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Age of blood volume 1
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2024.
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454 pages ; 24 cm.
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A villainous, bloodthirsty heroine finds herself plunged into the dangerous world of power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king in this dark romantic fantasy debut. Fate is a cruel mistress. The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeC laire has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her network of spies, and gathering every scrap of power she could. Now, to protect her brother, she assassinates...
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London, 1679Isabel, Lady Wilde, mistress of King Charles II, has made a good living disguised as fortune teller Mistress Ruby, counseling London's elite. But after the murder of one of her customers, business has taken a downturn, and Isabel is on the verge of accepting the king's offer to move into the palace. Isabel's plans are interrupted when a beggar girl named Susanna shows up at her home, claiming to be her niece. Isabel always believed that...
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Rivalries volume 2
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Lila Culhane’s life is in turmoil. As if coping with the murder of her husband isn’t enough, now the glamorous young widow has Frank’s even younger mistress to contend with. His pregnant mistress. Crystal. But Lila hasn’t got time for more heartache. With everyone grasping to profit from Frank’s death, including fighting for possession of her beloved ranch, she needs leverage for the battle. As it turns out, Crystal may be carrying just...
4) Mistresses
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You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens. Mistresses follows the lives and loves of a group of thirty-something friends who met at university. Katie is a doctor who has been having an affair with one of her patients. Her best friend Trudie grieves the loss of her husband who was killed in 9/11. Then there's Jessica whose anarchic lifestyle supplies lots of gossip and humour, and the happily married Siobhan - but...
5) Mistress
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When a blackmailer threatens her Aunt Zoe, Iphiginia knows she can ferret out the villain. A 26-year-old vixen with the intellect to match her beauty, Iphiginia descends on London society as the dazzling mistress of the missing Earl of Masters -- another supposed victim of the blackmailer. But when the missing earl suddenly reappears at a ball, Iphiginia is caught in her own clever lie.
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"Adira Smith-Cortez knows how to turn around a troubled past. Now she's a self-made multi-millionaire who takes exquisite care of herself and her only true love: her husband, Gabriel. Adira has it all - except the answer to one tormenting question: why is attentive, affectionate Gabriel cheating on her - with not just one, but two women. There's sexy Jocelyn, a club owner. And then there's Julianna, a celebrity makeup artist he's even crazier about....
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2018.
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My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it. On the surface, Lydia Fitzsimons has the perfect life--wife of a respected, successful judge, mother to a beloved son, mistress of a beautiful house in Dublin. That beautiful house, however, holds a secret. And when Lydia's son, Laurence, discovers its secret, wheels are set in motion that lead to an increasingly claustrophobic and devastatingly dark climax."-- Provided...
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1989.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (120 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In "Enemies, A Love Story," adapted from Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel, Holocaust survivor Herman Broder (Ron Silver) juggles relationships with three women in post-war New York. Caught between his current wife, his mistress, and a woman presumed dead, Herman grapples with guilt, love, and identity. As his tangled web of lies unravels, Herman must confront the ghosts of his past to find redemption and forge a path forward in a world haunted by memories...
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Loki reborn! When the Asgardian cycle of life begins again after Ragnarock, Thor’s brother Loki comes back as...Thor’s sister! Loki returns with a sense of purpose, seeking a fresh start to write her story anew. But her newest scheme could be the greatest trick she’s ever pulled. What secret lies behind her female form? What dread endgame does she have in mind for Thor...and for Balder the Brave? And with whom will she forge an alliance of evil?...
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"On the surface, Henry Hayden seems like someone you could like, or even admire. A famous bestselling author who appears a modest everyman. A loving, devoted husband even though he could have any woman he desires ... But Henry Hayden is a construction, a mask. His past is a secret, his methods more so. No one besides him and his wife know that she is the actual writer of the novels that made him famous. For most of Henry's life, it hasn't been a problem....
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1948.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (100 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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When Michel tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose her son, and his father Georges is distressed because it is Georges' mistress, Madeleine, whom his son loves. Yvonne and Georges financially and emotionally depend on Michel's maiden aunt, Léo, who was once engaged to Georges but gave him up to her sister. Léo resolves to help them separate Michel and Madeleine and choreographs an elaborate meeting...
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"To his parishoners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father. Always sunny and vivacious, Kari never questioned their frequent relocations from one small Texas Baptist church to another. Even when tragedy struck, Kari remained strong - until one day, inexplicably, she took her own life. To friends and family, Kari's suicide made no sense and they struggled with questions they couldn't...
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (96 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Léa Seydoux plays Célestine, a resentful young Parisian chambermaid who finds herself exiled to a position in the provinces where she immediately chafes against the noxious iron rules and pettiness of her high-handed bourgeois mistress, must rebuff the groping advances of Monsieur, and reckon with her fascination with the earthy, brooding gardener Joseph. Backtracking past the fetishism of Buñuel's version to Octave Mirbeau's original 1900 novel,...
14) Her pleasure
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Mistress novels (Niobia Bryant) volume 6
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"After surviving a shattering betrayal by a former friend, Jaime Pine has every reason to celebrate. Stronger and savvier after her 'perfect' marriage crashed-and-burned, Jaime now has Luc, a billionaire music mogul willing to give her everything, including a dazzling career, and what looks like a forever happily-ever-after. Until a no-limits island vacation with her best friends turns up the last person Jaime ever expected to see again... Unforgettable...
15) Family of lies
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"After growing up poor in Texas, Vera Lomax used every gold-digging trick in the book to land a rich husband. Now living in the lap of luxury in San Francisco, her only job is to fawn over her much-older husband, so it's been easy for her to balance a life of shopping and affairs with younger men with a major secret: the sixteen-year bribery of one of her husband's mistresses to keep her pregnancy under wraps. Vera figures that a little hush money...
16) Private games
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Private, the world's most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele,...
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Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Even as he goes through the motions of everyday life, however, inside he feels nothing. The explanation for this emotional void lies in the years he spent as a blacked-out drunk before pulling his life together--years in which he knows he committed acts he doesn't remember. Then a woman from his past turns up at a gala for his wife's new gig...
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"March, 1815. The Bourbon King Louis XVIII has been restored to the throne of France, Napoleon is in exile on the isle of Elba, and Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin, has traveled to Paris in hopes of tracing his long-lost mother, Sophie, the errant Countess of Hendon. But his search ends in tragedy when he comes upon the dying Countess in the wasteland at the tip of the Île de la Cité. Stabbed-apparently with a stiletto-and thrown from the crenelated...
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"Gregor Keuschnig awakens from a nightmare in which he has committed murder and announces, 'From today on, I shall be leading a double life.' The duplicity, however, lies only in Keuschnig's mind; his everyday life as the press attaché for the Austrian Embassy in Paris continues much as before: routine paperwork, walks in the city, futile intimacies with his family and his mistress. But Keuschnig is oblivious to it all, merely simulating his previous...
20) Midlife crisis
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"Sylvia Blackwell has it all, or so she thinks. She and her handsome husband, Garrett, are the epitome of success: an immaculate house of their dreams, a beautiful and talented 17-year-old daughter, flourishing careers, and nearly twenty years of perfectly wedded bliss. Just as they are making plans for their vow renewal celebration, a call in the middle of the night interrupts their picture-perfect lives. Now Sylvia has to deal with the reality of...






