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Jack St. Bride was once a beloved teacher and soccer coach at a girls' prep school – until a student's crush sparked a powder keg of accusation and robbed him of his career and reputation. Now, after a devastatingly public ordeal that left him with an eight-month jail sentence and no job, Jack resolves to pick up the pieces of his life.
       He takes a job washing dishes at Addie Peabody's diner and slowly starts to form a relationship with her in the quiet New England village of Salem Falls. But just when Jack thinks he has outrun his past, a quartet of teenage girls with a secret turn his world upside down once again, triggering a modern-day witch hunt in a town haunted by its own history …

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Known primarily as the barren wife of a notorious king, Katherine of Aragon has her own the fascinating story.
        Born Catalina, the Spanish Infanta, and betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, at the age of four, she is raised to be Queen of England. Although her arrival in England is not what she expected, she slowly adapts to the first Tudor court, and life as Arthur's wife grows ever more bearable. When he dies, she is left to make her own future and only by marrying Arthur's young brother, the sunny but spoilt Henry, can she now be queen, and found a dynasty.
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The Constant Princess

Philippa Gregory
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Freddie Jackson thinks he owns the underworld when he gets out of prison. He’s done his time, made the right connections, and now he’s ready to use them.
        His wife Jackie just wants her husband home, but she’s forgotten the rows, the violence, and the girls Freddie can’t leave alone. Bitter and resentful, Jackie watches her little sister Maggie’s star rise. In love with Freddie’s cousin Jimmy, Maggie is determined not to end up like her sister.
        Families should stick together, but for the Jacksons, loyalty cannot win out. Because in their world you can trust no one. In their world everyone is on the take.

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Martina Cole
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FBI agent Alex Cross is on vacation when he gets a call from the Director. A well-known actress was shot outside her home in Beverly Hills. Shortly afterwards, an entertainment editor for the Los Angeles Times receives an e-mail describing the murder in vivid detail. Alex quickly learns that this is not an isolated incident. The killer, known as Mary Smith, has done this before and plans to kill again.
        Members of Hollywood’s elite fear they’re next on Mary’s list, and the case grows by blockbuster proportions as the LAPD and FBI scramble to find a pattern before Mary can send one more chilling update.

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Mary, Mary

James Patterson
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"Lincoln lawyers" are the lowest form of lawyer. Criminal defence attorneys operating from a Lincoln car, they traverse Los Angeles, taking whatever work is available.
        Mickey Heller, the best Lincoln lawyer, acquires a well-heeled client, a young man from Beverly Hills accused of savagely assaulting a woman. For once it actually looks as if his client is innocent, but Mickey soon learns that neither his client nor the victim in the case is quite what they seem to be.

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The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly
Orion
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432 pages
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