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"It's a heart-touching love story of an unusual couple. I don't think I've ever read a hero like this." Shabby - BookBistroBlog"This book was the perfect mix of romance, sass, angst, and friendship. I highly recommend this book, author, and series." Spunky and Sassy - Goodreads A sweet and sexy romance for every season! Forever hopeful, but always let down. Skylar's beauty and curves are a curse. She's been lied to, cheated on, and avoids dating like...
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Kissing the wrong brother might bring this family empire to the breaking point… in the first novel in Jessica Lemmon's deliciously naughty Kiss and Tell series. "Being reckless is okay from time to time." A stolen kiss puts that theory to the test… When Taylor Thompson finds out the man she's casually dating is going to propose at the Valentine's Day gala, she literally hides in a closet! That's where Royce Knox, her date's older-and to her...
44) Murmuration
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This poetic novel follows lives and struggles across generations under the constant dance of the sea birds in the English resort town of Blackpool.
The old Victorian pier of Blackpool has stood the test of time, carrying each generation over a cold and relentless sea. As the starlings swoop and glide in mesmerizing patterns over the stalwart structure, they watch the lives of those who pass beneath: people absorbed in their human dramas, following...
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This book is written by Shane Marquin van Rooyen.It was inspired by the gift of the Holy spirit. The book contains powerful messages and words of encouragement, acording to our everyday life. Everyday we as human beings are looking out for answers for our questions and the situations that we find ourselves in.This book was putting together through prayer, revelations, research, notes and personal experiences. Help and advise are the two things we...
46) The Imprisoned
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In the near future, men and women are in a Federal prison facility. Jasp Odle incarcerated for race rioting, Rey Amin for treason, Turner for mass murder. They wonder if they have a future and hope for their lives. Jasp is paroled into the City where he tries to pick up the pieces to his prior life. Turner and Rey, however, are released into the Wilderness, a part of the prison facility. There they must fight for suvival against nature, wild animals,...
47) Chivalry
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A story of a Gulf War veteran living incognito on the streets of New York
Chivalry takes place in New York City, where an aspiring author stumbles onto a manuscript. It becomes a bestseller. He must now find the true author.
Isa, a Gulf War sergeant, silenced a snitch to save his platoon from a murder rap. He now lives namelessly on the streets of New York, shielded by police formerly of his old platoon. His orders are clear: "If the authorities...
48) Some Do Not
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The first novel in the author's celebrated Parade's End Tetralogy explores the social tensions between marriage, sex, and honor at the outbreak of WWI.
London, 1910s. Christopher Tietjens, a brilliant mathematician, shows little emotion when his wife, Sylvia, leaves him for her lover. But when she tires of the romantic pursuit and informs Christopher of her desire to return to him, it proves to be one more episode in their masochistic marriage-Sylvia's...
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Once upon a time in Manhattan . . .
. . . there stood a pair of fine old brick townhouses on West Tenth Street. One had a blue door with a tarnished brass knocker in the shape of a dolphin. The other was empty. Behind the blue door lived Sadie, the widow of a famous British rocker who died of an overdose, and two of her children, Hamish and Deen.
The children manage to muddle along as best they can with a loving but distracted mother. But their...
50) Tea Party
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When a shy young worker unexpectedly gets invited for drinks and girl talk by her department head, she ends up learning a lot more about her boss's life and loves than she really wants to know. And through the process, about her own.
51) Love and Chaos
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Wild child and secret romantic Angie wakes up in a hotel room with $3,000 and no memories of the night before. Her best friends aren't talking to her, she can't get a job in fashion, her parents are divorcing, and she's about to turn twenty-three. And life is about to get much worse.
Brooklyn Girls: Love and Chaos continues the story of our five favorite grads sharing a brownstone and starting out in New York City through Angie's eyes. On a journey...
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The first English translation of a remarkable masterpiece of early modernist fiction from 1910 by an influential member of the Russian Symbolist movement.
Thirty-year-old Piotr Alekseevich Marakulin lives a contented, if humdrum life as a financial clerk in a Petersburg trading company. He is jolted out of his daily routine when, quite unexpectedly, he is accused of embezzlement and loses his job. This change of status brings him into contact with...
53) Board Games
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Hanging drywall does not call to the socially well-adjusted. But when a simmering feud between partners escalates into a duel, their lives hang on the width of a nail.
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Four unforgettable works by the author of The Great Gatsby-one of the greatest writers of America's Lost Generation.
This Side of Paradise: Amory Blain experiences a childhood of worldly sophistication before a medical condition forces him to face reality. From prep school and Princeton University to the horrors of World War I, Blaine searches for his place in the world-a quest that personifies the struggles of his generation.
The Beautiful and...
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This is a short story. On a sunny day, I sit on a terrace and order a fantastic Knickerbocker Glory sundae. Next to me, at two tables, were six young women. They are lawyers from the same academic year. Cheerful stuff. Just like every year, they want to do their birthday differently next year. This time, Belgian Lisa comes with a concrete proposal. They will hire a private chef for a special dish that she likes. If Lisa reveals a tip of the veil,...
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When Italian Tycoon Stefano Durante accidentally reunites with his ex lover, he's shocked to discover his son. He'll do anything to protect his boy from the woman who conned him three years ago, even take full custody unless she accepts his proposal to help him gain control over his family's business empire.Can they resist each other when the sparks flying between are more than real?Roxy Baron won't lose her son to the man who abandoned her, so she...
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From the confessions of a racing cyclist to the plans of an avenging murderer, from a young ethnographer obsessed with a Sumatran tribe to an eccentric English millionaire, who has devised the ultimate pastime, Life: A User's Manual is a symphony of human irony, portraying the mixed marriages of fortunes, passions and despairs, betrayals and bereavements, of hundreds of lives in Paris and around the world.
The apartment block's one hundred rooms...
58) Carry the Dog
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"Powered by insight and true wit." -Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Female Persuasion
"I can't remember the last time I was as completely bewitched by a fictional character as I was by Bea Seger . . . What a treat to view life through the eyes of this funny, smart, gutsy woman." -Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Chances Are...
Bea Seger has spent a lifetime running from her childhood. The daughter of a famous...
59) Counsel Culture
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A gorgeous, contemporary novel by prize-winning Korean author Kim Hye-jin about the effects of cancel culture on a person who has been canceled.
Haesoo is a successful therapist who regularly appears on a popular TV program. But when she makes a scripted negative comment about a public figure who later commits suicide, she is ostracized by friends, fired from her job, and her marriage begins to unravel. These details come to the reader gradually,...
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Jane Davenport aspires to a greater role than that of receptionist at the Magic Land Amusement Park. In fact, that of MagicLland princess would suit her just fine...or so she thinks.Things take an unexpected turn, however, when Jane helps a woman find her missing son and gets terminated from her position as a result.Soon, an unforeseeable series of events leads Jane on an adventure through the park that changes her life forever.If you've ever wondered...
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