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Maggsie McNaughton's Second Chance

Author : Frances Maynard

Publisher : Picador

Page : 328 pages

File Size : 25,54 MB

Release : 2020-01-09

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ISBN : 9781529014150

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Everyone deserves a second chance. Small and dyslexic, with a short fuse, bad teeth, a prison record and something to prove, Marguerite McNaughton - Maggsie - doesn't need anybody or anything, thank you very much. She's more than capable of looking after herself. She's also about to discover that everyone needs someone, sometimes. Even her. The thing about trusting others, though, is that not everyone is trustworthy... It starts when a fellow inmate gives Maggsie reading lessons. Then she's offered a job in London as a kitchen assistant, together with supported accommodation and a colleague who seems determined to befriend Maggsie, no matter what.At first, Maggsie is convinced nothing will change. Especially her. But maybe this time can be different? Maybe Maggsie can be different - if she can just put her previous mistakes behind her and her trust in the right people. Maggsie McNaughton's Second Chance, by Frances Maynard, is a delightful, entertaining and heartwarming read about one woman's second shot at reading, friendship, and living happily ever after. (Well, sort of.)



Second Chance in Stonecreek

Author : Michelle Major

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 14,68 MB

Release : 2018-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 148809389X

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As the romantic saga continues, the Stones & Spencers feud, Maggie struggles to resist her ex, and her delinquent sister longs to fit in. Mayor Maggie Spencer is gearing up for reelection and can’t afford any distractions, especially when the town is gossiping about her recent break up to Griffin Stone. Their families are feuding, but there’s no avoiding Maggie’s ex when his family vineyard is host to an important fundraiser. The attraction between them is undeniable, and Maggie can see how easy it would be to fall back into Griffin’s strong arms. Can she trust him to finally take a stand for their relationship? Morgan Spencer will never be the perfect daughter, not like her sister Maggie. If she can’t do anything right, then she’s going to embrace the role of family delinquent. But when reformed bad boy Cole Maren tells her she doesn’t belong with her group of misfit friends, she begins to wonder if she belongs anywhere. Don’t miss the conclusion to Maggie & Griffin’s love story in A Stonecreek Christmas Reunion. Experience the whole journey in the MAGGIE & GRIFFIN trilogy: Book 1: Falling for the Wrong Brother Book 2: Second Chance in Stonecreek Book 3: A Stonecreek Christmas Reunion



A Symphony of Echoes

Author : Jodi Taylor

Publisher : Headline

Page : 237 pages

File Size : 46,96 MB

Release : 2019-01-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1472264150

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The second book in the bestselling Chronicles of St Mary's series which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Wherever the historians go, chaos is sure to follow... Dispatched to Victorian London to seek out Jack the Ripper, things go badly wrong when he finds the St Mary's historians first. Stalked through the fog-shrouded streets of Whitechapel, Max is soon running for her life. Again. And that's just the start. Max finds herself in a race against time when an old enemy is intent on destroying St Mary's. An enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy History itself. From the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh to the murder of Thomas a Becket, via an unscheduled dodo rescue mission, join the historians of St Mary's as they hurtle around History on more hilarious, hair-raising escapades Readers love Jodi Taylor: 'Once in a while, I discover an author who changes everything... Jodi Taylor and her protagonista Madeleine "Max" Maxwell have seduced me' 'A great mix of British proper-ness and humour with a large dollop of historical fun' 'Addictive. I wish St Mary's was real and I was a part of it' 'Jodi Taylor has an imagination that gets me completely hooked' 'A tour de force'



SuperMutant Magic Academy

Author : Jillian Tamaki

Publisher : Drawn and Quarterly

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 18,4 MB

Release : 2015-04-28

Category : Comics & Graphic Novels

ISBN : 9781770461987

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Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches The New York Times and New Yorker illustrator Jillian Tamaki is best known for co-creating the award-winning young adult graphic novels Skim and This One Summer—moody and atmospheric bestsellers. SuperMutant Magic Academy, which she has been serializing online for the past four years, paints a teenaged world filled with just as much ennui and uncertainty, but also with a sharp dose of humor and irreverence. Tamaki deftly plays superhero and high-school Hollywood tropes against what adolescence is really like: The SuperMutant Magic Academy is a prep school for mutants and witches, but their paranormal abilities take a backseat to everyday teen concerns. Science experiments go awry, bake sales are upstaged, and the new kid at school is a cat who will determine the course of human destiny. In one strip, lizard-headed Trixie frets about her nonexistent modeling career; in another, the immortal Everlasting Boy tries to escape this mortal coil to no avail. Throughout it all, closeted Marsha obsesses about her unrequited crush, the cat-eared Wendy. Whether the magic is mundane or miraculous, Tamaki's jokes are precise and devastating. SuperMutant Magic Academy has won two Ignatz Awards. This volume combines the most popular content from the webcomic with a selection of all-new, never-before-seen strips that conclude Tamaki's account of life at the academy.



The Last Dark

Author : Stephen R. Donaldson

Publisher : Ace

Page : 590 pages

File Size : 31,59 MB

Release : 2014-09-02

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 042527005X

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Compelled step by step to actions whose consequences they could neither see nor prevent, Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery have fought for what they love in the magical reality known only as "the Land." Now they face their final crisis. Reunited after their separate struggles, they discover in each other their true power--and yet they cannot imagine how to stop the Worm of the World's End from unmaking Time. Nevertheless they must resist the ruin of all things, giving their last strength in the service of the world's continuance.



Faces Under Water

Author : Tanith Lee

Publisher : ABRAMS

Page : 158 pages

File Size : 31,75 MB

Release : 2002-04-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1468306308

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“A fast start to what promises to be an exciting, innovative fantasy series” from the World Fantasy Award–winning author of Night’s Master (Publishers Weekly). In the hedonistic atmosphere of an eighteenth-century Venice Carnival, gaiety turns deadly when Furian Furiano happens upon a mask of Apollo floating in the murky waters of the canals. The mask hides a sinister art, and Furian finds himself trapped in a bizarre tangle of love, obsession, and evil, stumbling into a macabre society of murderers. The beautiful but elusive Eurydiche holds the key to these murders and leads him further into a labyrinth of black magic and ancient alchemy. Why do secrets from Furian’s past seem tied to the mysterious Eurydiche? In Tanith Lee’s brilliantly imagined world of violence and terror, Furian must find a way to survive and stem the obsession driving him toward his hidden destiny.



Bert's Beautiful Sights

Author : Constance Allen

Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 25,55 MB

Release : 1999-11

Category : Board books

ISBN : 9780375804847

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The world is full of beautiful sights! Bert takes notice of all the lovely things around him on Sesame Street: he watches the clouds float by, he listens to the birds sing, and he gazes at the stars in the night sky.



Ballads of Suburbia

Author : Stephanie Kuehnert

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 30,10 MB

Release : 2009-07-21

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1439126852

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A stunning tale of suburbia's darker underbelly by the critically acclaimed author of I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone, Stephanie Keuhnert. Ballads are the kind of songs that Kara McNaughton likes best. Not the clichéd ones where a diva hits her dramatic high note or a rock band tones it down a couple of notches for the ladies, but the true ballads: the punk rocker or the country crooner reminding their listeners of the numerous ways to screw things up. In high school, Kara helped maintain the "Stories of Suburbia" notebook, which contained newspaper articles about bizarre, tragic events from suburbs all over America, and personal vignettes that Kara dubbed "ballads" written by her friends in Oak Park, just outside of Chicago. But Kara never wrote her own ballad. Before she could figure out what her song was about, she left town suddenly at the end of her junior year. Now, four years later, Kara returns to her hometown to face the music, needing to revisit the disastrous events that led to her leaving, in order to move on with her life. Intensely powerful and utterly engaging, Ballads of Suburbia explores the heartbreaking moments when life changes unexpectedly, and reveals the consequences of being forced to grow up too soon.



The Nine

Author : Tracy Townsend

Publisher : Pyr

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 33,45 MB

Release : 2017-11-14

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1633883426

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In the dark streets of Corma exists a book that writes itself, a book that some would kill for... Black market courier Rowena Downshire is just trying to pay her mother’s freedom from debtor's prison when an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face with a creature out of nightmares. Rowena escapes with her life, but the strange book she was ordered to deliver is stolen. The Alchemist knows things few men have lived to tell about, and when Rowena shows up on his doorstep, frightened and empty-handed, he knows better than to turn her away. What he discovers leads him to ask for help from the last man he wants to see—the former mercenary, Anselm Meteron. Across town, Reverend Phillip Chalmers awakes in a cell, bloodied and bruised, facing a creature twice his size. Translating the stolen book may be his only hope for survival; however, he soon realizes the book may be a fabled text written by the Creator Himself, tracking the nine human subjects of His Grand Experiment. In the wrong hands, it could mean the end of humanity. Rowena and her companions become the target of conspirators who seek to use the book for their own ends. But how can this unlikely team be sure who the enemy is when they can barely trust each other? And what will happen when the book reveals a secret no human was meant to know?



The British Film Catalogue

Author : Denis Gifford

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 1120 pages

File Size : 42,22 MB

Release : 2018-10-24

Category : Reference

ISBN : 1317837029

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First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.