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A Dilemma

Joris-Karl Huysmanns

A Dilemma

Originally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' A Dilemma remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear a mirror to today's neoliberalist times as it did to the French fin-de-siècle. Written smack in-between Huysmans' most famous works—his 1881 Against Nature, which came to define the Decadent movement, and his 1891...

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Joris-Karl Huysmanns

A Ditadura Das Máscaras

Manu Bodin

A Ditadura Das Máscaras

Um autocarro polaco é mandado parar numa autoestrada francesa por dois gendarmes para multarem os passageiros que não estão a usar a cumprir as regras de utilização das máscaras.

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Manu Bodin

A Drop in the Ocean

Jenni Ogden

A Drop in the Ocean

GOLD: NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD, FICTION, LARGE PUBLISHER (2016)GOLD: SARTON WOMEN'S BOOK AWARD, CONTEMPORARY FICTION (2016) GOLD: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS), BEST FICTION, AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND (2016) SILVER: READERS’ FAVORITE INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD, WOMEN’S FICTION On her 49th birthday, Anna Fergusson, Boston neuroscientist and dedicated introvert, arrives at an unwanted crossroads when the funding for her research lab is cut. With her confidence shattered and her future...

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Jenni Ogden

A Family Secret: No. 1 Bestseller o...

Josephine Cox

A Family Secret: No. 1 Bestseller of family drama

The new No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the master storyteller, Josephine Cox.Family secrets can weigh the heaviest…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...

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Josephine Cox

A Family Thing

Randy Beal

A Family Thing

"Jacob. Would you be a dear and run out and bring your pregnant wife some chocolate cake? Pretty please?" Jake's wife Rachel is "in a family way" with their first child and Jake isn't quite sure what to make of the increasing demands it places on him. "Chocolate cake in the middle of the night? Really?" Despite the excitement of welcoming a newborn and the first...

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Randy Beal

A Family’s Heartbreak

Kitty Neale

A Family’s Heartbreak

All they ever wanted was somewhere to call home… Beaten When Jenny’s mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. And when Henry beats his eldest daughter so badly that she ends up in the hospital, it seems like there’s nowhere left for them all to go. Broken But carpenter Craig has fallen head over heels for Jenny, and he offers her a place to stay. Happy at last, Jenny begins a new life with him, but when tragedy strikes, she’s left to...

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Kitty Neale

A Fatal Mistake: A gripping, twisty...

Faith Martin

A Fatal Mistake: A gripping, twisty murder mystery perfect for all crime fiction fans

A brand new Ryder & Loveday mystery from global bestseller Faith MartinSummer 1960, Oxford In the glorious sunshine of Oxford, on a day when everyone should be celebrating, tragedy strikes when a university student is found floating in the river, dead.Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday finds herself paired with coroner Clement Ryder to investigate and it soon becomes clear that this case is not going to be easy.The witnesses all refuse to give a straight answer, each new lead sends them in a new...

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Faith Martin

A Fatal Secret

Faith Martin

A Fatal Secret

‘Great characters, great plot and a totally dazzling finish… Wonderful. ’ NetGalley reviewer, 5 stars Oxford, 1961 A family day out at Briar’s Hall ends in tragedy when a young boy goes missing – and his body is found at the bottom of a disused well in the orchard. It looks like a simple case of an eleven-year-old exploring where he shouldn’t: a tragic accident. But Coroner Clement Ryder and Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday aren’t convinced. If Eddie had been climbing and fallen, why were there no...

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Faith Martin

A Father’s Revenge

Kitty Neale

A Father’s Revenge

A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear…Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence.In the meantime, his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him and remarried, determined to protect her son from knowing who his real father is.Then she hears two pieces of terrifying news – Kevin Dolby is up for parole and that her dear friend Bessie is gravely ill.Bessie has taken on Nora Dobbs, a young woman and she asks Pearl to take over her care when dies....

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Kitty Neale

A Frozen Woman (Unabridged)

Ксюша Ангел

A Frozen Woman (Unabridged)

This narrative charts Annie Ernaux's teenage awakening and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession-with the inevitable conflict between the two. And then she is thirty years old, a teacher married to an executive, a mother of two infant sons. She looks after their nice apartment and raises her children. And yet, like millions of other women, she has felt her enthusiasm and curiosity, her strength and her...

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Ксюша Ангел

A Game of Chance

Линда Ховард

A Game of Chance

On the trail of a vicious criminal, agent Chance Mackenzie found the perfect bait for his trap: Sunny Miller. So Chance made himself the only man she could trust–and then arranged for her long-missing father to find out about them. What Chance hadn't foreseen was that Sunny had reasons of her own for hiding from her father–and now Chance's deception had brought them both one step closer to the end of everything they held dear….

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Линда Ховард

A Garota Dos Arco-Íris Proibidos

Rosette

A Garota Dos Arco-Íris Proibidos

O encontro de duas solidões no contexto fascinante de uma vila escocesa imaginária é o ponto de partida de uma grande história de amor onde nada é como sempre. A protagonista – Melisande Bruno – é a garota dos arco-íris proibidos, capaz de ver só em preto e branco. E o seu antagonista, como também grande amor, é Sebastian McLaine, escritor relegado a uma cadeira de rodas. Melisande Bruno foge do seu passado e sobretudo recusa-se aceitar a sua diversidade: de fato, nasceu com uma disfunção...

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Rosette

A Generous Spirit - Selected Work b...

Ксюша Ангел

A Generous Spirit - Selected Work by Beth Brant (Unabridged)

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Ксюша Ангел

A Geography of Secrets

Frederick Reuss

A Geography of Secrets

Two men: One discovers the cost of keeping secrets, of building a career within a government agency where secrets are the operational basis. Noel Leonard works for the Defense Intelligence Agency, mapping coordinates for military actions halfway around the world. One morning he learns that an error in his office is responsible for the bombing of a school in Pakistan. And he knows suddenly that he is as alone as he is wrong. From his windowless office in DC to an intelligence conference in...

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Frederick Reuss

A Good Day to Die

James Hendricks

A Good Day to Die

A Good Day to Die is a thought-provoking look into gang violence in Gary. The Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples square off in a winner takes all, do or die, non-stop brawl. James Hendricks leaks a true story from his cell. His depiction of gang life is rife with knowledge. The story comes alive through Jon and Don, twins and products of Gary, charting their rise to fame in the drug game. From stick-up kids to car thieves, they put in work and get their rep. Rivals threaten to curtail their...

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James Hendricks

A Grand Old Time: The laugh-out-lou...

Judy Leigh

A Grand Old Time: The laugh-out-loud and feel-good romantic comedy with a difference you must read in 2018

It’s never too late to have the time of your life . . .Heartwarming, hilarious and joyful – the perfect read for anyone who loved Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, A Man Called Ove, Ruth Jones and Jojo Moyes.Evie Gallagher is regretting her hasty move into a care home. She may be seventy-five and recently widowed, but she’s absolutely not dead yet. And so, one morning, Evie walks out of Sheldon Lodge and sets off on a Great Adventure across Europe.But not everyone thinks Great Adventures are...

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Judy Leigh

A Greek Affair

Linn Halton B.

A Greek Affair

More than just a holiday romance?Her daughter, her job and divorcing her untrustworthy ex are Leah’s main priorities. She isn’t really bothered that her life might be missing a few things. But after winning a prestigious travel blogger award, she’s inundated with offers to review glamorous holiday destinations. Lying around drinking exotic cocktails and being paid for it! What could be better? Perhaps a romantic trip to idyllic Greece to find the one man who might make Leah risk her heart again…

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Linn Halton B.

A Guardian's Possession

Amy Blankenship

A Guardian's Possession

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Amy Blankenship

A Hope Christmas Love Story

Julia Williams

A Hope Christmas Love Story

**A 69 page short story**A sparkling Christmassy tale that will make your heart melt.Mel Tinsall knows that if she’s going to get through this manic first year at college, and be a good mum to her baby daughter Lou Lou, she can have no distractions. And after what happened last time she’s sworn off men for a very long time.But then she meets Will.He’s different. He’s special.But Mel has a secret.Christmas is coming and romance is blossoming. As the first snow snow falls over the village of HOPE...

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Julia Williams

A Husband She Couldn't Forget

Christine Rimmer

A Husband She Couldn't Forget

Can losing her memory… Help her find her future? When Alyssa Santangelo, is involved in an accident she wakes to find she has no memory of the last seven years, and the fact she is divorced from the only man she’s ever loved! Refusing to accept the end of her marriage she must prove she has not given up on Connor… especially when a night of passion leads to an unexpected surprise…

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Christine Rimmer

A Husband's Vendetta

SARA WOOD

A Husband's Vendetta

Luc Maccari's wife, Ellen, had abandoned him when he'd needed her most–only now she wanted him back! Suspecting his financial success was the cause of her interest, Luc decided to teach her a lesson. He'd give her a tantalizing taste of what she'd sacrificed the day she walked out–beginning in the bedroom….Unfortunately, seducing Ellen was reminding him of what he'd been missing, too. Then he uncovered her heartrending secret, her reason for leaving. And suddenly revenge was in danger of...

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SARA WOOD

A Irmandade Hiramic: Profecia Do Te...

William Hanna

A Irmandade Hiramic: Profecia Do Templo De Ezequiel

Num contexto de ódio e violência, A Irmandade Hiramic: a Profecia do Templo de Ezequiel aprofunda a questão da limpeza étnica de palestinianos de Israel e aborda os crimes racistas contra a humanidade no Médio Oriente. O romance segue o jornalista Conrad Banner, influenciado pelo seu pai, Mark – um autor e correspondente estrangeiro com inúmeros prémios de jornalismo pela cobertura do Médio Oriente – que tem a intenção de filmar um documentário fatualmente imparcial acerca do conflito...

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William Hanna