In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat. Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in a netherworld that lies beneath the placid surface of Tokyo. As these searches intersect, Okada...
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
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Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary: -
Author:Jessica StirlingSummary:Charley Noonan, a rough-tongued young farmer, has been pursuing Christine Summers, a pretty young teacher in a country school in the 1930s, for years. But Christine finds herself falling in love with lonely widower Alan Kelso. Alan has...
- Author:MORRISSEY, DiSummary:
From turn of the century India to contemporary Sydney. This is a spellbinding saga of love...of two women connected across the decades by the men who love them... and the magic of Zanana.
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Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:Miranda Clifford, who leads a life of rigid respectability, turns to Neville Roscoe, ruler of London's gambling underworld, for help in finding her missing brother, only to find herself attracted to this disreputable man.
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Author:Etherington, Jill KellySummary:Ladies, it is time to give yourself something you deserve - an escape. Forget your worries, cuddle up in your favorite reading spot and indulge in a story that is just like candy; delicious and irresistible to put down. The Fire Down...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:Marion is determinedly ordinary. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and sober fiance Peter. But she reckons without an inner self that wants something more. A subtle and penetrating observation of relationships between men and...
- Author:NAPIER, RossSummary:
They blazed a trail of infamy, of murder and mayhem, defacing the glory of Australia's heritage with the wheelmarks of the Castlereagh Coach Company.
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Author:Brookner, AnitaSummary:Wishing to avoid the complications of turning down his cousin's widow's Christmas invitation, reclusive retiree Paul Sturgis sets off from the quietude of his London flat for a holiday in Venice. There he meets Mrs. Vicky...
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Author:Foster, LoriSummary:When Detective Logan Riske goes undercover to find Pepper Yates, a potential link to his best friend's unsolved murder, he vows to gain her cooperation by any means necessary. But the elusive beauty is more suspicious-and in far more...
- Author:FINE, AnneSummary:
Lovers, colleagues, family -- Tilly has always been brilliant at pushing people in and out of her life exactly as it suits her. Then along comes Geoffrey, gentle, compassionate, generous to a fault, with his miserable little children...
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Author:García Márquez, GabrielSummary:On her twelfth birthday, Sierva Maria – the only child of a decaying noble family in an eighteenth-century South American seaport – is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And...
- Author:Young, LouisaSummary:
A story that intertwines the lives of two very different couples during World War I follows army soldier Riley as he fights for the love of Nadine despite a terrible injury, and Riley's commanding officer Peter Locke, who returns...
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Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:After roguish Max Rotherbridge is saddled with four young wards, he must figure out a way to protect the Twinning sisters from his equally disreputable friends while winning the heart of the captivating Caroline Twinning.
- Author:Armstrong, LindsaySummary:
Chessie Valentine was no spoiled rich kid, and it was the last straw when Raefe Stevenson treated her that way! Discovering he needed a nanny for his daughter, Chessie knew this was her chance to make him see her differently.
