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As the war reaches London, they'll band together…
War strikes close to home for chief librarian Cordelia when her flat is bombed, and her beloved Robert is called up and sent abroad. Fortunately, her colleagues Mavis and Jane can help see her through hard times.
The three friends find purpose in making the Silvertown library a friendly sanctuary for their deprived and devastated community. But sinister forces, from callous bureaucrats to crafty...
62) Eternal Love
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Emily Summers sat nestled in a corner of the local café, her sketchbook sprawled before her, capturing the essence of life around her in delicate strokes of graphite. Lost in her world of art and introspection, she was unaware of the curious gaze fixed upon her. Enter Nathan Hayes, a newcomer to town with an air of curiosity and an eye for the extraordinary. Drawn by the fervor with which Emily immersed herself in her craft, Nathan couldn't resist...
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Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who specializes in gender reassignment, a fighter pilot who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II, an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous quilter with whom he's having an affair, the adulterer's son who dreams of becoming...
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Told through the alternating perspectives of five childhood friends from the same housing estate in England, I See Buildings Fall like Lightning is a story about friendship, place, loss, addiction and the ways in which lives, minds, and bodies can be limited by material conditions; it also speaks powerfully to the ways in which humor, loyalty, and family can bestow meaning and life even in the toughest circumstances.
Only Rian has made it out of...
65) A Duke of One's Own: A Brand New Gorgeously Funny, Spicy Regency Romance From Emma Orchard for 2024
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Summer, 1816. A notorious rebel is about to meet her match...
Lady Georgiana Pendlebury is no stranger to breaking the rules of polite society. But when a so-called 'friend' invites her to a clandestine party, Georgiana is shocked to discover the event is more scandalous than even she could have imagined. So when a mysterious stranger offers help, she accepts, not realising their encounter will turn her life upside down.
Later that summer, Georgiana...
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If you love Emily in Paris, you will love this BRAND NEW book in the Annie Valentine series from bestselling author Carmen Reid.
Personal shopper Annie Valentine is back! Older and bolder!
Fashion guru Annie is struggling to cope with her hectic life. With the demands of two older children, plus four-year-old twins, her marriage to Ed is in a romance-free rut and she's clinging by a couture thread to her job as the nation's favourite fashion fixer.
And...
67) Guilt
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Jared and Laynie have been together for years. When Jared gets a great job opportunity in New York he uproots his and Laynie's lives and moves out there. Laynie immediately notices a change in Jared's personality. He becomes emotionally and physically abusive towards her.
One night after a break-in goes wrong Jared awakes in the hospital, only to learn he has lost a year of his memories. This includes hurting the one person he swore he would...
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Trouble in paradise?
Having sold her photography studio in the UK, Freya Johnson is now living the American dream, engaged to Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden. Finally, her past is behind her and the only way is up.
But with a wedding to plan and a whole heap of charity work to organise, she could do without the reappearance of her childhood sweetheart, Jonny Sanders. He's rich, he's better looking than she remembers and he reminds her of all...
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Preorder the BRAND NEW book from Chrissie Walsh!
As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool, only friendship and community can keep the women of Weaver Street smiling.
The neighbours on Liverpool's Weaver Street have always looked after each other, but when the Second World War takes many of the husbands, brothers and sons away to fight, the women's friendships are more important than ever.
Matriarch Kitty Conlon is missing her son Patrick, proud...
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Meet Tilda Wright…
Tilda has done everything she can to make her life neat, protected, tidy. No longer the girl who was scared of everything, whose family pushed her away, who hit rock bottom. Now she runs her life – as she does her successful business – with the utmost organization. As long as she keeps everyone at arm's length, she will be fine. She will be safe.
But then a chance encounter with a man who's fallen on hard times changes everything....
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"A propulsive debut of visionary scale, Make Me a City embroiders fact with fiction to tell the story of Chicago's 19th century, tracing its rise from frontier settlement to industrial colossus. The tale begins with a game of chess--and on the outcome of that game hinges the destiny of a great city. From appalling injustice springs forth the story of Chicago, and the men and women whose resilience, avarice, and altruism combine to generate a moment...
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A train trip was able to get three different perspectives on the same place and find the possibility of seeing it at different times and thus see its true reality, when chaos corners a place it is very difficult to really see its beauty, time always changes is the dynamics of being, nothing in this life is static and we only see the worst, keop was a fantastic place that power and greed took by force punishing its residents, beating their dreams and...
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Un invierno cualquiera en Newport, es un libro que habla de un amor no correspondido. Es un libro que también habla de la amistad. Es un libro que puedes leer en cualquier parte. La historia es compleja y está basada, sobre todo, en los difíciles momentos que un joven soñador debe atravesar para llegar hasta la mujer que ama. Luchar por la persona que ama, sería el motivo primordial y urgente. Es una aventura de Navidad. Un invierno cualquiera....
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Twelve stories contemplating destiny and detailing the life of Manhattan's upper class over the course of one hundred years, from the author of Honorable Men.
It's only twelve miles long and two miles wide, but it has more money for its area, more history packed into its relatively brief settlement, and more emotional and intellectual energy coursing through its streets than any other place on earth. Manhattan is the setting for all of Louis Auchincloss's...
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In 1922, English anthropologist Howard Carter discovered the long-hidden tomb of King Tutankhamun, and the world went Egypt-crazy. Just a few years later, New York is not immune to the craze, and even Philo Vance, that eminent scholar-sleuth, has some sympathy for the fad-though of course he knows lots more about the topic than Carter ever did. When a wealthy Egyptologist is murdered, with mysterious inscriptions and artifacts dotted round, it's only...
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Bet on this Golden Age mystery from the author of The Dragon Murder Case.
The "tremendous popularity" of the Philo Vance series stems in part from author S. S. Van Dine's preference for ripping his plots from the headlines of the day (The New York Times). By the early '30s, when Casino came around, those headlines included some creepy chemical discoveries and scandalous doings at secret Manhattan gambling dens, where rich folks knocked back cocktails...
77) Priscilla
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The story of a young girl that is surrounded by love and deceit at the same time. Orphaned, but taken in to be guided on her life journey. Constantly trying to walk the line of making the right decision. For herself, and everyone around her. Charged with making decisions that someone of her age should not be thrust into, she constantly chooses wrong. Those wrong choices lead her down a path. A path of more deceit, but also more love and revelation....
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Blade: As the lead singer of Hard Core, I've been taught several key life lessons. Unfortunately, I've also ignored many of them in the last twenty minutes alone, which is why I'm now being chased by a horde of crazed fans.But my worst misjudgment today? Going outside in public without security or a backup plan. Screaming fans come with the job and the fame is as much of a blessing as it is a curse, but I still couldn't imagine doing any other line...
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A whodunit that "presents a good puzzle, and that, according to Mr. Vance and his tens of thousands of readers, is what murder mystery books are for" (The New York Times).
No question, The Dragon Murder Case showcases Our Philo at his most supremely irritating. The book is set at a Manhattan mansion complete with picturesque pool. Into that pool dives Sanford Montague, never to be seen again. Fools rush to blame the supernatural, noting that the...
80) Moved by You
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Vance feels trapped. He never cared about his family's wealth and prestige, but he finds himself pinned in place by the weight of his father's expectations. Vance would much rather sweat in his studio creating metal sculptures with his blow torch than take any kind of position at the family firm. When pressure from his father mounts, Vance is torn between going with the flow or making waves. But everything changes when Vance hits a bike messenger...
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