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The book that broke the world by Mark Lawrence

The book that broke the world

Mark Lawrence

We fight for the people we love. We fight for the ideas we want to be true. Evar and Livira stand side by side and yet far beyond each other's reach. Evar is forced to flee the library, driven before an implacable foe. Livira, trapped in a ghost world, has to...

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The brothers by Kimberley Chambers

The brothers

Kimberley Chambers

You don't want to be on the wrong side of this family ... Beau Bond hates fiercely and loves hard. He'll do anything to protect his twin Brett, and his girlfriend Jolene. Brett is a survivor. He's always followed his brother's lead, even if it means he's lived...

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The innocents by Bridget Walsh

The innocents

Bridget Walsh

The Variety Palace Music Hall is in trouble, due in no small part to a gruesome spate of murders that unfolded around it a few months previously. Between writing, managing the music hall and trying to dissuade her boss from installing a water tank in the...

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The household by Stacey Halls

The household

Stacey Halls

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel, inspired by real historical figures and events. London, 1847. In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing...

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The wild date palm by Diane Armstrong

The wild date palm

Diane Armstrong

During a train journey across Turkey's Anatolian Plain in 1915 during World War I, Shoshana Adelstein witnesses the slaughter of the Armenians and knows she has just come face to face with her destiny. Convinced that her Jewish community in a small outpost of...

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The four by Ellie Keel

The four

Ellie Keel

We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out of our bedroom window that day....

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The secret keepers by Tilly Bagshawe

The secret keepers

Tilly Bagshawe

The beautiful bastide at Beaulieu-sur-Mer has always been an idyllic retreat for the Challant family, a place of glorious memories and sun-drenched summers. But the summer of 1928 changes everything. One humid, stormy night, a young local boy suffers a fatal...

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Can I steal you for a second? by Jodi McAlister

Can I steal you for a second?

Jodi McAlister

When you sign up to a dating show, you're supposed to fall in love with the male lead, not another contestant ... A delightful romantic comedy with ALL the feels, by one of Australia's leading romance experts. Mandie Mitchell will do anything to get over her...

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On Mother Brown's doorstep by Mary Jane Staples

On Mother Brown's doorstep

Mary Jane Staples

As wedding bells ring, Walworth is turned upside down by tragic events ... Susie Brown is overjoyed when her brother, Will, turns up unexpectedly on leave from service in time for her wedding to Sammy Adams. But Will's leave is an extended one due to bad...

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Looking good dead by Peter James

Looking good dead

Peter James

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace has to solve a disturbing murder whilst protecting an innocent eye witness in Looking Good Dead by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. When a young woman's body is found butchered in Brighton, Roy...

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Escape to the Rome apartment by Kerry Fisher

Escape to the Rome apartment

Kerry Fisher

Sara has lost her zest for life. Trapped sharing a house with her soon-to-be-ex-husband, with grown-up children who still need her but take her for granted, working in a job where her boss bullies her, the final straw is the heartbreak of losing her beloved...

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Still see you everywhere by Lisa Gardner

Still see you everywhere

Lisa Gardner

A remote tropical island. Countless dangerous secrets. No way to call help. Missing persons specialist Frankie Elkin is on an isolated island off the coast of Hawaii. Her mission: to find Lani, the missing sister of a Death Row serial killer known as the...

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Not dead enough by Peter James

Not dead enough

Peter James

Detective Superintendent Roy Grace thinks he's found a serial killer, but not everything is as it seems in Not Dead Enough, by award-winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. A beautiful socialite is dead. Roy Grace's leading suspect, her...

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Not here to make friends by Jodi McAlister

Not here to make friends

Jodi McAlister

Reality TV producer Murray O'Connell is used to being in control. He's the showrunner for reality dating show Marry Me, Juliet, and that means he's the boss: he controls the cast, the crew and the story. Until Lily Fireball turns up. Lily is everything viewers...

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Murder takes root by Rosie Sandler

Murder takes root

Rosie Sandler

This time, she's been commissioned by Lady Clara of Ashford Manor to restore the stately gardens to their former glory. But the estate is suddenly thrown into chaos when a dead body is discovered in one of the rooms. The police rule it as suicide, though...

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Date with justice by Julia Chapman

Date with justice

Julia Chapman

Date with Justice, the ninth novel in Julia's Chapman's witty and engaging Dales Detective series, sees Delilah's brother under suspicion of murder. Can Delilah and Samson prove he's innocent? The Dales Detective Agency is on the brink of closure. Samson...

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Mania by Lionel Shriver

Mania

Lionel Shriver

In a reality not too distant from our own, where the so-called Mental Parity Movement has taken hold, the worst thing you can call someone is 'stupid'. Everyone is equally clever, and discrimination based on intelligence is 'the last great civil rights...

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Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

A most anticipated book of 2024 for Time, Nylon, Oprah, Marie Claire and CNN One of Sarah Jessica Parker's Books of the Year 'I will carry this story, and the people in it, with me for the rest of my life' - John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars 'Smart,...

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The engraver's secret by Lisa Medved

The engraver's secret

Lisa Medved

Spanish Netherlands, 1620s. Raised by her father Lucas to know her mind, Antonia Vorsterman sees everything that goes on in her world - all the rivalries and jealousies that course through the artists' studios and workshops of Antwerp. Drawn into the lively...

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Better left unsent by Lia Louis

Better left unsent

Lia Louis

Millie Chandler is known at work as the nice receptionist who got dumped by the company hotshot, and ever since then, she has vowed to keep everything to herself - her feelings, her hopes, and especially her fears. No one can hurt her if they don't know how...

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Killarney by Nikki Mottram

Killarney

Nikki Mottram

When child protection worker Dana Gibson arrives in the sleepy rural town of Killarney, she has one goal in mind - locate the whereabouts of foster child Jayden Maloney and return him to care. What she isn't anticipating is an unexpected attraction to her...

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The intruders by Louise Jensen

The intruders

Louise Jensen

It should be the perfect opportunity: a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost 30 years ago....

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Sparks of bright matter by Leeanne O'Donnell

Sparks of bright matter

Leeanne O'Donnell

When ambitious apprentice chemist and secret alchemist Peter Woulfe is tasked with caring for a mysterious illustrated book, the Mutus Liber, he quickly realises that the grimy underworld of Georgian London is even more dangerous than he first believed. Soon...

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Nobody's darling by Josephine Cox

Nobody's darling

Josephine Cox

Lizzie Miller worries for her family - money is short in their little house, but her beautiful daughter Ruby vows to give them all a better life. Working as a maid for Mr Banks, Ruby befriends his shy and gentle daughter, Cicely. The two girls hatch a...

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Verity by Colleen Hoover

Verity

Colleen Hoover

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime. Jeremy Crawford, husband of bestselling author Verity Crawford, has hired Lowen to complete the remaining books in a successful series his...

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Dead simple by Peter James

Dead simple

Peter James

Meet Detective Superintendent Roy Grace on his unforgettable first major case by award winning crime author Peter James, read by Daniel Weyman. It was meant to be a harmless stag-night prank. But a few hours later, the groom has disappeared and his friends are...

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The royal librarian by Daisy Wood

The royal librarian

Daisy Wood

Windsor, 1940. War rages, and as bombs rain down across Britain, nowhere is safe: not even a royal palace. Secretly tasked with foiling a suspected plot, Sophie Klein is placed in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, where the princesses reside. But when she...

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Crosshairs by James Patterson

Crosshairs

James Patterson

A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert - a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD's Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he...

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The Miller women by Kelli Hawkins

The Miller women

Kelli Hawkins

When a teenage girl goes missing, Nicola Miller fears for her own daughter. Not for Abby's mental health or safety, but that she might have had something to do with it. She worries her daughter is a killer. Just like her. Nicola has never told the truth about...

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A Sicilian affair by Susan Lewis

A Sicilian affair

Susan Lewis

Some secrets are too devastating to share ... A fresh start where no-one knows her name is exactly what Catie is looking for from her Sicilian escape. When Catie meets handsome Giancarlo, she has stumbled across a love that could last forever ... if only she...

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A calamity of souls by David Baldacci

A calamity of souls

David Baldacci

Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee...

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A clock stopped dead by J. M. (Jean M.) Hall

A clock stopped dead

J. M. (Jean M.) Hall

Retired teachers Pat, Liz and Thelma are happiest whiling away their hours over coffee, cake and chat at the Thirsk Garden Centre café. But when their good friend Marguerite claims to have uncovered a mysterious charity shop that has since vanished, they...

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My favourite mistake by Marian Keyes

My favourite mistake

Marian Keyes

Anna has just lost her taste for the big apple ... Anna has a life to envy. An apartment in New York. A well-meaning (too well-meaning?) partner. And a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn't want all that? Anna - it turns out. Turning a minor mid-life...

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The river's edge by Joy Ellis

The river's edge

Joy Ellis

A series of gruesome murders on the Lincolnshire fens. An old enemy from the past. A deadly game of cat and mouse. The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division...

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The devil's flute murders by Seishi Yokomizo

The devil's flute murders

Seishi Yokomizo

Amid the rubble of post-war Tokyo, inside the grand Tsubaki house, a once-noble family is in mourning. The old viscount Tsubaki - a brooding, troubled composer - has been found dead. When the family gather for a divination to conjure the spirit of their...

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Looking out by Fiona (Novelist) author. McCallum

Looking out

Fiona (Novelist) author. McCallum

Beneath the facade not everything is as it seems ... On the surface Natasha and Mitchell live an idyllic life in the Adelaide Hills with their two daughters and kelpie cross. While both have busy careers, they ensure time is spent with family and friends....

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Erasure by Percival Everett

Erasure

Percival Everett

Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison's once-acclaimed writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers. He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da...

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Zelda's cut by Philippa Gregory

Zelda's cut

Philippa Gregory

For years, Isobel Latimer has composed serious novels for serious people, but to dwindling acclaim and ever-more dwindling gain. Now her husband is ill and she must carry their financial burden alone, and in secret. But if the public don't want careful moral...

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Close to death by Anthony Horowitz

Close to death

Anthony Horowitz

Richmond Upon Thames is one of the most desirable areas to live in London. And Riverview Close - a quiet, gated community - seems to offer its inhabitants the perfect life. At least it does until Giles Kenworthy moves in with his wife and noisy children, his...

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The underground library by Jennifer Ryan

The underground library

Jennifer Ryan

When the Blitz threatens the heart of a London neighbourhood, three young women must use their fighting spirit to keep their community together in this heartwarming novel from the author of The Kitchen Front. On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the...

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The grazier's son by Cathryn Hein

The grazier's son

Cathryn Hein

When helicopter pilot Stirling Hawley travels to Grassmoor in Victoria's lush Western District to claim an inheritance, he doesn't expect to face a town that hates him. Nor does he anticipate being saved from near-death by glamorous vintage clothing designer...

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How to kill a guy in ten ways by Eve Kellman

How to kill a guy in ten ways

Eve Kellman

Are you on a date that doesn't feel right? Can't shake that creepy guy at the bar? Worried you're being followed home? Message M. After one too many terrifying encounters, Millie Masters sets up a hotline for women who feel unsafe walking home alone at night:...

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Icarus by K. (Kayla) Ancrum

Icarus

K. (Kayla) Ancrum

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Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this suspenseful queer YA romance from critically acclaimed author K. Ancrum reimagines the tale of Icarus as a star-crossed love story between a young art thief and...

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Murder checks out by Victoria Gilbert

Murder checks out

Victoria Gilbert

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It's not all snowflakes and sugarplums when murder crashes Taylorsford's first Winterfest in the eighth installment of the Blue Ridge Library series, perfect for fans of Jenn McKinlay and Ellery Adams. Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last...

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The hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

The hunchback of Notre Dame

Victor Hugo

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Ugly and deformed but humble and loyal, Quasimodo is the hunchback living in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He is trapped between his love for a Gypsy girl and his love for the archdeacon, his benefactor.

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A harvest of ash & blood by D. J. Molles

A harvest of ash & blood

D. J. Molles

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From New York Times bestselling author D.J. Molles comes a brand new action-packed fantasy adventure that will leave you on the edge of your seat.What is the price of magic? Not the magic of tricks and illusions, but the kind that heats cities, powers armies,...

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Embers in the London sky by Sarah Sundin

Embers in the London sky

Sarah Sundin

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As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works...

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Darkwood Trilogy by Anthea Sharp

Darkwood Trilogy

Anthea Sharp

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Two sisters. One enchanted forest. And a reckless choice that could destroy kingdoms ...Taken away from her ordinary life, Rose Valrois finds herself in a world full of secrets and forbidden magic. There she meets her new stepsister, the enigmatic Princess...

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The final curtain by Keigo Higashino

The final curtain

Keigo Higashino

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A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, leaving her estranged son with many unanswered...

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The art of love and lies by Rebecca Anderson

The art of love and lies

Rebecca Anderson

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A free-spirited artist teams up with a no-nonsense detective to capture a thief who has stolen a priceless Michelangelo painting. Manchester, England, 1857. Rosanna Hawkins is one of Manchester's finest artists, even though no one knows her name. She...

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Dead reckoning by Ted Tayler

Dead reckoning

Ted Tayler

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Kendal Guthrie could start an argument in an empty room, but who killed him, and why?The Crime Review Team was formed in Wiltshire, England, to investigate old cold cases. Headed by Gus Freeman, the team has successfully solved several cases, using old witness...

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Dig two graves by Mickey Spillane

Dig two graves

Mickey Spillane

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Mike Hammer, the iconic PI created by the master of noir Mickey Spillane, takes on the mob in the first of two gripping final novels for the deadly private eye.Winter, 1969. After a hit-and-run accident nearly kills her mother, Velda learns her father is not...

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Forgemaster by Seth Ring

Forgemaster

Seth Ring

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Ascending should have been the easy part.But after being thrown into the void, Thorn finds himself stranded in a strange world filled with even stranger creatures.Together with his cute battle pet, the mysterious god beast Hati, and a sentient AI named Eve,...

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The vicar by A. J. Chambers

The vicar

A. J. Chambers

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Inspired by the author's own experience, The Vicar introduces Terry Nolan, an MI5 operative who, when he discovers his cover is blown and millions of lives are at stake, will do whatever it takes to stop enemy forces.Terry Nolan, an off-the-books MI5 operative...

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Contrail by L. T. Ryan

Contrail

L. T. Ryan

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After an unexpected turn of events puts the teams' plans on hold, Blake is consumed by one objective: bringing Haeli home. But when two worlds collide, Blake finds himself fighting for a cause bigger than himself while an innocent life hangs in the balance....

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His fierce mate by Julie Trettel

His fierce mate

Julie Trettel

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A man hellbent on never settling down. Austin is a tenacious flirt, a clown, and often, a complete screw up. But he's happy with his life. He loves spice and variety, so settling down with just one woman is not an option. One night with the guys out on the...

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Play dirty by Lora Leigh

Play dirty

Lora Leigh

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"The listener is immediately gripped...narrator Brianna Bronte expertly voices a range of characters, allowing listeners to feel the emotions of each one." --AudioFile on Wake a Sleeping TigerFifty Shades of Grey meets hard-bodied ex-Navy SEALs in this...

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Ignite by Rebecca Yarros

Ignite

Rebecca Yarros

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From USA Today bestselling author Rebecca Yarros comes a friends to lovers romance novella set in her Legacy world. It only takes a spark . . . In Legacy, Colorado, I buried my father alongside his elite Hotshot team. Ten years later, I've followed in his...

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Little women by Louisa May Alcott

Little women

Louisa May Alcott

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Little Women is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), which was originally published in two volumes in 1868 and 1869. Alcott wrote the books rapidly over several months at the request of her publisher. The novel follows the lives of four...

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Burlington by Heather Dixon Wallwork

Burlington

Heather Dixon Wallwork

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Mae Roberts is certain her new life in the suburbs with her family will be everything she's always wanted. That is, until one of the mothers from her daughters' school goes missing.Mae never thought she would fit in amongst the beautiful and rich mothers at...

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Beverly Bonnefinche is dead by Kristen Seeley

Beverly Bonnefinche is dead

Kristen Seeley

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Calling on the matchmaker by Jody Hedlund

Calling on the matchmaker

Jody Hedlund

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When a St. Louis Irish matchmaker pairs a shy young woman who spends her time caring for immigrants with a wealthy, flirtatious man whose father wants him to settle down, they can't imagine a more opposite pairing. But as they work together to protect the...

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Twisted by Maggie Giles

Twisted

Maggie Giles

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Detective Ryan Boone thought the simple jewelry heist was an open-and-shut case. That is until he discovers an unknown drug, and this minor crime he was investigating may be tied to a string of seemingly unconnected murders.Meanwhile, Mel Parker, unscrupulous...

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Robots through the ages

Robots through the ages

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A remarkable collection, Robots through the Ages includes stories from some of the best writers of science fiction, both old and new.This anthology, with an introduction by Robert Silverberg, offers a sweeping survey of robots as depicted throughout...

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A Scot's pride by Eliza Knight

A Scot's pride

Eliza Knight

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Lord Bryson Mackenzie Fraser is in need of a wife, but not just any bride will do. He needs someone unaware of his reputation in the Highlands, or the stipulations behind his inheritance. On the pretense of visiting his aging aunt in London, he begins his...

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The circumference of the world by Lavie Tidhar

The circumference of the world

Lavie Tidhar

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Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is...

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The neutronium alchemist by Peter F. Hamilton

The neutronium alchemist

Peter F. Hamilton

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Following on from The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist is the second epic novel in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. A seemingly unstoppable force has entered our universe, and we are confronted by our most primal fear. Those who have...

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Attack from within by Barbara McQuade

Attack from within

Barbara McQuade

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MSNBC's legal expert breaks down the ways disinformation has become a tool to drive voters to extremes, disempower our legal structures, and consolidate power in the hands of the few. American society is more polarized than ever before. We are strategically...

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The Graham saga. Books 1-3 by Anna Belfrage

The Graham saga. Books 1-3

Anna Belfrage

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On a muggy August day in 2001, Alexandra Lind was unexpectedly thrown backwards in time, landing in the year of Our Lord 1658. Catapulted into an unfamiliar and frightening new existence, Alex could do nothing but adapt. After all, while time-traveling in...

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The Dread Penny Society by Sarah M. Eden

The Dread Penny Society

Sarah M. Eden

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This collector's anthology compiles all the penny dreadful short stories from Sarah M. Eden's five-book Victorian romance series. Included in this edition are three new, never-before-released stories. Each short story is written in the style of the Victorian...

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Surgeons' hall by E. S. Thomson

Surgeons' hall

E. S. Thomson

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What secret grips Corvus Hall? Visiting the Great Exhibition to view the wax anatomical models of the famous but reclusive Dr Silas Strangeway, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain find a severed hand, perfectly dissected and laid out amongst the exhibits....

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I love you more by Stacy Finz

I love you more

Stacy Finz

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To an outsider, television morning anchor Tess Stone's life looks like glossy perfection. Ambitious, beautiful, and married to a major league baseball player, Tess seems invincible--until an on-air catastrophe puts both her marriage and career in jeopardy....

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The bouncer by David Gordon

The bouncer

David Gordon

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Joe Brody is just your average Dostoevsky-reading, Harvard-expelled strip club bouncer who has a highly classified military history and a best friend from Catholic school who happens to be head mafioso Gio Caprisi. FBI agent Donna Zamora, the best shot in her...

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The chameleon by Mark Dawson

The chameleon

Mark Dawson

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Deception Runs Deep. Betrayal Runs Deeper. Delve into the clandestine world of Group 15, the covert organization also featured in the acclaimed John Milton series. Charlie Cooper, an elite Group Fifteen agent, faces a complex mission: eliminate Igor Sidorov, a...

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Christmas in Seabury by Beth Rain

Christmas in Seabury

Beth Rain

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This is Seabury - where everyone knows everyone, the average tourist hasn't got a clue it even exists, and that's just how the locals like it! A cosy, Christmas listen full of community, romance and friendship! For fans of Holly Martin, Polly Babbington and...

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Yinka, where is your huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

Yinka, where is your huzband?

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn

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Brought to you by Penguin. Yinka wants to find love. Her mum wants to find it for her.She also has too many aunties who frequently pray for her delivery from singledom, a preference for chicken and chips over traditional Nigerian food, and a bum she's sure is...

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Alpha's command by Renee Rose

Alpha's command

Renee Rose

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She's a human. Forbidden. My brother's widow. But deep down, my wolf believes she's mine. Before my brother died, he made me swear to stand by his human mate and their son. It's been 10 years since his death, and I've done my best. I joined the military, got...

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A wedding at Heatherly Hall by Julie (Novelist) Houston

A wedding at Heatherly Hall

Julie (Novelist) Houston

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Sisters Hannah, Rosa, and Eva are on a mission to sustain picturesque Heatherly Hall, in Yorkshire's Westenbury village. So when they hear the legend of the Jet Set - a necklace with a rare diamond, commissioned by royalty and hidden in their hall - they plan...

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Nightshade by E. S. Thomson

Nightshade

E. S. Thomson

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London, 1851. Restless and bored after a long hot summer, apothecary and poison expert Jem Flockhart decides to redesign her physic garden. But plans are thrown into confusion when a man's skeleton is unearthed from beneath the deadly nightshade, a smaller,...

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The pastures of heaven by John Steinbeck

The pastures of heaven

John Steinbeck

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Brought to you by Penguin. Each of these delightful interconnected tales is devoted to a family living in a fertile valley on the outskirts of Monterey, California, and the effects that one particular family has on them all. Steinbeck tackles two important...

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The hard stuff by David Gordon

The hard stuff

David Gordon

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Ex-black-ops-specialist-turned-strip-club-bouncer Joe Brody has a new qualification to add to his resume: an alliance of New York City's mob bosses has deemed him its 'sheriff.' In the straight world, when you 'see something' you 'say something' to the law. In...

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Under ground by E. S. Thomson

Under ground

E. S. Thomson

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A plague is coming to London. Dreaded more than the Devil himself, cholera - the 'blue death' - spares no one. As fear grows across the city, Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain are called to the bedside of a dead man, murdered, and with his throat torn out, in...

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The people next door by Tony Parsons

The people next door

Tony Parsons

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Brought to you by Penguin.Lana and Roman Wade have fled the city for a little corner of paradise, exchanging their flat with its unhappy memories for a small honey-coloured house among the rolling green hills of Oxfordshire. Their new home, set in a...

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Percival Everett by Virgil Russell by Percival Everett

Percival Everett by Virgil Russell

Percival Everett

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction A man visits his ageing father in a nursing home, where his father writes the novel he imagines his son would write. Or is it the novel that the son imagines his...

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Fortuna Sworn by K. J. Sutton

Fortuna Sworn

K. J. Sutton

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Fortuna Sworn is the last of her kind. Her brother disappeared two years ago, leaving her with no family or species to speak of. She hides among humans, spending her days working at a bar and her nights searching for him. The bleak pattern goes on and on ......

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Unleashed by L. T. Ryan

Unleashed

L. T. Ryan

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When Blake Brier crosses paths with Haeli Becher while on a relaxing weekend in Las Vegas, he finds himself in the middle of a life-and-death struggle. The mysterious woman is confronting the secret organization who built her up ... and now plans on tearing...

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A cursed love by Jenny Hickman

A cursed love

Jenny Hickman

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A curse to break.** A crown to take.** A malignant blight ravages Tearmann, wreaking havoc on the lives of the Danú. If Tadhg and Keelynn cannot find a way to stop it before it reaches the castle, there won't be anything left for them to save. While the blight...

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Filthy disciple by Cassandra Robbins

Filthy disciple

Cassandra Robbins

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She was an assignment: a selfish brat who'd run away from home and who'd found refuge in an MC, a spoiled pain in my ass that I had to bring back to Daddy. Only--Isabelle is nothing like the picture my initial research painted. Yes, she's a brat. Yes, she's...

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Cruise(shipped) by Savannah Scott

Cruise(shipped)

Savannah Scott

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Brooks and I met three years ago when my best friend's boyfriend held a party to propose to her in front of all their friends--in the middle of his goat farm. Yes. You heard me. His goat farm. When my eyes traveled across the driveway that night and landed on...

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Before you by Marni Mann

Before you

Marni Mann

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From USA Today bestselling author Marni Mann comes Before You, a new contemporary romance and a devastating examination of the things we find, the things we make, and the things we lose. It was supposed to be a typical work trip. New York to San Francisco,...

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Slaying the shadow prince by Helen Scheuerer

Slaying the shadow prince

Helen Scheuerer

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In a realm on the brink of destruction, evil forces snatch innocents to suffer fates worse than death. Only a monster hunter and her monstrous enemy can stop them. Drue Emmerson, noblewoman-turned-ranger, wants one thing: vengeance. With her family slain by...

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A Christmas spark by Cindy Steel

A Christmas spark

Cindy Steel

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"When my best friend found out I'd be alone over Christmas, she hooked me up with a week's stay in her family's cabin in Idaho. I was on a publishing deadline for my latest book and was really looking forward to a cozy week by the fire, cuddled up in flannel...

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Natural dual-mage by K. F. Breene

Natural dual-mage

K. F. Breene

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"The seat-gripping conclusion to the battle against the Mages' Guild! One thing has become perfectly clear: The Mages' Guild won't stop coming for me until I am either under their control, or dead. So rather than wait to be cornered...I'm going to take the...

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The lost boy by Rachel Amphlett

The lost boy

Rachel Amphlett

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Run. Don't look back. When a young teenager is stabbed to death at a busy fairground, Detective Mark Turpin is assigned the task of finding the boy's killer. But this was no random murder. Mark knows the victim, and the man who ordered his death. As he sifts...

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Reforged by Seth Ring

Reforged

Seth Ring

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Cursed and dying, Thorn has landed at a crossroad ...He can either give up and die, or walk a path he never wanted to touch. Reluctantly accepting that his only chance at life rests in corrupt magic, Thorn soon finds himself exploring a world of ancient...

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Nantucket News by Pamela M. Kelley

Nantucket News

Pamela M. Kelley

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Charleston native Taylor Abbott has just relocated to Nantucket for her dream job as a junior news reporter at the local paper. Ten years ago, she was Abby Hodges's college roommate, and she's looking forward to living near her best friend again. Until her...

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Murder at Everham Hall by Benedict Brown

Murder at Everham Hall

Benedict Brown

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A mystery novelist with writer's block, a lavish party to ring in the new year, and a film star with three bullets through his head... December 1927. Mystery-writer Marius Quin has one previous bestseller, endless looming mortgage payments, and no idea how to...

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Arcanist by Seth Ring

Arcanist

Seth Ring

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Safe for the moment, Thorn and Velin are faced with a choice ... Hide among the cruel Deva, or forge a path that will require all their skill and wit, unlocking the ancient paths of power hidden in the Titan bloodline. Ahead of them lies Intra Mundum, an...

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Warrior fae trapped. Demon days, vampire nights by K. F. Breene

Warrior fae trapped. Demon days, vampire nights

K. F. Breene

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"The truce between the vampires and the shifters is long over. So when the two factions stumble upon a lost fae warrior who has no idea what she is, all hell breaks loose. Charity hasn't had it easy. Growing up in a bad part of Chicago, left by her mother at...

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Artificial condition by Martha Wells

Artificial condition

Martha Wells

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"Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems Red. It has a dark past--one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself...

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