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Wild Irish Renegade by Tricia O'Malley
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMaybe all the stories in the magazines weren’t true…Niamh Kearney has one goal in life – to finish out her schooling so she can help children with extra-sensory abilities like her own. Niamh leads a private life, and only her closest friends and family knew of the secrets she holds... -
The Color of a Promise by Julianne MacLean
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes the next instalment in her popular Color of Heaven Series, where people are affected by real life magic and miracles that change everything they once believed about life and love. Having spent a lifetime in competition with his older brother Aaron—who always seemed to get the girl—Jack Peterson leaves the U.S... -
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsA life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy.We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts . . -
The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne minute you are doing your make up and making plans, and the next your oldest sister is giving birth to a baby who awakened as a Prime mage while in the womb. You think Exorcist is scary? Connor and Nevada’s baby says, “Hold my milk. You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Timeline: Takes place at the end of Emerald Blaze... -
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The Force of Wind by Elizabeth Hunter
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHow far would you go to protect the ones you love? What would you sacrifice to kill the one you hate? Join Giovanni Vecchio and Beatrice De Novo as they travel to a hidden island on the far edge of China and seek the help of an ancient immortal court... -
Secrets and Seashells at Rainbow Bay by Ali McNamara
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe sun is shining on the golden castle on Rainbow Bay - and change is in the air!Amelia is a single mother, doing her very best to look after her young son, Charlie - but money is tight and times are tough. When she first hears that she is the last descendent of the Chesterford family and that she has inherited a Real-Life Castle by the sea, Amelia can't quite believe her ears... -
Shoes on the Stairs by Jan Steele
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by the many frustrations of parenthood and the ever-present fear of failure, SHOES ON THE STAIRS centers around a mother's struggle to accept what she has left behind after her death. She takes the reader on a journey of both laughter and tears while learning even the smallest of gestures can make a significant and lasting impact.* * *Claire Blackwell can't find that damn white light... -
Dark Desires by Aja James
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRyu Takamura is the Dark Ones’ Assassin. He has never missed his target…until now. Until her.Ava Monroe is a talented geneticist who holds the key to the vampire race’s future…and perhaps her own as well.Their attraction is explosive from the first. She would do anything to have him. He would sacrifice all to protect her... -
Eye of the Storm by Alyssa Day
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA monster hurricane, a long-lost father, the Irish mob, and a rogue vampire are all trying their darndest to smash Dead End, Florida into pieces -- and then another dead body shows up... -
The Pink House by Cindy Kirk
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDeep in the forest, on a sun-drenched patch of lush green grass, surrounded by lily-of-the-valley, sits a pink house. With turrets towering like neighboring trees, and a wide welcoming front porch, the old Victorian is impossible to miss. Except that everyone in town has—everyone but Hannah Danbury... -
A Score to Kettle by Eryn Scott
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA ghost mystery for readers who don't usually enjoy the paranormal."The residents of Pebble Cove were wary of the new commune at The Pines even before someone ended up dead.Rosemary is excited to cater her first even at the newly opened commune's full moon festival. When a young woman is found murdered in her yurt, it's clear these rich wannabe hippies aren't as peaceful as they pretend... -
Dragon Blood by Eileen Wilks
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe battle against a vengeful goddess reaches a climactic point as Lily Yu must now face the ultimate challenge in a dangerous new realm—without her husband, Rule...When a mission to rescue five children stolen by an Old One falls apart under the assault of a demon prince, Lily wakes up in a strange reality—and is immediately taken captive by the dragon spawn who rule there... -
Spring by Ali Smith
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFrom the Man Booker-short-listed author of Autumn and Winter comes the highly anticipated third novel in the acclaimed Seasonal Quartet. On the heels of Autumn and Winter comes Spring, the continuation of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories... -
The Scarlet Dress by Louise Douglas
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAlice Lang was wearing her favourite scarlet dress when she disappeared twenty-five years ago, and her memory still casts a long shadow.'The past was like water. Once the tide turned, you couldn't hold it back.'In the long, hot summer of 1995, twenty-two-year-old Alice Lang rents a caravan on a holiday park on the outskirts of the lively holiday resort of Severn Sands... -
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Hellhound in a Handbag by Viola Grace
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLinked to a mage she hates, Freddy is willing to trade all the power of the demon zone to get her freedom. Freddy was born to take the mantle of hellhound, but she wasn’t fond of the idea. Wearing the responsibility to atone for the work of a homicidal ancestor, Freddy is the eleventh generation tied to the victim’s family, and being bonded to a mage halfway around the world is tiring... -
Wolf Mountain: A Paranormal Romance Trilogy by Isabella Hunt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFINDING WOLF MOUNTAIN House sitting for her best friend Char was supposed to be an easy gig for Millie. Just move in for a week while Char was on vacation, feed the dogs, and all would be right in the world. When Char’s brother escapes from prison and shows up at the house, though, her easy two week vacation in the woods turns into a kidnapping lock down... -
Thomas Kinkade's Cape Light: Together for Christmas by Katherine Spencer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of the Angel Island series comes the sixteenth Christmas novel set in Thomas Kinkade’s beloved town of Cape Light. The holiday season finds one treasured relationship about to be torn apart...while another is just coming together... -
All of You by Fabiola Francisco
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the bestselling author in Country Music, comes a new novel in the Rebel Desire Series... She's a single mom with a messy life. He's Rebel Desire's bass player. I want what all my friends have. He doesn't need my baggage. I can't stop thinking about her. Romance isn't my priority, my daughter is. I want to show her she can have it all. He thinks we can be a family... -
Cupid's Christmas by Bette Lee Crosby
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn a fun Christmas Romance, Cupid is charged with making certain an older couple gets the love they've been waiting for and a young woman who’s far too attracted to handsome men with sexy eyes finds her perfect match. And, he has to make it happen by Christmas... -
Brambleberry House: His Second-Chance Family\A Soldier's Secret by RaeAnne Thayne
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCome stay awhile at Brambleberry House, a place infused with acceptance, healing and heartas only RaeAnne Thayne can imagine it. His Second-Chance Family Julia Blair spent many happy summers at Cannon Beach and fell hard for sweet local boy Will Garrett. Now the for-rent sign at Brambleberry House seems like a wonderful omen for widowed Julia and her young children... -
The Calhoun Women: Catherine & Amanda by Nora Roberts
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratings#1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Nora Roberts brings us three enduring and classic love stories.Courting CatherineCatherine "C.C." Calhoun was not going to let anyone take away the Towersespecially not handsome hotel magnate Trenton St. James. As far as Trent was concerned, his dealings with C.C. were strictly business... -
Other People's Things by Kerry Anne King
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the Amazon Charts bestselling author of Whisper Me This comes a witty, magical story about improbable connections, difficult gifts, and the unexpected events that heal us and bring us together. Jailbird. Klepto. Spectacular failure to launch... -
Summer by Ali Smith
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the present, Sacha knows the world's in trouble. Her brother Robert just is trouble. Their mother and father are having trouble. Meanwhile the world's in meltdown - and the real meltdown hasn't even started yet.In the past, a lovely summer. A different brother and sister know they're living on borrowed time.This is a story about people on the brink of change... -
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn this propulsive novel by the author of Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World and The Elephant Vanishes, one of the most idiosyncratically brilliant writers at work in any language fuses science fiction, the hard-boiled thriller and white-hot satire into a new element of the literary periodic table... -
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1Q84 BOOK2〈7月‐9月〉後編 by Haruki Murakami, 村上 春樹
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 39 ratings1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, is a near-past story inspired by Orwells futuristic 1984. It is told through the bizarre experiences of two protagonists searching for each other: a woman who descends into an alternate universe in 1984, and a passive college entrance exam prep instructor who is also an unfulfilled novelist. However the world they exist in is more bizarre than they are... -
Blue Dragon by Kylie Chan
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsWhen Emma's relatives come to visit her, they are totally freaked out by what they learn Emma's beloved, John Chen, is a 3000 year old Chinese god. Not only that, John is becoming weaker by the day. Demons pursue him relentlessly, hoping to use Emma, and his child, Simone, as bargaining tools against him... -
Fifth Life of the Cat Woman by Kathleen Dexter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart magical realism, part love story, this book is a vividly imagined (Jill Paton Walsh) allegory of prejudice, intolerance, and second chances...Categorized as:
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Midlife Dawn by N.Z. Nasser
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings*Shivers of excitement shot up my spine. It was time to draw a line under the past and find a new me.*By forty, Alisha thought she’d be living her best life. When her idiot husband gambles away their savings, she divorces him and throws herself into teaching her night class in godforsaken London. That is, until her mum dies in a car crash and Alisha suspects foul play...Categorized as:
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Ghost in the Guacamole by Sue Ann Jaffarian
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen two sisters feud over the family business, medium Emma Whitecastle doesn’t need a Ouija board to know it spells trouble. But with a little help from the spirited ghost of Granny Apples, she may be able to solve one murder and prevent another . . . Sisters Lucinda and Ricarda Ricardo—better known as Lucy and Rikki—are at each other’s throats over the family business, Roble Foods... -
Hideaway by Fern Michaels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPart One of the New Three-Part Godmothers Serial!The best of friends, Toots, Ida, Mavis, and Sophie have been there for each other through thick and thin. Now Sophie needs the rest of the Godmothers to help her through something they’ve never faced before . . .As Sophie De Luca has learned, many things really are better the second time around... -
My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call... -
Mystic Tea by Rea Nolan Martin
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery...Categorized as:
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Everyone Knows You Go Home by Natalia Sylvester
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Chasing the Sun comes a new novel about immigration and the depths to which one Mexican American family will go for forgiveness and redemption.The first time Isabel meets her father-in-law, Omar, he’s already dead—an apparition appearing uninvited on her wedding day... -
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsThe year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.” Meanwhile, an aspiring writer named Tengo takes on a suspect ghostwriting project... -
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Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsA gallery attendant at the Hermitage. A young jazz buff in Tokyo. A crooked British lawyer in Hong Kong. A disc jockey in Manhattan. A physicist in Ireland. An elderly woman running a tea shack in rural China. A cult-controlled terrorist in Okinawa. A musician in London. A transmigrating spirit in Mongolia... -
Lakeshore Christmas by Susan Wiggs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMaureen Davenport finally gets to direct Avalon's annual holiday pageant, and she's determined to make it truly spectacular. But former child star Eddie Haven is turning out to be a tattooed lump of coal in her stocking. Eddie can't stand Christmas, but a judge's court order has landed him right in the middle of the merrymaking... -
Aunt Dimity's Christmas by Nancy Atherton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA mystery unwinds in the idyllic English countryside shortly before ChristmasLori can hardly wait for Christmas this year: lean times are over, the cottage Aunt Dimity willed her is more beautiful than ever, her nine-month-old twins, Will and Rob, are thriving, and she and husband Bill have never been happier... -
Dark Chocolate Demise by Jenn McKinlay
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Cupcake Bakery Mysteries bake up sweet surprises, but as the series continues, Mel and Angie are in for a fresh batch of trouble… Scottsdale, Arizona, may not be the liveliest place on earth, but it’s never been as dead as this... -
Vicious Spirits by Kat Cho
Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAs Vicious Spirits begins, Miyoung and Jihoon are picking up the pieces of their broken lives following the deaths of Miyoung's mother, Yena, and Jihoon's grandmother. With the support of their friend Somin, and their frenemy, Junu, they might just have a shot at normalcy. But Miyoung is getting sicker and sicker by the day and her friends don't know how to save her... -
The Garden of Magic by Sarah Painter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA magical Pendleford prequel novella from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells, that introduces the world to Iris Harper – the original Harper witch.Iris Harper has lived in Pendleford for decades, the local witch is mistrusted by the townsfolk, but that doesn't stop some coming to her begging for potions, spells and quick-fixes... -
The Corner of Holly and Ivy: A feel-good Christmas romance by Debbie Mason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUSA Today bestselling author Debbie Mason presents the latest novel in the Harmony Harbor series! When hotshot lawyer Connor Gallagher returns to town, high school sweetheart Arianna Bell finds herself falling for him all over again... -
Sandpiper Shore by Debbie Mason
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"Heartfelt and delightful!" -RaeAnne Thayne, New York Times bestselling author USA Today bestselling author Debbie Mason presents the latest novel in the Harmony Harbor series. Perfect for fans of feel-good romances by New York Times bestselling authors Emily March, Sheila Roberts, and RaeAnne Thayne! Jenna Bell loves her job as a wedding planner and loves a happy ever after even more... -
A Midwinter's Tail by Bethany Blake
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsTo bark or not to bark . . . Professional pet sitter Daphne Templeton loves the holidays in Sylvan Creek, Pennsylvania. And nothing gets her into the spirit more than the town's annual Bark the Halls Ball... -
Candy Cane Killer by Mona Marple
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Candy Cane Hollow, a charming town full of excitement and secrets. Join Holly as she tackles her biggest challenge yet - solving a high-profile mystery while planning her dream wedding.The arrival of Angel Albright, the superstar pop sensation, has set tongues wagging in the town. But beneath the glitz and glamour lies a darker truth - someone is threatening her life... -
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The Patron Saint of Lost Souls by Menna van Praag, Karen Cass
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude's life is not overflowing with love... -
Vehn by L.S. Anders
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is an ACE of ASIN:B01MZFKIJG VehnVehn Mathieu possesses one of the most recognizable faces on the planet. He has everything money can buy, but there’s a huge piece missing from his exceptional life that can’t be bought – a soulmate. He longs to find a woman who wants the man behind the persona, a woman who can see beyond the façade... -
Don't Touch My Petunia by Tara Sheets
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPine Cove Island is the kind of enchanting place where anything is possible . . . The Holloway women each have a special gift, passed down through generations, each one a little different. Juliette possesses a magical green thumb, which makes her job managing the local florist shop a dream. She may be a bit wild, but she knows what she wants: to save enough money to buy the shop from her boss... -
Writing Mr. Right by Michaela Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings#1 Bestseller in British Contemporary Fiction "A modern Outlander meets Practical Magic - with a heavy dose of sexy!" What would you do if every word you wrote came true? That's Georgia's blessing - or curse. Ever since she was little, if Georgia Kilduff wrote a wish on paper, that wish would come true. Except for one - Georgia can't seem to write her Happily Ever After... -
Kim by T. Cooper, Allison Glock-Cooper
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if every year of high school you woke up as somebody else?When we last saw Oryon Small he was kidnapped and locked in a basement, his best friend Chase dying in his arms. In Changers Book Three: Kim, Oryon awakens as Kim, an Asian American girl who looks nothing like she expected or desired... -
Before and Ever Since by Sharla Lovelace
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFans of Jodi Thomas and Lori Wilde will love this sparkling romance from Sharla Lovelace, the bestselling author of Just One Day and The Reason Is You. Emily Lockwood has her hands full with a stubbornly independent daughter, an ex-husband who sometimes tests her patience, and a mother who often does...
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