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Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The letter is addressed to me. No stamp, swirly handwriting in black ink. I pull out a piece of paper, stiffening when I read the message. Hands trembling, the note slides to the floor: Your husband is having an affair. Six words written in neat block letters. Six words slipped through her letterbox, destroying her marriage, exposing Ella's perfect life as perfect lies. But Ella has a plan: Alice is the answer to her problems. A lodger, to help keep...
2) Double fault
Author
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Love me, love my game,' says twenty-three year-old Willy Novinsky. Ever since she picked up a racquet at the age of four, tennis has been Willy's one love, until the day she meets Eric Oberdorf. She's a middle-ranked professional tennis player and he's a Princeton graduate who took up playing tennis at the age of eighteen. Low-ranked but untested, Eric, too, aims to make his mark on the international tennis circuit. But, as Eric's ranking climbs,...
Author
Publisher
Birlinn
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
They called her Auld Nally - the local moneylender in one of Glasgow?s roughest areas, Inchcraig. But once she?d been Alice McInally from Belfast, beautiful and beloved by her childhood sweetheart. Though his family was Catholic and her Protestant, their families had been close for generations, and the young couple were too na�ve to anticipate the angry opposition their marriage plans would unleash. Their only hope is to leave Ireland, knowing they...
Author
Language
English
Description
On the night that Arlyn Singer's father dies, she is certain her destiny will find her. Some hours later, a young man shows up at her door. Lost in a strange town, John is an architectural student, serious, reserved. And, he has no inkling that the tall girl whom he has asked for directions will haunt him for the rest of his life.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Lottie is tired of long-term boyfriends who don't want to commit to marriage. When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, she jumps at the chance. There will be no dates and no engagement - just a straight wedding march to the altar! Next comes the honeymoon on the Greek island where they first met. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Ben's rushed marriage, and...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/HarperCollins UK
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
'I must pull myself together. I had to find Dr Rastrick and demand my immediate release. My stomach knotted at the prospect, but I knew I was perfectly sane and that he must see reason.' In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring does not want to marry. She longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms. When her scheming mother secures a desirable marriage proposal from an eligible Brighton gentleman...
7) Trespasses
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cushla Lavery lives with her mother in a small town near Belfast. At 24, she splits her time between her day job as a teacher to a class of 7-year-olds, and regular bartending shifts in the pub owned by her family. It's here, on a day like any other - as the daily news rolls in of another car bomb exploding, another man shot, killed, beaten or left for dead - that she meets Michael Agnew, an older (and married) barrister who draws her into his sophisticated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A classic novel from fan favorite Debbie Macomber, this emotional story about fighting for happiness is available for the first time as an eBook. � Marrying Glenn Lambert was either the smartest thing Maggie Kingsbury has ever done or the craziest mistake of her life. Best friends as children, they went their separate ways until a chance encounter at a wedding inspires this spontaneous leap of faith. How could she resist the sweet spell of a moonlit...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Macmillan audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
The past A lonely and imaginative child, Julia loves her family's beautiful and wild Cornish home, Tawray, with all her heart. But, marked by her family's dark troubles, Julia enters her adult years determined to leave and seek a new beginning in London. It's there she meets the handsome David Pengelly. They fall in love, but when Julia becomes pregnant, even he can't stop the terrible echoes of the past from ringing in her ears. The only sound to...
10) White lies
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
When you have everything, you have everything to lose ... Alexandra Inglis is a respected family doctor, trusted by her patients to keep their most intimate secrets. And if sometimes the boundaries between duty and desire blur ... well, she's only human. But when Alex oversteps a line with Jonathan, one of her patients, she knows she's gone too far. Jonathan is obsessive, and to get what he wants he will tear Alex's world apart - threatening not only...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Kenny's Department Store, with its handsome Edwardian facade and unique cherry-picked goods, is the jewel in the Irish town of Ardagh's crown. Star Bluestone sells her beautifully crafted tapestries at Kenny's. Meanwhile for Ingrid Fitzgerald, hotshot political interviewer and wife of David Kenny, the store is the 'other woman' in her marriage.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Steph has spent decades building a family with her husband Mal and putting their family first. She is the glue that holds them all together and she has convinced herself that she's been happy ... most of the time. But as she stands at her birthday party watching her husband talking about a wonderful marriage she doesn't fully recognise, the doubts that she has been pushing down for so long begin to grow ... After the party, as Steph tries to gather...
13) My last duchess
Author
Publisher
Polygon
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Mark Simmons, aged 42, is a teacher at a training college. His wife has just walked out on him because she has found him so much less interesting than she expected the man she married to be. This event, which he has by no means expected, has jolted him into a major reassessment of himself, of his place in the universe. He realises that he has become bitter, cynical and disillusioned: he is a failure intellectually - he wanted to be a writer, but for...
Author
Series
The Princesses of Westfalin Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The enchanting second book in New York Times bestselling author Jessica Day George's Twelve Dancing Princesses series is a Cinderella retelling that will sweep you off your feet! Hoping to escape the troubles in her kingdom, Princess Poppy reluctantly agrees to take part in a royal exchange program, where young princes and princesses travel to each other's countries in the name of better political alliances--and potential marriages. It's got the makings...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Debbie Macomber?s special warmth and heart shine in this tender story of letting love find its way home, now available for the first time as an eBook. � After watching the man she loves walk down the aisle with her sister, Cathy Thompson needs to get away. Alaska-beautiful, remote, and far from bitter memories-sounds like the perfect place to start over. But a brand-new life comes with brand-new challenges . . . namely Grady Jones, a pilot and single...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In Hosseini's unforgettable debut novel, The Kite Runner, twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to an Afghanistan under Taliban rule...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Macmillan audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
When you listen to this audiobook, you will make many assumptions. It's about a jealous wife, obsessed with her replacement. It's about a younger woman set to marry the man she loves. The first wife seems like a disaster; her replacement is the perfect woman. You will assume you know the motives, the history, the anatomy of the relationships. You will be wrong.
19) Surprise me
Author
Language
English
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Description
Surprise Me is Sophie Kinsella's emotionally charged, witty new standalone novel about love and long-term relationship survival - and how those we think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most . . . After being together for ten years, Sylvie and Dan have a comfortable home, fulfilling jobs, beautiful twin girls, and communicate so seamlessly, they finish each other's sentences. They have a happy marriage and believe they know everything there...
20) Texas Ranger
Author
Series
Texas Rangers Thrillers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Officer Rory Yates comes home - to a murder charge. Rory Yates's skill and commitment to the badge have seen him rise to the rank of Texas Ranger. He decides to take time off to recharge with his family in their small-town hometown, Redbud. He arrives and finds a horrifying crime scene and a scathing accusation: he is named a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife, Anne, a devoted teacher whose only controversial act ever was deciding to end her marriage...
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