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An Italian island secret  by Victoria Springfield

An Italian island secret

Victoria Springfield

"It's time to return to Ischia... Alessia knows her grandmother grew up on the beautiful Italian island off the coast from Naples. But Ornella seldom talks about her life there - or why she never went back. So Alessia is amazed when Ornella reveals that as a...

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My darling boy  by John Dufresne

My darling boy

John Dufresne

"Known for his tragicomic voice and unforgettable characters, John Dufresne tells the story of Olney, whose beloved son, Cully, collapses into addiction and vanishes into the chaotic netherworld of southern Florida. Aided by his terminally ill girlfriend and...

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The concubine  by Elechi Amadi

The concubine

Elechi Amadi

"Set in a remote village in Eastern Nigeria, an area yet to be affected by European values and where society is orderly and predictable, the story concerns a woman 'of great beauty and dignity' who inadvertently brings suffering and death to all her lovers....

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We are all made of stars  by Rowan Coleman

We are all made of stars

Rowan Coleman

"Stella Carey exists in a world of night. Married to a soldier who has returned from Afghanistan who is injured in body and mind, she leaves the house every evening as Vincent locks himself away, along with the secrets he brought home. During her nursing...

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The great alone  by Kristin Hannah

The great alone

Kristin Hannah

"Thirteen-year-old Leni is coming of age in a tumultuous time. Caught in the riptide of her parents' passionate, stormy relationship, she dares to hope that Alaska will lead to a better future for her family, and a place to belong. Her mother, Cora, will do...

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Some luck  by Jane Smiley

Some luck

Jane Smiley

"After his return from the battlefields in France, Walter Langdon and his wife Rosanna begin their life together on a remote farm in Iowa. As time passes, their little family will grow: from Frank, the handsome, willful first-born, to Joe, whose love of...

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Lightning  by Danielle Steel

Lightning

Danielle Steel

"As a partner in one of New York's most prestigious law firms, Alexandra Parker barely manage to juggle husband, career, and the three-year-old child she gave birth to at forty. Then lightning strikes - a routine medical check-up turns her world upside down...

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Disappoint me  by Nicola Dinan

Disappoint me

Nicola Dinan

"Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. She's living her best life! Or is she? The debris of years of dysphoria and failed relationships rattles around in her head. When she tumbles down the stairs at a New...

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Instructions for heartbreak  by Sarah Handyside

Instructions for heartbreak

Sarah Handyside

"What if heartbreak came with a manual? It starts with a late-night knock on the door. Thirty-something best friends Dee, Liv and Rosa share a flat in south London, while Katie, the fourth member of their friendship group, lives close by with her long-term...

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Summer on Blossom Street  by Debbie Macomber

Summer on Blossom Street

Debbie Macomber

"Upbeat cancer survivor Lydia and her pragmatic sister, Margaret, start a "Knit to Quit" group in their Blossom Street yarn store in Seattle, bringing in a delightful assortment of customers for weekly self-help sessions, including a local baker who wants a...

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Changing gears  by L. A. (Fiction writer) Wright

Changing gears

L. A. (Fiction writer) Wright

''Will love's ups and downs be worth the ride? When Jen embarks on a scenic cycling tour in France, she never expects to have her life upended by Abi, a captivating Scottish travel writer with a magnetic personality. Their whirlwind two weeks together...

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The house of God  by Samuel Shem

The house of God

Samuel Shem

"The House of God does for ordinary hospitals what M.A.S.H. did for the US military hospitals during the Korean War. The book is wildly irreverent and teaches the reader all the things doctors never want to divulge."--Provided by publisher.

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The anthropologists  by Aysegül Savas

The anthropologists

Aysegül Savas

"Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. Removed from the web of family and its obligations, what traditions and rituals should they establish together? As they dream about the possibilities of each new listing,...

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Brooklyn Thomas isn't here  by Alli Vail

Brooklyn Thomas isn't here

Alli Vail

"Summer is off to a bad start and getting worse. Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she's mostly dead. She can't feel her heart beat and she's disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the...

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Blossom Street brides  by Debbie Macomber

Blossom Street brides

Debbie Macomber

"As three very different women meet in their local knitting store, they find strength in friendship to help them through their problems. Lydia is blissfully happy in her marriage, but worrying about her adoptive daughter and the future of her business....

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Hannah's list  by Debbie Macomber

Hannah's list

Debbie Macomber

"On the anniversary of his beloved wife's death, Michael receives a letter Hannah had written him. She makes one final request-- she's chosen three women, and asks him to consider them as a new wife. He's a man who needs the completeness only love can offer--...

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The diviners  by Margaret Laurence

The diviners

Margaret Laurence

"Morag Gunn spends her entire life trying to escape her roots and adoptive parents in the small Canadian town of Manawaka, becoming trapped in a demeaning marriage, and then unwed parenthood, only to find herself back where she started, and dealing with a...

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Nights at the circus  by Angela Carter

Nights at the circus

Angela Carter

"Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser,...

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How to sleep at night  by Elizabeth Harris

How to sleep at night

Elizabeth Harris

"Meet Ethan and Gabe: a devoted couple with an adorable daughter and a house in the suburbs. They may have drifted to different ends of the political spectrum, but their marriage still has its spark. Then Ethan makes a shocking announcement: he wants to run...

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Vantage Point  by Sara Sligar

Vantage Point

Sara Sligar

"Clara and her brother, Teddy, grew up on a small island in Maine in the shadow of their parents' tragic deaths, haunted by rumors and paparazzi. Fourteen years later, they've mostly put their turbulent past to rest. Teddy has married Clara's best friend,...

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Dealing with the dead  by Alain Mabanckou

Dealing with the dead

Alain Mabanckou

"Abruptly deceased at the age of twenty-four and trapped forever in flared purple trousers, Liwa Ekimakingai encounters the other residents of Frere Lachaise cemetery, all of whom have their own complex stories of life and death. Unwilling to relinquish their...

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The convenience store by the sea  by Sonoko Machida

The convenience store by the sea

Sonoko Machida

"A quaint seaside town in Kitakyushu, Mojiko is full of hidden delights. And one unexpected treasure is the 24/7 convenience store, Tenderness. At first glance, it's a store like any other. Sure, it's a bit odd that the handsome manager has his own fan club....

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The mystery of Mercy Close  by Marian Keyes

The mystery of Mercy Close

Marian Keyes

"Meet Helen, youngest of the Walsh sisters, black sheep of the family and a law unto herself. She was sacked from every job she ever had before she found her true calling as a private investigator. But times are tough for PIs and Helen's had no choice but to...

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Starting now  by Debbie Macomber

Starting now

Debbie Macomber

"For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career, her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it...

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Susannah's garden  by Debbie Macomber

Susannah's garden

Debbie Macomber

"Fifty-year-old Susannah Nelson returns to her childhood home and to the garden she has always loved, where she discovers that some paths were meant to be taken and others were meant to be buried forever."--Provided by publisher.

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Mother night  by Kurt Vonnegut

Mother night

Kurt Vonnegut

"Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has used such a typewriter before, when he worked as a Nazi propagandist under Goebbels. Though that was before he agreed to...

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Talking animals  by Joni Murphy

Talking animals

Joni Murphy

"Talking Animals is a Kafkaesque tale about the radical awakening of an alpaca and a llama who live within a crumbling city. Together with their friends and comrades, these animals search for a form of resistance that fits with their time"--

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My name is Leon  by Kit De Waal

My name is Leon

Kit De Waal

"A brother chosen. A brother left behind. And a family where you'd least expect to find one. Leon is nine, and has a perfect baby brother called Jake. They have gone to live with Maureen, who has fuzzy red hair like a halo, and a belly like Father Christmas....

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Something dangerous  by Penny Vincenzi

Something dangerous

Penny Vincenzi

"Lady Celia Lytton's dazzling twin daughters Adele and Venetia lead a charmed life, and by their eighteenth birthday, they have begun to take their privileged position for granted. In stark contrast, Barty Miller, their adopted sister becomes more aware of how...

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Into temptation  by Penny Vincenzi

Into temptation

Penny Vincenzi

"The Lytton family past is full of secrets, and only Lady Celia knows them all. There's her daughter Adele's difficult, dark past; the dreadful cruelty of a truth her son Kit had to confront; even the shadows of Celia's own life, and that of Barty Miller, the...

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The botanist's daughter  by Kayte Nunn

The botanist's daughter

Kayte Nunn

"Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a...

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How the García girls lost their accents  by Julia Alvarez

How the García girls lost their accents

Julia Alvarez

"In the 1960s, political tension forces the Garcia family away from Santo Domingo and towards the Bronx. The sisters all hit their strides in America, adapting and thriving despite cultural differences, language barriers, and prejudice. But Mami and Papi are...

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Private rites  by Julia Armfield

Private rites

Julia Armfield

"Sisters Isla, Irene and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their estranged father dies. A famous architect revered for making the new world navigable, he had long cut himself off from public life. They find themselves uncertain of how to grieve his...

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Midnight in Paris  by Gillian Harvey

Midnight in Paris

Gillian Harvey

"Sophie and Tom first visited Paris together as students. During their weekend away in the world's most romantic city, falling in love - with the place, and each other - was simply inevitable. They resolved to return every summer and kept their word, until...

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Widows waive the rules  by Julia Jarman

Widows waive the rules

Julia Jarman

"Having supported each other through the first shaky years of widowhood, the future was starting to look brighter. But when Janet is dealt another blow, it's all hands on deck for the firm friends. Deciding what Janet needs is a change of scenery, Viv and...

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The secret of Villa Serena  by Domenica De Rosa

The secret of Villa Serena

Domenica De Rosa

"Emily Robertson looks like the woman who has it all: the lovingly restored Tuscan farmhouse, the three beautiful children, the successful, attentive husband. But when her husband dumps her by text message, she has to face up to some stark home truths. How...

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The Levant trilogy  by Olivia Manning

The Levant trilogy

Olivia Manning

"As Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt, the lives of the civilian population come under threat. One such couple are Guy and Harriet Pringle, who have escaped the war in Europe only to find the conflict once more on their doorstep, providing a volatile backdrop...

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Pride  by Natalie Keller Reinert

Pride

Natalie Keller Reinert

"The second book in Natalie Keller Reinert's beloved Eventing Series, set in the high-stakes world of three-day eventing, now reimagined and repackaged! It took a hurricane for her to admit it, but Jules Thornton is finally falling in love. After losing her...

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Ambition  by Natalie Keller Reinert

Ambition

Natalie Keller Reinert

"Jules Thornton didn't come to Florida horse country to make friends. With her beloved horse Dynamo and her ruthless ambition, she is intent on becoming a world-class rider and trainer. Chasing dreams this big doesn't leave much time for things like friends or...

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Never say never  by Danielle Steel

Never say never

Danielle Steel

"Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and green eyes, she has a loving family and a job she adores, editing a prestigious line of books. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she and her husband,...

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Another man in the street  by Caryl Phillips

Another man in the street

Caryl Phillips

"In the early Sixties, Victor 'Lucky' Johnson arrives in London from St Kitts, with dreams of becoming a journalist. Lucky soon finds work first at an Irish pub in Notting Hill - then as a rent collector for an unscrupulous slum landlord Peter Feldman....

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Monsieur Pain  by Roberto Bolaño

Monsieur Pain

Roberto Bolaño

"A story of conspiracy, occultism, and fascism in 1930s Paris"--

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Amulet  by Roberto Bolaño

Amulet

Roberto Bolaño

"A novel that follows a woman through a dark episode of Mexico's Dirty War"--

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Lexicon of affinities  by Ida Vitale

Lexicon of affinities

Ida Vitale

"A prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as 'elbow', 'Ophelia', 'progress', the painter Giorgio Morandi, 'chess', 'Eulalia' (a friend of the author's aunt), and 'unicorn', Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of...

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Bonding  by Mariel Franklin

Bonding

Mariel Franklin

"Electrifying, urgent, and darkly funny, Mariel Franklin's debut Bonding is a uniquely modern story of sex, tech and freedom in the messy tangle of our digital age. Adrift in her early thirties, Mary is exhausted by an endless cycle of casual relationships and...

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A quiet life  by Beryl Bainbridge

A quiet life

Beryl Bainbridge

"Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the hardships...

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Mona  by Pola Oloixarac

Mona

Pola Oloixarac

"Mona is a Peruvian writer based on a Californian campus, open-eyed and sardonic, a connoisseur of marijuana and prescription pills. In the humanities she has discovered she is something of an anthropological curiosity - a female writer of colour treasured for...

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Ignorance  by Milan Kundera

Ignorance

Milan Kundera

"A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted almost as soon as it began and then...

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Of love and hunger  by J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross

Of love and hunger

J. (Julian) Maclaren-Ross

"Richard Fanshawe never seems to get a decent job or a decent girl. He spends his nights in a dingy boarding house under the watchful eye of Mrs. Fellows, and his days engaged in the dubious occupation of selling vacuum cleaners to housewives. In a grey...

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Darkmotherland  by Samrat Upadhyay

Darkmotherland

Samrat Upadhyay

"In Darkmotherland, Nepali writer Samrat Upadhyay has created a novel of infinite embrace - filled with lovers and widows, dictators and dissidents, paupers, fundamentalists, and a genderqueer power player with her eyes on the throne. At the heart of the novel...

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A lifetime in 30 days  by A. C. (Artist C.) Arthur

A lifetime in 30 days

A. C. (Artist C.) Arthur

"Savannah Carlson has one month before she hits the big four-oh. With her best friends, Jamaica and Ronni, she's making every weekend toward that milestone count party-wise. Vanna's plans go awry when her shady, no-good, unreliable, estranged husband, Caleb,...

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The seven sisters  by Lucinda Riley

The seven sisters

Lucinda Riley

Maia Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia...

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Bringing out the dead  by Joe Connelly

Bringing out the dead

Joe Connelly

"Follows the frantic life of a brash EMS medic working in New York City, where he tries to cope with his wife's departure, his creeping alcoholism, and the excitement and horror of the ambulance call."--Provided by publisher.

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Children of the sacred current  by Ricardo Gomez

Children of the sacred current

Ricardo Gomez

"Children of the Sacred Current invites readers into a sweeping, multigenerational journey through the mystical and turbulent history of Tahiti. For over a century, the Maeva women have carried a powerful legacy: the ability to touch the sacred current, a...

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Impossible people  by Anna Lyndsey

Impossible people

Anna Lyndsey

"When Tom, a young academic, helps a mysterious hooded girl find her way on campus, he is drawn into the strange parallel world of "reactors" - people who have become allergic to modern life. But are the terrifying symptoms they experience real? A...

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Dirt poor islanders  by Winnie Dunn

Dirt poor islanders

Winnie Dunn

"Meadow Reed used to get confused when explaining that she had grandparents from Australia, Tonga and Great Britain. She'd say she was full-White and full-Tongan, thinking that so many halves made separate wholes. Despite the Anglo-Saxon genetics that gave...

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The fire in the flint  by Walter White

The fire in the flint

Walter White

"Kenneth Harper, a Black doctor and WWI veteran, returns to his hometown in Georgia to practice medicine after graduating from medical school in the North and completing a residency in France. Having forgotten the realities of life in the Jim Crow South, Dr....

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Blob  by Maggie (Novelist) Su

Blob

Maggie (Novelist) Su

"Vi Liu's life is a mess. Having dropped out of college, she's stuck in a job she hates at a local hotel. Her ex-boyfriend has blocked her and she's lashing out at her family and co-workers. One night, drunk outside a drag club, she stumbles across a...

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Confessions  by Catherine Airey

Confessions

Catherine Airey

" It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is...

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Artifice  by Claire Berest

Artifice

Claire Berest

"Abel Bac, a police officer, has been suspended from duty for unknown reasons. Haunted by a recurring nightmare, he walks the streets of Paris hoping to lose himself in the city, but somehow, he always finds his way home. All that gives Abel comfort are the...

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What the light touches  by Xavier Bosch

What the light touches

Xavier Bosch

"Seventeen-year-old Margaux doesn't realize one photo could change the course of her life. But in German-occupied Paris, nothing makes sense anymore. Margaux fears the worst when her lover is arrested. And when her photo appears in Nazi propaganda, her...

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The island getaway  by Lucy Diamond

The island getaway

Lucy Diamond

"On the sun-drenched island of Kefalonia, the new arrivals at The Ionian Escape hotel are hoping for a break from everyday life. But some of them are bringing a lot of baggage. Disgraced TV star Miranda Vallance feels like the worst person in the world. Her...

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An almost perfect summer  by Jill Mansell

An almost perfect summer

Jill Mansell

"Nick is the most attractive man Nella has met in a while. It's not just his '9' good looks (no one gets a 10!), but also that infectious smile. And he's definitely noticed her. But with their homes so far apart, it's one of those delightful flirty moments you...

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Ever after  by Graham Swift

Ever after

Graham Swift

An academic sits alone in his college room thinking about the people he has lost. Powerful memories crowd in on him - childhood days in Paris; his exuberant, glamorous mother; his mysterious father; and the brash young American who becomes his step-father....

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Midnight  by Josephine Cox

Midnight

Josephine Cox

"All Jack's life, the nightmares had haunted him, dragging him back to a place where it was always midnight. Molly and Jack are deeply in love but their relationship is being torn apart by Jack's nightmares. Trapped in a place where he is taunted by eyes in...

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Happiness for beginners  by Katherine Center

Happiness for beginners

Katherine Center

"A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers...

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Hollywoodski  by Lou Mathews

Hollywoodski

Lou Mathews

"A compelling novel-in-stories, Hollywoodski showcases a self-described 'faded' screenwriter's forty-year career. Dale Davis is a man encumbered by a natural writing talent, corrupted by early success, and reduced to scrambling for crumbs. He arrives in...

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Retreat to the Lakeside Cottage  by Erin (Novelist) Green

Retreat to the Lakeside Cottage

Erin (Novelist) Green

"Five authors have gathered at the idyllic Lakeside Cottage for a retreat, with the promise of dedicated writing time. At least, that's the idea... Retreat organiser Rula is there to edit, surrounded by like-minded souls. An interloper, with whom she has a...

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Sydney bridge upside down  by David Ballantyne

Sydney bridge upside down

David Ballantyne

"There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the...

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Life is strange  by Brittney Morris

Life is strange

Brittney Morris

"Alex and Steph have left Haven Springs in the rear-view mirror to travel the country, chasing the horizon. Though they don't have much money, they have their guitar and drums and each other. But when their vehicle breaks down, they are stranded, their only...

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Welcome to Pennycress Inn  by Sarah Hope

Welcome to Pennycress Inn

Sarah Hope

"Laura wants to shake things up. She's thirty-eight, and has been living in her parents' house since her divorce last year. Her siblings seem to have got their lives together: successful careers, happy marriages, beautiful children. Laura's determined to prove...

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Journey's end  by Josephine Cox

Journey's end

Josephine Cox

"As Barney Davidson watched the liner sail away with his beloved family on board, bound for America, he stood a devastated and broken man. His dream was over, but theirs was just beginning. They must never know what he had suffered to give them this...

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Someone special  by Sheila O'Flanagan

Someone special

Sheila O'Flanagan

"Romy Kilkenny loves her life in Australia. Her social diary is always full, her career is about to get a boost and she's happy sharing a house with Keith. But when she gets a call to say she's needed back in Ireland, Romy's world is turned upside...

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As it is in heaven  by Niall Williams

As it is in heaven

Niall Williams

"A tale of dreams granted and stolen... He is as awkward and shy as she is worldly and beautiful, and no one in County Clare would envision the consequences of their fateful union. As it is in Heaven is a passionately romantic tale of isolation and renewal in...

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By the River Piedra I sat down and wept  by Paulo Coelho

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

Paulo Coelho

"Pilar, an independent young woman, renews her relationship with a childhood friend who is now a maverick seminarian, and together they follow a spiritual path to true love."--Publisher.

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The house of second chances  by Lauren Westwood

The house of second chances

Lauren Westwood

"A month ago, Amy Wood had her perfect home, perfect boyfriend and perfect job in London. Now she's broken-hearted, living in her parents' tiny bungalow, and working in an estate agents in Bath. But Amy gets a new lease on life when she undertakes to sell...

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The cauldron  by 1920-1978 Zeno

The cauldron

1920-1978 Zeno

"Unless you have experienced war, it is impossible to imagine its grim reality. But The Cauldron does just that - unsparingly, painfully, brilliantly - because it is written by someone who was there. This is the story of a platoon of British paratroopers...

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Oromay  by author Baʼālu Germā

Oromay

author Baʼālu Germā

"Ethiopia, 1982: After a decade of conflict, the government is determined to quash the Eritrean insurgency once and for all. As head of propaganda, it's Tsegaye's job to keep the people onside. When the Red Star Campaign lands him in Asmara, Tsegaye is swept...

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What I left for you  by Liz Tolsma

What I left for you

Liz Tolsma

"1939. Helena Kostyszak is an oddity - an educated female ethnic minority lecturing at a university in Krakow at the outbreak of WWII. When the Germans close the university and force Jews into the ghetto, she spirits out a friend's infant daughter and flees to...

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A pale view of hills  by Kazuo Ishiguro

A pale view of hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

"In his highly acclaimed debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one...

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Big Sur  by Jack Kerouac

Big Sur

Jack Kerouac

"Unmistakably autobiographical, this book is a moving account of a man coming to terms with his own myth, his own talent and his uncontrollable, unrelenting, self-destructive life. Now approaching middle-age, Jack Duluoz retreats to California to escape the...

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Freeing Grace  by Charity Norman

Freeing Grace

Charity Norman

"Freeing Grace tells the story of David, curate of an inner-city parish, and Leila, his Nigerian-born wife. Unable to have children of their own, they're desperate for a family. When they finally hear they've been approved to adopt a baby, Grace, they can...

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Getting home  by Angus (Police officer) McLean

Getting home

Angus (Police officer) McLean

"The city is burning and panic has set in. Martial law has brought the military onto the streets to maintain law and order, but looting and violence are spreading like wildfire. Through the chaos, Gemma and Alex must try and walk to safety. Surrounded by...

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Stand fast  by Angus (Police officer) McLean

Stand fast

Angus (Police officer) McLean

"Reunited as a family, the Dobsons settle in for the long haul. Less than a week after martial law is declared, the country is falling apart fast. Crime is rampant, led by the brutal Bandits biker gang. Breaking a thousand prisoners out of jail is just the...

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The break  by Marian Keyes

The break

Marian Keyes

"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 southeast Asia. And there is nothing Amy can say or do...

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The heart of winter  by Jonathan Evison

The heart of winter

Jonathan Evison

"Abe Winter and Ruth Warneke were never meant to be together - at least if you ask Ruth. Yet their catastrophic blind date in college evolved into a seventy-year marriage and a life on a farm on Bainbridge Island with their hens and beloved Labrador Megs....

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Clever little thing  by Helena Echlin

Clever little thing

Helena Echlin

"Charlotte's daughter Stella is sensitive and brilliant, perhaps even a genius, but a recent change in her behavior has alarmed her parents. Following the sudden death of Stella's babysitter, Blanka, the once disruptive and anti-social child has become docile...

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I'll come to you  by Rebecca Kauffman

I'll come to you

Rebecca Kauffman

"With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he's unwilling to share...

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This one life  by Amanda Prowse

This one life

Amanda Prowse

"She wants it all. But life has other plans. After years of hard work, Madeleine's life is very nearly perfect. She's about to move to LA to pursue her dream job-and there's a new man on the scene too. But when her mother falls ill, pulling her back to the...

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Where the candles are kept  by Dave Eggers

Where the candles are kept

Dave Eggers

"Oisín Mahoney, in his early seventies, lives off the grid in rural Idaho, at the base of a steep pine-covered mountain. In his tilted cabin, he has no room for Calla and Torin, his grand-niece and grand-nephew, two seemingly sullen California teenagers sent...

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Appointment with Venus  by Jerrard Tickell

Appointment with Venus

Jerrard Tickell

"A brand new edition of the classic wartime adventure by Jerrard Tickell. First published in 1951 and now re-issued by Manderley Press, with an introduction by Rosa Rankin-Gee (author of 'The Last Kings of Sark'), and a front cover featuring a wallpaper design...

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Invitation to Italy  by Victoria Springfield

Invitation to Italy

Victoria Springfield

"Abi is distraught when her ex-husband Alex takes their twelve-year-old daughter, Chloe to spend the summer with his glamorous fiancée Marisa and her parents at their home on the beautiful Italian island of Procida. Persuaded by her best friend to book a...

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The hedgehog's dilemma  by Toon Tellegen

The hedgehog's dilemma

Toon Tellegen

"The first in a series of witty, philosophical and touching animal novels for adults, which have sold more than a million copies in the Netherlands and become international bestsellers. The hedgehog is lonely. So he writes a letter, inviting the animals of the...

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The lady of the mine  by Sergeĭ Lebedev

The lady of the mine

Sergeĭ Lebedev

"The mystical laundress at the center of this novel is obsessed with purity. Her task is formidable as she stands guard over a sealed shaft at a Ukrainian coal mine that hides terrible truths. The bodies of dead Jews lying in its depths seem to attract still...

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Hope Street  by Mike Gayle

Hope Street

Mike Gayle

"Lila Metcalfe is a trainee journalist in Derby and she's very used to being given the stories that no one else wants. So, when her editor tells her that the city's Cossington Park development is being held up by a solitary resident on Hope Street who is...

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Alive in the merciful country  by A. L. Kennedy

Alive in the merciful country

A. L. Kennedy

"In the 1980s, Anna McCormick was an anti-nuclear peace activist. She was used to taking on those abusing their political power, but when she was targeted by abuse herself, it left a wound so deep it would still be reverberating through her life decades later....

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Season  by George (Novelist) Harrison

Season

George (Novelist) Harrison

"For ten months of the year, two men are drawn to adjacent seats in a stadium, carrying the burdens of life and pouring all their hopes into their beloved but ailing team. Fatherless and fretful, the Young Man is trying to nurture a precarious new relationship...

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So thrilled for you  by Holly Bourne

So thrilled for you

Holly Bourne

"A terrible heatwave. A very tense baby shower. It will all end in tears... Nicki, Lauren, Charlotte and Steffi have been friends since university. Now in their thirties, life is pulling them in different directions - but when Charlotte organises the baby...

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Darkenbloom  by Eva Menasse

Darkenbloom

Eva Menasse

"It's 1989, and in a small town on the Austria-Hungary border, nobody talks about the war; the older residents pretend not to remember, and the younger ones are too busy making plans to leave. The walls are thin, the curtains twitch, there is a face at every...

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Death of the author  by Nnedi Okorafor

Death of the author

Nnedi Okorafor

"The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled,...

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Homeseeking  by Karissa Chen

Homeseeking

Karissa Chen

"There are moments when a single choice can define an entire life. Haiwen and Suchi are teenage sweethearts in 1940s Shanghai; their childhood friendship has blossomed into young love, and they believe that they are soulmates. But when Haiwen secretly decides...

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The light we lost  by Jill Santopolo

The light we lost

Jill Santopolo

"Two lives. Two loves. One choice. Every love story has a beginning... Lucy and Gabe meet in New York on a day that will change their lives - and the world - forever. As the city burns behind them, they kiss for the very first time. Over the next thirteen...

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Where trees touch the sky  by Karen Barnett

Where trees touch the sky

Karen Barnett

"In the early 1920s, the accelerating destruction of the California redwoods is more than nature-loving Marion Baker can bear. Throwing herself headlong into the work of the Save the Redwoods League, she's shocked to learn that Frank Duncan, a man she's grown...

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The island  by Victoria Hislop

The island

Victoria Hislop

"On the brink of a life-changing decision, Alexis Fielding longs to find out about her mother's past. But Sofia has never spoken of it. All she admits to is growing up in a small Cretan village before moving to London. When Alexis decides to visit Crete,...

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Mama day  by Gloria Naylor

Mama day

Gloria Naylor

"On the island of Willow Springs, off the Georgia coast, the powers of healer Mama Day are tested by her great niece, Cocoa, a stubbornly emancipated woman endangered by the island's darker forces. A powerful generational saga at once tender and suspenseful,...

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Trial by fire  by Danielle Steel

Trial by fire

Danielle Steel

"Dahlia de Beaumont is the CEO of a high-end perfume and cosmetics company based in Paris. Cruelly widowed at thirty, she brought her four children up alone. Now aged fifty, she guards her heart by burying herself in work, motherhood, and a long-term yet...

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Memento mori  by Eunice Hong

Memento mori

Eunice Hong

"Did Eurydice want to return from the underworld? Did anybody ask? Weaving together Greek mythology, neuroscience, and memories inherited from her Korean grandparents, the narrator grapples with death by telling stories to her younger brother that ask what...

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After the ocean  by Lauren E. Rico

After the ocean

Lauren E. Rico

"Thirty years ago, musicians Emilia Oliveras and Paul Winstead were married in Puerto Rico. Forty-eight hours later, Paul vanished from their honeymoon cruise, leaving Emilia devastated--and the prime suspect in his disappearance. So, she ran for her life,...

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An earthquake is a shaking of the surface of the earth  by Anna Moschovakis

An earthquake is a shaking of the surface of the earth

Anna Moschovakis

"After a seismic event leaves the world shattered, an unnamed narrator at the end of a mediocre acting career struggles to regain the ability to walk on ground that is in constant motion. When her alluring younger housemate, Tala, disappears, what had begun as...

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Definitely better now  by Ava Robinson

Definitely better now

Ava Robinson

"The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, she's an alcoholic. But she's officially been sober for one entire year. That's twelve months of better health. Fifty-two whole weeks of focusing on nothing but her nine-to-five office job,...

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Interpretations of Love  by Jane Campbell

Interpretations of Love

Jane Campbell

"Stretching from war-torn 1940's Liverpool to Oxford at the end of the century, this story explores the emotional landscape of the time and the impact tiny moments of betrayal can have on our relationships in the years that follow. Malcolm has held on to a...

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The book censor's library  by Buthaynah ʻĪsá

The book censor's library

Buthaynah ʻĪsá

"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the...

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The piano  by Jane Campion

The piano

Jane Campion

The novel reveals why Ada has stopped speaking, the history of the piano, and the secret of Flora's conception.

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