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  A Room in Bombay - A Memoir

  Manil Suri

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  'Rooms in Bombay are not big in size, but huge in heart. Manil Suri's memoir will make you want to hug your mother. Written in clean, direct prose and without sentimentality, it explores all the dimensions of the complicated bond between parent and child -- while also being laugh-out-loud funny. If you were born of a mother, read this book.' -- Suketu Mehta 
  'Written with a rare blend of compassion and honesty, Manil Suri's memoir dares to map the death of Bombay's most potent and seductive dream: the redevelopment of real estate. We watch with sick fascination as the lives of a dashing young man who wants to sing for Bollywood and his headstrong and practical wife implode into ill health, and we ache for their son who makes his escape to the US but must deal with his guilt. This is a Bombay story like few others.' -- Jerry Pinto 
  'A deeply affecting memoir in which the ""room"", like a prison of the mind, acquires the force of metaphor-a symbol of all that we must escape in order to be more truly ourselves, and all that we never quite can.' -- Aatish Taseer 
   
  'This room that has been my crucible, controlled and tormented and driven me-how much has it shaped my history, my current self?' 
  Author Manil Suri grows up in a large, crumbling flat in Bombay which his Hindu parents share with three Muslim families. Their single room is a refuge from the religious and territorial tensions ravaging the apartment. But it is also a prison that holds them captive -- one that makes Manil's playback-singer father drift towards alcoholism and his mother towards increasing isolation, while restraining Manil from exploring the dawning realization that he might be gay. 
  As the shared room shapes the consciousness of its residents, we find ourselves asking: Will Manil manage to break free from the flat and find the freedom to embrace his sexuality? Will his mother dare step beyond the threshold of an unfulfilling marriage to pursue deeper, riskier joys? 
  Set against the backdrop of a fast-transforming city, where the price of real estate keeps rising and neighbours conspire to take over any available space, A Room in Bombay is as much about a physical enclosure as it is about the human capacity to reach beyond through the sheer power of imagination. At its heart, this is a deeply moving memoir -- drawn from over 2,700 letters Manil wrote to his mother across three decades -- that bears testimony to the abiding, unbreakable bond tying mother and son.

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  Bobby Ray Breaks the Universe

  Rob Rosen

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  What happens when a hunky demon visits you and commands you to break all ten commandments? Or when a handsome angel orders you to do the opposite? And what if you're Bobby Ray, and you've already broken nine of the ten, and thou shalt not kill is a close brick away, and the demon has tacked on a cushy afterlife in hell as a reward? Decisions, decisions. And poor Bobby Ray has never been good at one decision, let alone multiple ones. Broke, divorced, and pretty darn miserable, does he do what's right or what's easy?
  In this darkly comical romantic adventure, Bobby Ray, with the help of numerous friends and just as many enemies, one being his ex-husband, travels from Georgia to Israel and ultimately across Egypt and the Gaza Strip in search of the one clue that will hopefully save them all, and possibly the entire world. Will good win out over evil, love over hate? Or will Bobby Ray ultimately break the universe?

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  Cowboys and Kisses

  Karin Kallmaker

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  A one-way stage ticket to the frontier leaves a young woman penniless and alone in Long Grass, Wyoming. With no other hope than to survive another day, she takes up the only profession open to her. Years later she encounters the cowboy she can love, and her first taste of pleasure - and happiness. 
  Cowboys, however, are born to wander, and their kisses are as brief as the lives of young women without family or means. Accepting that her days will be numbered too few, Darlin' escapes into her scribblings where her dreams of freedom can soar over the limitless prairie. 
  When she recognizes her own truth and a chance for love in the longing gaze of a townswoman, will she finally find kisses she can trust? 
  Two determined women in a hostile world save themselves — and each other — in a lyric, sensual love story as only Karin Kallmaker can tell. 
  "It’s an astonishing story, beautifully told. And Darlin’s voice is enchanting. The close first-person narration works like a charm – she feels like a living, breathing person. Somebody with grit and heart. It’s impossible not to cheer Darlin’ on. Never has a fictional character’s Happily Ever After delighted me more." - Lou Morgan's Reviews

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  Road to a Cowboy

  Amy Aislin

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  Detour 
  Five years after the death of his spouse, Austin MacIsaac is ready to find love again—and he’s got the perfect guy in mind: his sexy cowboy of a best friend, Cal Anderson. If only he can convince Cal to detour out of the friend zone. 
  Road work ahead 
  Cal has been in love with Austin for longer than he can remember. The man has been his rock through the ups and downs of messy family drama. But shaking up their friendship for something more could lead them down a bumpy and unsafe road. 
  Merge 
  Amid a backdrop of the Wyoming mountains and under a summer sky, can Austin and Cal merge their lives into one and let the road to romance lead to happily ever after?

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  Lesbian fun at the office -...

  Kelly Sanders

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  Two young interns begin a work placement in a busy office, however the small cubicle layout of the large office floor space allows them enough privacy to flirt with each other, and when casual teasing is no longer enough to satiate their desires, they must think up some inventive ways to pleasure each other. 
   
  This story is a work of fiction and contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are fictional and are over 18 years old.

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  For Love or Scandal

  J.J. Arias

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  A sham wedding ignites an irresistible spark between a once-disgraced director and the wedding planner of her dreams. 
   
   
   
  Laney Menendez, a once-celebrated Hollywood director, has a chance at a comeback. The catch? She must first marry her brother's soap-star boyfriend to stop him from being outed by a tabloid. For Laney, the lavish fake wedding is meant to be all business, until she meets the wedding planner, Jennifer Acosta. 
   
   
   
  Their attraction is instant and undeniable. As Laney and Jennifer work closely planning the wedding, stolen moments stoke the flames of a passion too powerful to resist. 
   
   
   
  When Jennifer learns the truth of Laney's fake marriage, she faces an impossible choice: follow her heart or protect her hard-won reputation. With Hollywood watching, will the pressure to keep up the lies drive them apart? 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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