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"A special 25th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, including a new Foreword by Paulo Coelho. Combining magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Alchemist has become a modern cla...
North London, November 1913. After her mother dies, Livvie Bone is left to support her family and protect her younger siblings from their drunken father. But life in Wood Green is hard and full of danger. When the mysterious Joe Hunter steps in to help...
Slapton Sands, 1943 War has not been kind to Carol Porter. It took her husband and baby, and with them her heart. At last she's found some peace, working as a land girl at Coombe Farm. But Carol's sanctuary, the whole local area in fact, is about to ...
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She's carrying the billionaire's child. But he seems like a stranger! Brooding Pietro Agosti was stunned when his sizzling fling with vibrant teacher Molly Armstrong resulted in her pregnancy - finally this merciless Italian would be able to continue...
The death of the family matriarch, Charlotte Atkinson, at Windfell Manor casts a long shadow over Charlotte's husband Archie and her two children, Isabelle and Danny. Isabelle takes over the running of Atkinson's department store but her pride - and heart...
Finding the wife he'd believed lost to him for ever in a remote Scottish village seems like a miracle to wealthy CEO Thomas Collier. But Rosalind is suffering from amnesia - she can't remember anything from before her accident, including her husband and...
General surgeon Kate Mitchell is reunited with Dr Angus Caruth - the gorgeous army doc she spent one night with three years ago. Working together on the Specialist Disaster Response team reignites their flame, but before Angus moves on again will Kate...
It's almost Valentine's Day, and poor Valene Fortunado is still single. Determined to take matters into her own hands, she signs up for a dating app that inexplicably pairs her with Jake Brockton. The sexy, down-to-earth 'ranch hand' quickly makes Val...
Returning home to Cannon Beach and living in Brambleberry House, a place where good things seemed destined to happen, had brought Melissa Fielding and her young daughter such joy. Perhaps it was no accident when the single mom 'bumped' into Eli Sanderson...
Waitress Melinda Osmon is dreading attending her work Christmas ball alone for the first time since her ex took everything from her. But a little Christmas magic brings her a saviour in the form of mysterious, gorgeous Ray. And yet the happy ending of...
Tycoon Marco Silviano can't forget the mysterious woman he spent an incredible week with on a luxurious island. Coming face to face with Imogen in England is shocking - especially when he learns she's expecting his baby! Convinced their child will secure...
Billionaire Dante Vittori has spent years building his impeccable reputation - no easy feat following his father's incarceration. Now, to counter a business threat, ruthless Dante must do the unthinkable - get married! Free-spirited heiress Alisha will...
...Injured nurse Harriet Collins agrees to let hunky paramedic Jack Evans get her fighting fit and back on the Specialist Disaster Response team. After all, it's purely platonic... right? Plus, she's already nursing a broken heart. But when she's the...
"You're my wife, Lucy." His lost-and-found Viscountess. After a year of desperate searching, Lord Oliver Sedgewick has found his wife - in the slums of St Giles. He can't suppress his joy that Lucy is alive, despite his grief that their baby has not made...
After leaving her cheating ex, nurse Nychelle Cory decides to have the baby she's always wanted through IVF. As she's determined to raise her child alone she must ignore her inconvenient attraction to gorgeous colleague Dr David Warmington. Especially...
Following the death of his fiancee, Lord Quinn has sworn off all matters of the heart. But when he happens upon an innocent lady being assaulted his sense of honour insists he step in and rescue her - even if that means marriage to protect Serena's r...
She gave him her innocence... Now she'll be his convenient bride! Wherever ruthless billionaire Ethan Devereux goes, the press follow. So when he discovers the astonishing night he shared with talented actress Merida has ended in pregnancy, he moves fast...
Shy housekeeper Molly Miller always tries her best. She's anxious to impress outrageously wealthy house guest Salvio De Gennaro, but instead is unfairly criticised by her employer! Found sobbing by Salvio, she's comforted - with the most amazing experience...
When widow Lady Carrie meets charming gadabout Lord Avery she is shocked by her intense reaction to him. She's never before longed for wifely pleasures, and it takes all her courage to propose that he show them to her! He might be taken aback by her ...
Lola Price didn't dare tell Rodrigo Cabrera she was pregnant after he spurned her. But now he's discovered her secret he's determined his child will take his name! Whilst their mutual desire in the marriage bed is undeniable, Rodrigo keeps himself at...
Three festive Regency romances... In The captain's Christmas journey, Captain Everard is escorting Verity to her governess job - and for propriety's sake that means a convenient engagement! In Louise Allen's The viscount's yuletide betrothal Eleanor ...
Is she a good cop gone bad? If only she could remember? Suffering amnesia, injured detective Abby Baker can't believe her sergeant actually thinks she killed her partner. Enter Sheriff Caleb Tanner, tasked with learning Abby's secrets while she hides...
A desire they can't resist... A consequence they'll cherish for ever. Still reeling from her failed marriage, Archana Coates is ready to rediscover the vibrant, fun-loving woman she once was. So an unexpected encounter with childhood crush playboy su...
Danger brought them together. Will the truth tear them apart? Desperate to learn what caused his estranged father's death, Dexter Hawk finds himself drawn to a woman from his past. Melissa Gentry lost her family years ago. Now a shoot-out at work has...
What she's always wanted: Love. A family. Him. Paediatric surgeon Rory Anderson is dreading returning to her small Alaskan home town and seeing her ex, local doctor Jacob Hunter! After everything they've lost, discovering he's a single dad brings back...
One night of comfort... One unexpected miracle! Beatrice Lindford's fresh start is abruptly derailed the moment she starts working with gorgeous single dad Dr Daniel Capaldi. He instantly ruffles her guarded feathers, but Beatrice must keep her mind on...
Feuding grandparents ended Daniel Clayton and Alexis Slade's teenage romance - and ten years hasn't healed the family rift - nor cooled their intense desire. But when staying apart backfires spectacularly, Daniel and Lexi find themselves entangled in...
One-night miracle? For the Crown Prince! In this The Cattaneos' Christmas Miracles story, rebel royal Max believes his infertility has cost him the throne - until heiress Noemi reveals she's carrying his baby! With his country's future at stake, Max must...
Playboy Sheikh Malak assumes he'll never inherit the throne, but when his brother unexpectedly abdicates he finds himself King! Now past indiscretions must be put aside - until he uncovers the hidden consequence of one delicious seduction of an innoc...
When bartender Jeannie Kaufman leaves her job to care for her infant niece, Dr. Robert Wyatt, her favourite customer, offers the help she so desperately needs. Yet as sparks fly, the gruff, gorgeous heir to a fortune still holds back. Does Robert think...
A year after being jilted, Ava Keller finds herself forced back up the aisle - as bridesmaid at a beautiful Cape Town wedding. Best man Noah Giles - Ava's first crush - is the perfect distraction from her painful memories. But their flirtation turns ...
She can save his son. But can she resist the Highland warrior? In this A Highland Feuding story, famed healer Anna Mackenzie is moved by Davidh of Clan Cameron's request to help his ailing young son. She wants to help - and the commander has unknowin...
In the quiet village of Steynham St Michael there is an anonymous letter writer at work, jabbing and stabbing at the past's Achilles' heels of many of the upright citizens living there. After one resident is driven to extreme measures to escape expos...
Lydia Smith lives her life hiding in plain sight. A clerk at the Bright Ideas bookstore, she keeps a meticulously crafted existence among her beloved books, eccentric colleagues, and the BookFrogs - the lost and lonely regulars who spend every day ma...
Madeleine Frost has to get away. Her partner Liam has become increasingly controlling, to the point that she fears for her safety and that of her young daughter Poppy. Desperation leads Maddie to the hotel owned by her estranged father - the extraord...
When Joe Thorne was fifteen, his little sister, Annie, disappeared. At the time, Joe thought it was the worst thing in the world that could ever happen. And then she came back. But she couldn't, or wouldn't, say what had happened to her. Now Joe has ...
London, 1917: Terror has come from the sky, and Londoners are scurrying in fear. A twin tragedy strikes Dr John Watson: an old friend, Staff Nurse Jennings, is on a boat-ambulance torpedoed in the Channel with no survivors. And his concert-going companion,...
Arizona, 1989: Joy Sheldon loves the plants that bloom in the desert, but dreams too of the sea's elemental wildness. Now, riven by terrible secrets, she embarks on a journey to seek her identity - and to discover why the sea pulls at her heart. London,...
What do you lose when your memories begin to disappear? What do you value when this reframes how you've lived, and how you will live in the future? How do you conceive of love when you can no longer recognise those who are supposed to mean the most to...
Last year's May Day celebrations ended in tragedy for Gemma with the mysterious death of her Aunt Clara. Having inherited her aunt's run-down cottage in her childhood village of Wythorne, Gemma moves in, hoping to investigate the death, and is drawn to...
Cherry has a hidden talent. She can see things other people can't, and she decided a long time ago to use this skill to help others. As far as the rest of the town is concerned, she's simply the kind-hearted young woman who runs the local bakery - but...
Sophia's parents lead quiet, unremarkable lives. At least, that's what she's always believed. Until the day she arrives at her childhood home to find a house ringing with silence. Her mother is dead, hanging from a tree. Her father is lying in a pool...
Workaholic accountant Hannah Charles takes a leap of faith and a badly needed holiday in a house swap from the Cotswolds to converted St. Anne's church in Tingara, Australia. There she meets handsome architect-cum-artist Will Bennett, who lives an al...
Two unemployed wranglers are given a gold nugget for helping an old prospector named Huggy Johnson when his wagon breaks down. Alamo Todd Heffridge and his partner Kid Streater unwittingly sell the nugget to an unscrupulous assay agent in the Arizona...
Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of Carey's Circus. Their trainer is the fearless Anton, whose work demands absolute fitness and the steadiest of nerves. When Anton is found lying dead in the tigers' cage, it seems that he has lost control...
It's business as usual for Mr Glossop as he does his regular round delivering wages to government buildings scattered across New Zealand's lonely Canterbury plains. But when his car breaks down he is stranded for the night at the isolated Mount Seage...
The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. The vicar's peace is sh...
'Adrian Gray was born in May 1862 and met his death through violence, at the hands of one of his own children, at Christmas, 1931.' Thus begins this classic crime novel published in 1933. Each December, Adrian Gray invites his extended family to stay...
Brighton, 1956: When Mirabelle's on-off boyfriend, Superintendent Alan McGregor, is taken off a gruesome murder case, she steps in to unravel the tangle of poisoned gin, prostitutes and high-stakes gambling that surrounds the death. It isn't long bef...
Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother's garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successi...
Reluctantly stationed on the sweltering Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, Detective Inspector Richard Poole dreams of cold winds, drizzly rain and a pint in his local pub. Just as he is feeling as fed up as can be, a mysterious vagrant is found dead at...
Jen is at her wits' end. Her fifteen-year-old daughter has just been found after going missing: four days lost and alone in the desolate countryside. Lana won't talk about it. The police think the case is closed. But Jen can't leave it alone. Lana is...
Two abused and neglected children find sanctuary with a neighboring rancher. Out West, a gold prospector's widow must evade the clutches of a corrupt sheriff. Defying doctor's orders, a wounded cop searches for his missing rebellious sister. After fl...
Joe Bostock and his chief engineer Will Carruthers are engaged on building a railway line in the wilds of Manitoba that will open up rich wheat lands for settlers - but the Big Muskeg swamp seems likely to ruin the construction scheme. When an unseen...
Former lawman Rance Toller and his lover Angie Sutter foil a stagecoach robbery just outside the frontier settlement of Tombstone, Arizona, and in the process capture the notorious gunfighter Johnny Ringo. As a result, Rance is persuaded to accept the...
Mentally scarred by her parents' violent deaths, Helen Sparrow was sent for treatment at a residential psychiatric clinic. Now discharged, she returns to a shadowy old mansion, the scene of both the murders and her repressed, unhappy childhood. But she...
On what should be a quiet Sunday morning, Inspector Montalbano is called to a murder scene on the Sicilian coast. A man has discovered his father dead in his Vigatan beach house: his body slumped on the dining-room floor, his morning coffee spilt across...
Any pet owner knows the agonizing panic when their beloved furry family member suddenly goes missing. Fear no more: Tom Watkins, former policeman turned true-life pet detective, is on hand to reunite animal companions with families across the nation....
The death of Sabrina's husband en route to Illinois leaves her alone in an untamed land. But the widow proves more than a match for the world of the frontier.
The Dowager Duchess of Tawcester knows America is full of wealthy young men, all of whom will fall in love with her daughter, the supremely gifted Twinks - and marriage to a Texan millionaire would solve the Tawcester financial problems once and for all....
Busy mum of twins Liv is looking forward to a week at the Beach Hut in Devon, even if she feels that something's not right between her and Matt. She's sure he's just too busy at work to join them on their summer holiday... Baz loves having his family...
Myra and Graham Butler lead the kind of lives where everything is neat, tidy and predictable. That is, until they're named guardians to their two young nephews. Myra makes it clear she doesn't want the responsibility. After a terrible loss early in t...
Teenager Allie Kennaway heads off for prom night, cheered on by her dad Steve and little sister Teagan. But she never comes home, beaten to death in an apparent hate crime because of her transgender identity. As police investigate the brutal murder, a...
Laura Griffin is preparing for an empty nest. The thought of Number 11 Lark Hill falling silent - a home usually bustling with noise, people and the fragrant smells of something cooking on the Aga - seems impossible. Feeling lost, Laura turns to her ...
It's the summer of 1939, and after touring an unsettled Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple returns home to Island House and the love of her life, the charismatic Jack Devereux. But when Jack falls ill, his estranged family are called home...
Recovering from a bereavement, Katie Robertson finds an advertisement for a temporary job on the Isles of Scilly that involves looking after a housebound elderly lady for a few weeks. Hoping to investigate a possible family connection, she eagerly applies....
A family home has become a family crime scene. Five people are involved. Four of them - mother, stepfather, daughter, son - have been savagely murdered. The fifth, the eldest daughter, is missing. Did she escape? Or is her absence evidence of something...
On a journey to the Scottish harbour town where her grandmother, Cathy, had a love affair that ended in heartbreak many years before, Sarah Barnes can't help but think of how far away her days of strap-hanging on the London Tube seem to be. Currently...
The Archway Players are struggling this year to put a Christmas production together in their seaside Cornish town. Adam, a member of the troupe since he was a teenager, is distracted by Gwen, his would-be girlfriend. While Gwen, a health care worker who...
1935: The Durrells pack their bags and flee the gloom of England like a flock of migrating swallows. Their destination is the Greek island of Corfu, where the eccentric family takes up residence in a series of villas. Budding naturalist Gerald, the youngest...
Will Lord Emsworth's beloved Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood and Beach the butler, confident in her past record, have staked their shirts on this. However, an extremely...
Judge Crowdy Lobbett is a marked man - within the span of a month, his secretary has been shot, his butler poisoned, his chauffeur killed in a mysterious accident, and his walking companion felled by a falling stone. Each time, the judge has escaped by...
In an ancient remote mansion nestles the infamous Black Dudley Dagger - a jewel-encrusted Italian blade, weapon in a centuries-old murder. As house-party guests merrily recreate the traditional ceremony of the dagger, passing it from person to person...
"Two western stories: The Valley of Thunder finds Marshal Hugh Mitchel trying to make the streets of Dunningan, Wyoming, safe despite opposition from ranch owners who are unwilling to have restraints imposed on their men. The Story of Buckhorn is the...
"With Christmas approaching, the café's resident cat Molly is devastated when Debbie's heartbroken sister moves in, bringing her dog, Beau. Molly's home is further threatened when a rival cat moves in on her turf. Only a Christmas miracle could bring...
"Seeking a fresh start during the Great Depression, fifteen-year-old Hannah's Amish family moves from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to a North Dakota homestead, but face harsh realities and nearly starve until Hannah takes matters into her own...
"Late one January afternoon, nine men rode into the town of Florence, Arizona, looking for a place to settle and start a new life, leaving the horrors of the Civil War and its aftermath in the past. One man harboring a secret grudge watched them ride...
"Cherokee has had a series of crimes and the only clue the culprits leave behind is a crude blood-red triangle. It is not until Hashknife Hartley and Sleepy Stevens come to town that a way is found to solve the mystery"--
"In southern New Mexico, Sam MacKinnon is double-crossed by his partners after robbing a saloon and left with busted ribs, a banged-up head, no gun, and no horse. Overlooked by a posse, he finds his horse and starts out on the vengeance trail. Stopping...
"King Parson married Dale Thorne's widowed mother and took control of the million-acre Thunderhead spread. When King's brutality toward Dale and his mother drove her to an early grave, Dale vowed vengeance and rode out. Three years later, he returns tough...
"Melanie Travis needs a little peace from her busy life this Christmas. But the usual holiday hubbub is a joy compared to the killer surprise she finds tucked underneath the tree when her brother and her ex-husband purchase a dilapidated pine tree farm...
"Con artist Elizabeth Miles uses her special set of skills to help Priscilla Knight, a dedicated suffragist who was recently widowed for the second time in her young life, when Priscilla's banker informs her she has little money and her house is mortgaged...
"Warner accepts a request from Justa Williams to go to Mexico to check out some high-priced Arabians with Justa's hot-headed, skirt-chasing, younger brother Ben, who will be carrying (dollar) 5,500 in gold with which to purchase the horses. This trip...
"Spanning from World War II to the present, three generations of women struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town as they face trials, small and large: social slights and heartbreaks; marital disappointments and inf...
"Dani and her daughters need to get out of New York. So when the retiring Haven Point veterinarian offers her a chance to take over his practice in the small Idaho town, she takes it. Adjusting to the charming mountain community isn't easy, but their...
"Jaime Nichols went to law school determined to find the voice she never had as a child and then use it to protect the innocent. But just as a figure from her past is rising to prominence, she is removed from all her cases and can't help but feel that...
"Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking, the ability to enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy of using the...
"When two women go missing in the Montana wilderness, Pete Brooks must trust his skills, teammates--and the woman who broke his heart--if he hopes to bring them all home alive"--
"FBI Special Agent April Ramos is caught off guard when a frazzled young woman shoves a crying baby into her arms, then disappears. Jason Snyder abducts April and the baby at gunpoint, claiming to be the girl's father and that he was framed for murder....
"Grace King is pet-sitting when she meets her neighbor, fireman John Michael Miller, who broke her sister's heart five years ago when he walked away from their courtship. Now, as suspicious fires are set in their community, all John Michael wants is to...
"A snowstorm brings a cast of very different characters together at a sleepy New England inn, just in time for Christmas--and maybe even in time for a Christmas miracle"--
"CIA operative Dewey Andreas accidentally injects a small amount of designer poison into himself. Now, to survive, Dewey must get into North Korea and access the antidote and, while there, thwart the nuclear ambitions of both North Korea and Iran. And...
"Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner, this imaging of a young girl's world, forever altered, tells her heartbreaking story through her eyes, and the eyes of her family and friends"--Provide by publisher.
"In the summer of 1898, reporter Emma Cross investigates the shocking death of a debutante at her coming-out ball among the bright lights of Newport's high society"--
"Blade Hamilton had never even heard of Crossroads, Texas, until he inherits land there. When Dakota Davis helps a stranger on the roadside, she isn't prepared for the charisma of the man--or for the last name he bears: Hamilton, that of her family's...
"The daughter of a convicted serial killer finds herself at the center of a murder investigation as the prime suspect"--
"From the blistering cane fields of the Caribbean to the frozen Far North, from the earliest aquariums of London to the eerie deserts of Morocco, a boy rises from the ashes of slavery in the 1830s to become a free man of the world"--
"A young painter's traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious summer artists' colony run by Louis Comfort Tiffany of Tiffany & Co. fame"--
"Nine-year-old Samuel lives alone in a once-great estate in Surrey with the family's housekeeper, Ruth. His father is dead and his mother has been abroad for months, purportedly tending to her late husband's faltering business. She left in a hurry one...
"In this intriguing, uplifting holiday mystery from bestselling author Anne Perry, an orphan boy investigates a woman's kidnapping--and discovers there's more at stake than a disappearance"--
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