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Construction engineer Bartley Alexander is a troubled, middle-aged man torn between Winifred, his American wife - a cold woman with clearly defined standards - and Hilda Burgoyne - an alluring mistress in London who has helped him recapture his youth and sense of freedom. Alexander's relationship with Hilda gnaws away at his sense of propriety and honor and eventually proves disastrous. (He is with Hilda when a messenger, unable to find him, fails...
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Catherine Pine is hoping her Christmas is a bit more jolly than last year's. That one was her first without her husband, and with her kids and their families absent this year and potential health issues on the horizon, she's worried. But things change when her good friend invites her on a Christmas cruise to lift her spirits. Suddenly every day is an adventure and she's making a bunch of new friends, including the lovable Sophie Miles.
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'Fabulous to read…It's about a girls' weekend with characters in their 60s and determined to have a good time' Woman & Home 'A laugh out loud, naughty, enlightening heart-warming story about friendship and discovery' Yours Magazine A weekend at the spa will leave four old friends with a whole lot more than they'd bargained for… The glossy brochure promised a serene experience of total tranquillity and rejuvenation, but what best friends Bridgette,...
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Alex, a divorced man in his mid-fifties, announces that he is escaping the stress and losses of his life by meeting with three women of his youth out of curiosity-but is that the real reason?Seeking escape from work fatigue and a loveless life, mid-fifties Alex sets out on an adventure to reconnect with three women of his past, telling his incredulous daughters he's satisfying curiosity, not on a quest to reignite romance. He locates and arranges...
5) Rhia's Walk
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Rhia, a reclusive artist, has been on a solitary walk for over twenty years. When fate brings a young girl running from abuse across her path, she takes her in. Setting aside her own heartaches, she nurture's her protégé to give her the skills to find the life she deserves. Can she in turn, learn to live and put aside her past? Or, will she ever remain a prisoner inside her 'box of paints' till the walks end.
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Ah, the golden years. Retirement--no longer chained to an alarm clock, free to travel, enjoy life at a leisurely pace. Minerva Gardiner, a socialite, suddenly finds herself a widow when her investment broker husband falls over and dies on the golf course. Minnie has never managed money or a budget, or held a job; and now she must navigate through insurance agents, mortgage bankers, and lawyers. All to no avail, for her husband of forty years has spent...
7) Smoke
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A stolen glance across a darkened restaurant. A kiss under the Italian moon. A proposition I never would have made in my former life. Our story began just like all fairy tales do... Once upon a time. Once upon a time, a mysterious, passionate man opened my eyes to things I'd been blind to. My heart to feelings I never thought imaginable. My mind to endless possibilities. Once upon a time, I experienced something I didn't think existed. Once upon a...
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Who is it we love and why do we love these people? Toward the end of her life, Judith asks these questions, trying to understand why she chose Elliot Pine to love. Why, for sixty years, did she persist in loving someone who never gave as much as he was given? In her quest for understanding, she writes her story to this exceptional man. Meeting as children in Chicago, they move to opposite coasts. Elliot embarks on a remarkable legal career in Washington...
9) The Secret Life of Albert Entwistle: An Uplifting and Unforgettable Story of Love and Second Chances
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"This rollicking romance entrapped me! True in its detail and its scope, it is amusing yet heart-breaking." —Ian McKellen
Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community,...
Perfect for fans of Fredrik Backman and TJ Klune, this humorous, life-affirming, and charmingly wise novel tells the story of how the forced retirement of a shy, closeted postman in northern England creates a second chance with his lost love, as he learns to embrace his true self, connect with his community,...
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He is 18 years old, extremely shy and practically a virgin. She is 36, a monumental body and a face that seems to have been carved by God himself... but she keeps a secret that she does not dare confess...
Can a relationship between a young man and a mature woman be love? Or simple obsession?
A couple meets just as they travel through life on opposite paths. An impossible love that produces an explosion of passion and eroticism. A romance based...
11) Next To You
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A witty, quirky and unexpectedly moving story about cinema, secrets and a complicated love affair.
A love of '70s bubblegum pop music isn't the only unusual thing about William Murphy — being a six—foot—three albino also makes a guy stand out. Will's life is simple and he likes it that way. But when he meets his new next—door neighbour, complicated begins to look rather attractive.
Caroline's trying to put her past behind her and grab life...
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Grey wants something different for Valentine's Day. He's hoping Amie gives him the opportunity to speak his heart. Will she hear him out? Amie is ready for her Valentine's Day to turn out differently. Grey is the one person she's thought about trying that with. Is she ready to trust him with her heart again? Can ex-lovers turned best friends recognize they're ready for a second chance together?
13) Time After Time
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Time after time, he rejects other women because they're not "her."Byron "Grievance" Grievson had a reputation for being the life of the party. But when an assessment flight brings out the worst in him, he hurts the one person he hungers for. Thinking he can make amends by asking for her forgiveness, he's ghosted as she vanishes into the night.Rosie "Duckie" Mallard wanted to believe she'd moved on in life, caring for her ill father and starting her...
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Can this rancher rope the woman in peril that he rescued? Amber:A year ago, having escaped my past and now living in this quaint town far, far away. Now, he's found me, and my new life is shattered. Finding myself in a dangerous situation, all seemed to be lost until my rancher came to the rescue. Now safely ensconced and guarded by him, I am finally starting to relax. Then, Axel, my bad-to-the-bone ex turns up again like a bad penny. Fletch:Happy...
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Luc Barbon felt like he was escaping from the reality of 1968. Retreating from his own dead-ends in the Ozarks and Dallas, and about to bury himself in another foxhole in East Texas. A place where the world evolved around a Dairy Queen. It just might be, he speculated, a safe spot to be for a while. What trouble could he possibly get into hidden among the Magnolias in the Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World.What lay ahead was a blank slate. He wondered...
16) A Talk with God
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Major Stone was a man of few words who made good money, want for nothing, and kept to himself. But life has a way of drawing an introvert out of his shell through his needs, desires, and longings: the need to have friends and be friendly, a desire to socialize and be social, and a longing to love and be loved. Yet, of the entire world's grandeur, and in the entire Heavenly splendor were to him an ambiguous illusion until he fell in love. And now the...
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What's the fun when you don't bet to win?
Single mom Melanie Hayes should absolutely, completely, and totally not be attracted to her next door neighbor. Nick Campagna can be her friend, her secret crush, or just the arrogant -and unavoidably handsome-jerk next door, but nothing more. Because, even though it was a million years ago, he's also her sister's ex. And now, with Lakeside's Battle of the Businesses in full swing, Nick's also Melanie's...
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When it comes down to it, rats in the oven trumps Lesley's desire to never set eyes on another Brennan family member. So Lesley, a pro at property redevelopment, scrambles to Dominic Brennan's hardware store for supplies. Dominic knows poison – rat and otherwise – and he sees it in Lesley. The woman ruined his brother's life. Now that she's back in town, Dominic's afraid she'll drag up the past, the secrets, and the pain. They clash immediately,...
19) Circle the Stars
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They were once in love, but this time, it's war... CEO heiress Reese Star-Hunter is a fighter. She's spent her life trying to earn the respect of everyone who thinks a woman can't take charge of her family's multibillion-dollar fortune. With the fallout from the sudden death of the Star family patriarch, she finds herself not only in charge but cleaning up the mess left by the parents and grandparents she trusted. That included making amends to her...
20) Woman Inside
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A second chance Alaska romance.Trudy worked full time and a major side hustle to get enough money for her own slice of the American dream, land. Not just a box she slapped money down on, but acreage. Only problem, it's in interior Alaska, where the temperature can fall below minus 25. Her next-door neighbor doesn't think this cheechako will make it without a man. Trudy has no choice, there is no backup plan.Deak has problems of his own. His wife died...
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