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Death Rocks by L.J. Ross
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsTHERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE... When the body of a talented photographer is found on the rocks beneath the ruins of Dunstanburgh Castle, DCI Ryan and his team of detectives immediately suspect the worst. But, since none of their potential suspects seems to have a motive, the case runs cold... -
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The Prada Plan by Ashley Antoinette
Disaya Morgan, a character first introduced in Girls from Da Hood 4, returns in this gritty tale of a money-hungry woman who finds her life spinning out of control. When Disaya meets Indie and falls hopelessly in love, she is determined to keep her lifestyle a secretbut everything done in the dark eventually comes to light... -
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![Sweat and Soap, Vol. 11 by Kintetsu Yamada]()
Sweat and Soap, Vol. 11 by Kintetsu Yamada
WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGINGThe ceremony is just around the corner, but there’s still a lot to be done: finalizing the guest list, sending out invitations, picking out wedding favors, figuring out flower arrangements… The tasks are endless and exhausting... -
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Clem by Cee Bowerman
Join Cee Bowerman and the Texas Kings family for the last installment in the Texas Kings MC series. Clem Forrester is the funny brother. The prankster. The one you call when you need help. The last single man in his club... -
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![あせとせっけん 11 [Ase to sekken 11] by Kintetsu Yamada, 山田金鉄]()
あせとせっけん 11 [Ase to sekken 11] by Kintetsu Yamada, 山田金鉄
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsWEDDING BELLS ARE RINGINGThe ceremony is just around the corner, but there’s still a lot to be done: finalizing the guest list, sending out invitations, picking out wedding favors, figuring out flower arrangements… The tasks are endless and exhausting... -
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Bitch by Deja King
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsPrecious Cummings came from nothing but was determined to have it all. Using her most deadly weapons - undeniable beauty, body and street savvy brains, Precious sets out to change the cards that she'd been dealt. After meeting Nico Carter, a man who can help her achieve her goals, virtually overnight she is on her way... -
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Therapy Game, Vol. 2 by Meguru Hinohara, 日ノ原 巡
Shizuma finds out about Minato’s plan—and subsequent wager—to seduce and then dump him. But when he rushes to Minato's apartment, an unknown man opens the door! Meanwhile, Minato is stuck wavering between his ever-deepening feelings for Shizuma and his deep-seated fear of falling in love... -
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Queen Bitch by Deja King
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn Queen Bitch, Precious has lost it all, her daughter, Aaliyah, the love of her life, Supreme, and the luxurious lifestyle she s grown accustomed to. The perpetrator of her demise is the very person she called family Maya. Precious learns the hard way, it s true what they say, blood is thicker than water, as Maya aligns herself with her brother, Pretty Boy Mike... -
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The Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante, Ann Goldstein
Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsIn one volume, the New York Times–bestselling epic about hardship and female friendship in postwar Naples that has sold over five million copies. Beginning with My Brilliant Friend, the four Neapolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante follow Elena and Lila, from their rough-edged upbringing in Naples, Italy, not long after WWII, through the many stages of their lives—and along paths that diverge wildly... -
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Sweat and Soap, Vol. 3 by Kintetsu Yamada
The office romance between the quiet and sweet accountant Asako, who's spent her life ashamed of how much she sweats, and rising star of the bath and toiletry world Kotaro got off to a fast and steamy start! Kotaro's status at the company has made her wary of revealing their relationship to their colleagues at Liliadrop, and she's stumbled into the discovery that Kotaro has been mentoring an... -
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Sweat and Soap, Vol. 3 by Kintetsu Yamada
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsThe office romance between the quiet and sweet accountant Asako, who's spent her life ashamed of how much she sweats, and rising star of the bath and toiletry world Kotaro got off to a fast and steamy start! Kotaro's status at the company has made her wary of revealing their relationship to their colleagues at Liliadrop, and she's stumbled into the discovery that Kotaro has been mentoring an... -
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Sweat and Soap, Vol. 9 by Kintetsu Yamada
COME WHAT MAY Now that Kotaro and Asako have gotten used to living together, they’ve started to think about what their future holds. It’s an exciting—and somewhat terrifying—prospect, one made all the more difficult when the haunting reappearance of a ghost from Asako’s past threatens their happily ever after.. -
![When You Dance by Monica Walters]()
When You Dance by Monica Walters
Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe way she moves keeps me in a trance. Her body calls out to mine without making a sound. It speaks my desires in a language I perfectly understand, and it tells me that it’s mine.Jamel Dent doesn’t know which way is up once Obsession graces his sights. The hypnosis she puts him under nearly every weekend is one that’s hard for Jamel to shake. However, he doesn’t want to shake it... -
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The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsSpanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911 to the present day . . -
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Force of Nature by Monica Walters
Rated: 4.81 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA man of few words is sometimes a man to fear. Ali Joseph proves that theory to be correct. He keeps his traumatic past under wraps and only trusts a few people, Shyrón Berotte being one of them. He’s been living amidst the turmoil for so long he’s finally reaching his breaking point... -
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Sweat and Soap, Vol. 4 by Kintetsu Yamada
Natori and Asako are back from their first trip together, a romantic getaway to Hokkaido. But when Asako returns to the office, her anxiety comes back, too, because it’s time to let their secret out and reveal their relationship to their coworkers. Natori sets up a lunch to introduce Asako to his teammates in product development... -
![The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai]()
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsSHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES Selection for BEST 10 BOOKS OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK A PICK FOR THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S 2018 BEST BOOKSTHE PERFECT HOLIDAY GIFT FOR READERS“A page turner...An absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis... -
![Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler]()
Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsBased around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies... -
![If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin]()
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 52 ratingsIn this honest and stunning novel, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin's story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned... -
![An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Sheila Heti]()
An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector, Sheila Heti
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhat to make of a writer who follows the metaphysical heights of her great Passion According to GH with a book that looks suspiciously like a romance novel?In The Apprenticeship, or The Book of Pleasures, Clarice Lispector tries to discover how to bridge the gap between people, or how to even begin to try... -
![A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute]()
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 50 ratingsJean Paget, a young Englishwoman living in Malaya, is captured by the invading Japanese and forced on a brutal seven-month death march with dozens of other women and children. A few years after the war, Jean is back in England, the nightmare behind her. However, an unexpected inheritance inspires her to return to Malaya to give something back to the villagers who saved her life... -
![I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew]()
I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsWhen Juliet Porter's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photograph which shatter all her previously-held beliefs. They show that her real father was an American bomber pilot in the second world war, some forty years before, and that he had met her mother while serving in England... -
![Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles]()
Murder at the Village Fete by Catherine Coles
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsDownton Abbey crossed with Murder, She Wrote...set in a Yorkshire village!Evelyn Christie, the new Lady Northmoor, is looking forward to hosting the local village fete in the grounds of Hessleham Hall... -
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Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsEscrevendo anonimamente sob o pseudônimo de Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie, conhecida mundialmente como a Rainha do Crime, deixa de lado a investigaçăo policial para explorar a alma humana, seus conflitos e emoçőes.Em "Ausęncia na primavera", Mary Westmacott conta a história de Joan Scudamore, uma típica dona de casa que está voltando do Oriente após fazer uma visita a sua filha em Bagdá... -
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![What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver]()
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 54 ratingsLibrarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9780679723059 In his second collection, including the iconic and much-referenced title story featured in the Academy Award-winning film Birdman, Carver establishes his reputation as one of the most celebrated short-story writers in American literature—a haunting meditation on love, loss, and companionship, and finding one’s way... -
![A Key To Many Doors by Emilie Loring]()
A Key To Many Doors by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNancy Jones--as beautiful as her name was plain--faced a life as spinster nurse to her hopelessly scarred brother until--impulsively--she entered into a strange, loveless marriage with diplomat artist Peter Gerard... -
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Howards End by E.M. Forster
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsFirst published in 1910, “Howards End” is E. M. Forster’s classic story regarding social conventions of different strata of English society at the end of the 19th century... -
![Broken April by Ismail Kadare]()
Broken April by Ismail Kadare
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsFrom the moment that Gjorg's brother is killed by a neighbour, his own life is forfeit: for the code of Kanun requires Gjorg to kill his brother's murderer and then in turn be hunted down. After shooting his brother's killer, young Gjorg is entitled to thirty days' grace - not enough to see out the month of April. Then a visiting honeymoon couple cross the path of the fugitive... -
![Hester on the Run by Linda Byler]()
Hester on the Run by Linda Byler
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe setting is the beginning of an Amish settlement in colonial America in the forests of eastern Pennsylvania. There, a young Amish couple, Hans and Kate Zug, are in their ninth year of marriage, still waiting to have a child. Then, one April morning, Kate finds a Native infant, wrapped in deerskin and placed next to the spring where she went to fill her water bucket... -
![A Gift in December by Jenny Gladwell]()
A Gift in December by Jenny Gladwell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCome back, one day. Come back to me, just once. Jane thought she would be alone this Christmas, but will a luxury trip to Norway mend her broken heart? A heart-warming, feel-good festive treat to curl up with this winter. Heartbroken by a failed romance, journalist Jane Brook is sent to Norway to cover the Queen of the Forest, the Christmas tree given to the people of London every winter... -
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Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIt is surely appropriate that anthropologists, who spend their time studying life and behavior in various societies, should be studied in their turn," says Barbara Pym. In a wonderful twist on her subjects, she has written a book inspecting the behavior of a group of anthropologists. She pits them against each other in affairs of the heart and mind.Academia is an especially rich backdrop... -
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An Unsuitable Attachment (Bello) by Barbara Pym
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSet in St Basil’s, an undistinguished North London parish, An Unsuitable Attachment is indeed full of the high comedy for which Barbara Pym is famed. There is Mark Ainger, the vicar, who introduces his sermons with remarks like ‘Those of you who are familiar with the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome... -
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One Man's Heart by Mary Burchell
Hilma and Buck had met by chance in circumstances of danger and embarrassment.Both of them believed that love was well lost for money, although they had no money and fell in love with each other. If they ran true to their beliefs, they would say goodbye and pursue their preordained courses... -
![The Vanishing Princess: Stories by Jenny Diski]()
The Vanishing Princess: Stories by Jenny Diski
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski—darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time< “Mordant and talon-sharp.” —Dwight Garner, New York Times, on Jenny Diski Description Jenny Diski’s prose is as sharp and steely as her imagination is wild and wondrous... -
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![Dawn of the Morning by Grace Livingston Hill]()
Dawn of the Morning by Grace Livingston Hill
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 11 ratings"Dawn of the Morning" is a novel that takes place in the early 1800s. It is a love story about Dawn Rensselaer, a runaway bride, who fled her husband after being tricked into marriage... -
![Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin]()
Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of twenty-seven. With no pretense of "courage", Olly grieves, coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family ties and trying to rethink her own life... -
![Fair Tomorrow by Emilie Loring]()
Fair Tomorrow by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith the sudden collapse of the world they knew, largely due to their father’s physical and financial crash, Pamela and her brother, Terrence, decide to move him to the cottage on Cape Cod . Pamela had been left the cottage by her grandmother … a wise woman who always had ‘Fair Tomorrow’ on the tip of her lips when needed... -
![Here Comes the Sun! (The Emilie Loring Romances) by Emilie Loring]()
Here Comes the Sun! (The Emilie Loring Romances) by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe last of the six Lorraine girls unmarried, daring golden-haired Julie has been summoned to the coast of Maine, where her Aunt Martha has consulted the stars to find her a suitable match... -
![To Love and To Honour by Emilie Loring]()
To Love and To Honour by Emilie Loring
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsImpetuous Cindy Clinton signed a marriage contract with a man she had never met in order to save her father's worldwide oil interests. Now, with her father dead, Cindy was determined to be free of Ken Stewart, her husband in name only. Then one day a tall, handsome stranger came to see Cindy. He said he was Ken Stewart's emissary and he urged her not to try for a divorce... -
![The City and the House: A Novel by Natalia Ginzburg]()
The City and the House: A Novel by Natalia Ginzburg
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe city is Rome, the hub of Italian life and culture. The house is Le Margherite, a home where the sprawling cast of The City and the House is welcome. At the center of this lush epistolary novel is Lucrezia, mother of five and lover of many. Among her lovers—and perhaps the father of one of her children—is Giuseppe... -
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The Blacker the Berry by Wallace Thurman
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 27 ratings‘The Blacker the Berry’ is the provocative and illuminating 1929 novel by Harlem Renaissance author Wallace Thurman. The novel follows the life of Emma Lou Morgan, a young black woman with dark skin. She is born and raised by her single mother in the predominantly white community of Boise, Idaho... -
![The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart]()
The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings1879. Lanzarote. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family distraught. 1968. Perdita West, secretary to a famous author, visits Lanzarote on a research trip and begins to fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island... -
![A Song Begins by Mary Burchell]()
A Song Begins by Mary Burchell
An unknown benefactor had sufficient faith in Anthea Benton's singing voice to pay for her training under the celebrated operatic conductor, Oscar Warrender. She was ecstatic, but her joy was short-lived when she came face to face with the great man. Cold and forbidding, he proved to be a hard taskmaster. She felt her dreams can be coming true..Categorized as:
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![A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor]()
A Wreath Of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSpending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers... -
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![The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor]()
The Soul of Kindness by Elizabeth Taylor
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 15 ratings"Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing herself.'The soul of kindness is what Flora believes herself to be... -
![The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham]()
The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham
Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic... -
![The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White]()
The Beautiful Room Is Empty by Edmund White
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen the narrator of White's poised yet scalding autobiographical novel first embarks on his sexual odyssey, it is the 1950s, and America is "a big gray country of families on drowsy holiday." That country has no room for a scholarly teenager with guilty but insatiable stirrings toward other men... -
![The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena]()
The Ghetto Within by Santiago H. Amigorena
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSantiago Amigorena weaves together memory, history, and imagination to tell the story of his Jewish grandfather, a Polish immigrant in Argentina, and the guilt he experiences when he is unable to help his family leave the Warsaw ghetto in this powerful novel about identity, loss, and the unshakable power of love--a critical sensation in France that marks his American debut... -
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Kinshu: Autumn Brocade by Teru Miyamoto
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsLife, death, karma—these interwoven themes form the heart of this lyrical novel in letters, Kinshu: Autumn Brocade, the first work to be published in the U.S. by Teru Miyamoto, one of Japan's most popular literary writers... -
![Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart]()
Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart
I FOLLOWED MARCIA TO HER ROOM... She pushed her door open and groped for the light switch. When the lights went on I heard her gasp. She was standing as if frozen, her back to me, her hands up to her throat. Then she screamed, a high, tearing scream. "The murderer. Oh my God, the murderer. . .Categorized as:
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