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By Ligia Fonseca, Melissa Storm. 2015
James Morgan nunca acreditou muito no amor – até ver Deborah Walker pela primeira vez na lanchonete local. Ele se…
surpreende ao convidá-la para sair, e ela o choca ainda mais ao aceitar. Durante o encontro, os dois compartilham suas histórias e sonhos secretos, e James percebe que ela é a mulher perfeita. O único problema é que ele embarcará para a Coreia na manhã seguinte. Cumprir seu dever é crucial para James, mesmo que lutar por seu país acabe deixando ambos de coração partido. Deborah promete esperar por ele, mas dois anos são muito tempo para parar sua vida, especialmente por um homem que só conheceu por um dia. Quando Rip Rockwell volta da guerra e James não, Rip pede Deborah em casamento. Ela aceita e eles constroem uma bela vida juntos até a morte dele, 50 anos depois. Durante todo esse tempo, entretanto, ela nunca conseguiu realmente esquecer seu primeiro amor. Deborah se aposenta e muda para Abeline, esperando viver o resto de seus dias em paz. Imagine sua surpresa quando James Morgan se muda para a casa ao lado… Ambos têm uma vida cheia de amor. Ambos perdem a pessoa amada cedo demais. Será que James e Deborah conseguirão formar uma nova vida juntos enquanto acalentam a lembrança daqueles que ainda vivem em seus corações? Este box set especial inclui: Meu Coração É Só Seu, a agridoce história de amor entre Deborah e Rip Nunca Vou Deixar de Te Amar, a história de amor predestinada entre James e Gloria Quando Me Apaixonar e Você Me Faz Sentir Tão Jovem, contos já publicados sobre James e Deborah Olhe para Casa, Anjo, um novo conto sobre a nova vida de Rip e Deborah no Alasca Só Preciso Sonhar, um novo conto sobre a nova vida de James e Gloria como pais Uma árvore genealógica e uma lista com sugestão de ordem de leitura para todas as três séries Flecha do Cupido Um prefácio da autora discorrendo sobre sua ligação pessoal com os personagens e as ambientações. �By Ligia Fonseca, Melissa Storm. 2015
James Morgan nunca acreditou muito no amor – até ver Deborah Walker pela primeira vez na lanchonete local. Ele se…
surpreende ao convidá-la para sair, e ela o choca ainda mais ao aceitar. Durante o encontro, os dois compartilham suas histórias e sonhos secretos, e James percebe que ela é a mulher perfeita. O único problema é que ele embarcará para a Coreia na manhã seguinte. Cumprir seu dever é crucial para James, mesmo que lutar por seu país acabe deixando ambos de coração partido. Deborah promete esperar por ele, mas dois anos são muito tempo para parar sua vida, especialmente por um homem que só conheceu por um dia. Quando Rip Rockwell volta da guerra e James não, Rip pede Deborah em casamento. Ela aceita e eles constroem uma bela vida juntos até a morte dele, 50 anos depois. Durante todo esse tempo, entretanto, ela nunca conseguiu realmente esquecer seu primeiro amor. Deborah se aposenta e muda para Abeline, esperando viver o resto de seus dias em paz. Imagine sua surpresa quando James Morgan se muda para a casa ao lado… Ambos têm uma vida cheia de amor. Ambos perdem a pessoa amada cedo demais. Será que James e Deborah conseguirão formar uma nova vida juntos enquanto acalentam a lembrança daqueles que ainda vivem em seus corações? Este box set especial inclui: Meu Coração É Só Seu, a agridoce história de amor entre Deborah e Rip Nunca Vou Deixar de Te Amar, a história de amor predestinada entre James e Gloria Quando Me Apaixonar e Você Me Faz Sentir Tão Jovem, contos já publicados sobre James e Deborah Olhe para Casa, Anjo, um novo conto sobre a nova vida de Rip e Deborah no Alasca Só Preciso Sonhar, um novo conto sobre a nova vida de James e Gloria como pais Uma árvore genealógica e uma lista com sugestão de ordem de leitura para todas as três séries Flecha do Cupido Um prefácio da autora discorrendo sobre sua ligação pessoal com os personagens e as ambientações. �By William Kent Krueger. 2014
“Mystery fans can count on William Kent Krueger for an absorbing book with lots of twists and turns” (Denver Post)…
and now you can enjoy three absorbing and suspenseful Cork O’Conner mysteries in one stunning collection.“Hold-your-breath suspense” (Booklist, starred review) Tamarack County: As a blizzard swells in Tamarack County, a car belonging to the wife of a retired local judge is discovered abandoned on the side of the road. Early on in the investigation of her disappearance, Cork O’Connor, ex-sheriff of Tamarack County, notices small details that tell a disturbing story. When a neighbor’s dog is found beheaded and Cork’s son is attacked, he realizes these ominous incidents throughout the area have a pattern: someone is spinning a deadly web, and Cork has only hours to stop it before his family and his friends will be forced to pay the ultimate price. “A punch-to-the-gut blend of detective story and investigative fiction” (Booklist, starred review) Windigo Island: When the body of a teenaged Ojibwe girl washes up on the shore of an island in Lake Superior, the residents of the nearby Bad Bluff reservation whisper that it was the work of a deadly mythical beast, the Windigo. Such stories have been told by the Ojibwe people for generations, but they don’t explain how the girl and her friend, Mariah Arceneaux, disappeared a year ago. At the request of the Arceneaux family, Cork O’Connor takes on the case and he learns that the old port city of Duluth is a modern-day center for sex trafficking of vulnerable women, many of whom are young Native Americans. As the investigation deepens, so does the danger. Yet Cork is resolute in his vow to find Mariah, with only the barest hope of saving her from men whose darkness rivals that of the legendary Windigo, Cork prepares for an epic battle that will determine whether it will be fear, or love, that truly conquers all. “[A] gripping thriller” (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Manitou Canyon: Cork O’Connor is uneasy when his daughter chooses November as the month to set the date for her wedding. Since the violent deaths of his wife, father, and best friend all occurred in previous Novembers, Cork O’Connor has always considered it to the cruelest of months. His concern comes to a head when a man camping in Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area goes missing. Although the wedding is fast approaching and the weather looks threatening, Cork ventures into the vast wilderness to search. With an early winter storm on the horizon, it is a race against time as Cork’s family struggles to uncover the mystery behind these disappearances. Little do they know, not only is Cork’s life on the line, but so are the lives of hundreds of others.From New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather comes the first of a wonderful new trilogy, The Blackwater Brides, set…
in the sensually im-proper Georgian period, in which three noble brothers discover they will be forced to find brides under highly unusual circumstances. Jasper Sullivan, Earl of Blackwater, needs a prostitute. Not in the usual way, however. His wealthy uncle's will promises to divide his huge fortune among his nephews if each rescues a fallen woman . . . by marrying her! And since Jasper's estates were already mortgaged to the hilt before he inherited them, when he catches a pretty young prostitute trying to pick his pocket, he immediately makes his proposal. Clarissa Astley is not at all what Jasper believes. The orphaned daughter of a prosperous merchant, she is searching the seedier districts of London for her young brother, abducted by their evil guardian, who wants the little boy's inheritance. But she needs powerful help, and the darkly handsome Earl of Blackwater is certainly that. So she pretends to be exactly what he assumed-- a risky charade for an innocent virgin. But when passion flares between Jasper and Clarissa, the deception becomes even more difficult to handle. . . .By Kate Noble. 2015
Trading Places meets Pride and Prejudice in this sexy, saucy romance--first in a new series from the author of YouTube…
sensation The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.Three friends. One Wager. Winner takes all. The Earl--'Lucky Ned' Ashby. Pompous, preening, certain that he is beloved by everyone.The Miller--John Turner. Proud, forced to work as the Earl's secretary, their relationship growing ever more strained. The Doctor--Rhys Gray. Practical, peace-loving, but caught in the middle of two warring friends. Their wager is simple: By trading places with John Turner and convincing someone to fall in love with him, Ned plans to prove it's him the world adores, not his money. Turner plans to prove him wrong. But no one planned on Phoebe Baker, the unassuming governess who would fall into their trap, and turn everything on its head... Three best friends make a life-changing bet in the first book in a witty, sexy new Regency trilogy from acclaimed author Kate Noble, writer of the wildly popular Emmy award-winning web series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries.By Martin Walser. 2018
For readers of Colm Toibin’s The Master and Michael Cunningham’s The Hours, a witty, moving, tender novel of impossible love…
and the mysterious ways of art. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is so famous his servant auctions off snippets of his hair and children and adults recite from his many works by memory. When he was a young poet, his first novel, a story of love and romantic fervor ending in suicide, was an international blockbuster that set off a wave of self-inflicted deaths across Europe. Now seventy-three, sought after and busy with scientific pursuits and responsibilities to the Grand Duke, he has fallen in love with a nineteen-year-old, Ulrike von Levetzov. Infatuated, at the spa in Marienbad, he seeks her out. They exchange glances, witty words. In the social swirl, they find each other. On the promenade, they parade together arm in arm. Time spent away from her is sleepless, and when they kiss, it is in the “Goethian” way, from his books: a matter of souls, not mouths or lips. And yet, his years fail him. At an afternoon tea party, a younger man tries to seduce her. At a costume ball, he collapses. When he proposes nonetheless, Ulrike and her mother are already preparing to leave. Caught in a storm of emotion and torn between despair and unwillingness to give up hope, he begins an elegy in his coach as he pursues her: “The Marienbad Elegy,” one of his last great works.By Isabel Ashdown. 2019
'Had me gripped throughout.' IAN RANKIN'Satisfying on every level.' ELLY GRIFFITHSYou trust your family. They love you. Don't they?When 17-year-old…
Eva Olsen awakes after a horrific accident that has left her bedbound, her parents are right by her side. Devoted, they watch over her night and day in the attic room of their family home in the forests of Norway.But the accident has left Eva without her most recent memories, and not everything is as it seems. As secrets from the night of the accident begin to surface, Eva realises - she has to escape her parents' house and discover the truth. But what if someone doesn't want her to find it?An edge-of-your-seat, atmospheric psychological thriller for fans of Lucy Clarke and Erin Kelly.Praise for LAKE CHILD:'Fiendishly clever' Red magazine 'Beautifully crafted and satisfying' Mari Hannah 'Tense, edgy and nerve-wracking' Helen FieldsBy Tim MacGabhann. 2020
Life is finally on the right track for reporter and recovering addict Andrew: he is slowly coming to terms with…
the murder of his photographer boyfriend Carlos, pursuing sobriety and building a new home with a new partner. Andrew has almost forgotten about the story that ruined his life - but that story hasn't forgotten about him, and a series of deadly threats forces him into helping the very man whose gang murdered his boyfriend and left him homeless.A literary take on the classic chase movie, HOW TO BE NOWHERE is the sequel to Tim MacGabhann's genre-busting and critically-acclaimed debut CALL HIM MINE, and a blistering thrill-ride deep into the fog of Central America's murky present and tragic future.By Cherie Dimaline. 2019
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLEROne of the most anticipated books of the summer for Time, Harper's Bazaar, Bustle and Publishers Weekly'Deftly…
written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!' Margaret Atwood'Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive' Tommy Orange, author of There There 'Dimaline turns an old story into something newly haunting and resonant' New York Times'Close, tight, stark, beautiful - rich where richness is warranted, but spare where want and sorrow have sharpened every word. Dimaline has crafted something both current and timeless' NPR'Revelatory... Gritty and engaging, this story of a woman and her missing husband is one of candor, wit and tradition'Ms. Magazine Broken-hearted Joan has been searching for her husband, Victor, for almost a year - ever since he went missing on the night they had their first serious argument. One hung-over morning in a Walmart parking lot in a little town near Georgian Bay, she is drawn to a revival tent where the local Métis have been flocking to hear a charismatic preacher. By the time she staggers into the tent the service is over, but as she is about to leave, she hears an unmistakable voice.She turns, and there is Victor. Only he insists he is not Victor, but the Reverend Eugene Wolff, on a mission to bring his people to Jesus.With only two allies - her Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, and Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with deep knowledge of the old Métis ways - Joan sets out to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor, his life and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon her success.Inspired by traditional Métis legends, Cherie Dimaline has created a propulsive, stunning and sensuous novel.By Karen Dionne. 2020
'The Wicked Sister is massively thrilling and altogether unputdownable' KARIN SLAUGHTERA startling novel of psychological suspense, as two generations of…
sisters try to unravel their tangled relationships between nature and nurture, guilt and betrayal, love and evil.You have been cut off from society for fifteen years, shut away in a mental hospital as punishment for the terrible thing you did when you were a child.But what if nothing about your past is as it seems?For a decade and a half, Rachel Cunningham has chosen to lock herself away in a psychiatric facility, tortured by gaps in her memory and the certainty that she is responsible for her parents' deaths. But when she learns new details about their murders, Rachel returns, in a quest for answers, to the place where she once felt safest: her family's sprawling log cabin in the remote forests of Michigan.As Rachel begins to uncover what really happened on the day her parents were murdered, she learns - as her mother did years earlier - that home can be a place of unspeakable evil, and that the bond she shares with her sister might be the most poisonous of all...By Lauren Henderson. 2005
Jane Austen's witty, perceptive and romantic novels have delighted readers for two hundred years. With clear sight, common sense and…
good judgment, she observed the hits and near-misses of her heroes and heroines in love. Relationships certainly haven't got any easier since then and Lauren Henderson believes that we might just have lost touch with the fundamental rules.JANE AUSTEN'S GUIDE TO ROMANCE rights that wrong and brings Austen's Regency wisdom into the twenty-first century. This is the only relationship guide based on stories that really have stood the test of time. It's a fun, insightful book, full of concrete advice and wise strategies that illustrate how honesty, self-awareness and forthrightness do win the right man in the end and weed out the losers, playboys and toxic flirts.Henderson deftly summarizes all the love stories in the books and introduces all the characters, so that newcomers and devotees alike can delight in this fun, fresh and audacious how-to guide.By Wonny Lea. 2012
A school trip to the National History Museum of Wales at St Fagans ends early with the disappearance of a…
child.Is he just playing hide and seek – or is it the work of a criminal? Perhaps a kidnapper with designs on the boy’s mother and her recently-acquired millions?DCI Martin Phelps and his team are back together just in time to take on the case – one that starts off as a possible kidnapping but soon descends into something even more sinister …As the investigation exposes the complexities of family relationships, another long-standing mystery is solved – all while Martin and his colleagues anxiously await the results of a major police review that may result in them losing their jobs …By Maggie Ross. 2015
Morgan Perincall's marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France. Dazed by his desertion, she sends…
their children west to safety, and leaves London for the dubious sanctuary of her childhood home, the Villa Rouge. Situated on the East coast, it is vulnerable to German attack. Caught between the open hostility of her father's housekeeper and the suffocating affection of Charlie, who for all his enthusiasm is not fit for service, Morgan's days are brightened by the arrival of an R.A.F. squadron - a chance to relive the romances of her wilder youth. But the fall of Dunkirk brings a sobering taste of defeat, and the Battle of Britain soon sees the once-carefree pilots fighting for their lives, their country. With danger drawing ever closer, and the secrets of her past beginning to unravel, Morgan discovers that sometimes the best intentions can leave the darkest legacies.By Christine Poulson. 2014
Lisa has a secret lover, an escape from the pressures of caring alone for her son, who has cerebral palsy.…
Once a month she meets Jay, just for the weekend, free from all responsibilities. Their time together is perfect – until the day when Jay doesn't show up, and everything she thought she knew about him turns out to be a lie.For Jay it was perfect, too. But he shouldn't have let himself fall in love with Lisa, because now the people who destroyed his entire life five years ago are onto him and he must disappear again …By Maureen Lee. 2013
The Second World War - a mother must make a heart-breaking sacrifice in order to save her child...'Maureen Lee weaves…
intrigue, love and warmth into every page' MY WEEKLY'A fine writer' EVENING TELEGRAPH1944. It is spring, late morning, when Flora's life changes for ever. She is standing on a platform in the Swiss mountains, watching as a cattle train draws near. From within the wooden trucks she can hear human voices - groaning, pleading and desperate.Horrified, she begins to run alongside the train, frantically trying to help. But as the train picks up speed, a filthy bundle of rags is thrust through the slats and into her arms - 'Take him. His name is Simon.' Flora stands on the platform, a baby boy cradled against her. And although everything looks exactly as it did moments before, nothing will ever be the same again.Sunday Times bestseller Maureen Lee has written a powerful, moving story of war, motherhood and love.By Penny Vincenzi. 1993
'I defy any reader, once they've taken the smallest nibble, not to gobble it all down' Sunday ExpressIn wartime Suffolk,…
Caroline Hunterton fell in love. Now, decades on, that love becomes the only connection between a tragic Hollywood accident in the 1950s, and a terrible suicide twenty years later. Caroline has spent years trying to keep those secrets from her two daughters, Chloe and Fleur, who have been separated by the Atlantic and have grown up hating one another. But soon, their shared past may be all that can save the family... From rural England and Hollywood's glory days, to London's theatreland and New York's adland, An Outrageous Affair explores the many forms love takes, and how it can change us all.By Julian Fellowes. 2008
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and BELGRAVIA 'A gloriously funny ride through modern times' Evening Standard…
Damian Baxter is very, very rich. But he has but one concern, which is becoming more urgent at the weeks go by: who should inherit his fortune. A letter from an ex-girlfriend suggests that, as a young man, Damian may have fathered a child, but the letter is anonymous. Finding the truth will not be easy - and the only man who Damian can turn to for help also happens to be his sworn enemy... 'A must-read' Sunday Express'An elegant satire, it offers an entertaining commentary on our times and a heartfelt lament for a kinder, more courteous Britain' Tatler'A witty take on the world as it was and is now' Woman & HomeBy Julian Fellowes. 2004
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY and BELGRAVIA 'A delicious thoroughbred delight' Stephen Fry'A brilliantly malicious portrait…
of upper-class society and all those who long to be accepted by them' Jilly CooperEdith Lavery is a woman on the make. The attractive only child of a middle-class accountant, she leaves behind her dull job in a Chelsea estate agents and manages to bag one of the most eligible bachelors of the day - Charles Broughton, heir to the Marquess of Uckfield. But is life amongst the upper echelons of 'good' society all that it seems? 'Horribly compelling' The Times'Provocative, titillating and seductive' Spectator 'Everything you would hope for from the writer of Gosford Park' Stephen FryBy Michel Bussi. 2018
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A SUNDAY TIMES CRIME BOOK OF THE MONTH'Outrageously entertaining' The Times'A tantalising story that wraps the…
reader in myriad enigmas - utterly spellbinding'Daily Mail'As exhilarating as Bussi's breakthrough novel After the Crash' The Sunday Times 'Agatha Christie updated and then cranked up to 11: a blast' Shots Magazine REVENGE IS WORTH WAITING FOR... Jamal loves to run. But one morning - as he is training on a path winding up a steep cliff - he stumbles across a woman in distress.It's a matter of seconds: suddenly she is falling through the air, crashing on the beach below.Jamal is only an unlucky bystander - or is he?His version of events doesn't seem to fit with what other eyewitnesses claim to have seen. And how to explain the red scarf carefully arranged around the dead woman's neck?Perhaps this was no accident after all.Or perhaps there is something more sinister afoot - a devilish plan decades in the making, masterminded by someone hell-bent on revenge.MICHEL BUSSI: THE MASTER OF THE KILLER TWISTBeloved by readers... 'I didn't anticipate all the twists and turns in this cleverly plotted novel''The final twist is a bit of a jaw dropper''Twists and turns aplenty!''A twisting, turning story which clobbers you with a number of cracking twists!''Fast-paced and chock full of twists, turns and red herrings' ...and critics 'A novel so extraordinary that it reminded me of reading Steig Larsson for the very first time . . . I doubt I'll read a more brilliant crime novel this year' Sunday Times on After the Crash'A dazzling, unexpected and haunting masterpiece' Daily Mail on Black Water Lilies'Inventive, original and incredibly entertaining' Sunday Mirror on Don't Let Go'Combines an extraordinarily inventive plot with characters haunted by long-ago events - and demonstrates why he has such a hold on readers' Sunday Times on Time is a KillerBy Harlan Coben. 2015
'The modern master of the hook and twist' DAN BROWN Adam Price has a lot to lose: a beautiful family,…
a big house, a good job - a perfect life.But then he meets a stranger in a bar and learns a devastating secret about his wife.With the mirage of perfection shattered, Adam finds himself caught up in something far darker than his wife's deception.And if he doesn't make the right moves, the conspiracy he's stumbled into will not only ruin lives - it will end them.Praise for Harlan Coben:'One of the all-time greats - pick up any one of his thrillers and you'll find a riveting, surprising story with a big, beating heart' GILLIAN FLYNN'With convincing characters and a strong emotional heart, you're effortlessly swept along to a tense and dramatic conclusion' SUNDAY MIRROR