-88%Historical Fiction
Texas
Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry …
General Fiction
9 Lives: An Oral History
"After the battle, we picked up a German soldier who had been wounded," said Arnold Brown, who was a company commander in the 90th Infantry Division during World War II. "He had been shot in the leg with a .50-caliber bullet, and he had laid out overnight in this freezing, subzero weather. Both his arms and both of his legs were frozen stiff as a board. He begged us to shoot him. .. …
Romance
Learning to Stay
A billionaire CEO drowning in triplets. A crisis caretaker who never stays past the job. And an arrangement neither of them planned to survive. Corey Winters has spent his career putting other people's families back together—then walking away before anyone gets too attached. Structured. Professional. Temporary. When his agency sends him to a San Francisco penthouse where infant triplets are in chaos and their grief-wrecked uncle is asleep on the floor …
Fantasy · Horror
Veil of Fate
She enters a deadly tournament to save her brother. Instead, she catches the attention of the masked Heir of Fate. In Mirror, kingdoms are ruled by bloodlines blessed with the ability to see the Threads of Fate. In Estal Kingdom, the masked Heir of Fate is holding a tournament unlike any other. He wants more than a bride. He wants a protector powerful enough to survive the violence surrounding his throne. Zora Vyner is a lethal spymaster …
General Fiction · Nonfiction
Missing: The Body of Evidence
Missing: The Body of Evidence is a gripping X-FILES type, dark crime thriller. A story of government secret experiments and deceptions, and one woman’s determination to discover the truth. When rookie LAPD Detective Nancy Roberts is called to the scene of a fire and the remnants of a body are discovered, CSI can’t be sure if it is the result of a suicide, accident, murder, or.... Well... kind of something else. One thing is for sure, don’t expect the norm …
General Fiction · Nonfiction
The Devil You Know
A marriage of convenience. A reformed rake. A heroine determined not to lose her heart. The Honourable Catherine Elford — Kitty to her friends — is faced with an unenviable choice. Be cast out, penniless, by her penny-pinching half-brother… or marry the handsome, charming Earl of Ledbury — a man who would be perfect if he weren’t a notorious womaniser, and the very same gentleman Kitty once adored during her come-out in Society …
Fantasy
A Twist of Night and Day
He was my bully...Now his life is in my hands. He hated me, and I hated him. I was perfectly fine with that until one night changed everything. His entire family was murdered before his very eyes--and despite how much I hated him, I couldn't let him die. Now, we're entangled in a dangerous trial to hunt one of the deadliest Elder fae creatures in existence. Can I keep him alive long enough to escape the Night Court crown that I never wanted? Or will I lose my heart and myself in the process?
Romance
One with the Wolf
Gia Jordan has one goal: build a career, keep her independence, and survive the chaos of being a Lycan woman in heat. Falling for anyone, especially a powerful alpha, was never part of the plan. But when the lights go out inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a scruffy stranger ignites the heat she’s been trying to ignore. One night with the rogue alpha awakens something that Gia longs for, but the next morning he’s gone …
Thriller & Mystery
An Artful Deceit
What happens when a Duke is mistaken for a Viscount—on purpose? Add that to two Michelangelo sketches, hidden passages, vanishing and reappearing art, threatening messages, conniving art collectors, arrogant academicians, a Bow Street agent, a lovelorn couple, and an elderly prankster. It’s enough to give a Duke a headache. Miles Wingate, the Duke of Ellinbourne, was not supposed to be at the Dowager Duchess of Malmsby’s house party …
-89%Fantasy
Nobody's Quest
🗝 She has no army. No power. And no name. But when two factions of gods are at war, only a NOBODY can save the world. . .
-50%Fantasy
Midnight War
My Name is Jason Night. I’m a SWAT Team Commander and former Marine. I’ve experienced a lot of crazy shit in my life, and I don’t scare easily. At least not until today. After seeing my whole team get wiped out by a succubus and nearly dying myself, I’ve been recruited by a mysterious sorceress to become a soldier in a new war. An evil web of darkness threatens our world, a global network of black wizards and creatures of the night known as the Cabal. They are everywhere and nowhere …
-50%Biographies & True Accounts
Behind the Scenes: Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House
"Behind the Scenes" is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family, especially Mary Todd Lincoln, and is considered controversial for breaking privacy about them. It was also her claim as a businesswoman to be part of the new mixed-race, middle-class that was visible among the leadership of the black community. Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818 – 1907) was a former slave who became a successful seamstress, civil activist, and author in Washington, DC …
-83%Literary Fiction · Classic
A Manual for Cleaning Women
The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot. With extraordinary honesty and magnetism, Lucia Berlin invites us into her rich, itinerant life: the drink and the mess and the pain and the beauty and the moments of surprise and of grace, with a voice is witty, anarchic, compassionate, and completely unique.
-81%Romance
Our Italian Summer
Three generations of women in the Ferrari family must heal the broken pieces of their lives on a trip of a lifetime through picturesque Italy Workaholic, career-obsessed Francesca is fiercely independent and successful in all areas of her life except one: family. She struggles to make time for her relationship with her teenage daughter, Allegra, and the two have become practically strangers to each other …
-82%Thriller & Mystery
The Night the Lights Went Out
Recently divorced, Merilee Talbot Dunlap moves with her two children to the Atlanta suburb of Sweet Apple, Georgia. It’s not her first time starting over, but her efforts at a new beginning aren’t helped by an anonymous local blog that dishes about the scandalous events that caused her marriage to fail. Merilee finds some measure of peace in the cottage she is renting from town matriarch Sugar Prescott …
-62%Action & Adventure
Hope Harbor
The handsome single dad might end up mending her heart as well… When Eve inherits the family business, Candlewood Inn, she leaves her controlling ex and her job in Seattle behind to head to her childhood home on a small island on the Canadian border. She arrives to find that her family is in an uproar over her grandfather’s very legal dying wishes. After all …
-73%Biographies & True Accounts
A Taste for Murder
Frank Rodriguez, a much-loved counselor of troubled teens, lies dead on the bedroom floor. His wife and stepdaughter are in shock, and so is the medical examiner when he performs the autopsy. Aside from being dead, Frank is in perfect health. Demanding to know the cause of her husband's death, Angie Rodriguez badgers the police, insisting that Frank was murdered. The cops attribute her assertions to overwhelming grief, but soon they too believe that Frank didn't die of natural causes …
-50%Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction
The Silence In Between
Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your new-born baby and there is now now no way of getting to him... Lisette is in hospital with her baby boy. The doctors tell her to go home and get some rest, that he’ll be fine. When she awakes, everything has changed. Because overnight, on 13 August 1961, the border between East and West Berlin has closed. Lisette is trapped in the east, while her baby is unreachable in the west …
-50%Bestseller · Romance
Thursdays in the Park
SPECIAL 5TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE EBOOK PHENOMENON. Includes reading group questions and the first chapter of Hilary's beautiful new book, The Lavender House. Jeanie has been married for thirty years, but her husband George has become so cold and distant she may as well be alone. Surely, at just sixty, a loveless marriage can't be the only thing left on the horizon? Then, one Thursday in autumn, Jeanie meets Ray in the park, and a chance meeting blossoms into a friendship …
-70%Nonfiction
Creatures of a Day
What makes life worth living? What can we do to lead meaningful lives? And how do we confront our inevitable end? In his long career, eminent psychotherapist and author Irvin Yalom has pressed his patients and readers to grapple with life's two greatest challenges: that we all must die, and that each of us is responsible for leading a life worth living. In Creatures of a Day, he and his patients face the difficulty of these challenges …
-50%Biographies & True Accounts
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity
'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and how fame strikes. Sit back and enjoy the ride.' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads Celebrity, with its neon glow and selfie pout, strikes us as hypermodern. But the famous and infamous have been thrilling, titillating, and outraging us for much longer than we might realise. Whether it was the scandalous Lord Byron, whose poetry sent female fans into an erotic frenzy; or the cheetah-owning, coffin-sleeping …
-50%Literary Fiction · Humour
Generation X
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation- Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of being lumped together as an advertiser's target market, they have quit dreary careers and cut themselves adrift in the California desert …
-70%Biographies & True Accounts
Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton's parrot chatters away as Sarton looks out the window at the rain and contemplates returning to her "real" life—not friends, not even love, but writing. In her bravest and most revealing memoir, Sarton casts her keenly observant eye on both the interior and exterior worlds. She shares insights about everyday life in the quiet New Hampshire village of Nelson, the desire for friends, and need for solitude—both an exhilarating and terrifying state …
-50%Biographies & True Accounts
Normal Women: 900 Years of Women Making History
Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry? That the Peasant’s Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women? Or that celebrated naturalist Charles Darwin believed not just that women were naturally inferior to men but that they’d evolve to become ever more inferior? These are just a few of the startling findings you will learn from reading Philippa Gregory’s Normal Women …
-56%Humour
In the Summertime
Let Judy Astley sweep you away to magical Cornwall in this lively, laughter-packed and heart-warming read.
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