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(0)Gemma Dawson
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Weston Woods
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2023.
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Randolph Caldecott is best known as the namesake of the award that honors picture book illustrators, and in this inventive biography, leading children's literature scholar Leonard Marcus examines the man behind the medal and shows why he was indeed the father of the modern picture book.
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* An American Booksellers Association "Indies Introduce" Pick!
Haunting, gorgeously descriptive, and spellbinding, At the Edge of the Woods is a magnificent and assured debut novel that delivers all the resonance and significance of an instant classic.
Laura lives alone in a cabin deep within the Italian Alps, making her living translating medical documents and tutoring the children of affluent locals. She spends her days climbing the mountains...
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Bestselling, award-winning author Robin Jones Gunn welcomes us back to the cozy English village of Carlton Heath for a winter romance that will melt your heart.
Anna's first visit to Carlton Heath in England was last May for the wedding of her cousin Ian to Miranda. The beautiful event ended with a dance under the stars and Anna receiving an unexpected kiss from Peter, the groomsman who caught her eye and now holds her heart. Now, at the invitation...
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Hampshire, 1943.
Kim Maxwell has been languishing in the "cooler" in what she sees as punishment for getting caught-and tortured-by the Nazis, before being freed by Resistance fighters and smuggled back into England. Now she is sent for by the head of SOE. This is her chance to prove herself.
A fellow agent has been found murdered. It would seem that Lilian Harvey heard something she shouldn't have and that her murder was a warning. Setting out...
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Grace desires an escape. Anywhere to avoid the hardships that threaten to smother her. Equipped with her imagination, Grace creates other worlds to slip into whenever needed. Places where her home life is soon replaced with hunting for treasure, becoming a spy, and endless adventures. But, when her dreams start to evolve and encroach on reality, Grace must fight to discover what's real and what is not.
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DedSec's investigation into competing cyber-gangs unearths a shocking plot that will send the world reeling into chaos, in this heart-racing thriller from “Watch Dogs Legion”.
Freya Bauer's revolutionary fervor has dimmed with age, but just as she's about to hang up her DedSec mask, she's recruited for one last mission to Berlin... with her ex-husband of all people. Yet upon her arrival in Germany, a series of betrayals mean she's suddenly unable...
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A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century.
From the twentieth century onward, women took on an extraordinary range of roles in intelligence, defying the conventions of their time. Across both world wars, far from being a small part of covert operations, women ran spy networks and escape lines, parachuted behind enemy lines, and interrogated prisoners. And,...
8) Evermore
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When ghosts begin to disappear from the Otherworld, Emily Chambers and her friends must hunt down those responsible before every last spirit, including Jacob Beaufort, is destroyed and Emily's livelihood along with them. But there is one thing stopping them - Jacob's killer.
Weakened and fading fast, the ghost of Jacob Beaufort is determined to save Emily from a bleak and uncertain future. With her family facing financial ruin and the Otherworld...
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One single night. One perfect kiss. One undeniable connection.
That's all it took for the most captivating man I've ever met to anchor himself within my soul, deeply enough that I can't help reliving our stolen moment in time over two years later.
So, when my best friend offers me a job as his PA at his long-estranged brother's company, I'm floored to discover our boss is the same man from that night. His older half-brother, reclusive billionaire...
10) Unwritten Rules
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Tall, dark, and handsome as sin. With a smile that speaks to my soul. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the epitome of the perfect man.
But twelve years older and worlds wiser, my brother's best friend doesn't long for me the way I crave him. He made that crystal clear when I kissed him last year, spurring him to leave London. To leave me.
Missing his guiding presence, I try to put aside these unrequited feelings, but I screw up. I do something I can't take...
11) Broken Strings
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My heart never stood a chance.
From the first time I laid eyes on Caden North, it beat only for him. We'd planned on forever... But when you meet your soulmate at eight years old, plans can change. Loyalties can shift. And young hearts can break.
I was sixteen when I broke mine... And his. The day I ran from the only home I could remember, leaving him in the arms of another. He grew up to become one of the most sought-after musicians on the planet,...
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The obituary page of The New York Times isa celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300 obits in the book with exclusive online access to 10,000 more of the most important and fascinating obituaries the Times has ever published.
The obituary page is the section many readers first turn to not only see who died, but to read some of the most inspiring, insightful, often funny, and elegantly written stories celebrating...