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  Summary: The Seven Husbands of...

  Brooks Bryant

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  DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT THE OFFICIAL BOOK. 
  This is a summary, and it does not accompany the official 
  In "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: A Novel" by Taylor Jenkins Reid, aging Hollywood icon Evelyn Hugo decides to reveal the truth about her glamorous yet scandalous life. Surprisingly, she selects unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the task, leaving Monique wondering why she was chosen. Monique, facing personal and professional setbacks, seizes this opportunity to revitalize her career. 
  Evelyn recounts her life story, spanning from her arrival in 1950s Los Angeles to her exit from show business in the late '80s and her relationships with seven husbands. As the narrative unfolds, it reveals ruthless ambition, unexpected friendships, and forbidden love. Monique becomes deeply connected to Evelyn's story, but as it converges with the present, it becomes evident that their lives are tragically intertwined. 
  Taylor Jenkins Reid skillfully crafts complex and relatable characters in this tale, taking readers on a captivating journey from the glamour of Old Hollywood to the harsh realities of the present. The novel explores themes of truth, connection, and the sacrifices needed to confront one's past.

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  Paddy Whack

  Anônimo

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  Paddy Whack is a historical tale of resiliency and coming of age from pianist and author Francis Martineau. Based in part on his own childhood in Scotland, each episode chronicles the story of a boy growing up in the shadow of World War II, the diary of his mother, and a separate correspondence between two would-be lovers attempting to find a semblance of normalcy in turbulent times. 
  Martineau's exquisite dramatic reading of the text brings the story to life with deep feeling, immense charm, and an evocative mix of local dialects. In addition, his original piano music dotted throughout makes this recording a uniquely personal expression. Settle in. You've never heard anything quite like this. 
  Paddy Whack is the first book in a series. Book two, A Far Cry, is now available as well.

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  Blue Billy’s Rogue Lexicon

  David Lawrence

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  Oliver Twist meets The Crimson Petal and the White in this devilishly funny, emotionally charged tale of finding a new path in life after a great fall. 
   
   
   
  William Dempsey rose from a life of thieving and prostitution to be the personal plaything of the Marquess of Argyll. Then a betrayal sees him returned to the rough streets of London without patronage, his West End apartment, or a place among the ton. 
   
   
   
  So on a stormy night, he arrives at a house in Southwark—Marathon Moll's in the Mint—the bawdyhouse he worked in during his ascent and where he earned the name Blue Billy. Here, amidst the parties and antics at Moll's, he meets Tom, a quiet, conflicted man, who senses in Billy a kindred soul. The attraction is immediate, and they take the first, tentative steps towards each other. 
   
   
   
  Then an ambitious young rogue arrives at the house. A man who asks Billy to fulfil the promise of his failed youth—he asks him to reclaim the language of his past, even if it costs him his future. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Night Mark - A Novel

  Tiffany Reisz

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  A South Carolina widow travels back in time to 1921 and meets a familiar lighthouse keeper in this romance by the bestselling author of The Bourbon Thief. 
   
  Faye Barlow is drowning. After the death of her beloved husband, Will, she cannot escape her grief and most days can barely get out of bed. But when she’s offered a job photographing South Carolina’s storied coast, she accepts. Photography, after all, is the only passion she has left. 
   
  In the quaint beach town, Faye falls in love again when she sees the crumbling yet beautiful Bride Island lighthouse and becomes obsessed with the legend surrounding The Lady of the Light—the keeper’s daughter who died in a mysterious drowning in 1921. Like a moth to a flame, Faye is drawn to the lighthouse for reasons she can’t explain. While visiting it one night, she is struck by a rogue wave and a force impossible to resist drags Faye into the past—and into a love story that is not her own . . .  
   
  Fate is changeable. Broken hearts can mend. But can she love two men separated by a lifetime? 
   
  Praise for The Bourbon Thief 
   
  “[Reisz’s] prose is quite beautiful, and she can weave a wonderful tight story.” —New York Times– and USA Today–bestselling author Jennifer Probst 
   
  “Reisz fills the narrative with rich historic details; memorable, if vile, characters; and enough surprises to keep the plot moving and readers hooked.” —Booklist 
   
  “Beautifully written and delightfully insane . . . . Reisz vividly captures the American South with a brutal honesty.” —RT Book Reviews, Top Pick

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  Anything But Yes - A Novel of...

  Joie Davidow

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  Anything But Yes is the true story of a young woman's struggle to defend her identity in the face of relentless attempts to destroy it. In 1749, eighteen-year-old Anna del Monte was seized at gunpoint from her home in the Jewish ghetto of Rome and thrown into a convent cell at the Casa dei Catecumeni, the house of converts. With no access to the outside world, she withstood endless lectures, threats, promises, isolation and sleep deprivation. If she were she to utter the simple word "yes," she risked forced baptism, which would mean never returning to her home, and total loss of contact with any Jew—mother, father, brother, sister—for the rest of her life. 
   
    
   
  Even in Rome, very few people know the story of the Ghetto or the abduction of Jews, the story of popes ever more intent on converting every non-Catholic living in the long shadow of the Vatican. Young girls and small children were the primary targets. They were vulnerable, easily confused, gullible. Anna del Monte was different. She was strong, brilliant, educated, and wrote a diary of her experiences. The document was lost for more than 200 hundred years, then rediscovered in 1989. Anything But Yes is also based on Davidow's extensive research on life in the eighteenth-century Roman ghetto, its traditions, food, personalities, and dialect.

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  The Man From Blood Gulch

  William W. Johnstone, J. A....

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  They call him Ghost. A hard man with a hard past, Garret "Ghost" McCoy will never forget the day his family was brutally attacked by vicious marauders. It forced him to grow up fast, get tough even faster, and sharpen every skill to survive—by gun, by knife, or by fist. A true loner and silent stalker, Ghost is the kind of no-nonsense bounty hunter who always gets his man. Dead or alive. But it's only a matter of time before his reputation catches up with him—in a dusty dead-end town called Coyote Flats . . . 
   
   
   
  It starts with a killing. Three murderous cattle rustlers with a bounty on their heads reach the end of the line on the streets of Coyote Flats—where Ghost guns them down in a shootout. Impressed by the bounty hunter's gun skills, the leader of a local outlaw gang makes Ghost an offer he can't refuse. But Ghost refuses anyway. Which ticks off the outlaw—and draws the attention of another leader of another outlaw gang. Like it or not, Ghost is stuck in the middle of a gang war between two fierce rivals. But there's something about the second gang that's different. Something familiar . . . 
   
   
   
  They're the marauders who killed Ghost's family. And now they're about to get Ghosted.

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