Hockey's golden girl just made a deal with the bad boy... Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women's national hockey team, win Olympic gold, & step out of her famous father's shadow. So far, so good, except for two little things. Fine
- a little thing & a big, grumpy thing. She needs to improve her game behind the net, & she needs help from Luke Ryder. Ryder is six-foot five, built, opinionated, rude... & sexy as hell. But he's still the enemy. Briar's new hockey co-captain has his reasons, though. The men's team just merged with a rival program, leaving Ryder with an angry roster where everyone hates one another's guts. To make matters worse, the summer coaching spot he's angling for with the legendary Garrett Graham is out of reach after he makes the worst possible first impression on his hero. So, really, this compromise with Gigi is win-win. He helps her make the national team, she puts in a good word with her dad. The only potential snag? This bone-de...
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The Grail Tarot re-tells the fabulous grail legend
- one of the most famous mysteries the world has ever known
- & relates the

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Lovejoy has heard of more nutters who have claimed to be in possession of the one, true Holy Grail than he has had hot dinners. He's not too impressed with the eccentric clergyman making the latest claim
- especially when the good vicar turns out to be one of the finest forgers Lovejoy has ever met. But when the vicar & his lady companion end up dead it becomes clear that someone else is after the old man's artefact. To solve the mystery & protect a precious piece of history, Lovejoy puts his life on the line & acquires a surprising new partner.
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Using as examples significant & often spectacular masterpieces, this book illustrates the diverse facets & multiple forms of the ensuring artistic introduction. This publication covers a lengthy period in art history, from the 5th century
- the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- to the 18th & the birth of the first great museums. It features 350 works from 100 or so European collections, interpreted by the continent's leading art historians.

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When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy on his sister in Berkeley Square. But Sophy's cousins are in a sad tangle. The heartless & tyrannical Charles is betrothed to a pedantic bluestocking almost as tiresome as himself; Cecilia is besotted with a beautiful but quite feather-brained poet; & Hubert has fallen foul of a money-lender. It looks like the Grand Sophy has arrived just in time to save them all.. . The undisputed queen of historical romance shows in Grand Sophy all the wonderful storytelling that won her a huge, devoted readership, which continues to this day. ...

13 years happily widowed, Agnes enters the 1980s with a French lover & 6 children, 5 of them in their 20s. As they begin to make their own lives the young Browns bring Joy & heartache to their mother
- marriage & grandchildren, prison, literary success, broken relationships & emigration. Then the family begins to fragment & it seems that not even their mother's iron will can bring them back together again. But you can never write off Agnes Brown!
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Returning from a much-needed holiday, Persimmon Simmy Brown discovers that life in the Lake District is, as ever, far from relaxing.

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When an aristocratic British couple (Cary Grant & Deborah Kerr) open their stately home to the public, a Texan oil millionaire (Robert Mitchum) enters their private quarters & successfully seduces the wife. The Earl then tries to win back his wife by ...

Life may deal us a lot of blows, but focusing on the things that we are really grateful for can actually enhance our mood.

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When the ancient Italian volcano Mount Vesuvius erupts right before their eyes, djinn twins John & Philippa Gaunt know that a br&-new adventure has found them. Soon, they learn that volcanoes all over the world are beginning to erupt & are spewing a strange golden lava. It quickly becomes clear that there is a peculiar
- & perhaps evil
- force at work, causing these disasters. If the twins can't figure out who is responsible, & stop him, a environmental catastrophe of epic proportions will devastate the planet. Will John, Philippa, & their uncle Nimrod be able to use their powers to save the day once again?

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