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Twenty minutes before the "Wedding of the Century" at The Plaza, I stood outside the Presidential Suite in a fifty-thousand-dollar Vera Wang gown. I was the girl from a West Virginia trailer park about to marry Hugh Maxwell, the golden heir to a billion-dollar defense empire. I pushed the door open only to find Hugh pinned against the bed with my own stepsister, Floy. She was wearing my bridal diamond necklace, and the sounds of their laughter scraped against my eardrums like sandpaper. I didn't scream; I listened as Hugh grunted that once the wedding was over and the trust fund unlocked, he'd dump "that hillbilly trash" on a bus back to the mountains. They weren't just cheating; they were planning to steal my family's land deeds and leave me with nothing. When I set off the sprinklers and exposed their naked bodies to the paparazzi, the Maxwell family didn't apologize. They called me a "greedy peasant" and threatened to ruin my life unless I signed a new deal to save their crashing stock. I realized then that I was never a bride to them. I was a transaction, a rounding error in a ledger to be used and discarded. They thought my poverty made me weak and my silence made me a victim. "If we don't have a marriage certificate by midnight, the bank freezes thirty percent of our liquidity," their lawyer warned. So, I gave them exactly what they wanted. I used a loophole in their hundred-year-old family covenant and married the only other direct heir available. I didn't marry Hugh. I walked into the ICU and married his uncle, Fleet Maxwell-the legendary war hero who had been in a vegetative state for months. Now, I am the matriarch of the Maxwell dynasty. I've suspended Hugh's executive powers, exiled my mother-in-law to the Swiss Alps, and taken control of the family vault. They think I'm just a gold-digger waiting for a "corpse" to die so I can collect a fifty-million-dollar widow's payout. But last night, as I lay beside my comatose husband, the man they called a vegetable gripped my hand back.

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Fine Books by Alfred W. Pollard

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Popular Books on Natural Science by Aaron David Bernstein

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My African Journey describes Winston Churchill's journey up the Uganda Railroad. Churchill was the Under-secretary of State for the Colonies when he undertook the journey of East Africa in 1907. He gives wonderful descriptions of the countryside and meetings with local tribes, and provides an authen

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Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various

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African Camp Fires by Stewart Edward White

Short stories

"The African Wheel" unveils the extraordinary and heartrending journey of Theresa, a resilient 54-year-old woman who used to live in a remote African village. Born with the ability to walk, Theresa's life took a tragic turn when she mysteriously became disabled at the tender age of three. Plagued by

Short stories

In the heart of the African savannah, where the sun blazed with an unrelenting intensity, a magnificent presence cast its shadow over the arid landscape. This was the realm of Tembo, a towering giant whose very presence commanded awe and reverence. Aptly named the African Giant, Tembo was more than

Werewolf

Book 1 ROMAN - Roman has everything an alpha werewolf could want- everything except his mate. He knows who she is, he just doesn't know where she is. When a chance encounter, fifteen years later, brings Aurora Jones back into his life, there's only one problem. she doesn't recognise him. Vowing to m

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Journal of an African Cruiser by Horatio Bridge

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An African Adventure by Isaac F. Marcosson

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South African Memories by Lady Sarah Wilson

Young Adult

Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was born on February 24th, 1848 at Alwington, near Kingston, Canada West (now part of Ontario). Home schooled until 13 when his family moved to England, Grant was to become a highly regarded science writer who branched out to a fiction career and became enormously pop

Romance

My husband, Arthur, had a pattern. He would cheat, I would find out, and a rare book would appear on my shelf. Forty-nine betrayals, forty-nine expensive apologies. It was a transaction: my silence for a beautiful object. But the forty-ninth was the last straw. He skipped my dying father' s award c

Modern

THE BOOK-LOVERS LIBRARY_ was first published in the following styles: No. 1.--Printed on antique paper, in cloth bevelled with rough edges,price 4s. 6d. No. 2.--Printed on hand-made paper, in Roxburgh, half morocco, withgilt top: 250 only are printed, for sale in England, price 7s. 6d. No.

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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler

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The stories will blow your mind, your imagination will be put to the test, and you will be thrilled to read these Romantic tales

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The Story of an African Farm is a classic tale by south african author Olive Schreiner

LGBT+

This story takes you on a journey of what it’s like to be an African Gay Man in a world where being identified as homosexual is not just a plague of mockery but is also a punishable offence. This is Daniel’s story on how he and his kind struggle to survive in a world where their mere existence is a

Adventure

Chapter 1: The Seed of Royalty In the vast African savanna, Goddy, a young farmer's son, discovers his potential for greatness when a mysterious messenger arrives with news of an ancient prophecy. Drawn by destiny's call, Goddy embarks on a journey beyond his village, guided by the promise of a leg

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The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. Alden