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2023.
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Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
4) Feast
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A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yellow House.
Three women. Three secrets. One weekend.
Alison is an actress who no longer acts, Patrick a musician past his prime. The eccentric couple live an isolated, debauched existence in an old manor house in Scotland, a few miles outside their village. That is, until Patrick's teenage daughter, Neve, flees Australia to spend a year abroad with her...
5) Coming Home
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Each life lived leaves an impression. A mark on the people and places it encounters. Old houses are full of such impressions. Old houses are full of secrets. Dani is good at finding them. She's also good at misreading texts and accidentally injuring herself, but that's beside the point. As she embarks on an investigation into the secrets of her home, Dani stumbles (literally and figuratively), but she doesn't give up. Will the whirl of shifting relationships,...
6) Payback Time
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The brand new instalment in the addictive and gripping Bad Blood series from queen of gangland crime, Caz Finlay 'If you like Martina Cole and Kimberley Chambers you will LOVE {Caz Finlay}' Reader Review If you challenge the Carters Connor Carter and Jake Conlon are having trouble with a rival gang, and it's clear they've underestimated their power. But no son of the infamous Grace Carter is going to let someone else run the streets of Liverpool....
7) Crawlspace
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A young girl trapped by generational trauma and an unexpected pregnancy struggles to realise her dreams in the final volume of Mag Vann's InSecurity Triptych.
In 1987, baby Marlene witnesses her father mutilated in a Port Moresby compound invasion, giving rise to a deep psychological scar and a powerful family secret.
In 2012, Marlene finds her perfect match in awkward hacker Andy, an American running from his past and desperate for a visa. Their...
8) I'm Sleeping
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Matthew and Melanie had shared almost ten years of what appeared to be a perfect life. They had achieved the American dream with well-paying jobs and a new house on some land in the countryside. However, the truth was far from what it seemed. Melanie had been keeping a dark secret from Matthew, one that involved torturing him without his knowledge. When that became too mundane, Melanie sought a new form of torture, one that was blatant but surprisingly...
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Secrets. Lies. A man. There's always a man. And there's always a truth to be told.
I'm Hailey Anne Monroe. I'm twenty-eight years old. An artist, who found her muse on the canvas because I wasn't allowed to have friends or even keep a journal. And yes, if you haven't guessed by now, I'm that Hailey Anne Monroe, daughter to Thomas Frank Monroe, the man who was a half-percentage point from becoming President of the United States. If you were able to...
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A powerful and poignant rural family story told by the acclaimed Fleur McDonald, bestselling author of Broad River Station and Into the Night.
When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off on the long drive home, knowing her grandfather will need her.
Less than an hour away from Sassi's hometown, Barker, she swerves...
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Pam Leighton is a smart, ambitious, and sexy aide to a handsome Washington lobbyist named John Duke. For the last two years, she's also been his lover. It's an open secret that his glamorous and social-climbing wife, Catherine, tolerates-to a point.
After the President nominates Duke for a cabinet post, Catherine sees her opportunity and delivers an ultimatum: either fire Pam or get ready for a very public, very ugly divorce. Duke's sharply honed...
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Don't miss the brand new thriller from USA Today bestselling author, Carissa Ann Lynch. A secret has been kept for twenty years, until now… A new home. A new start. An old nightmare. Inheriting a house was supposed to be the perfect escape for Willow Roberts. But the home is in a town she hasn't been to since childhood, when her friend ran away. Twenty years later Willow is back. Nothing has changed, but everything is different.Then a body is found,...
13) Shadow Drive
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In this thrilling debut from award-winning filmmaker Nolan Cubero, a young father must investigate his mysterious new tenant and discover what secrets she's hiding-while trying to keep his own.
Landlord Gabriel Angueira is trying to put his life back together. His teenage daughter, Megan, was seriously injured in a car accident caused by her own drunk driving, though Gabe blames himself. Since the accident he has spent every day taking care of her,...
14) The whispers
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The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
15) Gone tonight
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2023.
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Catherine Sterling thinks she knows her mother. Ruth Sterling is quiet, hardworking, and lives for her daughter. All her life, it's been just the two of them against the world. But now, Catherine is ready to spread her wings, move from home, and begin anew career. And Ruth Sterling will do anything to prevent that from happening. Ruth Sterling thinks she knows her daughter. Catherine would never rebel, would never question anything about her mother's...
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Mitford years volume 2
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1995.
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413 pages : map ; 20 cm.
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His attractive neighbor is tugging at his heartstrings. A wealthy widow is pursuing him with hot casseroles, and his red-haired Cousin Meg has moved into the rectory, uninvited. Mitford's rector and lifelong bachelor, Father Tim, is in need of divine intervention.
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Best-selling author Britney King returns with a page-turning thriller novel that will take you on a rollercoaster ride of suspense and intrigue. Join six friends as they confront a fateful decision that spirals into a dark and twisted journey. During a night of drunken revelry, three couples spontaneously agree to swap spouses for a wild weekend that promises liberation from the monotony of their lives. They're all friends-what could possibly go wrong?...
18) Breakfall
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One wrong decision. One death. One missing person. One clear suspect. From the acclaimed author of At the End of the World, Turn Left comes a riveting novel of domestic suspense, sexual desire, motherhood, and marriage in modern times. Mina Banksy, a 32-year-old writer and mother of a rambunctious toddler, is still reeling from a tumultuous divorce when two Chicago detectives show up at her door looking for her friend, Dylan. Or, more accurately,...
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B
Pub. Date
2022.
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554 pages ; 24 cm
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"Madrid, 1991. Seven very different women meet at a small sewing academy where they will share their lives' stories with each other. Each one has a different reason to want to learn to sew and, among fabrics, patterns, and pins, all of them will connect with parts of themselves that they thought were long gone and forgotten, they will discover the therapeutic power of friendships between women and, stitch after stitch, they will weave the story of...
20) Somebody's fool
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Ten years after the death of the magnetic Donald “Sully” Sullivan, the town of North Bath is going through a major transition as it is annexed by its much wealthier neighbor, Schuyler Springs. Peter, Sully’s son, is still grappling with his father’s tremendous legacy as well as his relationship to his own son, Thomas, wondering if he has been all that different a father than Sully was to him. Meanwhile, the towns’ newly consolidated police...
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