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William Morrow
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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"From New York Times bestselling author Sarah Jio comes an escapist timeslip contemporary book club novel following a young woman stuck in a "time loop" of one-day relationships with romantic partners from her past, perfect for readers of Rebecca Serle'sIn Five Years and Josie Silver's One Day in December. "An ingenious and heartfelt love story. I absolutely adored this novel!" -Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Pact...
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Publisher:
Insatiable Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
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Two novellas in one hot volume. EROTIC CITY: LAS VEGAS from Pynk continues the story of Milan Kennedy, owner of the Erotic City chain of swingers clubs. While she deals with her ex-professional-boxer husband's cheating ways, her new Las Vegas venue is the setting for a hit reality television series about the swinger lifestyle. THE EX CHRONICLES: EVERYTHING CHANGES by Carol Taylor continues the stories of four close friends as they navigate the rough...
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Publisher:
Insatiable Press
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Two novellas in one hot volume. EROTIC CITY: LAS VEGAS from Pynk continues the story of Milan Kennedy, owner of the Erotic City chain of swingers clubs. While she deals with her ex-professional-boxer husband's cheating ways, her new Las Vegas venue is the setting for a hit reality television series about the swinger lifestyle. THE EX CHRONICLES: EVERYTHING CHANGES by Carol Taylor continues the stories of four close friends as they navigate the rough...
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"A new standalone legal thriller from the international bestselling author of Gone, But Not Forgotten. Charlie Webb is a third-rate lawyer who graduated from a third-rate law school and, because he couldn't get hired by any of the major law firms, has opened his own law firm, where he gets by handling cases for dubious associates from his youth and some court-appointed cases. Described as "a leaky boat floating down the stream of life," Charlie has...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
Publisher:
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2019]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Lee Israel made her living in the 1970s and 1980s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen. Though Lee Israel has undeniable profiling skills, her work has grown stale and hackneyed, rendering her profession unnecessary and insignificant. Now in times of financial hardship, Israel must find other ways to make a living. With assistance from her steadfast friend, Jack, the two endeavor...
9. Edge
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English
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When Washington D.C. police detective Ryan Kessler is targeted by "lifter" Henry Loving, he and his family are immediately put under government protection. Assigned to the Kesslers is protection officer Corte: uncompromising, relentlessly devoted to protecting those in his care and a brilliant game strategist. As the "lifter" closes in on his prey, Corte must decide whether to protect his charges, or expose them to a killer in the name of personal...
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Language:
English
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"An enchanting new novel from one of the most distinguished writers of our time, an altogether serious comedy that is the synthesis and culmination of his oeuvre"--
Four friends in contemporary Paris who encounter one another at parties and at the Luxembourg Gardens and talk about sex, history, art, politics, and the meaning of life.
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East. In February 1944, in one of the most astonishing battles of World War II, a ragtag collection of British clerks, drivers, doctors, muleteers, and other base troops, stiffened by a few dogged Yorkshiremen and a handful of tank crews, managed to defeat a much...
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Publisher:
Celadon Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
"The perfect Valentine's Day or anniversary gift: An illustrated collection of love and relationship advice from New Yorker writer Patricia Marx, with illustrations from New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Everyone's heard the old advice for a healthy relationship: Never go to bed angry. Play hard to get. Sexual favors in exchange for cleaning up the cat vomit is a good and fair trade. Okay, not that last one. It's one of the tips in You Can Only Yell...
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English
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The Call of Cthulhu is a science fiction short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. In it, the narrator recounts a sequence of portentous discoveries which indicate that a vast, ancient cosmic pantheon of supernatural deities with the power to erase humankind is awakening after a long slumber. Credited with inspiring the "Cthulhu Mythos", a kind of literary genre unto itself that expands upon the universe set forth in "The Call of Chtulhu", this...
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Follow the thoughts of essayist, poet and American Transcendentalism founder Ralph Waldo Emerson as he discovered his own belief system in the anthology "Self-Reliance and Other Essays." In "Self-Reliance," Emerson explained that standing on one's own two feet against society was essential to forming a strong union with God. Once this essay was published, it received both wild praise and hurtful backlash from different factions of America. However,...
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Publisher:
Zhou Yan
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
In the Yi family of Hongcheng city, Yi An was an insignificant member, but after his father's disappearance, Yi An and his mother suffered bullying. Until three years ago, when an accident occurred, the real Yi An ceased to exist. The current Yi An is actually a devil cultivator who has crossed over from another world.After three years of tempering, he rose from the ruins. With the body of a devil cultivator, he broke free from his shackles and looked...
16. Pragmatism
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Language:
English
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William James, who has been called the "father of American psychology", was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. Along with Charles Sanders Peirce, William James established the school of thought known as "Pragmatism", a philosophy which rejected the idea that language and thought exists simply to represent nature, but rather it must be useful in transacting with nature, in predicting outcomes, and solving problems. First published...
17. Chance
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1020L
Language:
English
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Young Flora de Barral, is the daughter of a man whose sudden bankruptcy and conviction, have forced her to face a harsh and uncertain reality. Chance is a clever examination of risk and the impact of unforeseen circumstance. Chance features Conrad's signature narration as it describes the experiences of major and minor characters, including Flora de Barral. She is a young woman who has suffered the consequences of her father's many misdeeds. This...
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Olive Bright Mystery volume 3
Language:
English
Description:
Weaving wartime intrigue, rural village life, and little-known historical facts about the role of carrier pigeons in WWII, Stephanie Graves continues the adventures of British pigeoneer Olive Bright, but as bitter cold weather forces her racing birds indoors in November 1941, Olive is assigned to a new role in the war effort - escorting none other than Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming on his visit to the Brickendonbury Manor spy training center......
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Language:
English
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The critically acclaimed author of Russian Winter turns her "sure and suspenseful artistry" (Boston Globe) to the lives of three colleagues and lovers in the world of classical music. On a Boston street one warm spring day, Hazel and Remy spot each other for the first time in years. Although their brief meeting may seem insignificant, behind them lie two decades in which their life paths have crisscrossed, diverged, and ultimately interlaced. Remy,...