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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Big Book Club Palate Cleansers
Read-Alikes for The Cartographers
Read-Alikes for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Scary Mommy Book Club
Read-Alikes for The Cartographers
Read-Alikes for The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Scary Mommy Book Club
Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
Author
Series
Bareknuckle bastards volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"When Wicked Comes Calling . . .When a mysterious stranger finds his way into her bedchamber and offers his help in landing a duke, Lady Felicity Faircloth agrees--on one condition. She's seen enough of the world to believe in passion, and won't accept a marriage without it. The Wallflower Makes a Dangerous Bargain . . .Bastard son of a duke and king of London's dark streets, Devil has spent a lifetime wielding power and seizing opportunity, and...
3) Rhapsodic
Author
Series
Bargainer volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Callypso Lillis is a siren with a very big problem, one that stretches up her arm and far into her past. For the last seven years she's been collecting a bracelet of black beads up her wrist, magical IOUs for favors she's received. Only death or repayment will fulfill the obligations. Only then will the beads disappear. Everyone knows that if you need a favor, you go to the Bargainer to make it happen. He's a man who can get you anything you want...
Author
Series
Bareknuckle bastards volume 3
Language
English
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Description
"Grace Condry has spent a lifetime running from her past. Betrayed as a child by her only love and raised on the streets, she now hides in plain sight as queen of London's darkest corners. Grace has a sharp mind and a powerful right hook and has never met an enemy she could not best...until the man she once loved returns. Single-minded and ruthless, Ewan, Duke of Marwick, has spent a decade searching for the woman he never stopped loving. A long-ago...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"1919. In a Highland village forgotten by the world, the young people who remain after war and flu will soon head south to make something of themselves. Moira Jean and her friends venture to the forest for a last night of laughter before parting ways. She too planned to leave once - but her lover died in France and with him, her future. The friends light a fire and dance. But with every twirl about the flames, strange new dancers thread between them,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015, ©2014.
Language
English
Description
How hard can it be to write a fantasy trilogy? When YA author Philip Murdstone's star starts to wane, his agent, the ruthless Minerva Cinch, convinces him that his only hope is to write a sword-and-sorcery blockbuster. Unfortunately, Philip is utterly unsuited to the task. In a dark hour, a dwarfish stranger comes to his rescue. But the deal he makes with Pocket Wellfair turns out to have Faustian consequences.
Author
Publisher
Mills & Boon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Seth Broden needs this last deal to achieve the success he's always desired -- but to close it, he must make the one acquisition he's never wanted: a wife! A chance meeting with pretty but penniless Imogen Hayes gives Seth the opportunity to propose a mutually beneficial arrangement... Jilted bride Imogen vowed to save herself for her wedding night -- but she never expected to be walking down the aisle to Seth! With the brooding tycoon waiting for...
Author
Series
Beneath the haunting sea volume 2
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
It has always been Eda's dream to become empress, no matter the cost. Haunted by her ambition and selfishness, she's convinced that the only way to achieve her goal is to barter with the gods. But all requests come with a price and Eda bargains away the soul of her best friend in exchange for the crown. Years later, her hold on the empire begins to crumble and her best friend unexpectedly grows sick and dies. Gnawed by guilt and betrayal, Eda embarks...
Author
Series
Ursula Lopez novels volume 1
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Translated Books from Latin and South America
Women in Translation (2021)
Translated Books from Latin and South America
Women in Translation (2021)
Description
"The story is set in Uruguay, it starts in a Montevideo prison where Diego waits for his lawyer, the slick Dr Antinucci, always raybanned, chain-smoking, never frisked by the prison guards. Diego, betrayed by his partner in crime, was arrested for kidnapping a businessman. But charges will not be pressed. The businessman and his wife have described Diego as duped by his partner, certainly no master criminal, so he will be let out. But Antonucci has...
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