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"Ruby and Ethan were perfect for each other. Until the day they suddenly weren't. Ten years later, Ruby's single, having spent the last decade focusing on her demanding career and hectic life in Manhattan. There's barely time for a trip to England for her little sister's wedding. And there's certainly not time to think about seeing Ethan there for the first time in years. But as the family frantically prepare for the big day, Ruby can't help but wonder...
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"I loved this fun road-trip romance with two friends you immediately know should be a whole lot more!" - Cindi Madsen, author of Anatomy of a Player
Jaime and I have been best friends-forever. Like, awkward teenager with braces forever. We barely crossed the line once, a million years ago, with a kiss, but we didn't let it ruin what we have. He's charming, hardworking, and no one makes me laugh till it hurts like him. Now we're on a road trip to California,...
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A delightfully entertaining new rural romance from Karly Lane, the bestselling author with over 550,000 books sold.
Alex Kelly's future is nearly sorted: she loves her dream job and her life in London. There's just one last step: selling the family home her father left her in the small Australian seaside town of Rockne Heads. The place Alex has spent almost two decades trying to forget.
Sully McCoy has spent the last twenty years distancing himself...
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In World War II James Leasor was commissioned into the Royal Berkshire Regiment and posted to the 1st Lincolns in Burma and India, where he served for three and a half years. His experiences inspired him to write such books as Boarding Party (filmed as The Sea Wolves). He later became a feature writer and foreign correspondent at the Daily Express. Here he wrote The One that Got Away. As well as non-fiction, Leasor has written novels, including Passport...
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A brand new standalone from Friendship, Texas featuring everyone's favorite awkward baker and the one that got away.
I looked up and standing there was my ex-boyfriend, Jordan Webber. Maybe ex-boyfriend wasn't the right word. Maybe the boy who I dated for almost two years. Then he graduated early, leaving for art school in New York. He wanted me to come with him, but what future did I have in New York? My parents weren't paying for me to go to school...
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Zoë Wicomb's debut short story collection, You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town, won critical acclaim across the globe as well as high praise from fellow authors including Toni Morrison, J. M. Coetzee, Bharati Mukherjee, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Now, after two novels, Wicomb returns to the genre that first brought her international acclaim.
Set mostly in the South African city of Cape Town, where Wicomb is from, and the Scottish city of Glasgow,...
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He was my first love. My only love.The one that got away. People say everything happens for a reason.But I call bullshit-sometimes life just sucks.After mom's death, I'm all my brother Nathan has left.So we move to the city for a better life.When he's almost killed in a motorbike accident, I wonder if I've made a mistake.I'm supposed to protect him!As medical bills pour in, I'm drowning in debt.But a new Executive Assistant job could provide the stable...
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Bambi Devine, known to her friends as b.d., is a middle-aged bridal consultant who has recently come out to her friends after years of kidding herself about her sexuality-only to find out her friends knew all along and were just too polite to say anything to her. Then b.d. meets Bridget McKnight, the woman of her dreams. Unfortunately for her, Bridget is in a relationship with Natalie Lamont. But Natalie's intense friendship with Maxine Huff has New...
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On the eve of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993, Terri Zimmerman returns to her childhood home in South St. Louis, and her life is changed forever. When she was growing up, Terri lived with her parents above the Zimmerman Bakery, which is now a tavern named the Stag Club. Terri becomes friends with Dinty Smith, the proprietor of the Stag Club. She also gets reacquainted with Glen Wunsch, a childhood friend who is the last member of a once-prominent...
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When David Carmichael suffers a migraine and a broken shoulder, Trace Jackson, his best friend, simply moves in to take care of him. Their easy camaraderie is threatened when David discovers an undercurrent of heat and tension flowing between them. Despite knowing his best friend is straight, David is not-so-slowly falling in love. Trace has never desired another man. He's a ladies' man with quite the reputation, considered a top prize around town....
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In the middle of the 19th century America still had a forbidden industry notably called slavery. Unfortunately for this family, who had no knowledge of this type of disgraceful practice they lived peacefully in Africa, the patriarchal of his family supported them by being a herder. A livestock herder of sheep, goats, and cattle. So with this vastly different type of livestock it took large areas of land to keep. But what was so uniquely apparent is...
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The one that got away' is the best-known phrase in fishing. Every angler has at least one story of being outwitted by a huge fish. A refrain of the angler, a taunt from those who live with them: it neatly sums up the way in which anglers are obsessed with the fish they almost caught. Yet to hear a fisherman tell the story of an escapee leviathan is to gain a great insight into why he fishes in the first place and why his sport is the most popular...
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A Second Chance at Love.
Brad finally brings his dream job to life. Along with a sad stab of reality. His boyfriend stayed home.
Harry loves his accounting job. He searches for a deep connection that goes deep.
Their love and friendship return at first glance.
Can Brad and Harry take their chance to be together this second time around?
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You picked up this book because your breakup has been reduced to something that you feel you must "win" to emotionally survive and move on.
This reduction can only take place if you were involved with a toxic person. Toxic people are selfish, empathetically bankrupt, and have a limited relationship with reality. Anyone, who feels validated by exploiting your hunger for theirs is toxic-to your peace, your life, and your mental health.
Breakups aren't...
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Carnage volume 1
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The sickest symbiote of all is back, and the result is gonna be Carnage! Cletus Kasady has renewed his killing spree, and the FBI is following the trail of bodies. They think they're ready: They have the latest sonic tech, and a specialist team including military hero/astronaut John Jameson and a reformed Eddie Brock! And when they pursue Carnage into an abandoned coal mine, the trap is set - but is it for him, or for them? As the walls close in,...
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A Potty-Mouthed Rom-Com for Anyone Who Has Ever Pined Over 'The One That Got Away' After being invited to the wedding of his college sweetheart, Jason Chapman's life begins to crumble around him. But with the help of his two best friends, he's going to face his past, present and future all in one night. 23 years old and drifting through life, Jason's love life is as stale as the bread in his kitchen, and the fact that the beautiful Lila Holmes is...
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Have you ever had that feeling that you just needed to escape? Runaway from life, from all its problems; be the one that got away?Tilly Henshaw has. Tilly wants to escape. Escape her suffocating mum, her dementing gran and finally shake off the stigmatism attached to ADHD; a condition she was diagnosed with when she was fourteen.When the opportunity arises to escape to the sleepy, Cornish fishing village of Hope Cove, Tilly grabs it with both hands....
19) Dear Old Love: Anonymous Notes to Former Crushes, Sweethearts, Husbands, Wives, & Ones That Got Away
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Call it wisdom of the heart. Or the broken heart.
Dear Old Love is a collection of anonymous love notes to the ones who got away-or were left behind. They're the notes that ex-lovers have written to set the record straight. Or crooked. They're concise, witty, melancholy, revealing, sweet, sentimental, outrageous, withering, indignant, sometimes all at the same time. And like a pitch-perfect little poem, each entry paints a complete picture with just...