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  Concrete Dreams

  Ferdinand Dennis

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  Concrete Dreams tells the gripping story of Lucas Bostock, a Jamaican immigrant who arrives in 1950s London determined to succeed — and to impose his vision of success on his family. A harsh, domineering man, shaped and scarred by survival, Lucas is no one's idea of a nice man. When his wife Rhoda finally leaves him, taking their only daughter, he's left to raise their three sons with a mix of toughness, pride, and unrelenting ambition.
  Lucas believes that hard work — on building sites, as a carpenter, and eventually as a landlord — is the only way to protect his family. But as his children grow up and take their own paths through boxing, journalism, politics, retail, and religion, they are forced to reckon with the cost of their father's influence. Meanwhile, the tenants in his houses add further layers to this vivid portrait of Caribbean-British life, sharing their stories of resistance and renewal in a changing city.
  Dennis crafts Lucas with remarkable honesty — flawed, often unlikeable, but deeply human. Concrete Dreams is both an intimate family saga and a bold exploration of race, masculinity, and generational legacy. It's a Windrush story, but one that refuses easy narratives, capturing instead the full complexity of Caribbean London and the voices that shaped it—and a narrator determined to tell his own.

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  Coffee is my Calling - Small...

  Susan Mackie

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  Before Rose Gordon came home to Barrington in Book One - Charlie’s Will - there was Debbie Webb and Jamie Tait. Despite being High School sweethearts, Debbie left Barrington for university in Sydney, then further study and work in London. She hasn’t been home for five years. Jamie stayed to work his family property, but he still has feelings for his first love. Now Debbie is back. For a visit? Or will she stay?

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  War and Peace (Book Eleven: 1812)

  Leo Tolstoy

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  War and Peace is a literary work mixed with chapters on history and philosophy by the Russian author Leo Tolstoy. It was first published serially, then published in its entirety in 1869. It is regarded as one of Tolstoy's finest literary achievements and remains an internationally praised classic of world literature.
  Book 11: 1812: Absolute continuity of motion is not comprehensible to the human mind. Laws of motion of any kind become comprehensible to man only when he examines arbitrarily selected elements of that motion; but at the same time, a large proportion of human error comes from the arbitrary division of continuous motion into discontinuous elements.

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  Lucid Design

  Kate Tailor

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  What if the next big drug was you? 
  Lucid is that next big drug. 
  It gives its user the ability to sense and control other people’s bodies. Scientists and drug dealers seek its power. There’s just one catch. This drug can’t be made in a lab, only by the rare person’s body. 
  Raleigh is an anomaly who makes an extraordinary amount of Lucid. Now she’s being hunted for the drug in her veins. She finds an unlikely ally in a boy named Rho, who also makes the drug, but he isn’t what he seems. His origins are unusual and his past tainted. 
  Nothing is straightforward and no matter what she chooses someone will get hurt. Raleigh’s learning that Lucid isn’t the drug she thinks it is, nor is she the girl everyone expects.

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  Dear Virginia Wait For Me

  Marcia Butler

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  For as long as she can remember, Peppa Ryan has been guided by a benevolent voice in her head who she believes is Virginia Woolf. Though she’s an exceptionally bright twenty-year-old, she suffers from crippling low self-esteem and has barely left her parents’ ramshackle home in Queens, New York. Set at the turn of the millennium, Peppa defies her parent’s wishes and ventures out on her own to start a job at a Wall Street investment firm. But her parents continue to pull strings, insisting she date a handsome but penniless plumber in the hopes that she’ll abandon her job and return to her roots. Peppa plans to immediately dismiss the plumber on their first date, but to her surprise they discover an unlikely bond over a shared love of the novels of Virginia Woolf. In spite of her parent’s efforts, Peppa continues to flourish and her confidence grows as those around her recognize and admire her analytical prowess. Then, when her relationship with her parents and the plumber becomes untenable due to a devastating betrayal, Peppa succumbs to her mental fragilities and suffers a collapse. With the help of her kindhearted boss, his eccentric client, and the voice of Virginia, Peppa recovers. And on one crisp and clear autumn morning she considers a path to reconciliation. 
    
  “Full of wit, charm, and its fair share of everything bagels, Marcia Butler’s moving book manages to be a warm and generous New York novel while grappling with the ghosts of childhood trauma, lost literary heroes, and societal definitions of “madness”. Her protagonist believes she’s being guided by the voice of Virginia Woolf, but it is Butler’s voice—comforting and astute, alive to the music of kindness as well as betrayal—that holds you to the end. ”—Jonathan Lee, international best-selling author of High Dive and The Great Mistake

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  Gate of Worlds

  Michael Anderle, Kevin McLaughlin

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  The quest for the World Stones concludes here! 
   
   
   
  Charles must beat the Wraith Queen to at least one of the three Stones, or she'll open a portal and summon an unending horde, enough wraiths to suck all life from the world. 
   
   
   
  At all costs—no matter how great the loss might be—at least one of the Stones must be obtained, or all is lost! 
   
   
   
  But getting a Stone is just the beginning. World Stones are virtually indestructible, so even if they win one, how do they keep it from the Queen forever? 
   
   
   
  To save the world, Charles will have to combine logic with magic if he's to end the threat of the Wraith Queen for all time!

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