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Three summers
Karen Swan
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Tricase Porto, Italy. 1957: The summer of innocence. Amongst the lemon trees, Rafaella Parisi impatiently waits for the summer visitors to arrive in her small fishing village on the coast of Puglia. She may be dating Fon Gianelli, but there is one person she longs to see: Cosimo - son of the wealthy Franchetti family. 1958: The summer everything changes. After a devastating accident at the lavish Franchetti villa, Rafa makes a vow that changes the course of all their futures... 1961: The summer they meet again. When Rafa and Cosi's worlds collide, Rafa faces an agonising choice. Is she willing to risk the life she has for the future she once dreamed of?
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Daughter of crows
Mark Lawrence
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The Academy of Kindness exists to create agents of retribution against whom even the gods hesitate to stand. Each year, one hundred girls are sold to the Academy. Ten years later, only three emerge. The Academy's halls run with blood. The few who survive it have been forged on the sands of the Wound Garden and learned ancient secrets amid the necrotic fumes of the Bone Garden. They leave its gates as avatars of vengeance, bound to uphold the oldest of laws. Only the most desperate would sell their child to the Kindnesses. But Rue... she sold herself. And now, a long and bloody lifetime later, just as she has discovered peace, war has been brought to an old woman's doorstep. That was a mistake.
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Leading from the dreaming
Paul Callaghan
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Paul Callaghan, bestselling author of The Dreaming Path, shares how the key to mindset, lifelong learning and leadership excellence exists within Indigenous knowledge systems. First Nations peoples have known for tens of thousands of years that we are all born to learn and continue learning until we take our last breath, from everyone and everything around us - from teachers, lecturers, books, courses, Elders, children, babies, strangers, friends, life and nature. In Leading from the Dreaming, Paul Callaghan draws on his business experience and cultural knowledge to walk you through the 8 Rs of Leadership: responsibility, relationships, respect, recognition, reflection, results, resilience and renewal. By developing this adaptable, curious mindset, you will set yourself up for leadership excellence in your personal and professional lives.
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Apparently, Sir Cameron needs to die
Greer Stothers
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All his life, Sir Cameron has stayed as far away from danger as possible. He is quite frankly too handsome to die a pointless death in battle. But then the Church hands down a prophecy to his fellow knights: the only way to defeat their nemesis, the mad sorcerer Merulo, is to kill Sir Cameron. Short of ideas, Cameron throws himself on the mercy of the one person who now actually wants him to survive: the mad sorcerer. Merulo isn't thrilled to be babysitting a spoilt, attention-seeking knight, but transmogrifying him into a vulture is at least entertaining. Cameron, meanwhile, is on a voyage of self-discovery. It turns out he's really, really into surly sorcerers who lock him up and tell him what to do. Who knew? As a legion of knights surround their stronghold, the sorcerer's poisonous ambitions draw ever closer to fruition. Cameron is quite invested in not dying, but he finds he's also invested in Merulo. And sometimes, supporting the sorcerer you care about means taking an interest in their hobbies. Even if that hobby is trying to kill God. Even if it might get you killed, too
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Where there's smoke
Karly Lane
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Mackenzie Knight has her life on track. She runs a successful business and everything is going pretty smoothly - until Ewan Campbell shows up unexpectedly and rocks her boat. The last place Ewan wants to be is at a meeting with the wedding planner his fiancée had to have. He regrets coming along even more so after he realises that he and the wedding planner have history together. Now Mackenzie faces a dilemma - does she reveal the secret that could ruin his relationship and her business reputation? Or does she choose silence and continue to go about her nice, uncomplicated life? Whatever her decision, Mackenzie knows it will have a lasting impact on all of their lives. Could a second-chance love story be in her future?
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Ransom
Daniel Silva
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COMING SOON
Alice Winter, one of Britain's most dazzling socialites, seemingly has the perfect life - a lavish home in posh Knightsbridge, a grand estate in Devon, millions of followers on social media who eagerly await her next post. And when she disappears without a trace while on holiday with three old friends from Cambridge, her desperate husband, the real estate baron Edward Knight, turns to none other than Gabriel Allon to find her.
He soon discovers that Alice Winter is not the woman she appears to be, that she has a reckless side, that she has secrets. But Edward Knight has a secret too, a secret so dangerous that Gabriel will have no choice but to return to the life he thought he had left behind. An old enemy lurks there, waiting for him to make one misstep, waiting for the perfect moment to exact vengeance.
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Ironwood
Michael Connelly
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Sheriff's Detective Sergeant Stilwell knows that Catalina Island is no paradise, but it usually stays blissfully separated from the troubles of Los Angeles County. Now a threat is coming to his safe haven. Acting on a top from a confidential informant, Stilwell and his deputies watch a plane land in the middle of the night at the Airport in the Sky, a remote airstrip in the mountains. A duffel bag of drugs is dropped, and the deputies move in, but things quickly go sideways. Shots are fired on the runway and the plane flies off. An internal inquiry follows, putting Stilwell on the bench until he is cleared of responsibility for the dangerous operation. But he is determined to find out who brought deadly violence to his island, and he begins a secret investigation into the drug deal gone wrong. Under orders to keep a low profile, he finds an abandoned backpack and traces it to a woman who disappeared while hiking on the island four years ago. Why, then, was it turned in to the substation only two months back? Thoroughly intrigued, he follows the mystery all the way to the LAPD's Open-Unsolved Unit and Detective Renée Ballard. Stilwell and Ballard work the case from both sides of the channel and soon realize they are on the trail of a criminal who revels in taunting the authorities. Meanwhile, frustrated at being shut out of his own investigation, Stilwell risks his already shaky standing in the department to pursue a case whose reach is wider than he ever imagined.
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Sirens : inside the shadow world of first responders
Martin McKenzie-Murray
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Three first responders - a paramedic, a police officer and a firefighter - are motivated by a desire to serve the community. But they are drawn to their work by more complicated impulses as well: a need for control, an acute awareness of danger, and childhood experiences they are still running from. In telling their stories, Martin McKenzie-Murray draws on his own experience and his research into trauma and recovery to ask profound questions about human motivation and survival. What draws people to these intense professions, and how does their work reshape them? And what happens when their carefully built walls between past and present, personal and professional, start to crumble?
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Poisonous people
Leanne Ten Brinke
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You definitely know one.
This book is about the poisonous people who walk among us. The romantic partner who twists every conversation, the office bully who keeps being promoted, or the reckless relative who never takes responsibility for their actions.
Award-winning psychologist Leanne ten Brinke has studied dark personalities for decades, examining their behaviour in settings as varied as prisons, schools and financial boardrooms, even in the United States Senate.
Dr ten Brinke uses a mixture of new science and storytelling to:
- help you identify dark personalities
- understand how they cause so much harm
- take evasive action before you become their target
- prevent bad behaviour
- decide if you should leave
- get out of toxic situations unscathed
The latest research shows that a relatively small number of people are bringing the rest of us down. This insightful, humane, optimistic and empowering book gives you powerful, evidence-based tools to neutralise their poison and improve your life.
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The secret lives of murderers' wives
Elizabeth Arnott
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It's a baking hot summer in 1960s California and three women have formed an unlikely friendship. From the outside, Beverley, Elsie and Margot lead idyllic lives, but behind the false smiles and glittering pools lies the truth: their husbands are some of the country's most notorious convicted killers. Amidst neighbourhood gossip and pointed fingers, the women are fighting to forge new paths for themselves. Wide-eyed Beverley is raising two young children under the long shadow of their father's crimes. Bookish Elsie is determined to make a name for herself in the patriarchal newsroom, while Hollywood party-girl Margot has a penchant for an early morning margarita. But when a string of local killings hits the news, the women, underestimated and overlooked, are hurled into an investigation of their own. After all, who better to catch a killer than those who have shared their lives with one?
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