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By Alix Ohlin. 2019
"Evocative...traces [its] characters over long arcs of time and place with equal amounts grace and wit. Most revelatory is the…
way that each [sister] fights to find her own life as an artist outside the expectations of others and the demands of a male-dominated world."--Vogue A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for birds. While Lark is shy and studious, Robin is wild and artistic. Raised in Montreal by their disinterested single mother, they form a fierce team in childhood regardless of their differences. As they grow up, Lark excels at school and Robin becomes an extraordinary pianist. At seventeen, Lark flees to America to attend college, where she finds her calling in documentary films, and her sister soon joins her. Later, in New York City, they find themselves tested: Lark struggles with self-doubt, and Robin chafes against the demands of Juilliard. Under pressure, their bond grows strained and ultimately is broken, and their paths abruptly diverge. Years later, Lark's life is in tatters and Robin's is wilder than ever. As Lark tries to take charge of her destiny, she discovers that despite the difficulties of their relationship, there is only one person she can truly rely on: her sister. In this gripping, unforgettable novel about art, ambition, sisterhood, motherhood, and self-knowledge, Alix Ohlin traces the rich and complicated lives of two indelible women. Dazzlingly insightful and beautifully crafted, Dual Citizens captures the unique language of sisters and makes visible the imperceptible strings that bind us to the ones we love for good.By Cherie Dimaline. 2019
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 terrible, hungover 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 named Eugene Wolff. 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 Victor is. The same face, the same eyes, the same hands. But his hair is short and he's wearing a suit and he doesn't recognize her at all. No, he insists, she's the one suffering a delusion: he's the Reverend Wolff and his only mission is to bring his people to Jesus. Except that, as Joan soon discovers, that's not all the enigmatic Wolff is doing. With only the help of Ajean, a foul-mouthed euchre shark with a knowledge of the old ways, and her odd, Johnny-Cash-loving, 12-year-old nephew Zeus, Joan has to find a way to remind the Reverend Wolff of who he really is. If he really is Victor. Her life, and the life of everyone she loves, depends upon it. 2019.By Shauntay Grant. 2020
À quoi ressemblait la communauté ? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline ; des champs où les…
garçons jouaient au football ; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting ; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de joie...La jeune fille sort de sa rêverie ; elle visite le parc historique actuel et le cadran solaire où le nom de son arrière-grand mère est gravé dans la pierre, et célèbre un jour d’été aux retrouvailles annuelles d’Africville.By Denis M. Boucher. 2020
Tout comme le Loch Ness ou le lac Memphrémagog, le lac Baker du Haut Madawaska, serait-il infesté par un monstre?…
Les trois mousquetaires acadiens plongent dans leur première enquête! Trois jeunes écoliers acadiens (et leur chien) se cherchant une occupation peu banale décident de fonder une agence de détectives et se baptisent Les trois mousquetaires, puisqu’ils sont quatre ! Au même moment, les riverains du lac Baker, dans le nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick, à la frontière avec le Québec et les États-Unis sont effrayés par la présence d’un monstre marin. Il n’en faut pas plus pour que Ania, Mamadou et Gabriel plongent au cœur du mystère. Qu’est-ce qui se cache dans ce lac ? Ce premier de sept romans jeunesse très populaires en Acadie a été complètement revisité par l’auteur, et les illustrations de Paul Roux ajoutent encore davantage à l’intrigue, l’action et l’humour incontestable de la série.By Kathryn Hartley. 2021
Nestled in the rolling foothills, where the prairie climbs to meet the Rocky Mountains, lies the small town of Cougar…
Lake. You know these towns. You've driven through them. Maybe even stopped for a bite at the Copper Kettle café. In this book all the doors in town swing quietly open. Each inhabitant's life and story intersects with others like overlapping ripples in the water. Each story stands alone but each story reaches tendrils into others. The residents form a cast of beguiling, sometimes eccentric, characters. As the book progresses, we gradually discover their loves and longings, their histories and their dreams. We learn what brought them to Cougar Lake and, more importantly, what keeps them here. In the end the town stands together to survive. Here are the stories, the dramas, the heartbreak and the glories of the town and the people of Cougar Lake.By Theresa Meuse. 2022
It's early July, and for Matthew and his Auntie that means one thing: time to go sweetgrass picking. This year,…
Matthew's younger cousin Warren is coming along, and it will be his first time visiting the shoreline where the sweetgrass grows. With Auntie's traditional Mi'kmaw knowledge and Matthew's gentle guidance, Warren learns about the many uses for sweetgrass—as traditional medicine, a sacred offering, a smudging ingredient—and the importance of not picking more than he needs. Once the trio is back at Auntie's house, she shows the boys how to clean and braid the grass. This heartfelt story about the gifts we receive from Mother Earth and how to gather them respectfully offers thoughtful insight into a treasured Mi'kmaw traditionBy Lori Weber. 2016
When a team in an all-girls’ hockey league comes to recruit players, twelve-year-old Lou’s dreams seem to be coming true.…
But the dreams hinge on one thing: never letting on that Lou is a boy. But the road to stardom is not easy, as Lou discovers that the competition is fierce, and that he’s got a lot of work to do to match the skills of the league’s star player and his chief rival, Albertine Lapensée. All the while, he has to keep his secret, and wrestle with the moral dilemma of taking a place on the team away from a deserving girl. Loosely based on a true story, Lightning Lou is a riveting and thought-provoking story for middle-grade readers.By Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. 2000
Obsession, infatuation, and sexual deviance fill this controversial psychodrama Titillating and taboo, Venus in Furs tells the story of one…
nineteenth-century gentleman of means, Severin von Kusiemski, and his voracious lover, Wanda von Dunajew. Severin falls so deeply in love with his mistress that he asks the bemused paramour to enslave him. Severin gets his wish: The beautiful Wanda, who has “a real talent for despotism,” takes to her role with unsettling aplomb. Days pass, and as she debases and brutalizes Severin, Wanda transforms into the whip-cracking dominatrix of his dreams. But even while Severin settles into his fantasy, events are unfolding that threaten to disrupt the power balance. This classic tale of sexual domination is as thrilling today as it was when it was originally published more than a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.By Emmanuelle Poigner. 2015
Valentin is a young student with a beautiful girlfriend—the only girl he’s ever loved. But when he is given the…
opportunity to study at the most prestigious business school in Paris, his eyes are opened to a whole new world . . . and a new woman.By Marina Anderson. 2002
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy. . . now it's time to embrace the forbidden pleasures of The Discipline.Young innocent…
nun Chloe Reynolds is collecting money for Brazilian orphans when she meets sophisticated playboy Carlos. When Carlos opens Chloe's eyes to the corruption behind the charity she is working for, she leaves the Church and heads home to England, thoroughly disillusioned.Even an Ocean can't keep Carlos away from Chloe and she is equally desperate to again be in his dominating presence. Carlos's new mission is to seduce Chloe and to teach her that submitting to his sexual desires will bring her untold pleasures. But is Chloe ready to become a slave to 'the discipline'...?By Roxanne Morgan. 2000
When the editors of two rival magazines are overheard by their boss arguing over whose readers are the more sexually…
adventurous, he decides to settle things his own way. They are presented with a series of bets - they or their staff must prove their sexual daring in increasingly outrageous ways.By Marina Anderson. 2012
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy. . . now lose yourself in the heady ecstasy of Forbidden Desires.After her wedding…
to film director Lewis James, Harriet Radcliffe is dismayed to learn that her husband has invited another couple, his married friends Noella and Edmund, to join them on their honeymoon. It soon emerges that Lewis is planning to make another of his hugely successful cinema verite films, using real life as his material. Knowing that Harriet finds Edmund attractive, he plans to explore her forbidden desires. However, Edmund has designs on Harriet, and Lewis's plan goes awry as he finds himself competing to regain his bride . . .The sequel to Dark Secret.By Marina Anderson. 2012
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy . . . Now prepare yourself for incredible sensual revelations in a... Dark Secret.Harriet…
Radcliffe is bored with her life. At twenty-three, her steady job and safe engagement seem very dull. If she is to inject a little excitement into her life, she realises, now is the time to do it.But the excitement lying in wait for Harriet is beyond even her wildest ambitions. Answering a job advertisement to assist a world-famous actress, Harriet finds herself plunged into an intense and secret world of sexual obsession - playing an unwitting part in a very private drama, but discovering in the process more about her own desires than she had ever dreamed possible . . .The prequel to Forbidden Desires.By Emma Allan. 1997
Asked to produce the latest film from Hollywood's hottest screenwriter, British producer Caroline has only one problem - the film…
needs a male star. Sean Sadler would be ideal, but hasn't made a film for three years and is living as a recluse. So when Caroline makes the journey to Sadler's luxurious private estate in Mexico, she has to teach the world-famous star some lessons in lust...By Dorothy Starr. 2001
He was one of the sexiest, most desirable men she'd ever met . . . As Dani considered this, a…
piquant idea occurred to her; something she knew she ought to dismiss out of hand, yet which felt more irresistible as every second passed . . .The luxury hotel of Bouvier Manor nestles near a spring whose mineral water is reputed to have potent aphrodisiac qualities. Whether its powers are real or not, Dani Stratton, the hotel's feisty receptionist, finds concentrating on work rather tricky, particularly when Mitch, the muscularly attractive new porter, is around to provoke her. Even as a mysterious consortium threatens to take over the Manor, staff and guests alike seem quite unable to control their insatiable passions . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukBy Emma Allan. 1999
Kate Hailstone is alone following a disastrous marriage which ended when she found her husband in bed with another man.…
But she has always liked sex, and is missing it a great deal. So, after a long period of licking her wounds at home, she determines to try playing the field again. When the newsagent delivers the wrong paper one day, Kate discovers the lonely hearts column, Kindred Spirits, and decides this is the perfect way to get what she wants: sex without strings. She places an ad and is deluged with replies. And the more gratification she gets, the more she wants . . . Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukBy Emma Allan. 2011
Caroline Beck and Adrianne Rhodes had been friends since university days but have drifted apart. Caroline has become a successful…
TV producer but has not had huge success with men.When the two women meet again unexpectedly, Adrianne tells Caroline that she is a kept woman, the mistress of a wealthy businessman. Fascinated, Caroline accepts an invitation to go out on the town with Adrianne, her businessman, and his friend. And when she discovers that the friend assumes she's been laid on for him, finds to her surprise that the whole experience gives her a sexual high unlike any other she has experienced before . . .By Dorothy Starr. 1996
The way he pressed himself to me let me know that we really were back in those glorious, desire-filled times.…
I could fell how he wanted me, And in an instant, I realised how much I'd never stopped wanting him . . .A beautiful silk basque which revives a fading love affair; a hot summer night's fantasy which surprisingly comes true; an emergency dash to the hospital with an unusual Santa Claus; an elevating encounter with a mysterious man in black . . .In this first-ever collection of her short fiction, Dorothy Starr, author of Hotel Aphrodisia, provides a feast of erotic entertainment, a perfect bedside companion guaranteed to produce sweet dreams . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukBy Emma Allan. 1999
Letitia pulled on the basque and fastened the hooks into the eyes, using the tightest of three possible positions. As…
the feeling of constriction increased she felt her excitement growing with it. Settling her breasts into the bra cups, she looked at herself in the mirror. She had never worn lingerie like this...'Letitia Drew's new job at Black Stockings Lingerie is the opportunity she has always wanted. But when she finds herself strongly attracted to her charismatic Managing Director, Matthew Silverstone, it soon becomes clear that the feeling is mutual. When his wife Ursula discovers them together, she demands to join in the steamy action. With the power to sack Letitia unless she co-operates, Ursula plans to take her on a roller-coaster ride of new sexual experiences...By Emma Allan. 1996
His hand ran over her belly. His skin was rough like a workman's, calloused and hard. He caressed her thighs,…
smoothing over the contours of her muscles, down to her knees, then up again on the soft inner surface . . .When Nadia Irving meets artist Jack Hamilton at an exhibition of his paintings, she feels an overwhelming urge to proposition him - to seduce him and break free from the orderly, celibate and emotionally safe existence she has created for herself.A night of the best sex Nadia has ever had ensues, but when next morning she discovers Jack is married - a fact he must have believed she knew - she is horrified. She knows she should never see Jack again, but the night before is hard to forget. The solution, however, when Nadia eventually finds it, is quite different from anything she could ever have imagined . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk