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Snow is Falling
Stranded on a snowy road pregnant and alone Laura Malone was wishing for a miracle when Gabriel Bradley came to her rescue. As the snow keeps falling, Gabriel can�t help thinking that Laura was a beautiful,vulnerable angel who had given him the most precious gift of all � the gift of hope! Beneath her sophisticated beauty, fashion model Hillary Baxter was still just a small-town girl.How could she be expected to resist her charming new employer, mesmerising tycoon Bret Bardoff? Especially with a snowy New York Christmas just around the corner
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Lessons Learned
Coordinating the publicity tour for Italy's most famous - and most adorable - chef was just the kind of assignment Juliet relished. Carlo Franconi could gather a crowd just by smiling and watching him prepare a meal was like witnessing a lesson in passionate lovemaking. By the time the tour was over, Juliet planned to have Carlo packaged as the world's sexiest chef. Women everywhere would fantasize about him preparing an intimate meal for two. But Juliet hadn't counted on being part of the dinner plans. Candlelight, pasta and romance Carlo distracted her with his charms, setting romance simmering in her heart.
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The Z Factor
The pioneer who gate-crashed his way to the top Subhash Chandra, the promoter of Essel/ Zee Group, is an unlikely mogul. Hailing from a small town in Haryana, where his family ran grain mills, Chandra has been a perennial outsider, repeatedly aiming high and breaking into businesses where he was considered an interloper. Starting work as a teen to pay off family debts, Chandra had to rely on bluff, gumption and sheer hard toil to turn things around. A little bit of luck and political patronage saw him make a fortune in rice exports to the erstwhile USSR. Always a risk-taker, Chandra then had the vision of getting into broadcasting early, even as established media players failed to see its potential. His Zee TV, India�s first private Indian TV channel, changed the rules of the game and tickled the fancy of a public starved of entertainment. Several gutsy initiatives followed, though not all of them were successful. Chandra�s attempts to launch satellite telephony and a cricket league came a cropper. But the man continues to reinvent himself; he is now also focusing on infrastructure and smart cities. This is an unusually candid memoir of a truly desi self-made businessman who came to Delhi at age twenty with seventeen rupees in his pocket. Today, he has a net worth of $6.3 billion and annual group revenues of about $3 billion.
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Dumplin Go Big Or Go Home
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed 'Dumplin' by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked until Will takes a job at Harpy�s, the local fast food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn�t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back. Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant along with several other unlikely candidates to show the world that she deserves to be up there as much as any twiggy girl does. Along the way, she'll shock the hell out of Clover City and maybe herself most of all. With starry Texas nights, red candy suckers, Dolly Parton songs, and a wildly unforgettable heroine - Dumplin' is guaranteed to steal your heart.
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The Spider In The Corner Of The Room
Plastic surgeon Dr Maria Martinez has Asperger's. Convicted of killing a priest, she is alone, in prison and has no memory of the murder. DNA evidence places Maria at the scene of the crime, yet she claims she's innocent. Then she starts to remember. A strange room. Strange people. Being watched. As Maria gets closer to the truth she is drawn into a web of international intrigue and must fight not only to clear her name but to remain alive. As addictive as the Bourne novels, with a protagonist as original as The Bridge's Saga Noren.
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Unfinished Business.
Hyattown had changed very little in the years Vanessa Sexton had been away. In some ways her high school sweetheart, Brady Tucker, hadn't changed much either he was still lean, athletic, rugged. But the once reckless boy had become a solid, dependable man. He'd stood her up on the most important night of her life, could she ever trust him again? So Vanessa had finally come home, Brady thought. She could still turn him inside out with one of her sultry looks. He couldn't believe she hadn't forgiven him for that night twelve years ago but he'd had his reasons for not showing up. He'd let her leave town then, but he wasn't going to let her get away this time.
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Scandalous Mistress
DOUBLE TAKE - Getting hot for the new teacher wasn't in police chief Mike Santori's plan, especially not when Lindsey Smith is more than she claims to be, but using every sexy trick he knows to strip Lindsey of her defences pushes them both beyond their limits. CAPTIVATE ME - Software developer Alyssa hates damnably hot nightclub owner Beckett Kayne. By day they're rivals, but by night he dons a mask and brings her wicked fantasies to life. Until the Ball, when Alyssa puts on her own mask! MY DOUBLE LIFE - Standing in as a dancer for one night, Courtney Masterson doesn't expect to see new client Trey Fraser in the front row. Suddenly she's offering him a private dance. Now her alter ego has opened the door to the one man who must never know who she really is!
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One Kiss In Moscow
RUTHLESS PASSION : One year after their night of sinful passion, Sergei Kholodov is determined to possess Hannah Pearl again. But will his appetite for her be sated after one more night? Rose Harkness has a daring proposition for tycoon Plato Kuragin, but it�s strictly business. Until a delicious taste of the forbidden leaves Rose hooked and her heart in serious trouble. Pilot Sloan 'Dodge' Hamilton is determined to stay away from icy beauty Larissa. Until she is threatened. Suddenly, his protective instinct takes over, unearthing feelings he never knew existed and can no longer control! Welcome to Moscow!
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Second Chance at Love
He's broken. She's beautiful. Together, can they be whole? Bindiya Saran is always cheerful - ask anyone who knows her. But her smiles hide a troubled past. When she is chosen to consult on a prestigious project for one of India�s largest conglomerates, she meets Samar 'Satan' Chauhan, the brooding mystery man no one can please. Bindiya and Samar come from different worlds, and they clash intensely. But, like the harshest of storms, unrest gives way to harmony and much to their surprise, they find in each other the one thing neither thought they truly deserved - a second chance at love. Are Bindiya and Samar too broken to fully trust each other? Will they find the courage to reopen their hearts, forgive themselves and seek redemption in love? Tenderly gliding from heartbreak to heartache to healing, this is a book that will speak to anyone who has ever been in love.
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Passenger to Frankfurt
Sir Stafford Nye awakens in a drunken stupor. He finds that his passport has been stolen. He remembers a strange woman who sought his help in Frankfurt, she’d begged him to save her life. Now, Stafford himself is under threat. He’s been targeted twice, and he’s escaped by the hair on his neck. Now he turns to the woman for help, but who is this enticing lady? She has far too many identities, and more secrets than he can believe! She also seems to be part of an international conspiracy, one that will engulf Sir Stafford once and for all!
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4.50 from Paddington
Elspeth McGillicuddy begins to doubt her eyes. She knows she witnessed a murder at Paddington Station, but there was no body, no victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. Has she begun to lose it? Elspeth decides to ask an expert for her help, her old friend and confidante: Miss Jane Marple. Miss Marple returns to the scene of the crime, and she reveals that she trusts Elspeth completely.
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The Unexpected Guest
On a foggy night, Michael Starkwedder enters an isolated house, discovering the scene of a crime. A woman stands over the body of a dead man slumped in a chair. She holds a gun and tells Michael that she is Laura Warwick, the dead man’s wife. She also tells him that her husband was an abusive drunkard. Michael decides to help her cover up the crime. They put the blame on a man from the husband’s past: MacGregor, who lost his son in an accident involving the husband. However, when the police arrive on the scene, they make a startling discovery: MacGregor is dead. Will Michael and Laura manage to escape blame for the crime or will the police uncover the truth?
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Alphabet Soup for Lovers
Lena Abraham knows that love can end in only one way � disappointment. Her marriage to KK is perfect precisely because she is not in love with him, and their life on a tea plantation in the picturesque Anamalai Hills is idyllic. Then, one rainy morning, a man arrives to take up temporary residence in the homestay they run. Shoola Pani is south Indian cinema�s heartthrob, an actor in flight from his own superstardom, and the last thing he is looking for is emotional entanglement. But when Lena and he meet, something flares between them that neither could have anticipated. She becomes his Lee and he her Ship, and Arcadia the place they inhabit. Told partly from the point of view of Komathi, the cook, whose own relationship with Lena is fraught with buried truths from the past, this searing tale of unexpected passion and adultery reaffirms the magical power of love in all our lives.
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The Village of Pointless Conversation
It doesn't matter where you go, I tell them. 'Travelling just means getting out of where you were.' Which is my halfassed way of saying, if they have stumbled through my doorway, they are lost as hell. Off the guidebook grid. Bumfuck nowhere, in other words. Pocolim is a little village somewhere or nowhere in Goa. It is home to Ferdie, the postman, who sets out to find his longlost love, Millie. Along for the ride in a recently repaired vintage car are the most unlikely companions: his friend Angie, the sweet, virginal widow, her motherinlaw, the extraordinarily corpulent and bossy Rosalina Eucharistica, renowned painter Don Pedro who finds lost inspiration in the vastness of Rosalina's body, and Savio, friend of Angie's late husband and once contender for her love. On the road, resentments, ambitions, bitterness and desires come to a boil, as disturbing secrets tumble out, redemption strikes where they least expect it. The Village of Pointless Conversation is a sensuous, funny, fullbodied affair, shot through with quiet gloom that peels off the thin skin of pretence under which lie all our human absurdities.
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Flame Tree Road
1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage,young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood�shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance - Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Biren's passionate spirit blossoms as wildly as the blazing flame trees of his homeland. With a law degree, he goes to work for the government to pioneer academic equality for girls. But in a place governed by age-old conventions, progress comes at a price, and soon Biren becomes a stranger among his own countrymen. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited. It is in her love that Biren finally finds his home, and in her heart that he finds the hope for a new world.
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Pretty Baby
A chance encounter, She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can't get the girl out of her head. An act of kindness Heidi has always been charitable but her family are horrified when she returns home with a young woman named Willow and her baby in tow. Dishevelled and homeless, this girl could be a criminal or worse. But despite the family's objections, Heidi offers them refuge. A tangled web of lies As Willow begins to get back on her feet, disturbing clues into her past starts to emerge. Now Heidi must question if her motives for helping the stranger are unselfish or rooted in her own failures.
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Goddess of Fire
The day after her husband died, all that Moorti's brother-in-law and his son had on their minds was pushing her into her husband's funeral pyre. Years later, she would remember how she had told Bipin, her brother-in-law, to take her husband's land but to let her go. Seventeenyear old Moorti's only fault was she hadn't paid any dowry. Will Moorti be able to escape from the clutches of her brother-in-law or will she become the goddess of fire?
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Woodsmoke and Leafcups
Bastar remained outside the country I knew and with which I was familiar: the scent of sal hinting at something more refreshing than the goals to which India aspired. Madhu Ramnath spent thirty years with the Durwa peoples in Bastar. What began as impulsive travel to a swathe of land that had no roads crisscrossing it soon turned into a homecoming: each stint in the forest compelled him to return and, finally, to stay. Over the years he became a student of Durwa life, living in the forest, tending cattle, working a hillslope in the village. He immersed himself in the Durwa world while indulging his passion for devising a botanical classification that would be accessible to a layperson Woodsmoke and Leafcups is a firsthand account of life in Bastar: the routines of communal life and the interactions of the Durwas with the State machinery. He writes of a culture where energy and laughter are currency, although of no value to anyone else. He draws a portrait of friends and teachers, threats and ways of eliding them, and the lure of politics for those long indifferent to it. At a time when 'there are few places in which to lose oneself', Ramnath writes of a people and a place that exist outside, sometimes counter to, known narratives.
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Mind Over Matter
Hollywood agent Aurora Fields kept her personal life strictly separate from her professional one, until she met TV producer David Brady. He might be working with her biggest client on a documentary,but that didn't mean Aurora trusted him. She'd be on hand to protect her celebrity star from exploitation and if that meant spending more time with David then so be it! David had always considered himself a good judge of character, so why did each moment he spent with Aurora leave her as enigmatic and enticing as before? Fall under the spell of New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts!
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The Marble Collector
A forgotten childhood. A discovered life. What if you only had one day to find out who you really were? When Sabrina Boggs stumbles upon a mysterious collection of her father's possessions, she discovers a truth where she never knew there was a lie. The familiar man she grew up with is suddenly a stranger to her. An unexpected break in her monotonous daily routine leaves her just one day to unlock the secrets of the man she thought she knew. A day that unearths memories, stories and people she never knew existed. A day that changes her and those around her forever.The Marble Collector is a thoughtprovoking novel about how the most ordinary decisions we make can have the most extraordinary consequences for how we live our lives. And how sometimes it�s only by shining on a light on someone else, that you can truly understand yourself.
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The One That Got Away
What are school friends for? Shared lunches, secrets, movies and studies. And if there is a best friend, you want to share everything with him. But do things really work out the way you want them to? Is life really fair? Shyamita and Jai know they have to go different ways once school is over. Shyamita is going to pursue dance and Jai is off to Cardiff for further studies. What happens when they meet after several years? Sparks fly, shocking them both. Before they can figure out what is happening, love strikes.
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Reckless.
New York Times Bestselling Author Tracy Whitney Sidney Sheldon�s most popular and enduring heroine is back again in the sensational and gripping followup to Chasing Tomorrow. Once upon a time, Tracy Whitney was one of the best thieves in the business. Then she settled down, had a baby, and planned to spend the rest of her days quietly, living anonymously, devoted to her son. But tragic news has forced Tracy to face her greatest nightmare. Now, with nothing left to protect, she returns to the hunt and she's more dangerous than ever. Tracy is not the only woman with a dark and dangerous past. The world faces a new terror threat from a group of global hackers intent on the collapse of capitalism and private wealth and the creation of a new world order. When this group turn to violence, with deadly effect, the mysterious woman pulling their strings becomes the CIA's public enemy number one. Only one clever and ruthless woman is capable of tracking down the terrorist: Tracy. But as Tracy discovers, the truth proves as elusive as her target. Hampered by corruption and enemies masked as allies, Tracy will be pushed to the brink, where she must face her darkest demons. But just how reckless will a person become when she have nothing left to lose?