Joe Jameson
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Questioning if their love is strong enough to survive being apart as Nick prepares to leave for university, Nick and Charlie find things spiraling out of control as they try to make sense of where things stand between them.
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"It's a fun, frothy quintessentially British romcom about a certified chaos demon and a stern brunch daddy with a heart of gold faking a relationship."—New York Times bestselling author Talia Hibbert
AMAZON BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH
Named a best book of the year by Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Goodreads, The Washington Post, and more!
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...4) Elmet
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FINALIST FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
**The Guardian Best Books of 2017 * December Indie Next Pick * Amazon Best of the Month * Amazon Debut Spotlight * PEOPLE Magazine BOOK OF THE WEEK**
"Beguiling . . . A lyrical and mythic work . . . Mozley's sheer storytelling confidence sends the reader sailing."
─New York Times
"A quiet explosion of a book, exquisite and unforgettable." -The Economist
"Part fairy tale, part coming-of-age story,...
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"The King is dead, the Greatcoats have been disbanded, and Falcio Val Mond and his fellow magistrates Kest and Brasti have been reduced to working as bodyguards for a nobleman who refuses to pay them. Things could be worse, of course. Their employer could be lying dead on the floor while they are forced to watch the killer plant evidence framing them for the murder. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. Now a royal conspiracy is about to unfold...
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"This book is a call to save ourselves and our planet by targeting the root of our inaction: extreme short-sightedness. It outlines six practical ways we can retrain our brains to save our future and create a "time rebellion"-shifting our allegiance from our generation only to all humanity, present and future"--
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Kester Lanner didn't know what to expect when he followed his mother's dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn't expecting to find his long lost father. Nor was he expecting to join the family business: catching supernatural spirits.
Kester is intrigued despite his fear, and finds himself drawn into an ancient ghost story that will test the entire agency.
He soon becomes enmeshed in a struggle with the spirit, who is so malevolent...
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Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven't improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a contract which they must share with a rival agency headed by Dr Ribero's sworn enemy, Larry Higgins. Desperate for the job, the team accepts and begins to investigate the seaside town of Lyme Regis, where elderly victims...
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Kester and Ribero's team of inept supernatural investigators are back again. But this time, the stakes have been raised. Hrschni, a powerful daemon, together with the rest of the Thelemites, are hellbent on bringing spirits back to the world of the humans ... at any cost. Kester needs to gain control of his unique abilities, while coming to terms with the fact that his mother had more secrets than he realized. He must also decide where his allegiances...
10) Husband Material
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An Instant USA Today Bestseller!
"Our favourite chaos demon & stern brunch daddy return in this delicious, ridiculous, and often poignant romcom about all the ways love can grow." -Talia Hibbert, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author
WANTED: One (very real) husband, nowhere near perfect but desperately trying his best
In BOYFRIEND MATERIAL, Luc and Oliver met, pretended to fall in love, fell in love for real, dealt with heartbreak...
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Still recovering from the case of a serial killer spirit in Lyme-Regis, Dr Ribero's agency is soon confronted with an even greater threat: a reckless cult conspiring with an ancient and powerful Daemon to open a permanent spirit door so that spirits have unfettered access to the human realm. Having just witnessed the lethal consequences uncontrolled spirits can have on the unsuspecting, the agency joins forces with several others to prevent the cult...
12) Can bears ski?
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The award-winning author of Can Bears Ski? and the illustrator of Here’s a Little Poem draw on personal experiences in the story of Little Bear, who learns about his deafness when a visit to an audiologist reveals the truth about a world he sometimes has trouble understanding.
13) Fire Island
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A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture, and queer liberation over the past century.
Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop.
Now, poet and scholar...
14) A Magyar Mystery
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"After hitting rock bottom mentally, via a road sign in Bedford, Danny Murdo bounces back and straight into the Serbian mafia, the Hungarian aristocracy and an American film producer, amongst others, as he flounders through an Eastern Europe lurching worryingly to its right. He somehow solves crimes aided by his heroic homosexual brother and hindered by his devout pious brother-in-law."
15) Washed Up Royal
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The tabloids are reporting that I've taken the crown and run. That's not entirely true. As you might have guessed, I'm not an ordinary girl, and I don't lead an ordinary life, but that doesn't mean I always follow the rules. This time, though, I feel compelled to obey...which means I have to find a king to sit alongside my throne or lose it all. With only the clothes on my back, I head to the land of majestic playboys, where a royal rebel strides...
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More outrageous and high-intensity action from teen rebel and social-media star Robin Hood and friends as they continue their campaign against the brutal and corrupt powers that be. The sixth episode in the latest bulls-eye hit series from the bestselling author of Cherub.
Robin is pleased to hear from his old school friend Alan Adale, not least because Alan's father is Guy Gisborne's top henchman. Now that Gisborne is in the running to be elected...
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This is the new London: an immigrant city. Over one-third of Londoners were born abroad, with half arriving since the millennium. This has utterly transformed the capital, for better and for worse.
Ben Judah is an acclaimed foreign correspondent, but here he turns his reporter's gaze on home, immersing himself in the hidden world of London's immigrants to reveal the city in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers and witch doctors....
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In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman steps into the path of an oncoming bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? At the center of this puzzle is Adrian Wolfe, a successful architect and grief-stricken widower, who, a year after his third wife's death, begins to investigate the cause. As Adrian looks back on their brief but seemingly happy marriage, disturbing secrets begin to surface. The divorces from his two previous wives had been amicable,...
19) The Icarus Show
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Alex has worked out a foolproof plan to avoid being picked on. Don't React. It's so simple, it just might work. David, a boy in his class, does react. He's branded a weirdo, becomes an outcast, and is given a terrible nickname. Alex is determined not to suffer the same fate. But one day, Alex gets a note in his bag that forces him out of his safe little world. Who sent the note? And is what it promises true--will a boy really fly? The Icarus Show...
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An ancient city, sealed in a vast crater. A history of metallurgical magic, and of Builders that could craft the living, breathing stone. Caphen Talmar is the high-born son of an elite family, descended from the Builders themselves, his artistic career ruined when his ex-lover broke his fingers. One night, gambling down at the wharf-side — somewhere he shouldn't have been in the first place — he meets Aden. An uncomplicated, rough-edged dockworker,...