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Chicago, sometime. Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different.
Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and Charlotte Regan struggle to be without each other from the moment they meet. The truth - that he is a clinically depressed, anti-social theoretician and she is a manipulative liar with a history of self-sabotage - means the deeper they fall in love, the more troubling their reliance on each other becomes.
Alone With You in the Ether by Olivie Blake is a glimpse into the nature of love, what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.
A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Song of Achilles,
published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The god
touches his finger to the arrow's fletching. Then he breathes, a
puff of air - as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats
over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving,
downward arc towards Achilles' back. Greece in the age of heroes.
Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of
King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their
differences, the boys develop a tender friendship, a bond which
blossoms into something deeper as they grow into young men. But
when Helen of Sparta is kidnapped, Achilles is dispatched to
distant Troy to fulfil his destiny. Torn between love and fear for
his friend, Patroclus follows, little knowing that the years that
follow will test everything they hold dear.
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International bestseller Jeffrey Archer returns THE UNPUTDOWNABLE
NEW THRILLER FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER 'Only someone like Jeffrey
Archer . . . could have written a compelling story like this. Every
page bristles with suspense and the ending comes at you with the
force of a tank round' DAVID BALDACCI London, 1988. Royal fever
sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the 'people's
princess'. Which means for Scotland Yard, the focus is on the elite
Royalty Protection Command, and its commanding officer. Entrusted
with protecting the most famous family on earth, they quite simply
have to be the best. A weak link could spell disaster. Detective
Chief Inspector William Warwick and his Scotland Yard squad are
sent in to investigate the team. Maverick ex-undercover operative
Ross Hogan is charged with a very sensitive - and unique -
responsibility. But it soon becomes clear the problems in Royalty
Protection are just the beginning. A renegade organization has the
security of the country - and the Crown - in its sights. The only
question is which target is next in line... Over My Dead Body hit
#4 in the Sunday Times bestselling charts on 4th June 2022.
The seventh novel in Julia Quinn’s globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. This is Hyacinth’s story: she’s all grown up and ready to cause havoc . . .
All the town agrees: there is no one quite like Hyacinth Bridgerton. Fiendishly smart, devilishly outspoken and – according to some, particularly Gareth St. Clair – probably best in small doses. But there’s something about her – something charming and vexing – that grabs one and won’t quite let go.
Gareth and Hyacinth cross paths at the annual – and annually discordant – Smythe-Smith musicale. To Hyacinth, Gareth’s every word seems a dare, and she offers to help him out with a knotty inheritance problem he’s facing. However, as they delve into the mysterious St Clair history, they discover that the answers they seek lie not in the past – but in each other; and that there is nothing as simple – or as complicated – as a single, perfect kiss.
Journey to the dusty plains of Central Australia in The Pearl
Sister, the fourth book in the number one bestselling Seven Sisters
series by Lucinda Riley. A spellbinding story of love and loss,
inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. CeCe
D'Apliese has never felt she fitted in anywhere. Following the
death of her father, the elusive billionaire Pa Salt - so-called by
the six daughters he adopted from around the globe and named after
the Seven Sisters star cluster - she finds herself at breaking
point. Dropping out of art college, CeCe watches as Star, her
beloved sister, distances herself to follow her new love, leaving
her completely alone. In desperation, she decides to flee England
and discover her past; the only clues she has are a black-and-white
photograph and the name of a woman pioneer who lived in Australia
over one hundred years ago. En-route to Sydney, CeCe heads to the
one place she has ever felt close to being herself: the stunning
beaches of Krabi, Thailand. There amongst the backpackers, she
meets the mysterious Ace, a man as lonely as she is and whom she
subsequently realizes has a secret to hide . . . A hundred years
earlier, Kitty McBride, daughter of an Edinburgh clergyman, is
given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of
the wealthy Mrs McCrombie. In Adelaide, her fate becomes entwined
with Mrs McCrombie's family, including the identical, yet very
different, twin brothers: impetuous Drummond, and ambitious Andrew,
the heir to a pearling fortune. When CeCe finally reaches the
searing heat of the Red Centre of Australia, she begins the search
for her past. As something deep within her responds to the energy
of the area and the ancient culture of the Aboriginal people, her
creativity reawakens once more. With help from those she meets on
her journey, CeCe begins to believe that this wild, vast continent
could offer her something she never thought possible: a sense of
belonging, and a home . . . The epic multi-million selling series
continues with The Moon Sister. 'Delicious reading' - Daily Mail
Shortlisted for the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement
in a First Novel; Runner-up for Best Novel in This Is Horror awards
2017. One night in 1980, a man becomes a monster. Travis Stillwell
spends his nights searching out women in honky-tonk bars on the
back roads of Texas. What he does with them doesn't make him proud:
it just quiets the demons for a little while. But when he crosses
paths with one particular mysterious pale-skinned girl, he wakes up
weak and bloodied, with no memory of the night before. Finding
refuge at a small motel, Travis develops feelings for the owner,
Annabelle, but at night he fights a horrible transformation and his
need to feed. Half a state away, a grizzled Texas Ranger is hunting
Travis for his past misdeeds, but what he finds will lead him to a
revelation far more monstrous. A man of the law, he'll have to
decide how far into the darkness he'll go for the sake of justice.
Two decades before Zimbabwe would win independence and ended white minority rule, thirteen-year-old Tambudzai Sigauke embarks on her education. On her shoulders rest the economic hopes of her parents, siblings, and extended family, and within her burns the desire for independence. A timeless coming-of-age tale, and a powerful exploration of cultural imperialism, Nervous Conditions charts Tambu's journey to personhood in a nation that is also emerging.
Latif's life changes when he is appointed bellboy at the Paradise
Lodge - a hotel where people come to die. After his father's death,
drowned in the waters surrounding their small Island, it is 17
year-old Latif's turn to become the man of the house and provide
for his ailing mother and sisters. Despite discovering a dead body
on his first day of duty, Latif finds entertainment spying on
guests and regaling the hotel's janitor, Stella, with made-up
stories. However, when Latif finds the corpse of a small-time actor
in Room 555 and becomes a mute-witness to a crime that happens
there, the course of Latif's life is irretrievably altered. The
Bellboy is as much a commentary on how society treats and
victimizes the intellectually vulnerable as it is about the quiet
resentment brewing against religious minorities in India today.
With a mix of wry humour and heart-wrenching poignancy, the book
narrates a young boy's coming-of-age on a small island, and his
innocence that persists even in the face of adversity and
inevitable tragedy.
A woman drops everything to spend more time with her grandchild, only to discover new truths about herself. A humorous, heartfelt, feel-good novel from the author of Crazy to Leave You.
For Jodi Wexler, a Florida doctor with a flourishing practice, only one thing’s missing: the chance to spend more time getting to know her eight-year-old granddaughter, Macallan.
When Jodi’s restauranteur daughter asks her to watch Macallan in the Berkshires while she takes care of some business out of town, Jodi can’t say yes fast enough. Neither Jodi’s podiatric patients nor her just-fired, suddenly retired husband can keep her away. But when Jodi arrives, she discovers she’s not the only grandma at Lisa’s house. Lisa’s mother-in-law, Di―a hard-nosed real estate agent―has moved into the house. What’s more, there’s Grannie Annie, the twenty-seven-year-old girlfriend of Lisa’s oddball father-in-law. They’re not the only surprises. Lisa’s marriage is faltering even as her new restaurant is taking off.
As the competition for Macallan’s attention among the three “grandmas” increases, Lisa drops a bomb about her life that changes everything. Under pressure, and determined to help her daughter, Jodi must choose her next step. Her decision surprises everyone―Jodi, most of all.
This stunning paperback box set includes all three books in Suzanne
Collins's internationally bestselling Hunger Games trilogy together
with The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. In the ruins of a place
once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining
Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps
the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one
girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the
annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV... And the
odds are against all who play. With all four of Suzanne Collins's
Hunger Games novels in one box set, you can step into the world of
Panem and continue all the way to the electrifying conclusion.
Three books, four films and one worldwide phenomenon, The Hunger
Games series changed the face of global YA. Lionsgate begin
production on the movie of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2022.
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