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Spirit Mates - The New Time Relationship
by Anni Sennov, Carsten Sennov
Most people have heard of the terms ‘soul mate’ and ‘twin soul’. What most people may not yet know is that the concept of soul mate refers to a consciousness realm that is about to completely disappear from the Earth in order to be replaced by the purer and more powerful spirit energy. This is creating great changes in consciousness on Earth and it also means that we humans finally have the opportunity to join together with our spirit mate. In this book the co-authors and spirit mate couple Anni and Carsten Sennov describe with love and insight the different paths and circumstances that can lead you to your spirit mate.
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Historical fiction
The Punishment
by Paula Marais
A story of love, betrayal and the choices that define who we become. France, 1942 – In a time when friends become enemies and secrets are traded like currency, the forbidden love between a German officer and a young Frenchwoman can only lead to disaster. Against all odds and despite the obvious danger, Cédonie Boineau and Kommandant Kurt Auer get caught up in a romance they find impossible to resist.But as the illicit relationship builds, Cédonie’s ardent admirer and vindictive rival lurk in the shadows, and watch. Thibault Bosc nurses his unrequited love for Cédonie along with his growing hate for the Boche invaders, while Odette de Bary gathers gossip that will change the town forever.And when the war is finally over and truths come to the light, Cédonie is left at the mercy of the town to face her punishment. Author Paula Marais has woven a beautiful tale of the complex loyalties of the human heart and the surprising forms that love can take in war.
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RomanceSeptember 2015
In all den Jahren
by Leyser/Leciejewski, Barbara
Elsa and Finn are living door to door. They are friends. Best friends. And despite all doubts of their personal environment, despite all feelings and temptations, that’s what they want to stay. In the end all love attachments fail: Closeness becomes tenure, affection becomes casualness and so on. It is known so well/ No, Elsa and Finn want to stay who they are, no matter what happens. And a lot of things happen that rock their heartfelt relationship both sides. This novel tells the humorous, exiting and touching story of an unusual and heartfelt relationship spread over two decades, their ups and downs, funny, happy and dramatic moments and repeatedly asks the question: How much love can a friendship stand. A wonderful love story and a recommendation for all readers of Cecilia Ahern.
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Historical fiction
The Punishment
by Paula Marais
A story of love, betrayal and the choices that define who we become. France, 1942 – In a time when friends become enemies and secrets are traded like currency, the forbidden love between a German officer and a young Frenchwoman can only lead to disaster. Against all odds and despite the obvious danger, Cédonie Boineau and Kommandant Kurt Auer get caught up in a romance they find impossible to resist.But as the illicit relationship builds, Cédonie’s ardent admirer and vindictive rival lurk in the shadows, and watch. Thibault Bosc nurses his unrequited love for Cédonie along with his growing hate for the Boche invaders, while Odette de Bary gathers gossip that will change the town forever.And when the war is finally over and truths come to the light, Cédonie is left at the mercy of the town to face her punishment. Author Paula Marais has woven a beautiful tale of the complex loyalties of the human heart and the surprising forms that love can take in war.
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Adult & contemporary romanceFebruary 2015
The Dearly Departed Dating Service
by Rae Renzi (author)
Joy had it all: a promising medical career, a handsome and kind fiancé, a bright future. Until it all came crashing down in one shattering moment. Two years later, nothing is the same. Joy has a mountain of debt, a boss with the barest hold on reality, and a complicated—to put it mildly—private life.The arrogant young surgeon she reviles and the pack of well-meaning but misguided ghosts don't help. Still, her idea for a new business just might be crazy enough to work...
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Erotic fiction
Blond Boy; Red Lipstick
by Geoff Bunn
This is a love story, deliberately pitched at a mainstream audience and at a level far removed from the dark and often sordid world of transsexual prostitution on Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The idea is to subtly lead the reader into this setting and give them an insight into the life of a transsexual. In this first book, we meet the Narrator and Alley – a vivacious young boy with bleach blonde hair and red lipstick. The two begin a gentle romance. Issues such as homophobia are only touched upon, rather than explored fully. By the time readers finish the book, they will know the characters, be interested in them, and they will have some empathy towards and a little more understanding of transsexuals. Blond Boy; Red Lipstick is the first of two, where the sequel, already planned out, will be a darker story (albeit with a happy ending).
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FictionNovember 2017
December Heat
by Sara H Olsson
Christmas is approaching and the easygoing life in Hallavik isabout to enter a new phase for Nina Becker and Johanna Seger. One of them is now voluntarily divorced and happy to put herlife as a married lady of leisure behind her. The other findsherself involuntarily co-habiting and is also told there herworkplace will undergo a reorganisation process. Roles arereversed and the two women try to adapt to their new situation. To celebrate her return to the little town on the west coast ofSweden, Nina decides to throw a glühwein party and a familiar face pops up when she least expects it and Nina doesn't know how to react. He is both pleasant and handsome, but Nina knows all about his secret. Johanna can't seem to let go of her personal issues, which leadsto her celebrating a little bit too much and ends up in an intimate situation with the wrong man. December Heat is a charming and witty novel about life's ups and downs, and the sequel to Joyous Beauty, the first book in the Hallavikseries.
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FictionApril 2015
I Blame Morrissey
My Adventures with Indie-Pop and Emotional Disaster
by Jamie Jones
You wouldn't let song lyrics rule your life would you? You wouldn't become so infatuated with a pop star that you would use their words to make decisions on your relationships would you? Jay would. Join him as he tries to grow up in the 90s in a haze of lust, indie-pop & warm lager while all the time looking to Morrissey for guidance.
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FictionJuly 2019
The Painter
by Deirdre Quiery
In a desire to impress the people who visit his workshop, renowned artist The Painter, employs a gardener to create an inspirational landscape which includes a labyrinth, an orange grove and Moorish-inspired fountains. They develop an intimate relationship and the Painter, whose life and talent had become increasingly dissipated, finds himself slowly recovering his original innocence and talent. However, the relationship is tainted by the Painter's jealousy when visitors express more interest in the magical garden and mysterious labyrinth than in the Painter's art. That jealously blossoms into deadly rage when The Painter catches the gardener changing one of his paintings.... Deirdre Quiery's compelling new thriller explores themes of love, life and deceit, and examines the lengths we will go to pursue and protect our passions.
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FictionApril 2018
The Goat and The Rain
by Mahfud Ikhwan
This modern Indonesian romance with Romeo and Juliet-ish vibes tells the love story of Miftahul Abrar and Nurul Fauzia. They both were raised in Islamic family, but having the same faith doesn’t make it easy for them. The secrets between two different families from two different cultures revealed as they struggled to break the walls between them. It’s more than romance, it’s history and the imagery of indonesian society written in a such beautiful narrative.
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Fiction
Irgendwo denkt jemand an dich
(Traumfänger 1)
by Nadine M. Burri
Sind Träume nur Schäume? Anna hatte als Kind einen Traum – Schriftstellerin werden. Nun fühlt sie sich gefangen in einem Job, den sie nicht mag und einem tristen Alltag, der sie nicht erfüllt. Eigentlich ist sie hemmungslos neugierig und liebt Geschichten. Regelmäßig besucht sie das Zürcher Café „Ellies Stube“, um zu lesen und ihrem Kindheitstraum nachzuhängen. Dort begegnet sie Ben, der im edlen Restaurant Adler Koch ist. Er ist fasziniert von ihrer sprudelnden Fantasie und die beiden teilen ihre Leidenschaft für Bücher. Trotz seiner verschlossenen Art verliebt sich Anna in ihn. Ben, der seine Berufung als Koch bereits lebt, ermutigt sie, ihren eigenen Traum zu verwirklichen. Doch plötzlich holt ihn seine Vergangenheit ein und Annas Kindheitstraum wird für beide zur Zerreißprobe. Welche Geheimnisse verbergen sich hinter den espressofarbenen Augen? Ungeahnte Herausforderungen verlangen Annas ganzen Mut, ihrem Herzen zu folgen.
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Fiction
Herzenswege
Die Magie Schottlands (Traumfänger 2)
by Nadine M. Burri
Bist du bereit, ins Ungewisse zu springen? Sarah ist es nicht – noch nicht. Doch etwas muss sich ändern. In ihrem Leben läuft nichts so, wie sie es möchte. Ihr Job in der Bäckerei ist nur noch anstrengend, aufs Kickbox-Training hat sie keine Lust mehr und die Männer – puh, daran will sie nicht einmal denken. Hals über Kopf flieht sie zu ihrer Tante nach Schottland. Doch anstatt Ruhe und Frieden findet sich Sarah mit ihrer tragischen Familiengeschichte konfrontiert, die sie bisher verdrängt hatte. Nicht zuletzt ist da noch Finn, der mysteriöse Highlander mit den eisblauen Augen, zu dem sie sich magisch hingezogen fühlt. Als ihn seine Vergangenheit einholt, wirbelt es auch ihr Leben ordentlich durcheinander. Wird Sarah erneut fliehen oder stellt sie sich ihren Ängsten und folgt ihrem Herzensweg?
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Fiction
Scorpions In Stilettos
by Hinemura Ellison and Ted D Hughes
Caught in a compromising position, Clara AKA Flat White, the classy, conservative career girl of the Trinity Trio, struggles as her carefully constructed life comes crashing down around her. Juggling a complicated love life, a career with bullying managers, a domineering mother and her own demons from the past, may be just a little too much even for her. Can Clara recover and navigate her way back with the help of her friends? Book Three in the Trinity Trilogy following on from Sharks With Lipstick and Snakes In Suits.
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FictionJuly 2019
The Red Gene
by Barbara Lamplugh
When Rose, a young English nurse with humanitarian ideals, decides to volunteer in the Spanish Civil War, she is little prepared for the experiences that await her. Working on one front after another, witness to all the horrors of war, she falls in love with a Republican fighter, Miguel. In 1939 as defeat becomes inevitable, Rose is faced with a decision that will change her life and leave her with lasting scars. Interspersed with Rose's story is that of Consuelo, a girl growing up in a staunchly Catholic family on the other side of the ideological divide. Never quite belonging, treated unkindly, she discovers at a young age that she was adopted but her attempts to learn more about her origins are largely thwarted. It falls to the third generation, to Consuelo's daughter Marisol, born in the year of Franco's death and growing up in a rapidly changing Spain, to investigate the dark secrets of her family and find the answers that have until now eluded her mother.
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FictionNovember 2004
Ao Thampa
by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi
He chops human corpses for the salvation of their souls. He is the bridge between a man’s life and after-life yet a repulsive figure himself, disowned by the community only until the need for him arises. SYNOPSIS He is Ao Thampa, member of a small tribe called Monpa tucked away in the sub-Himalayan wilderness of the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. The Monpas, largely unknown to the rest of the world – much like the world to them – carry along their pristine lifestyle and the same social ethos and taboos that they have been living with for centuries. Despite their strong spiritual attachment to the tenets of Tibetan Buddhism, they still persist with their primordial shamanic social norms – few of which may seem bizarre to an outsider. Dargye Norbu, a wretched person in a lice-infested robe smeared with blood, pus of dead bodies and excreta of his daughter, is often seen in the evenings on the streets of Dirang Village in an inebriated state, cursing and abusing the villagers, and dragging himself towards his secluded hut located on the confluence of two rivers away from the village. To him he does not need a human society, but the people of the society need him because after death, it is only Dargye who can dissect their bodies and throw the hundred and eight pieces into the river as per the funeral customs of the Monpa. However, the story has not always been like this; Dargye Norbu used to be a happy lad leading a regular life with his family and friends in Surbin Village of Tawang. It seemed like only a matter of time before he would marry his cousin Rijomba, but destiny had other plans for him. The peaceful life of the Monpas was shattered when China occupied Tibet and their spiritual authority fled his home via Tawang. A few years later, China attacked India taking over the whole of Tawang, this time forcing the villagers themselves to flee. Rijomba was killed by a stray bullet and Dargye had to be her undertaker by cutting her body and throwing the pieces into the Tawangchu River. Dargye got separated from his family and the cruel twist of circumstances turned him into a thampa – a chopper of corpses – he became known to all as Ao Thampa of a repugnantly squalid disposition. Dargye Norbu began living a solitary life that was a grim struggle to keep himself and his nagging wife Guisengmu, along with their deaf and mute daughter Rinjomba, alive when destiny took another turn and he met a reincarnate Buddhist Nun, Ani Sange Norljom. The venerated nun had come to Dirang along with the Dalai Lama to perform the Kalachakra Puja. Ao Thampa is a story of life, love and hope on one side and a sinister nexus of death, desolation and destiny on the other. It is a tale of immortal love between a pure Buddhist Nun and a wretched, socially outcaste person.
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FictionFebruary 2001
Silent Lips, Whispering Heart
by Yeshe Dorjee Thongchi
An unexplored land in the eastern Himalayas of India – unadministered until India won her independence. Everything being built from scratch here – schools, hospitals, roads and bridges to connect it with the mainland, even relations between the endemic tribes of the region. Members from different tribes were made to gather as laborers to build a road through treacherous forests and mountains. Even in such thorny environs, love blooms like a rose. SYNOPSIS The Administration made it compulsory for every village to send a volunteer each from every household to construct a stretch of road that would connect Tawang and Bomdila in North East Frontier Agency with Tezpur in Assam. Rinchin, a youth from the Sherdukpen tribe arrives with his kin at a place called Eagle’s Nest to volunteer for the construction. One day, he along with a few girls enter a thick jungle to collect firewood, and encounters an extremely beautiful girl. The two instantly fall in love with each other. The girls accompanying Rinchin assume this beautiful stranger to be a shrimpu, a mythical creature living in the high mountains with the power to assume human forms to lure men away. Tsering Wangmu, a girl from the group, attacks the girl with a machete and had it not been for Rinchin’s intervention, the result could have been fatal. But the girl turned out to be Yama, from the Nyishi tribe, who had come with her village folk to volunteer for the construction. The Administration had made all volunteers stay together so that they could familiarise themselves with each other. Each tribe, although now under one administrative umbrella, had different customs, different languages and ways of life. Each thought of themselves as superior to the other. Whereas Sherdukpens were a peace-loving Buddhist tribe, Nyishis were animist, fierce and always at war. The Sherdukpen, fearful of the Nyishi who they considered as most cruel, first refused to work alongside them – both were assigned to work in a difficult rocky site with a hanging cliff. The initial reluctance ultimately gave way to a feeling of bonhomie when they realised that despite their differences, they possessed the same human nature. Rinchin made friends with Tadak, the Nyishi group leader who also happened to be Yama’s brother. They communicated in pidgin Assamese, their lingua franca, because their own tongues had nothing in common. But for Rinchin and Yama, language proved to be the tallest barrier. Neither one knew that the other was already betrothed. Rinchin was betrothed to Tsering Wangmu, the girl who attacked Yama in the forest and was jealously guarding her fiancé from the time of that encounter. Relatives of Yama’s would be husband, camping a little distance away, came to know about the affair and insisted that she stayed with them till they returned home. The hurdles started mounting – even Tadak, who had become Rinchin’s good mate, went against the two. Silent Lips, Whispering Heart is the story of two lovers. Taking the road as metaphor, the author has woven a story of a remote region in its journey of connecting to the mainland – how mountains connected to the plains; how people, unknown to each other, got connected and how a backward world plugged itself with the so-called civilised country.