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Dropped! (Orca Anchor)
Par Alice Kuipers. 2024
Dex is dropped onto a deserted tropical island to be a player in a social media competition. Dex is one…
of six contestants on Dropped!, an internet reality show. He’s glad to escape his real life after being dumped by his girlfriend, Lola, and destroying his social life. He and the other contenders have to spend five days on a deserted island, and the person who gains the most likes and followers will be the winner. The prize is a ton of money and status as an influencer. Keeping people watching is the challenge, and Dex will do whatever it takes. He needs to win—it’s the only way to get Lola and his popularity back. But on the island, away from his ex, he finds himself flirting with the gorgeous and popular Amina. When Dex keeps placing behind Amina, he realizes he has to be more daring to get the engagements he needs. But how extreme will he need to be? And is it worth it to win?Unspeakable Shaking Pleasures: An Erotica Collection
Par Lucy Debussy. 2024
'You will lose yourself in Lucy Debussy's worlds.' Meghan Flaherty, author of Tango Lessons'Rich and creamy writing fired with a…
crackling of humour... Tales that charm as quickly as they disarm.' Lynsey May, author of Weak Teeth'Beautiful, shocking and beautifully shocking; treat yourself to this rich and sensuous read.' Catherine Simpson, author of One Body"Now as they take their pleasure, I shall take mine..."A Spanish Inquisitor's daughter breaks out of piety to tap into her talents as a dominatrix. A woman inhabiting a male identity as a sailor explores a heady sexuality that dances across gender lines.An exacting auctioneer loves putting the bidding paddles to good use, and a journalist follows a travelling circus to discovers a carnal awakening with the man who keeps the aerialists flying...The erotic stories in this collection each feature women stepping into their sexual power in the most unexpected and delicious ways.Compellingly immersive, sensual and stunningly written, these tales will speak life to your desires. Delve into their sumptuous beauty and delight your senses.For Our Sins (The Inspector McLean Series)
Par James Oswald. 2024
The wages of sin is death.The partial collapse of a disused Edinburgh church reveals a dead body in the rubble,…
his head badly smashed by falling masonry. Soon identified as an old ex-con - Kenny Morgan - his death is put down to a heart attack and deemed non-suspicious.Tony McLean is approached by a notorious crime lord who suggests the police should be looking into Morgan's death more closely. Despite struggling with his recent retirement, he is reluctant to involve himself.But when a second man is found dead in another disused church, his forehead branded with a cross, this time it is clearly murder.There's a killer stalking the streets of Edinburgh. Is it time for McLean to get back to doing what he does best?Praise for James Oswald:'The new Ian Rankin' Daily Record'Creepy, gritty and gruesome' Sunday Mirror'Crime fiction's next big thing' Sunday TelegraphWash Your Hands, Mr Panda (Mr Panda #6)
Par Steve Antony. 2021
Soap? . . . Check.Water? . . . Check.Towel? . . . Check.Are you ready to wash your hands, Mr…
Panda?Join Mr Panda and friends as they learn all about hand washing, sneeze catching and other good hygiene practices.With a lightness of tone and a gentle humour throughout, this new book in the ever-popular MR PANDA series is perfect for helping little ones to stay safe in a Coronavirus/Covid 19 world. A must-have for all bookshelves.Shadow Witch: A Slow Burn Paranormal Witch Romance (Voodoo Academy #1)
Par Veronica Shade, Rebecca Hamilton. 2022
So…Verika’s parents run a Voodoo Academy. When, exactly, were they planning on telling her? Apparently not until she almost kills…
half her school.When Verika’s shadow magic nearly takes out the cast of her school play, her parents send her to a voodoo academy they run in New Orlean’s mirror world to get her powers under control.It’s there, at Académie de Marie Laveau, that Verika learns the hot man from her dreams isn’t just a figment of her imagination…but the most feared student ever to walk the academy’s halls.So when things start to go missing from her teachers’ classrooms, and it appears someone is aiming to pin it on Mr. Dark and Dreamy himself, Verika knows no one is going to step in to save him.No one but Verika, anyway.Except, Tobias isn’t looking for a hero, and Verika’s not cut out to be a detective. Considering she’s been shadow walking in her sleep and can’t account for her own whereabouts after the lights go out, it seems she’s better suited as a suspect instead.Fans of the Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead and the Harley Merlin series from Bella Forrest will love this new adult, slow-burn paranormal academy romance from Veronica Shade.Scroll up and one-click to see if Verika can find a way to make life at Voodoo Academy work…all while dealing with bullies, would-be boyfriends, and worse…herself.Voodoo Academy is a spin-off series of Academy of the Damned but can still be enjoyed by readers who haven’t read Academy of the Damned.The first book in the chapter book refresh of the classic Hardy Boys series.In Trouble at the Arcade, nine-year-old Frank…
and eight-year-old Joe Hardy discover trouble lurking at the local arcade and decide they make pretty good detectives—just like their dad!Double Take (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #21)
Par Carolyn Keene. 2009
In Treasure Trouble, Nancy, George, and Bess are headed to Barnacle Beach for a pirate-themed birthday party. But when the…
treasure chest filled with party favors disappears, playtime is over. With the help of a mysterious treasure map, the Clue Crew needs to reclaim the missing loot before the party’s completely ruined. In Double Take, the Clue Crew has competition—one of their classmates has started a rival sleuthing club! Can Nancy and the girls solve the latest case before the phony detectives do?The Hidden Masters of Marandur (The Pillars of Reality #2)
Par Jack Campbell. 2015
When Master Mechanic Mari and Mage Alain took down the Dark Mechanics and Dark Mages at Dorcastle, they thought they’d…
covered their involvement well enough to divert their Guilds’ suspicions. The assassins sent after them by their Guilds, which had trained them from childhood, indicate otherwise. Armed with the knowledge that their respective Guilds are now trying to kill them, and knowing their strengths are greater together, they reunite. Rumor has it the key to saving their world from the Guilds’ iron-fisted rule is in the dead city of Marandur. But before they can even attempt to traverse the empty wastelands and avoid the imperial guards surrounding Marandur, they’ll have to survive the Guilds’ agents, who are determined to capture them at any cost, and by any means necessary.Acts of Forgiveness: A Novel
Par Maura Cheeks. 2024
&“A vibrant and moving debut that takes to heart our deferred dreams and the value of remaining hopeful.&”—Diane Marie Brown,…
author of Black Candle WomenHow much of their lineage is one family willing to unearth in order to participate in the nation&’s first federal reparations program?Every American waits with bated breath to see whether or not the country&’s first female president will pass the Forgiveness Act. The bill would allow Black families to claim up to $175,000 if they can prove they are the descendants of slaves, and for ambitious single mother Willie Revel the bill could be a long-awaited form of redemption. A decade ago, Willie gave up her burgeoning journalism career to help run her father&’s struggling construction company in Philadelphia and she has reluctantly put family first, without being able to forget who she might have become. Now she&’s back living with her parents and her young daughter while trying to keep her family from going into bankruptcy. Could the Forgiveness Act uncover her forgotten roots while also helping save their beloved home and her father&’s life&’s work? In order to qualify, she must first prove that the Revels are descended from slaves, but the rest of the family isn&’t as eager to dig up the past. Her mother is adopted, her father doesn&’t trust the government and believes working with a morally corrupt employer is the better way to save their business, and her daughter is just trying to make it through the fifth grade at her elite private school without attracting unwanted attention. It&’s up to Willie to verify their ancestry and save her family—but as she delves into their history, Willie begins to learn just how complicated family and forgiveness can be. With powerful insight and moving prose, Acts of Forgiveness asks how history shapes who we become and considers the weight of success when it is achieved despite incredible odds—and ultimately what leaving behind a legacy truly means.The Local: A Legal Thriller
Par Joey Hartstone. 2022
A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in…
Texas.&“A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The Good Fight, and EvilThe town of Marshall, Texas, is the epicenter of intellectual property law in the US—renowned for its speedy trials and massive payouts. One of its best lawyers is James Euchre. His newest client, Amir Zawar, is a CEO forced to defend his life&’s work against a patent infringement claim. But when a beloved hometown hero is murdered, all signs point to Zawar, an outsider with no alibi. With the help of a former federal prosecutor and a local PI, Euchre hopes to uncover the truth. In his first criminal case, the stakes couldn&’t be higher. Euchre fears either an innocent man will be sent to death row, or he&’ll help set a murderer free. The Local is a small-town thriller crackling with courtroom tension right up to the final verdict.Community Board: A Novel
Par Tara Conklin. 2000
The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted novel of unplanned isolation and newly forged community.Where…
does one go, you might ask, when the world falls apart? When the immutable facts of your life—the mundane, the trivial, the take-for-granted minutiae that once filled every second of every day—suddenly disappear? Where does one go in such dire and unexpected circumstances?I went home, of course. MURBRIDGE COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARDFREE: 500 cans of corn. Accidentally ordered them online. I really hate corn. Happy to help load.REMINDER: use your own goddamn garbage can for your own goddamn pet waste. I’m looking at you Peter Luflin.REMINDER: monthly Select Board meeting this Friday. Agenda items: 1) sludge removal; 2) upkeep of chime tower; 3) ice rink monitor thank you gift. Questions? Contact Hildegard Hyman, HHMurbridge@gmail.comDarcy Clipper, prodigal daughter, nearly thirty, has returned home to Murbridge, Massachusetts, after her life takes an unwelcome left turn. Murbridge, Darcy is convinced, will welcome her home and provide a safe space in which she can nurse her wounds and harbor grudges, both real and imagined.But Murbridge, like so much else Darcy thought to be fixed and immutable, has changed. And while Darcy’s first instinct might be to hole herself up in her childhood bedroom, subsisting on Chef Boy-R-Dee and canned chickpeas, it is human nature to do two things: seek out meaningful human connection and respond to anonymous internet postings. As Murbridge begins to take shape around Darcy, both online and in person, Darcy will consider the most fundamental of American questions: What can she ask of her community? And what does she owe it in return?The Phoenix Crown: A Novel
Par Kate Quinn, Janie Chang. 2024
From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about the intertwined lives of two wronged…
women, spanning from the chaos of the San Francisco earthquake to the glittering palaces of Versailles.San Francisco, 1906. In a city bustling with newly minted millionaires and scheming upstarts, two very different women hope to change their fortunes: Gemma, a golden-haired, silver-voiced soprano whose career desperately needs rekindling, and Suling, a petite and resolute Chinatown embroideress who is determined to escape an arranged marriage. Their paths cross when they are drawn into the orbit of Henry Thornton, a charming railroad magnate whose extraordinary collection of Chinese antiques includes the fabled Phoenix Crown, a legendary relic of Beijing’s fallen Summer Palace.His patronage offers Gemma and Suling the chance of a lifetime, but their lives are thrown into turmoil when a devastating earthquake rips San Francisco apart and Thornton disappears, leaving behind a mystery reaching further than anyone could have imagined . . . until the Phoenix Crown reappears five years later at a sumptuous Paris costume ball, drawing Gemma and Suling together in one last desperate quest for justice.Raffaele: Taming His Tempestuous Virgin (Orsini Brides #1)
Par Sandra Marton. 2009
First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author.Raffaele…
Orsini doesn’t want a wife . . . But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She’s not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament!Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband!She’s tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she’ll be purring like a kitten!The Celebrity Doctor's Proposal
Par Sarah Morgan. 2005
This real-life doctor plays one on TV—but can he win one small-town woman’s heart off-screen? From the USA Today–bestselling author.When…
Dr. Sam McKenna left his hometown, he landed a prime-time slot on TV. Medical Matters is now top of the ratings, and it’s all because of caring, sharing Dr. Sam.Now Sam’s been roped in to be Dr. Anna Riggs’s locum for the summer—so he’s dragged his film crew along with him, too. Anna’s furious—drop dead gorgeous Dr. Sam hasn’t been near a real patient in four years! When she realizes that Sam’s caring attitude is not simply a camera trick, Anna starts falling for him. But would Sam ever be happy to swap his celebrity life for a Cornish harbor village?A Place to Call Home (Mirror Lake #1)
Par Kathryn Springer. 2010
A troubled carpenter is hired to secretly bodyguard a woman while helping her renovate a bed & breakfast in this…
inspirational romance series opener.Who is Quinn O’Halloran? Well, he’s not exactly who he tells Abby Porter he is. Sure, he’s the carpenter who’ll help turn her run-down lodge into a charming inn. But what he can’t tell her is that her worried brother hired him to secretly watch over her. After two weeks, he’ll finally be able to return to his old life—where he belongs. Yet the closer he gets to sweet Abby, the more he wants to tell her all his secrets. Including his desire to build a life with her on Mirror Lake—forever.Betty: A novel
Par Tiffany McDaniel. 2020
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths…
that will haunt her for the rest of her life. &“A girl comes of age against the knife.&”So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and violence—both from outside the family and, devastatingly, from within. But despite the hardships she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father&’s brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. Inspired by generations of her family, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by delivering this heartbreaking yet magical story—a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the most important voices in American fiction.One Day: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Par David Nicholls. 2009
NOW A NETFLIX SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TWO PEOPLE. ONE DAY. TWENTY YEARS. • What starts as a fleeting…
connection between two strangers soon becomes a deep bond that spans decades. • "[An] instant classic. . . . One of the most ...emotionally riveting love stories you&’ll ever encounter." —People It&’s 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met. But after only one day together, they cannot stop thinking about one another. Over twenty years, snapshots of that relationship are revealed on the same day—July 15th—of each year. They face squabbles and fights, hopes and missed opportunities, laughter and tears. Dex and Em must come to grips with the nature of love and life itself. As the years go by, the true meaning of this one crucial day is revealed. "[A] surprisingly deep romance...so thoroughly satisfying." —Entertainment WeeklyTrue Betrayals
Par Nora Roberts. 2005
#1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts delivers a thrilling story of family secrets and unexpected passions, set against…
the high-stakes world of championship thoroughbred racing.Kelsey Byden always believed that her mother was dead. But now, after all this time, she has discovered the truth: Naomi Chadwick is still alive—after spending years in prison for the murder of her lover. Now, at Naomi&’s Virginia horse farm, Kelsey is trying to sort out a lifetime of deception—and her feelings about her mother. The bonds of love can be fragile...as Kelsey learned from her recently ended marriage. But as the two women rebuild their relationship—and Kelsey finds herself swept into an unsettling new romance—she must decide once and for all who she can trust, and who threatens to betray her....Goodbye rodeo, hello hometown. But is this Wyoming Cowboy ready to face his past? Second in the series from the…
author of The Rancher’s Mistletoe Bride.Amy Deerson wanted to mentor a child. Her plan did not include former bull rider Nash Bolton—the little girl’s brother and guardian. It’s been a decade since Nash left town without a word, breaking Amy’s young heart. Now they must put their painful past aside to help fragile, traumatized Ruby. If only getting over their first love were that simple . . . “I enjoyed this as a nice light read. Reunited with the Bull Rider by Jill Kemerer will suit those interested in second chances in life.” —Fresh FictionFinding the Road Home (Hearts of Oklahoma #1)
Par Tina Radcliffe. 2020
Family and faith come first in this uplifting inspirational romance from the bestselling author of The Baby Inheritance.Some paths need…
courage to follow . . . Can they find their fresh start with roadblocks around every corner?To care for her orphaned nieces and nephews, Daisy Anderson moved to a small town for a new deputy position—but now her job could be eliminated. With potential budget cuts looming, her only hope is to work with police chief Mitch Rainbolt to save their department’s funds. But can their fight for her job lead to something neither dared wish for: a future together?