Definitely Better Now<\/a><\/center>
The very last person anyone should worry about is Emma. Yes, hi, she\u2019s an alcoholic. But she\u2019s officially been sober for one entire year. That\u2019s twelve months of better health. Fifty-two whole weeks of focusing on nothing but her nine-to-five office job, group meetings, and avoiding the kind of bad decisions that previously left her awash in shame and regret. It\u2019s also been 365 days of not dating. And with her new dating profile, Emma, 26, of New York is ready to put herself back out there.<\/p>\n
Except\u2014was dating always this complicated? And did Emma\u2019s mother really have to choose now to move in with her new boyfriend? Being assigned to plan her office\u2019s holiday party feels like icing on the suddenly very overwhelming cake until her estranged father reappears with devastating news. Icing, meet cherry on top. But then there\u2019s Ben, the charming IT guy who, despite Emma\u2019s awkwardness and shortcomings, seems to maybe actually get her? Sobriety is turning out to be far from the flawless future Emma had once envisioned for herself, but as she allows herself to open up to Ben and confront difficult past relationships, she\u2019s beginning to realize that taking things one day at a time might just be the perfectly imperfect path she\u2019s meant to be on.<\/p>\n
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Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love<\/a><\/center>
Eddie Winston is 90 years old. He has lived and he has loved, but he has never been kissed.<\/p>\n
A true gentleman and incurable romantic, Eddie spends his days volunteering at a charity shop, where he sorts through the donations of the living and the dead, preserving letters and tokens of love along the way. And it is here that he meets Bella, a troubled young woman who, at 24 years old, has just lost the love of her life.<\/p>\n
When Bella learns that Eddie is yet to have his first kiss, she resolves to help Eddie Winston finally find love, sparking an adventure that will take them to unexpected places and, they hope, bring Eddie Winston to the moment he has waited for all his life.<\/p>\n
A tale of friendship and kindness that reminds us that those we love are never forgotten and it is never too late to try again.<\/p>\n
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A Cruel Thirst<\/a><\/center>
Carolina Fuentes wants to join her family in hunting the bloodthirsty vampiros that plague her pueblo. Her father, however, wishes to marry her off to a husband of his choosing, someone who\u2019ll take her away from danger.<\/p>\n
Determined to prove she\u2019d make a better slayer than wife, Carolina vows to take down a monster herself. But when she runs into un vampiro who is somehow extremely attractive and kind, her plan crumbles.<\/p>\n
Lalo Villalobos was content leading a perfectly dull life until un vampiro turned him. Now forced to flee his city, he heads to the pueblo where he believes the first vampiro was made. Surely its residents must know how to reverse this dreadful curse. Instead of finding salvation, Lalo collides with a beautiful young woman who\u2019d gladly drive a dagger through his heart.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, Lalo and Carolina share a common enemy. They can wipe out this evil. Together. If his fangs and her fists can stay focused, they might just triumph and discover what it feels like to take a bite out of love.<\/p>\n
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The Resurrectionist<\/a><\/center>
Edinburgh, Scotland, 1828. Na\u00efve but determined James Willoughby has abandoned his posh, sheltered life at Oxford to pursue a lifelong dream of studying surgery in Edinburgh. A shining beacon of medical discovery in the age of New Enlightenment, the city\u2019s university offers everything James desires\u2014except the chance to work on a human cadaver. For that, he needs to join one of the private schools in Surgeon\u2019s Square, at a cost he cannot afford. In desperation, he strikes a deal with Aneurin \u201cNye\u201d MacKinnon, a dashing young dissectionist with an artist\u2019s eye for anatomy and a reckless passion for knowledge. Nye promises to help him gain the surgical experience he craves\u2014but it doesn\u2019t take long for James to realize he\u2019s made a devil\u2019s bargain . . .<\/p>\n
Nye is a body snatcher. And James has unwittingly become his accomplice. Intoxicated by Nye and his noble mission, James rapidly descends into the underground ranks of the Resurrectionists\u2014the body snatchers infamous for stealing fresh corpses from churchyards to be used as anatomical specimens. Before he knows it, James is caught up in a life-or-death scheme as rival gangs of snatchers compete in a morbid race for power and prestige.<\/p>\n
James and Nye soon find themselves in the crosshairs of a shady pair of unscrupulous opportunists known as Burke and Hare, who are dead set on cornering the market, no matter the cost. These unsavory characters will do anything to beat the competition for bodies. Even if it\u2019s cold-blooded murder . . .<\/p>\n
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Love in Translation<\/a><\/center>
Up until a few months ago, Rheo Whitlock had it all. Stability, self-confidence and a safe job as an interpreter for the United Nations\u2026 It was the predictable sort of existence she, as a dedicated homebody, had always dreamed of\u2014the security she\u2019d needed thanks to her nomadic #vanlife<\/a> upbringing. But ever since an unfortunate \u201chot mic\u201d moment threw her career into a tailspin, she\u2019s been struggling\u2014really struggling\u2014with fear, anxiety and uncertainty. A calculated escape is in order, and Rheo knows just the place: her grandmother\u2019s secluded hideaway in the breathtaking town of Gilmartin.<\/p>\n
Except she won\u2019t be alone, thanks to a random twist of fate\u2026<\/p>\n
Fletcher Wright lives for adrenaline, always chasing the next high. So when he learns he\u2019ll have to share his rental accommodations with Rheo\u2014a stranger, basically\u2014he simply chalks it up to another challenge. It doesn\u2019t hurt that there\u2019s an immediate attraction between them, which neither can explain. Before long, they\u2019re not just sharing a house and new experiences\u2014they\u2019re sharing a bed. But when it\u2019s time for Fletcher to move on to the next adventure, he and Rheo will both have to decide\u2014are they ready to take the biggest risk of all?<\/p>\n
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The Socialites<\/a><\/center>
In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb.<\/p>\n
Six years later they leave, to change the world \u2026<\/p>\n
Maureen was the movie star, whose role as Tarzan\u2019s Jane helped rewrite the rules of cinema censorship.<\/p>\n
Sonia was the aspiring writer who became George Orwell\u2019s wife and the guardian of his literary legacy.<\/p>\n
And Vivien was the actress as iconic as the roles she played, from Cleopatra to Scarlett O\u2019Hara.<\/p>\n
Together their careers encompassed glamour and tragedy, triumph and scandal. From Bloomsbury to Hollywood, and from the caf\u00e9s of Paris to the theatres of New York, this novel is a breath-taking epic spanning four decades in three unforgettable lives.<\/p>\n
Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a><\/p>\n These are books from the last 3 weeks as there isn’t much published at the end of December. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n