Author: Val McDermid
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1443409189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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When clinical psychiatrist Charlie Flint is sent a mysterious package of press cuttings about a brutal murder, it instantly grabs her attention. The murder occurred on the grounds of her old Oxford college—a groom battered to death just hours after his wedding. As Charlie delves back into the closeted, mysterious world that is academic life at Oxford, every step she takes toward the truth is a step closer to danger.
Author: Emanuel Bergmann
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501155822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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"Sweeping between Prague during World War II and modern day Los Angeles, this ... debut follows a young Jewish man in 1934 who falls in love and joins the circus as the country descends into war. Decades later, a young boy seeks out the now cynical, elderly magician in the hopes that his spells might keep his family together"--
Author: Natalia Jaster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781957824017
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Spicy enemies to lovers fantasy romance with an HEA. STAY AWAY FROM THE COURT JESTER. ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE A GOOD LITTLE PRINCESS. The Court Jester marks his targets with a ribbon. That's how I find out I'm next. The moment that band of scarlet fabric appears on my pillow, I know it's a promise-a bad omen delivered by someone wicked. He's powerful. He's sinful. They whisper about him in the castle's shadowed halls. Everyone fears his devilish tongue, yet everyone desires his heated touch. With each seductive temptation, I fall under the jester's spell. With every forbidden moment, he ignites a fire that I've never known before. But the jester is guarding a treasonous secret. And becoming his obsession is dangerous. As a good little princess, I should know. Because if I don't risk my ruin, I'll surely sacrifice my heart. WARNING: This is steamy NA/New Adult fantasy romance with explicit sexual content and language. For readers 18+ who want a scorching enemies to lovers story. **FOR CWs: Please check the author's website.** **2022 SECOND EDITION with spicy adult content including extended, new, and revised scenes.
Author: Louise Penny
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429972890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011 A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011 With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. "Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montreal. Chief Inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny Quebec village and there he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear to Gamache and his team if what they've found is the truth, or simply a trick of the light. "Penny has been compared to Agatha Christie [but] it sells her short. Her characters are too rich, her grasp of nuance and human psychology too firm...." --Booklist (starred review)
Author: B.R. Collins
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408812908
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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Zach and his sister Annis have been uprooted by their parents from their comfortable home to a remote and half-built barn in France. Zach is being removed from his 'bad-influence' friends, their parents are trying to salvage their marriage and still remain on speaking terms whilst the bitterness of their father's affair bubbles underneath the surface. And Annis - Annis just keeps going, keeping her head down, trying to keep it together. So far so normal. And then Zach, uncommunicative and contrary as ever these days, defies everything their parents have said and makes his way to the unsafe ruined building at the edge of their new garden, and leans up against the wall. The wall bulges, totters - and suddenly collapses on top of him. Annis, horrified, sees him crumpled on the ground. Desperate, she races towards him, not daring to think anything at all. She sees him, on the ground, broken, silent, not there any more. And then, unbelievably, he moves. Zach moves. Zach, in an extraordinary and instinctive decision, has broken his bond with his own soul, the essence of himself. By doing so he has cheated death. By doing so he has also cheated life. He is unable to touch any human person again. And the essence of himself, his 'other', his soul, is chasing him, determined to rejoin what should rightfully be together. Zach is on the run, from himself, whom he can never escape, from death, but also from the life that he can never enjoy again. Perhaps only a sister can help him now.
Author: Fiona McCallum
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1867207877
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
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The old saying goes: 'A problem shared is a problem halved'. But what if your problem is secret? Erica, newly widowed, is devastated to discover her venture capitalist husband left their finances in ruins. Determined to save her home while protecting her teenage daughters, she vows to get back on her feet without letting them, or anyone else, know the truth. When her girls head off on a long-planned overseas adventure, Erica focuses on her much-loved job behind a makeup counter to keep her emotionally and financially afloat - although she is troubled by a peculiar encounter at work. Then she loses her job, the darkness beckons and Erica's life spirals downwards, further disturbed by strange occurrences in her house. Missing objects. Stopped clocks. Noises in the night. Should she doubt her very sanity? Can she swallow her pride and make herself reach out to her friends in time? Does she have a choice? A moving story of loss, change and self-discovery from Australia's master storyteller.
Author: Linda Chapman
Publisher: Tiger Tales
ISBN: 1680104691
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Do you believe in magic? Sita and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventures unfolds in this new chapter book from the Star Friends series featuring black and white illustrations throughout. Sita and her star animal, a deer named Willow, must use their special powers to stop the forces of dark magic. With her friends' growing powers and their star animals, surely no one can stand in their way. But the friends are in for a surprise... In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends -- they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventures awaits!
Author: C. J. Sansom
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101475471
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 579
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The fifth novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series—the inspiration for the Hulu original series Shardlake! Summer 1545. A massive French armada is threatening England, and Henry VIII has plunged the country into economic crisis to finance the war. Meanwhile, an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr has asked Matthew Shardlake to investigate claims of "monstrous" wrongs committed against a young ward of the court. As the French fleet approaches, Shardlake's inquiries reunite him with an old friend-and an old enemy close to the throne. This fast-paced fifth installment in C. J. Sansom's "richly entertaining and reassuringly scholarly series" (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review) will enchant fans of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Other Boleyn Girl. Awarded the CWA Diamond Dagger – the highest honor in British crime writing
Author: Cassie Hargrove
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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I'm not the sweet, quiet girl they remember. That's what happens when tragedy strikes where you least expect it. I thought I would be okay. That I could handle anything. I was wrong. Revenge is the name the game now. If you're not with me, you're against me. Get ready to enter Hell. *** She's different. Angry and dark. Something happened and we won't stop until we figure it out. She's our girl, even if she doesn't know it. And NO ONE hurts her. When we find out what happened, the person(s) responsible better run. We aren't nearly as golden as everyone thinks we are. *This is a reverse harem romance with bully elements. If you don't like dark themes and the main character ending up with more than one character, this may not be the book for you. Please take this warning seriously because there WILL be triggers inside these pages.*
Author: Domenico Starnone
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 1609454456
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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A weary man faces the ghosts of his past while caring for his grandson in Naples in this National Book Award finalist novel by the acclaimed author of Ties. In Tricks, Domenico Starnone presents an unusual duel between two formidable minds. One is Daniele Mallarico, a once-successful illustrator who feels his artistic prowess fading. The other is Mario, Daniele’s four-year-old grandson. Daniele is living in virtual solitude in Milan when his daughter asks him to come to Naples to babysit Mario for a few days. Shut inside his childhood home―an apartment in the center of Naples that is filled with memoires of Daniele’s past―grandfather and grandson match wits as Daniele heads toward a reckoning with his own ambitions and life choices. Meanwhile, Naples pulses outside, a wily, passionate city whose influence can never be shaken. As translator Jhumpa Lahiri says in her introduction, Trick is “an extremely playful literary composition” by the Strega Prize–winning novelist whom many consider to be one of Italy’s greatest living writers.
