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If you've ever found yourself waiting for a call that didn't come, The Man Who Didn't Call by Rosie Walsh is the book for you.
Imagine you meet a man, spend six glorious days together, and fall in love. And it's mutual: you've never been so certain of anything. So when he leaves for a long-booked holiday and promises to call from the airport, you have no cause to doubt him. But he doesn't call.
Your friends tell you to forget him, but you know they're wrong: something must have happened; there must be a reason for his silence. What do you do when you finally discover you're right?
That there is a reason -- and that reason is the one thing you didn't share with each other? The truth.
It was never the case of good people doing nothing; rather if they
are prepared to cross the line and kill. After a chance meeting
with two investigative journalists, Sam discovers that a man he
hasn't seen for over twenty years and those he loves. Confronted
with that realisation, he is led on a quest where he will be forced
to take the long reach back and place his trust in someone who once
betrayal him. But can he forgive that betrayal for the sake of a
young child held by captors for whom violence holds no boundaries?
And when Penny finds herself face to face with a date in history
when the world was at war - a date that has become Sam's moral
compass - little does she know that for one man, knowledge that of
that moral compass, and that it is Sam's Achilles heel, will bring
the two men together for one final showdown. The question is: who
will walk away the victor and who will not?
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Wellness
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Nathan Hill
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From the best-selling author of The Nix comes a witty and poignant new novel about modern marriage, our tech-obsessed health culture, and the bonds that keep people together.
When Jack and Elizabeth meet as college students in the 90s, the two quickly join forces and hold on tight, each eager to claim a place in Chicago’s thriving underground art scene with an appreciative kindred spirit. Fast-forward twenty years to married life, and alongside the challenges of parenting they encounter cults disguised as mindfulness support groups, polyamorous would-be suitors, Facebook wars, and something called Love Potion Number Nine.
For the first time, Jack and Elizabeth struggle to recognize one another, and the no-longer-youthful dreamers are forced to face their demons, from unfulfilled career ambitions to painful childhood memories of their own dysfunctional families. In the process, Jack and Elizabeth must undertake separate, personal excavations, or risk losing the best thing in their lives: each other.
Moving from the gritty 90s Chicago art scene to a suburbia of detox diets and home renovation hysteria, Wellness mines the absurdities of modern technology and modern love to reveal profound, startling truths about intimacy and connection.
In this follow-up to Nathan Hill’s electric debut, Wellness reimagines the love story with healthy doses of insight, irony and heart.
When the figure of a man was washed up on the beach close to where
she was staying Helen Western did not know at first whether the
figure was dead or alive. But then Tamir, after escaping from the
ferry boat carrying refugees because his life was in danger, was
very much alive and as a result the two of them soon struck up a
relationship. Still the time eventually came when Helen had to
return back to her teaching job in England. Tamir however was
determined to follow her even if he had no papers! England however
was not that Paradise Island where they had first met and quite
soon people were to come between them with disastrous consequences.
The question was could their problems ever be resolved or was true
happiness out of the question for them to find? Love like the tide
can ebb and flow!
Two days. One playlist. And the long road home with her past in the rear-view mirror.
As a music connoisseur, Stella has a song for every day of her life – setting a pace with their rhythms and a tone with their lyrics. But when a heart-stopping phone call rocks the balance, Stella is faced with a long car journey home, and all matters of the heart to play for.
Now a successful journalist, Stella looks back at the life she’s composed and how she is still torn between her two great loves: her fiance and boss, Nate; and Reid Crown, lead drummer of the Dead Sergeants, and the man who broke her heart . . .
And in that instant I fall in love. Not just with him, though he is the better part of it, but with them both, with the whole scene: the house, the garden, the magazine perfection of it. And I want very badly to be in this picture.As Edie Jones lies in a bed on the fourteenth floor of a Cambridge hospital, her adult daughter Dido tells their story, starting with the day that changed everything.That was the day when Dido - aged exactly six years and twenty-seven days old - met the handsome Tom Trevelyan, his precocious sister, Harry, and their parents, Angela and David.The day Dido fell in love with a family completely different from her own.Because the Trevelyans were exactly the kind of family six year-old Dido dreamed of. Normal. And Dido's mother, Edie, doesn't do normal. In fact, as Dido has learnt the hard way, normal is the one thing Edie can never be . . .
The heartwarming conclusion to the Hopeless series that illustrates the power of following a difficult journey to discover what happens next.
Friends Daniel, Six, Holder, Sky, and Breckin are planning to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday with a Friendsgiving dinner at Sky’s parents’ house.
But things have been off within the tightknit group and when Daniel reaches out to Six to ask the hard questions he hasn’t dared to bring up since they last spoke about their shared secret, he’s dismayed to learn that it’s this very secret bringing a cloud over the holiday. Suddenly, Daniel must do everything he can to find answers for the one person he loves the most in the world, but will this search only lead to despair.
Alchemist. Poisoner. Reluctant queen.
Wren Embervale knows her duty demands a crown, even if it means a
strategic betrothal to the influential Lord Darian Devereux. Their
arranged marriage promises the formidable army she needs to wrestle her
kingdom from the clutches of the tyrannical usurper, Silas. Yet Wren’s
heart still belongs to Torj Elderbrock, her soul-bonded Warsword.
Torn between her pragmatic alliance and the visceral pull of her bond
with Torj, Wren must navigate a treacherous landscape of courtly
intrigue and looming war. As Silas’s shadow alchemy tightens its grip
on the midrealms and a creeping poison steals Torj’s strength, Wren’s
carefully constructed facade begins to crack . . .
Can Wren play the dutiful fiancée to secure her throne while her body
and soul yearns for the warrior who would lay down his life for her? Or
will the tangled threads of political necessity leave her kingdom – and
her heart – in ashes?
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