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1) Recitatif
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Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2022
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Twyla and Roberta have known each other since they were eight years old, when they were thrown together as roommates in a girls' shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only to meet again later at a diner, a grocery store and then at a protest. The two women are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem but, despite their conflict, the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them is undeniable. Recitatif keeps...
2) Who they was
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2020
Description
An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the university where he is studying English Literature and the disregarded world of London gang warfare. The unforgettable narrator of this compelling, thought-provoking debut goes by two names in his two worlds. At the university he attends, he?s Gabriel, a seemingly ordinary, partying student learning about morality at a distance. But in his life outside the...
3) Low Chicago
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Series
Wild Cards volume 25
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The return of the famous shared-world superhero books created and edited by George R.R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and FireFor decades, George R.R. Martin - bestselling author of A Song of Ice and Fire - has collaborated with an ever-shifting ensemble of science fiction and fantasy icons to create the amazing Wild Cards universe.In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth?s population was devastated by a terrifying alien virus. Those who survived...
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Resonant duology volume 1
Publisher
Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
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When a group of outcasts with extraordinary abilities comes out of hiding, their clash with a violent society will spark a revolution--or an apocalypse. Avi Hirsch has always known his daughter was different. But when others with incredible, otherworldly gifts reveal themselves to the world, Avi realizes that her oddness is something more--that she is something more. With this, he has a terrifying revelation: Emmeline is now entering a society where...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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The newest novel from the New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs which explores the meaning of happiness, trust, and faith in oneself.Heartbroken Natalie Harper inherits her mother?s charming, cash-strapped bookshop and finds herself the carer for her ailing grandfather Andrew. She thinks it?s best to move him to an assisted-living home to ensure his care, but to pay for it, Natalie will have to sell up the bookshop. However, Grandpa Andrew...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2020
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Brought to you by Penguin. It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chip shop. A teenage boy is stabbed and left bleeding on the street. The boy's motherwonders how this could have happened to her son. She is full of questions, but when the answers lie so close to home, are they really what she wants to hear? â™ Bernadine Evaristo 2010 (P) Penguin Audio 2020.
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Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2024
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From the author of The Change, comes a novel about book banning and those brave enough to stand up against this censorship. In Troy, Georgia, Lula Dean has decided to cleanse the town's reading habits. All banned books have been removed from public spaces, and the townspeople are only allowed to read books Lula has deemed 'appropriate'. But a small group refuse to be told what they can and can't read. The revolution is coming ...
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Publisher
Pan
Pub. Date
2024
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A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can?t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He?s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen,...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
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Living in happy solitude with his cat Isaac Mewton in the Devon village of Millbrook, entertained by his mischievous chickens and goats, Robert has never figured out the rules of romance. But as the local ladies vie for his company, it soon becomes clear that Robert?s Victoria Sponge cake is the lure, and as his baking prowess grows, so does his confidence. Cheesecakes, meringues, puddings, Robert can do it all, but his real masterpieces are his scones...
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Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2020
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In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
11) The vow
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2020
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Two weeks before her wedding, a stranger stops Amy in the street and warns her she's in danger. Then that night, Matt, her fiance, doesn't come home. Desperate, Amy calls the police - but when Matt fails to emerge, she's forced to call off her wedding day. Then another man is reported missing, by a woman called Fiona - a man meeting Matt's description, who was about to leave his fiance for her. He was supposed to be moving in with her - but instead,...
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Series
Dream Harbor volume 1
Publisher
One More Chapter
Pub. Date
2023
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A brand new grumpy/sunshine cozy romantic mystery to curl up with this Fall. When Jeanie?s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Caf ÌŒin the small town of Dream Harbour, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job. Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbour?s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie?s arrival disrupts Logan?s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he...
14) Neighbours
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Pub. Date
2021
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Neighbours, by the world's favourite storyteller Danielle Steel, is a novel of friendship, support, trust and love, and what it takes to bring people together. Sometimes a crisis can bring people together . . . Meredith White was one of Hollywood's most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her career short and alienated her from her family. For the last fifteen years, Meredith has shut herself away from the world, living in her San Francisco...
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Series
Dog and Duck volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
?Just the loveliest place to cosy up and escape to.' Beth Moran Life in Little Leyton is never quiet, and when handsome developer Max and his bride-to-be Ellie receive some sad news, he decides to whisk her away for a romantic break. The time away gives Ellie a new perspective, and she's eager to get home to get on with planning their wedding. But a devastating incident at the pub she runs, the Dog & Duck, puts everything in jeopardy. And at their...
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Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Description
As romantic and creative sparks begin to fly, Frankie and Zeke make an unsigned poster that becomes unforgettable to anyone who sees it. Copies of their work are everywhere in town, and rumours start to fly about who might be behind the ubiquitous posters: Satanists? Kidnappers? Soon, the mystery has dangerous repercussions that spread further afield, and the art that brought Frankie and Zeke together now threatens to tear them apart. Twenty years...
17) A class act
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Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Robyn Allen is finally getting closer to her dream of West End stardom. And along with her role dancing in the latest hot musical, she?s being wined and dined by an equally hot man - the wildly successful and well-connected Fabian Carrington. But one slip up and her dreams are shattered, and Robyn has to hobble back to the Yorkshire village of Beddingfield, and the life she hoped she?d escaped. Moving back into her mum?s house with her recalcitrant...
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Series
Publisher
JABberwocky Literary Agency, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world....
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners.Florence doesn?t care about the gossips - she?s drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains and now Florence...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word. Her life is a reflection of herself - impossibly perfect. Until the day that Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into the village. Into...