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261) The wife swap
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Publisher
Embla Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Some couples would kill for a weekend away... It was supposed to be a fun trip. Three couples, friends since high school, arrive at a remote mountain retreat ready to unwind and catch up. When an innocent remark of swapping partners is made, they laugh it off as a joke. But after a few glasses of wine, it doesn't sound like such a bad idea. With the lights off, it's not really cheating when you don't know who you're with, right? As the lights flicker...
262) Sister act
Author
Series
Accidental Diary of B.U.G volume 3
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Brought to you by Penguin. The third hilarious accidental diary from Billie Upton Green (don't call her BUG!) There's an exciting addition to the Upton Green family (and it's not whatever Mr Paws has left on the living room carpet...). But getting a new little sister isn't nearly as straightforward as Billie expects. Why are there so many rules? It's been weeks and weeks, and she still hasn't been able to hold the baby up at Show & Tell. Luckily,...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
In this intimate and innovative memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Margo Jefferson gives us her own personal and intellectual formation. As she comes of age in an America whose freedoms are distorted by race and gender, she finds herself reflected in a cast of others - jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes and stars. Bing Crosby and Ike Turner are among the author?s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge as the intimate and instructive...
264) The flatshare
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Tiffy and Leon share a flat. Tiffy and Leon share a bed. Tiffy and Leon have never met... Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they're crazy, but it's the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy's at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly-imprisoned brothers and,...
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Publisher
BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Mary Wimbush stars as unconventional psychoanalyst sleuth Mrs Bradley in these two full-cast dramatisations of stories by Gladys Mitchell. Colourful, cynical, intimidating and extremely intelligent, Mrs Bradley is one of the most unorthodox detectives in the history of Golden Age crime fiction. The heroine of 66 novels by Gladys Mitchell, she has also appeared in several radio adaptations and a BBC TV series starring Diana Rigg. In these two dramas,...
266) Last looks
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Series
A Charlie Waldo Novel volume 1
Publisher
Clipper Thriller
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
Waldo, a onetime LAPD superstar, now lives in solitude deep in the woods, pathologically committed to owning no more than one hundred possessions. He has left behind his career and his girlfriend, Lorena, to pay self-imposed penance for an awful misstep on an old murder case. But the old ghosts are about to come roaring back. There are plenty of difficult actors in Hollywood, and then there's Alastair Pinch. Alastair is a onetime Royal Shakespeare...
267) The no-show
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Pub. Date
2022
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Description
8.52am. Siobhan's been looking forward to her breakfast date with Joseph. She was surprised when he suggested it - she normally sees him late at night in her hotel room. Breakfast with Joseph on Valentine's Day surely means something ... so where is he? 2.43pm. Miranda's hoping that a Valentine's Day lunch with Carter will be the perfect way to celebrate her new job. It's a fresh start and a sign that her grown-up life is finally falling into place...
268) The fire witness
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Series
Joona Linna volume 3
Publisher
Blue Door
Pub. Date
2013
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Description
Flora has seen it all, but nobody believes her. A young girl is dead, someone killed her. She was only 14 years old and was found in her room at the institution for young women in distress, north of Stockholm. The walls are splashed with blood, the sheets are soaked. None of the other girls know what happened, but one of them has fled into the nigh
269) Nick and Charlie
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Series
Solitaire volume 1
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Description
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? CHARLIE: ?I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me.? NICK: ?Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films. Sit in the same room on different laptops. Text each other from different rooms. Make out. Make food. Make drinks. Get drunk. Talk. Argue....
270) The death messenger
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Series
Matthew Ryan volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
Track a stalker. Catch a killer. When a mysterious DVD is delivered to Northumbria Police Headquarters, DS Matthew Ryan and Detective Superintendent Eloise O?Neil are among the few to view its disturbing content. With little to go on the only lead comes from the anonymous and chilling woman?s voice narrating the blood-soaked lock-up depicted on screen. But with no victim visible, nor any indication of where the unidentifiable crime scene is located,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
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Description
Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job and the life she shares on Instagram isn?t really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren?t they? Until her not-so-perfect life comes crashing down when her mega-successful boss Demeter gives her the sack. All...
272) The hiding place
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Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2021
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Description
Some secrets can never be concealed . . . Nell Galilee, her husband and twelve year old step-daughter Maude rent a holiday cottage by the sea, needing time and space away from home. Nell grew up in this small, wind-blown town and has mixed feelings about returning, and it isn't long before she is recognised by a neighbour, seemingly desperate to befriend her. The cottage has been empty for some time, and from the start Nell feels uncomfortable there....
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Series
Charley Fairfax Mysteries volume 2
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Charley Fairfax-heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed-has every intention of living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries she faces are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining room. But when Jack is hired to investigate a suspicious death at a San Francisco software company, it quickly be-comes clear that high-tech has some low-life elements. The only way Charley knows how...
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This is not a romance, but it is about love Two kids meet in a hospital gaming room in 1987. One is visiting her sister, the other is recovering from a car crash. The days and months are long there. Their love of video games becomes a shared world -- of joy, escape and fierce competition. But all too soon that time is over, fades from view. When the pair spot each other eight years later in a crowded train station, they are catapulted back to that...
Author
Publisher
Corsair
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with something the old-timers call "Milk Sickness". "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. When the truth becomes known to young Lincoln, he writes in his journal,...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
The Easy Learning German course is the perfect language learning course for holidays and business trips abroad. The accompanying booklet is also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources. Easy to use - learn German quickly and with confidence Easy to follow - listen, speak German and learn Easy to learn - German grammar made simple Easy Learning German teaches you key words for the most important situations and lets you expand your language through...
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
The UK?s bestselling audio series for learning a languageThe Easy Learning Mandarin course is the perfect language learning course for holidays and business trips abroad.The accompanying booklet is also available at: collinsdictionary.com/resources.? Easy to use - learn Mandarin quickly and with confidence? Easy to follow - listen, speak Mandarin and learn? Easy to learn - Mandarin grammar made simpleEasy Learning Mandarin teaches you key words for...
278) The book of Fred
Author
Publisher
Blink Publishing
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
THE HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED NATIONAL TREASURES! This isn't a book of life lessons. It's not going to tell you make your bed, stand-up straight, or any of that. There's no blueprint to follow here. But, at 43 years of age, and with a bit more time on his hands than usual, Freddie Flintoff has had a moment to reflect and he's noticed that, although there's been little method in the madness, there has been the occasional common...
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Series
Daisy Dalrymple volume 22
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Description
In England in the late 1920s, the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, on a convalescent trip to the countryside, goes to visit three old school friends in the area. The three, all unmarried, have recently bought a house together. They are a part of the generation of "superfluous women"-brought up expecting marriage and a family, but left without any prospects after more than 700,000 British men were killed in the Great War. Daisy and her husband...
280) Dark corners
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Pub. Date
2015
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Description
When Carl sells a box of slimming pills to his close friend Stacey, inadvertently causing her death, he sets in train a sequence of catastrophic events which begin with subterfuge, extend to lies and culminate in murder. In Rendell's dark and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense, we encounter mistaken identity, kidnap, blackmail and a cast of
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