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S&S/Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"In the quaint religious town of Seagate, abstaining from food brings one closer to God. But Beatrice Bolano is hungry. She craves the forbidden: butter, flambé, marzipan. As Seagate takes increasingly extreme measures to regulate every calorie its citizens consume, Beatrice must make a choice: give up her secret passion for cooking or leave the only community she has known. Elsewhere, Reiko Rimando has left her modest roots for a college tech scholarship...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself 'death,' but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for 'the Beautiful Butcher' who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
3) Black wolf
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But she is unwilling to move past the last case, convinced it's related to a personal tragedy, until a series of deadly events pulls her back in. In southern...
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'A lovely sunshiney story, bursting with wit and joy' – Bestselling author MILLY JOHNSON The brand-new summery rom com from Bella Osborne, full of laughter, love and life's twists and turns! This is the first part of a new feel-good romantic comedy, published as a four-part serialised novel. One ambitious businesswoman. One irresponsible heir. A deal that will turn both their lives upside down… To save her business, All Things Crafty, Nancy is...
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'A thoroughly heart-warming enjoyable read!!!' Reader review, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Escape to Mermaid Cove, where pirates once roamed in underground coves and smugglers hid their treasure troves… Like everyone raised in the magical seaside town of Mermaid Cove, the ocean was a huge part of Rose Barros' life. She lived to the rhythm of the tides until a near-death experience changed her love for the water to a soul-deep terror, driving a wedge between...
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One little word. One bad habit. One year to stop saying sorry. What happens when one woman resolves to 'break up' with saying sorry? Charlotte Thomas is polite. Manners cost nothing, her mother always said … yet there's a fine line between diplomat and doormat. But every woman has their breaking point and Charlotte has just found hers. It wasn't because she said sorry to her boss for challenging his terrible idea for a staff social, or because she...
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Everyman's library volume 12
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Duke Classics
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English
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Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is William Thackeray's celebrated satirical novel of 19th century British society. Vanity Fair follows the rags-to-riches tale of the captivating and ruthless Becky Sharpe as she navigates her way through London society with fearsome determination and ambition.
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If the man you love went missing, how far would you go to find him?
Someone is watching Piper, and she thinks she knows who it is: the bushman. But there’s more than one danger lurking in this temperate rainforest. Poachers are taking down old growth trees and jeopardizing plans for a park, a project Piper is passionate about. When she pressures her husband, Ben, a natural resources officer, to identify the culprits, he takes his drone into the...
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"Después de un asado familiar, a la hora viscosa de la siesta, una chica y su novio se escapan para ir a un telo. Después del sexo se miran en el techo espejado sobre la cama y se ven como un matrimonio anciano. De a ratos, usan un desgano prehistórico, el mismo con el que pasan las fotos de un álbum en Facebook. Él le cuenta cómo su padre lo abofeteó: primero así, después así y de nuevo así, la mímica de un golpe humillante que se describe...
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After hours…
To medical transcriber Cynthia Markum, Dr. Sean Donovan is just a voice-a deliciously sexy one-in her earpiece…until he asks to meet in person. She's nervous and excited, but it's crazy to have feelings for a man she's never laid eyes on, right? Besides, he's her employer!
Stunning Cynthia couldn't be further from the woman Sean imagined her to be, and their attraction is mutual and instantaneous. Neither are ready for a relationship,...
11) Champagne Widows
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English
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Champagne, France, 1800. Twenty-year-old Barbe-Nicole inherited Le Nez (an uncanny sense of smell) from her great-grandfather, a renowned champagne maker. Determined to use Le Nez to make great champagne, she learns her childhood sweetheart, François Clicquot, wants to start a winery and marries him despite his mental illness.
Her husband's tragic death forces her to become Veuve (Widow) Clicquot and grapple with a domineering partner, the complexities...
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Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1997, a mysterious inheritance sees a young woman from London uncovering buried secrets in her late mother's homeland in this captivating, wry debut about family, identity, and the price of belonging.
Hong Kong, 1966. Sook-Yin is exiled from Kowloon to London with orders to restore honor to her family. But as she trains to become a nurse in cold and...
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'Unputdownable… A perfect summer holiday read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reader Review Sparkling sun, strolls in the gorgeous French countryside, that first sip of cool, crisp wine – Summer is Kat's favourite season. And this year should be no exception… 'Fun, emotional and packed with French sunshine. I adored it!' – Sunday Times bestselling author Milly Johnson As soon as Kat Jenson set foot in the idyllic French village of Kirchhoffen, she knew she'd...
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English
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Combining the honesty, warmth, and humor of Queenie and a modern-day Bridget Jones's Diary, this entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel from award-winning writer Breanne Mc Ivor follows a young Trinidadian woman finding her voice and a new kind of happy ending.
"Phenomenal! A book worthy of a standing ovation. I will never forget how this novel made me feel. It's effortlessly beautiful."-Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, author of Yinka, Where...
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Lucia Stanton tiene dieciséis años, una inteligencia explosiva, a su madre internada en un manicomio, un Zippo que atesora porque le recuerda a su papá y algunas ideas muy claras acerca de cómo debería funcionar el mundo. Vive en un garaje con su tía, una vieja anarquista con la que comparte algunas reglas esenciales. Para Lucia, la más importante es: "No hagas cosas de las que no te sientas orgullosa". Luego de ser expulsada por haberle clavado...
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Español
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Tras sufrir un aborto, Ada, una joven profesora de danza que vive condicionada por los fantasmas de su pasado, se sumerge en una profunda crisis personal que desemboca en un punto de inflexión en su vida.
Con el apoyo incondicional de su padre y de su mejor amiga, decide iniciar una terapia psicológica en la que hará frente a las devastadoras secuelas que arrastra desde su infancia. En este proceso intentará superar las barreras que le impiden...
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"Acclaimed historical novelist Vanessa Riley is back with another novel based on the life of an extraordinary Black woman from history: Haiti's Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid, who escaped a coup in Haiti to set up her own royal court in Italy during the Regency era, where she became a popular member of royal European society"--
1810. Marie-Louise Christophe is crowned queen as her husband, Henry I, rules over the newly liberated Kingdom of Hayti in...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"In 1999, Nancy Hopkins, a noted molecular geneticist and cancer researcher at MIT, found herself underpaid and denied the credit and resources given to men of lesser rank. Galvanized by the flagrant favoritism, Hopkins led a group of sixteen women on the faculty in a campaign that prompted MIT to make the historic admission that it had long discriminated against female scientists. The MIT sixteen were formidable in their respective fields: their...
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Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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“Thou shalt not steal is indeed the moral in this light-as-a-bubble comic caper” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author (People).
Appraising rare coins for Grandby & Sons, a venerable Madison Avenue auction house, is a dream come true for Mary Lou Bateson. She even gets a chance to inspect the Havistock Collection of priceless coins, which includes the Demaretion, a rare, ancient Greek silver piece....
Appraising rare coins for Grandby & Sons, a venerable Madison Avenue auction house, is a dream come true for Mary Lou Bateson. She even gets a chance to inspect the Havistock Collection of priceless coins, which includes the Demaretion, a rare, ancient Greek silver piece....
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English
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If clothes can get a second chance, why can't we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound up in even the most everyday items, The Second Chance Store is a tale of friendship, loss, and dusting yourself off and starting over-a novel filled with humor and a testament to the enduring power and joy of charity shops.
City dweller Gwen feels like she's living a secondhand life. She's thirty-eight, perpetually single, and in dire need of a dentist's...
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