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"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
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In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers-one white, one Black-living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning.
De'Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia-a...
3) Swan song
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There's a new couple in town . . . and they're shaking things up.
After thirty-five years as the Chief of Police on Nantucket, Ed Kapenash's heart can no longer take the stress.
But his plans to retire are thwarted when, with only three days left on the job, he receives a phone call. The Richardsons' 22-million-dollar summer home has been burned to the ground. The couple are far from hurt - they were out on the water at one of their lavish yacht...
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Five lonely strangers join a bar trivia team in an effort to find friends, but end up on a path that will change each of their lives forever, in this heartwarming debut perfect for fans of Beth O'Leary and Sophie Kinsella. How do you make friends as an adult? That's one question lonely Londoners Bryony, Harry, Jaime, Luke, and Donna would really like the answer to. They tend to do better with questions of a different variety-trivia questions like...
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A long-held secret, and a beautiful heart hoping to be understood.
Cressida Tarbet loves her job at an animal rescue centre, even if it means she's resigned herself to scrimping to make ends meet - a lifestyle far removed from her best friend Ivo's, in his ancestral gatehouse stuffed with antiques and art.
But although their upbringings were different, Ivo has held Cress's heart ever since she clapped eyes on him at university. The trouble is –...
6) The Mother
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Preorder the BRAND NEW psychological thriller from the NUMBER ONE bestselling author of The Nurse
A terrible wife...
Sarah Westfield is unhappily married to perfect husband Nick. Handsome, devoted and kind, he should be the ideal man for her, but Sarah knows their marriage is the biggest mistake she's ever made…and she wants out.
But then Nick offers her one last chance to make their marriage work – a baby.
Sarah is horrified – a baby would...
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A secluded house. A lost notebook. A wartime secret.
1942: Young Irish nurse Ellen arrives at May Day House, tasked with helping the men there rehabilitate. But there's something strange about the house, surrounded by water, on its own island in the Thames. And then there are the men: traumatised by their experiences of war, and subject to troubling methods in a desperate race to get them back to duty. As Ellen gets drawn into the world of May Day...
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Pre-order the first in a BRAND NEW spicy historical romance series, featuring a cast of deadly damsels!Never Underestimate a wallflower!
Lady Hannah Simmons is a quintessential wallflower, unassuming, dowdy yet ignored by most. But underneath her plain exterior, Hannah is hiding a thrilling secret! Unbeknownst to the rest of the ton, she is Queen Victoria's leading femme fatale, slipping unnoticed through the streets of London and listening to scandalous...
9) Love Me Do
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She may have given up on love – but she can still play Cupid for somebody else . . . Lovelorn Brit Phoebe Chapman has barely set foot in her sister's house in the Hollywood Hills when she's swept up by lovable Bel, her sister's personal trainer, and handsome Ren, the sweet and sensitive carpenter next door. Bel has a head-over-heels crush on Ren but Ren has no idea Bel even exists. Certain that the two of them are meant to be together, Phoebe offers...
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An ingeniously plotted dark comedy about aging and friendship following a tight-knit circle of seniors as they attempt to hide the death of one of their best friends so he can win the Nobel Prize for Economics – the inspiration for a popular Israeli TV series.
Avishay is up for the Nobel Prize for Economics. But there's just one problem-he's dead. His four closest friends agree that the well-earned prize must stay within his grasp, and so conspire...
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BRAND NEW from bestselling author Alex Brown
Mamma Mia meets Shirley Valentine in the brand-new holiday romance for 2024 from the International No.1 bestseller.
Gina Bennett has had enough after her husband of twenty-seven years lets her down one time too many. Deciding to choose herself, she embarks on a transformative solo journey to break free from the monotony of her life.
She escapes to the gorgeous Greek island of Kalosiros, where she holidayed...
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A Sun-drenched Summer Romance from Bestseller Mandy Baggot
Love is in the air…
When singer Cara is invited to a big, fat Greek wedding in Corfu, she sees it as a mixed blessing: some time to heal on the beautiful Greek island with her aunt will be a tonic, but it's going to stir up memories – of before Seb ghosted her and disappeared off the face of the earth.
Akis Diakos, brother of the groom, should be looking forward to planning the bachelor...
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Pre-order the BRAND NEW instalment in the uplifting Ever After Street series from Jaimie Admans
A brand new and utterly enchanting series by bestselling author Jaimie Admans.
A picture-perfect town, a place where dreams come true. Welcome to Ever After Street...
There's always time for tea... unless you've lost your teapot…
Cleo Jordan has only ever wished for one thing – to open her own teashop in memory of her lovely gran. So when she accidentally...
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An uplifting and meditative novel on friendship, the healing power of nature and how we should all embrace and re-imagine the winter of our lives as the time of our lives! She was the only human being down at the lake. Elbows, in need of a slather of moisturiser, pointed at the clouds; breasts, lifted to pre-children perkiness; baby belly stretched and flattened. She stretched her arms out wide as she started to walk barefoot into the lake. Peering...
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From international bestselling author Lola Akinmade Åkerström, the highly anticipated follow-up to her debut novel, In Every Mirror She's Black, focusing on the lives of three Black women as they fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.
Can a career woman truly have it all?
Powerful marketing executive Kemi Adeyemi has finally found the man she needs, but Tobias Wikström thinks she's the most selfish...
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The time for celebrations is over…
Jude Gray's farm is going from strength to strength, and even though her grumpy neighbour has concerns about the new campsite in the lower field, she is undeterred.
When a hen party arrives for a weekend away, she does her best to cater for their celebrations. But with a sheep needing urgent care – an accidental mishap or something more nefarious? – she finds herself consulting the group, which coincidentally...
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With German bombs falling on London, one brave young woman will rise to the occasion…
England, 1940. Only given two days leave after barely escaping Nazi troops in Paris, Lily Baker visits her fiancé's family and is dismayed to learn he's still missing in action. And going from an exciting overseas telephonist post to a routine office assignment leaves her bored… until the Blitz begins.
Joining the Air Raid Protection service, Lily's perilous...
18) Louise's War
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Caught between enemy lines – can they survive?
1914, Hampshire
Jack Barlow has a dream. For generations his family have been in service at Trenwith Estate. If he can survive the ravages of war, he'll return home to build his own mechanic business and become master of his own destiny.
Louise Saint-Claire, is battling against the odds to run her family farmhouse in German occupied France after her abusive husband is taken prisoner by the Germans....
19) Come Fly With Me
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Take to the skies in this gorgeous and gripping new series, perfect for fans of Jo Bartlett and Cathy Bramley.
A Second Chance…
For Maya, serving as a pilot in the Whistlestop River air ambulance team is a dream come true. And now, with her divorce from her overbearing husband finally complete, flying over the fields of Dorset, and saving lives with the Skylarks, is the centre of her world. If only her ex would accept their separation as readily...
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Preorder the BRAND NEW book from Chrissie Walsh!
As World War II takes its toll on Liverpool, only friendship and community can keep the women of Weaver Street smiling.
The neighbours on Liverpool's Weaver Street have always looked after each other, but when the Second World War takes many of the husbands, brothers and sons away to fight, the women's friendships are more important than ever.
Matriarch Kitty Conlon is missing her son Patrick, proud...
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