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The First Day of the Rest of My Life
Cathy Lamb
Madeline O'Shea tells people what to do with their lives. A renowned life coach, she inspires thousands of women through her thriving practice-exuding enviable confidence along with her stylish suits and sleek hair. But her confidence, just like her fashionable demeanor, is all a front.
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Swagbelly
D J Levien
Elliot Grubman is in trouble. One year ago he was worth over a hundred million dollars, earned from Swagbelly - 'the magazine for today's gentleman'. He had everything in the world - a wife, a young son, and a five-story New York townhouse. Now he's divorced, his boy won't talk to him, and...
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Get Carter
Ted Lewis
The original novel of the classic cult film starring Sir Michael Caine.
Doncaster train station, and Jack Carter is heading home for a funeral - his brother Frank's. Frank had been found dead and drunk in his car at the bottom of a cliff. Now, Frank was a mild, sober man, so why did he la...
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The Kiss
Joan Lingard
Cormac, born and brought up in Belfast, living now in Edinburgh with his wife and children, is an art teacher, an admirer of Rodin and a sculptor himself. When he tries to transmit his enthusiasm for Rodin to his students he finds his words tend to fall on stony ground, except when it come...
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Absolute Beginners
Colin MacInnes
A Twentieth Century Classic
London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless – the absolute beginners – were creating a world as different as they dared from t...
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