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ebooks Collection 2019
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New from Ian McEwan, Booker Prize winner and international bestselling author of Atonement and *The Children Act*
Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding.
Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong, and clever--a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma.
Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: What makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale warns against the power to invent things beyond our control.

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A PRESIDENTIAL DYNASTY. AN ARAB TERRORIST ATTACK. DEMOCRACY UNDER SIEGE. Mario Puzo envisioned it all in his eerily prescient 1991 novel, The Fourth K.

President Francis Xavier Kennedy is elected to office, in large part, thanks to the legacy of his forebears--good looks, privilege, wealth--and is the very embodiment of youthful optimism. Too soon, however, he is beaten down by the political process and, disabused of his ideals, he becomes a leader totally unlike what he has been before.

When his daughter becomes a pawn in a brutal terrorist plot, Kennedy, who has obsessively kept alive the memory of his uncles' assassinations, activates all his power to retaliate in a series of violent measures. As the explosive events unfold, the world and those closest to him look on with both awe and horror.

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In this touching novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, a young woman's search for fulfillment on Nantucket leads her to a mysterious manuscript and a life-changing friendship. Now available for the first time as an eBook!

When Sara marries Steve Kendall, she leaves Boston behind and the newlyweds move to his native Nantucket. Though Sara loves the gorgeous island, she is less than thrilled with her husband's friends, a tight-knit group that leaves her feeling left out. Trying unsuccessfully to have a baby, Sara's only solace comes from her work as a freelance editor.

When she stumbles upon several provocative pages mixed in with one of her manuscripts, she becomes determined to track down the reclusive author. Fanny Anderson has been writing romance novels for years, hiding away in her huge Cambridge house. After Sara insists on meeting Fanny, the two begin a fruitful collaboration and a profound friendship. As their work...

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In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace and candour about her unconventional childhood-her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family; the numerous misadventures she survived with her mother and her mother's boyfriends; and the bold escape Cea made from her family at the age of thirteen through a modelling career. After putting such a unique life on paper, one would expect Cea's tale to be all told-but that's far from the case.
At the age of thirty-seven, Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a child-husband, young son, beautiful house, enviable career. But her carefully art-directed world is about to crumble around her. As she confronts the death of her still-young mother, the disintegration of her second marriage and the demise of her business, all within just a few months, she finally faces the need to look at her past to make sense of her...

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Challenging perceptions of discrimination and prejudice, this emotionally resonant drama for readers of Lisa Wingate and Jodi Picoult explores three different women navigating challenges in a changing school district-and in their lives.
When an impoverished school district loses its accreditation and the affluent community of Crystal Ridge has no choice but to open their school doors, the lives of three very different women converge: Camille Gray-the wife of an executive, mother of three, long-standing PTA chairwoman and champion fundraiser-faced with a shocking discovery that threatens to tear her picture-perfect world apart at the seams. Jen Covington, the career nurse whose long, painful journey to motherhood finally resulted in adoption but she is struggling with a happily-ever-after so much harder than she anticipated. Twenty-two-year-old Anaya Jones-the first woman in her family to graduate college and a brand new teacher at Crystal Ridge's...

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Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford--she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up--when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead from an apparent kick to the head from one of her cows.

When an autopsy shows that the fatal blow actually came from a weapon, Meg is even more troubled. Popular opinion points to Joyce's husband as the culprit, but Meg can't help wondering if someone wanted the outspoken dairy farmer out of the way--but why? She'll have to find out who had a beef with the victim, before she's the next one to get creamed...

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"A wonderful slice of life in a small town."-The Mystery Reader

""Meg is a smart, savvy woman...just the kind of protagonist I look for in today's traditional mystery."-Meritorious Mysteries

"A likeable heroine, an attractive small town setting."-Lesa's Book Critiques

About the Author
Sheila Connolly is an Agatha Award-nominated author (as Sarah Atwell), and has taught art history, structured and marketed municipal bonds for major cities, worked as a staff member on two statewide political campaigns, and served as a fund-raiser for several nonprofit organizations. She also managed her own consulting company, providing genealogical research services. In addition to genealogy, Sheila loves restoring old houses, visiting cemeteries, and traveling. Now a full-time writer, she thinks writing mysteries is a lot more fun than any of her previous occupations. She is married and has one daughter and three cats.

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"The perfect Summer read-smart, funny, escapist, and bursting with charm."-PopSugar

In the tradition of Good in Bed and The Assistants comes a funny and smart comedy about a young matchmaker balancing her messy personal life and the demands of her eccentric clients.
Sasha Goldberg has a lot going for her: a recent journalism degree from NYU, an apartment with her best friend Caroline, and a relationship that would be amazing if her finance-bro boyfriend Jonathan would ever look up from his BlackBerry. But when her dream career falls through, she uses her family's darkest secret to land a job as a matchmaker for New York City's elite at the dating service Bliss.

Despite her inexperience, Sasha throws herself into her new career, trolling for catches on Tinder, coaching her clients through rejection, and dishing out dating advice to people twice her age. She sets up a TV exec who wanted kids five years ago, a forty-year-old...

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Emily Lonergan's best friend died last year.And Emily hasn't stopped grieving. Lizzie Porter was lively, loud, and fun - Emily's better half. Emily can't accept that she's gone.When Lizzie's parents and her sister come back to town to visit, Emily's heartened to see them. The Porters understand her pain. They miss Lizzie desperately, too.Desperately enough to do something crazy.Something unthinkable.Suddenly, Emily's life is hurtling toward a very dark place - and she's not sure she'll ever be able to return to what she once knew was real.From New York Times bestselling author Luanne Rice comes a breathless, unputdownable story of suspense, secrets - and the strength that love gives us to survive even the most shocking of circumstances.

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'I loved this beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, written withexquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny' MARIAN KEYES
Professor Chandra is an expert at complex problems. There's just one hecan't crack: the secret of happiness
In the moments after the bicycle accident, Professor Chandra doesn't see hislife flash before his eyes, but his life's work.
He's just narrowly missed out on the Nobel Prize (again) and even though heknows he should get straight back to his pie charts, his doctor has otherideas.
All this work. All this success. All this stress. It's killing him. He needsto take a break, start enjoying himself. In short, says his doctor (who isfrom California), Professor Chandra should just follow his bliss.
He doesn't know it yet, but Professor Chandra is about to embark on the tripof a lifetime.

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"I loved this beautiful beautiful book. It's tender and compassionate, writtenwith exquisite care and verve, and so so SO funny" (Marian Keyes)
"Chandra is a delightful creation: peevish, intolerant, intellectuallyexacting, unwittingly eccentric, nerdy, needy let lovable. The book, like itspicaresque hero, is a one-off" (Patricia Nicol Sunday Times )
"This brilliant and eloquent novel, which puts into words so many unutterableannoyances, is a sort of Zen satire in which tolerance and understandingmingle with hilarious criticism of contemporary mores. It's a wonderful read"(Wendy Holden Daily Mail )
"Rajeev Balasubramanyam gently pokes fun at the modern fondness forpositivity, but tells a disarmingly positive story... The writing is elegantand witty and the comedy is always underpinned with humanity; a life withoutbliss is no life, and the gradual dawning of Chandra's self-awareness isgenuinely uplifting" (Kate Saunders The Times )
"Balances satire and self-enlightenment... a surprisingly soulful family talethat echoes Jonathan Franzen's Corrections in its witty exploration of threechildren trying to free themselves from the influence of their parents" (BenEast Observer )

About the Author
Rajeev Balasubramanyam was born in Lancashire and studied at Oxford,Cambridge and Lancaster universities. He is the prize-winning author of InBeautiful Disguises. He has lived in London, Manchester, a remote Suffolkbeach, Kathmandu and Hong Kong, where he was a Research Scholar in the Societyof Scholars at Hong Kong University. He was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation,for writers with a meditation practice, and has been writer-in-residence atCrestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. Hisjournalism and short fiction have appeared in the Washington Post , TheEconomist , the New Statesman , London Review of Books , Paris Review ,McSweeney 's and many others. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

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Radley's parents had warned her that all hell would break loose if the American People's Party took power. And now, with the president assassinated and the government cracking down on citizens, the news is filled with images of vigilante groups, frenzied looting, and security officer raids. It seems as if all hell has broken loose.

Coming back from volunteering abroad, Radley just wants to get home to Vermont, and the comfort and safety of her parents. Travel restrictions and delays are worse than ever, and by the time Radley's plane lands in New Hampshire, she's been traveling for over twenty-four hours. Exhausted, she heads outside to find her parents-who always come, day or night, no matter when or where she lands-aren't there.

Her cell phone is dead, her credit cards are worthless, and she doesn't have the proper travel papers to cross state lines. Out of money and options, Radley starts walking. . ....

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"A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac 's wit andambition are evident on every page. By comparison, most other contemporaryfiction seems a little dull and simple-minded." -- Hari Kunzru, author ofWhite Tears and Gods Without Men**
A debut novel of seduction and madness, hate and love, set in the world ofArgentine academia and animated by the spirits of Wittgenstein, Rousseau,Nabokov and Bolaño
Rosa Ostreech, a pseudonym for the novel's beautiful but self-consciousnarrator, carries around a trilingual edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics,struggles with her thesis on violence and culture, sleeps with a bourgeoisformer guerrilla, and pursues her elderly professor with a highly chargedblend of eroticism and desperation. Elsewhere on campus, Pabst and Kamtchowskytour the underground scene of Buenos Aires, dabbling in ketamine, group sex,video games, and hacking. And in Africa in 1917, a Dutch anthropologist namedJohan van Vliet begins work on a theory that explains human consciousness andcivilization by reference to our early primate ancestors--animals, who, in theprocess of becoming human, spent thousands of years as prey.
Savage Theories wryly explores fear and violence, war and sex, eroticismand philosophy. Its complex and flawed characters grapple with a mess ofimpossible, visionary theories, searching for their place in our fragmenteddigital world.

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Shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize for Historical Fiction
Award-winning author Sarah Moss's most recent work of historical fiction is aportrait of a young couple's unconventional marriage as it's tested byseparate quests for identity in work and life. Set in the Victorian Age,Signs for Lost Children grapples with central themes of early feminism,mental health reform, and marriage as an imposed institution.
Ally Moberly, a recently qualified doctor, never expected to marry until shemet Tom Cavendish. Only weeks into their marriage, Tom sets out for Japan,leaving Ally as she begins work at the Truro Asylum in Cornwall. Horrified bythe brutal attitudes of male doctors and nurses toward their female patients,Ally plunges into the institutional politics of women's mental health at atime when madness is only just being imagined as treatable. She has to contendwith a longstanding tradition of permanently institutionalizing women who aredeemed difficult, all the while fighting to to be taken seriously as a rarewoman in a profession dominated by men. Tom, an architect, has been employedto oversee the building of Japanese lighthouses. He also has a commission froma wealthy collector to bring back embroideries and woodwork. As he travelsJapan in search of these enchanting objects, he begins to question the valueof the life he left in England. As Ally becomes increasingly absorbed in themoral importance of her work, and Tom pursues his intellectual interests onthe other side of the world, they will return to each other as differentpeople.
With her artful blend of emotional insight and narrative skill, Sarah Mosscreates an entrancing novel sure to draw critical acclaim. From the blusterycoast of Western England to the towns and cities of Japan, she constructsdistinct but conjoined portraits of two remarkable people in a swiftlychanging world.

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"Matching exceptionally fine prose with pinpoint sensitivity, Britishnovelist Moss (Bodies of Light, 2014, etc.) delivers a thoughtful account ofone intelligent, sometimes-fragile woman's response to a dark, dynamic era." -- Kirkus Reviews
_ "The richness of Moss's work is astonishing. Few writers demonstrate suchquietly magisterial command of the rocky territories of both the heart andmind."--The Independent
_ "We have in Ally one of the most memorable heroines of recent fiction. Ifthere's one author to take a chance on this year, let it be [Sarah Moss]."-- The Times
_ "In this fine exploration of marriage and the complex minds of 'lostchildren'--that is, all of us--Moss mines and aassesses a union of giftedindividuals who follow their paths with great determination, unaware thattheir hearts will surely be changed in the process."-- _ The New York Times Book Review

"A compelling, often harrowing, occasionally heartbreaking read. A quietlydevastating portrait of the way identity crumbles when you've nothing, or noone, to pin it to."
-- The Guardian
"Moss, a writer of complexity, and restraint, shows real skill in the way shebrings these 'lost children' back together."-- _ Financial Times

About the Author
Sarah Moss is the award-winning author of three previous novels: NightWaking , selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, Names for theSea: Strangers in Iceland , shortlisted for the Royal Society of LiteraturePrize in 2013, and Bodies of Light , shortlisted for the prestigiousWellcome Prize. Signs for Lost Children was shortlisted for the WellcomePrize and longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Mossteaches Creative Writing at the University of Warwick in England.

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The bestselling novelist of all time.
The world's most famous detective.
The literary event of the year-an all-new mystery featuring
Agatha Christie's legendary hero Hercule Poirot.
Since the publication of her first novel in 1920, more than two billion copies of Agatha Christie's books have been sold around the globe. Now, for the first time ever, the guardians of her legacy have approved a brand new novel featuring Dame Agatha's most beloved creation, Hercule Poirot.
'I'm a dead woman, or I shall be soon...'
Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified - but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done.
Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a fashionable...

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The Club is a blistering, timely, and gripping novel set at Cambridge University, centering around an all-male dining club for the most privileged and wealthy young men at Cambridge and following an outsider who exposes the dark secrets of this group, the Pitt Club. As a boy, Hans Stichler enjoys a fable-like childhood among the rolling hills and forests of North Germany, living an idyll that seems uninterruptable. A visit from Hans's ailing English aunt Alex, who comes to stay for an entire summer, has a profound effect on the young Hans, all the more so when she invites him to come to university at Cambridge, where she teaches art history. Alex will ensure his application to St. John's College is accepted, but in return he must help her investigate an elite university club of young aristocrats and wealthy social climbers, the Pitt Club. The club has existed at Cambridge for centuries, its long legacy of tradition and privilege largely unquestioned. As Hans makes his...

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