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Peggy
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Rebecca Godfrey, Leslie Jamison
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'I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it' PEGGY
GUGGENHEIM
VENICE, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art
collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand
Canal. Hers has been a thrilling, tragic, near-impossible journey. She
has defied every expectation, followed her heart, and finally found
contentment. She is independent. She is a true original. And she'll
never stop believing in the transformative power of art.
Peggy is fourteen when her father dies on the Titanic and her
cloistered life is turned upside down. The youngest daughter of two
Jewish dynasties, Peggy is determined to pursue a life of passion and
personal freedom. But unexpected restrictions come with her vast
fortune.
As society changes and war sweeps through Europe, she navigates the
decadent, sexist and anti-Semitic art worlds of New York and Paris. She
loves and is loved - sometimes for herself, often for her money - yet
no-one ever takes her intellect, talent or vision seriously. Until she
learns to believe in it herself.
Rebecca Godfrey's final book - completed by her friend, the acclaimed
bestseller Leslie Jamison, following Godfrey's death in 2022 - brings
to life the singular woman who helped make the Guggenheim name
synonymous with art and genius.
He might be a player, but she'll teach him some new rules…
When football-mad Lily's local club relocates to a city more than 50
miles away, she's just as devastated as all the other fans. Determined
to keep the community's love of football alive, Lily, along with her
dad and sister, sets up a brand-new club, Crawford United, with the
dream of making it big.
Everyone is shocked when notorious professional player Ben Pryce shows
up out of the blue to help coach the new team. Despite being a top
Premier League striker, he's been temporarily suspended from his team
for an altercation with a fan – and his image is in serious need of a
revamp.
Within minutes Lily and Ben are clashing like rival teams on match day.
But despite their differences, sparks fly – and it's not long before
Lily's at risk of breaking her number one rule: no mixing business with
pleasure.
Ben may have a bad-boy reputation, but might there be more to him than
meets the eye?
Funny, sweet and oh-so-steamy, Playing the Field is perfect for fans of
Icebreaker and The Cheat Sheet as well as shows like Welcome to Wrexham
and Ted Lasso.
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Good Boy
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Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen
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"We're way more than friends, Jessie."
"Blake--"
"But no worries. I'll just sit tight until you figure that out."
Hosting her brother's wedding for an MVP guest list is the challenge of
Jess Canning's life. Already the family screw-up, she can't afford to
fail at this, too. Especially after the colossal mistake she made with
the best man during a weak moment last spring. Nobody--absolutely
nobody--can find out about that, and there will not be a repeat.
Absolutely not. No matter how devastatingly sexy his smile, he's a
giant manchild who's never been serious in his life. And if Jess wants
to prove herself to her family, serious is what she has to get.
For Blake Riley, this wedding is a gift from fate itself. The girl he
has his eye on is the maid of honor, and he's the best man? Let the
games begin. So what if Jess is giving him a little--fine, a lot--of
resistance? He just needs to convince the stubborn blonde that he's
really a good boy with a bad rap. Beneath the flirty jokes and goofy
smile, he's got layers--even if Jess doesn't want to see them.
Luckily, every professional hockey player knows that you've got to make
an effort if you want to score.
And Jess is just the girl he wants to win.
A villainous heroine finds herself plunged into a seductive world of
power, politics and murder in the court of the vampire king in this
bloodthirsty debut from an unmissable new voice in fantasy romance.
The daughter of a powerful but disgraced Blood Worker, Shan LeClaire
has spent her entire life perfecting her blood magic, building her
network of spies, and gathering every scrap of power she could. Now, to
protect her brother, she assassinates their father and takes her place
at the head of the family. And that is only the start of her revenge.
Samuel Hutchinson is a bastard with a terrible gift. When he stumbles
upon the first victim of a magical serial killer, he's drawn into the
world of magic and intrigue he's worked so hard to avoid - and is
pulled deeply into the ravenous and bloodthirsty court of the vampire
king.
Tasked by the Eternal King to discover the identity of the killer
cutting a bloody swath through the city, Samuel, Shan and mysterious
Royal Blood Worker Isaac find themselves growing ever closer to each
other. But Shan's plans are treacherous, and as she lures Samuel into
her complicated web of desire, treason and vengeance, he must decide if
the good of their nation is worth the cost of his soul.
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T.
Kingfisher comes a dark retelling of the Brothers Grimm's Goose Girl,
rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.
Perfect for fans of Naomi Novic, Alix E. Harrow and Nettle & Bone.
Cordelia knows her mother is unusual. Their house doesn't have any
doors between rooms―there are no secrets in this house!―Cordelia isn't
allowed to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's
beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on
her daily rides with him.
But more than a few quirks set her mother apart. Other parents can't
force their daughters to be silent and motionless―obedient―for hours or
days on end. Other mothers aren't . . . sorcerers.
They say life is made up of moments.
So is a relationship.
From the moment he sets his eyes on Ashley Oliver at sixth form on the
cusp of the new millennium, Charlie falls in love. It isn’t all
sunshine and roses though and it takes several years and more than one
chance meeting before they begin their relationship.
Will they survive everything the world has to throw at them or will the
pressure of life, love, and London be too much for them?
Told through moments big and small, trivial and significant, this is
the moving and uplifting story of a relationship - the ups, the downs,
and everything in between.
THIS IS MY STORY. NOT MY DEAD BEST FRIEND'S STORY.
Dylan Read, the legendary country pop star, has spent fifteen years
learning to craft the perfect good-girl image. But Dylan is privately
haunted by the loss of her best friend Kelsey, who went missing the
year before Dylan’s meteoric rise to fame.
When Kelsey’s body is found at the bottom of a New England lake, Dylan
is drawn back to her hometown where she must revisit their ill-fated
teenage friendship and reckon with secrets that have stayed hidden for
decades…
'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously.
'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?'
'No!' He almost shouts it. 'Just come quickly. The garden...the...body... we need you, Penny.'
For women of Penny's generation, being on hand for elderly parents is just part of life. But for Penny, things have become a little more serious...
When she receives a frantic phone call from her parents one night, with express instructions NOT to call the police, Penny rushes over at once. But they haven't had a fall. They haven't forgotten their computer passwords. They've killed someone. And his body is lying in the garden, right next to the rose bushes.
Everyone is capable of murder. They just need to meet the right person.
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Arkangel
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James Rollins
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From the #1 New York Times master of international thrillers comes the
story of a hunt across the globe, pitting nation against nation, as
ancient myths of a lost continent prove all too real.
The execution of a Vatican archivist within the shadow of the Kremlin
exposes a conspiracy going back three centuries—to the bloody era of
the Russian Tsars. Before his murder, he manages to dispatch a coded
message, a warning of a terrifying threat, one tied to a secret buried
within the Golden Library of Tsars, a vast and treasured archive that
had vanished into history.
As combative forces race for the truth behind this death and alarming
discovery, Sigma Force is summoned to aid in the search—not only for
this missing trove of ancient books, but to follow a trail far into the
Arctic, to search for the truth about a lost continent and a revelation
that could ignite a global war. But Sigma Force has its own
difficulties at home after an explosive attack on the National Mall—one
aimed at the heart of their covert agency—has left them vulnerable and
exposed.
The growing conflict—both on Russian soil and deep in the Arctic—will
reignite a centuries-old war between the newly resurgent Russian
Orthodox Church and the Vatican, while sabers rattle across the nations
of the Arctic Circle, threatening to turn those icy seas into a fiery
conflagration.
Facing enemies on all sides, it will be up to Commander Gray Pierce and
Sigma Force to unravel a mystery going back millennia—and uncover the
truth about a lost civilization and an arcane treasure that could save
the planet…or destroy it.
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Night Watch
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Jayne Anne Phillips
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A mesmerising story about a mother and daughter seeking refuge in a
mental asylum in the chaotic aftermath of the Civil War.
In 1874, in the wake of the war, trauma haunts civilians and veterans,
renegades and wanderers, freedmen and runaways. Twelve-year-old ConaLee
and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, arrive at
the Trans-Allegh eny Lunatic Asylum in West Virginia, delivered to the
hospital's entrance by a war vet eran who has forced himself into their
lives. There, far from family, a beloved neighbour, and the mountain
home they knew, they try to reclaim their lives.
The twin horrors of war and race rise to the surface as we learn their
history: their flight to the highest mountain ridges of western
Virginia; the disappearance of ConaLee's father, who left for the war
and never returned. Meanwhile in the asylum, they begin to find a new
path. ConaLee pretends to be her mother's maid; Eliza responds slowly
to treatment. They get swept up in the life of the facility - the
mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch; the child called
Weed; the fearsome woman who runs the kitchen; the remarkable doctor at
the head of the institution.
Epic, enthralling and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a brilliant
portrait of family endurance against all odds and a stunning chronicle
of surviving war and its aftermath.
Golden Age Hollywood - a city overflowing with gossip, scandal, and
intrigue. Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a
big-budget movie about the legendary temptress.
So when the film's mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown
Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the
town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit
player whose career has stalled and who will do anything to win the
fame she believes she richly deserves.
As Vera navigates the glitz and the gilded glamour of her new city,
Nancy follows silently behind, trying to take everything she believes
Vera has been unfairly handed.
But this is the tale of three women, for it is also the story of the
princess Salome herself. Consumed with desire for the fiery prophet who
foretells the doom of her stepfather, Salome is a woman torn between
the decree of duty and the yearning of her heart.
And tragedy is waiting in the wings . . . for all three women.
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Pearl
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Josh Malerman
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There's something strange about Walter Kopple's farm.
It begins with his grandson, who senselessly murders one of Walter's pigs. But then rumours spread that Walter's grandson heard a voice commanding him to kill. And that the voice belongs to a most peculiar creature: the pig named Pearl.
Walter has always been afraid of the strangely malevolent Pearl. But as paranoia takes hold and the townspeople descend on Walter's farm with violent wrath, they begin to discover that true evil wears a human face.
Malcolm has held on to a secret for more than fifty years: a letter his sister Sophy gave him just before she died. He had promised to give it to the young doctor she met one night during the Liverpool Blitz: a night that altered the course of her life. But the letter was never delivered. Now, after so many years of uncertainty, Malcolm has decided to share Sophy's secret with her daughter Agnes.
It is the day of Agnes's daughter's wedding party.
The ghosts of Agnes's past and all the powerful emotions of the family reunion wrap around her thoughts. Until she is distracted by a hand on her arm as her uncle Malcolm holds out an envelope for her to take . . .
High heat. Low stakes. Sharp steel.
The cozy, low stakes of Legends & Lattes meets the scorching bodyguard fantasy of Jennifer L. Armentrout's From Blood and Ash in this enemies-to-lovers romance where, yes, the swords do cross.
Mattinesh Jay, dutiful heir to his struggling family business, needs to hire an experienced swordsman to serve as best man for his arranged marriage. Sword-challenge at the ceremony could destroy all hope of restoring his family's wealth, something that Matti has been trying―and failing―to do for the past ten years.
What he can afford, unfortunately, is part-time con artist and full-time charming menace Luca Piere.
Luca, for his part, is trying to reinvent himself in a new city. All he wants to do is make some easy money and try to forget the crime he committed in his hometown. He didn't plan on being blackmailed into giving sword lessons to a chronically responsible―and inconveniently handsome―wool merchant like Matti.
However, neither Matti's business troubles nor Luca himself are quite what they seem. As the days count down to Matti's wedding, the two of them become entangled in the intrigue and sabotage that have brought Matti's house to the brink of ruin. And when Luca's secrets threaten to drive a blade through their growing alliance, both Matti and Luca will have to answer the question: how many lies are you prepared to strip away, when the truth could mean losing everything you want?
UNITED BY WAR. DIVIDED BY A SECRET.
From silent era Hollywood and the nightclubs of pre-war Vienna to the
ruins of Soviet Berlin, discover a moving, ambitious story of an
enduring love amidst the devastation of war . . .
In 1938, English spy Harry Taverner and Jewish photographer Anna
Cantrell spend the night dancing at Berlin's most elegant hotel. Anna
is married to another man, the Nazi shadow is rising over Europe and
neither expects to ever meet again.
But once peace is declared, they reunite in the ruins of Berlin, where
Anna is searching for her missing children. With the blockade
tightening and the Soviets set on conquest, Harry and Anna walk a
treacherous line between love and duty, integrity and survival, loyalty
and betrayal. And as the Cold War dawns, they are bound together by a
secret that will only be revealed decades later, when Berlin finds
itself on the cusp of another transformation...
Berlin Duet is a sweeping, unforgettable historical epic from the
Kindle-bestselling author of The Angel's Mark. Perfect for fans of
Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd.
In the five years following his brother's death, Aaron has built himself a life of solitary routines. After moving from Dublin to Boston, and illegally overstaying her visa, Róisín has done the same.
When the two meet on a night out, they each find in the other something missing in their lives. A semblance of home.
Their relationship is complicated by their disparate religious backgrounds - Aaron is Jewish; Roísín is atheist - and by the harsh realities of everyday life. Just as they're pushed to their breaking point, Roísín realises she is pregnant.
Placeholders is a poignant story of loneliness corrected and the transformative power of love. The next fix for fans of Sally Rooney, Nick Hornby, David Nicholls, Louise Kennedy and Coco Mellors.
The true story of how a middle-class Black girl from Minneapolis became
one of the single biggest threats to the United States banking system.
Tanya Smith fancied herself a folk hero, a kind of Robin Hood, using
her powers of persuasion to buck the system and help the poor and needy.
It started innocently enough, with calls to celebrities' houses with
her teenage twin sister. Soon, Tanya realised she could convince
utility companies to amend the balances of her friends and neighbours,
clearing their overdue electricity bills with a single phone call.
Eventually, as she tested the limits and realized she could get past
any gatekeeper, she began to understand the power of money and what it
could do.
Over the years, Tanya 'confiscated' some $40 million in cash and
commodities from US banks, using hacked wire transfers. It didn't take
long before the FBI was on her tail. But when interviewing her, they
made clear that they were using her to get to the person actually
running things - clearly, she wasn't smart enough to do this on her own
(Black people she was told, rob people, they don't hack computers).
Thus began a cat and mouse game with the authorities that would drive
her to unthinkable limits, breaking the hearts of her parents and
putting Tanya's life in jeopardy before finally sending her to Federal
prison (where she escaped twice) with the longest sentence ever given
for a white-collar crime.
Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale.
1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s party at Plum Orchard is a lively group: young men from some of America’s finest families who come to experience the area’s hunting beside a local guide, a beautiful debutante expecting to be engaged by the week’s end, and a promising female artist who believes she has meaningful ties to her wealthy hosts. But when temptations arise and passions flare, an evening of revelry and storytelling goes horribly awry. Lives are both lost and ruined.
1959. Reclusive painter Cleo Woodbine has lived alone for decades on Kingdom Come, a tiny strip of land once occupied by the servants for the great houses on nearby Cumberland. When she is visited by the man who saved her life nearly thirty years earlier, a tempest is unleashed as the stories of the past gather and begin to regain their strength. Frances Flood is a folklorist come to Cumberland Island seeking the source of a legend—and also information about her mother, who was among the guests at a long-ago hunting party. Audrey Howell, briefly a newlywed and now newly widowed, is running a local inn. When she develops an eerie double exposure photograph, some believe she’s raised a ghost—someone who hasn’t been seen since that fateful night in 1932.
Southern mythology and personal reckoning collide in this sweeping story inspired by the little-known history of Cumberland Island when a once-in-a-century storm threatens the natural landscape. Faced with a changing world, two timelines and the perspectives of three women intersect where a folktale meets the truth to reveal what Cumberland Island has hidden all along.
Aeneas, the son of Venus, is destined for greatness, prophesised to
father a people who will one day rule the world.
But behind every great man are the women the prophecies forget.
Creusa, Dido and Lavinia will never meet, yet they are united by the
ambitions of one man whose life is pre-ordained to collide irreparably
with theirs.
But if their destiny remains unwritten, can they determine the future
for themselves?
This is the story of Rome's origins as it's never been told before,
through the eyes of three women whose choices changed history.
From the author of Looker comes this razor-sharp suspense about two
librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined.
No one knows Margo's real name. Her colleagues and patrons at a
small-town public library only know her middle-aged normalcy,
congeniality and charm. They have no reason to suspect that she is, in
fact, a former nurse with a trail of countless premature deaths in her
wake. She has turned a new page, so to speak, and the library is her
sanctuary, a place to quell old urges.
That is, at least, until Patricia, a recent graduate and failed
novelist, joins the library staff. Patricia quickly notices Margo's
subtly sinister edge and watches her carefully. When a patron's death
in the library bathroom offers a hint of Margo's mysterious past,
Patricia can't resist digging deeper - even as this new fixation
becomes all-consuming.
Taut and compelling, How Can I Help You explores the dark side of human
nature and the dangerous pull of artistic obsession.
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The Accomplice
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Aaron Philip Clark
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and award-winning mystery writer Aaron Philip Clark introduce readers to New York-born and Texas-bred Nia Adams, who always dreamt of becoming a Texas Ranger. She knows the dangers of the job, and as the first Black female ranger, she knows the politics, but she’s never encountered a criminal like Desmond Bell.
A Vietnam vet turned thief, Desmond steals more than money; he steals the secrets of the rich and powerful and blackmails them for millions.
When Desmond steals from the Duchamps, the wealthiest family in the country, Nia’s investigation into the robbery threatens to expose him and the criminal enterprise he works for. As the bodies pile up, Nia digs deeper for the truth, putting her life and career in danger.
It’s a deadly cat-and-mouse game between ranger and thief, but to protect their family’s secrets, the Duchamps won’t hesitate to kill them both.
Twenty-five spine-tingling tales and poems from the preeminent writer
of American gothic fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, now available in a Harper
Perennial Olive Edition.
Of all the American masters, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the
most unique and vivid reputation, as a master of the macabre. Even
today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe is
the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling
thrill.
Of all the preeminent 19th century American writers, Edgar Allan Poe
staked out the most vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Poe
remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a
spine-chilling thrill.
A prolific writer of poetry and criticism in addition to fiction, Poe
was known not only for the eerie beauty of his prose but his formidable
satire. He is revered as one of the foremost American gothic stylists.
The best of Poe's short fiction is collected here, including the
timeless masterpieces "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Pit and the
Pendulum," and "The Masque of the Red Death."
Be careful of the dark and those that call it friend.
Katherine Woodrow is fey, and all she wants is to graduate from the
Institute of Magic. But when the prejudiced mortal council threaten her
position at the institute, she is left with only one option: accept a
Mage Partnership with the elusive Lord Blackthorn.
Emrys Blackthorn is a riddle Kat is fearful of solving. The mysterious,
cursed war hero with his stormy eyes and unpredictable ways leaves Kat
with more questions than answers. What she does know is that she is
irresistibly drawn to him . . . no matter how forbidden it might be.
When a string of murders and fey disappearances herald the return of
dark magic, Kat and Emrys are thrown into a world of ancient books that
hide hideous monsters, dark fiends who play with nightmares and mortal
men who wish nothing more than to see them both burn.
But what haunts them both are secrets even ghosts dare not whisper,
while insidious shadows lick their teeth and sharpen their claws,
waiting for the moment that all tales will come to light - even the
monstrous ones.
An epic literary novel which follows two Irish characters over 40
years in London.
1979. In the vast and often unforgiving city of London, two Irish
outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly, a teenage runaway,
and Pip, a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to
drink it all away.Over the decades their lives follow different paths,
interweaving from time to time, often in one another's sight, always on
one another's mind, yet rarely together. Forty years on, Milly is
clinging onto the only home she's ever really known while Pip, haunted
by T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, traipses the streets of London and
wrestles with the life of the recovering alcoholic. And between them,
perhaps uncrossable, lies the unspoken span of their lives. Dark and
brave, this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an
ever-changing city, and a profound inquiry into character, loneliness
and the nature of love.
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Costanza
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Rachel Blackmore
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Rome, 1636: In the scorched city of Rome, the cobbled streets hum with
gossip and sin...
Costanza Piccolomini is a respectable young wife - until she meets
Gianlorenzo Bernini, the famed sculptor and star of Roman society,
whose jet-black gaze matches his dark temper. From the second they set
eyes upon each other, a fatal attraction is born.
Their secret love burns with a passion that consumes them. But with
every stolen kiss and illicit tryst, Costanza's reputation is at stake.
Meanwhile, Bernini has a dangerous desire: he wants to make Costanza
immortal. He vows to possess her not just in body and soul, but also in
marble.
When Bernini unveils his sculpture of Costanza, she is exposed as his
lover, marking the undoing of their affair - and the beginning of a
scandal which will rock Roman society. For Bernini would rather destroy
Costanza than let her go.
Betrayed. Abandoned. Banished. This was meant to be the end of
Costanza's story. But Costanza is no ordinary woman: from the ashes,
she will rise...
History calls her a Muse. Temptress. Fallen woman. This is her story.
Costanza is a dizzying, sensual novel that brings to life a feminist
icon who has been written out of history. This utterly addictive tale
of desire and betrayal is perfect for fans of The Marriage Portrait and
The Miniaturist.
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