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There's a fine art to murder… Hal Mulberry has long dreamt of owning the iconic painting, Buttermere at Dawn. And now the entrepreneur has got his hands on it, he's determined to bring it back to the Lakes where it belongs and put it on show, turning Penrith Village Hall into a cultural hotspot – with the painting at its heart. Journalist Jason Brazel is delighted to get the exclusive. Even if his mother in law, Amita, thinks he's making a fuss...
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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Megan Linski and Alicia Rades spellbind readers within a paranormal fantasy prison where supernaturals go to the dark side and villains become the heroes. Bronze Medal Winner in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Contest! Love is even more dangerous behind bars. Ava-Marie My name is Ava-Marie, and I love living on the dark side. Getting into trouble is kind of my thing, but one night, I take revenge too far....
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This volume by experimental writer Jesse Ball is a philosophical recasting of myth and legend. Employing an eerie narrative simplicity, these always-unpredictable poems are cautionary tales of the oppressiveness of monolithic culture on the development of artistic, philosophical, and political leadership. Alternating from the personal to the public, Ball attains a wide enough vantage to observe the cowardliness of historians in their refusal to ascribe...
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In The Village Clock, Arshud Mahmood takes us inside a remotely beautiful world, a rural village in India under British colonial rule. How distant the empire seems! In one story, a young government clerk forsakes his desk job for a less remunerative one that allows him to be outdoors. In another, on her wedding day, a bride's family insults the family of the groom by presenting a marriage contract that suggests a lack of faith in the groom's devotion,...
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All those aspiring ne'er-do-wells who cackled all the way to the cash register with the bestselling How to Be a Villain are ready to embrace the finer points of the evil life with The Villain's Guide to Better Living. Within lie the answers to such trying questions as: Home decor - Gothic? Apocalyptic? Ikea? Friends - Do I have any? Can I make them? Work - Should I be a mad scientist or a corporate bastard? Written by the author of How to Be a Villain,...
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I'm the one they all fear. The one they whisper about. A faceless ghost.My hands are coated in crimson from the blood of my victims. I've never missed a target, and I always deliver.I'm the Grim Reaper of the Cosa Nostra. Then there's her. The cellist whose music soothes the malignance of my existence.The woman whose innocence tempts me while my blackened heart craves to ruin it. For years I've lurked in the shadows watching her play. Waiting. Anticipating...
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In "The Village," a young man returns home to his village. He finds that his family and friends are gone due to government decree. This decree is based on suspicion and discrimination. The young man takes matters into his own hands. In "The Question," an investigator is given an assignment by an old man to find the source and meaning of life.
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The new sun-drenched summer read from the bestselling author and TV presenter Mamma Mia meets Jackie Collins in a page-turning blockbuster – when a family gather together for a wedding on the Amalfi coast, it sets the scene for scandal, secrets and sizzle under an Italian sun. The bride is marrying the love of her life, but is he really the person she thinks he is? The chief bridesmaid is keeping a secret that could destroy her best friend. The...
11) The Island Villa
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"The perfect summer novel-sharp, smart and so much fun!" -Viola Shipman, USA TODAY bestselling author
A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect summer escape…
Celebrated romance author Catherine Swift has topped the bestseller lists for decades, though her personal story hasn't been quite so successful. Three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained, but...
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Three women. One summer reunion. Secrets will be revealed…
Villa Dolce Vita, a rambling stone house on the Amalfi Coast, sits high above the Gulf of Naples amid dappled lemon groves and fragrant, tumbling bougainvillea. Kim, Colette and Annie all came to the villa in need of escape and in the process forged an unlikely friendship.
Now, years later, Kim has transformed the crumbling house into a luxury retreat and has invited her friends back for...
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With his debut novel on legendary Texas outlaw John Wesley Hardin, The Pistoleer, James Carlos Blake demonstrated a rare talent for western and historical fiction. His second book, The Friends of Pancho Villa, now back in print, further proved his mastery in the genre, taking on an even mightier figure of North American legend-the most memorable leader of the Mexican Revolution. Violently waged from 1910 to 1920, the revolution profoundly transformed...
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This fascinating book describes the excavation and preservation of three early Roman villas in Egypt's ancient port city of Alexandria. Chronicling the work of the Polish Archaeological Mission in Alexandria, Villa of the Birds is an engaging and informative account of how these ancient dwellings were unearthed, and how the famous mosaic floors were brought to light two thousand years after they were laid. With the expert guidance of the archaeologists...
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On March 9, 1916, Susie Parks, age twenty, found herself in the center of battle the night Pancho Villa's rebel army invaded the border town of Columbus, New Mexico. At the telephone switchboard with her baby in her arms, she made the call that alerted the outside world of the attack. She was celebrated as an American hero but her broader story reveals a tenacity and grit that surpasses the events of that day. We first meet Susie at eleven growing...
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