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1) The necklace
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2017.
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"Always the black sheep, Nell Quincy is summoned to her family's elegantly shabby manor after the death of her great aunt. During a chilly meeting over cocktails, the family reads the will that makes Nell the executor of the estate and leaves her one item: a fantastically valuable, beautiful necklace from India. While the rest of the family jewels have been stored in a bank vault, Nell finds this priceless, forgotten heirloom in a Crown Royal whiskey...
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The Necklace shares the uplifting true stories of lives being changes around the world, hope glowing like a giant spotlight on the stage of infertility.
The journey of infertility is one that affects each person and family differently, yet the heartache is the same. Many couples have no choice but to proceed with IVF, adoption, or surrogacy, options that are incredibly intense, expensive, and challenging. No matter what the individual journey entails,...
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Opulence is sometimes deceiving. Madame Mathilde Loisel is displeased, she cannot go to a fancy party because she doesn't have anything to wear. Her husband tries to help her and gives her money to buy a new dress. She insists she also needs jewels so she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend, Madame Jeanne Forestier. After the party, Mathilde realizes that she lost the stunning necklace.
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Weetzie Bat volume 6
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Where were the kisses? Weetzie Bat wondered. And so begins a magical journey of discovery. As she turns forty and the relationship with her secret-agent lover-man Max falls apart, Weetzie packs up her lime green and bright orange bikini, orange suede sneakers, and Pucci tunic, jumps in her '65 mint green Thunderbird, and leaves. Weetzie finds herself at the enchanted pink hotel in sparkling Los Angeles, where she once shied away from a kiss that may...
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This book tells the story of Johnny Paradise, who is living on a derelict barge in the Thames Estuary after being suspended from the Met Police. Johnny drowns his sorrows in drinking at the local pub called the Drunken Man, until he is, visited by an old friend, who brings him news about his daughter. The story leads to a series of killings as the gangs of East London try to silence him as he attempts to solve the mystery of the Necklace of Death....
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Rediscover this thrilling historical romance trilogy by bestselling author Kat Martin, together in one set for the first time!
The necklace promises great happiness or great tragedy--and nobody can elude its power...
The Bride’s Necklace
Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family’s heirloom necklace to pay for her and her sister’s escape to London. There, she poses as a servant in the household of handsome Cordell Devlin, the scandalous...
8) The Necklace
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Volume 2 of the Haunting Love series. After solving the mystery of the man and the suitcase, Chelsea feels more confident in her new city and with her sexuality. She returns to running, one of her favorite pastimes back in Idaho, when she happens upon the famous George Washington statue in the Boston Public Gardens.
When she finds a pearl necklace floating in a pool of blood in front of the statue, Chelsea is horrified. A single clue is engraved...
9) The Necklace
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The Necklace tells the stories of three women, each with a dangerous secret. There is 80-year-old mafia widow Kate Brady, determined that her secret will die with her - beautiful, blond and famous Andrea Pryor is being blackmailed for her secret - and 18-year-old Marianne Woodsman whose secret is hidden in her family's Park Avenue penthouse. Marianne runs for her life from her dangerously dysfunctional family, through a homeless shelter and a brothel...
10) The Necklace
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The clock ticks down in a heart-pounding crusade for justice
Susan Lentigo's daughter was murdered twenty years ago-and now, at long last, this small-town waitress sets out on a road trip all the way from Upstate New York to North Dakota to witness the killer's execution.
On her journey she discovers shocking new evidence that leads her to suspect the condemned man is innocent-and the real killer is still free. Even worse, her prime suspect...
11) The Necklace
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A routine interview with a murder suspect. Given the preponderance of evidence against him, probably he'll either lawyer-up or confess. Either way will mean an early day for the detective. But sometimes there's more evidence than you expect.
12) The Necklace
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The Necklace (1884) is a famous short story and morality tale that is widely read in classrooms throughout the world. Get more out of the story with our The ...
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Although demure young beauty Kezia Falcon and her brother Perry are part of an ancient and noble family, they are all but bankrupt. Nevertheless, handsome Perry socialises in London while Kezia lives alone but for the old butler in the family's ancient but dilapidated house.
Suddenly it seems their fortune may change when Peregrine finds a buyer their one precious heirloom: a necklace made with diamonds stolen from the legendary 'Marie Antoinette...
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A true dream is when the events I see in my sleep have, or will happen. It's a talent that runs in my family. I was thirteen when I had my first true dream'Dana wishes she wasn't a princess. She's always being told how to behave, what to wear. The collier's cart seems the perfect escape. Only she didn't realize she'd become so dirty, or so lost. Fortunately this boy, Will, has a sense of direction. And next to the forbidding stranger, N'tombe, he...
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Why do we have so much, when others have so little? When a young princess encounters poverty for the first time, her eyes and her heart are opened. Inspired by the life of Saint Audrey of Ely, a real English princess who gave up everything to follow Christ, this story introduces young children to the virtue of charity. A Necklace of Virtues is Christian historical fiction for children ages 3,8.
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Oriana, while enjoying a vacation in Lisbon with her husband, stumbles upon a shocking revelation-a newspaper article featuring a childhood photo of herself at the age of five. The article states that she was a kidnapped child, taken from Lisbon twenty years ago.As Oriana undergoes DNA testing, the truth unravels before her eyes. She discovers that the woman she believed to be her mother, Rhea, was not her biological parent but someone who is accused...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Necklace with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, a short story about a beautiful young woman who despairs at her tedious lower-middle-class life and dreams of luxury and admiration. When she and her husband are invited to an extravagant ball, it seems that her dreams are about to come true, but then she loses...
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The fairy tale of "The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde" is about a young wicked princess named Fiorimonde. With the help of a witch, Fiorimonde uses magic to maintain her beauty. When the King wishes her to marry, Fiorimonde, not wishing her suitors to discover her secret, transforms them into beautiful beads on a necklace.
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Necklace trilogy volume 1
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From a New York Times–bestselling author, a "fast-paced Regency" that "adroitly balances . . . passion and intrigue . . . and provides vibrant characters" (Publishers Weekly).
Knowing that she alone can protect her sister from the Baron Harwood, their lecherous stepfather, Victoria Temple Whiting snatches the family's heirloom necklace-believed to hold the power to bring great happiness or terrible tragedy-to pay for their escape to London....
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Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2013.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A mother shares with her daughter stories of the generations of women in their family as each individual has passed along the tales and a glittering necklace to her own daughter. Includes notes on the author's exploration of her ancestry.