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'Do you realise, Corinna, just how hard it is for a young woman of irregular birth, without family, fortune or friends in the world? Marriage is the only way to get any chance of a life.'
Following the death of her mother, Corinna Ormesby has lived a quiet life in the countryside with her cantankerous Cousin Agnes. Her father's identity has been a tantalising mystery, but now at nineteen Corinna knows that finding
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The brand new novel from the #1 bestselling author of The Old Ducks' Club!
'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!' Judy Leigh
Clover Harrington might be sixty-one, but she's still bossing it in the corporate world and can still run rings around her younger colleagues. And then she is made redundant….
Devastated and now suddenly the wrong side of sixty Clover...
44) Piece of Cake
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She's only trying to save her job and her reputation.
Claire Sommers grew up as a society girl destined to have it all: tasteful Dallas mansion, high-powered career, hot and rich husband. Until a massive mistake left her reputation in tatters and trust fund frozen. Now the former debutante is scraping by as a magazine staffer in Nashville-trading in her diamonds and designer stilettos for rhinestones and cowgirl boots.
But all is not well in the...
45) All I'm Asking
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Trade in your popcorn for pop rocks in this modern epistolary narrative for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Maria Semple) and Dear Committee Members (Julie Schumacher).
Online history teacher Naomi is doing her best. "Don't @ me."
Teacher and single mom Naomi is always biting off more than she can chew. Naomi knows what it's like to grow up in hard times and still manage a decent education, so when it comes to her online, at-promise (not "at-risk,"...
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Perhaps you have seen those parents and children that end up not even talking to each other anymore, and you don't want that to happen for you and your kids...
By allowing your child to understand the importance of friendship, you will be able to lay the foundations of a healthier, more balanced parent-child relationship that will eventually allow you to become your kid's best friend.
In this ground-breaking friendship guide, you and your child will...
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Five minutes-a mere three hundred seconds. That's all it took to rip three unsuspecting individuals from a comfortable life in the suburbs of Chicago. For their safety, Preston, a ten-and-a-half-year-old music prodigy, and his mother and sister are whisked into the Witness Protection Program while Dad, the FBI's main witness in an important case, remains behind. Changing identities and appearances over a weekend is a huge ask for anyone, but changing...
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Tyrone Washington has thousands of online friends, so he should have no problem making friends in real life. After all, he's a successful Army colonel, happily married, and pursuing his dreams. Everything is going well for Tyrone until he and his cousin, Harold, make a bet about which one of them will make a new friend first. Fortunately for Tyrone, he is scheduled to attend the prestigious Eisenhower School at the National Defense University in Washington,...
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Family is everything…
For years, Gemma has been running her late mother's café with devotion, and when an opportunity comes to buy out her next-door neighbour and expand, she jumps at the chance.
She knows she will do her mother proud – keep her legacy going strong – but deep down she knows there's still something missing.
But sometimes family are those you choose, or those who choose you! With a growing community of supporters cheering...
50) The retreat
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"Katie Manning was a beloved child star until her mid-teens when her manager attacked and permanently scarred her face, effectively ending her career and sending her on a path of all-too-familiar post-Hollywood self-destruction. Now twenty-seven, Katie wants a better answer to those clickbait "Where Are They Now?" articles that float around online. An answer she hopes to find when her brother's too-good-to-be-true fiancée invites her to a wellness...
51) The islanders
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Islanders (Mary Alice Monroe) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Spending the summer with his grandmother on South Carolina's Dewees Island, eleven-year-old Jake finds two friends who are also struggling with family issues and together they try to save a sea turtle nest from predators.
52) Control Freaks
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2023
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What if Louis Sachar's Wayside School were a little less wacky – but just as funny – and centered on a young Black boy who IS going to be the great inventor of all time, and set in the top STEM middle school in the country, oh and it was written by someone who worked for years in independent schools, and it also tackles what it's like to live in a blended family and to stand up to a parent who's not being so great and to truly work together...
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A wonderful story of love, friendship and opening your mind and your heart to new possibilities that will enchant fans of Holly Martin and Heidi Swain.
The Copper Plough is at the heart of village life for the residents of Heritage Cove, and never more so than at Christmas, when the tree glows in the alcove and the smell of mulled wine carries out onto the street. So when new owners for the beloved pub arrive and decide to shake things up, not everyone...
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Kate Fisher and Red Nelson, women pilots and estranged sisters from opposite sides of a fractured family, are thrown together in a suspenseful drama of Search & Rescue in the Adirondack mountains of New York State when Red is framed for the brutal attack on the manager of her indie rock band.
Her dying mother begs her to flee for sanctuary to the only family Red doesn't yet know--her sister Kate. But crosswinds take her plane into a spin and she...
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A high-flying investor
New Yorker Jake Harrington loves a lot of things about living in London: his lucrative hedge fund job, the way British women melt at the sound of an American accent, being thousands of miles away from the girl who betrayed him. And, oh yes, his just-sex arrangement with his gorgeous roommate, Jess.
His sexy British flatmate
Jess's deal with Jake suits her fine. No commitments, no risk of being hurt again, just fun and friendship....
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"When Annie Brown, a fun-loving woman, suddenly dies, her husband, best friend, and her children all struggle to find ways to go on after the loss of the woman who was the center of their lives, and who made life happy, fun, and secure. Her husband is overwhelmed with four children to raise, and turns to his teenage daughter for help, and to an old girlfriend for solace. Annie's best friend struggles again with opioid addiction, having depended on...
57) Faking normal
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Hiding the truth about a traumatic event that makes her hide in the closet and compulsively scratch herself to redirect her pain, Alexi befriends a new neighbor, Bodee, whose own secret gives Alexi the strength to lend and ask for support.
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Madi is counting on Paris's reputation as the City of Love. Now she just needs to figure out if it's old love or new love... Madi After two years and zero proposals, my relationship could use a little spark. Paris during the holidays seems like just the ticket—one perfect, final opportunity for my boyfriend to take things to the next level. The fact that he's rented me the tiny servant quarters in the apartment of a very good-looking Frenchman...
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Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane
Can she escape her past and start again?
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Unhappy with life at home with her privileged family, Hannah Austen-Bagshaw runs away to join the Land Girls Army, carrying with her a dark and terrible secret. Life on the farm is tough, but when Hannah meets handsome working-class flight lieutenant, Jack, they form an immediate...
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