Wild Irish Rose

Millions of readers have fallen in love with Ava's bestselling books... come join the family. International bestselling author Ava Miles kicks off her new series with an irreverent hero, two well-intentioned matchmakers, and a heroine as beautiful as a wild Irish rose.Trevor Merriam doesn't like being ordered around by his older brother, much less to a sleepy Irish village to complete a business deal for their family company.Worse: the owner of the land he needs to buy doesn't want him there. In fact, Becca O'Neill loathes him so much that she won't even serve him the award-winning scones her famed Wild Irish Rose Bed and Breakfast is known for.Even worse than that (and not getting scones is bad in Trevor's book): Becca has an ornery cat, a mischievous Irish setter, and a famous ghost all intent on making sure he fails. Then there's the woman herself. If she weren't so indignant about his business offer, they might have a good romance budding.Worst of all:...
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Something New Under the Sun

A novelist discovers the dark side of Hollywood and reckons with ambition, corruption, and connectedness in the age of environmental collapse and ecological awakening—a darkly unsettling near-future novel for readers of Don DeLillo and Ottessa MoshfeghONE OF SUMMER’S BEST BOOKS: The Wall Street Journal • Time • Vulture • Parade • LitHub “A darkly satirical reflection of ecological reality.”—Time“Magnificent and stunning.”—Jeff VanderMeer, author of Annihilation and Hummingbird Salamander“Wildly entertaining and beautifully written.”—LitHubEast Coast novelist Patrick Hamlin has come to Hollywood with simple goals in mind: overseeing the production of a film adaptation of one of his books, preventing starlet Cassidy Carter's disruptive behavior from derailing said production,...
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Started From the Top Now I'm Here 2

Sonnet is back at it again, leaving a trail of chaos and destruction to all those that stumble in her path. She has fallen on hard times but is determined to make her way back to the top, by any means necessary. Will Kenterris take her back? Will Aintee Maven's firm hand prove stronger than the pull of the streets for Aviare?We also check in on our favorite hood couple, Lexi and Darrius. Will they be able to make it as a couple this go round? Will Cheron ever find out about Sonnet and Kenterris? Join Lexi, Kenterris, Cheron, Aviare, and the rest of the gang for this action packed thrill ride, sure to leave you on the edge of your seat.
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Another Night, Another Day

An emotional novel about friendship and loss from the bestselling author of One Moment, One Morning and The Two Week Wait From the author of the bestselling One Moment, One Morning comes another beautiful, bittersweet novel set in Brighton. Three people, each crying out for help . . . There's Karen, worried about her dying father; Abby, whose son has autism and needs constant care; and Michael, a family man on the verge of bankruptcy. As each sinks under the strain, they're brought together at Moreland's Clinic. Here, behind closed doors, they reveal their deepest secrets, confront and console one another and share plenty of laughs. But how will they cope when a new crisis strikes?
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Cryonic

Bradberry is..."Haunting..." --San Francisco Chronicle"Riveting..." --Kirkus"Powerful..." --Vanity Fair"Sometimes you're better off dead. . . ."When Royce Bruyere chose to be cryogenically frozen upon death, he figured coming back to life would be exciting. Neat. Bonus time. The world he awakes to is nothing of the sort.A Chinese invasion has crippled the United States, dividing the country in a decade-long stalemate along the Mississippi. Royce's successful reanimation is unprecedented, making him the Chinese regime's most prized possession--but not for long. Eager to control life and death, the Chinese reanimate other "cryonics," until something goes horribly wrong.Royce travels through a future wrought with violence and despair, only to discover the cure for the disease lies within him. It's a race against time as he flees the Chinese and the bloodthirsty victims of a terrifying epidemic in the hope of saving the country from apocalypse and creating a life worth living.From the book:"I didn't have the slightest inkling I was going to die that day. Though some will argue that I didn't really experience death. The blood stopped coursing through my veins--this much is certain--just as it will some day for you, but there were no pearly gates, no departed loved ones guiding me into the light. While I was away, I experienced nothingness. Perhaps this was intentional, as the great cosmic scorekeeper knew I wasn't finished walking the earth."-page 1
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Ethos

A science-fiction thriller set in Flint, Michigan, 500 years in the future, where humans can choose to die a natural death—or live forever. David is a forty-eight-year-old divorced accountant from Flint, Michigan, who finds himself drawn suddenly and without warning through the use of a virtual reality game into a world five hundred years in the future: the Planet Ethos. Flint, Michigan, still exists on Ethos, but it is a city rocked by colliding and seemingly contradictory forces. Advanced biotechnology coexists with avian species that have devolved to resemble ancient pterodactyls. Human beings are racially and religiously tolerant as never before, yet they've organized themselves along a tribal division between the Immortals and the Bereft. And Flint and Detroit are locked in a dangerous, violent conflict—a war that could annihilate the human race or secure lasting peace for the first time in history. Along with his adopted teenage son,...
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Rider (Defenders M.C. Book 3)

Rider had spent his life having any woman he wanted. When the one woman he wanted most turned to another and it seemed that his brothers had turned their backs on him, he decided to hit the road. After weeks away he met a group that wouldn'tt be put off and acquired a taste for something more addictive than sex. When he refused to run drugs for his new friends he found himself set up in a crime that no one would believe he could commit even though the evidence said he did. When the woman he loved was threatened though, he was willing to take the fall for anything to save her. Lizzie had loved Rider for as long as she could remember, but after an attack that left him in her care he had been less than receptive of her attentions. He had been downright terrible. When one of the club brothers made her feel alive again she decides to stop playing the fool for Rider and give Spec a chance. That was until Rider needed her. Lizzie found out just what lengths she was willing to go to in order to protect the men she loves, even if it meant losing her sou to do itl. Warning this book contains harsh language, sexy men who take what they want and don't apologize. Women who fight for their men and love with all they are. Adult audiences only.**
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Stone Speaks to Stone: A Tale of the Nine Worlds

Jack Greenwing is good at scouting. He's renowned for being able to hold on in battle long past bravery. He was once given a trophy for his courage by the hand of the Emperor himself.At Loe, where the Stone Speakers can call down avalanches and landslides, he was sent out on a scouting mission as a siege closed in on his company. He returns to see it being lifted because of treachery, and is there to witness the five remaining members of the command staff be led off in chains into the mountains, far from the border of the Empire. He once held a border until the rest of his army joined him: nothing will stop him from attempting a rescue, though snow is falling in the mountains and he must fight those who can walk through stone. "Stone Speaks to Stone" is a standalone short story related to the Greenwing & Dart series. If you've read those, it is the true tale of what happened to Jemis' father at Loe; if you haven't, Greenwing & Dart tells the story of what happens to Jack's son Jemis ten years or so after this story takes place.
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