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21) Discretion
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For 20 years, Oufoula has carried a secret of his love for a woman named Marguerite, a woman who is not his wife. When the lovers are reunited, the rekindling of their passion forces Oufoula to come to terms with the core of his character. Is he willing to sacrifice his marriage, his career, and the very foundations of the life he has struggled to create, all for the love of one woman?
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"In this unforgettable debut novel, twenty-seven-year-old Tessa, pregnant with her third child and living in a trailer on her mother-in-law's property, encounters the woman she used to love-leading Tessa to question the very foundations of the life she's built Abandoned by first her father and then her mother, as a girl Tessa is left to live with her abusive stepfather and stepbrother. She survives by finding reserves of strength in herself, and by...
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"The eclectic stories in this collection are bound by the threads of desire in its many forms, above all, the desire for love and a place of safety in a world where being Black and gay can thwart the fulfillment of that longing. The characters are complex, driven, difficult, and even, at times, unsympathetic, but always compelling. In other words: fully rounded human beings living complicated lives. A proud Black woman who escaped her rural, impoverished...
24) Held
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"A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international best sellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault-a novel of love and loyalty across generations, at once sweeping and intimate. 1917. On a battlefield near the River Aisne, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls-a chance encounter in a pub by a railway, a hot bath with...
25) Want: a novel
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"Elizabeth is tired. Years after coming to New York to try to build a life, she has found herself with two kids, a husband, two jobs, a PhD--and now they're filing for bankruptcy. As she tries to balance her dream and the impossibility of striving toward it while her work and home lives feel poised to fall apart, she wakes at ungodly hours to run miles by the icy river, struggling to quiet her thoughts. When she reaches out to Sasha, her long-lost...
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"A 'lusty, funny, heart-breaking' (Carmen Maria Machado) debut about a sex-obsessed young woman seeking out experience on a remote Alaskan homestead. Tourists arrive all summer, by boat or seaplane, at Lew and Maureen Jenkins's Lavender Island Wilderness Lodge in the Kodiak Archipelago, expecting adventure. But the spontaneity of their authentic 'Alaskan wilderness' experience is meticulously scripted, except when real danger rears its head. Lew and...
27) Play dirty
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Tempting SEALs volume 7
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"She saved his life when they were kids and then he saved hers. When she became a young woman, Poppy knew she would never love anyone the way she loved Jack Lee Bridger. But after a near tragedy, Jack left home to become a Navy SEAL and Poppy knew there wouldn't be another like him. Not for her. She remembered the way it felt when he looked at her with those smoldering eyes. The way he kissed her. Touched her...Now it's years later and danger is dogging...
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"Rin, Tongue, and Dorner takes place in an apocalyptic future, where humanity survives in temperature regulated geodomes. The protagonist, Dorner, has committed himself to his career as a Planner, keeping the temperature of his colony constant through a system of furnaces as well as a strict code of human conduct. Extremes of human activity -- violence, extreme athleticism, and excessive sexual activity -- can threaten the thermal balance. His vow...
29) King of pride
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Kings of sin volume 2
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"Reserved, controlled, and proper to a fault, Kai Young has neither the time nor inclination for chaos and Isabella, with her purple hair and inappropriate jokes, is chaos personified. With a crucial CEO vote looming and a media empire at stake, the billionaire heir can not afford the distraction she brings. Isabella is everything he should not want, but with every look and every touch, he is tempted to break all his rules and claim her as his own....
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The dream peddler came to town at the white end of winter, before the thaw . . . Traveling salesmen like Robert Owens have passed through Evie Dawson's town before, but none of them offered anything like what he has to sell: dreams, made to order, with satisfaction guaranteed. Soon after he arrives, the community is shocked by the disappearance of Evie's young son. The townspeople, shaken by the Dawson family's tragedy and captivated by Robert's subversive...
32) La sed
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"En el nuevo mundo por enésima vez recién descubierto de las mujeres, "La sed" se interna para poner una distancia: de menor a mayor, especie contra género en la taxonomía de los reinos. Una vampira llega a las costas de la Buenos Aires decimonónica para ver por segunda vez en su vida cómo las aldeas se vuelven una ciudad cosmopolita. Es el ocaso de las bacanales de sangre, de la Europa en que se puede matar y comer a destajo. Hay que adaptarse,...
34) Dandelions
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"Beautifully spare and deeply strange, Dandelions--exploring love and madness--is Kawabata's final novel, left incomplete when he committed suicide in April, 1972. The book concerns Ineko's mother and Kuno, the young man who loves Ineko and wants to marry her. The two have left Ineko at the Ikuta Mental Hospital, which she has entered for treatment of a condition that might be called "seizures of body blindness." Although her vision as a whole is...
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"Una pareja construye durante años una intensa relación, paralela a la vida que cada uno lleva en su país, reuniéndose en distintas ciudades del mundo y manteniendo una obsesiva comunicación escrita y telefónica. La protagonista es una escritora que vive en Londres y que se ha separado hace un tiempo tras la muerte de su hijo. Al conocer a F., un abogado chileno atractivo y presuntuoso, se le despierta el deseo de forma inmediata y voraz y se...
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"Fiona Kidman's early stories about New Zealand women's experiences scandalised with their vivid depictions of the heartbreaks and joys of desire, illicit liaisons and unconventional love. Her writing made her a feminist icon in the early 1980s and she has since continued to tell the realities of women's lives, her stories resonating with fans over the years and across the world. To mark her 80th birthday, this volume brings together a variety of...
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La inesperada adopción de su sobrina debía de haber vuelto loco a Brad Price. ¿Cómo si no podía sentirse atraído por su rival de toda la vida, Abby Langley? A pesar de enfrentarse en las elecciones a la presidencia del Club de Ganaderos de Texas, Abby no podía evitar ayudar al recién estrenado papá. Y él tampoco podía dejar de pensar en ella...y desearla. A Abby los esfuerzos de Brad por covertirse en un buen padre le resultaban entrañables...
40) No dudes de mí
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Deseo volume 885
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"La abogada Rosebud Donnelly tenía un caso que ganar. Sin embargo, su primera reunión con Dan Armstrong no salió según lo planeado. Nadie la había avisado de que el director de operaciones de la compañía a la que se enfrentaba era tan ... masculino. Desde sus ojos grises a las impecables botas, Dan era un vaquero muy atractivo. Pero ¿era sincero? El deseo de Rosebud por el ejecutivo texano iba contra toda lógica, contra la lealtad familiar...
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