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A theatre scriptwriter loses his job, his marriage and his only child. He travels to a rural town in search of a quiet place to reorganize his confused life. Here he again meets with a legendary Bata dancer and the reunion rekindles his ambition to write a new play. But his success will depend on how much he is able to understand the mysterious language of the Bata drums and dance His bitter past has left him with the fear of another relationship...
2) Raging Pulse
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During her recovery from a hit-and-run accident, Trisha Kourtz's ill father informs her she has a brother. Believing she was an only child the past twenty-five years ― she's shocked, in denial, and completely thrown off balance. When a handsome paramedic, who rescued her from the accident appears on her doorstep, her confusion transforms to lust. However, when a dark figure lurks outside her windows at night, her life takes an unimaginable turn.Blake...
3) The Portrait
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A ship's captain. A crime. A secret. What would you do to claim the position in society that has been stolen from you? Lady Catherine, banished to the countryside as a useless girl with a lame leg, got her revenge by playing a dangerous game...and now it will ruin her. When the old earl dies, his only child feels no sorrow. The earldom will now revert to the crown and Lady Catherine will continue to live life exactly as she pleases. But when she learns...
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Morgan O'Brien is in love with her job.As a midwife at the Sydney Harbour Hospital, there's nothing more exciting than being present at the birth of a baby. But being around newborns night and day only emphasizes the fact she doesn't have a family of her own. At thirty, her biological clock is ticking and she can't help but remember the baby she chose to abort all those years ago…But then her father disappears in mysterious circumstances and babies...
5) Whisper
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Britney is a young, extremely malnourished child, who comes from a poor family with an abusive father. Her mother does everything she can to protect her daughter from her husband, receiving the brunt of the aggressive beatings herself. The girl barely speaks, afraid of being overheard by the wrong person, and the only words she knows are the few repeated words her mother uses to calm her after a fight. A total of three words in all, namely – Whisper,...
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Princess to pauper, Penelope Hastings, has a chance to work at the camp that holds her most treasured childhood memories. A spoiled only child, devastated after her wealthy parents abandon her at camp, her nine-year-old heart expands when an encounter with an older boy changes her perspective. Years later when her world collapses amid scandal and debt, she takes the lesson learned and crafts a new life.Owner of a booming business, rags to riches Diego...
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Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Charity Brown’s life is about to change – her family have been left a huge, rambling house by a mysterious benefactor, and her parents want to move in and throw open its doors to the needy. Only recently back from hospital after months of isolation with polio, Charity is over-protected and lonely as the only child still at home. Her family are very religious – her sisters are called Faith and Hope, and her brother Ted is studying to be a preacher...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schsuter, LLC
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2024.
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"Mark Chan this. Mark Chan that. Writer and barista Emily Hung is tired of hearing about the great Mark Chan, the son of her parents' friends. You'd think he single-handedly stopped climate change and ended child poverty from the way her mother raves about him. But he's just a boring, sweater-vest-wearing engineer, and when they're forced together at a wedding, it's obvious he thinks he's too good for her. But Emily's mother is fixated on getting...