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Beach Read
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Emily Henry
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R391
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Sheldon Soleskin should be having a horrible day. Even though he’s been
unexpectedly transferred to a new school right before the holidays, has
only one day to set up his new classroom, and just discovered his twin
sister's been hiding an invitation to his ex-boyfriend’s Christmas Eve
wedding, he’s still ready to take on the world with a smile on his face
and a skip in his step.
Theo Berenson just wants to be left alone to his custodial duties. But
when the chipper new first-grade teacher needs help moving furniture
the Sunday after Thanksgiving, he's forced to do something he detests
... help. To make matters worse, Theo's overbearing parents are coming
for Hanukah in a few weeks, and he's told them he has a boyfriend.
Except he doesn't. Because who would want to date an oaf like Theo?
Working together, these opposites discover they might be able to help
each other out. Agreeing to be each other’s dates, they become friends
as they practice for their upcoming events. But when all the rehearsing
starts feeling a little too real, and both men's pasts come roaring
back to haunt them, will they be able to pull off the ultimate holiday
masquerade?
A witch has a second chance to get her magical powers - and her life back on track in this feel-good, whimsical new cozy fantasy from the author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches.
Once, Sera Swan was one of the most powerful witches in Britain. Then she resurrected her great-aunt Jasmine from the (very recently) dead, lost most of her powers, befriended a semi-villainous talking fox, and was exiled from her Guild. Now she helps Jasmine run an enchanted inn in Lancashire, where she deals with their quirky guests' shenanigans and longs for a future that seems lost. Until she finds about an old spell that could restore her power . . .
Enter Luke Larsen, handsome magical historian, who might have the key to unlocking the spell's secrets. Luke has no interest in the inn's madcap goings-on, and is even less interested in letting a certain bewitching innkeeper past his walls. So no one is more surprised than he is when he agrees to help.
Running an inn, reclaiming lost power, and staying one step ahead of the watchful Guild is a lot for anyone, but Sera is about to discover she doesn't have to do alone - and that love might be the best magic of all.
He broke her heart once before. Can she risk him doing it again?
Five seconds of honesty: Wells Canyon is the last place Blair Hart
wants to be.
But her mother's illness leaves her no choice except to return to the
hometown-and the traumatic past-she's spent thirteen years hiding from.
A run-in with the boy who tore her life to pieces is inevitable in a
town like Wells Canyon, but that doesn't mean she's prepared for the
way Denver Wells can turn back time with a single smile.
Thirteen years ago Denver's world crashed around him. Since then, he's
done everything he can to outrun his demons, until a flash of brown
hair knocks him from his saddle. But if he wants her back, he'll need
to prove he can be the man Blair needs-the same one she used to love.
With a thousand sticky notes worth of responsibilities, Blair doesn't
have the time to sift through their messy history and resolve things
with the man who's determined to be in her life. And Denver's going to
need more than cowboy charm and five seconds of honesty to convince
Blair he's worth a change of heart.
The bestselling modern classic, Milan Kundera’s iconic novel of love and politics in communist Czechoslovakia.
A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon; a man torn between his love for her and his womanising. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals; while her other lover stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by choices and events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance and weight – and we feel ‘the unbearable lightness of being’.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being encompasses passion and philosophy, infidelity and ideas, the Prague Spring and modern America, political acts and private desires, comedy and tragedy – in fact, all of human existence.
A brand new heart-stopping series from a USA Today bestselling
author No sooner has Alexis Stone been sworn in as the interim
sheriff for Russell County, Tennessee, when a serial killer dubbed
the Queen's Gambit Killer strikes again--this time in her hometown.
Pearl Springs is just supposed to be a temporary stop along the way
to Alex's real dream: becoming the first female police chief of
Chattanooga. But the killer's calling card--a white pawn and a note
with a chess move printed on it--cannot be ignored. Pearl Springs
chief of police Nathan Landry can't believe that his high school
sweetheart Alexis (he refuses to call her Alex) is back in town,
and he can't help wanting to protect the woman he never stopped
loving. But as the danger mounts and the killer closes in, can
Nathan come through on the promises he makes to himself to bring a
killer to justice before it's too late.
Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster.
Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star – the most enigmatic of the sisters – is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world . . .
A hundred years earlier, headstrong and independent Flora MacNichol vows she will never marry. She is happy and secure in her home in the Lake District, living close to her idol, Beatrix Potter, when machinations outside of her control lead her to London, and the home of one of Edwardian society's most notorious players, Alice Keppel. Flora is pulled between passionate love and duty to her family, but finds herself a pawn in a game – the rules of which are only known to others, until a meeting with a mysterious gentleman unveils the answers that Flora has been searching for her whole life . . .
As Star learns more of Flora's incredible journey, she too goes on a voyage of discovery, finally stepping out of the shadow of her sister and opening herself up to the possibility of love.
Being kidnapped by aliens is one thing. Being kidnapped by aliens and
sent to a prison planet is something infinitely worse. Here in Haven’s
prison system, I’m stranded among strangers, enemies, and the most
ruthless criminals in the galaxy. There’s no safety for a human woman
here, especially not one branded as a murderer. I’m doomed to a fate
worse than death. Then -- he decides I should be his. His name’s
Jutari. He’s seven feet tall, blue, and horned. He’s an assassin and
one of the most dangerous prisoners here. He’s like no one I’ve ever
met before…and he might be my only chance. This story stands completely
alone and is only marginally connected to the Ice Planet Barbarians
series. You do not need to read those books in order to follow this one.
A drizzly, moody, and lustrously carnal rendition of a storybook tale, Savage Blooms is the holy grail for lovers of dark academia and faery magic alike. By the time I got to the epilogue, I was ready to bite into the pages like they were made of faery fruit, just so I'd never have to leave' Sierra Simone, author of Priest. Wuthering Heights meets Sierra Simone in the new Celtic-inspired erotic fantasy romance from Sunday Times bestseller S.T. Gibson, author of the cult phenomenon A Dowry of Blood. For as long as Adam can remember, the legends passed down from his world-traveling grandfather have called him to a crumbling manor in the Highlands. His closest friend Nicola longs for the same adventure, as well as for Adam himself. She'll follow him just about anywhere -even to the remote wilds of Scotland-if it pushes the pair to surrender to their shared attraction. But when a storm strikes and strands them unexpectedly, Adam and Nicola find themselves at the mercy of the eccentric owner of the infamous house, Eileen, as well as her brooding groundskeeper, Finley. Trapped by the weather, and bound by ancient faery magic, Nicola and Adam get more than they bargained for as they become entangled in Eileen and Finley's world of mind games, deceit and forbidden desire. As ancestral sins are unearthed, Adam and Nicola will have to reckon with the spell Eileen and Finley have cast over them - and whether or not they even want to be free. Praise for S.T. Gibson's A Dowry of Blood: 'With Savage Blooms, Gibson cements herself as one of the strongest and most unique voices in gothic romance. This dangerous and decadent subversion of a found family is fresh, unabashedly queer, and gripping from the very first rain-soaked page. Gibson is a ferociously talented writer at the top of her game' Sydney Shields, author of The Honey Witch
A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril returns to the noble
household he once served as page and is named secretary-tutor to
the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is
next in line to rule. It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it
must ultimately lead him to the place he most fears: the royal
court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies who once placed him
in chains now occupy lofty positions.But it is more than the
traitorous intrigues of villains that threaten Cazaril and the
Royesse Iselle here, for a sinister curse hangs like a sword over
the entire blighted House of Chalion. And only by employing the
darkest, most forbidden of magics can Cazaril hope to protect his
royal charge -- an act that will mark him as a tool of the
miraculous . . . and trap him in a lethal maze of demonic paradox.
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