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"A smog has spread. Food crops are rapidly disappearing. A chef escapes her dying career in a dreary city to take a job at a decadent mountaintop colony seemingly free of the world’s troubles. There, the sky is clear again. Rare ingredients abound. Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body. In this atmosphere of...
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"Alejandro Aguilar never mixes business with pleasure--but his newest employee, marketing guru Elise Jameson, is refreshingly different and irresistibly intoxicating. Working together on a high-octane multibillion-dollar merger, exhilaration gets the better of them ... But this Spaniard is still wrestling demons from his past and he sees betrayal everywhere, including in the eyes of his temptress Elise. So he fires her, destroying the business deal--and...
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Of all the women and men Noni Blake has pleased in her life, there's one she's often overlooked--herself. After the end of a decade-long relationship, Noni decides it's time for that to change. She's finally going to prioritize her wants and desires and only do things (and people) that feel good in the moment. As she embarks on a pleasure-seeking quest that takes her halfway around the world, she discovers that maybe she can have everything, and everyone,...
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Three women friends, tired of their mundane lives in Philadelphia, decide to take a vacation to Miami Beach. There, they get much more than they bargained for.
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"Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home. Originally published in 1984, Martin Amis's classic novel Money is a searing critique of late-stage capitalism that remains a poignant and relevant commentary on the trappings of materialism and the illusions of success. Money is everything. Especially to John Self, a successful commercial director from London. He spends his days steeped in booze and pornography...
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"When Ida is sent away for the summer to stay with the Murphys--friends of her father, but also of Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald--she travels from New York to France and, unknowingly, into the artistic epicenter of 1929. There, she meets their haughty, sullen, and precocious daughter, Honoria, and wonders if she can be friends with the prettiest girl in the whole world. In the "perfect inverted world" of adults, one of constant play and leisure--and...
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World famous MMA champion Zachary Barrett has returned to his home in Phuket, Thailand, and his elite training camp, Revolution. Thanks to his twin brother, a renowned pro trainer in Colorado, Zachary is primed and ready for his next title bout--but his toughest match may be with the sports journalist assigned to write an exposé on him. Not only is she gorgeous, she's after a well-guarded secret that Zach soon realizes makes her off limits in every...
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"'¿Pesara más un edificio sobre mi cuerpo... o una muerte sobre mi conciencia?' ¡Esta temblando! Un romance a escondidas. Un departamento en la colonia Roma. Los objetos se desploman, las paredes se agrietan. '¿Moriremos?' La escala de Richter es alta y la fatalidad, tambien. Gritos. El pavor crece y se quiebra; de las fisuras manan los recuerdos de ella que, aterrorizada, espera la caida. Como destellos de vida, se dispara el recuento final de...
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