade Irishman Ryan Coleraine is persuaded to accompany the adventurous Raveneau family to Regency London, to spy for America during the War of 1812, he soon discovers that he must not only pretend to be their son... but also a fashionable dandy.
Meanwhile, Lindsay Raveneau, a lovely and independent bluestocking, finds herself with a "brother" who challenges and arouses her in the most unsettling ways...
Danger...
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Jon Hunter has made it home. But a lot of things have happened to him over the last year. Some of them made no sense at all to those with him, but they accepted the really weird as if it was part of him. Jon himself didn't understand a lot of it, but accepted he wasn't allowed to know yet.
But what really happened, and why?
For 600 odd years, Hunter's have traveled space. Where did it all start? What were the events which shaped the galaxy Jon Hunter...
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Encompassing the thirty-five year span between the initial development of film technology in the mid-1890s and the adoption of synchronized sound in the late 1920s, the cinema's silent era is both one of the most important epochs of film history and one of the most misunderstood within the popular imagination. In this brief, engaging account, these formative decades come vividly to life.
Covering the full scope of the silent era-from the invention...
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Unknown Magic. A demon invasion. A countdown to save her world.
When Betha transfers to her best friend's university to study, life is looking hopeful.
Her dream to open up her own café could finally become a reality, and all she has to do is study, enjoy nights out, and try not to make her crush on the tasty and intense Self-Defence trainer, Carter, too obvious.
But her world is shattered when demons invade.
As powers Betha didn't know she had...
89) Katie's War
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** Written by an AMAZON Top 100 Bestselling Author **
Unfortunately, Katie decides she won't play their games and leaves.
Did she bite off more than she could chew when she made the statement that upset the World Council?
Juntto and Angie are trying to work through their issues, but will it be enough?
The strength of love is in people's willingness to accept others as they are and recognize those who support you best.
But sometimes even angels get...
90) A Sacred Pact
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The War of the Angels has begun, and hell hath no idea of the fury they have unleashed.
From an Amazon Top 100 best-selling author...
Katie has decided that too many people are trying to play with power instead of doing what is right. Does she bite off more than she can chew when she makes a statement that upsets the World Council?
Even the general is at a loss. However, with Pandora on her side, who is going to win if they argue with them?
Whether...
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Kaylin has been stuck in Waypoint for too long.
She's been busy fighting and leading the resistance, and she's set to run her own crew, but that's not much good if she's still stuck in this city.
She was made for more than this.
Every day, Kaylin feels the urge growing, like an itch in the back of her mind. And the Mountain . . .The Mountain is calling to her.
So what's a girl to do but carve her way out of this bloody mess?
There's no better...
92) Fairest
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Everyone says Luma has the world at her fingertips. Her trust fund can buy anything she wants, there's a modeling agency courting her, and most people would kill for her life-especially her stepmother, Tabitha.
When Tabitha comes home mangled from a botched cosmetic procedure and finds out Luma's been offered a prestigious gig, jealousy rears its aging, puffy head. Tabitha wants Luma dead and she's got no choice but to flee. Alone and cut off from...
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The game of kings and conquerors is not meant for a mage to play, much less a thief.
Kaylin finds herself neck-deep in intrigues and dark dealings. Those she's getting used to. She was not ready to deal with the added complication of a young and impetuous king.
Yet there is something even worse on the horizon, and no one seems willing to see it.
On the way to getting people's head out of the sand, Kaylin's got plenty to worry about.
Not the least...
94) We Will Build
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The World Needs Protecting - Before they can build in space they have to GET into space.
There is a 'false queen' attacking vampires in Asia - Bethany Anne sends her Own to look into that.
The moon base needs to be settled, can Team BMW make it happen? Do they have enough people? CAN they get the right people to help?
John's cousin is now part of the team, will she make it?
There is a group looking to find them and they are using Barb to do it.
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95) Silver Storm
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Sinfully handsome André Raveneau is the Revolutionary War's most reckless privateer captain when Devon Lindsay stows away aboard his ship after her Connecticut town has been burned by the British. Raveneau cynically agrees to deliver her to her childhood sweetheart in Virginia but doesn't count on his own potent attraction to the enchanting, courageous Devon.
Although Raveneau has vowed to never succumb to love, can he stand by and watch Devon marry...
96) Hard Bought Love
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Dotty's cancer is progressing, and the world of PIVOT is one of the only things that helps her avoid the pain.
With her children's help, the PIVOT team has made her an avatar that looks just like her younger self, and Dotty is now serving as an envoy to help keep the nations of PIVOT from turning on one another.
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Single mom Sherry lives in a trailer park with her six-year-old son Jake, trying to make ends meet as a waitress. Madison's life couldn't be more different. She's been raised by her rich grandmother, and her only goals are partying and bedding women. When her grandmother threatens to disinherit her if she doesn't clean up her act, Madison has to find a way to convince her she's changed. After a chance encounter with Sherry, Madison comes up with a...
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"High school and the difficult terrain of sexuality and gender identity are brilliantly explored in this smart, incisive ethnography. Based on eighteen months of fieldwork in a racially diverse working-class high school, [this book] sheds new light on masculinity both as a field of meaning and as a set of social practices. C. J. Pascoe's unorthodox approach analyzes masculinity as not only a gendered process but also a sexual one. She demonstrates...
100) Back in black
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FBI agent Grace Beacham is on the run. After an operation to bring down a Russian disinformation campaign goes sideways and ends in her partner's death, the Kremlin has sent its most notorious assassin to kill her. Not knowing who to trust inside the Bureau, Grace is forced to call on the one man who might be able to save her. The one man she hasn't been able to forget. BKI operative Hunter Jackson walked away from Grace Beacham three years ago....