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It is 18th century Saint Domingue, and Tété never knew her parents. All she knows is that her mother was a slave, and that her white father's identity will forever remain a mystery. As a child she is sold to the plantation-owner Toulouse Valmorain, and finds herself subjected to his unwanted attentions. Still, in spite of everything, she finds community and comfort among the other slaves. And as a revolution gains momentum and opportunities surface, she can't help but wonder: will freedom, one day, be in reach? Powerful and moving, Island Beneath the Sea is a story of courage and hope, even in the cruellest of circumstances. Originally published in 2009.
Living on Chiloé, a beautiful remote island off the coast of Chile, might sound like paradise. For nineteen-year-old Maya, it's the only way she can stay alive. Abandoned by her parents as a baby and raised by her grandparents in California, Maya was always a troubled child. But when her beloved grandfather dies, she spirals and runs away to Las Vegas. When she's sucked into the city's drug trade, she is almost lost forever. Found by her grandmother, Maya is sent to Chiloé with two requests: to not contact anyone she once knew, and to reflect on where everything had gone wrong. Bored by the island's monotony, Maya begins to write down her story; but in Chiloé there are more remnants of her own history than she anticipated. What secrets does the island hold? And can she ever move on from the pain of her past? Originally published in 2011.
Growing up in 1940s Los Angeles, Gregory Reeves' outlook on life was always guided by two beliefs. The first: his fear of death was something to be conquered. The second: his father's radical religious doctrine, 'The Infinite Plan', was immutably true. But when he leaves the barrio where he spent his youth for Berkeley, San Francisco, both beliefs are called into question. Soon he has graduated from college, and finds himself in the thick of the Vietnam War. And when he returns, how can he possibly think of life and death in the same way? Following one man's journey through the twentieth century, The Infinite Plan asks: how much can the American reality shape one's pursuit of the American Dream? Originally published in 1991.
The impossible puzzles, irresistible romance and shocking twists continue in the second instalment in the brand-new GRANDEST GAMES series, set in the world of the #1 bestselling THE INHERITANCE GAMES.
*Now a major TV series starring Gary Oldman* *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* 'Sets a new bar for spy fiction' Financial Times In Slough House, the backwater for failed spies, memories are stirring, all of them bad. Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Louisa Guy is raking over the ashes of lost love, and new recruit Lech Wicinski, whose sins make him outcast even among the slow horses, is determined to discover who destroyed his career, even if he tears his life apart in the process. With winter taking its grip Jackson Lamb would sooner be left brooding in peace, but even he can't ignore the dried blood on his carpets. So when the man responsible for killing a slow horse breaks cover at last, Lamb sends his crew out to even the score. This time, they're heading into joe country. And they're not all coming home. 'The go-to author for British espionage' Guardian 'Bitingly intelligent, light of touch and frequently hilarious' Observer
LAPD Detective Stilwell was forced out of the Homicide department and
sent to a dead-end post on Santa Catalina Island.
Naledi is a woman unravelling slowly, painfully, purposefully. Once full of promise, her life has shrunk into the claustrophobic walls of a home that no longer feels safe, with a husband whose love has curdled into something dark and dangerous. Between Instagrammable scones, lockdown picnics and a nursery that remains heartbreakingly empty, Naledi wages a quiet war against erasure of her name, her dreams, her body and her sanity. Aunty, the quiet force in the shadows of Naledi’s crumbling marriage, carries her own scars. A Zimbabwean domestic worker with a fierce devotion to the children she left behind, Aunty watches, waits and bears witness. Between the two women, a fragile sisterhood grows – tender, complicated and not without its betrayals. Told in alternating voices, Bosadi is a devastating exploration of gender, grief, immigration, violence and the impossible expectations that swallow Black women whole.
Duty. Blood. Honor. Power.
ELOISE’S STORY
Can a holiday heal her heart Robyn Caldwell needs a life plan. Fast. So when her beloved Aunt Lillian asks her to come to Santa Barbara for an overdue visit Robyn jumps at the chance. In the sunshine Robyn begins to see her life with a bit more clarity and the more time she spends with free-spirited Lillian, and mysterious author Mason Bishop, the man destined to inherit her aunt's mansion, the more she sees the appeal in taking chances on dreams, and love. Life is meant to be lived with purpose. But when Robyn's past catches up with her, can she muster the courage to take a chance on herself? A heartwarming story of finding beauty in chaos, and love in the most unexpected of places, from international bestselling author Susan Mallery.
From V. E. Schwab, the No. 1 Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, comes a new genre-defying, unforgettable novel to sink your teeth into. Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.
Sand, sun and you When lawyer Sinclair Adams jets to Hawaii on behalf of the Wilde family, failure is not an option. She is sure her legal acumen and feminine charm will easily change the mind of vindictive Nick Kealoha. He claims that the Wyoming Wilde is his birthright, but what he really wants is payback. But after one night in Nick's powerful arms, will Sinclair question everything she's ever believed to be true? * Romeo Brunetti survived his childhood and found success by caging off his emotions. Until, in one moment of recklessness, he lost himself to stunning stranger Maisie O'Connell. Now his family's legacy has returned to haunt him - and the child he unknowingly conceived... Maisie is faced with Romeo's return...and proposal? She'll do anything to protect her son, but can she risk surrendering herself once more? * After an injury in Afghanistan, Mateo Sanchez finds himself in an amnesia clinic in Hawaii. Struggling to piece together how he arrived on the gorgeous island, Mateo is not the easiest patient- but no-nonsense doctor Lizzie Peterson is determined to help this brooding ex-army surgeon. Only as Mateo begins to recover do they discover a bond and a temptation that's so very hard to resist...
Showcasing African Gothic at its finest, this hypnotic novel tangles
together classic texts of madness and female rebellion alongside
elements of the jingoistic novels of Victorian adventurer H. Rider
Haggard. The result is an extraordinary reinvention of colonial and
patriarchal perspectives.
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025**
For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love. Populated with lovers who leave and return, with ghosts of the Holocaust and messages from the dead, Courtney Sender's debut collection speaks in a singular new voice about the longings and loneliness of contemporary love. The world of these fourteen interlocking stories is fiercely real but suffused with magic and myth, dark wit, and distinct humor. Here, ancient loss works its way deep into the psyche of modern characters, stirring their unrelenting lust for life. In "To Do With the Body," the Museum of Period Clothes becomes the perfect setting for a bloody crime. In "Lilith in God's Hands," Adam's first wife has an affair in the Garden of Eden. And in the title story, a woman spends her life waiting for any of the men who have left her to come back, only to find them all at her doorstep at once. For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, and for anyone who has known love and loneliness, In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me is a wise and sensual collection of old hauntings, new longings, and unexpected returns, with a finale that is a rousing call to the strength we each have, together or alone.
From bestselling South African author Penny Haw comes a new historical fiction tale inspired by the story of groundbreaking paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, in a sweeping, dual-timeline story of intergenerational friendship, a meditation on the beauty of the natural world, and a celebration of the women who pave the way for those to come. It's 1983 and seventeen-year-old Grace Clark has just lost her mother when she begrudgingly accompanies her estranged father to an archeological dig at Olduvai Gorge on the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. Here, seventy-year-old Mary Leakey enlists Grace to sort and pack her fifty years of work and memories. Their interaction reminds Mary how she pursued her ambitions of becoming an archeologist in the 1930s by sneaking into lectures and working on excavations. When well-known paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey commissions her to illustrate a book, she's not at all expecting to fall in love with the older married man. Mary then follows Louis to East Africa, where she falls in love for a second time, this time with the Olduvai Gorge, where her work defines her as a great scientist and allows her to step out of Louis's shadow. In time, Mary and Grace learn they are more alike than they thought, which eventually leads them to the secret that connects them. They also discover a mutual deep love for animals, and when Lisa, an injured cheetah, appears at camp, Mary and Grace work together to save her. On the morning Grace is due to leave, the girl―and the cheetah―are nowhere to be found, and it becomes a race against time to rescue Grace before the African bush claims her. From the acclaimed author of The Invincible Miss Cust and The Woman at Wheel comes an adventurous, dual timeline tale that explores the consequences of our choices, wisdom that comes with retrospection, and relationships that make us who we are, based on the extraordinary real life of Mary Leakey.
‘Jackson brings the quaint Southern town to life in a memorable holiday romance complete with affable characters.’ Publishers Weekly on One Christmas Wish Can a sprinkle of magic heal a broken heart? Vaughn Miller’s Wall Street career was abruptly ended by a wrongful conviction and two years in prison. Since his release, he’s returned to his hometown, and when his name is finally cleared, feels he can move on. After escaping a disastrous marriage, Sierra Crane and her six-year-old goddaughter have returned to the only place that feels like home. This time Sierra is determined to make it on her own. Complication is the last thing she needs, especially not the gorgeous but aloof Vaughn Miller. Vaughn knows Sierra is the one for him, but she needs more convincing to risk her heart again. With Christmas approaching, it will be up to Sierra to decide if her one Christmas wish – true happiness – will come true. Readers LOVE One Christmas Wish ‘This is the most the beautiful book of this series thus far. In the fifth instalment, the plot thickens on Christmas inside the streets of Dreamy Catalina Cove.’ ‘I love all of the books I have read from Brenda so far and it's been quite a few, her stories get better and better.’ ‘This book was just about everything I could imagine. I love all her books. They make me cry and laugh.’ ‘This is a fabulous read… Don’t miss this one it’s a stay up all night page turner!!!’
Based on Rachel Reid’s bestselling
Game Changers book series, Heated Rivalry is now streaming on Crave in
Canada and on HBO Max in the U.S.
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