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  Garnet

  Helen Hardt

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  He'll protect her no matter what . . . even from herself. 
   
   
   
  As Garnet, professional volleyball player Aspen Davis was hunted on an island in the South Pacific by depraved men who paid millions for the privilege. While her athleticism initially gave her an edge, it turned into a hindrance when her tormentors saw her as a challenge. Scarred and mentally exhausted, she's blocked out a lot of the memories. 
   
   
   
  Now she's disappeared again. 
   
   
   
  Ex-Navy SEAL Buck Moreno is haunted every day by his past. He's had no choice but to learn to keep his emotions at bay, so when he's hired to find and protect Aspen Davis, he treats it like any other job. Or he tries to, anyway. Aspen is beautiful and strong and brave, and Buck finds himself feeling more than he should—more than he ever thought he'd feel again. 
   
   
   
  Despite both their pasts, the two find solace in each other . . . until Aspen begins to remember. The more she recalls, the more she wants revenge against those who wronged her. Buck vows to protect her at all costs . . . even if he must protect her from herself. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Bachelor Unforgiving

  Anonyme

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  Passionate payback They say you can forgive but you can never forget. Virgil Bougard takes that saying to heart. Four years ago Kara Goshay believed a vicious lie about him and ended their relationship. And even after her apology, Virgil is still bitter. He doesn't intend to make things easy for Kara when his family's firm hires her PR company to revamp his playboy image. But faking a liaison with Kara for the media backfires when the line between fantasy and reality is blurred by strong sexual attraction. Kara wanted forgiveness. Instead she's deep into a heated affair with the powerful, charismatic man she can't resist. The man who claims he'll never forgive her, especially when a secret enemy puts her professional reputation in jeopardy. Stakes are high—but so is their searing desire, a connection so intense it could possibly tame this elusive unforgiving bachelor at last…

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  The Ghost of Gerald Dowse

  John Meadows

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  A ghost story and supernatural tales based on actual events. A school in England is haunted by the apparition of a former Headmaster, who had died on stage while giving his retirement speech to the end-of-term assembly, just before Christmas 1944. 
  Since then, his spectre, wearing a traditional academic gown and mortar board, has been sighted many times patrolling the eerie, cloistered corridors. A member of the teaching staff develops a fixation with the ghost and an obsession with the paranormal. Be prepared to experience a wide range of emotions as he strives to unveil the ghost of Gerald Dowse.

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  Patu

  Tim Tipene

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  In this powerful novel for teenagers, 16-year-old Jahnine is having to fend for herself amidst a series of family misfortunes, with her mother is in hospital battling cancer and her brother gone without a trace. Family legend has it that a patu taken during the Land Wars by her great-great-grandfather has left a curse on them. Determined to return the patu and lift the curse, Jahnine turns to a strange Maori boy, Andy, and follows him away from Auckland to try and put things right. Nothing turns out the way she imagines in this powerful, realistic novel from Tim Tipene.

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  By The Almshouse Window

  Hans Christian Andersen

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  By the Almshouse Window is one of Hans Christian Andersen’s most quietly devastating and deeply human tales—a story not of magic, but of memory. 
  From the window of a Copenhagen almshouse, an elderly woman gazes out upon a sunlit rampart where children play, laugh, and run barefoot through the grass. As she watches them, her own life unfolds in memory: youthful hope, first love, the slow passing of years, and the quiet sorrow of loss. The joy of childhood continues, unaware, while her own story has reached its stillness. 
  With gentle lyricism and profound emotional insight, Andersen captures the beauty and ache of a life fully lived—how innocence endures even as time carries everything else away. This reflective literary fairy tale explores aging, love, grief, and the tender coexistence of happiness and heartbreak. 
  Narrated with warmth and sensitivity by Laura Harris, this audiobook invites listeners into a single, timeless moment—where past and present meet at a window, and an entire lifetime is remembered.

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  Charity

  Peggy McKenzie

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  Love can make a person crazy…the best kind of crazy. 
  Misfit and social pariah Charity Montgomery has heard it all before and she doesn't give two hoots what anyone thinks about her rough and rowdy ways—well, no one except a certain lawman who ignores her at every turn. If there was just some way to get his attention, she knew she could convince him she was the only woman for him. 
  Miles Grayson has seen every kind of crazy during his years as a lawman, but he has never seen anything like the red-headed firebrand who has her sights on him—and he's never wanted anyone more, but she's the kind of woman who'll get him killed. She's a woman without boundaries and he's a lawman who demands respect. 
  What can go wrong when these two opposites attract? Just about everything. 
    
  Dear Reader: 
  Please note, that within the pages of this historical Western romance lies a tale of two hearts in search of a true and lasting connection. To provide an authentic depiction of this passionate journey, this author will occasionally venture into more mature territory. Using adult language of the period and brief portrayals of private moments between characters, the story is advanced through natural and realistic descriptions to depict the true nature of developing human relationships. 

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