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Lodging-house keeper Clem Talleyfer prefers a quiet life. He's happy with his hobbies, his work - and especially with his lodger Rowley Green, who becomes a friend over their long fireside evenings together. If only neat, precise, irresistible Mr. Green were interested in more than friendship. Rowley just wants to be left alone - at least until he meets Clem, with his odd, charming ways and his glorious eyes. Two quiet men, lodging in the same house, coming to an understanding...it could be perfect.

When half your face is covered in a big, blotchy birthmark, you get used to the staring and the whispers. You get used to feeling unwanted. Until he walks into my bar.... Tall, gorgeous, and all kinds of out of place. And the way he looks at me ain’t like no way I've ever seen before.

Joe is a campaign manager who just helped elect the first Latino Mayor of Nashville. He was riding victory’s high when a call came from the state party chair inviting him to join a gubernatorial race, his first statewide campaign. This was his chance to step into the big leagues, and he couldn’t wait.

Fierce winds, howling seas and deadly secrets await in The Raging Storm, the latest mystery featuring Detective Matthew Venn from Ann Cleeves, the number one bestselling author and creator of Vera and Shetland. When Jem Rosco – sailor, adventurer and local legend – blows into town in the...

I used to be a mafia prince. Now I'm marked as prey. Someone is systematically eliminating my Family bloodline, and I'm the last heir standing. No money. No allies. No way out…except one. An underground auction where the wealthy and the wicked bid on desperate, untouched men like me. I expect to be sold to a stranger. Used and discarded. Instead, I'm bought by a man with a two-decades-long vendetta against my dead father. A beast who drops ten million dollars to own me, then drags me home to a prison he built just for me.

When Lori Hawthorne trades her high-powered city life for the unexpected inheritance of her late aunt's neglected fruit farm in Sedona, Arizona, she soon realizes that mending a broken orchard is only half the battle. Seeking a chance to rewrite her story, she's determined to breathe new life into both the farm and her own existence.

Brookhants School for Girls: infamous site of a series of tragic deaths more than a hundred years ago. Soon to be the subject of a controversial horror movie about the rumoured ‘Brookhants curse’: in the early 1900s, Brookhants students Flo and Clara fell madly in love, brought together by their obsession for a scandalous memoir. A few months later they were found dead in the woods, after a horrific wasp attack, the book lying next to their intertwined bodies. Three more grisly deaths followed before the school was forced to close. 

Giò Giò ha quasi ventun anni e vive da sola. Ha un animo ribelle e una forza capace di travolgere il mondo. Il carattere sfidante, determinato e un intrinseco bisogno di indipendenza hanno reso difficile il suo rapporto con la famiglia. In questa realtà Giò Giò scopre i suoi nuovi valori che le daranno una volontà tenace che mai aveva provato prima. Sarà con queste donne che instaurerà un rapporto intenso, fatto anche di convivenza e di quotidianità con cui condividere un viaggio ricco di forti esperienze e di avvincenti avventure.

A deeply emotional lesbian romance set in the wild beauty of Southeastern Alaska. When tragedy befalls the Athabascan village, River is reminded that life can change in the blink of an eye. Driven by their loss, River and Tatum work to fulfill their dreams for the future, and in doing so, touch the lives of many in the village and the nearby town of Glenallen.

This collection of poems is a map of my 37-year journey, not linear, not tidy, but real. This is the culmination of that chapter of my life. It’s a trail of fragments and fractures, of raw truths and soft places to land. These poems are what remain when everything else falls quiet. They were and still are my voice when I was, and am, too afraid to speak. They are, in many ways, a return to that lakeside morning light, to the warmth of my grandmother’s arms, and when I first realized language could be love.

It was supposed to be one night. No last names. No expectations. No chance of ever seeing each other again. Until Avery Rossetti walks into her Monday morning board meeting and finds the woman she spent the weekend with sitting across the table. Quinn Sinclare is the polished, powerful CEO of Halo, the tech giant determined to acquire Lilith, the queer dating app Avery built from the ground up. Lilith isn’t just a company. It’s Avery’s life’s work, her community, and the future she’s fought to create. Quinn doesn’t let emotions influence business. Avery refuses to let anyone take what’s hers.

The brilliant mind behind Vibrant Imaginistics's success with its fortified concoctications has come up against an unprecedentified conundrum, and all might be lost with the imbibment of a single specially prepared and expensive expressionistic!

Now part of the groundbreaking Kanata Classics list, with a new introduction by Audra Simpson, Billy-Ray Belcourt’s Griffin Prize winning poetry debut catapulted him into a beloved voice of his generation. Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize Winner of the Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton...

Running Upon The Wires is Kae Tempest’s first book of free-standing poetry since the acclaimed Hold Your Own. In a beautifully varied series of formal poems, spoken songs, fragments, vignettes and ballads, Tempest charts the heartbreak at the end of one relationship and the joy at the...

I want to sing you early songs. Go deeper. I want to take you back where you began, Find the scraps of you you hid in secret And bring them back to life beneath my tongue. Divisible by Itself and One is the powerful new collection from our foremost truth-teller Kae Tempest. Ruminative, wise...

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction 'An instant classic' - THE GUARDIAN 'A bloody masterpiece.' - MELISSA BRODER, author of THE PISCES 'Witty, emotional and gripping, Open Throat is a short but savage thrill ride' - THE INDEPENDENT 'Open Throat is Bret Easton Ellis meets...

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A Little Life 'I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much' – The Observer To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya...

A luminous and intimate novel about the weight of inheritance, the bonds of loyalty, and the awakening of love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia. The South unfolds during a visit by the Lim family to their rural clan estate after a long absence. Jay, in his mid-teens, and his two...

Occasionally, our lives tangle together when we least expect it. Sometimes it's down to fate... other times, it's a horrendous dating site and a torturous blind date. Isla MacLeod belongs to the vast Hebridean sea; she's a fisherwoman caught in a net of isolation against the rugged backdrop of Skye. Working alongside her grandfather, Isla hasn't made time for anyone to quietly slip into her safespace. Granda's pushing the throttle forward–– and not just on the trawler; he's desperate for Isla to find the one.

Leo's content to be in the background, letting his louder, more charismatic best friends shine. For a thirty-something gay people-pleaser, it's always been safer that way. But, suddenly, a gorgeous love interest from the past steps out of the wings, Leo's pushed to his limits by his overenthusiastic new boss and—strangest of all—he begins to question whether the friends he loves so dearly have been holding him back.