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"Two years together. Twenty years apart. One day to change their story. 2000. Benjamin's world is turned upside down the night he meets Clara. Instinctively, he knows that they are meant for each other, but a devastating mistake on their last night at university will take their lives in very different directions. 20 years later, Clara has a high-profile job and a handsome husband. But despite the trappings of success, she isn't happy, and she knows...
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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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"In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got away--a dashing Philly blueblood she met briefly years earlier--and...
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"Sarina Mahler has finally settled into life. She has a successful career as an architect, a perfect, loving boyfriend, and a close group of friends. But when an old crush moves to town - Eamon, a former Olympic swimmer and the only man she never truly got over - everything flips upside down. Haunted by the death of her mother, Sarina uses her passion for design, inherited from her beloved step-father, to escape from emotional entanglements. With...
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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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"Lost fish," writes Howell Raines, "chasten us to the knowledge that we are all, in each and every moment, dwindling. Imagine my surprise when I discovered well into my sixth decade that losing fish can prepare us for a blessing as well as for pain." Confronting loss - of an elusive fish or something larger - is at the heart of "The One That Got Away,” the graceful sequel to Raines's much-loved, bestselling memoir "Fly Fishing Through the Midlife...
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Harlequin
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2013
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The man who's always left her wanting more!
Good job? Tick. Newly purchased apartment? Tick. Evie's life is on a pretty even keel at the moment. The only thing missing? A man with an edge to keep things interesting.
Enter Logan Black. Tortured, distant and sexy, Logan has edge written all over him. He's also the man who tipped Evie over the edge a few years back--she gave him everything, but...
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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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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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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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C. Kelly Robinson brings back bad boy Tony Gooden. He is famous for his fast cars and hot women, but his job at the radio station isn't as sweet as it used to be, and a recent encounter with his one true love has got him thinking-what about the one that got away? A near- death experience sends him on a mission to get back the one love he knows he never should have let go. But Serena has moved on with life and she's dealing with problems of her own:...
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Ruby Turner was never meant to be mine.
When I first met her she was a fresh, young American sports journalist trying to find her footing in a new life abroad. She was the one interviewing me for an article, yet I wanted to know more about her. She captivated me. But she went home with Marco that night. My agent. My brother.
And I did what I could to pretend I was fine with it. After all, I'm Luciano Ribeiro. As the captain of Real Madrid, and Portugal's...