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  Welcome to Paradise - A Novel

  Mahi Binebine

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  Welcome to Paradise opens a window into the hearts and minds of a small group of African would-be emigrants, waiting on the beach in Morocco for a boat that will take them to a new life in Europe. As we shelter with them in the darkness, we hear of the cruelty, misfortune and grinding poverty which has compelled them here, to pit themselves against the dangers of the sea and the coastguards who patrol it. Tense, dramatic and deeply compassionate, Welcome to Paradise is a striking tale of human desperation and of the media-fuelled fantasies of Western life that rarely fulfil their promise yet hold a fatal allure.

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  A Season Of Grace

  Samantha Price

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  An Amish romance filled with secrets, second chances, and the strength of family. 
  As the apple harvest gets underway, a sudden medical emergency sends one family member to the hospital, casting a shadow over the season. 
  Chess sets out on a daring mission to right his past wrongs, while Tabitha—who never normally keeps secrets—holds onto one that could affect everyone around her. 
  Grace begins to doubt her whirlwind romance, and just as one relationship is tested, another begins to bloom in the most unexpected way. 
  Meanwhile, Iris has a secret crush on someone she knows is totally wrong for her—and she hopes no one ever finds out. 
  If you haven't started the series yet, it's best to begin with book one, A Summer of Discovery.

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  Alpha Knights - Spicy Omegaverse...

  Beatrix Arden

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  Alpha knight-in-training, Rowena is expected to find pleasure only with Omegas, but her body burns for her cold Alpha master Callum, whose own forbidden desires are buried beneath years of shame and secrecy.  
  Steamy Alpha/Alpha primary apprentice forbidden love romance. Contains some violence and intimate adult scenes.

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  The Portrait of Mr W H

  Anonymous

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  "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." is a story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, though it does not appear in early editions. An enlarged edition planned by Wilde, almost twice as long as the Blackwood's version, with cover illustration by Charles Ricketts, did not proceed and only came to light after Wilde's death. This was published in limited edition by Mitchell Kennerley in New York in 1921, and in a first regular English edition by Methuen in 1958, edited by Vyvyan Holland.
  Wilde's story is narrated by a friend of a man called Erskine, who is preoccupied by the Hughes theory. Erskine had learned the idea from one Cyril Graham, who had tried to persuade Erskine of it based on the text of the sonnets, but Erskine was frustrated by the lack of external historical evidence for Willie Hughes's existence. Graham tried to find such evidence but failed; instead, he fakes a portrait of Hughes in which Hughes is depicted with his hand on a book on which can be seen the dedication from the sonnets. Erskine is convinced by this evidence, but then discovers the portrait to be a fake, a discovery that leads him to yet again doubt the existence of Willie Hughes. Graham still believes in the theory, and to prove it, shoots himself.

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  Brown Neon

  Raquel Gutierrez

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  A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. 
   
  Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez’s debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutiérrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds.  
   
  Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object, highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multigenerational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutiérrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity,  
  and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.

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  A Line in the Sand

  Teri Wilson

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  Sparks fly when Molly Prince's puppy Ursula constantly disrupts the beachfront area where new-in-town marine biologist Max Miller is studying sea-turtle mating habits. Max and Molly are instantly attracted to each other, but Molly dismisses Max out of hand. She's not dating anymore—maybe not ever, since her last relationship ended in a spectacular disaster. As for Max, he refuses to take Molly seriously when her job is to play pretend as the aquarium's mermaid. But when Ursula won't stop digging in Max's beachfront yard and reveals her unique ability to sniff out sea-turtle nests, she might bring these two opposites close enough to help save the turtles, and maybe even save the aquarium...

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