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Maddy Banks, an NYU student recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder after experiencing a wild and terrifying mania, rejects the stability of a “normal” life for a career in stand-up comedy, in a novel from a Harvard-trained neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author.
3. Just Say Yes
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Boldwood Books
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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Wedding planner Madeleine lives in a picture-perfect thatched cottage, in a picture-perfect English country village. There's only one problem - dream cottages take a lot of work, and with a leaking roof, and not enough money to pay for it, what Maddie needs now is a big wedding to plan. So she's delighted when she takes on the wedding of Californian heiress Peyton, to all-round good guy Patrick. She's less delighted to find out that she's going...
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Crow Investigations volume 1
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English
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Meet Lydia Crow... Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a professional snafu forces her home, the head of the family calls in a favour, and Lydia finds herself investigating the disappearance of her cousin, Maddie. Soon, Lydia is neck-deep in problems: her new flatmate is a homicidal ghost,...
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Lori Leger
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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Sometimes less really is more . . .The fifty-something year old Sandra and Marshall Campion are beginning to enjoy life with no children at home. Trips to Belize, fishing at the lake house with other couples, tailgating and season passes to college football games. Their youngest son has just graduated from college and has a new fiancée. Their oldest daughter is married but still bears an irrational grudge against her younger sister. Middle daughter,...
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Strictly volume 1
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Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date:
2017
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English
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As an innocent girl, Madeline Sedgewick learned that nothing comes without a price-even desire. Five years later, now widowed and deeply in debt, she's certain that the stranger who bought her last husband's notes of credit will demand swift, steep repayment. But she never imagines her creditor will be Brock Taylor, her baseborn former stable-hand turned newly wealthy entrepreneur-the man who stole her virginity and her heart. She's even more stunned...
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Summerhouse Publishing
Pub. Date:
2023
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English
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Elise really did love her family. Mostly. Except they just wouldn't leave her the heck alone. Yes, she'd just returned after two years of hell at the hands of a militant group called Freedom. And, yes, she was a severely broken Senstive. But, no, she wasn't a baby who needed to be coddled and wrapped in cotton. Which was why she got the hell out of Dodge and headed to the one place she knew she'd feel more herself and less cotton-y: Ridgeville. Only...
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Pub. Date:
2024
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English
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PRE-ORDER the BRAND-NEW, brilliantly funny novel from #1 bestselling author Fiona Gibson, perfect for fans of Sophie Kinsella and Jill Mansell. This year, their families can deck the bloody halls themselves... Old friends Shelley, Lena and Pearl have reached their limit with the festive preparation that has always fallen to them, and five days before Christmas, they've booked a mini break… without their families. Up until Christmas Eve, they'll...
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Fred L. Funk
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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On A genealogical research vacation in the Arkansas Ozarks, Rick and Mandy Raines discover a tombstone in an old churchyard marking the final resting place of three men who died on the same day in 1916. Before they can do much more than ponder that mystery, an old mountain man resting on the church steps volunteers his knowledge of the people and the series of events that led to the unusual burial.The aged storyteller spins a yarn of the Hunter and...
10. Pardon Me
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James Roberts
Pub. Date:
2015
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English
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The year is 1896 and following a brief, if lively, spell in the diplomatic corps, Madagan Rùn is being executed for Treason. The prima facie case against him is compelling. Madagan coerced the normally temperate Dr Jameson into raiding the Boer Republic, then tipped off the Boers and pocketed a cheque for 30,000 Krugerand. Now here's the pity of it. All his unfathomable schemes have been driven by a selfless devotion to Queen, Country and Empire....
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Morgue Mama Mysteries volume 1
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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Most people think of the morgue as that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, albeit dreadful, work. Less familiar is the other type of morgue, the dry and dusty version, the newspaper morgue, usually housed in the basements and backrooms of newspaper buildings, where old news clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of the Hannawa Herald-Union's morgue for more than forty years. She is gruff...
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Siskin Press
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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Discover the new star of magical London with the first three books in the bestselling Crow Investigations urban fantasy mystery series.Omnibus edition includes: The Night Raven, The Silver Mark and The Fox's Curse The Night Raven: Meet Lydia Crow... Lydia has always known she has no power, especially next to her infamous and more-than-slightly dodgy family. Which is why she carved her own life as a private investigator far away from London. When a...
13. On the Edge
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Verve Books
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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A FAST-PACED, TWISTY THRILLER WITH ECHOES OF DAPHNE DU MAURIER Jen Shaw has climbed all her life: daring ascents of sheer rock faces, crumbling buildings, cranes - the riskier the better. Both her work and personal life revolved around climbing, and the adrenaline high it gave her. Until she went too far and hurt the people she cares about. So she's given it all up now. Honestly, she has. And she's checked herself into a rehab centre to prove it....
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AMACOM
Pub. Date:
2005
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English
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Reorganization, downsizing, mergers, budget pressures, transfers, job insecurity, and more are producing today's unpredictable, pressure-cooker conditions, and making it harder for less resilient people to achieve the success they deserve. Resilience at Work supplies insights and strategies you can use to combat your fear of change and uncover the opportunities that can be found in even the most stressful situations.
15. A Summer Path
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Philangelus Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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Will a mix-up with a landscaping job put these two on the path to romance? Alyssa needs someone to rebuild a stone walkway on a Cape Cod vacation home. The man who answers her video chat request for a quote is younger (and cuter) than she expects, but the more they talk, the more impressed Alyssa is by his knowledge of weird subjects. She's less impressed to discover he's not a contractor at all. His father is.When his dad refuses to build the walkway,...