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This is a short story. On a sunny day, I sit on a terrace and order a fantastic Knickerbocker Glory sundae. Next to me, at two tables, were six young women. They are lawyers from the same academic year. Cheerful stuff. Just like every year, they want to do their birthday differently next year. This time, Belgian Lisa comes with a concrete proposal. They will hire a private chef for a special dish that she likes. If Lisa reveals a tip of the veil,...
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Doctor Richard Schmidt forms a "Generic Therapy Group". All the good Doctor hopes to do is tip the scales of hate and chaos toward the side of love, mercy and forgiveness. When these characters meet, angels and devils are difficult to tell apart. With each comes a collection of friends, family and plots that confirm California is indeed the fated "Land of Fruits and Nuts".
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Thirteen-year-old Alice Truelove can't take another day of her father's cruelty.
Better a life on the streets than being constantly blamed for her mother's sad death, or that's what Alice thinks as she packs up her meagre possessions. But fending for herself in the Black Country town of Wednesbury is not as easy as she expected, and it soon hits her that without help she will quickly be hungry and cold.
Bertram Jordan, or BJ to his friends, became...
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My Dear Bottle, David G Maillu's fourth publication originally published in 1975, is a sharp social criticism delivered in random reflections, "songs" and lamentations. It is told by a frustrated city dweller who seeks solace in drinking in the newly socially deformed independent Kenya
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PRE-ORDER NOW - A GLORIOUS SHERLOCK HOLMES-INSPIRED MYSTERY FOR FANS OF NITA PROSE AND JANICE HALLETT
London, 1932.
When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street building society where she works, she finds herself demoted to a new position… a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street's most famous...
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From the depths of Mumbai's slums, a boy named Arjun dared to dream. He wouldn't just survive; he would rise. Cunning would be his weapon, the city's corrupt heart his battlefield. He vowed to shatter the old order, to become the master, not the pawn.Yet, the path to power is paved with ambition's ashes. Alliances twist and betrayals bloom amidst the chaos. Arjun's enemies multiply: ruthless gangsters, the remnants of a shattered Syndicate, and a...
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Turning thirty and rotting in prison. PRISON. As time chases her freedom, Prudence, a social media influencer, is scraping toxic waste off her relationships and learning that certain residue will always remain. Set against an eclectic New York City backdrop, Prudence is joined by a cast of misfits and dreamers who know better but often do worse. Will these struggling young people discover a silver lining or two in the complex and formidable jungles...
8) 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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From the author of the New York Times bestseller As Nature Made Him comes a “clever and entertaining first novel.”-Elle
Despite a severe case of writer's block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that will permit him to escape from his life as a penniless stockboy in dirty and dangerous upper Manhattan bookstore. However, when his roommate is suddenly killed in a bicycle accident, Cal is suddenly the author of a page-turning autobiography....
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