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MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the internationally acclaimed MaddAddam trilogy is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future—from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning...
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Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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The Reverberator is a short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Macmillan's Magazine in 1888 and then as a book later the same year. Described by the leading web authority on Henry James as "a delightful Parisian bonbon," the comedy traces the complications that result when nasty but true stories about a Paris family get into the American scandal sheet of the novel's title.
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English
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A dying man plays matchmaker for his soon-to-be widow in this wry, evocative novel perfect for fans of P.S. I Love You.
"Promise me you will laugh every day. Fight every day. Do you know how beautiful you look when you're angry? Promise me you'll learn to cuss, learn to love again. Live again. Promise me you won't give up on each other."
Simi Desai is thirty years-old, and her husband is dying of cancer. He has two last wishes in his final months:...
5) Last friends
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Series
Old Filth trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The marriage of Edward Feathers and Betty as seen through the eyes of Edwards friend and Betty's lover Terry Veneering.
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The Brown sisters volume 2
Language
English
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A young woman who agrees to fake-date her friend after a video of him “rescuing” her from their office building goes viral.
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English
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When an old photograph of her and her childhood best friend, Julie, is used as the cover of a high-profile magazine, successful lawyer Mikaela Marchand, brought on to defend the magazine when Julie sues, must confront her past--and her unresolved feelingsfor the photographer.
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Winter Street Inn novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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While preparing for Christmas at the Winter Street Inn, Kelley Quinn and his family find the holiday season thrown into chaos when three of their exes show up.
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English
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"Clyde Griffiths was born poor and is poorly educated, but his prospects begin to improve when he is offered a job by a wealthy uncle who owns a shirt factory. Soon he achieves a managerial position, and despite being warned to stay away from the women he manages, he becomes involved with Roberta, a poor factory worker who falls in love with him. At the same time, he catches the eye of Sondra, the glamorous socialite daughter of another factory owner,...
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English
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A “masterful . . . brilliantly constructed novel” of love and chaos in 1950s Vietnam (Zadie Smith, The Guardian).
It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese...
It’s 1955 and British journalist Thomas Fowler has been in Vietnam for two years covering the insurgency against French colonial rule. But it’s not just a political tangle that’s kept him tethered to the country. There’s also his lover, Phuong, a young Vietnamese...
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Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Be careful who you invite into the bosom of your home — she may never leave...A novel from Fay Weldon, the writer who knows women better than they know themselves. Hattie has a difficult if loving partner, Martyn, an absentee mother, Lallie, and a cynical if attentive grandmother Frances. She tries to do the right and moral thing in a tricky world, and always has. But she now has a baby, Kitty, which makes true morality rather harder to achieve....
16) A killer stitch
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English
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The House of Lambspun has been bombarded for the holidays. In the midst of overflowing bins of sumptuous yarn, unexpected winter romance now buzzes, in chorus with the spindles of shy new spinning instructor Lucy Adair. But when a rancher is found dead in Bellevue Canyon, avid knitter and sometime-sleuth Kelly Flynn quickly puts these festive pastimes aside.
With his reputation for lovin' and leavin' the ladies of Fort Connor, it seems a little strange...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money,...
19) Ghost wood song
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English
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Inheriting her father's ability to summon ghosts from the grave through fiddle music, a gay teen reluctantly enlists the help of otherworldly witnesses to prove her brother's innocence in the wake of a murder charge.
20) Drowned
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Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
In the Swedish countryside during the summer, a woman becomes enamored with her older sister's husband, a charming-yet-violent writer.
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