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The Museum of Doubt is a new collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only half-glimpsed.
| Автор | James Meek |
A Chance To Prove Himself Learning that she was adopted is the biggest shock of magazine writer Sarah Tigarden’s life. Falling in love with champion bull rider Clay Hollyer is a close second. Years ago, she shared a sizzling kiss with the handsome rodeo star, only to hear that he was a player who enjoyed toying with women.After her profile of Clay called him on his caddish behavior, she never wanted to see him again. But, as Sarah searches for her birth mother, Clay is unexpectedly by her side....
| Автор | Ann Roth |
A change of scenery will do some good. And with the hope it will snap his teenage daughter out of her rebellious ways, widower Jacob O’Donnell has temporarily swapped his Seattle boardroom for Mariah Weston’s Montana working ranch. But big-city business is his territory, and this rugged, wild country…Well, it can only be paradise to someone like Mariah, whose can-do attitude and sizzling-hot temper throw Jacob harder than any horse ever could. Yet maybe a strong woman like Mariah can get through...
| Автор | Julianna Morris |
With her wedding nine days away, Gwen Jones's fiancé suddenly disappeared, along with her bank account.Now, to save her home, she had to marry businessman Declan Knight–the man with whom she'd shared one torrid, mistaken night of passion. Declan also needed to marry in order to access his inheritance. So he agreed to Gwen's plan despite his previous vow to keep his hands off her.Yet now he had to convince his family their charade was for real. Which meant marching Gwen...
| Автор | Yvonne Lindsay |
From inside her cubicle walls, Holly Christmas had secretly pined for Connor Knight, craving just one evening of incendiary passion with the elusive millionaire. So when Connor sought a few hours of solace in his virgin secretary's arms, she readily succumbed. Then, a few weeks after their clandestine encounter, Holly received a surprising late Christmas gift: she was pregnant.Connor quickly offered to take care of her, but Holly knew her scandalous past would never allow her to accept his...
| Автор | Yvonne Lindsay |
Special Agent Jesse Colton had a strong instinct to say no to sweet, vulnerable Samantha Cosgrove.Not because he doubted her shocking claim – that her boss was sharing government secrets – but because the innocently seductive blond beauty made him want to say yes…to anything her heart desired. He was one of the Agency's finest. But Samantha wished someone had warned her that Jesse Colton was tall, dark and handsome.Now he was posing as her boyfriend to protect her from a dangerous web of...
| Автор | Kasey Michaels |
May, 1831, and on a tiny island off the Isle of Man a lighthouse provides a harsh living for an unusual family. Lucy and Diya, husbandless and with three children between them, watch over the ancient light on Ellan Bride. Meanwhile the Scottish engineer, Robert Stevenson, is modernising the nation's lighthouses, and Ellan Bride and the future of the family, are under threat. When two surveyors arrive to assess the light, tension escalates to danger point.
| Автор | Margaret Elphinstone |
Magic Child, a fifteen-year old Indian girl, wanders into the wrong whorehouse. She is looking for the right men to kill the monster. The monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house. Richard Brautigan takes the reader on a heroic, magical adventure through Eastern Oregon. The Hawkline Monster confirms his place as one of the twentieth century's most exciting writers.
| Автор | Richard Brautigan |
These are the stories of the casualties of social and emotional struggle, who defy defeat with humour, resilience and inspiring faith in their dreams. The walking wounded. These are the stories of ordinary people.
| Автор | William McIlvanney |
He'd slipped in and out of hostile nations, stared down enemy guns. But Chance Barnett Connelly, navy SEAL, didn't know fear till he was caught in the sights of one petite, green-eyed single mom.Jennifer Anderson sent a jolt of desire through the long-lost Connelly son, one that begged to be satisfied. With his navy whites, tanned skin and killer good looks, Chance always got what he wanted. But while Jennifer and her adorable baby let him into their home, she vowed he'd never get...
| Автор | Maureen Child |
‘SUCH a delightful read!’ Goodreads reviewerHome is where the heart is…Lily Ballantine is still reeling from losing her job and the man she’s head over heels for all in one afternoon! So with her pride in tatters, she leaves the city behind her for the charming Scottish village of Carroch.Bequeathed the tiny gift shop by her late, free-spirited mother, she only intends to stay until she sells the place – but instead, finds herself falling for the beautiful shop, the stray cat called Misty… and...
| Автор | Maggie Conway |
’A gem of a book. I loved it.’ Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestseller ‘A charming story of self-discovery.’ Hello! ‘Wonderful… the perfect summer read.’ Woman***A librarian’s discovery of a mysterious book sparks the journey of a lifetime in the delightful new novel from the bestselling author of The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper.Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people, though not for lack of trying. She keeps careful lists of how to help others in...
| Автор | Phaedra Patrick |
Winner of the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother. With shades of Hamlet and Camus, William McIlvanney's first novel is a revelatory portrait of youth, of society and of family.
| Автор | William McIlvanney |
Madame tells the story of a self-absorbed Polish teenager as he pursues intellectual maturity, and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher 'Madame', in the communist-dominated Warsaw of the early 1970s. Libera paces his exuberant young hero's fulminations, fantasies and discoveries beautifully, building a remarkably subtle characterisation of a free mind in a repressive culture. This is one of those rare novels which reminds us why we love books. A consummate literary...
| Автор | Antoni Libera |
1876 Colorado is home to some wild characters. And Samantha Blair is one of them. After all, how many girls find themselves being raised by outlaws? But she's happy…until U.S. Marshal Jared Evans comes to town. He's got one thing on his mind–revenge. And unfortunately, it's Sam's adoptive father he's after.Luckily, Samantha's a crack shot. The good thing? She only hits Jared's leg. The bad thing? He makes her insides quiver and melt like she never knew was...
| Автор | Patricia Potter |
Harriet Verney has come home to claim the house her grandmother has left her, but does not count on bumping into billionaire tycoon James Edward Devereux. She's friends with James's younger brother, but has always felt unsettled by the older Devereux's rugged good looks and powerful confidence.Now James's presence makes Harriet's pulse race faster for other reasons, especially one night in Tuscany when she wakes up to find James at the end of her bed! James soon...
| Автор | Catherine George |
The Charmer…Ewen Fraser's rakish reputation went before him–Rosanna had read the newspapers, and could see with her own eyes his collection of girlfriends, past and present…The Charmed …But that didn't stop her falling for him–he was funny, tender, warm and sexy, and working closely with him was a joy…The Trap…Rosanna was tempted. Ewen was all that she'd ever wanted, but could she trust her instincts when they told her that Ewen, the infamous lover-and-leaver, had marriage at...
| Автор | Catherine George |