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When Sarah is sacked from her accountancy firm, despite being told she's not being sacked, merely being given the "golden opportunity" to explore new avenues - she doesn't think her life could get much worse - then her sister announces she's getting married. It's not that she's jealous she just wishes that she wasn't getting married to the brother of the one person ultimately responsible for her unemployment!Now she finds herself appointed as Maid...
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Janna Hargrove's life wasn't a fairy tale, not even close. She'd never imagined her life would have it's happily ever after moment. Until she met Ryan. The moment their eyes met, everything changed. She knew he was the one - he was her happily ever after.Five years into their two-year plan, Ryan finally popped the question. The moment was everything Janna had dreamed of. She had the man, the ring, the wedding date, the house, the career and the plan...
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Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life that she dreamed of as a girl. However, with one fateful phone call, Crita's life is turned upside down. Suddenly back home, living under her parent's roof, Crita must confront two powerful men from her childhood--Link, her destructive brother with whom she shares a dark secret, and Tree, her first love.
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Living happily ever after is a full-time job.Charlotte's life is on an upward swing. She's in business with her best friend and her art is finally getting noticed.Nothing could possibly go wrong ... until everything does.One disastrous night out ends with the sudden collapse of her best friend's husband, putting him in the hospital and leaving Charlotte to manage things alone.Uncertain about her ability to keep her business and her aspirations for...
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As featured in The Guardian - Superb edition of this historic gem!
Celebrate the centenary of women getting the Vote by cooking and eating some of the Suffragettes' favourite meals.
Dozens of vintage recipes contributed by some surprising supporters of the popular cause, including famous writers, governors and even a judge.
With none of the fads of modern-day cooking, these simple recipes range from hearty breakfasts to healthy soups, salads and meaty...
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All Kentucky-born Jane Denton wanted was to have an iced coffee from the comfort of the clubhouse at the Porters Ford Golf Club. Given the state of play, she faced a long wait for her husband's foursome to come within view at the eighteenth green. Her husband, senior pro golfer Charlie Denton, was participating in the club's annual charity golf tournament.Never a golfer herself, Jane was there only for moral support. Otherwise, she finally had the...
7) Lie Baby Lie
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Caroline has a one track mind. She wants a baby, and she's willing to do anything to get what she wants. Her husband promised her she'd have her wish. When a secret from his past threatens to ruin Caroline's plans, she takes matters into her own hands. His lies soon become her own web of lies and deceit.Reese is desperate for a child too, but years of infertility and loss have jaded her. Secrets and lies have become second nature. The secrets she's...
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Take a roller coaster ride inside of the human heart with this short collection of 15 poems dealing with everything from love and romance to death to anger to friendship and beyond. Written in both free verse and fixed verse format, these poems will not only touch your emotions but they will also motivate you think deeper.
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Charlotte Rose's quiet life on a remote island is forever altered on the day Michael Cordero, injured and bleeding, steers his forty-foot ketch into Eagle Cove. Using skills she's learned over years of caring for her husband and son, who are away fishing for salmon, Charlotte tends to Michael's wounds. As Michael recovers, an undeniable attraction grows between them. When a violent storm descends on the island, they risk everything to save Michael's...
10) Love and Daisies
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Ella has spent her life in a small town surrounded by loyal friends, the scent and beauty of her floral shop, and calm predictability. Everything changes when she runs over a newcomer in town. The usually level-headed businesswoman falls clumsily into a future she couldn't have predicted, and finds herself entangled with a past never forgotten. Despite her resistance, Ella tumbles through romance and comedy into the arms of the man she never imagined...
11) Sugar and Salt
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Sugar and Salt' is a collection of poems and reflections on love, sadness and all that the heart and mind experience. The title sugar and salt is a metaphor for the presence of sadness as well as happiness in life. Sugar and salt can also symbolize someone who is good and bad, salty and sweet at the same time toward us. Sugar and salt look similar, but taste quite different, which reminds us to be wary of people.
12) Dandelion Summer
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Annie Chisholm led the perfect life for more than 30 years -- at least that's how it seemed to everyone around her. But she and her husband, Michael, knew the truth about their shattered marriage. Eighteen months after her husband's death, Annie still struggles with grief and guilt, unable to put the past behind her and embrace the future. On what would have been Michael's retirement date, Annie learns that he rented an RV and planned a solo road...
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Vol. 4 includes stories by Adithi Rao, Almari Randall, Lisa Walter, Karl "Tony" Ginyard, Ann Syréhn Tomasevic, and Pete Johnson.Who can really see into the depths of our hidden selves? Who can tell us what resides in the farthest places that make up who we are? Can we discover our hidden nature in a mirror? From our closest friends? From our mothers and fathers?Our hidden nature might come out when we move to a new town or a new country. It might...
14) A Birthday Gift
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About the book: This book is mainly about the love towards the husband that penned down in written format...it's handmade birthday gift...which has my outline drawings...expressing the love before the person you love may take minutes...if you gift it in a written format...it will be worth sharing...and he can memorize whenever time and what ever the place he might....I included 30 main reasons and some other reasons in a picture and brief description...
15) Torn
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TORN is a collection of poems that visualises the emotional phase of every human being, where the reader gets to know how it would feel like if you are broken at one stage of your life. For the love that is left behind or the one that is waiting ahead - this is a portray of all at once. When one part of you is torn, it is indeed possible to get back. With the progression of a relationship, there is this phase where each individual feels the discomfort...
16) Unseen Wounds
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Rae and Fitch, both doctors, decided before they got married that having children wasn't for them. But when Rae turns thirty-three, she finds that a career simply isn't enough. She wants a child. Fitch, however, is perfectly content and sees no reason to turn his whole life upside-down. And his wife's longing soon triggers an irrational jealousy that threatens to drive her away altogether.
17) Votes for Women
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The best collection of suffrage plays on offer
Introduced and set in historical context by Dr Susan Croft, formerly Curator at the Theatre Museum in London, with a chronology of suffrage drama from 1907-1914.
The astonishing women involved in the Actresses Franchise League set up their own theatre companies and engaged with the battle for the vote by writing and performing campaigning plays all over the country. They launched themselves onto the political...
18) Invisible Anna
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On the cusp of a new decade, Anna Granger thinks she knows who she is: widow, attentive mother, accommodating businesswoman. But with the Big 5-O comes the realization she's rendered herself all but invisible. Longtime clients aren't renewing, her adult children are moving on, and-hardest to admit-men no longer look at her, only through her.Anna's best friend takes the reins and organizes an uplifting girls-only weekend in Vancouver, where a beginner's...
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Roller Derby and Superheroes collide in this delightful comedy critics have been calling "perfect escapism and purely satisfying entertainment." (CBC Ottawa) Amy, a shy comic book geek who just turned 30, discovers roller derby through her bossy and overachieving sister, June. With a mixture of heartwarming honesty and snappy observations, she navigates this competitive world, finds love, and finally learns to unleash the hero within.Praise for Roller...
20) Backlight
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The stunning conclusion to the Francesca Trilogy, where Francesca Garancini confronts the demons of her past to make a future with room for love.
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