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After losing his prestigious job as head of a film studio, Hollywood executive Andy Westfield retreats to a tiny coastal village in England to figure out his next move. There he hires a local woman, an unemployed former journalist and aspiring novelist named Violet, to help him get his affairs in order. When Violet leaves her unfinished manuscript at Andy's house, Andy reads it and realizes it could be adapted into a great film. Could this be the...
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London, 1924. When shy academic Lao She meets larger-than-life Judge Dee Ren Jie, his quiet life abruptly turns from books and lectures to daring chases and narrow escapes. Dee has come to London to investigate the murder of a man he'd known during World War I when serving with the Chinese Labour Corps. No sooner has Dee interviewed the grieving widow than another dead body turns up. Then another. All stabbed to death with a butterfly sword. Will...
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"Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world"-- ‡c Provided by publisher.
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink-who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled-the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across London,...
5) Knockout
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Hell's belles volume 3
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One of the Hell's Belles -- a group of vigilantes operating outside the notice of most of London, Lady Imogen Loveless, who has a penchant for experiments and explosives, meets her match in a brilliant detective who, caught up in her chaotic world, tempts her like no other.
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Threads of power volume 1
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2023.
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"It's been seven years since Kell, Lila, and Holland defeated the evil force known as Osaron. Lila has spent those seven years as captain of a ship, exploring her new magical world and occasionally spying for the Crown. Kell has spent them learning to fight with ordinary weapons now that wielding his magic causes him intense pain. Holland, of course, gave his life to defeat Osaron. But now a shadowy organization called the Hand is plotting against...
7) The fraud
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2023.
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"It is 1873. Mrs. Eliza Touchet is the Scottish housekeeper--and cousin by marriage--of a once-famous novelist, now in decline, William Ainsworth, with whom she has lived for thirty years. Mrs. Touchet is a woman of many interests: literature, justice, abolitionism, class, her cousin, his wives, this life and the next. But she is also skeptical. She suspects her cousin of having no talent; his successful friend, Mr. Charles Dickens, of being a bully...
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2023.
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"Jane Start is thirty-three, broke, and recently single. Ten years prior, she had a hit song--written by world-famous superstar Jonesy--but Jane hasn't had a breakout since. Now she's living out of four garbage bags at her parents' house, reduced to performing to Karaoke tracks in Las Vegas. Rock bottom. But when her longtime manager Pippa sends Jane to London to regroup, she's seated next to an intriguing stranger on the flight--the other Tom Hardy,...
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Sabrina Brooks is a wildly successful bestselling author of gripping thrillers. Unlike her fictional characters, Sabrina lives a quiet life in the Berkshires with her two beloved dogs. But behind this peaceful exterior is a dark, painful past. As a child raised by an emotionally distant father, Sabrina rarely felt love. And as an adult, her marriage twisted into an abusive relationship from which she had to escape. Sabrina channeled that fear into...
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League of extraordinary women novels volume 4
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2023.
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"Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer's block, and a tense time for England's women's rights campaign--the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father's distractingly attractive young colleague. Deeply introverted Catriona lives for her work at Oxford and her fight for women's suffrage. She dreams of romance, too, but since all her attempts at love have ended badly, she now keeps her desires...
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Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 3
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"Queen Elizabeth II is looking forward to a traditional Christmas gathering with her family in Sandringham when a shocking discovery interrupts holiday plans. A severed hand has been found--but even more unsettling, she recognizes the signet ring still attached to a finger. It belongs to a scion of the St. Cyr family, her old friends from nearby Ladybridge Hall. Despite the personal connection, the Queen wants to leave the investigation to the police--that...
12) A power unbound
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Last binding volume 3
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2023.
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"Secrets! Magic! Enemies to. . .something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he's drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the...
13) Damned if I duke
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Zebra Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
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[2024]
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When her plan to blackmail Jasper Vincent, Duke of Montford, into forgiving her father's debts backfires, Prudence Thorne is forced into marriage neither wanted -- and fighting a desire neither expected -- only to discover they are each other's perfect match.
14) Truth be told
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HQ
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2023.
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English
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Attending an elite all-boys boarding school in London, Kamran Hadid feels invincible until a night of revelry leads to a drunken encounter and he must ask himself a horrific question, in this unputdownable courtroom drama that takes on toxic masculinity, rape and privilege.
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Neal Carey mysteries volume 4
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Blackstone Publishing
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2023.
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English
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"Neal Carey has to keep the mob, the FBI, and a major television personality from killing his newest client, but he's tempted to do the job himself. "--Back cover
17) Shadowdance
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Darkest London volume 4
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Forever
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2013.
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English
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Finding a new sense of purpose after a painful childhood in Victorian London, Mary Chase is assigned to track down a vicious murderer and reluctantly partners with long-time rival Jack Talent, whose disparate views give way to their irresistible chemistry.
18) Rosewater
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Get Lifted Books, a Zando imprint
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2023.
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Evicted from her social housing in south London, 28-year-old Elsie turns to her childhood friend, Juliet, for help, and among Juliet's mismatched cushions and shelves lined with trinkets, Elsie is able to breathe for the first time in years, discovering what she's been searching for has been there all along.
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"On the day Juliet Lansdown reports to work for the first time at Bethnal Green Library, it isn't the bustling hub she's been expecting. But in the face of German attacks, she's determined to make it a place where all of their neighbors feel safe and welcome. Katie Upwood is thrilled to be working at the library too, though she's only there until she heads off to university in the fall. But after the death of her beau on the front lines and unexpected...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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2023.
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English
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Ten years after one terrible night in Paxos, Greece, Julie, the classic "yummy mummy" of high society, is a stifled woman trapped in a gilded cage, stricken with anxiety and perfectionism until she meets a therapist who gives her hope for a different future.
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