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Welcome to the irresistible world of E. Lynn Harris... He is a devilish and handsome ex-football player, now a rising sports agent at one of the hottest firms in the country. Irrepressible and dangerously alluring, John "Basil" Henderson has a history with women (and a few men). Basil is the...

“[A] remarkable saga.... Engrossing.” —Booklist, starred review In this triumphant debut inspired by true events, a ragtag gang of journalists and resistance fighters risk everything for an elaborate scheme to undermine the Reich. The Nazis stole their voices. But they would not be...

Neither Marion Whiting nor Barbara Jenkins loved their jobs in the mill; however, they did the best job they could for their government, and after being widowed by the war, those jobs had become a necessity. The two women fell in love and moved in together to save on expenses, but they soon discovered life very different from when they were married to men.

Everything must come to an end, and as Eli contemplates the loss of Malachi in a London ripped apart by war, he knows that the final battle looms ever closer. Where is Ethan? Eli can feel him, their love for each other calling through time, but history conspires to keep them apart as Morbius uses him for the final game. Desperate to find a way to end the war, Eli once again delves into the distant past in search of answers, but as Jack the Ripper taunts him from the pages of his dead lover’s diary, Eli is left despondent.

Michael St. James hates tidewater post-Colonial Virginia with a passion. Banished there thanks to an ill-timed duel, Michael is bored with the countryside, and thinks his new companions are poorly-educated boors. What he needs is a challenge, something to stimulate his mind. Which is why, when Michael meets Daniel Calhoun, he takes such an immediate interest.

When Mary Todd meets Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in the winter of 1840, he is on no one's shortlist to be president. Rough and reticent, he's a country lawyer lacking money and manners, living above a dry goods shop, but with a gift for oratory. Mary, a quick, self-possessed debutante with a tireless interest in debates and elections, at first finds him an enigma. "I can only hope," she tells his roommate, the handsome, charming Joshua Speed, "that his waters being so very still, they also run deep." 

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER OF CANADA READS 2026 FINALIST FOR THE 2026 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 GILLER PRIZE A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian...

En cette année 1916 où la guerre dévore chaque jour sa ration de chair humaine, les survivants n'ont d'autres ressources que d'offrir leur corps en sursis à la douceur du désir et à la violence des étreintes. Vincent, le narrateur, est un très jeune homme particulièrement beau et intelligent. Il découvre la passion dans les bras d'Arthur, un jeune soldat qui tente d'échapper pour quelques jours à l'horreur des tranchées ; et dans le même moment, il noue une amitié amoureuse avec Marcel Proust que la séduction de cet adolescent trouble.

From Minrose Gwin, award-winning author of The Accidentals, comes Beautiful Dreamers, a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family. Its 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi...

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most distinctive writers, evokes an era of unspoken desires in which pain and longing are braided together along treacherous lines. It's 1922 at Far Cry Cannery, a quarter-mile of boardwalk and wooden...

In 1940s Chicago, when insurance salesman Elliot Blake calls at the home of fight promoter Walt Winkler to sell him a new insurance policy, it's handsome boxer Vito who comes to the door. Vito wants something from Elliot, but it's not car insurance. In this gay story inspired by the classic noir novel Double Indemnity, obsessive desire unfolds in an unexpected direction. It's not a remake. You'll never see what's coming.

In the frigid winter of 1891, with the nation still reeling from the Barings bank crisis, Inspector Philemon Raft returns from an involuntary sabbatical and is tasked with solving the kidnapping of highly placed peer Alice Dewberry. Thrust into a sordid underworld where the upper classes indulge in disreputable overseas investments designed to fatten their pocketbooks, Raft finds himself at loose ends without his companion, Constable Freddie Crook.

Decorated artilleryman Edgar Mason was forced to find new work when the British Empire replaced its foot soldiers with monstrous machines. Agamemnon Frost, however, is far from the foppish man-about-town he appears to be. He's working to protect the Earth from an alien invasion being planned by a face-changing creature known as Pandarus. And on the night he plans to confront the aliens, he enlists Mason to assist him. For a man to love a man is a serious crime in Victorian England. But when Mason meets Frost, his heart thunders and his blood catches fire.

Berlin, 1942. Lilly Wust, 29, verheiratet, vier Kinder, führt das Leben von Millionen deutscher Frauen. Doch dann lernt sie die 21-jährige Felice Schragenheim kennen. Es ist Liebe, fast auf den ersten Blick. Als Jaguar-Felice ihrer Geliebten gesteht, dass sie Jüdin ist, bindet dieses gefährliche Geheimnis die beiden Frauen noch enger aneinander.

Yoshiba y Fumi se han amado durante toda su vida. El único temor que les asalta es morir y separarse para siempre. Un día, Yoshiba descubre el lugar del que hablaban los viejos: la fuente de la eterna juventud. Pero los viejos amantes pronto entenderán las consecuencias de haber bebido de sus aguas.

1791. The dressmaker, his lover and his lover's wife. A house full of secrets where danger lies behind every door. Matthew came from nothing. Now he is a skilled corset-maker adored by high society. But he must hide his true self from prying eyes, seeking love in the riotous underbelly of...

Uma história de amor arrebatadora no Cairo dos anos 1980. O premiado romance de estreia de Éric Chacour na voz de Johnny Massaro. No Cairo dos anos 1980, Tarek é um médico casado, respeitado e bem estabelecido. Quando ele abre uma clínica popular em um bairro pobre da cidade, conhece Ali, um rapaz com quem vive um romance turbulento, que vira sua vida do avesso.

Miquel and his father are living an uneasy life together in his mother's house in the Pyrenees, the house she had been returning to on the day she died. A new bridge connecting the remote valley with a changing world is almost complete, which will end its isolation and create an easier route for...

Der Auftakt der neuen Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin A.D. WiLK über starke Frauen. Es ist falsch. Doch sie kann nicht aufhören, an sie zu denken. Will nicht länger an sie denken. Soll sie sich ihren Gefühlen ein weiteres Mal hingeben, obwohl sie weiß, dass sie dabei alles verlieren kann? Sommer 1974. Nici und Kate sind 17. Abgeschieden von der Hektik der Großstadt und dem bunten Treiben der Siebziger Jahre verbringen sie sechs Wochen bei ihren Großeltern in einem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen.

For Ellen Whitfield, the betrothal of her dear friend Harriet to Ellen’s brother has brought both loss and solace. But when Harriet suddenly breaks off the engagement, ostensibly at the insistence of her deceased mother, Ellen is bewildered. And when she learns that Harriet is involved with a...