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  Looking Out For Love: The...

  Sophia Money-Coutts

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  Stella is looking out for love. But will she find it where she least expects it?'The perfect touching beach read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Guaranteed to make you smile' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Delightfully warm and witty' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 
  Stella Shakespeare isn’t having a good day, or month come to think of it. She’s been unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend,cut off from the bank of dad and at thirty-two years old, she doesn’t know what she’s doing with her life. 
  What Stella really wants is to find love. She wants all-consuming, can’t-think-about-anything-else, can’t-even-manage-to-eat kind of love. What she found beside her in bed that morning wasn’t love. But when a tall, handsome man in a well-fitting suit walks into a Notting Hill pub, she thinks she’s finally found The One. 
  Everything seems to be falling into place now Stella has met the man of her dreams and has an actual job working with a private investigator nicknamed ‘The Affair Hunter’. Although sadly, life is never that straightforward and Stella starts to question whether she’s been looking for love in the wrong places all along… 
  –––––––––––––––––––––––Everyone LOVES the hilarious and heart-warming novels by Sophia Money-Coutts 
  ‘Enjoyable and endearing’ Katie Fforde 
  ‘If you’re craving something smoochy, Sophia Money-Coutts’s new romcom will hit the spot and is the perfect antidote for whatever might be ailing you’ Red 
  ‘Hilariously relatable’ Sophie Cousens 
  ‘For fans of Jilly Cooper…warm-hearted, hilarious and romantic’Best 
  ‘I laughed out loud throughout this’ Laura Jane Williams 
  ‘A heart-warming, witty, feelgood romcom that will brighten the cold winter months’ Platinum 
  ‘Super funny, super witty and so warm’ Lia Louis 
  ‘Fabulous. I raced through this fresh, funny and feelgood latest’Daily Mail 
  ‘Funny, joyful, life-affirming’ Cressida McLaughlin 
  Sophia Money-Coutts new contemporary comedy fiction, Looking Out For Love, is a heartwarming tale of friendship and romance. Stella's quest for love and her journey of self-discovery will keep you engaged till the last page. 
  For fans of Christina Lauren (The Paradise Problem), Abby Jimenez (Say You'll Remember Me), Emily Henry (Beach Read), Meghan Quinn (He's Not My Type), and Beth O'Leary (Swept Away). 
  HarperCollins 2023

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  King Solomons Mines

  H. Rider Haggard

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  "What was it that you heard about my brother's journey at Bamangwato?" asked Sir Henry, as I paused to fill my pipe before replying to Captain Good. "I heard this," I answered, "and I have never mentioned it to a soul till to-day. I heard that he was starting for Solomon's Mines." 
  "Solomon's Mines?" ejaculated both my hearers at once. "Where are they?" ... 
  And so begins the adventure of Allan Quatermain, Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good as they penetrate into the unknown regions of South Africa in search of a missing brother, and the fabulous wealth, said to still reside in "King Solomon's Mines". First published in September 1885 amid considerable fanfare, with billboards and posters around London announcing it as "The Most Amazing Book Ever Written", this tale of action and adventure by Sir H. Rider Haggard was released in 1885 and became an immiediate best seller. 
  Narrated by Michael Ward.

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  Poor Relation's Story The...

  Charles Dickens

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  Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 - 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
  THE POOR RELATION'S STORY: He was very reluctant to take precedence of so many respected members of the family, by beginning the round of stories they were to relate as they sat in a goodly circle by the Christmas fire; and he modestly suggested that it would be more correct if "John our esteemed host" (whose health he begged to drink) would have the kindness to begin. For as to himself, he said, he was so little used to lead the way that really--But as they all cried out here, that he must begin, and agreed with one voice that he might, could, would, and should begin, he left off rubbing his hands, and took his legs out from under his armchair, and did begin.

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  Owning Up - New Fiction

  George Pelecanos

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  Four blistering novellas, drawn together by themes of strife, violence, and humanity, from esteemed crime fiction writer George Pelecanos; "Like his hero Elmore Leonard, Pelecanos finds the humanity in the lowest of lowlifes."(Chicago Tribune) When the son of the Carusos is involved in a hold up, the family home comes under siege in the form of a no-knock warrant. Months after the cops destroyed their home, the Carusos struggle to return to normal. Elsewhere, two former inmates reunite by chance on the set of a TV production. Both have found their way on the straight and narrow path, that is, until one sees the potential for an easy grift. A teenage boy must step into the man he'd like to be as a hostage crisis grips his hometown. A woman adrift meets a man tied to her grandmother's past, an encounter that awakens her to a bloody history that undergirds the place she grew up.  Pelecanos' portraits are characterized by shades of grey, resisting the mold of heroes and villains, victims and perpetrators, good and evil. At once streetwise and full of heart, Owning Up grapples with random chance, the bind of consequence, and the forked paths a life can take.

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  Seduced

  Celia Kyle

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  Rejected by her mate and betrayed by her pack, Delilah doesn't need a mate, let alone two. 
   
   
   
  When Delilah's alpha tries to sell her to another pack, she runs rather than submit. No one will look for a shifter in the big city. But when she encounters a strange alpha at the freaking grocery store, she realizes she might not be as safe as she thought. 
   
   
   
  But alphas Graham and Jude are as relentless as they are sweet and soon Delilah's caught between them—right where she wants to be. 
   
   
   
  Graham and Jude are nothing like Delilah expected, and as she grows closer to them, she begins to wonder if this could be the start of something real. But her old pack is still out there, and one day she'll have to run. Again. 
   
   
   
  There's no real home for a lone wolf. If Delilah wants a real future, she'll need to trust Graham and Jude with her past. But she's already been betrayed by her pack and her former mate . . . can she put her heart on the line again? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  Virginibus Puerisque III: On...

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
  VIRGINIBUS PUERISQUE III: On falling in love: "Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
  THERE is only one event in life which really astonishes a man and startles him out of his prepared opinions. Everything else befalls him very much as he expected.

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