Contemporary lifestyle fiction

Book SynopsisAround the round table there was always one seat which remained empty.This mysterious piece of furniture, the Seat Perilous, has been part of Arthurian myth for a 1,000 years. It was the original hot seat – if you sat there and were not the one, you would be consumed by fire.

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Book SynopsisA warm, perceptive and drily humorous new novel from the wonderful Isla Dewar, who gets under the skin of both her characters and her readersTrade Review'Dewar draws characters with acerbic wit, and also love - recommended' * West Australian *'Her characters and situations are so real-life and having been born and brought up in Edinburgh, I particularly appreciated the setting' * Hilary Carmichael *

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Book SynopsisCrossing decades and continents, SPARKLES is the totally compelling story of the Massot family. Fabulously wealthy, internationally adored, the Massots own one of the last great aristocratic jewellery firms in Paris. But where is its owner Pierre, missing presumed dead for 15 years? And what will happen to his beautiful young widow Sophie? The answers lie rooted in the past and form part of the future - in a way no-one could ever have guessed...

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Book SynopsisWhen Susie decides to invite her old school friends for a reunion she tells herself that it''s just about showing off. It''s about letting Amanda, Izzy and Tamsin, see how well she''s done, with her successful career as an artist, her gorgeous house in France, her deliciously louche boyfriend. But the truth is that this is a dark plan. A plan that could make or break her seemingly perfect life...and she knows it. As the old friends gather at Susie''s for a long weekend of catching up and comparisons, it is clear that despite their lives having taken very different turns, they are all still haunted by a dark and common past. They each know that up until now they have been treading water - waiting for the inevitable moment when they have to face the truth. The question is, now that the time has come, who will sink and who will swim?

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Book SynopsisLucy White can''t quite believe what''s happened to her happy, ordinary life. Ending up homeless - not to mention husbandless - has come as an almighty shock. All she wants to do is lie low for a while, but when she arrives in a quiet street in South London she''s in for a surprise.The residents of Farewell Square are anything but quiet. There''s a housewife with a secret that needs to be shared, a publicist whose behaviour outside office hours would shock his clients and an artist who can''t seem to control her lodgers. They''re as intrigued by Lucy as she is by them, and as she''s drawn into their midst, she realises that life can be kind as well as cruel. And that no one has to be lonely if they don''t want to be.Trade ReviewPraise for Pauline McLynn: 'Scandal, infidelity, secrets and soufflé are all explored with a healthy dollop of humour * Express *Hilariously funny follow-up to Something for the Weekend. With the perfect balance of humour, adventure and romance, Pauline McLynn makes crafting witty, fast-paced fiction look like a doddle * OK! *A surprisingly gentle, relaxed story... confident, assured * The Times *Packed with cheeky sarcasm and wit * Company *An upbeat, chatty novel * Daily Mail *If this book receives the critical judgement it deserves, it will forever bury the ghost of a demented housekeeper and proclaim the emergence of one of the most interesting Irish writers in years * Sunday Business Post *Funny and snappy...will sit well on a shelf next to such writers as Cathy Kelly, Morag Prunty and Marian Keyes * Sunday Tribune *

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Book SynopsisIt''s not easy being the mother of a twelve-year-old boy who''s in love with his babysitter and having trouble at school. Nor are matters helped by the unexpected arrival of an elderly mother who''s suddenly footloose and fancy free. At least Susie Vine feels secure at Arland & Shaw, London''s leading theatrical agency, where her clients love her almost as much as they love themselves. Then the man who broke her heart comes back into her life and she''s forced to ask herself whether she was right to leave him all those years ago. Or is someone else waiting in the wings...?Trade Review'A winner. Pauline McLynn brings the same comic touches to her writing as she brought to the wonderful Mrs Doyle' * Daily Express *'With her own brand of fierce intelligence and deft humour...McLynn delivers an elegant turn of phrase throughout and has a great ear for witty dialogue... An engaging and rewarding read' * Irish Mail on Sunday *'Her writing, laced with an innate and very natural sense of humour, catches the smallest nuances of human behaviour and speaks straight to the heart' * Irish World *

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Book SynopsisFans of Jill Shalvis, Rachel Gibson, Susan Andersen and Carly Phillips will be bowled over by this fabulously funny and sexy romance from New York Times bestseller Susan Donovan, author of The Girl Most Likely To... and The Kept Woman. Marketing exec Lucy Cunningham is thrilled when her firm wins Miami''s hottest fitness club. The reality TV show was Lucy''s idea: leave a fitness-challenged woman in the hands of top personal trainer, Theo Redmond, with a cash bonus for every pound shed. But Lucy didn''t expect to be the guinea pig...After one meeting, Theo knows Lucy will be his toughest client yet, and a woman he''ll never forget. Smart-mouthed and stubborn, she rises to the challenge like a pro. And before he knows it, his heart''s in jeopardy.As Lucy works her way into a whole new life, things start to heat up. Lucy and Theo are about to discover that appearances can be deceiving - and that true love lies somewhere between pizza

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Book SynopsisWe all have a dark side...Elizabeth Greene is devastated when her boyfriend of ten years leaves her for someone else. After a night of drowning her sorrows leads to an unexpected one-night stand, Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and vulnerable.Helen has just discovered she has a sister she didn''t know she had. Bored with her privileged life in France and driven by a need to gain her parents'' approval, Helen sets out to find her sister and reunite her with her long-lost mother. When her search leads her to Elizabeth the two women become closely linked. But their connection to one another is founded on a dark deception, with the truth having extreme consequences...

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Book SynopsisKate Fox was a teenage orphan from the rough side of the Bronx. Now a beautiful woman, Kate wants wealth and security for life. When media mogul Marcus Broder proposes, it seems the dream has come true. But a life of pampered luxury does not make Kate happy. When she walks out and forges a career of her own, a humiliated Marcus is furious. Bitterly jealous, he is determined to destroy her. Wall Street''s favourite entrepreneur, David Abrams, has heard the rumours that Kate Fox is a gold digger. But is Kate still the woman she once was? When irresistible passion flares between them, David has to decide if winning Kate is worth the gamble of losing everything he has...including his heart.Trade Review'sexy read for sultry summer nights' * News of the World *'another fast-paced rollercoaster ride' * Daily Mail *

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Book SynopsisAt twenty-seven, Alex Wilde feels like her life is going nowhere. She''s stuck in a dead-end job and her relationship history is a tale of woe. What''s more, she''s put on a few pounds lately... Sharing a house with three gorgeous girls doesn''t help. Her sister Gail got more than her fair share of the good genes, Keisha is an ice-cool man-magnet and Bronwen is so hip it hurts. With competition like this, is it any wonder Alex feels so inadequate? Alex has two choices: she can retreat to the safety of her duvet and stuff herself with chocolate or she can smarten up her act and face the world head on. Never one to choose the easy option, Alex realises she needs to up her game if she wants to stay in it...

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Book Synopsis''You''re almost a virgin again'': When Stacy Hamilton''s best friend points out how long it''s been since Stacy broke up with her last boyfriend she can''t believe it. In college, a dry month had seemed unbearable. So what''s happened? You''d think her job at Thongs.com concocting sexy lingerie would get her in the mood. But the guys she''s been dating recently aren''t exactly enticing. Stacy decides drastic action is required. It''s time to widen her search for the ideal man...

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Book SynopsisWithin six months of them breaking up with her, Peg Silver''s ex-lovers always meet and marry the women of their dreams. A major lifestyle change is clearly called for, which is why she says goodbye to Manhattan and hello to a gorgeous farmhouse in tiny, backwater Vermont. Finally, she hopes, she''s bound to meet the ultimate, all-organic country man of her dreams. Instead, Peg finds herself at Inward Bound - a proactive adult-education retreat for the hapless and hopelessly lovelorn. What has she done? However, things could be finally starting to look up in the shape of Linus, Inward Bound''s sexy, scruffy, smart and still-single founder. Is Peg about to find her cure?

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Book SynopsisA warm and sexy romance from the author of A SINGLE TO ROMELu Edwards may write and illustrate books for children, but she''s certain she doesn''t want children of her own. She believes in travelling light, with not even a goldfish to tie her down, until Nick - a WWI expert with more baggage than Heathrow, right down to the kids, ex-wife and hamster - blows into her life. He''s absolutely not Mr Right, but as he helps Lu trace a strand of her family history, she finds herself being drawn into his chaotic but warm world. Being the wicked step-mother was never a role Lu fancied playing, though, and she''s not sure that loving Nick will be enough for a happy ever after together...Trade Review'a heartwarming story' * Daily Express *'The perfect summer read - relax and enjoy' * Weight Watchers magazine *

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Book SynopsisSexy, smart New Yorker Logan Barnes knew how to take what he wanted to get where he wanted to be. But you can''t win the girl, make the money and live the high life without picking up enemies along the way... There''s only one enemy who matters, and that''s the friend Logan betrayed years ago - Nicolo Flores. He got mad, but better still he got even, waiting in the wings to pull the plug on Logan and see his fortunes come crashing down. Now Logan''s back, in London with a perfect wife, perfect family, and the perfect jewel to crown his rebuilt hotel empire: a stunning island getaway for the truly über-rich. Nicolo''s crazy to find a way to crush him again - but with gambling, addiction, sex and scandal all knocking on the Barnes'' family door, maybe they''ll destroy themselves before he even has a chance to...

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Book SynopsisThe perfect family celebration requires the perfect family...Alice Dunlop knows the best things in life are free. But the approach of her 40th wedding anniversary and 60th birthday surely warrants a proper celebration. With visions of a glorious family gathering complete with a marquee, champagne and beautiful sunshine, Alice has big plans for the big day. Her husband David isn''t so enthused. He seems to have lost his lust for life since retiring from his job. And he''s not the only one who isn''t in the mood to celebrate. Each of Alice and David''s four grown-up children has their own problems to contend with and things aren''t going as smoothly as any of them had hoped. As Alice focuses on preparations for the party, her family begins to unravel around her. Even her husband''s sudden rise from apathy isn''t as great a blessing as it first appears. It''s only a matter of time before Alice''s special day is at risk of disaster...Trade Review'A satisfying read about the swiftly running undercurrents in our lives, no matter how tranquil the surface may appear' * She *

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Book SynopsisFROM THE BESTSELLING LOUISE BAGSHAWE, NOW WRITING AS LOUISE MENSCHBlend it. Sculpt it. Shape it. Use it...There isn''t a woman on earth who doesn''t have her beauty secrets. But for Dina Kane, beauty is more than just business. It''s power. And it is the secret. She''s dragged herself up from poverty to Park Avenue. She''s rolled with the punches. And she''s learned how to win.Now someone is out to destroy her, and all she''s built. They''ve underestimated Dina Kane. She''s staying at the top - and she''s happy to wait for the perfect moment to exact her revenge...Trade ReviewAddictive - CompanyBritain's younger, smarter answer to Jackie Collins - MirrorA classic of the genre - Daily Express

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Book SynopsisClara''s been away for too long. So, after ten great years in London, and with boyfriend Matthew in tow, she arrives home in small-town Castlemoy. The family welcomes her with open arms: her diet-shy mother, her closet-living sister and her actor brother who scratches a living doing voiceover ads for chicken. Not everyone is delighted to see her, though. Jason, her long-ago ex, seems to have old scores to settle. Soon Clara finds herself being watched, followed and manipulated from afar. How can she make him stop? And as Clara''s dreams of happily-ever-after begin to shatter, will she be able to wrestle her life back?Trade ReviewCommercial fiction at its most entertaining -- Marian KeyesVery funny and original -- Cathy KellySparkling and witty * Irish Tatler *For Sheila O'Flanagan and Cathy Kelly fans, a warm, Irish, poignant read * Bookseller *What sets this apart is the quality of the writing. It is great fun, a great read * RTE *

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Maya Banks, Nina Bruhns, Pamela Clare and Julie Ann Walker. The second novel in New York Times bestselling author Christy Reece''s addictive Last Chance Rescue series of sexy suspense and thrilling adventure. Smart, fiery, and fresh from a broken engagement, Samara Lyons is up for the challenge of trapping an online predator. But in this high stakes op, with the fate of dozens of innocent lives on the line, she could do without the distraction of her increasing feelings for her boss. Noah McCall, head of Last Chance Rescue, can''t disguise his raw, physical desire for Samara. When the sting explodes, Noah is forced to face his dark past, while Samara has to fight to stay alive. Now it''s all about survival. Will they find a way to return to the life they now long for together?Don''t miss the other pulse-pounding novels in the Last Chance Rescue series, Rescue Me, Run To Me, No Chance, Second Chance, Last Chance, Sweet JTrade Review'Sizzling romance and fraught suspense fill the pages as the novel races toward its intensely riveting conclusion' * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *'Romantic suspense has a major new star!' * Romantic Times *'A passionate and vivacious thrill-ride!... I feel like I've been on an epic journey after finishing it... Exquisite' * Joyfully Reviewed *

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Book SynopsisFor fans of Maya Banks, Nina Bruhns, Pamela Clare and Julie Ann Walker. The ninth novel in New York Times bestselling author Christy Reece''s addictive Last Chance Rescue series of sexy suspense and thrilling adventure. Adrenaline junkie Jared Livingston has found the perfect blend of exhilaration and danger in his new job at Last Chance Rescue. Raised to depend only on himself, Jared tried marriage, but the end of the relationship renewed his belief that he was meant to be a loner. Now a desperate plea from his ex-wife puts Jared in the unique position of using the skills she despised to rescue her missing daughter. The case brings Jared face-to-face with Mia Ryker, the only agent ever fired from LCR - for playing too far outside the box. Now Mia''s back, and as a team, they''re as compatible as fuel and fire. Their search for the innocent child takes them to places neither have been before - to the edge of danger and to the edge of their hearts.Trade Review'Sizzling romance and fraught suspense fill the pages as the novel races toward its intensely riveting conclusion' * Publishers Weekly, Starred Review *'Romantic suspense has a major new star!' * Romantic Times *'A passionate and vivacious thrill-ride!... I feel like I've been on an epic journey after finishing it... Exquisite' * Joyfully Reviewed *

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Book SynopsisWee Bear is in desperate search of something new to read in this book-loving picture book retelling of the classic fairytale Goldilocks and the Three Bears.In this adorable reimagining of the beloved classic, Wee Bear is on the hunt for something new to read. As he sets off through the woods, he stumbles upon Goldibooks''s house. While she and her parents are out for a walk, Wee Bear makes himself at home. But Mama''s books are too hard (hardcovers) and Papa''s are too soft (paperbacks). Thankfully, Goldibooks''s book collection is juuuust right! With a pile of books in-hand, Wee Bear sits down to read. But Mama''s chair is too hard, and Papa''s chair is too soft. Thankfully, Goldibook''s chair is juuuuust right!Exhausted from reading so many books, Wee Bear tucks himself into bed. But Mama''s bed is too hard, and Papa''s bed is too soft. Thankfully, Goldibooks''s bed is juuuust right! And that''s where Goldibooks and her parents find him when they return home from their walk. As the story unfolds from there, readers are reminded that the best books are those we share with friends.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Witches of Moonshyne Manor is an engaging, hilarious, and utterly charming take on the modern witch story. I loved every page." – Lana Harper, NYT bestselling author of Payback's a Witch. "The new Practical Magic for a generation of women who value sisterhood, friendship and fierce, fabulous feminism above all else. It was an absolute delight from start to finish, and the kind of book I’ve been craving for years. Escapist and hilarious but also bold and incisive, this novel has shot to the top of my list of favourites."— Marissa Stapley, New York Times bestselling author of Lucky"In this enchanting novel we meet a coven of misfit witches—a sisterhood as diverse as it is powerful, though struggling with many of the same issues that face non-magical women: in particular, what it means to be an aging woman in a society enamored with youth. Brimming with magic, mystery and meaning, prepare to be bewitched.—Karma Brown, #1 bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife“Picture it. Critchley Hackle, 2021. A group of older women living together to share expenses and lean on each other. Sound familiar? But with these delightful witchy equivalent of The Golden Girls, it's not just the cheesecake that has healing powers.”- Steven Rowley, bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Guncle, a Goodreads Choice Awards finalist for Novel of the Year."Richly imagined, gorgeously written, and completely addictive, this exuberant novel is a celebration of womanhood at its brightest, funniest, most honest, and most kind. Bianca has written the kind of insightful, empowering story you can't wait to share with a friend." —#1 New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs"A quirky Golden Girls with wands that explores women’s empowerment, friendship, and loyalty and addresses racial equality, identity, and gender fluidity. A timely, fun modern-day fable about women who refuse to conform." —Library Journal, starred review"Resonant and relevant in its exploration of gender expression, race and racial justice, and age and aging, all with central characters full of wit, heart, and magical secrets."—Booklist

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Fascinating: Adimi synthesizes the private minutiae of the great and sometimes forgotten publisher Edmond Charlot with the history of the times in a suprisingly light, almost breezy fashion, making this a fast, interesting, and engaging read." -- Adam Hocker - Albertine Bookstore"As Adimi’s story moves slowly toward Algerian independence, there is an ever-present beauty not only in Chris Andrew’s beautiful translation of her work from French to English, but in the seamless way that she weaves her story through time." -- Arab News"Our Riches reminds readers of the printed word’s ability to impart new ideas and shape public opinion." -- Christian Science Monitor"A splendid declaration of the love of literature, the only link between epochs and beings." -- Elle"An understated, lyrical story of reading and resistance over the tumultuous generations." -- Kirkus (starred)"A subject in gold: it was necessary to instill a rhythm, an experience, a tension, even to shake up the hourglass of time. Kaouther Adimi, born fifty years after the mythical bookshop, succeeds brilliantly at this triple jump." -- Le Figaro"In this engaging and place-rich book, it is Adimi’s project to marry the sensuality and the intellect that young Camus fretted over, and to show that there are as many ways to be a bibliophile as to be a sensualist." -- Abby Walthausen - Los Angeles Review of Books"Thanks to France's 132-year colonization of Algeria, the two countries are thoroughly intertwined — a relationship Adimi explores with nuance and determination in her third novel, Our Riches, newly translated by the excellent Chris Andrews." -- Lily Meyer - NPR"Adimi’s confident prose displays Ryad and Charlot’s emotional depth while nimbly shuttling the reader through nearly a century of history. This is a moving tribute to the enduring power of literature. " -- Publishers Weekly"The truly potent effect of the book is that by taking on literary history from the underbelly of the French nation — from the colony just across the sea — Adimi confronts us with episodes that are simply never spoken of in France: the grand celebration of the end of World War II, in May 1945, which, in Algeria, turned into a massacre by the colonial administration; another massacre, this time in Paris, in 1961, of Algerian protesters, who were thrown into the Seine by French police officers. It is in unhappy nations, we are meant to understand, that history is a relentless companion." -- Elisabeth Zerofsky - The New York Times"This stirring novel, which was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, is based on the life of Edmond Charlot, the publisher best known for discovering Albert Camus and for opening the famed bookstore Les Vraies Richesses in Algiers, in 1936." -- The New Yorker"If you’re in a bookshop browsing, then Our Riches is for you, by definition. A beautiful little novel about books, history, ambition and the importance of literature to everyone, especially people who are trying to find a voice." -- Nick Hornby"Adimi both restores Charlot’s ruined archive and safeguards the neighborhood’s story using her own technology of recollection and organization: a novel." -- Seth Kimmel - Public Books

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Book SynopsisGathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies, demons, witches, priests, and saints, these stories evoke both tender pathos and lighthearted mirth and embody what Yeats describes as “the very voice of the people, the very pulse of life.” “The impact of these tales doesn’t stop with Yeats, or Joyce, or Oscar Wilde,” writes Paul Muldoon in his Foreword, “for generations of readers in Ireland and throughout the world have found them flourishing like those persistent fairy thorns.”

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Book SynopsisCreation myths, quests, the eternal battle between good and evil, these are some of the classic tales that feed the ravenous beast of modern culture. For many the classical traditions of the Greeks and the Romans occupy the imagination but the ancient world was a lively and fertile source of stories, reaching much further back than the pantheon of Zeus and his fellow gods. For the early civilisations, from the ancient Chinese to African tribal societies, stories were told to explain the origins of fierce weather, of unexplained disasters, of floods and earthquakes. Many traditions developed independently but still echoed similar themes in the natural human desire to understand the world around us. This new book brings to life the myths and legends of eight intriguing traditions: Native American, Chinese, Celtic, Scottish, Greek, Viking, Indian and African. With a cast of characters as broad and wide as the ancient river Styx the book is packed with the great themes of life: lov

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Book SynopsisIn A Midlands Odyssey ten writers take the stories of Homer's Odyssey and transplant them to the English Midlands. With a range of settings â from smart canal-side apartments to late-night launderettes â these stories are wonderfully inventive and offer a down-to-earth take on one of the world's greatest pieces of storytelling. 'The Odyssey theme, so rich with its tales of wandering Odysseus, the lure of the Sirens, the loss felt by Penelope and those gruesome reports across time from the underworld, energizes the ten writers here, providing a pretext for a fine array of inventive and imaginative stories, attuned to the legend, aslant to the Ancient World, adventurous in their address. If the topology is contemporary and centrally oriented, and the themes entertainingly current, this anthology is certainly not Midlands miscellaneous; it's the opposite of drab urban realism: a mere seagull's cry, only the odd whisper and rumour away from Ancient Greece itself.' Alan Mahar'An inventive

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Book SynopsisHero is a love story for our times: a novel that exposes the precious things women give up in order to be loved, and in order to be free.''Pulls no punches... A fearless interrogation of female desire'' Observer''The truest representation of the headiness and power of female longing I''ve ever read'' Kirsty Capes, author of Girls and Careless''Thrilling and dynamic'' Andrew McMillan, author of Pity and Playtime''Fierce and thrillingly subversive'' Financial TimesShe''s a waitress. He''s a chef. They used to be best friends, but now, they''re in love and living together in a studio apartment. She''s also a selkie, Odysseus, and a cowgirl called Quick Fingers. He''s a really good man.When he asks her to marry him, Hero panics. She is lots of things but one thing she doesn''t want to be is anybody''s wife.Drawing on a rich history of myth and legend, Hero is a story about what it means for women to be supporting characters in a world written by men. How can you be yourself when you are a product of other people''s imaginations? How can you love another person and be free?

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Book SynopsisSEANAN McGUIRE is the author of the Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Awardwinning Wayward Children series, the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and other works. She also writes darker fiction as Mira Grant. Seanan lives in Seattle with her cats, a vast collection of creepy dolls, horror movies, and sufficient books to qualify her as a fire hazard. She won the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and in 2013 became the first person to appear five times on the same Hugo ballot. In 2022 she managed the same feat, again!

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Book SynopsisAfter the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of happily ever after.Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour.Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war.Greta has a secret, though: the witch''s grimoire, hidden away and whispering in Greta''s ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you''ve ever tasted. As long as she can bake, Greta can keep her small family afloat. But in a village full of superstition, Greta and her mysteriously addictive gingerbread, not to mention the rumors about her childhood misadventures, is a source of gossip and suspicion.

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Book SynopsisFrom the beloved, bestselling author of Elektra and Ariadne, a reimagining of the myth of Atalanta, a fierce huntress raised by bears and the only woman in the world's most famous band of heroes, the ArgonautsPrincess, Warrior, Lover, HeroWhen Princess Atalanta is born, a daughter rather than the son her parents hoped for, she is left on a mountainside to die. But even then, she is a survivor. Raised by a mother bear under the protective eye of the goddess Artemis, Atalanta grows up wild and free, with just one condition: if she marries, Artemis warns, it will be her undoing.Although she loves her beautiful forest home, Atalanta yearns for adventure. When Artemis offers her the chance to fight in her name alongside the Argonauts, the fiercest band of warriors the world has ever seen, Atalanta seizes it. The Argonauts'' quest for the Golden Fleece is filled with impossible challenges, but Atalanta proves herself equal to the men she

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Book SynopsisA roofing family?s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart of their blue-collar town?from Amy Jo Burns, author of the critically acclaimed novel ShinerIt?s 1990 and seventeen-year-old Marley West is blazing into the river valley town of Mercury, Pennsylvania. A perpetual loner, she seeks a place at someone?s table and a family of her own. The first thing she sees when she arrives in town is three men standing on a rooftop. Their silhouettes blot out the sun.The Joseph brothers become Marley?s whole world before she can blink. Soon, she is young wife to one, The One Who Got Away to another, and adopted mother to them all. As their own mother fades away and their roofing business crumbles under the weight of their unwieldy father?s inflated ego, Marley steps in to shepherd these unruly men. Years later, an eerie discovery in the church attic causes old wounds to resurface and suddenly the family?s survival hangs in the balance. With Marley as their light, the Joseph brothers must decide whether they can save the family they?ve always known?or whether together they can build something stronger in its place.

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Book SynopsisIn this dazzling, illustrated edition of the instant classic that hassold more than a million copies, award-winning illustrator Levi Pinfold bringsNeil Gaiman's bravura rendition of the Norse gods and their world to life.Burstingoff the page with breathtaking, full-color art are tales of fierce battleswith giants, storied quests for knowledge, and the gods in Asgard: Odin, thehighest of the high, wise, daring, and cunning; Thor, Odin's son, incrediblystrong, yet not the wisest of gods; and Loki-son of a giant-blood brother toOdin and a trickster and unsurpassable manipulator.Gaimanfashions these primeval stories into a novelistic arc that takes us from thegenesis of the legendary nine worlds to Ragnorak, the twilight of the gods andthe rebirth of a new time. Through his epic storytelling and Pinfold'senthralling images, these gods emerge with their fiercely competitive natures,their susceptibility to being duped and to duping others, and their tendencyto let passion ignite their action

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