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  Murder on the Menu

  Alex Coombs

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  Chef Charlie Hunter's arrival in the beautiful Chilterns is the fulfillment of a long-held dream: to open her own restaurant in an idyllic countryside location. The Old Forge sits on the village green (complete with duck pond and flint-faced houses) and seems just the place for the high-quality cooking she wants to be known for. 
   
   
   
  But instead of rural peace and a chance to lick her wounds, Charlie finds something ugly stirring under the chocolate box perfection. When a prominent local builder is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Charlie the outsider becomes a suspect. And the only way to clear her name seems to be to find out who the real killer is. 
   
   
   
  Luckily she has allies: her student waitress, a kitchen porter making up in muscles what he lacks in brain and a briskly efficient clairvoyant. Using all the craft Charlie's learned in kitchens—discipline, timing, preparation, and grim determination—she will be as relentless in her quest to bring a murderer to justice as she is in creating the perfect meal.

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  Mods And Rockers - A Love Story

  Christopher Allen

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  "Mods and Rockers - A Love Story" follows David Stevens, leader of The Ace Faces mod gang, and Sharon Mitchell, sister of a Thunder Boys rocker, whose forbidden romance begins during the infamous Brighton riots of May 1964. When their eyes meet across the battlefield of tribal warfare, both recognize something deeper than the hatred that divides their worlds. 
  David, a sharp-dressed nineteen-year-old from Hackney, leads his scooter-riding gang with intelligence and style. Sharon, seventeen and fiercely independent, feels trapped by the violent rocker culture that defines her brother Tommy's world. Despite the danger, they begin meeting secretly at The Blue Note jazz club in Soho, discovering shared dreams and questioning the meaningless tribal conflicts that govern their lives. 
  Their clandestine romance blossoms over Wednesday evening conversations about books, music, and hopes for a different future. But when Tommy discovers Sharon's betrayal, he issues an ultimatum: choose family loyalty or love. The revelation triggers a vicious gang war between The Ace Faces and The Thunder Boys, with both David and Sharon caught in the crossfire. 
  Facing escalating violence and rejection from their tribes, the young lovers make a desperate choice: they elope to Manchester, abandoning everything they've known for an uncertain future together. Living in poverty, they struggle to build a new life while Sharon discovers she's pregnant. Their son James is born in February 1965, cementing their commitment to each other and their new identity as the Stevens family. 
  As the cultural landscape shifts toward the psychedelic movement of the mid-1960s, David recognizes a business opportunity. Using Sharon's sewing skills and his understanding of youth culture, they create "Cosmic Threads," a company producing psychedelic clothing that captures the spirit of the emerging flower power movement. 
  By 1967's Summer of Love, their business has become hugely successful, boutiques across Britain

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  Death of the Soccer God - A Novel

  Dimitry Elias Léger

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  A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death.  Gilbert Chevalier’s life is a mid-century miracle: wealthy, handsome, beloved by every woman he meets, and blessed with incomparable talents on the soccer field. And it’s all about to end. . . Gil’s father makes him swear off the sport, to focus on his studies. When he leaves the bourgeois comforts of Port-au-Prince high society and moves to the dizzying, jazz-soaked streets of Harlem to attend Columbia University, the promise is broken. Scrimmaging in Central Park, he’s spotted by the U.S. National Team’s coach and is recruited to play for the Americans in the 1950 World Cup in Brazil. And then he flies too close to the sun. Gil’s unraveling is the wild stuff of myth: a plea to God for salvation; secret messages smuggled across continents; lovers shuffled, scorned, and reclaimed; and journeys past the veil between our world and the afterlife. From the Caribbean to the States, to South America and back, Gil’s adventures are lush and lurid, and delivered with a breathless, breakneck pace synonymous with the world’s most popular sport. Death of the Soccer God by Dimitry Elias Legér is a passionate and improbable love story, and a roaring Pan-American tale about the price of fame. Inspired by the unbelievable yet true story of an intrepid young Haitian immigrant and energized with the high-voltage fervor of a packed stadium, Death of the Soccer God is a heady dance between life and death, an answer to the eternal question: can love save us?

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  What We Could Have Been

  Jess Sinclair

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  Bluebelle Shea and Enzo Castellari are hardly more than children when they fall in love, despite the objections of their families who have been at war for years. They don’t know the reason for the brutal rift, but nothing matters except the way they feel. Their hopeful plan for the future is shattered the night Blue’s mother drowns—and her father is arrested for murder. Ten years later, fleeing a disastrous marriage, Blue returns home with her young son, Murphy. As she settles into the community once more, chance throws her together with Enzo, and she is startled by the rekindled attraction he stirs inside her. Drawn together time and again, Blue and Enzo try to untangle years of conflicting emotions and bittersweet memories. When a frightening crisis strikes, Enzo doesn’t hesitate to come to Blue’s aid. Resolved to put the past behind them, they fight to learn not only what really happened the night Blue’s mother died but also the truth behind the destructive clash between their families. At its heart, What We Could Have Been explores the bonds between families, friends, and lovers and poignantly illustrates the ways we can heal after betrayal. Suffused with detail and sentiment, this is a novel that will resonate with anyone who has ever fought for their own happy ending.

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  The Swimming Group - A BRAND NEW...

  Bella Ellwood-Clayton

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  My name is Emma Brennan, and I never thought I’d find myself in this position — standing on a Cape Cod beach at sunrise, wondering which of my friends is a killer.I came to the idyllic seaside town of Provincetown, to raise my young niece and figure out what to do next with my life. Eleven months ago my sister vanished off the coast of Ocracoke Island. No body, no answers. Just a teenage daughter left behind — and me. At the same time, the man I thought I was going to marry cheated on me with a cute young florist.I joined the Tragic Wives’ Group — a tight-knit, cold-water swimming group with enough personal drama to fill a bestseller. And one of us has put it in a manuscript, spilling all our secrets.Then she disappears . . . leaving just a pile of clothes on the sand. She’s the second person I’ve lost in twelve months.A SEXY BLEND OF TENSION AND SUSPENSE WITH AN ENDING YOU WON’T SEE COMING.This razor-sharp thriller of friendship, obsession and the secrets we’d do anything to protect is perfect for fans of Elin Hilderbrand, Liane Moriarty, Lucy Clarke, Sarah Goodwin and Shari Lapena.READERS LOVE THE SWIMMING GROUP:‘A saucy, shocking mystery that masterfully weaves together cold-water swimming and ice-cold deception.’ SARAH BAILEY, bestselling author of The Housemate‘This riveting oceanside mystery will keep you glued from the first page.’ DAMYANTI BISWAS, bestselling author of the Blue Mumbai thrillers.

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  Crossing the Lines

  SJ Hooks

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  Desperate times call for desperate measures.On her way home from yet another failed job interview, Abigail Winters, a young, single mother on the verge of homelessness, accepts a proposition from a rich, handsome stranger.Soon, Abigail is leading two very different lives that have to be kept separate at all costs: one in which she’s a loving mother to her young son, and one in which she caters to the needs of the assertive and mysterious Mr. Thorne, both in and out of the bedroom.Their relationship is meant to be strictly business but as lines are crossed and secrets revealed, Abigail finds herself struggling not to fall head over heels in love with her reclusive Sir, thus putting their arrangement in jeopardy.

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