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2) The break
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Amy's husband Hugh says he isn't leaving her. He still loves her, he's just taking a break - from their marriage, their children and, most of all, from their life together. Six months to lose himself in South East Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do about it. Yes, it's a mid-life crisis, but let's be clear: a break isn't a break up - yet. However, for Amy it's enough to send her - along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers...
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2019.
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Jenna Boltz is at a crossroads. She's spent the last twenty years raising two children on her own. But now as they start to embark on their own lives, Jenna can't help but wonder what her future holds. Will she find the kind of love she's always yearned for? Enter Dr Rowan Lancaster, who saves the day when Jenna's elderly mother suffers an accident. Though he keeps to himself, he is immediately smitten with Jenna. Jenna on the other hand, is determined...
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Cornerstone Digital
Pub. Date
2019
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IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO FALL IN LOVE... Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She?s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it's time to make a change and do something different for a while? The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some years previously and who she has always thought of as her ?one who got away?, is of course...
5) Higher Ed
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Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2015
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Francine would prefer to be thinner, but is happy enough to suffer her boss' manhandling of her ample hips if it helps her survive the next cull in Quality Assurance. She just wishes she could get the dead biker's crushed face out of her mind's eye. Robin is having a baby with the wrong woman, wishes he were with the perfect Polish waitress instead, leans hard on Deleuze for understanding, and wonders if his work in film will continue to be valued...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Caroline Shelby has come home to Oysterville. And in the backseat of Caroline's car are two children who were orphaned in a single chilling moment-five-year-old Addie and six-year-old Flick. She's now their legal guardian - a role she's not sure she's ready for. But Oysterville has changed. Her siblings have their own complicated lives and her aging parents are hoping to pass on their thriving restaurant to the next generation. And there's Will Jensen,...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Cassandra Leigh has woken as if from a bad dream: forty-four, childless and twenty-plus years into an affair with a married man. Max assures her they just need a little more patience and for his wife to die but Cass is desperate for a baby and running out of time. Maybe Max is not the only man for her? There's her friend Jason - though he's perhaps a little too rugged, and there's something strange about the way his wife disappeared. Or there's Dante,...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Ruth Jones makes her debut with a witty and wise story of life's second chances and the dangers of taking them. With her trademark warmth, humanity and heart, she shows us the dangers of looking for something better, and forgetting that the best might not be in our past or yet to come - but right where we are now.
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Pub. Date
2019
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Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in her superhero-themed notebook. And yet, sometimes it feels like she's invisible. All of that changes when a book of fairy tales arrives on her doorstep. Inside, Martha finds a dedication written to her by her best friend - her grandmother Zelda - who died under mysterious circumstances...
11) The starless sea
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Pub. Date
2019.
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Are you lost or are you exploring? When Zachary Rawlins stumbles across a strange book hidden in his university library it leads him on a quest unlike any other. Its pages entrance him with their tales of lovelorn prisoners, lost cities and nameless acolytes, but they also contain something impossible: a recollection from his own childhood. Determined to solve the puzzle of the book, Zachary follows the clues he finds on the cover - a bee, a key and...
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2020.
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When Vittoria Devine and Lily Power find themselves sitting next to each other on a flight to New York, they discover they both have men in their lives whose impact has been devastating. Lily's family life is in turmoil, her brother cheated out of his business and left on the brink of ruin. Vittoria's philandering husband has gotten his mistress pregnant, well, one of his mistresses at least. By the time they land, Vittoria and Lily have realised...
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A tiny figure stands at the cliff edge, hair flying in the breeze. Grania Ryan is hypnotised by the enchanting vision, unaware this young girl - Aurora Lisle - will change her life in countless ways. As their paths begin to entwine, Grania's mother becomes deeply troubled as her family's past seems set to repeat its sorrows.
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The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels volume 10
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The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where to her both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new...
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2017
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Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. Ok, so the real truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers. But one day her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. Forced to move back home to Somerset, Katie has to restart...
16) This is me
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Aria
Pub. Date
2019
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This is... Denise. Married to Ray, her first and only love, Denise has never for one moment regretted putting the husband she idolised on a pedestal above everyone and everything else. But, after forty years of marriage, he is gone, leaving Denise to discover that their perfect marriage was fatally flawed. Now she faces a future alone, but first she must face the betrayals of the past. This is... Claire. The estranged daughter of Denise, the woman...
17) Mail-order bride
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
2016
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Now available for the first time as an eBook, Debbie Macomber?s irresistible novel puts a modern spin on an old-fashioned way of finding ?the one.? After Caroline Myers gets her heart broken, her beloved great-aunts send her on a spur-of-the-moment northern adventure, equipped with little more than a batch of their special spiked tea. But soon after hopping a plane to Gold River, Alaska, a still loopy Caroline takes part in an odd ceremony...
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Highland Hearts volume 4
Publisher
Loveswept
Pub. Date
2016
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In this scintillating novel from the author of My Tempting Highlander (?Another exciting and heartwarming time-travel romance.?-Vonnie Davis), the ladies? man of Loch Ness meets a hot-tempered lass who sets his heart aflame. Though part of a legacy of time-traveling sisters, Lilia Sinclair is planted firmly in twenty-first-century Edinburgh. Her granny?s matchmaking with thirteenth-century Highlanders isn?t about to lure her into the past,...
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2014
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From Sunday Times bestselling author, Freda Lightfoot. Trapped in a small town resistant to change, Bette can?t resist handsome GI, Chad. But when reality draws in, Bette realises that their love was based on empty promises? Meanwhile Bette?s sister Sarah, is tormented by her possessive husband, but even his jealous attempts to keep her out of temptation can't prevent Sarah falling for officer Charlie.Caught in the very worst of times with the turmoil...
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Ballantine
Pub. Date
2016
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In Debbie Macomber?s heart-wrenching novel, now available for the first time as an eBook, two wounded hearts give in to the healing power of love-and learn to trust again. Letty Ellison left her small town and her high-school sweetheart behind to chase her dreams-but music never worked out. When she returns nine years later, nothing?s changed in Red Springs, Wyoming, except for her. Letty?s a little more humble, she?s a single mom to a beautiful...