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1) The break
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
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...
4) Higher Ed
Author
Publisher
Scribe
Pub. Date
2015
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. From Shakespeare's England to jazz age Paris and voyaging the Pacific, Tom has seen a lot, and now craves an ordinary life. Always changing his identity to stay alive, Tom now has the perfect cover - working as a history teacher at a London school. Here, he can teach the kids about wars and...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Romance
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In ?The Girl with Airs,? Lord Dunvegan-Laird Geordie to his friends-attempts to persuade bluestocking Caroline Woolcott to give his besotted, tongue-tied friend Sir Archibald Halford a chance to win her hand in marriage. A Scotsman banished to England to cultivate a more genteel manner, Geordie has yet to meet a female who tempts him to settle down. It certainly isn?t the headstrong lass who wants nothing to do with Archie-or Geordie. But then Geordie?s...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
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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Description
I'm Johanna Morrigan, and I live in London in 1995, at the epicentre of Britpop. I might only be 19, but I'm wise enough to know that everyone around me is handling fame very, very badly. My unrequited love, John Kite, has scored an unexpected Number One album, then exploded into a Booze And Drugs Hell - as rockstars do. And my new best friend - the maverick feminist Suzanne Banks, of The Branks - has amazing hair, but writer's block and a rampant...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
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Description
"A fragrant French bonbon of a book: love, glamour, perfume, and paparazzi all circling around the wedding of the century..."--Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of THE ALICE NETWORK and THE HUNTRESS. Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly?s whirlwind romance and unforgettable wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco, New York Times bestselling author Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb take the reader on an evocative sun-drenched journey...
11) Ugly love
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Appears on list
Description
When Tate Collins finds airline pilot Miles Archer passed out in front of her apartment door, it is definitely not love at first sight. They wouldn't even go so far as to consider themselves friends. But what they do have is an undeniable mutual attraction. He doesn't want love and she doesn't have time for a relationship, but their chemistry cannot be ignored. Once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set-up, as long...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Japan, 1957. Seventeen-year-old Naoko Nakamura's prearranged marriage to the son of her father's business associate would secure her family's status in their traditional Japanese community, but Naoko has fallen for another man - an American sailor, a gaijin - and to marry him would bring great shame upon her entire family. When it's learned Naoko carries the sailor's child, she's cast out in disgrace and forced to make unimaginable choices with consequences...
13) The dawn chorus
Author
Series
The House of Birds and Butterflies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Description
A gorgeous new romantic series from the bestselling author of The Canal Boat Cafe. Abby Field is living the dream. As events coordinator at the Meadowsweet nature reserve on the idyllic Suffolk coast, every day is an adventure with the birds and the butterflies, and she couldn?t feel more at home. When another local nature reserve is chosen as the hot location for a new television series, however, Meadowsweet looks set for seasonal hibernation - unless...
14) Exit west
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Description
In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, Saeed and Nadia share a cup of coffee, and their story begins. It will be a love story but also a story about war and a world in crisis, about how we live now and how we might live tomorrow. Before too long, the time will come for Nadia and Saeed to leave their homeland. When the streets are no longer useable and all options are exhausted, this young couple...
15) This is me
Author
Publisher
Aria
Pub. Date
2019
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Robin Brennan has come home to Campion Bay. Now her parents have retired, she?s set to become the new landlady of The Campion Bay Guesthouse. Bookings have been as thin as the hand towels, and it doesn?t take long for Robin to realise that the place needs a serious makeover. Perhaps throwing herself into the task will help to heal her sadness at the tragic end to her dreams in London. As she gives the guesthouse a new lease of life, Robin encounters...
Author
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
2015
Description
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...
Author
Series
Highland Hearts volume 4
Publisher
Loveswept
Pub. Date
2016
Description
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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Series
Publisher
Debbie Macomber, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Debbie Macomber?s signature charm shines in this classic novel about a young woman whose encounter with true love is twisted by a heartbreaking dilemma. With only seven days to unwind in the sun-drenched splendor of Mexico, Carla Walker isn?t expecting to find ?Mr. Right.? Then she meets Philip Garrison, and all her plans for a casual vacation fling melt away. But when Carla finds out that Philip is a cop-just like her father-she?s devastated. She?d...
20) Mail-order bride
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Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2016
Appears on list
Description
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...