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When Camilla, a young orphan girl in Shanghai, is adopted and brought to live in luxury, it seems like a stroke of luck. But as Camilla grows to womanhood, she realizes that her "rescue" was part of gang leader Big Brother Wang's scheme. Camilla is trained in singing, dancing, knife-throwing and contortion--all to attract the attention of Wang's enemy, the ruthless Master Lung. Forced to become Master Lung's mistress, Camilla meets two other intriguing...

Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by

Betrayed, the second installment in the bestselling House of Night series from P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast, is dark and sexy, and as thrilling as it is utterly shocking.
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters, the school's most elite group. Best

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Chicago-based anesthesiologist Margaret Overton chronicles her experiences during her four year divorce, including dating, the death of her b

Details the New Orleans murder-suicide in which Iraq War veteran Zachary Bowen killed and dismembered his girlfriend, Addie Hall, and then jumped from the roof of a hotel to take his own life, and examines the couple's relationship before their deaths and how his military experience affected his

Four children aboard the Titanic--Sophie, Paddy, Juliana, and Alfie--believe the famed killer Jack the Ripper is on the ship with them, and the urgency of their mystery deepens as the "unsinkable" ship hits an iceberg.

Three friends, Stingo, a twenty-two-year-old writer; Sophie, a survivor of the Nazi camps; and Nathan, her mercurial lover, share magical, heart-

A tale of the Wars of the Roses follows Elizabeth Woodville, who ascends to royalty and fights for the well-being of her family, including two sons whose imprisonment in the Tower of London precedes a devastating unsolved mystery.

Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British MI6, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.

Tory Brennan and her friends team up to save the Loggerhead Island Research Institute when it runs out of funding and make tracks for Charleston, where the treasure of the she-pirate, Anne Bonney, was lost but never found, but Tory and her friends are not the only ones searching for the treasure and their special powers might not be enough to keep them out of trouble this tim