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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
In May 2007, leaving China's Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It's guided by one Dina Bennett, the world's least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong? Funny, self-deprecating, and marred by only a few acts of great fortitude, Peking to Paris...
1103) 24: Season 8
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Twenty-four hours of an agent's attempt to stop a terrorist plot while caught up in a conflict between government agencies.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
The more things change, the more things get interesting in this all-new hilarious season. Ted's search for 'the one' continues while Marshall and Lily hope to become parents, Barney makes an uproariously awkward attempt to find his real father, and Robin finally feels like a true New Yorker.
1105) Escaping Mr. Rochester
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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"Jane Eyre has no interest in a husband. Eager to make her own way in the world, she accepts the governess position at Thornfield Hall. Though her new employer, Edward Rochester, has a charming air—not to mention a handsome face—Jane discovers that his smile can sharpen in an instant. Plagued by Edward’s mercurial mood and the strange wails that echo through the corridors, Jane grows suspicious of the secrets hidden within Thornfield Hall—unaware...
1107) One of those days
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Yehuda and Maya Devir began illustrating their life in comics when they moved into their first apartment together in Tel Aviv as newlyweds. In the years since, One of Those Days has become one of the biggest webcomics on the Internet, with millions of followers around the world. Yehuda Devir grew up on superhero comic books, and the Devirs visual style is downright kinetic and bursting with life. In this collection -the first time that the Devirs'...
1109) He knew he was right
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Based on the classic novel by Anthony Trollope, the story follows Louis and Emily Trevalyan. After a blissful first year of marriage, things turn darker when a roguish Colonel takes an interest in Emily that fans the flames of Louis's jealousy.
1110) Romeo + Juliet
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
It's William Shakespeare's epic and searing tale of love. An ageless story from the world's most renowned author is reimagined for the 21st Century. This adaptation is told in the lush traditional setting it was written, but gives a new generation the chance to fall in love with the enduring legend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Once the perfect couple, John and Abby have drifted apart. Now--after 21 years of love, loss, and laughter--they've chosen divorce. When they gather their three children to break the news, their daughter joyfully announces her engagement. Determined not to ruin her happiness, Abby and John put their plans on hold. Yet one question lingers: Is it possible to rekindle a love that's grown cold?
1112) Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"Unbeknownst to each other, semi-happily married John and Jane Smith work as highly paid assassins for rival organizations. But when then discover they're each other's next target, their secret lives collide in an explosive mix of wicked comedy, pent-up passion, and thrilling non-stop action."--Container.
1113) A wicked kind of husband
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Cassandra DeWitt has seen her husband only once--on their wedding day two years earlier--and that suits her perfectly. She has no interest in the rude, badly behaved man she married only to secure her inheritance. She certainly has no interest in his ban on her going to London. Why, he'll never even know she is there. Until he shows up in London too, and Cassandra finds herself sharing a house with the most infuriating man in England. Joshua DeWitt...
1114) Framed
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"One dark Los Angeles night, Beth Crawford is driving home from a dinner party, furious at her husband for spending money they don't have. A few blocks away, a scantily dressed woman in a blonde wig lugs a suitcase full of blood-spattered cash toward a bus stop. In the streets between the two women, police cars flash past, racing to the scene of a quadruple homicide, a botched drug deal in which an undercover LAPD officer is among the dead..."--
1115) An accidental affair
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
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Description
When allegations about his actress wife's infidelity are posted online, James, a screenwriter with a violent past, attacks his wife's lover, sparking a media frenzy that compels him to go into hiding and resort to extreme measures to protect his wife.
1116) Jane Slayre
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Another entry in the growing genre of horror mashups (ranging from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter), this volume takes Brontë's classic and turns the Reed family into vampires, Jane Eyre's classmates at Lowood into zombies, and Bertha Rochester into something far more dangerous than a madwoman. While Jane herself remains much the same, the supernatural additions prove highly amusing, turning the gothic elements of...
1117) Unspoken fear
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
When her husband returns home after serving five years in prison, vineyard manager Rachel Gibson, faced with a virtual stranger, wonders if he is responsible for the brutal deaths of several townspeople who were killed to "pay" for their secret sins.
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Social climber Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced 'Bouquet, ' of course!) puts her best foot forward in this high-class comedy. In A very merry Hyacinth, Hyacinth roars into the Christmas season and eventually ends up kissing a most unexpected partner under the mistletoe. In Sea fever, Hyacinth and Richard go on a holiday cruise on the QE2. In Angel Gabriel blue, Hyacinth is busy planning a new kitchen while trying to deal with the fact that someone who...
1119) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2001, 2002
Description
On cover: "...this classic story shows how a young woman can overcome adversity and find true happiness. After her uncle dies, young Jane Eyre is terribly mistreated by her aunt and cousins. She is quickly sent away to a girls' school, where life is not much better. But Jane loves books and learning, and she becomes the first in her class. She goes on to teach, then takes a position with Mr. Rochester, working as a governess. At his mansion, life...