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Britain by lukeiamyourfather
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Miracle at the Museum of Broken Hearts by TalliRoland
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Does every relationship deserve a second chance? When chief romantic Rose Delaney scores her dream job at London's quirkiest new attraction, The Museum of Broken Hearts, she thinks she's got it made. Sure, it's a little depressing dealing with relics of failed relationships each day, but Rose is determined not to let it break her 'love conquers all' spirit. After discovering the museum's handsome curator is nursing a broken heart of his own, Rose steps in to fix it. Can Rose heal the rift, or will this happy ending go awry?
Spray Painted Bananas by emilybenet
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Spray Painted Bananas is a romantic comedy about Amber, a broke temp working in a catering firm in London, who after one too many evenings scrounging free wine from wacky art gallery openings with her best friend Farrell, decides there’s no reason she can’t become a conceptual artist herself. A chance meeting with the wealthy, young art curator, Elliott Frinton-Smith, sets things off in a desirable direction. Now all Amber needs is a brilliant idea to grab the attention of the nation. Spray Painted Bananas explores love and ambition with the touch of the absurd and plenty of bananas. It is OUT NOW published under the title THE TEMP by Harper Collins.
The Artist's Secret by BlueWritingHood
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Ivory Dylan is an artist of many talents and a young girl that stands out in many ways. Her beauty, her way of thinking, everything about her seems different from the ways of the world around her. Her eighteenth birthday started as any other's would, a sweet wake up from her mother, meaningful gifts from the one's she loves, then off to school for her last day. However, as Ivory's day unravels she begins to realize small things about herself that she did not know before, including part of the meaning to her series of art work that she had been slaving over for the last month. Dragon after dragon and darkness after darkness appearing in painting after painting. Though the beauty and detail after each piece was no mystery, the message behind it was. During the evening of her eighteenth birthday Ivory notices a handsome young man that she swears she's seen before and from there, she starts to realize that her paintings are more than beautiful art on a canvas; they are a story of a world beyond hers, one she is linked to in more ways than she can imagine. Every artist does have a secret, but is Ivory Dylan's more than even she can handle?
The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home by NaomiAlderman
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Okie's fifteen. She lives in New York. She's got a few problems: she's failing geography, her dad's a wimp, and her mother, Sumatra, is a stone cold bitch. But things get a lot worse when Sumatra turns into a zombie and eats Okie's dad. Clio, Okie's grandmother, lives in Toronto; but since the zombie apocalypse, Toronto's a lot further away than it used to be. Clio suggests that Okie transport Sumatra across the border, because family is family. But coaching Okie by cellphone isn't easy, and Clio has some zombies of her own to contend with. Luckily she has some garden tools. Naomi Alderman and Margaret Atwood team up for this unusual two-hander. Encompassing love, death, sex, and the meaning of family, The Happy Zombie Sunrise Home will surprise, delight, and convince you of the vital importance of keeping ready supplies of rhubarb and mini-wieners in your freezer at all times. The story unfolds beginning October 24.
The Life of Natalia Potter ON HOLD by Snowball420
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Natalia Potter Is just a servant for the Malfoys. Or so they think.
Alice...meet one direction by cuttlefishchameleon
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Wonderland isn't exactly the nicest place. it's full of creatures from the book. Cheshire is a blue and purple haired girl with a tail, ears, and some deadly battle moves. she is targeted by Alice, the head of wonderland for unknown reasons (read to find out!) but when she has a run in with one direction how will everything play. will she find out how to break her curse? or will Alice beat her to it? and what will happen to the boys?
Inamorata by irishrose
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Nightingale is human - or would be, had it not been for the manner of her creation. Genetically engineered and grown to adulthood in a lab, she was created, not born. Why? For the sole purpose of the entertainment of rich men as one of the many Inamoratas in the bordello business . Beautiful, elegant, a superb dancer and an even better singer, she is the perfect lover for any man. Perfect, that is, except for her personality - the one thing you can't engineer.
Potter by lillyanbrooks
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Lily Potter is an average 15 year old living in the United States in 2011. When magic upheaves her life and drops her and her younger brother into a beloved world she thought was fictional, she discovers old family secrets-and family in general.