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Every parent exists inside of two families simultaneously - the one she was born into, and the one she has made. Ten-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family's verdant backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful maintenance. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes. After a series of confusing transgressions, the simple pleasures of girlhood, slip away. Twenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents' bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her in a game of hide and seek. She's newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new lover. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with the echoes and refractions between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child safe, and how much of our lives are our own, alone. Warm and generous, unflinchingly human, and ultimately joyful and empowering, SLEEP is about the cycles of motherhood and childhood, the cost of secrets and the burden of love, and what's on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility.

<b>They told her to go to Hell.<br/> She went, but on her own terms.</b><br/> Lily isn't exactly thrilled with her arrival in the Afterlife, but what awaits her there is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined: Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning.<br/><br/> As she explores the many corners of the Afterlife, Lily finds herself surprisingly drawn to a place most people would avoid at all costs: Hell. Armed with years of customer service experience and pent-up sarcasm, Lily carves a job out for herself amongst Hell's demons, sending souls to their rightful circles with more than a hint of sass.<br/><br/> Lily's expectations are subverted every day in Hell-especially by Bel, a demon general with a distractingly sexy voice. The two meet by chance and form an immediate, deeply healing friendship, but the undeniable heat between them threatens to combust.<br/><br/> Meanwhile, something stirs beyond the boundaries of their world, threatening to destroy everything they've known and everything that could be...unless they fight like Hell to stop it.<br/><br/><b>This debut novel from BookTok sensation Jaysea Lynn invites you to lose yourself in a world where love ignites in the unlikeliest of places, magic defies the rules, and the Afterlife proves more thrilling than anyone could imagine.</b>

THE COVEN IS BACK in HUMAN RITES, the spectacular, hotly anticipated conclusion to Juno Dawson's SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE bestselling HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL COVEN series. <strong>PRE ORDER NOW!</strong> <br/><br/> <strong>The Coven is reunited but broken...</strong> <br/><br/>Niamh is back from the dead ... but she hasn't come back alone. Elle mourns a son she never had. Ciara languishes in a prison for witches. And Leonie reels from a very unexpected surprise. <br/><br/>Five very different witches with one thing in common: they were unwittingly chosen by the dangerously charming Lucifer, the demon king of desire, to fulfil a dark prophecy. <br/><br/>But Lucifer has deadly offer for fledgling witch Theo: help him and her coven - her <em>family - </em>will be spared as the rest of humanity perishes in a hellish new reality. Save the ones she loves? Or save the world? The choice is hers... <br/><br/> <strong>The final confrontation between good and evil is about to commence in the spectacular conclusion to the insatiable <em>Her Majesty's Royal Coven</em>.</strong> <br/><br/>Readers are spellbound by HMRC: <br/><br/>'Juno Dawson is at the top of her game in this vibrant and meticulous take on witchcraft. Her characteristic wit and grit shine through' <em>Samantha Shannon</em> <br/><br/>'I fell in love with her coven' <em>Kiran Millwood Hargrave</em> <br/><br/>'A breath of fresh air' <em>Joanne Harris</em> <br/><br/>'Utterly compelling'<em> Louise O'Neill</em> <br/><br/>'I devoured this'<em> Lindsey Kelk</em> <br/><br/>'Thrilling and hair-raising'<em> Russell T Davies</em> <br/><br/>'Beautiful, moving and witty' <em>Cecelia Ahern</em> <br/><br/>'Compulsively readable and touching - I loved it' <em>Marian Keyes</em>

<b>From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Kandi Steiner comes a new edition of this #BestofBookTok favorite - an angsty and powerful story of lovers continually fighting the curse of bad timing. <i>Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last, featuring gorgeous sprayed edges, exclusive special design features, and never before seen bonus content.</i></b><br/><br/>This is not your typical love story.<br/> It's a story of almosts and could-have-beens.<br/><br/>Of friendship that teeters on the edge of something more.<br/><br/>Of passion so intoxicating, it burns.<br/><br/>Jamie and B are two hearts caught in the tangle of bad timing and unspoken words. Their connection defies labels-too deep for friendship, too tangled for love. Over a decade of moments, choices, and missed opportunities, they find themselves drawn together like a moth to a flame, even when the world-and their own mistakes-keep pulling them apart.<br/><br/>Is it obsession? Destiny? Or just self-destruction with a pretty face?<br/><br/>Sometimes, love isn't about finding the right person-it's about the moment when everything aligns.<br/><br/>But what if that moment never comes?

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties - successful, competent and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father&apos;s death, he&apos;s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women - his enduring first love Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke. Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined. For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude - a period of desire, despair and possibility - a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

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Midway through his life, an artist begins to paint upside down. In Paris, a woman is attacked by a stranger in the street. A mother dies. A man falls to his death. Couples seek escape in distant lands. The new novel from one of the most distinctive writers of the age, Parade sets loose a carousel of lives. It surges past the limits of identity, character, and plot, to tell a true story-about art, family, morality, gender, and how we compose ourselves.