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After the death of her father, street photographer Cordelia takes a summer gig at a cozy cottage on Ireland's Inishmore Island where she meets Niall O'Connor, a grumpy Irish chef, and the more their paths cross, the more they make each other's lives hell until their hatred turns into undeniable attraction.
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2024.
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"From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unexpected rewards that come from life's swerves. Lark Smith was planning a fairy-tale wedding to her high school sweetheart when, in the blink of an eye, everything she dreamed of was suddenly gone. That day, Lark decided the best way to deal with loss was to prevent others from ever having to. Five years later, her goal of becoming a doctor--the best...
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2024.
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"From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. On the far bank, he caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's always been something deeper and more dangerous than the river that divides him from her and the rest of the tribal community. It's the secret that Elizabeth...
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2024.
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Jordan Edelman, determined to avoid dating during her summer trip to Nantucket, finds herself entangled with her father's research assistant, whom she has disliked for years, but as she delves into a centuries-old mystery with a local astronomer, her growing relationship becomes increasingly complicated.
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"As the owner of Twisted, Seattle's best salons, Erica knows that the sharpest cuts come from the people we love. She's terrified that she's losing her teen daughter, Summer, to her "other" family, especially to her stepmom, Allison. All it takes to blow up Allison's happy life is one collect call. From prison. Her beloved husband, Peter, has been arrested, leaving Allison pregnant, broke, scared and alone with a toddler. But when her stepdaughter...
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Sur
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2019
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Italiano
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Il colore viola è la storia di due sorelle, Celie e Nettie, in fuga da un padre violento e da un passato di abusi. Mentre Celie, privata dei suoi figli, si ricostruisce a fatica una vita con un matrimonio combinato e una nuova famiglia caotica e bizzarra, di Nettie si perdono le tracce. Ma l'incontro con Shug Avery, la misteriosa cantante di blues di cui suo marito è innamorato da sempre, permetterà a Celie di fare una scoperta, e i legami di sangue...
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"Ilse Lund is a French translator who lives in a beach house on stilts set on a remote spit of land off the west coast of Greenland. Restless from the predictability of life in her quaint cottage and her isolated world circumscribed by the sea, Ilse convinces her French publisher to pay for a trip to the country whose language she translates but has never visited--France. Her mission: to translate the verses of an elderly Provençal poet known as...
9) Control
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Determined to prevent a tragedy, an Atlanta therapist uncovers a common denominator that is plaguing six of her clients from the rap and film world and debates the merits of violating her professional position to save lives.
10) First frost
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"Following the events of The Longmire Defense, we return to find Walt and our familiar cast of characters from Abaroska county tasked with solving a crime even more challenging than the last. Walt Longmire returns in this twentieth installment of the award-winning and bestselling series that has been a hit on both the page and the screen. Set in the unpsoiled countryside of Wyoming, Sheriff Walt Longmire has to navigate his own increasingly complicated...
11) Westport
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Nora Carleton novels volume 2
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When she becomes the lead suspect in her coworker's murder, Nora Carleton calls in her old colleagues from the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mafia investigator Benny Dugan and lawyer Carmen Garcia, and as they hunt for the true killer's motive, Nora examines her history with the company to determine who framed her.
12) Oreo
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Sur
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2020
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Oreo è il classico biscotto americano a due colori: nero fuori, bianco dentro. Ma è anche il soprannome di Christine, l'eroina di questo romanzo, nata dall'improbabile (e presto naufragato) matrimonio tra una madre nera e un padre ebreo. È per ritrovare le tracce di quest'ultimo, sparito senza spiegazioni anni prima, che l'adolescente Christine lascia Philadelphia alla volta di New York. Seguendo una labile scia di indizi, affronterà prova dopo...
13) Darryl
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Pidgin Edizioni
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2022
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Italiano
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Darryl Cook è un uomo semplice: ha una discreta posizione economica, una casa tranquilla nell'Oregon e una passione nel guardare la sua bella e distante moglie che fa sesso con maschi alfa. Un novizio nel mondo dei cuck, Darryl intraprende un viaggio alla scoperta di sé, sempre più ansioso e vulnerabile, mettendo in dubbio la sua mascolinità e che questa lo rappresenti davvero. Immergendosi nella scena del suo kink ed esplorando la propria sessualità...
14) Triangulum
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Pidgin Edizioni
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2023
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Italiano
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Nel 2040 l'Agenzia spaziale sudafricana riceve un misterioso pacco contenente un libro di memorie e una serie di registrazioni digitali di una mittente anonima che sostiene che il mondo finirà entro dieci anni. Queste memorie partono dall'adolescenza della narratrice, una ragazza apparentemente alla deriva, alle prese con visioni improvvise di una macchina fluttuante e un padre malato che non si è mai ripreso dallo shock della perdita della moglie....
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London, 1923. Returning from Paris, botanical researcher Saffron Everleigh finds that her former love interest Alexander Ashton's brother, Adrian, is being investigated for murder. A Russian scientist working for the English government has been poisoned, and expired in Adrian's train compartment. Alexander asks Saffron to put in a good word for Adrian with Inspector Green. Despite her unresolved feelings for Alexander, Saffron begins to unravel mysteries...
16) Dr. Grant
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Royal Books Edizioni
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2023
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Italiano
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Il lavoro dei sogni del dottor Noah Grant in un prestigioso college privato prevede tre regole:
1) Non andare a letto con gli studenti;
2) Non andare a letto con un paziente;
3) Stare lontano dalla nipote di Harold Astor;
1) Non andare a letto con gli studenti;
2) Non andare a letto con un paziente;
3) Stare lontano dalla nipote di Harold Astor;
Sembra facile, vero?
Lo era. Fino a quando Amara Astor non è arrivata in studio con una delle sue invenzioni - un giocattolo - incastrato dentro di sé.
Lei è una paziente, una dottoranda, ed è la nipote
...18) The rom-commers
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2024.
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"She's rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She's spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies-good ones! That win contests! But she's also been the sole caretaker for her kind-hearted dad, who needs full-time care. Now, when she gets a chance to re-write a script for famous screenwriter Charlie Yates-The Charlie Yates! Her personal writing god!-it's a...
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When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of 10-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse, until, of course, they discover exactly what they've been looking for.
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