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"While it's mindboggling to fathom anyone labeling a war "splendid," a high-ranking American official used that term to describe the Spanish American War in 1898. If any slivers of splendor existed in the grim brutalities of war, they were frequently on display in the remarkable actions of brave women who nursed their fallen warriors, reported conditions on the battlefields, fought on behalf of fervently-held causes, and protested questionable actions...
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Black Ops Inc. (Cindy Gerard) volume 1
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"Show no mercy: Black Ops bad boy Gabe Jones will never forget journalist Jenna McMillan, the brash redhead he rescued in Buenos Aires just months ago... or the passionate kiss they shared before he sent her packing. Now, forced together by a bombing at the National Congress, Jenna and Gabe confront their urgent longings as a ruthless enemy stalks them with deadly precision. The question is, if they make it out alive, will Gabe turn his back on her......
1423) Lo que ella dejó
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En una fría mañana de febrero, un hombre encontró el cuerpo sin vida de la joven periodista Alice Salmon, flotando en el río Dane. ¿Se trató de un suicidio? ¿De un trágico accidente? ¿O tal vez de un asesinato? Jeremy Cooke, un profesor de Antropología que está a punto de jubilarse, decide emprender una investigación y empieza a recolectar todas las huellas que dejó la joven para reunirlas en un libro: cartas, diarios, entradas de Facebook,...
1424) The queen of Gay Street
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"Isn't New York's motto, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your undersexed'? In New York, the party never stops and love's always just around the corner. At least, that's what queer journalist Esther Mollica told herself when she quit her job during the 2008 recession and moved three thousand miles away to become New York City's first blogger on lesbian dating. Her hometown brought her nothing but heartache, and none more devastating than learning that...
1425) Quadrille
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A Parisian magazine editor plans on proposing to his actress girlfriend, but she becomes intrigued with an American movie star. Meanwhile a woman reporter watches from the side.
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"On the island of Cyprus, in the overgrown ruins of Varosha--a resort town abandoned since the Turkish invasion of 1974--a secret village thrives. Here, a community of resourceful exiles and refugees lives under the radar of the Turkish authorities, thanks to the good-natured, cheerfully corrupt Colonel Kaya. Each villager has his or her own cryptic reasons for hiding among the lemon and olive trees, for trying to keep the outside world at bay. Into...
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Nicole came to Afghanistan to make a killer war documentary, but when the helicopter she bribed to take her closer to the enemy gets shot down she finds a lot more action than she had bargained for--and it is up to an Army Special Forces team to locate and rescue her and her cameraman.
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La periodista Lorna Martin nos relata sus aventuras dentro y fuera de la consulta. La terapia, entre otras cosas, la llevará a reconocer las trampas que se tiende a sí misma, y a admitir que alberga la secreta esperanza de que un día aparezca La Persona de su vida y la salve.
The author recounts the events in her life that led her to decide to warily seek the help of a therapist, and the unexpectedly strange and instructive journey of self-discovery...
1433) Aventura para dos
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Harlequin Bianca volume 850
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The awakening of Miss Prim...Prim and proper socialite-turned-journalist Holly Harding is looking for her first big scoop. And what better topic than the infamous cattle king Brett Wyndham? But when Holly meets Brett she notices something inherently dangerous about the enigmatic billionaire, and she quickly finds her professional no-nonsense attitude slipping! When their plane crashes in the middle of the Outback she is forced to rely on Brett for...
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May's a tough-talking, hard-smoking lecturer in English. She's also an Iraqi from a Sunni-Shi'ite background living in Baghdad. Bee is a London mum of three. They should have nothing in common. But when a simple email brings them together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age.
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"Mystery, murder, and mayhem descends on Riverdale as four of your favorite comic book women meet for the first time. A string of paranormal, unsolved murders leads the vampire hunter Vampirella and her sword-wielding barbarian partner Red Sonja to the small, sleepy town where things always seem to happen ... There they discover Betty and Veronica, investigative reporters for the high school newspaper, also hot on the trail of the same killer."--
1436) Motherland: a memoir
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In the span of a generation, oil-rich Venezuela spiraled into a dire state of economic collapse. This is Venezuelan reporter Paula Ramón's memoir about her relationship with her family and homeland.
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Focusing on the first family in science, this biography explores Marie Curie's relationship with her two daughters. Marie Curie was the first person to be honored by two Nobel Prizes and she pioneered the use of radiation therapy for cancer patients. But she was also a mother, widowed young, who raised two extraordinary daughters alone: Irene, a Nobel Prize winning chemist in her own right, who played an important role in the development of the atomic...
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"When fiery and idealistic Kitty O'Kane excapes the crushing poverty of Dublin's tenements, she's determined that no one should ever suffer like she did. As she sets out to save the world, she finds herself at the forefront of events that shaped the early twentieth century. While working as a maid, she survives the sinking of the Titantic. As a suffragette in New York's Greenwich Village, she's jailed for breaking storefront windows. And in traveling...
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(Jennifer Lunt).Blue Orchid Society volume 1
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"Lady Sophronia Bremerton is a far cry from the typical debutante, but she's the toast of London's upper class for one simple reason: she's a society columnist for the London Illustrated News, and the gentry loves seeing their exploits printed in the gossip pages. But Sophie has bigger plans-- she aspires to be an investigative reporter. When a stuffy ballroom at yet another Season proves to be nothing more than the usual rumor mill, Sophie seeks...
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