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Rainbow over Rocheville
Meet Jacques, a charming yet aimless singer-songwriter and carpenter residing in the quaint French town of St Auban. Irresistibly good-looking and laid-back, Jacques seems content to let life happen around him, whether strumming his guitar for an enchanted audience or crafting intricate woodwork. Business savvy may elude him, but talent and affability are in abundant supply.
In a life unmarred by grand ambitions, Jacques finds solace in the simple things – a moment of daydreaming, the fleeting beauty of a rainbow. When a vivid rainbow arcs over the neighbouring village of Rocheville, it inspires Jacques to pen a new song, but also leads him to question if such symbols of luck and happiness could ever truly be his.
As we follow the ups and downs of Jacques’ existence, an unforeseen love threatens to add a layer of complexity he’s never had to face: the commitment and responsibilities of marriage. Will love finally give Jacques the focus he lacks, or will it prove to be another fleeting moment in a life spent drifting?
Journey with Jacques through the undulating terrains of love, friendship, and self-discovery, as he grapples with the possibilities of a life that could either find direction or continue to meander. Will Jacques unearth the fulfilment and happiness he unconsciously seeks, or will he remain a soul forever wandering?
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Tears of Love
Can romantic love between two persons in the prime of their adulthood be as tender, as profound, and as meaningful as it is between two young persons in the prime of their youth? If it is possible, what may it look like? Tears of Love is a love story between two adults: Mikha Midas, a philosopher who lives in Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A., and Noor Lawson, a painter who lives in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. They open their hearts and fall in love with each other by correspondence, which lasts for more than eight years. The reader is introduced to them through the last letters they exchange before they meet. When they feel a strong desire to spend the rest of their lives under the same roof, Noor discovers that she has a brain tumor and that she will die in a few months. Mikha learns this fact after he arrives in Windsor. The wealth of love that was growing explodes and streams into their hearts like an eternal river. The few weeks they spend at the hospital are a celebration of the tenderness, the yearning, the glory, and the grandeur of love.
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The Beach Café
Anna was stuck in a dead-end job and a loveless marriage. Once her children had flown the nest, she realised she needed to make some major changes to uncover the person she once was, the confident and spirited individual she had been. As hard as it would be to move out of the family home and regardless of how apprehensive Anna felt about going alone, she was much more scared of staying. After gathering all the courage she could muster and having made many plans, Anna and her trusted dog, Teddy, set out to the Norfolk coast to build a new life.
Anna had rented a small wooden beach house she had come across while walking Teddy along the coast, it needed quite a bit of TLC, but Anna was up for the job, imagining the beach walks her and Teddy could enjoy and the view of the sea that would greet her each morning, Anna was sure this would be a good place to start her new life.
Anna was welcomed in the community and one particular resident, a very colourful lady named Maggie, decided to take Anna under her wing. Maggie was a pillar in the beachside community, and she knew everyone and everything that went on.
A twist of fate and a little help from Maggie led Anna to a run-down beach café which, like herself, needed re-building. What Anna didn’t expect was who this little café would bring into her life or the person from her past who would come back to haunt her and the adventures she would have along the way.
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The Lake: Book 2
Sophie Tuck is supervising her classroom examinations, and with the end of the school year looming, she is looking forward to attending her friends Bianca and Max’s engagement party in Lake Como during the summer. However, there is only one thought keeping her apprehensive. There, she will see again the one man she’d rather stay away from, Andrea Del Toro. Despite his girlish name, he is all male and as hot as they come but, without a doubt, an undeterred womaniser. This thought is driving her crazy. Their fortuitous kiss months ago is still vivid in Sophie’s memory. She can’t stop thinking about him. Nevertheless, her predisposition is to flee rather than open up her heart to a man. There is sexual tension between Andrea and Sophie and sparks fly but circumstances take a surprisingly turn of events. Will their love flourish? Matters take a dangerous direction when Max’s destructive ex-girlfriend returns, seeking revenge over Bianca’s engagement.
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The Tribal Warriors
After reading the first page you won’t stop until you finish reading this ever-evolving love story. When Brett Shaw meets Gina Berconni as students in their last year of school a love story like no other will carry the reader on a journey of intrigue, hope and at times despair. Fate and duty clash as Brett and Gina’s paths cross again eight years later when Brett as a Major in the Australian Army is investigating a spy ring operating out of England. Gina is caught up in a web of lies and deceit which has far-reaching consequences for them.
This story takes you on a journey to the darkest reaches of the Amazon jungle where Brett is kidnapped by an environmentalist group called the Tribal Warriors who are determined to stop the destruction of their homeland caused by mining and timber felling. The longer Brett is there he sees the devastation and exploitation of the tribes of the Amazon and is determined to bring this slaughter to the world’s attention whilst working with the tribes to disrupt the desecration of their homeland.
Throughout the story, Brett and Gina’s paths cross but circumstances keep them apart even though their love for each other is as strong as the day they met.
This gripping tale is not only a story of a tug-of-war of love between Brett and Gina, but it’s also a story of what we are doing to our earth.
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Til Death We Do Part
Pablo is a hardworking, upstanding police officer, proud of his long marriage and lovely family. Through decades of quiet dedication and single-minded devotion he has achieved the successes one strives for in life, both with his family and career. Close to retirement and to sitting back and enjoying the fruits of a successful career and marriage, a malicious spurious complaint at work should have no material consequences on his life, but it starts a domino effect, and before long he finds himself shockingly dismissed, divorced, without a home, and with a criminal record. This story explores a convoluted tragic journey of divorce, rich with emotion, loss, betrayal, revenge and confusion. Along the way it explores the dynamics of what makes a relationship weak and vulnerable, or strong and resolute. It’s not a miserable story, but one of resilience, hope, and true love. It is told with an immense depth of feeling, insight, humour and faith, and there are many truly surprising twists and turns as the story unfolds.
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What Just Happened?
We all think we know everything there is to know about our Kings and Queens. Henry VIII had six wives, William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and Queen Victoria was “not amused”. But how much do we really know about the monarchy? What did our kings and queens actually achieve? What impact have they had on our everyday lives? What were they like as living, breathing, people?
Crowning Glory wipes away the cobwebs of fuddy-duddy facts and breathes new life into this surprisingly addictive aspect of history. It challenges our basic understanding of the subject by introducing readers to a colourful cast of characters and revealing little-known insights.
This book reminds us that, behind the formality of the crown, are real human beings. Like you and me, they have known success, failure, sorrow and laughter. The lives of our kings and queens are so much more vivid than boring, old dates, figures and facts.
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What We Can Be
CEO Amelie Rochfield knows what it takes to succeed. She has spent years learning how to navigate the social intricacies needed to succeed in London and how to hold onto that delicate balance between control and chaos.
However, Nathaniel Brooks, the most important person in her life, is about to shift the balance. Can he show her what she has been missing out on, or will she allow fear to stop her seeing exactly what they can be?
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Who Am I?
Your 20s are meant to be those years of your life where you discover who you are. My name is Sam, and this is my story. It’s much like yours, no doubt – trying to figure out a career, practising for my driving test, making time for friends and family… except then my whole life got turned on its head and I realised that there was so much more to me, so much that was just waiting to be discovered. This is the story of how I met a woman, how she unravelled a side of me I never even knew existed – a physical, adventurous, reckless self. This is the story of how I fell in love for the first time and how I struggled to share my new life with my friends and family. This is the story of how I frantically sought an answer to the question we’ve all asked ourselves… Who am I?
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Will You into My Will
He looked at me and the time stopped.
‘Are you okay?’ his date asked, catching him stare vacantly at my direction.
‘Yeah,’ he replied, reluctantly pulling his eyes away from me. ‘I just feel weird, like I have been here before right at this table, having this same lunch and looking at…’
It was unnatural. The connection we had from the very beginning.
Like there was an unearthly power at play. As though, our very paths had collided for a purpose and we were destined to meet.
‘Hi, my name is Will’ he said.
I still lay my head on the ground and watch the clouds float by sometimes; thinking of an emerald pair of green eyes, like satin curtains falling into a black void. Re-living in my head that beautiful summer day when Brandon and I walked hand in hand across the lavender fields with our best friends. ‘Look into my eyes you’ll see what you mean to me.’ The song that played on the radio when Will drove on the highway, on a never-ending road; to a ‘forever’ that I imagined would always be mine.
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The Choosing Time
Whatever Clare wants, she gets. And that includes angel man, Lucien Griege. Clare doesn’t care if he is in love with someone else. She is determined to have him. Clare travels back in time to destroy his relationship with his angel woman, Azaela White. Will she succeed?
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Yellow Tape
Everything about her was normal, everything about him wasn’t.
How can you prepare yourself to have your life suddenly flipped upside down? How can you know what will happen? Your next move might be your last, your next breath might be taken away from you. There’s a whole different world out there, where your innocence has no meaning, your future is robbed off you, and the control you thought you had over your life is taken over by somebody else.
Ley lost herself in Brian’s past and lies. She was everywhere he was, not by choice but by his persistence. His actions confused her, his words hurt her, but her safety was guaranteed only in his presence. An uncertain feeling joined them together, only complicating things further as more of Brian’s secrets became known.
Beneath all the unanswered questions, lies the truth. Is it worth knowing? Better yet, is it the truth at all?
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