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  The White Pigeon - From their...

  Maria Edgeworth

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  Maria Edgeworth was born at Black Bourton, Oxfordshire on January 1st 1768. Her early years were with her mother's family in England. Sadly, her mother died when Maria was five.  
  Maria was educated at Mrs Lattafière's school in Derby in 1775. There she studied dancing, French and other subjects.  Maria transferred to Mrs Devis's school in Upper Wimpole Street, London. Her father began to focus more attention on Maria in 1781 when she nearly lost her sight to an eye infection.  
  She returned home to Ireland at 14 and took charge of her younger siblings. She herself was home-tutored by her father in Irish economics and politics, science, literature and law. Despite her youth literature was in her blood.  Maria also became her father's assistant in managing the family’s large Edgeworthstown estate.  
  Maria first published 1795 with ‘Letters for Literary Ladies’. That same year ‘An Essay on the Noble Science of Self-Justification’, written for a female audience, advised women on how to obtain better rights in general and specifically from their husbands. 
  ‘Practical Education’ (1798) is a progressive work on education. Maria’s ambition was to create an independent thinker who understands the consequences of his or her actions. 
  Her first novel, ‘Castle Rackrent’ was published anonymously in 1800 without her father's knowledge. It was an immediate success and firmly established Maria’s appeal to the public.  
  Her father married four times and the last of these to Frances, a year younger and a confidante of Maria, who pushed them to travel more widely: London, Britain and Europe were all now visited. 
  The second series of ‘Tales of Fashionable Life’ (1812) did so well that she was now the most commercially successful novelist of her age.  
  She particularly worked hard to improve the living standards of the poor in Edgeworthstown and to provide schools for the local children of all and any denomination. 
  After a visit to see her relations Maria had severe chest pains and died suddenly of a heart attack in Edgeworthstown on 22nd May 1849. She was 81.

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  Journey of Love Healing of My Heart

  Lauren ce

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  “Healing of My Heart,” tells the story of young Rose and the experiences of prejudice during the 1950’s; Rose shows anger and bitterness is not in her heart. Lauren Laurence has shown a journey of love through the eyes of Rose, who devoted her life towards being an asset in her community. Rose’s siblings remind you of “The Little Rascals” who were always in trouble. Through many family illnesses, Rose’s faith in Jesus Christ never faltered.

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  Echo Key Legacy

  Katie Prescott

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  A determined divorcee. A tall, dark, and dependable deputy sheriff.Jen Hollister was belittled by her ex for years before an unforgivable betrayal opened her eyes and she kicked him to the curb. Unfortunately, he won't stay gone.Now he's hounding her to give back a stupid trophy she doesn't have. To make matters worse, she's having bizarre dreams that urge her to check out the creepy attic in the B&B she's renovating with her best friend, Olivia Crawford. Leave it to Tom the Troglodyte to disturb her waking and sleeping lives by ramping up the stress as she builds a new life in Echo Key.As her ex-husband's behavior becomes increasingly unhinged, Jen is never so glad to have Theo Price, her deputy boyfriend, in her life and the support of the rest of her Fearsome Foursome friends. Jen knows she can always count on Olivia, Maggie Harper, and Evelyn Ansel to have her back. And, of course, the woman who was like a mother to her while she was growing up, Olivia and Maggie's aunt, the formidable Coretta Turner.

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  The Fullback

  Charlie Novak

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  Wanted: The Chance To Find Love Without My Heart Getting Totally Rucked 
  When I end up in bed with my best friend, Hunter, and our teammate’s younger brother, Aiden, it’s only meant to be one night of casual fun… but my heart has other ideas.  
  I’ve had feelings for Hunter for years, but I’ve never allowed myself to admit them. Not even to myself. Then there’s Aiden, whose stunning confidence is making both of us fall for him. He’s sexy, funny, assertive, and utterly irresistible, and Hunter and I are drawn to him in a way we’ve never been to anyone.  
  The pair of us have never considered dating each other, let alone a relationship with someone else, and I’m terrified that telling Hunter how I feel will only lead to me getting hurt.  
  I have to take the risk though, because I can’t bear to lose Hunter or Aiden. If not, I’ll always wonder what if…  
  Content Warning: Hunter has a history of disordered eating, body dysmorphia, and excessive exercise.

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  The Prospector and the Widow

  Carolyn Twede Frank

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  It is no secret that infamous gold miner Cass Hite hates the Mormons. When he nearly dies while passing through a remote Mormon settlement, the kind-hearted widow, Sarah Hansen takes him in and nurses him back to health. She has the room and the time to take care of this man that everyone else in town shuns. She’s known loneliness since a young age, when her parents died and she became the third wife of a polygamist. And again when her husband died and her two children moved away.  
  	  
  	She doesn’t expect that Cass will be sweet and kind to her, or soothe her loneliness. Yet he does, and for the first time ever, Sarah is falling in love. As wonderful as it would be to marry him, she doesn’t want to live the life of a prospector’s wife in the rough, all-male town of Hite. Yet she knows he would never be comfortable with her pious lifestyle in Hanksville. Then the unthinkable happens. She is with child. Will she ever find a place to fit it? More importantly, will she ever be able to forgive herself for the decisions she makes? 
  	  
  	Loosely based on true events, The Prospector and The Widow is a story of love and compassion, poor judgement and passion, forgiveness and redemption; a story that makes you wonder how their love for each other can possibly survive.

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  The Burning Stones - The...

  Antti Tuomainen

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  A top saleswoman at a Finnish sauna company must outwit the police and a murderer when her boss is found dead … in a sauna. A darkly funny, tense new thriller from 'The funniest writer in Europe´ (The Times)
  `The best comic crime novel you'll read this year´ Abir Mukherjee
  `Suspense is uppermost in this adroit mix of psychological thriller, whodunnit and middle-aged rom-com. Comedy is still pervasive … the novel's glorious gallery of weirdos´ Sunday Times Book of the Month
  `Finnish author Tuomainen has a talent for creating offbeat characters … [a] tense, pacy novel, laced with the author's trademark laconic humour´ Guardian Book of the Month
  `It may seem hard to find good comic crime-writers, but clearly we haven't been looking in Finland … simultaneously thrilling and evocative of the mundanity of life, and also very funny indeed´ Telegraph
  **Antti Tuomainen's Little Siberia is NOW a major NETFLIX movie**
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  Love, murder, middle age, and a sauna to die for…
  A cold-blooded killer strikes at the hottest moment: the new head of a sauna-stove company is murdered … in the sauna. Who has turned up the temperature and burned him to death?
  The evidence points in the direction of Anni Korpinen – top salesperson and the victim's successor at Steam Devil.
  And as if hitting middle-age, being in a marriage that has lost its purpose, and struggling with work weren't enough, Anni realizes that she must be quicker than both the police and the murderer to uncover who is behind it all – before it's too late…
  From the international bestselling author of Little Siberia and The Rabbit Factor, comes a darkly funny, delightfully tense new thriller that showcases humanity at its most bare – in middle age, suspected of murder and, of course, in a sauna…
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  `Showcases Antti's trademark deadpan humour and crime plots focused on intriguingly quirky individuals. An utter delight´ Vaseem Khan
  `Just what you want from Antti Tuomainen, the brilliant moulding of apparent mundanity into a which-way-now thrill ride, with humour drier than a desert snake's belly' Ian Moore
  `The funniest writer in Europe´ The Times
  `Hilarious, beautifully penned and startlingly inventive. No other writer can come up with more ways to kill you in a sauna, and The Burning Stones cements Tuomainen's position as the king of the humorous crime caper´ Abir Mukherjee
  `Laconic, thrilling and warmly human – hugely enjoyable´ Christopher Brookmyre
  `Antti turns the heat up with this wryly comic thriller. You'll sweat along with the characters!´ Douglas Skelton
  `You don't expect to laugh when you're reading about terrible crimes, but that's what you'll do when you pick up one of Tuomainen's decidedly quirky thrillers´ New York Times
  `Finland's greatest export´ M.J. Arlidge
  `A refreshing change from the decidedly gloomier crime fiction for which Scandinavia is known´ Publishers Weekly
  `Right up there with the best´ Times Literary Supplement
  Praise for Antti Tuomainen
  `Delightfully funny´ Guardian
  `Deftly plotted, poignant and perceptive in its wry reflections on mortality and very funny´ Irish Times
  `Fresh and witty´ Chris Ewan
  `A thrilling and hilarious read´ Liz Nugent
  `Charming, funny and clever´ Literary Review
  `A delight from start to finish´ Big Issue
  `Finnish criminal chucklemeister Tuomainen is channelling Carl Hiassen´ Sunday Times
  `A thriller with black comedy worth of Nabokov´ Telegraph

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