Soraya knows she could never fall for someone like Magnus. He's her complete opposite in every way • Popular and confident, Magnus seems to have his life figured out, while Soraya has got to twenty-one and has somehow never been kissed • Soraya's mother Neda also knows what it's like to feel mismatched. She left Iran with her husband in the wake of revolution, and the aftershocks of that decision are still being felt decades later • When Soraya sets her sights on Magnus for her first kiss, the last thing she expects to find is first love • But sometimes the person you least expect might turn out to be the perfect fit • With unforgettable characters at its heart, THE MISMATCH is a pitch-perfect coming-of-age story and a fresh take on how what you think you want isn't always what brings you happiness
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The fourth Will Trent novel, from the #1 bestselling author • When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder • All too soon, former Grant County medical examiner Sara Linton - home for Thanksgiving after a long absence - finds herself unwittingly drawn into the case. The chief suspect is desperate to see her, but when she arrives at the local police station she is met with a horrifying sight - he lies dead in his cell, the words 'Not me' scrawled across the walls • Something about his confession doesn't add up and, deeply suspicious of Lena Adams, the detective in charge, Sara immediately calls in the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
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When a tragedy breaks a family apart, what can bring it back together? • The Birds seem to be the perfect family: mother, father, four children, a picture-book cottage in the country • But one Easter weekend, something happens - something so unexpected, so devastating, that no one can bring themselves to talk about it • The family shatters, seemingly for good • Until, years later, they are forced to return to the house they grew up in, and to confront what really broke the family apart
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When she was a child, people wondered why Lorna Byrne didn't seem present in the world around her • They never knew she was seeing angels • In her own words, Lorna tells the story of her life, and the remarkable visions that have shaped it. Through her eyes the reader meets creatures from the spirit worlds who, in our own world, watch over us and protect us - including angels of an astonishing beauty and variety, the prophet Elijah, an Archangel, and even the spirits of people who have died • Many of us have often felt like a guardian angel must be watching over us - but Lorna Byrne has seen them with her own eyes. This extraordinary document is the personal testimony of a woman who sees things that nobody else does. Lorna has looked past the range of our everyday experience, and this incredible book, is our window to a world beyond
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From the bestselling author of Sundays at Tiffany's, two heart-warming tales about the power of a good story to open our eyes to life's possibilities • Anne McWilliams has lost everything. After her marriage falls apart and a hurricane destroys her home she realises that her life has fallen out of focus. So she takes to the road to ask long lost friends and strangers a simple question: 'What's your best story?' Can the funny, tragic, inspirational tales she hears on her journey help Anne see what she's been missing? • Tyler Bron seemingly has it all – a successful company and more money than he knows how to spend. But he has no life. So he hires a struggling novelist to write one for him. There are no limits to the fictional world that Bron's money can transform into a reality, and he soon becomes the protagonist of a love story beyond his wildest imagination
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Lydia, Robyn and Dean don't know each other - yet • They live very different lives but each of them, independently, has always felt that something is missing • What they don't know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down • It is a letter containing a secret - one that will bind them together, and show them what love and family and friendship really mean
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Jack Morgan, owner of the Private detective agency, is having a very bad week • His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack's clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach • But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse - a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there's more bad news: Hollywood's golden couple, Thom and Jennifer Harlow, have been kidnapped, along with their adopted children • It looks like the whole world is about to discover whether Private are really as good as they say they are…
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A heartbreaking historical novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Stolen • Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is • Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life
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Two sisters • One extraordinary true story • Germany, 1945. Trapped between advancing armies, stranded hundreds of miles from their mother, and with their father missing in action, sisters Barbie and Eva were confronted with an impossible choice • Should they stay and face invasion or risk their lives to find their mother? • Together, they set out on a perilous three-hundred mile journey on foot across a country ravaged by war. Fuelled by courage and love, Eva and seven-year-old Barbie encounter incredible hardship, extraordinary bravery, and overwhelming generosity • Against all odds, they both survived • But neither sister came out of the journey unscathed • This is the powerful true story of their escape
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Would you be bewildered if someone described you as radgy? • Do you know how to recognise a tittamatorter? • And would you understand if someone called you a culchie? • How to Talk Like a Local gathers together hundreds of words from all over the country and digs down to uncover their origins. From dardledumdue, which means daydreamer in East Anglia, through forkin robbins, the Yorkshire term for earwigs, to clemt, a Lancashire word that means hungry, it investigates an astonishingly rich variety of regional expressions, and provides a fascinating insight into the history of the English language • If you're intrigued by colourful words and phrases, if you're interested in how English is really spoken, or if you simply want to find out a bit more about the development of our language, How to Talk Like a Local is irresistible - and enlightening - reading
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'A pulse-rate-speeding masterpiece' Sunday Times • 'A stunning novel . . . the subtlety and power of its construction holds our attention to the end' The Times • During a sweltering week in late August, as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Wells and springs are failing, a man has disappeared, and now the greatest aqueduct in the world - the mighty Aqua Augusta - has suddenly ceased to flow • Through the eyes of four characters - a young engineer, an adolescent girl, a corrupt millionaire and an elderly scientist - Robert Harris brilliantly recreates a luxurious world on the brink of destruction
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The critically acclaimed bestseller from the number one bestselling author of The Moment and A Special Relationship. A powerful romantic novel set in the tumultuous world of post-war America. New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before - one who is destined to change Sara's future forever. But finding love isn't the same as finding happiness - as Sara and Jack soon find out. In post-war America chance meetings aren't always as they seem, and people's choices can often have profound repercussions
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