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Taffy Trouble

The Candy Fairies encounter the salty side of sweet when a troll disturbs the seawater and endangers all the taffy treats!Cocoa the Chocolate Fairy helps a friend in need when she travels to the North Sea to aid Nellie, the seahorse. The caramel turtles have reported trouble: there are trolls hunting the Sea Fairies’ candy, and when the trolls steal the chocolate clams and the jellies, the balance of the salt in the water is disrupted. Saltwater taffy and other sea salt treats are in danger! The Candy Fairies are in for an underwater adventure, but can they save the salty day?
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Close Relations

Product DescriptionA family scandal!Georgia had imagined becoming Jarrod Maclean's wife a hundred times—until she'd found him in what seemed like a passionate embrace with his own stepmother.... Devastated by his betrayal, Georgia had convinced herself she was glad when he left town.When Jarrod returned four years later, Georgia still hadn't forgiven him—even though she sensed that he wanted her more than ever. But he insisted any relationship between them would be taboo...was there something he wasn't telling her? What really happened four years ago? The whole family seemed to be in on the secret—everyone except Georgia....
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Eleanor

The New York Times Bestseller—"Superb...Lash has reached the highest level of the biographer's art." —Wall Street JournalJoseph P. Lash, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer and National Book Award-winning writer of Eleanor and Franklin, turns to the seventeen years Eleanor Roosevelt lived after FDR's death in 1945. Already a major figure in her own right, Roosevelt gained new stature with her work at the United Nations and her contributions to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She continued her activism on behalf of civil rights, as well as her humanitarian work, which led President Harry Truman to call her the First Lady of the World. Lash has created an extraordinary portrait of an extraordinary person.
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Walker Spirit

Audrey Walker, in true Walker spirit, is embarking on a new adventure as an entrepreneur and isn't looking any further into the future than opening her own salon. When Gregory Bishop, one of the hottest actors in movies, crosses her path, it's not hard to fall head over heels for the sexy movie star who is infatuated with her. But when his fame and fortune causes someone to go after them, destroying what Audrey has invested everything in, she will have to decide if it's worth loving Gregory at the risk losing everything that she's built.
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Leigh Ann's Civil War

Leigh Ann Conners is spunky and determined. Although she often finds herself in trouble, she loves her two older brothers dearly and would do anything to make them proud.When the Yankees arrive in Roswell, Georgia, Leigh Ann places a French flag upon the family's mill. She hopes the Yankees will then spare the mill from destruction, but her actions have disastrous results. Sent north with the women and children who worked in the mill—all branded traitors for making fabric for Confederate uniforms—Leigh Ann embarks on a journey that requires her to find her own inner strength. Only then will she be able to rise above the war raging around her.
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The Mark on the Door

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
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Fairy Tale Flirts 2! 5 Romantic Short Stories

Fairy Tale Flirts 2! Five Romantic Short Stories Five favorite fairy tales transformed into modern love stories that unfold on Neverland Island, a fictional summertime amusement park. The magic in these tales comes from the heart, not a wand. The sweet, romantic short stories stand alone, but also connect to the others in the collection. Each short is 9,000-11,000 words in length.
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Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns

Magnificently capturing the colorful world of Islam for the youngest readers, this breathtaking and informative picture book celebrates Islam's beauty and traditions. From a red prayer rug to a blue hijab, everyday colors are given special meaning as young readers learn about clothing, food, and other important elements of Islamic culture, with a young Muslim girl as a guide. Sure to inspire questions and observations about world religions and cultures, Golden Domes and Silver Lanterns is equally at home in a classroom reading circle as it is being read to a child on a parent's lap.
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In His Image

Based on the actual scientific expedition to examine the Shroud of Turin, author James BeauSeigneur creates a fictionalized story that links ancient DNA to the coming of the Antichrist. While examining the Shroud of Turin-believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ-Professor Harold Goodman makes an incredible discovery: a cluster of skin cells still alive after 2000 years. Faced with such a startling find, Goodman conspires to carry out what may be the most earth-shattering experiment ever attempted: the cloning of Jesus Christ. When the experiment proves successful, the child born of the ancient cells soon sets in motion forces which trigger worldwide cataclysms, and could end the world as we know it....
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