(0)Jayne Entwistle
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"Three little girls set off to school one sunny morning. Within an hour, one of them is dead. Fifteen years later, Kitty can't speak and has no memory of the accident that's to blame. She lives in an institution, unlikely ever to leave. But that doesn't keep her from being frightened when she encounters an eerily familiar face. Art teacher Alison looks fine on the surface. But the surface is a lie. She's struggling to make ends meet and to forget...
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When a close relative falls ill, Hannah Larson and her young son, Nicky, join him for the summer at Ashton Hall, a historic manor house outside Cambridge, England. A frustrated academic whose ambitions have been subsumed by the challenges of raising her beloved child, Hannah longs to escape her life in New York City, where her marriage has been upended by a recently discovered and devastating betrayal. Soon after their arrival, ever-curious Nicky...
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In 1889 London, vampire-hunter Evaline Stoker and investigator Mina Holmes once again join forces at the request of the Princess of Wales--this time their mission is to escort and protect a princess who is part of a trade mission from Betrovia, a country which has had a rocky relationship with England, starting with a four hundred-year-old dispute over a valuable Byzantine chessboard.
45) Curses
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Merit Cravan refused to fulfill her obligation to marry a prince, leading to a fairy godling's curse. She will be forced to live as a beast forever, unless she agrees to marry a man of her mother's choosing before her eighteenth birthday. Tevin Dumont has always been a pawn in his family's cons: tempting naïve rich girls to abandon their engagements, unless their parents agree to pay him off. After his mother runs afoul of the beast, he takes her...
47) Excellent women
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Excellent Women is probably the most famous of Barbara Pym's novels. The acclaim a few years ago for this early comic novel, which was hailed by Lord David Cecil as one of 'the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past seventy-five years,' helped launch the rediscovery of the author's entire work. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman's daughter and a spinster in the England of the 1950s, one of those 'excellent women'...
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"For years, Harris Hayes has taught his daughter, Aggie, the ways of the northern woods. So when her mother's depression worsens, Harris shows the girl how to find and sketch the nests of wild birds as an antidote to sadness. Aggie is in a tree far overhead when her unpredictable mother spots her and forbids her to climb. Angry, the ten-year-old accidentally lights a tragic fire, then flees downriver. She lands her boat near untamed forest, where...
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From USA Today bestselling author Gayle Callen comes a fascinating historical novel of three courageous young women who aid a desperate British spy during the German occupation of Guernsey Island in World War II.
In 1940, Germany seizes control of Guernsey without a fight – but not without resistance. Innocent young teacher Catherine is forced to house a German officer. Shrewd waitress Betty seeks to elude the persistent Nazi determined
50) Arcadia
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In Cold War England, Professor Henry Lytten, having renounced a career in espionage, is writing a fantasy novel that dares to imagine a world less fraught than his own. He finds an unlikely confidante in Rosie, an inquisitive young neighbor who, while chasing after Lytten's cat one day, stumbles through a doorway in his cellar and into a stunning and unfamiliar bucolic landscape - remarkably like the fantasy world Lytten had written about. There she...
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Count Down To New Years
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
Short Stories for Adults
Short Story Collections
OBD Short Story Collections - ADULT
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Everyone knows travelling abroad isn't really her...
53) Highland hunger
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"Vampire lords rule the Highlands" and wage battles both deadly and passionate in the New York Times–bestselling author's otherworldly anthology series (Publishers Weekly).
The shadowy caves and caverns of the Scottish Highlands prove the perfect background for three "fun paranormal historical tales" (SFF Chronicles).
"Dark Embrace" by Hannah Howell
While searching for his clan's demon Lost...
The shadowy caves and caverns of the Scottish Highlands prove the perfect background for three "fun paranormal historical tales" (SFF Chronicles).
"Dark Embrace" by Hannah Howell
While searching for his clan's demon Lost...
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A fantastic Steampunk adventure in the deeps
Transforming his appearance and stealing secret documents from the French is all in a day's work for fourteen-year-old Modo, a British secret agent. But his latest mission--to uncover the underwater mystery of something called the Ictíneo--seems impossible. There are rumors of a sea monster and a fish as big as a ship. French spies are after it, and Mr. Socrates, Modo's master, wants to
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The exotic island of Madeira is the perfect escape for an Englishwoman fleeing an arranged marriage - until she's taken captive by a vengeful pirate. One of the wealthiest heiresses in England, Eliza Thoroughgood is the ideal catch for the right man. But the husband her parents have chosen for her is a paragon of masculinity and urbane wit, while Eliza is shy and bookish and detests the public eye. So she comes up with the perfect escape from the...
56) Ripples
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Alice Rothmann has been content with her quiet, ordinary life in Oxford with her quiet, ordinary husband. But when he dies suddenly, she finds herself adrift and lonely, and before she knows it she's deeply attracted to her neighbour, George Graham. There's only one hitch: George is married to Alice's best friend...
57) élégie
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Brought from Minnesota to Oregon as a mail-order bride in 1913, the new Mrs. Pearson has to face her husband's hostile family and find joy where she can.
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The story of Martha Lloyd- recipe collector, housekeeping expert, and Jane Austen's dearest friend.
Fans of Jane Austen often feel that the beloved author is like a best friend, and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. “Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd” offers a unique insight into Jane's private inner circle. Through this heartwarming examination of an important and often overlooked person...
59) Highland Beast
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The New York Times–bestselling author's anthology series continues as "vampires roam historic Scotland in three novellas . . . a credible paranormal world" (Publishers Weekly).
Enjoy three unforgettable stories set in the Scottish Highlands where forbidden love is eternal . . .
"The Beast Within" by Hannah Howell
Gybbon MacNachton spends his days searching for the Lost Ones—demons
...60) One wish
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Twelve-year-old Tanya Fairchild spends her summer vacation in the seaside town of Spinney Wicket, where she makes a new friend, learns about the fairy realm, and discovers a magical wishing tree.