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After her adventures in Murder on the Cliffs, young Daphne du Maurier travels to a remote island off the coast of Cornwall to visit the estate of Lord and Lady Trevalyan. Somner House, enchanting amidst lush exotic wilderness and only a moment's walk to the sea, beguiles Daphne, but just as looming winter storms begin to envelop the island, the Lord is found murdered while the Lady is found in the arms of a lover. Even Daphne with her torrid imagination...
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"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Peter R. Grant is the Class of 1877 Professor of Zoology Emeritus at Princeton University. His books include Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches and (with B. Rosemary Grant) 40 Years of Evolution: Darwin's Finches on Daphne Major Island (both Princeton).
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolution
Enchanted by Daphne is legendary...
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A bold, provocative "pioneering novel" (Los Angeles Times) about family, womanhood, and growing up
Set on Manhattan's Upper East Side, Enchantment is narrated by Hannah Lehmann, the wry survivor of a troubled childhood. Hannah's perceptions of her Orthodox German Jewish heritage-her five brothers and sisters, the complicated power of families, the madness of money, the obsessive workings of memory itself-are as disquieting in their sharpness as they...
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Three cocky players. Ready to score.Three feisty women, who aren't about to fall for arrogant, womanizing jocks.Or are they? A deliciously hot trio of stories by USA Today best-selling author Daphne Loveling. A must-read collection -- all together in one HUGE package! This collection contains: REDEEMING THE PLAYER Rinn I've worked my a** off for years to get where I am. And I'm not about to let douchebag extraordinaire Jake Ryland screw it up for...
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Since the death of my brother, I've devoted my life to my family's marina in Eagle Creek. Even if it wasn't my first dream, I've spent years hoping I can prove to my parents I'm good enough to take it over. But instead of retiring and passing on the business, my parents tell me we're at risk of bankruptcy.
With little else to lose, I call the one man I've wanted as my own since I met him. The one who has spent years keeping his distance from me....
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Daphne Du Maurier mysteries volume 3
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Young Daphne du Maurier must defend a friend who has been accused of murder in the next installment in the beguiling mystery series that readers of Rebecca will love.
It's the summer of 1927 and aspiring novelist Daphne du Maurier is headed to Cornwall for the wedding of her dear friend Ellen Hamilton to American millionaire Teddy Grimshaw. Having met during the chaos of the Great War, the lovers were cruelly separated for nearly a decade by circumstance...
7) Julius
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A chilling story of ambition, Daphne du Maurier's third novel has lost none of its ability to unsettle and disturb. Julius Lévy has grown up in a peasant family in a village on the banks of the Seine. A quick-witted urchin caught up in the Franco-Prussian War, he is soon forced by tragedy to escape France for Algeria. Once there, he learns the ease of swindling, the rewards of love affairs, and the value of secrecy. Cruel and insensitive, Julius...
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It is the novel of applicable utopia... Which makes readers to think, "If there is such an island like this really?"Daphne lives alone in the country where she started practice law following her university education. One day after work, she gets raped and this incident drags her at the brink of suicide. An unexpected visit from her best friend Tykhe, whom she had lost track of her for two years after the graduation from the university enables her...
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With the help of a big-hearted team of misfits, Chester Davis, a tall, gawky refugee from the Morning Glory Trailer Park in Birmingham, is transformed into Daphne DeLight, an aspiring drag queen with the delusional quest of becoming the next Miss Gay Drag Queen Alabama. Or is it? Both Chester and Daphne are blessed with an inspirational naivety and ambition that won't surrender to any humiliation. Quirky, clever, and infused with a Southern gothic...
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Nora Bauer, once Hollywood's elite fixer, now finds her reputation shattered. Exposing a crime rather than concealing it has rendered her a pariah in an industry where secrets are currency. When Daphne Belle, a faded actress desperate for a comeback, enlists Nora's help to avoid tabloid scandals, it seems like a straightforward gig. But after a night they can't remember, filled with drinks, drugs, and decisions they wish to forget, Nora and Daphne...
13) Project Aurora
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The Central Intelligence Agency has a hidden hand in the tech world, controlling an intricate web of corporate entities carefully concealed from the public. All for their own nefarious ends - to gather intelligence, weaponize social media outlets, and craft the ultimate human agent.Journalist James Lewis uncovered the truth that threatened to reveal the CABAL's activities and so they acted swiftly to silence him and his editor, Daphne Meyers before...
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The latest crime comedy from GloriaMeet:Mona Drake - (AKA Monique Mason) 61 year old agri-activist, flower child, and drunken embittered soul.Loretta Lynn Miller - Separated mother of three, human dynamo and avenging dark angel.Daphne Johnson - Hipster, gamer, barista, and all around badass.Follow:When fate brings the three of them together, for one purpose...to paint the town green.Enter:Conrad Tipton - A soon to be retired cop. His job is to find...
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Tour golfer Joe Slice finds himself drawn into a dangerous game when he accepts an invitation to a party hosted by billionaire property tycoon Roland Kliepper. As usual for Joe things get complicated when he falls for the charms of Kliepper's beautiful wife Daphne, a former pageant queen and a bit of a bitch to boot. A change of lifestyle looks to be on the cards for Joe when Kliepper offers him a job at his newly finished golf resort on the East...
16) Bigfoot Country
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A shadow in the deep forest, a shape in a blizzard.Bigfoot stories abound. You can hear tales of Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yeti and their relatives from the north to the pacific north-west, to the mountains of the Himalayas. Here are stories of encounters from the scary to the mundane. They take place in isolated locations and in backyards, and none of them leave the world exactly the way it was.Authors are Alex McGilvery, Brendan Brewster, Bruce Buchanan,...
17) Night Magic
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Despite the onset of summer, Doctor Fantme's Sanctuary of Voodoo in the French Quarter sends chills through psychologist Daphne Brookes. This is tourist voodoo, meant to shock and titillate. Daffy is fascinated by the man behind the counter, but less fascinated by the shop. One of her teenage clients may be under the influence of someone there.Easy-going portrait artist Skeeter Harwood is briefly filling in for the shop's owner. Skeeter is more than...
18) Deadly Images
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2022 WINNER of the Daphne du Maurier Award for Excellence in Mystery/Suspense for Deadly Conspiracies!Radiologist Lindsey Moran is about to achieve her goal of becoming a partner at Cascade Park Hospital when her father mysteriously dies in a prison riot shortly before the prison hospital closes and Cascade Park takes over the care of the inmates. She soon learns the three escaped prisoners aren't the only ones wreaking havoc on the city and suspects...
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What if fallen angels got a second chance?In The Saga of Terminal City they do, freed from prison to walk the earth, doing good -- if they can.Hometown Hero (No. 2) finds the smalltown of Crummburg marked for destruction by resentful native sons. Can vacationing ex-angel Robert Hunger stop the evil, and save the innocent, before the clock strikes doom?29 Chapters, 2400 lines of poetry, all written in modern epic verse.SynopsisEven angels must take...
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The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture. Before the novel, the world of books was dominated by scientific tomes, religious tracts and histories of the victorious in war. There had been stories and epic poems from ancient times – Homer'sand recounted ancient Greece, and was a chivalric romance in Middle English, but it was not until the seventeenth century, when the European middle classes...