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"When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens' Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she'll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards. The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively...
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London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned, and expired in Adrian's train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron to put in a good word for Adrian with Inspector Green. Despite her unresolved feelings for Alexander, Saffron begins to unravel mysteries...
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"What could be more idyllic than starting a new gig with an exclusive train ride from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara? Turns out, a whole lot. Jaine must figure out how to tolerate her client--Chip Miller, aka Iron Man, a wealthy gym chain owner--who Jaine soon discovers is a tyrant and a bully with an ego as pumped as his pecs. Practically everyone on board seems to have it in for Chip--his dysfunctional family members, his beleaguered staff, even his...
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Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse...
1926. Washington, D.C.
The Coast Guard is losing the Prohibition Rum War, but they have a new, secret weapon to crack smuggler codes, intercept traffic, and destroy the rum trade one skiff at a time. That secret weapon is a 5'2" mastermind in heels, who also happens to be a wife and mother: Mrs. Elizebeth Smith Friedman, one half of the husband-and-wife...
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This novel is the third in the A Plane Tree in Provence Series. The women have arrive back home ready to assume life for the better.Sarah Stafford, of Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is a famed artist whose paintings hang in galleries as well as prestigious homes throughout the country. Her days are spent painting at the beach or in her home studio. Although she rarely contributes to housework, preparing meals, or taking care of her teen-age sons, it is a...
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The Doctor's arrived...And his treatment is sizzling!
She's a young college student, set on a scrupulous career as a school teacher. I'm a doctor with a checkered past.
Binge drinking on weekends, sleeping with women I care nothing for, and seeking summers with women I rent, has been my life. Until I saw her face on the club's website.
The Dungeon of Decorum may have found her, but I'd take her as my own. Fighting men who wanted to use her in ways...
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A horrible tragedy so close to the heart, sends Dr. Raina O'Roark into a catatonic state. After waking, she has to deal with not the just the aftermath of the pain, but how to continue to look forward to the future. When her depths of souls, eat away at her insides and create new feelings, will she be able to interpret what they mean.When Jim starts to feel useless as her father, his best friend allows him to release himself. Back in action, Alex...
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A legion of teachers pioneered the story of education in thousands of one-room schools for more than 200 years in Nova Scotia. Benchmark advances from the primitive platforms first employed to educate children were realized through the Education Act of 1855 when, with the government's blessing, Nova Scotia became the first province to provide free education to all children. Marking the occasion, the Provincial Normal School was established. Its mission:...
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.A Year of Change begins in a hillside suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand and tells the story of some of the residents over the period of one year. As with any group of people they have their similarities and their differences.Eleanor Chandler, in her eighties, is pompous and a snob. She looks down on the likes of Kay Smith, in her forties, a newcomer to the area and at the bottom of the social, economic ladder with a husband in gaol.Her neighbour,...
10) Yoginis
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Ein Figurenroman in 13 Asanas
Das Yoga-Haus am frühen Montagabend – Zeit für einen besonderen Kurs der Yogalehrerin Dörte. Sie hat ihr Yogastudio gegründet, als sie ihr Leben nach dem Tod ihres Mannes neu aufgestellt hat. Elf Frauen nehmen an ihrem Kurs teil – jede mit ihrem ganz persönlichen Schicksal.
Der Roman erzählt von einem Vierteljahr des Yogakurses, immer an einem Montagabend mit einer Yogini und einer ausgewählten Asana im...
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Astor Christakos needed a vacation from the reality of being the CEO of a high-powered investment company.
Nova Blankenship had been offered a new job.
That's how they both found themselves at the newest tropical island resort opened by billionaire Galen Dunne: Nova as a hospitality hostess, Astor as an entitled guest who had to have things his way or else.
The practicing Dom hadn't met a suitable Sub in some time, and Nova could use a man's hand...
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"Your true lover of literature is never fastidious."Robert Southey - The DoctorWaiting for somebody or for transportation? Have a little time to spare? Then read this book of short stories and find out about:• The large coed in love with her nerdy professor.• The Englishman at the Dallas airport cocktail lounge.• The professor who causes his manic-depressive student to commit suicide.• The man who advertises in the personal columns and meets...
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A young woman has a burning quest to be educated in her beloved Prague during the Communist regime. Instead she is sent to a chemical factory. Will she escape her fate by marrying an opportunistic and boorish medical doctor? This is the first volume of the Prague Trilogy - author's cut.
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La socióloga Virginia Hutton se muda al campo para embarcarse en un ambicioso experimento: criar a un bebé orangután como si se tratara de un niño. Lo instala en una habitación infantil de muebles blancos y empieza un cuaderno en el que cada día anotará los avances. Appius resulta ser un aprendiz dócil que, poco a poco, comienza a mantenerse erguido y caminar, decir palabras, leer, e incluso a sentarse a la mesa y usar cuchillo y tenedor.
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In the strange and unpredictable sequel to "Streaks of Blue," intern newspaper reporter Nikki Janicek is wooed by a cult of criminal ex-Scientologists obsessed with the looming effects of global warming, population control and the race to colonize Mars. By the time Nikki finds out the truth about the secretive organization, her loved ones, friends and even a former assailant are entangled in a web that stretches from New England to South Africa.
16) Us Three
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Carmen is at her wit's end with her rebellious teenage daughter gone train wreck, and a workaholic husband who prefers Las Vegas hotels over family life. With a general disregard for women, Carmen has no desire for friendships or confidants, but after her father calls her home to say her final good-bye to her estranged mother, she inevitably finds herself drawn to rely on two women she'd rather avoid.Monica's conniving mother-in-law has moved in for...
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When best friends Samantha Duncan and Ellie Thomas decide to establish The Childfree Society Club, their intent is that it would serve as a social group through which happily childfree women, like themselves, could connect. What they could not have imagined is that it would also become for its members a central support system from which lifelong friendships would bloom.For Samantha, a successful and career-focused attorney, The Childfree Society Club...
18) Forbidden View
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Forbidden View is the story of an improbable bond between a photojournalist suffering from PTSD, following an acid attack in war-torn Syria, and a very independent woman who has an aggressive form of breast cancer. Beginning with voyeurism, their unusual encounter leads them to interdependence based on their fears, binding them through cancer treatments in Montreal and the protagonist's return to Syria to face his demons. While working with an NGO,...
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Welcome. You have found Next Stop, Heaven, which was named Winner at the Texas Association of Authors Book Awards, a contest open to international submissions.Next Stop, Heaven is the third volume of the Trilogy of Light. This book stands alone and connects to the other two books by a theme: we all have genius, inner light, but we seldom bring it out in creative acts because we have been bludgeoned into conformity.The Trilogy of Light is not religious....
20) Back in Belmont
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After years of searching in vain for romance and adventure, Deanna Danese returns to the Bronx neighborhood where she was born, determined to be a good daughter, friend, and wife. She works in her father's restaurant, reunites with outspoken cousin Beanie, and agrees to marry old beau, Bobby Leone. But Papa's restaurant is tanking, Beanie is hiding a devastating secret, and Bobby, as a husband, leaves much to be desired. When Day meets Native American...
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