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81) Cooler Heads
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Julian Tepper's fourth novel, Cooler Heads, is a story about modern love. With a triangulation of lovers and spouses, young children and careers struggling to get off the ground, in Celia and Paul we encounter two people in that pocket of life when the fight to figure out who we are and what we want burns brightest. A meditation on the limits of what we can and cannot have, set in a city-New York-that would have us think that we can have it all, Cooler...
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This dark, propulsive novel, the crowning masterwork by ninety-two-year-old Joseph Caldwell, takes place during 1992, when AIDS was still an incurable scourge and death casualties were everyday events.
One cold winter night, when the artist Dempsey Coates is on her way home to her loft, she encounters a blaze, several alarms ringing and water jetting every which way from fire hydrants. She ends up offering several firemen a place to get warm. One...
83) Passions Love
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A romantic novel mingling family with love, and untangling the difficulties knots of life.
84) 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...
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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...
87) 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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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...
89) Georgie
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GEORGIE DOESN'T SEEK OUT TROUBLE, IT JUST FINDS HER ON ITS OWN!
But being at war with her pompous family and the struggles Georgie faces with her Catholic upbringing and nun-nemesis Sister Catherine, means there is no choice except rebellion...
With her BFF Troy and loyal pooch Chocky as her only allies, Georgie wields her sarcasm like a weapon in her battles as a young misfit in the upper-class suburbs of Melbourne.
Forever daring and...
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Behind Closed Secrets - Politcal Courtroom Drama In a nation where power and prestige often overshadow the voices of the marginalized, a storm is brewing. The upper echelons of American society, known for their influence and affluence, are now the epicenter of a grave dispute. A controversy surrounding sexual consent engulfs America's elite, impacting numerous women in its aftermath. It delves deep into the intersections of personal and political...
91) 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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'Nicola's writing is so vivid and beautiful and perfectly pitched, her plotting addictive.' Jenny Ashcroft
1671 – London
The Civil War is over and Charles II, the 'Merry Monarch', is revelling in the throne of his murdered father and all the privileges and power that comes with it. Sharing the spoils is his favourite companion, the celebrated beauty, actress Nell Gwyn. Beloved of the English people, Nell has come a long way from selling oranges...
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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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PRE-ORDER now the new gorgeous rom com by Jo Lovett
One New Year's Eve, Georgie James and her friends come up with a genius plan to help them stick to their resolutions… They all write down secrets, seal them in envelopes and then post them to each other. The secrets will be revealed at the end of the year if they haven't kept their resolutions.
It's perfect. Except…
Georgie's secret is BIG... and revealing it could destroy their friendships....
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Can love blossom in times of trouble?
Life-long friends Louisa, Jeannie and Kate are following in the footsteps of their families, working at the Clarks shoe factory.
But when Britain declares war on Germany, the Somerset village of Street is shaken to its core. The Clarks factory is at the heart of life in the village, but the Clark family are Quakers and pacifists. Before long, there are fierce debates amongst the workers and tensions between...
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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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Her fresh start is just beginning. But the world is on the brink of war.
England, 1939. Lily Baker wants more from life. Working at the local cinema, she saves her pennies so she can have a chance to get ahead. After she's attacked one night while locking up the cinema, she loses her heart to her dashing rescuer…
But this lovely man is as different from her as can be. When the town is divided, pitting the wealthy elite against the poor working...
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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...
100) Kingsley
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Kingsley Lynch fell to her death from a seven-story, downtown rooftop garden. Was it an accident, suicide, or was she pushed? The two detectives assigned to the case decided she jumped. Her husband, an influential city councilor disagrees, and six weeks later Kate Gazzara is assigned to reinvestigate. Two days later, Clarissa Madill falls from a ten-story balcony. Coincidence? Kate doesn't think so, but if not, what's the connection? As the body...
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