Rose has a plausible explanation for why she and her children are residing in Thomas's house, but she quickly realizes he's far too intelligent to fool. Revealing the truth is impossibly dangerous, yet day by day he wins her trust, and then her heart.
But then her enemy closes in, and Rose turns to Thomas as the only man who can protect her and the children. And when she asks for his help, Thomas finally understands his true purpose, and with unwavering commitment, he seeks his redemption the only way he can—through living the reality of loving Rose.
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It's bedtime at the Nut House, but little Wally and Hazel Nut aren't ready to go to sleep.
"We're Nuts! We're Nuts! We're Nuts!"
Why go to bed when you could be singing and howling at the moon?
But Mama Nut insists... "All little Nuts need to go up to bed!"
Who will win this bedtime tug-of-war?
In an unforgettably catchy bedtime adventure, Eric Litwin, author of the best-selling and beloved Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, and artist Scott Magoon invite readers to chime in and join the nutty fun!
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"We're Nuts! We're Nuts! We're Nuts!"
Why go to bed when you could be singing and howling at the moon?
But Mama Nut insists... "All little Nuts need to go up to bed!"
Who will win this bedtime tug-of-war?
In an unforgettably catchy bedtime adventure, Eric Litwin, author of the best-selling and beloved Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes, and artist Scott Magoon invite readers to chime in and join the nutty fun!
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A murder… . . . a tragic accident… . . . or just parents behaving badly?
What’s indisputable is that someone is dead. But who did what?
Big Little Lies follows three women, each at a crossroads:
Madeline is a force to be reckoned with. She’s funny and biting, passionate, she remembers everything and forgives no one. Her ex-husband and his yogi new wife have moved into her beloved beachside community, and their daughter is in the same kindergarten class as Madeline’s youngest (how is this possible?). And to top it all off, Madeline’s teenage daughter seems to be choosing Madeline’s ex-husband over her. (How. Is. This. Possible?).
Celeste is the kind of beautiful woman who makes the world stop and stare. While she may seem a bit flustered at times, who wouldn’t be, with those rambunctious twin boys? Now that the boys are starting school, Celeste and her husband look set to become the king and queen of the school parent body. But royalty often comes at a price, and Celeste is grappling with how much more she is willing to pay.
New to town, single mom Jane is so young that another mother mistakes her for the nanny. Jane is sad beyond her years and harbors secret doubts about her son. But why? While Madeline and Celeste soon take Jane under their wing, none of them realizes how the arrival of Jane and her inscrutable little boy will affect them all.
Big Little Lies is a brilliant take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous little lies we tell ourselves just to survive.
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Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy’s girl—her father raised her
alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two
years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is
devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she
feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother.Cordelia can’t suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions lie in Sydney, Australia, she travels there to get them.
Hotel magnate Aiden Madison is Cordelia’s best friend’s older brother. He’s oblivious to the fact that she’s had a crush on him for years. When he gets railroaded into taking her along to Sydney on his company jet, he unknowingly puts her life at risk. He’s recently angered a powerful congressman by refusing to purchase overvalued land. Congressman Chambers is not a man to let such an offense slide, and he has the resources to get even and to get what he wants.
In Australia sparks are flying between Cordelia and Aiden, but multiple attempts on Aiden’s life are made while Cordelia is with him, and he realizes he must put a stop to the madness before he loses the thing he values most.
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Determined to build a
new life for her family after her divorce, Adelia Hernandez has bought a
home in the historic Swan Point neighborhood of Serenity. Promoted to
manager of Main Street's most fashionable boutique, she feels
revitalized and ready for a fresh start as a single mom. But barely into
this new independent phase, she crosses paths with the sexiest man to
hit Serenity in years.
Gabe Franklin, back in town to make amends for past mistakes, has no intention of settling down, but Adelia's proving irresistible. Cheered on by their friends, "the Sweet Magnolias," Gabe is bringing long-absent passion and laughter into Adelia's life. To his surprise—and hers—sometimes a rolling stone is just what it takes to build the rock-solid foundation of a family.
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Any day that starts with dragon arguments is going to be bad
Kaylin returned from the West March in one piece. Now that piece is fraying. She's not at home in the Imperial Palace—and she never intends to be. All she wants is normal garden-variety criminals and a place of her own. Of course, normal in her new life involves a dragon as a roommate, but she can handle that.
She can't as easily handle the new residents to the city she polices, because one of them is Nightshade's younger brother. On a night when she should be talking to landlords in perfectly normal buildings, she's called to the fief—by Teela. A small family disagreement has become a large, complicated problem: Castle Nightshade's latent magic is waking.
And it's not the only thing.
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Master storyteller Ben Macintyre’s most ambitious work to date brings to life the twentieth century’s greatest spy story.
Kim
Philby was the greatest spy in history, a brilliant and charming man
who rose to head Britain’s counterintelligence against the Soviet Union
during the height of the Cold War—while he was secretly working for the
enemy. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s
best friend and fellow officer in MI6. The two men had gone to the same
schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the
crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and
revelry. It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist
spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.
But
Philby was secretly betraying his friend. Every word Elliott breathed
to Philby was transmitted back to Moscow—and not just Elliott’s words,
for in America, Philby had made another powerful friend: James Jesus
Angleton, the crafty, paranoid head of CIA counterintelligence.
Angleton's and Elliott’s unwitting disclosures helped Philby sink almost
every important Anglo-American spy operation for twenty years, leading
countless operatives to their doom. Even as the web of suspicion closed
around him, and Philby was driven to greater lies to protect his cover,
his two friends never abandoned him—until it was too late. The stunning
truth of his betrayal would have devastating consequences on the two men
who thought they knew him best, and on the intelligence services he
left crippled in his wake.
Told with heart-pounding suspense and
keen psychological insight, and based on personal papers and
never-before-seen British intelligence files, A Spy Among Friends is Ben Macintyre’s best book yet, a high-water mark in Cold War history telling. ______________________________________________________________________
On a May afternoon in
1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and
disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil,
gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was
that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling
to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most
extraordinary odysseys of the Second World War.The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a cunning and incorrigible delinquent, breaking into houses, brawling, and fleeing his home to ride the rails. As a teenager, he had channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics and within sight of the four-minute mile. But when war had come, the athlete had become an airman, embarking on a journey that led to his doomed flight, a tiny raft, and a drift into the unknown.
Ahead of Zamperini lay thousands of miles of open ocean, leaping sharks, a foundering raft, thirst and starvation, enemy aircraft, and, beyond, a trial even greater. Driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor; brutality with rebellion. His fate, whether triumph or tragedy, would be suspended on the fraying wire of his will.
In her long-awaited new book, Laura Hillenbrand writes with the same rich and vivid narrative voice she displayed in Seabiscuit. Telling an unforgettable story of a man’s journey into extremity, Unbroken is a testament to the resilience of the human mind, body, and spirit.
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London,
1817: Stuck in a Mayfair ballroom, thanks to his lovestruck brother,
Highlander Arran MacLawry wants nothing but a bit of distraction from an
arranged betrothal—and a clever auburn-haired lass in a vixen's mask
promises just that . . . until he discovers that she's the granddaughter
of the Campbell, chief of clan MacLawry's longtime rival. Despite their
families' grudging truce, falling for fiery Mary Campbell is a notion
too outlandish even for this Highlander…
The Thrill Of The Forbidden
Raised on tales of savage MacLawrys, Mary is stunned to realize the impressively strapping man in the fox's mask is one of them. Surely the enemy shouldn't have such a broad chest, and such a seductive brogue? Not that her curiosity matters—any dalliance between them is strictly forbidden, and she's promised to another. But with the crackling spark between them ready to catch flame, love is worth every risk…
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Empress Elizabeth of Austria,
known as Sisi, is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe.
Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her
hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz
Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal
life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a
horse.
Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest
horseman in England. He is also impoverished, with no hope of buying the
horse needed to win the Grand National—until he meets Charlotte Baird. A
clever, plainspoken heiress whose money gives her a choice among
suitors, Charlotte falls in love with Bay, the first man to really
notice her, for his vulnerability as well as his glamour. When Sisi
joins the legendary hunt organized by Earl Spencer in England, Bay is
asked to guide her on the treacherous course. Their shared passion for
riding leads to an infatuation that jeopardizes the growing bond between
Bay and Charlotte, and threatens all of their futures.
This
brilliant new novel by Daisy Goodwin is a lush, irresistible story of
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FROM WARRIOR AND LOVER TO ENEMY AND BETRAYER, THE TERRIBLE SECRETS OF KALONA’S PAST ARE REVEALED...
He was laughing with her as he spread his wings and lifted her from the ground, twirling her.Nyx gasped and clutched his neck. Kalona tightened his arms around her.
“Trust me, Goddess. I would never let you fall.”
“Trust me, Goddess. I would never let you fall.”
From
the Sun and from the Moon, two winged brothers are born: golden Erebus,
playmate and friend, and mysterious Kalona, Warrior and lover,
companions of the Goddess Nyx.
From the first, Nyx loves them
both deeply, but differently. With Erebus, she can talk and laugh and
dance, and take joy in the games he plays among the humans of the Earth.
With Kalona, the fire in her body burns bright, and she can rest in the
solace of his strength and protection. But for Kalona, Nyx’s nights are
not enough. Every second he is not with her he is filled with doubt and
longing, and every time he fails to please her, he cannot forgive
himself. Ruled by anger and jealousy of his brother, and consumed by his
love for his Goddess, Kalona seeks the power to prove his worth, and to
claim once and for all that Nyx eternally belongs to him.
And at
the edges of the Earth, a Darkness is stirring, waiting for its chance,
for the doorway in through a heart that it knows will welcome it… ______________________________________________________________________
Journalist Maximillian Potter uncovers a fascinating plot to destroy
the vines of La Romanée-Conti, Burgundy's finest and most expensive
wine.
In January 2010, Aubert de Villaine, the famed
proprietor of the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, the tiny, storied
vineyard that produces the most expensive, exquisite wines in the world,
received an anonymous note threatening the destruction of his priceless
vines by poison-a crime that in the world of high-end wine is akin to
murder-unless he paid a one million euro ransom. Villaine believed it to
be a sick joke, but that proved a fatal miscalculation and the crime
shocked this fabled region of France. The sinister story that Vanity
Fair journalist Maximillian Potter uncovered would lead to a sting
operation by some of France's top detectives, the primary suspect's
suicide, and a dramatic investigation. This botanical crime threatened
to destroy the fiercely traditional culture surrounding the world's
greatest wine.
SHADOWS IN THE VINEYARD takes us deep into a
captivating world full of fascinating characters, small-town French
politics, an unforgettable narrative, and a local culture defined by the
twinned veins of excess and vitality and the deep reverent attention to
the land that runs through it. ______________________________________________________________________
Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group
of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans
and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.
In The Fiery Heart, Sydney risked everything to follow her gut, walking a dangerous line to keep her feelings hidden from the Alchemists.
Now in the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney
and Adrian struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to
each other. But first, they have to survive.
For
Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily
struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves.
Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him
Sydney is a lost cause, but the battle proves daunting as old demons and
new temptations begin to seize hold of him. . . .
Their worst fears now a chilling reality, Sydney and Adrian face their
darkest hour in this heart-pounding fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series, where all bets are off.
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The World we knew is gone. The world of commerce and frivolous necessity
has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An
epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the
dead to rise and feed on the living. In a world ruled by the dead, we
are forced to start living. Alexandria has been destroyed. Can Rick
rally the other communities against Negan's army? This second part of
the game-changing "All Out War"
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Author/illustrator Jeffrey Brown returns in the highly anticipated sequel to the NY Times Bestseller Star Wars: Jedi Academy!
It's time to return to middle school in a galaxy far, far away. . . .
After surviving his first year at Jedi Academy, Roan Novachez thought his second year would be a breeze. He couldn't have been more wrong. Roan feels like he's drifting apart from his friends, and it's only made worse when Roan discovers he's not the amazing pilot he thought he'd be. When the school bullies take him under their wing, he decides they aren't so bad after all--or are they?
This year, Roan will have to face alien poetry tests, menacing robots, food fights, flight simulation class, online bullies, more lightsaber duels, and worst of all . . . a girl who is mad at him.
This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school--all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, sketches, e-mails, and more.
It's time to return to middle school in a galaxy far, far away. . . .
After surviving his first year at Jedi Academy, Roan Novachez thought his second year would be a breeze. He couldn't have been more wrong. Roan feels like he's drifting apart from his friends, and it's only made worse when Roan discovers he's not the amazing pilot he thought he'd be. When the school bullies take him under their wing, he decides they aren't so bad after all--or are they?
This year, Roan will have to face alien poetry tests, menacing robots, food fights, flight simulation class, online bullies, more lightsaber duels, and worst of all . . . a girl who is mad at him.
This incredible, original story captures all of the humor, awkwardness, fun, and frustrations of middle school--all told through one boy's comics, journal entries, letters, sketches, e-mails, and more.
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One night of fierce passion and unbound
pleasure leaves two strangers craving much more in Lavinia Kent’s
sumptuous novel of sensual discovery.
The time has come
for the widow Louisa, Lady Brookingston, to move on, but she refuses to
remarry at the cost of shaming her late husband’s memory. Their six
years together were wedded bliss—even if a war injury prevented him from
fulfilling his marital duties. Only one woman can help Louisa: Madame
Rouge, the discreet proprietress of a club where London’s elite explore
their wildest fantasies.
Geoffrey, the Marquess of Swanston,
has no intention of agreeing to deflower an anonymous virgin. But when
Madame Rouge tempts him with the absolute power he’ll have over a woman
who knows nothing of carnal delights, he’s intrigued. Control is the one
thing he cannot resist—and control is what he loses during his night
with the blindfolded beauty. He longs to take her further, to leave his
mark upon her perfect behind, but the mystery woman refuses to see him
again. Instead Geoffrey reluctantly agrees to take a wife, the widow of
his dear friend, Lord Brookingston—fating them both to a wicked
surprise.
Mastering the Marquess is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.
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Five strangers. Countless adventures.One epic way to get lost.
"Reminiscent of John Green's Paper Towns, Alsaid's debut is a gem."—School Library Journal
"For readers of John Green or any realistic YA authors, I would highly recommend this new wonderful novel."—Fresh Fiction
Four teens across the country have only one thing in common: a girl named Leila. She crashes into their lives in her absurdly red car at the moment they need someone the most.
There's Hudson, a small-town mechanic who is willing to throw away his dreams for true love. And Bree, a runaway who seizes every Tuesday—and a few stolen goods along the way. Elliot
believes in happy endings…until his own life goes off-script. And Sonia
worries that when she lost her boyfriend, she also lost the ability to
love.
Hudson, Bree, Elliot and Sonia find a friend in Leila. And
when Leila leaves them, their lives are forever changed. But it is
during Leila's own 4,268-mile journey that she discovers the most
important truth—sometimes, what you need most is right where you
started. And maybe the only way to find what you're looking for is to
get lost along the way.
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It will haunt me. It will claim me. It will shatter me. And I don't care.
Faith
Watters has a picture-perfect life. She's captain of the dance team,
popular, happy. She even spent her junior year traveling the world
before returning to Oviedo High School for senior year. But she's living
a lie.
Diego Alvarez hates his new life in the States, but
staying in Cuba is not an option. Covered in tattoos and scars, Diego
doesn't stand a chance of fitting in, and doesn't want to. His only
concern is his secret past--a past, which if it were to surface, would
cost him his life.
Everyone knows that Faith and Diego don't
belong together. But fate has its own plan. All they want is to be free.
What they get is something different entirely.
Love--it will ruin you. . .and save you.
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I knew from the moment I first saw her she was the one. The only girl I could ever want.The only girl I could ever love.
She is light.
I am darkness.
She is innocent.
I’ve done too much.
She is good.
I am bad.
She is my every dream.
I should be her every nightmare.
We come from different worlds. She’s…perfect. And I’m…
Not.
Somehow she wants me anyway. So we’ll grasp at what we can. We’re going to make this summer count. She’s my secret. And I’m hers.
The problem with secrets is they never last for long. And when others discover we’re together, they’ll do whatever it takes to keep us apart. All I know is: I won’t let them.
Because Reverie Hale? She’s mine.
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