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  The Presents and the Past

  David Connor

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  Noah and Angel were childhood sweethearts and teenage lovers. With youth comes unrealistic ideas sometimes, and also bad choices. But just about the time they reach manhood, Noah's demons pull them apart.
  
  
  Seven years later, he gets a second chance when Angel returns to town. Hoping everything can be different, Noah sets out to remind him how wonderful their past was by secretly sending him thirteen gifts commemorating their happiest times, one on each day beginning December 11.
  
  
  By Christmas Eve, Noah hasn't heard a word back, and wonders if Angel even recognized the meaning of the offerings. When Angel does get in touch, he only remembers the bad things that drove them apart. Can Noah remind him how good they had it, too?

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  The Viscount’s Sinful Bargain

  Kate Archer

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  Lord Hampton cursed his luck. Six dukes were in league together to force their sons to marry, and one of them was his own father. The old men had drawn up a formal pact, with severe consequences to their heirs included. Edwin is determined to devise a way out of it, he has no intention of marrying any time soon. He's also desperate to get his name off the ton's lips. Mamas are circling like hunters round a wounded stag and every pert little miss is fanning herself. 
   
   
   
  Cassandra Knightsbridge, only daughter of Viscount Trebly, has not had a very usual upbringing. She rides like the devil, leaving her groom far behind . . . if she bothered to take a groom at all. More alarming, there would be few gentlemen who could best her with a fowling piece. She knows those particular habits will not find approval in a London drawing room and ought not be mentioned. That is, until a condescending lord provokes her. 
   
   
   
  Might not a tale of a girl who shoots turn society's attention away from the dukes' pact? The whispers wind their way through drawing rooms and the talk about Miss Knightsbridge blooms. 
   
   
   
  Edwin's love for the lady blooms too, but now he's made it impossible to win her. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Jack O' War

  Robert Easton

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  Jack had survived great perils as a boy, and more as a guard at Dudley Castle. But the sowrd-wound that he'd sustained rendered him fit only for a desk-job and cooking.Bored with the humdrum work, and dissatisfied with his marriage, he enlists as an archer in King Edward's army.But this time, in addition to the human antagonists, he encounters others from the realms of Magic, Saints and Demons.How will he meet these latest challenges?

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  Shades of Jade

  Gloria Mallette

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  "Part love story, part mystery novel … clever and suspenseful."—Washington Post  
    
  Marissa Jenkins, a beautiful ambitious and successful businesswoman, is dating four married men despite warnings from friends and family that sooner or later she would run into trouble with someone's wife. 
    
  But why subject herself to the "unreasonable" requirements of a long-term relationship when married men wine and dine her, provide physical pleasure and give the attention she needs with no strings attached? 
    
  When Marissa starts receiving threatening phone calls, it seems that someone is indeed out to make her pay—with her life. No one is able to protect her from a relentless stalker as the threats escalate to violence. Well, except Levi, a single man who gets his hands dirty for a living. 
    
  Shades of Jade, a national bestseller, will keep you reading and on the edge of your seat until the very last page.

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  The Oblong Box

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Oblong Box" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe that explores human mysteries and obsessions. The narrative follows a man who, during a sea voyage, becomes intrigued by a strange oblong box brought on board by a friend, triggering a series of enigmatic events and surprising revelations.

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  Mistletoe and Murder

  Connie Berry

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  Five days before her wedding to Detective Inspector Tom Mallory, Kate Hamilton finds her friend Sheila in need of her help. Sheila, a soon-to-be bride herself, needs Kate’s help to get Carl Curtis, her fiancé, out of Venezuela. His passport was taken from him by the authorities, and they say he owes them money. Carl says it’s a bribe, but he’s unable to leave unless it’s paid. Sheila decides to sell her grandfather’s coin collection, including a valuable gold coin presented by Queen Victoria to her great-grandmother. Among her grandfather’s stored possessions is a letter from the Queen. When someone breaks into Sheila’s house, all signs point to even more foul play. As Kate deals with a disturbing number of wedding-plan hitches, a fire in town reveals a body. Unfortunately, the burned-out flat is next to the bridal salon where Kate’s dress is being altered. Can the cleaners really eliminate the odor of smoke? As the clock ticks down to Kate and Tom’s “I do”s, Kate goes to Sheila’s house to help her search for the royal letter, but she’s nowhere to be found. The house has been torn apart, and Sheila is missing. Could Sheila’s disappearance be connected to the death in town? Kate will have to piece together the clues.

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