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Solomon's Oak

Solomon's Oak

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"Solomon's Oak" is the story of three people who have suffered losses that changed their lives forever. To make ends meet, Glory Solomon, a young widow, is using the chapel...
The Senator's Wife

The Senator's Wife

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Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are...
Three Continents

Three Continents

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Last-of-line scions of a prominent American family, Harriet and her twin brother, Michael, have so far resisted the whirligig of adulteries and diplomatic cocktail parties that seem to be their...
Second Chance: A dazzling tale of misadventures and instant attraction

Second Chance: A dazzling tale of misadventures and instant attraction

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A fresh, funny and captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from wildly different worlds In life and love, it's never too late for a second chance... As editor-in-chief of New...
Charmed Lives

Charmed Lives

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Beautiful, wild and wanton but do they really lead Charmed Lives? Kate Leonard is a high-flying young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a...
Belladonna

Belladonna

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Becoming Beth

Becoming Beth

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Beth has forgotten the core truth of her own life. In a cruel move, her dead mother is about to remind her. A wise and ultimately warm-hearted story about self-discovery,...
The Cake Maker's Wish

The Cake Maker's Wish

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An uplifting and heartwarming novel from the bestselling author of The Tea Chest. 'Josephine Moon just gets better and better. The Cake Maker's Wish is my favourite of her novels...
Return Journey

Return Journey

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Take The Return Journey and travel a magical road with Maeve Binchy. In the title story, Gina, travelling in Ireland, corresponds with her mother, Freda, about who and what she's...
Niels Lyhne

Niels Lyhne

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Scary Old Sex

Scary Old Sex

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A woman goes about certain rituals of sex with her second husband, sharing the bed with the ghosts of her sexual past. A beautiful young art student embarks on an...
Lost Boy & Other Stories

Lost Boy & Other Stories

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This anthology edited by Estelle Tang is a collection of stories from both emerging and established short story writers, some of who have won local, national and international awards or...
Sea Edge

Sea Edge

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The Hijack: Number 2 in series

The Hijack: Number 2 in series

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Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker,...
The Havana Room

The Havana Room

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Bill Wyeth is a successful attorney in his late thirties with a beautiful wife and son. Some would say he has it all, but, by the merest of chances, one...
All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays

All in the Timing: Fourteen Plays

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The world according to David Ives is a very add place, and his plays constitute a virtual stress test of the English language -- and of the audience's capacity for...
It Means Mischief

It Means Mischief

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Young Dublin actress Deirdre O'Dare has justlanded her first big role and desperately wants toshine - and to impress David, the director she hasfallen madly in love with.But while Deirdre...
Sanctuary

Sanctuary

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Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

Stone Mattress: Nine Wicked Tales

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BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE AND ALIAS GRACE A recently widowed fantasy writer is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. An...
Death of a Blue Movie Star

Death of a Blue Movie Star

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She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmakers. At twenty-one, she's nowhere, and that's not where she wants to...
Tiburon

Tiburon

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Charlie

Charlie

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Lesley Pearse is one of Penguin's premium brand authors with total sales 10 million copies worldwide When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she...
Nine Liars

Nine Liars

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Stevie Bell solved the case of Truly Devious, and now she's taking her detecting skills abroad when she becomes embroiled in a mystery from 1990s England. Another pulse-pounding and laugh-out-loud...
One of the Girls

One of the Girls

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The scorching, escapist new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Castaways 'An addictive sun-soaked thriller' MARIE CLAIRE 'The perfect holiday read' CLAIRE DOUGLAS 'Brimming with tension' CLARE...
Mohammed Maguire

Mohammed Maguire

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A dark and bleakly funny fable from the author of Divorcing Jack. A little boy left for dead when the US Marines destroy a terrorist training camp in the Libyan...
The Beast Takes a Bride: The Palace of Rogues

The Beast Takes a Bride: The Palace of Rogues

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In USA Today bestselling author Julie Anne Long's latest installment in the Palace of Rogues series, an estranged couple decide to fake their way through the London season to repair...
Sea Flower

Sea Flower

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Author: Yu Sung YenBinding: PaperbackPublished: FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS, 1975Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageChinese Cultural Revolution era propaganda story.
Outbreak Of Love

Outbreak Of Love

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Author: Martin BoydBinding: PaperbackPublished: LANSDOWNE PRESS, 1978Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis novel chronicles the romantic entanglements and social intricacies within a...
Meetings & Farewells: Modern Korean Stories

Meetings & Farewells: Modern Korean Stories

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Author: Chung Chong-WhaBinding: PaperbackPublished: University of Queensland Press., 1980Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis anthology presents a compelling collection of...
Talking About O'Dwyer

Talking About O'Dwyer

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What really happened to a soldier in the infamous Maori battalion, killed in the battle for Crete during World War II? And why did the soldier's family place a curse...
The Cutting Room

The Cutting Room

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When Rilke, a dissolute and promiscuous auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent, and highly disturbing, erotic photographs, he feels compelled to unearth more about the deceased owner who...
The Tiny Things Are Heavier: 'A beautiful story of what we owe to our

The Tiny Things Are Heavier: 'A beautiful story of what we owe to our

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'A gracefully told and sharply observed debut' KILEY REID 'Such a sincere blast to read' KAVEH AKBAR The Tiny Things Are Heavier follows Sommy, a Nigerian woman who comes to...
The Spinning Heart

The Spinning Heart

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This stunning debut has won major acclaim, winning the Guardian First Book Award and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards ; it was shortlisted for the Dublin...
The Coast Road: 'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times

The Coast Road: 'A perfect book club read' Sunday Times

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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: N EWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 A WOMEN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ' A perfect book...
The Elements

The Elements

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From bestselling author John Boyne comes a gripping and profound exploration of responsibility, guilt, blame, trauma, and our capacity for redemption. John Boyne's acclaimed quartet of Water, Earth, Fire and...
One Foot Wrong

One Foot Wrong

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'The stars shine brightest out of the deepest dark'. Hester is a young girl of dark beginnings and few words. She is kept at home by her painfully reclusive parents...
Psycho-Cybernetics

Psycho-Cybernetics

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Put more living in your life! Psycho-Cybernetics is renowned doctor and professor Maxwell Maltz's simple, scientific, and revolutionary program for health and success. Happiness and success are habits. So are...
Me Me Me

Me Me Me

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Imagine having famous actors for parents. And grandparents. Imagine that while they bask in the limelight, you feel consigned to the role of second spear-carrier in the tired repertory production...