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Mad, Bad Jason
Zane Fellows is shocked on the first day of school when his new teacher, Ms Plumb, has him sit next to the naughtiest boy in school. Jason Riley has a bad reputation and a disregard for the rules. Zane would prefer to sit next to his best mate, but Aaron has suddenly developed a crush on the new girl, Charlie. Dad, a knock-about man whose best mate is a foul-mouthed cocky, thinks it’s a huge joke. How can Zane manage to stay out of trouble himself? And what does he unexpectedly find out about Jason that helps change his attitude towards him?
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Love or Lust
Have you ever been in love? This book will make you think on this matter of the heart. It takes some men a long time to tell the difference between love and just plain lust. I think the difference is when you change from a ME person to thinking what is best for your partner and seeing to their needs ahead of yours.
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Love on the Vine
Set between the old Cotswolds market town of Stow on the Wold and the Dordogne region of France our heroine finds herself in a life-shattering situation having caught out her cheating husband.
Approaching her 50th birthday and with two children, one away at university and the other out on a gap year in the far east, Lottie will struggle by with the help of a few friends as she ponders where she will go from here.
Heartache and low self-esteem abounds her every waking minute; will she ever recover, can an escape to her elder sister’s holiday villa in France come to her rescue? Join us on a journey that will give the reader an idea of how true friendship works and enjoy an insight into the wonders of the Dordogne countryside that is a must for wine lovers and general tourists alike.
Will a chance meeting with a charming handsome French vineyard owner refuel her passion for life or will a chance discovery ruin it, the journey is sometimes painful but some amusing moments can intercede. Making the right life choices and decisions at the right time will decide how Lottie’s life turns out.
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Love in the Shadow of Mao
China, the epic Long March and Mao’s Revolution
A love story both historical and intimate peopled by fascinating characters
Julia Harrison, rich, beautiful and privileged, wife of a U.S. Congressman. What is she doing in Maoist China? Is she to be rescued or investigated?
Jen Chi-man, was born in the wilderness, orphaned by war, reared in the Red Army and sent to America to become a scientist.
He returns to a world he no longer knows.
Catherine Lee, a Chinese-American doctor from Brooklyn, imbued with a romantic love of the motherland she has never seen, longing to “serve the people”.
In their stories, we get glimpses of Mao, his power-hungry wife, foreign-educated Zhou Enlai and Madame Sun, revered widow of the founder of modern China, a committed Communist who lives in a mansion.
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Love Comets
Love Comets is a compelling story of intense, tempestuous and raw teenage passions.
Set mainly in a Manchester suburb in the late 1960s, it follows the fluctuating fortunes of a group of sex-starved boys, friends from grammar school, who are desperate to lose their virginity before going to university.
Central to the novel is Joe’s relationship with Katie. Captivated by her radiant beauty, vivaciousness and sharp wit, his shyness recedes as their love blossoms. Overcoming parental restrictions and painful emotional crises, they engage joyously in tender sexual intimacies as their romance flourishes.
But, after a summer of carefree loving, ominous shadows threaten their idyllic love affair as they depart to different universities. Will their love for each other survive separation? When attractive and sexually confident university friends compete for their affections, how will they react? Will Joe and Katie still be together after an emotionally turbulent term? And when the group of friends meet up again on New Year’s Eve and compare their sexual experiences, will their feisty girlfriends have proved a match for them all?
Love Comets vividly portrays the excitement and vulnerability of teenage lovers as the sexual revolution of the 1960s gathers pace. Full of unexpected twists and turns, dramatic revelations, humorous exchanges and true-to-life sexual discoveries, Love Comets will appeal strongly to teenagers exploring their first loving relationships and also older readers recalling fondly their first loves.£8.99 -
Love at Second Sight
Sinead Thorne is deeply unhappy with her life. She works in a miserable job, is on the wrong side of her captious mother’s judgement, and her only current and constant relationship is with her fridge and wine. She knows something has to change, but she is unsure of what.
That is until she goes on holiday with her best friend and bumps into someone completely unexpected.
Is it just some holiday fun, or could this be the change that she is yearning for? Will it help her find happiness, or will she be left just as miserable as before?
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Love At First Sight - Part Two: The Other Side
A journey inside the deep-thinking, dark realms of a subconscious mind where the real and fantasy worlds are one.
For those who didn’t meet Jeannette, the fictional character who came to life as she passionately narrated her long-term, emotionally-charged, almost virtual love affair in Love at First Sight: A One-Sided Story; she reappears in The Other Side more determined than ever to conquer the obstacles and emerge victorious in her quest to find peace, love and contentment in a Universe paralyzed by the constraints of control freaks who, at every opportunity, challenge her life lived “in a fictional world”. Overcoming this negativity becomes the driving force in her battle to achieve self-acceptance, often impeded by the haunting, human frailties of anxiety, depression, substance abuse, and the inevitable path of self-destruction.
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Love and Outrage
This is a story of a love that fights to survive during dangerous times and in violent places. Having fled Latvia to escape religious persecution, Libby Gardstein lives with her criminal brother in the East End of Edwardian London. She struggles to break free from her brother’s dominance to become a teacher of immigrant children.
Strong but quiet undercover police officer, Eddie Nething, works tirelessly to make London a safer place, driven forward by the cruel murder of his best friend and colleague. Eddie is assigned to infiltrate the gang of anarchists run by Libby’s brother.
Against all the odds, Libby and Eddie meet and fall in love. Eddie is torn between his duty as a policeman and his unexpected love for Libby. Libby is split between this new found love for Eddie and her instinctive concerns for her wayward brother. The stakes are high. They could both be killed if discovered by the antagonists around them. For both Edward and Libby, it is a fight between love and duty.
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Louisa
Louisa is 15 and living a contented, happy life in London. The Second World War is threatening their peace of mind. Will they all have the strength to survive?
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Living with Jo
Who doesn’t dream of finding the love of their life?
Lonely, quirky Oliver Birch certainly does, and he knows
who she is. He’s adored her from afar for thirty years.
But there’s a problem.
Joanna is happily married to somebody else.
Then, one day, out of the blue, she arrives at his apartment.
And not just to visit. She’s here to stay.
For Oliver it’s a dream come true, provided he can keep
a handle on where two-dimensional fantasy ends
and reality begins.
Will she be his saviour … or will she gradually drive him
towards the unwelcome hands of a psychiatrist?
Living with Jo is a love story with a difference. It explores a world familiar to many who find themselves single and adrift in later life. Sometimes they come across unusual and imaginative ways to fill emotional gaps in their lives. In Oliver’s case, it’s an imaginative step too far …
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Living The Dream
Cornwall has the most beautiful landscape you could wish to set your eyes on, made still more dramatic with the evening silhouette of St Michael’s Mount in the background.
That was exactly the view Lori and his Cornish wife, Irene, had as they took over the tenancy of their first public house in the village of Portscatly: a beautiful village with many lively characters, each with their own little story to tell. Jean’s story will tug at your heartstrings, whilst Steve’s tragic tale will show you that a moment of madness can change your life forever. Typical families and friends keep village life moving.
The landlord’s foreign name has not gone down too well with the crowd. “It’s enough to make a man curse,” some would say. “And now they are taking over our pubs too,” some others would say.
So will Lori and Irene win over the locals, as they tirelessly try to get involved with the local community?£9.99 -
Lights Camera Action
She’s an architect on top of her game, owns her own home and has a partner that equally matches her status. Bella Frederic is living the ideal success story… or is she really? When her partner Pierre Jackson finds out about her dark secret, will it destroy their perfect love?
Jazz Burns may be a successful fashion designer and dresser of the stars, but she doesn’t have it together as people may think. The man she loves is not her own. Will her scandalous affair cause her to fall from the stars?
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