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1) The takedown
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“Love and Vanity” meets “Succession” in a clever, funny, and romantic uplift about wealth, power, family, and love from rising star Lily Chu.
For Dee Kwan, every day is the perfect day. No, really. She has a house she loves, a job she adores, and a ridiculously attractive "nemesis" who never seems to mind when she wins their favorite online game. How can life possibly get better? (It can't, obviously. It can only get much, much worse.)
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Jennifer Lyell hates her job, hates her apartment, hates her boyfriend, hates her life, and the scary thing is, she's gotten used to it. Why isn't she more excited about her recent promotion to Assistant Articles Editor at Today's Woman magazine? Her boss Jane makes up questions for the "Smart Girls" advice column, her best friend Christine tries to convince the Fashion Director to use real women instead of 16 year-old models, and Jenny wonders how...
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Based on the legend of Saint Sara, who with Mary Magdalene arrived at the shores of the French Riviera after Christ crucifixion, "The Valley of Silent People" is an allegory about gaining faith and trust that even the most unexpected and radical discovery has no power to overcome. Though unrecognized as a saint by the Catholic Church, Saint Sara remains one in the hearts of people, especially Roms, who designate her as their patron. Controversy still...
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This collection of poetry contains 40 poems that all are set to the theme of light and darkness. Some poems are exclusively uplifting and resonate beauty, while others are exclusively unsettling, evoking some darkness within them. Still, other poems combine the two, light and dark, to play back and forth on beauty and the unknown.
5) Ever. After
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Ever Falk's life growing up at her families resort hotel in the Catskills,and in Westchester, New York never prepared her for the fight of herlife. We follow 40-something year old Ever when she suffers astroke and she is forced to look at her life, loves, and familythrough different eyes.Ever's compelling narrative voice sweeps us along on her journeyas she desperately tries to hold on to life, faith and her dreams.
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It's the middle of the twentieth century and Portland has fallen into the hands of gangsters. Newly orphaned Mae Rose wanders the rain-stained streets alone, on the lam from a knife wielding pimp, mustering her own worst impulses to survive. As Mae rises in Portland's gritty sex industry, she's pursued by a district attorney who wants to ensnare her for more personal reasons. Meanwhile, Dr. Ruth Barnett, queen of Portland's nightlife, runs a lucrative...
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"Una intrincada novela negra con la que caminarás por calles y ambientes de la Barcelona de principios del siglo XX en los zapatos de un detective singular".
Del autor de Malnazidos: Noche de difuntos del 38.
Barcelona, 1901. El gran detective Byron Mitchell se ve forzado a abandonar su retiro para investigar el asesinato de Ramón Calafell, abogado de la familia burguesa que le arrenda un piso en el lujoso paseo de Gracia.
En la bulliciosa Barcelona...
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"Fascinating . . . The Social Sex is a paean to companionship. Share it with a bosom friend." -NPR
From historian and acclaimed feminist author of How the French Invented Love and A History of the Wife comes this rich, multifaceted history of the evolution of female friendship
In today's culture, the bonds of female friendship are taken as a given. But only a few centuries ago, the idea of female friendship was completely unacknowledged, even pooh-poohed....
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"Audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring." -GEORGE SAUNDERS
"Madcap, delirious, exhilaratingly good." -KELLY LINK
"A delightfully bizarre and unabashedly queer revelation." -TEGAN and SARA QUIN
"A beautifully brilliant, hilariously sad stunner of a debut that never forgets about the heart." -NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH
What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out?
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Sometimes the only way to find true happiness is to go back home.
Ophelia Simmons is back home at the Paradise-the former brothel where her mom raised her and six sisters-contemplating her next career move and dodging Great Aunt Bernie's matchmaking attempts. She is about to meet her match in Jake Brennan, the ruggedly handsome owner of a local winery where Aunt Bernie convinces her to take a job for the summer. At first Ophelia and Jake's personalities...
11) Ink Deep
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Most of Briony Carmichael's body was tragically burned as a child. Deeply hurt by the reactions of those closest to her, Briony believes her scars render her unlovable. She hides in her apartment, secluding herself from the outside world.Tattoo artist Corbin Franklin has everything - including a brain tumor that will kill him. Determined to not let his art die with him, he seeks someone to become his living legacy, a walking canvas for his art.Drawn...
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This is a sweet romance short story (word count 4,690)From the moment Helen set eyes on her boss, Ben, she knew they were destined to end up together. The only problem was that getting Ben's attention proved to be an extremely difficult task to accomplish. His entire focus seemed to be fixed on his work, with socialising not a priority in his life.Then, an invitation arrives for a charity ball, and to Helen's surprise, Ben announces that they should...
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A school reunion… a time for lies, illusion, pretending life is the way you want it to be. If the four friends had been truthful that night could one of them have escaped the terrible ordeal of a packed courtroom? But each had played her part too well.Cate, the single, successful TV producer lacks the courage to risk everything to get what she really wants.Rory, the ambitious editor has overruled her partner's doubts to have a baby before it's too...
14) Encore
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USA Today bestselling author Megan Mulry takes readers from the sun-washed coasts of Florida to the cobbled streets of London, exploring the fresh, messy course of real love-and the courage it takes to keep it…A beautiful strangerIt's something about his eyes: the intense, searing blue; the focus on her-not just her body, but on Ellie herself. Those eyes hint at passion, determination, the scars of grief. But when she asks the handsome mechanic...
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A spellbinding thriller about wealth, power and one woman's all-consuming ambition to achieve her wildest dreams.Lenore Hamlyn is taken in by her sympathetic landlady and is shocked when she eventually learns the source of Nan's wealth. But that life-changing revelation fires her deepest ambition.Returning from her London finishing school as the sophisticated, enigmatic Anthea James, she is determined to achieve the ultimate power – even if that...
16) Faith Departed
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Starting a family was supposed to be easy. Twin sisters June and July have never encountered an obstacle they couldn't overcome. Married just after graduating college, the girls and their husbands remained a close-knit group. Now settled and successful, the next logical step is children.But as the couples struggle to conceive, each must reconcile the goodness of God with their present suffering. Will their faith be strong enough to triumph in the...
17) A Second Chance
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This is a steamy romance short story (word count 4,828)Jennifer shares a weekend alone with Craig, whom she had once been so close to, from the moment they met when she had been just eighteen and Craig not much older. They had shared almost everything and had been more than just friends!Eventually, their love for each other was found out, resulting in them being torn cruelly apart by their parents to ensure that such an occurrence would not happen...
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Tell Me Something True is the third book in The Truth In Lies series and cannot be read as a standalone. Please read This Much Is True and The Truth About Air & Water, books 1 and 2 in the series, first.TELL ME SOMETHING TRUEThe star ballerina finally marries the major league baseball player and the truth about Linc and Tally-his being her air and she being his water-becomes clear after the couple finally realize that their love is all that matters....
19) Sign On!
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A failing network. A desperate producer. An unscripted all-woman talk-fest to the rescue!Chief Executive Producer, Bumpy Friedman had a vision. He recognized the need for a new talk-magazine show that would deliver the ratings-and save his job in the process. He would create a new approach to serving up the latest news and gossip-a daily talk show hosted by four high-profile women of varying ages--authorities on everything from pop-culture to fashion;...
20) In His Power
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When something happens at one of Victor's theme parks, a side business he has as a cover up, he meets a woman who might change his life forever. But not before he can change hers. A life changing event shatters her world, and loosing faith in the police, she accepts Victor's help, with his not so ethical ways. It might take a bad man to take down bad people. Will that make Victor a good man or just a man who has finally found love. There is light...
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