Winner of the 2002 Scotiabank Giller Prize and of the 2003 Commonwealth Writers' Prize: Best Book (Canada and the Caribbean) When an elderly Bimshire village woman calls the police to confess to a murder, the result is a shattering all-...
Mistresses
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Author:Clarke, AustinSummary: -
Author:BARNARD, RobertSummary:Actress Caroline Fawley is enjoying life. Her wealthy lover, supermarket owner Marius Fleetwood, has set her and her children up in a grand house in Marsham. But Caroline's life is shattered when a young man unexpectedly appears...
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Author:Harper, KarenSummary:This novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the Boleyns, one of England's most powerful families, through the eyes of the eldest daughter, Mary. This book tells Mary Boleyn's life story from when she was ten years old...
- Author:Black, MilleniaSummary:
For six years, Reginald Brooks--slick Disney marketing VP--has pulled off the perfect scam. He has juggled two families without the other one finding out. He stays two weeks in Miami with his wife and two young adult daughters and the...
- Author:Fitzgerald, F. ScottSummary:
The year is 1922, and young Nick Carraway moves to the village of West Egg, where he discovers that his neighbor is the eclectic millionaire Jay Gatsby. As he and Gatsby become acquainted, Nick is thrown into a world full of dazzling...
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Author:Junor, PennySummary:In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall-the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana "a bit crowded"-esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and...
- Author:Gramont, Nina deSummary:
The greatest mystery wasn’t Agatha Christie’s disappearance in those eleven infamous days, it’s what she discovered. London, 1925: In a world of townhomes and tennis matches, socialites and shooting parties, Miss Nan O’Dea became Archie...
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Author:Ridley, EricaSummary:Enjoy the witty, emotional second book in U.S.A. Today bestselling author Erica Ridley’s new Dukes of War regency romance series! Captain Xavier Grey’s body is back amongst the beau monde, but his mind cannot break free from the horrors...
- Author:Locke, JohnSummary:
What if the best morning of your life suddenly turned into your worst nightmare' Sam Case is about to find out. Saving Rachel is the story of what happens when killers force a man to choose between his wife and his mistress '...
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Author:Gulland, SandraSummary:An eccentric young woman's love for a wild white stallion tempts her into using an ancient magic that overshadows her subsequent life and leads to her affair with the charismatic Louis XIV.
- Author:Quick, AmandaSummary:
When a blackmailer threatens her Aunt Zoe, Iphiginia knows she can ferret out the villain. A 26-year-old vixen with the intellect to match her beauty, Iphiginia descends on London society as the dazzling mistress of the missing Earl of...
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Author:Guertin, ChantelSummary:“Love Struck will have you laughing out loud and constantly hoping, ‘Please don’t do what I think you’re going to do.’” — ChickLitReviews.com
When 27–year–old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her seemingly...
- Author:Chicoine, JeanSummary:
Histoire d’amour dans laquelle le narrateur trouve sa bien-aimée, l’ange de Jean Chicoine termine la trilogie du Village Osborne, quartier populaire et flyé près du centre-ville de Winnipeg. Ce roman bilingue et bilangue poursuit l’...
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Author:Priestley, J. B.Summary: - Author:Syjuco, MiguelSummary:
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 LEACOCK MEDAL FOR HUMOUR “A super-typhoon of a novel. A Babel of rogues, survivors, and shape-shifters. A polemic against corruption and greed. A sassy, swerving mini-series, touched by grace and beauty. A...
- Author:Parmar, PriyaSummary:
Following her discovery selling oranges outside of Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, Ellen "Nell" Gwyn leaves behind a life of poverty to become a theatre star. Soon she is mistress to the libertine King Charles II. And though their love is...
- Author:Kendrick, SharonSummary:
True, Constantine Karantinos has only the faintest memory of a romantic dalliance with a waitress named Laura. But when he learns she's mothered his heir, he summons her to Greece, where she insists on paying her way as his housekeeper...
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Author:Smart, ElizabethSummary:Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening … A masterpiece’.
One day, while browsing in a London...
