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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2022
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English
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Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at...
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THE POWERFUL AND MOVING NEW NOVEL FROM LITERARY LEGEND ISABEL ALLENDE No, we're not lost. The wind knows my name. And yours too. Vienna, 1938. Samuel Adler is five years old when his father disappears during Kristallnacht - the night their family loses everything. As her child's safety seems ever harder to guarantee, Samuel's mother secures a spot for him on the last Kindertransport train out of Nazi-occupied Austria to England. He boards alone, carrying...
3) Western Lane
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Picador
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?WOW. Western Lane is glorious. You?ll want to read it over and over again.? - Aravind Adiga, author of The White Tiger A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete?s struggle to transcend herself. Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows...
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Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden - it's telling could ruin the lives of those she loves most. Marie's granddaughter, Cathy, is a cheerful young woman and in the first flush of love. Her grandmother's secret will not only change Cathy's future but rewrite her past. Sister-in-law Beth seems to have a happy life and a goodmarriage but behind closed doors she's heartbreakingly...
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His exasperated wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay and half-heartedly dodging the attentions of fast-talking cattle farmer Big Mike, while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ, in debt to local sociopath 'Ears' Moran, is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home. Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the...
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2023
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This morning, I met the man who started the fire. He did something terrible, but then, so have I. I left him. I left him and now he may be dead. Once upon a time there was a beautiful village that held a million stories of love and loss and peace and war, and it was swallowed up by a fire that blazed up to the sky. The fire ran all the way down to the sea where it met with its reflection. A family from two nations, England and Greece, live a simple...
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MIRA
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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When Molly receives a call telling her that her grandfather is ill, she hurries home to Sweetgrass, Montana. She doesn?t give the stranger on the phone a second thought?until she arrives at her grandfather?s ranch to find that Sam Dakota is virtually impossible to avoid.Molly isn?t the only one with questions about Sam?s presence in Sweetgrass, where strangers are few and far between. Yet, despite the warning signs, Molly can?t deny her attraction...
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'A vibrant page-turner with entrancing characters' Margaret Dickinson 'Rosie writes such heartwarming sagas' Lyn Andrews Thursday's child has far to go . . . 1912, London. Eighteen-year-old Flora Butler is going up in the world. She has the prized position of lady's maid to young Constance Ogilvie, and is able to provide for her beloved parents and four younger siblings. She has even fallen in love, and though she does not feel quite ready to marry...
9) Commonwealth
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It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host's wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day 7 years later. In 1988, Franny Keating, now 24, is working as a cocktail waitress in Chicago. When she meets the famous author Leon Posen one night at the bar, and tells him about her...
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Prue Weston runs her family farm on the edge of the Pennines, throwing herself into her work after becoming a widow. As the war comes to an end, romance blossoms between Prue and a German POW, Nikolaus. But falling in love with a German means she must fight for her love, not only against the concerns of her family but of the nation. Brenda Stuart's life is in ruins. Illegitimately pregnant, jobless and alone, Brenda is forced to sleep rough - until...
11) Mum and dad
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2020
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It?s been twenty-five years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it?s left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who?s never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful...
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Joely tells other people?s secrets for a living. As a ghost writer, she?s used to scandal - but this just might be her strangest assignment yet.�Freda has never told her story to anyone before. But now she?s ready to set the record straight and to right a wrong that?s haunted her for forty years.�Freda?s memoir begins with a 15-year-old girl falling madly in love with her teacher. It ends in a way Joely could never possibly have imagined.�As...
15) Home fire
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Isma is free. After years spent raising her twin siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she is finally studying in America, resuming a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London - or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream: to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Handsome...
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Kensington
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The old Cape Cod house that Laney Coleman shares with her minister husband Noah and their five boys is usually brimming with cheerful chaos. There's nothing fancy about the ancient kitchen or the wooden floors scuffed by the constant parade of activity and the clicking claws of their two Labrador retrievers. It's a place to savor the sea breeze wafting through the windows, or sip coffee on the porch before another hectic day begins. This summer, life...
17) One snowy night
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It's 1922 and the Depression is just beginning to rear its head in Britain, but Ruby Morgan is about to marry her childhood sweetheart and nothing can mar her happiness. Or so she thinks. An unimaginable betrayal by those she loves causes her to flee her home and family one snowy night. Crushed and heartbroken, Ruby vows that despite the odds stacked against her she will not only survive, but one day will show the ones she left behind that she's succeeded...
18) The premonition
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Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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I had a melancholy premonition of reaching the end of the road and getting lost inside a distant tide. It was the beginning of summer, and I was nineteen years old. Yayoi lives with her perfect, loving family - something 'like you'd see in a Spielberg movie'. But while her parents tell happy stories of her childhood, she is increasingly haunted by the sense that she's forgotten something important about her past. Deciding to take a break, she goes...
19) Happy families
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Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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'10 out of 5 stars. I LOVED IT ... a great story with many surprises. Janey Fraser writes with such a sensitivity, she touches the right points' Reader review, 5 stars Parenting just got a whole lot messier... Bobbie's children never listen to a word she says. Even worse, she's forced to constantly sit through her nearest and dearest critiquing her parenting skills and she can't ever win. Andy's swapping a high-flying career to be a stay-at-home dad....
20) Fever dream
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Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She?s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins and the power and desperation of family. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality...
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