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Anthony Trollope is known primarily for his epic novels like Barchester Towers. However, he also wrote a number of smaller "gems". This is one of the best. Alice Dugdale is a plain but intelligent girl who sees the love of her life pushed by society to marry the beautiful, but somewhat vacuous, rich girl in town. Alice's reaction to this situation makes a wonderful and insightful story.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood, a legacy erased from history—until now. “This is the kind of history I wish...

Hello listener, welcome to my book, Darkness to Light. This book is about me as a young girl, young woman, and adult woman. I went through experiences in my life that were very traumatic. I came to find a way out of the darkness in my life through Jesus. I am excited to know you are interested in my book. I wrote this book to inspire you, motivate you, help you heal, and take you to your destiny with God, for you to know that there is a new journey ahead: a journey of life, and of blessing. Open your heart and receive. Be blessed!

Suave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As chief whip, he's adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals—aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 Agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear. His position seems invincible—but nothing is forever, and when the tides of politics turn, Charles finds himself under threat. In these six series, we follow his fortunes and those of his close friend Home Secretary Dougal Baxter. Together, the duo rise, fall and rise again.

The complete series of off-beat thrillers about psychic detective Thomas Soutar, who uses his skills in police investigations. Set in Glasgow and featuring fantastic full casts, these unique police dramas star Robin Laing as Thomas Soutar. 

Sofía tiene tres amores: su gata Holly, los libros y El café de Alejandría. Sofía trabaja allí como camarera y es feliz. Sofía no tiene parejay tampoco la busca, aunque desearía encontrar la magia. Sofía experimenta un chispazo cuando él cruza por primera vez la puerta. Él aparece por casualidad guiado por el aroma de las partículas de café... ...o tal vez por el destino. Él se llama Héctor y está a punto de descubrir dónde reside la magia.

Fight. Flight. Freeze. These are the trauma responses most of us recognize. But another response is to fawn. This is the instinct to appease, flatter, and stay small to avoid harm. For many Christian women, this pattern has been reinforced as a virtue. What does it say about the church when our...

Sofía intenta seguir adelante... pero nada es lo mismo sin Héctor.

Sofía siente que se traiciona cuando un nuevo futuro se cuela en su vida.

Sofía enmudece al ver a Héctor en el Alejandría tras siete meses de silencio.

Héctor ha vuelto con un perdón en los labios y un hilo rojo como aliado.

Sofía y Héctor lucharán para volver a ser magia, pero ¿se puede mantener el amor sin renunciar a los sueños?

Miranda trabaja como subdirectora en una revista de moda.

Miranda es feliz junto a Tristán. Por eso no entiende que la esté dejando.

Ojalá pudiera dar marcha atrás y volver al momento en que se conocieron...

Pero ¿y si realmente tuviera la oportunidad de cambiar su historia?

Relationships are the most universal thread of the human experience. Our collective understanding of them rarely calls for us to question what we know to be true. But what if relationships are not actually bound by the absolutes that we, as humans, have placed upon them? What if there was a simple way to achieve a permanent state of unconditional love? In this heart-opening book, Marcus and Sheila Gillette, through the wisdom channeled from the Archangelic Guides known as THEO, reveal the remarkable paradigm shift that illuminates a simpler path to relationship success.

The cofounder of BET and first African American woman billionaire shares her deeply personal, “highly readable” (Kirkus Reviews) journey through love and loss, tragedy and triumph—an inspiring story of overcoming toxic influences, discovering her true self, and at last finding happiness in...

Èkó, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the ‘vagabonds’ powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician, a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work, a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality. 

Eloy Moreno es uno de los escritores más leídos y queridos y, al igual que sus libros anteriores, Diferente reivindica y lucha por valores importantes en nuestra sociedad, siempre a través de una trama llena de enigmas y sorpresas.

Bloomsbury presents Just Me written and read by Sheila Hancock. ‘Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, "Put your money where your mouth is." Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.' In The Two of Us Sheila relived her life with John Thaw...

Tras el asedio de Troya y obligado a huir para salvar a su familia, el derrotado héroe Eneas recibe una visión sobre el futuro de su casta. Acompañado de un puñado de supervivientes, se embarca hacia lo desconocido y naufraga en Cartago, donde es bien recibido por la reina Elisa y puede, al fin, atisbar la redención de su estirpe.

Was the greatest love story of all time a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her...

Birmingham, Alabama, 1921: after the Great War, the city of coal and steel is a crucible of money and power. Fortunes are there to be won or lost, with race and class used as means to that end. Father Jimmy Coyle swims passionately against that tide, building inclusive congregations and speaking out against the rise of white supremacy. Dedicated, determined, ambitious, naturally inclined towards human rights–he is a thorn in the side of the Ku Klux Klan, until he isn’t ...

Omega Ophelia begs the Alpha king Draven for her husband’s release. He refuses, so she offers to take her husband’s place in the tyrant’s bed.

The first Golden Age-style mystery in the Rachel Savernake series… How close can one person get to a cruel justice system before falling victim to it? London, 1930 Sooty, sulfurous, and malign: no woman should be out on a night like this. A spate of violent deaths—the details too foul to...

Domestic abuse does not always begin with violence. Sometimes it begins with attention, promises, and a love so intense that you do not notice your world becoming smaller. Wild to Wonderful is the true story of K Judd, a woman who survived coercive control, violence and the night she believed she would be killed. She was only twenty when the relationship began. Before long, fear had entered every part of her life, and the person hurting her had become the person she believed she could not live without. But leaving was not the end.