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Behind closed doors
by B. A. Paris
The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.
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Thirst : a novel
by Benjamin Warner
When the world's water supply is cut off without warning, Eddie Chapman; his wife, Laura; and their neighbors are thrust together in the aftermath of a mysterious disaster that results in violence, forcing them all to recall secrets from their past and question their present humanity.
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The invention of wings
by Sue Monk Kidd
Traces the lives of a wealthy Charleston debutante who longs to break free from the strictures of her household and the urban slave who is placed in her charge as a child before finding courage and a sense of self
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Cooking for Picasso : a novel
by Camille Aubray
A tale inspired by a little-known interlude follows the 1936 culinary affair between a reclusive Picasso at a crossroads in his life and a rebellious teen from the French Riviera, a relationship that shapes the life of the girl's granddaughter in New York more than half a century later.
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Hillbilly elegy : a memoir of a family and culture in crisis
by J. D. Vance
From a former marine and Yale graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class. 'Hillbilly Elegy' is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
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1984
by George Orwell
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities
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The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her uncommon encounter with a Neohelix albolabris a common woodland snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden, Bailey watches a wild snail that has taken up residence on her nightstand. As a result, she discovers the solace and sense of wonder that this mysterious creature brings and comes to a greater understanding of the interconnections between species and her own human place in the natural world.
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A book by its cover
by Elizabeth Adams
One night, while Mary is working late at the bookshop, a shadowy figure leaves a box of books at her door. All of the books have beautiful covers clearly done by the same artist, and inside each book is an old letter addressed to a man named Jacob. To Mary's shock, the letters were written by her mother. The letters would simply be a sweet ode to young love, but the last letter hints at regret that could change everything Mary and Betty thought they knew about their mother. Who left Mary these books, and how did they get the letters?
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Six Days in Leningrad
by Paullina Simons
From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling Bronze Horseman saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction as captivating and heart-wrenching as the lives of Tatiana and Alexander. Only a few chapters into writing her first story set in Russia, her mother country, Paullina Simons travelled to Leningrad (now St Petersburg) with her beloved Papa. What began as a research trip turned into six days that forever changed her life, the course of her family, and the novel that became The Bronze Horseman.
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The endless forest : a novel
by Sara Donati
A latest entry in the best-selling series finds the frontier Bonner family experiencing tragedy and hope in the spring of 1824, during which Elizabeth and Nathaniel forge new relationships, share bittersweet reunions and fear the dark secrets of their past. By the author of Queen of Swords. Reprint.
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The Betrayal of Trust
by Susan Hill
Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Lafferton is underwater and there is a landslip on the Moor... when the rain drains away the grave of a girl who went missing fifteenyears before is uncovered, and Simon Serailler is called in to investigate...
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