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  • Green Grey Rain Green Grey Rain
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    Green Grey Rain

    Rain on iron rooftops. A radio streaming the latest hit songs. It's the early 1950s. The baby boom. Valarie is a talkative, singing, slanging, pregnant daughter of the slums. Gilbert, her husband, is a well-spoken son of a landed family. They already...
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  • What We Hope For What We Hope For
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    What We Hope For

    Brila Landry, a twenty-nine year old living in Texas, lost a part of herself the night her sister, Angelle, died in a tragic car accident. When she ends up on the wrong end of budget cuts at work a few months later, Angelle's words from her last birthday...
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  • A Shot of Malaria A Shot of Malaria
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    A Shot of Malaria

    In a Shot of Malaria, Charles Souby unfolds the twisted story of a young man, Daniel Martin, desperately hooked on heroin, alcohol and his own delusions. Set in San Francisco in the nineties and written as a deadpan, first-person narrative, the novel...
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  • Image coming soon
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    The Image of Rachel Clair

    Is death the end of one's life?How a ninety-year-old murder couldn't tear their love apart. Birmingham, Alabama 1995While researching architectural design at the Birmingham Public Library, Rachel Montgomery discovers a 1909 newspaper...
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  • 86'd 86'd
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    86'd

    In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the...
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  • Into the Hush
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    Into the Hush

    *Winner of the 2025 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry for Lifetime Achievement*With imaginative power and emotional force, Into The Hush explores the exigencies of climate change, of endangered cultures, and of our nuclear age.Like wind on a lake,...
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  • Second Chance Station
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    Second Chance Station

    A gritty, flirty and uplifting rural romance about taking risks, overcoming the past and standing up for the people you love. Relationships on the station are forbidden ... but are some rules made to be broken?At Windale Mountain Sheep Station there's...
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  • Unleashed/Unleashed/Boss Man
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    Unleashed/Unleashed/Boss Man

    UnleashedClancey Lang knows how to run. She’s been doing it since the day she fled her abusive childhood home to save her and her younger brother’s lives. That was the same day she decided to never let herself depend on anyone else. Especially men...
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  • Missing Peace Missing Peace
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    Missing Peace

    War. Heartbreak. How much can one family lose?The McKay family's idyllic life in Iowa is about to implode. A mysterious rosary found by soldier John McKay in war-torn Iraq foreshadows an obscure prophecy. As the rosary's mystique grows globally, his...
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  • Souls Talk Souls Talk
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    Souls Talk

    This book is a reflection of a soul journey between life and eternity through pathways of pain, confusion, loss, struggling for freedom, justice, and beautiful memories.A soul’s journey is calling desperately for peace, love, and mercy in a world...
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  • Raging River Raging River
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    Raging River

    In 1898, Robert's life as a small river town tobacco farmer near Petersburg, Georgia was uneventful. Dreaming of successful relationships and business dealings became part of his daily routine. However, dreams turn to nightmares when Robert's...
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  • Operator LP, The Operator LP, The
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    Operator LP, The

    "What if you could listen in on any phone conversation in town? With great humor and insight, The Operator by Gretchen Berg delivers a vivid look inside the heads and hearts of a group of housewives and pokes at the absurdities of 1950s America, a...
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  • Snowy Mountains Daughter/Snowy Mountains Cattleman
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    Snowy Mountains Daughter/Snowy Mountains Cattleman

    Welcome to Bundilla. A close-knit community where romance can blossom. The first two novels in the bestselling series from award-winning Australian author Alissa Callen. Snowy Mountains DaughterSmall-town Bundilla is the only place flower farmer Clancy...
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  • Unbridled/Unbridled/True Blue
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    Unbridled/Unbridled/True Blue

    UnbridledWidowed Texas Ranger and single dad John Ruiz hardened his heart years ago. Day after day, he tracks the roughest criminals in the Lone Star state, leaving little room for love. So when John butts heads with beautiful nurse Sunny Wesley, he’s...
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  • Out Of The Storm/Out Of The Storm/From The Shadows
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    Out Of The Storm/Out Of The Storm/From The Shadows

    In Buckhorn, Montana dark secrets come to life...and sweet romance leads to even sweeter revenge! One look at his warm brown eyes and Kate Jackson knows she's found her husband. It's been twenty years since Daniel went missing in a refinery explosion...
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  • Shifty's Boys
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    Shifty's Boys

    A dark, pacy crime novel about grief and revenge, with surprises hidden below the surface, Shifty's Boys is a tour de force that confirms Chris Offutt's Mick Hardin as one of the most appealing new investigators in fiction. Mick Hardin is an Army CID...
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  • Midnight in Soap Lake
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    Midnight in Soap Lake

    'Midnight in Soap Lake made me fall in love with reading all over again' Stuart Turton‘A fantastic, assured debut’ Elly Griffiths on Matthew Sullivan Abigail uprooted her life to move to Soap Lake, Washington. A once-popular tourist destination, the...
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  • Melaleuca
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    Melaleuca

    A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her...
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    Every Moment Since
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    Every Moment Since

    "Every Moment Since is everything you want in a novel--a gripping story, nostalgia for lost childhood, exorbitant love, a deep sense of place, and page-turning tension." --Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Book of...
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  • Winter of Worship
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    Winter of Worship

    Steeped in loss-of climate and childhood, of fathers and friends-Winter of Worship finds survival in our tender human connections. Told through an ever-queer lens, Kayleb Rae Candrilli's fourth collection, Winter of WorshipSteeped in the grief of these...
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  • Nine Month Contract
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    Nine Month Contract

    A small town spicy romance about a gruff mountain man and the fiery animal-rescuing surrogate he hires. It's sure to hit you in the gut with laughs, feels, and mountain man grunts. "A hilariously fresh and spicy rom-com that I couldn't put down!" -...
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  • Before We Hit the Ground
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    Before We Hit the Ground

    'A remarkable debut; quietly devastating, utterly moving and beautifully wrought' Jendella Benson'Expansive, surprising, delightful, vulnerable and always real' Olumide Popoola'Brilliant… I read it in one enthralled sitting' Peter Scalpello‘Love was a...
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  • Faking It With A Fortune/Her New Year's Wish List
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    Faking It With A Fortune/Her New Year's Wish List

    Faking It With A Fortune - Michelle MajorA baby on her doorstep might also reunite her with the man that got away.When a baby is left on Poppy Fortune's parents’ doorstep, the newly minted foster mum is determined to lavish infant Joey with love — all...
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  • Fortune's Mystery Woman/The Cowboy's Rodeo Redemption
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    Fortune's Mystery Woman/The Cowboy's Rodeo Redemption

    Fortune’s Mystery Woman - Allison LeighA woman without a past could be the key to his future.When wealthy rancher Ridge Fortune stumbles upon a woman injured in his stable, he’s stunned. Why is Hope Marks in Chatelaine...with a baby in her arms and...
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  • Swap and Smell the Roses
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    Swap and Smell the Roses

    In this deliciously tender, steamy romance, a burned-out musician swaps city life for cottage country only to find that slowing down means a racing heart, thanks to the grumpy guy next door... When Willow Moore’s lifelong dream of music stardom goes...
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  • Cowboying Up/Cowboying Up/Cold Heat
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    Cowboying Up/Cowboying Up/Cold Heat

    A hotshot pilot’s homecoming takes an unexpected detour into off-limits romance… Lieutenant Cal Donnelly has come home full of guilt he can’t shake for events he could never control. First, he has to tell his family he’s thinking of leaving the military...
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  • Love & Other Scams
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    Love & Other Scams

    There’s no thrill like breaking the rules… ‘MISCHIEVOUS, MAGNETIC AND HEAPS OF FUN’ EMMA GANNON‘THE ROMCOM OF 2023’ LIZZY DENT***Cat has a dangerously dwindling bank balance. She also has:·a month before her landlord kicks her out·a surprise wedding...
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  • Always A Maverick
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    Always A Maverick

    Even a real-life hero needs a little healing sometimes... Air Force test pilot Blue Donnelly has the greatest job in the world...until his F-22 crashes during a demonstration flight, leaving him with a busted body and a ton of guilt. Then horse...
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  • Dog Days Of Summer/A Small Town Fourth Of July
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    Dog Days Of Summer/A Small Town Fourth Of July

    Dog Days Of Summer - Teri WilsonThe Hill Country is no match for Manhattan. Or is it? The only thing standing between Maple Leighton and her dream of becoming a veterinarian? Just one year in small-town Bluebonnet, Texas. But fulfilling the conditions of...
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  • Meet Me At the Surface
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    Meet Me At the Surface

    A haunting ode to Cornish folklore and the secrets of the places we call home 'This powerfully brutal novel is the most exciting thing I've read in years' S. J. WATSON'A strange and beautiful novel' OBSERVER'A book where language feels like hands...
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  • Blue Sisters
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    Blue Sisters

    'IT MOVED ME DEEPLY' LIV LITTLE'DEEPLY POIGNANT' HARPERS BAZAAR'GORGEOUS' RAVEN LEILANIThe instant Sunday Times top ten bestseller from the author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein 'It will make you laugh, cry deeply, and want to call your siblings’...
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  • Fortune In Name Only/Reunited With The Rancher
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    Fortune In Name Only/Reunited With The Rancher

    Fortune In Name Only - Tara Taylor Quinn‘So you want to marry me?’ ‘Okay.’Asa Fortune’s tantalisingly close to owning the ranch of his dreams. There’s only one problem: the seller’s demand that to buy her beloved family homestead, Asa must have a wife!...
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  • Temptation Ridge
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    Temptation Ridge

    Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series... Shelby McIntyre has big plans — plans that include finding Mr Right. Her dream man will have a clean-shaven jaw, creases in his pants and hopefully an advanced degree...
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  • Saving The Good News Gazette
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    Saving The Good News Gazette

    ‘I’ve officially found the perfect holiday read in this book’ Caroline CorcoranZoe has a special talent for saving lost causes…but she’ll need a miracle to save herself from this mess! When her biggest advertising account cancels their contract, single...
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  • From Cornwall with Love
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    From Cornwall with Love

    Warm and escapist fiction from the bestselling author of the Cornish Cream Tea series‘Stuffed with Cornish sunshine and hope and loveliness’ Milly JohnsonPraise for Cressida McLaughlin:‘Gorgeous!’ Phillipa Ashley ‘Perfect’ Cathy Bramley ‘A wonderful ray...
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  • Whispering Rock
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    Whispering Rock

    Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series… Virgin River became a safe haven for Sacramento prosecutor Brie Sheridan after she nearly lost her life at the hands of a crazed criminal. Though tough and courageous, she...
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  • Shelter Mountain
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    Shelter Mountain

    Welcome back to Virgin River with the books that inspired the hit Netflix series… John ‘Preacher’ Middleton is closing Jack’s Bar when a woman and her young son come in out of the wet night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a...
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Narrative theme: Sense of place