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Undercover Bromance

(2020) The Bromance Book Club was one of Bustle’s ’21 New Rom-Coms Out In Fall 2019 To Give You Warm And Fuzzy Feelings All Season Long’!

If you love Jasmine Guillory, Sally Thorne and Helen Hoang, you’ll LOVE Lyssa Kay Adams!

Readers adore Undercover Bromance!

‘This series is one of the best I’ve EVER read’

‘FAB-U-LOUS!!!’

‘The kind of book I love to read after a hard day to make me smile’

The first rule of book club:

You don’t talk about book club.

Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he’ll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.

Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville’s hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors. After she catches him harassing a young hostess, she confronts him and gets fired. Liv vows revenge, but she’ll need assistance to take on the powerful chef

Unfortunately, that means turning to Braden Mack. When Liv’s blackballed from the restaurant scene, the charismatic nightclub entrepreneur offers to help expose her ex-boss, but she is suspicious of his motives. This is a job for the Bromance Book Club.

Inspired by the romantic suspense novel they’re reading, the book club assists Liv in setting up a sting operation to take down the chef. But they’re just as eager to help Mack figure out the way to Liv’s heart…even though she’s determined to squelch the sparks between them before she gets burned.

Praise for The Bromance Book Club:

‘A you’re-gonna-burn-dinner book because you will not want to put it down. Laugh out loud with tons of heart, this is an absolutely adorable must read’ Avery Flynn, USA Today bestselling author

‘A delight!…I raced to finish this book, but still never wanted it to end!’ Alexa Martin, author of Intercepted

‘A delightful, fast-paced read with the perfect mix of laugh-out-loud and swoony moments-every town should have a Bromance Book Club’ Evie Dunmore, author of Bringing Down the Duke

‘It is the reading aloud in this story that ultimately wins my heart, and shows that everything worth knowing can be learned from romance’ kc dyer, author of Finding Fraser

Don’t miss the other Bromance Book Club reads! The Bromance Book Club is out now and Crazy Stupid Bromance is available to preorder! 9781472271686

Bromance Book Club

(2020) Amazon Book Review’s No. 1 Best Romance of 2019 and one of Bustle’s ’21 New Rom-Coms Out In Fall 2019 To Give You Warm And Fuzzy Feelings All Season Long’!

If you love Jasmine Guillory, Sally Thorne and Helen Hoang, you’ll LOVE Lyssa Kay Adams!

Readers can’t stop raving about The Bromance Book Club!

‘Romantic comedy at its finest’

‘Completely lived up to the hype’

‘The perfect blend of funny, wacky moments and also sexy and angsty moments’

‘I didn’t expect to read a new favourite but The Bromance Book Club has gone and done it!’

‘I would recommend this to anyone who wants to escape into a book for a few hours and come out with a smile’

‘This book made me feel warm and fuzzy. It was like being hugged, but in a sexy way – what more could you want?’

‘I loved the emotional range it took me through, from laugh-out-loud moments to real tear-jerking scenes’

The first rule of book club:

You don’t talk about book club.

Gavin Scott’s marriage is trouble. The Nashville Legends baseball star has recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. His reaction to the revelation is the final straw for their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.

Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.

Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville’s top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency called Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it’ll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his beloved wife.

Praise for The Bromance Book Club:

‘A you’re-gonna-burn-dinner book because you will not want to put it down. Laugh out loud with tons of heart, this is an absolutely adorable must read’ Avery Flynn, USA Today bestselling author

‘A delight!…I raced to finish this book, but still never wanted it to end!’ Alexa Martin, author of Intercepted

‘A delightful, fast-paced read with the perfect mix of laugh-out-loud and swoony moments – every town should have a Bromance Book Club’ Evie Dunmore, author of Bringing Down the Duke

‘It is the reading aloud in this story that ultimately wins my heart, and shows that everything worth knowing can be learned from romance’ kc dyer, author of Finding Fraser

Don’t miss the next Bromance Book Club reads! Undercover Bromance is out now and Crazy Stupid Bromance is available to preorder! 9781472271686

It Started with a Secret

(2020) Jill Mansell’s fabulous new novel AND NOW YOU’RE BACK is coming in January 2021. Pre-order now to be one of the first to read it!

Snap up your perfect autumn read from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author and ‘queen of feel-good fiction’!

‘Like a little blast of sunshine – uplifting, heartwarming and supremely feelgood’ SOPHIE KINSELLA

‘Gripping and incredibly comforting’ MARIAN KEYES

The trouble with secrets is that you can’t guess what the consequences will be . . .

Lainey has lost everything. Luckily one little fib (OK, quite a big fib) helps nail her dream job. Soon she’s living in a stunning house by the sea, fending off obsessed fans for a retired – if far-from-retiring – actor and organising his charming but chaotic family. It’s definitely worth the challenge of keeping her secret.

At least Lainey isn’t looking for love. It’s time for a break from all that. And yet . . . Seth, the actor’s grandson, really is rather attractive. There’s growing chemistry and a definite connection between them. But how would he react if he knew she hadn’t been honest with him?

Lainey’s not the only one with a secret, though. Seth has one of his own. And everything’s about to start unravelling . . .

A beautiful Cornish setting, one chaotic family, and a woman who’s had enough of love. Or has she?

Praise for Jill Mansell:

‘One of my favourite writers’ KATIE FFORDE

‘The queen of witty, heart-warming, feel-good love stories’ RED

‘Reading Jill is always such a joy!’ VERONICA HENRY

‘Jill Mansell just gets better and better’ HEAT * * * * *

‘A fab, feel-good read’ PRIMA

** Be the first to read Jill’s brand new book – AND NOW YOU’RE BACK – by pre-ordering now! **

Readers adore Jill Mansell!

‘A fantastic read yet again, great characters, great story and as always a few happy tears’

‘Completely absorbing and so addictive’

‘Entertains from start to finish, and it fully deserves a 5-star rating’

‘Great characters and I can’t get enough of the “will they, won’t they” – “should they, could they”obstacles and setbacks’

Unfu*k Yourself

(2017) Joining the ranks of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, You Are a Badass, and F*ck Feelings is this refreshing, BS-free self-empowerment guide that offers an honest, no-nonsense, tough-love approach to help you move past self-imposed limitations.

Are you tired of feeling f*cked up? If you are, Gary John Bishop has the answer. In this straightforward handbook, he gives you the tools and advice you need to demolish the slag weighing you down and become the truly unf*cked version of yourself. “Wake up to the miracle you are,” he directs. “Here’s what you’ve forgotten: You’re a f*cking miracle of being.” It isn’t other people that are standing in your way; it isn’t even your circumstances that are blocking your ability to thrive. It’s yourself and the negative self-talk you keep telling yourself.

In Unf*ck Yourself, Bishop leads you through a series of seven assertions:

I am willing

I am wired to win

I got this

I embrace the uncertainty

I am not my thoughts; I am what I do

I am relentless

I expect nothing and accept everything

Lead the life you were meant to have – Unf*ck Yourself.

Art Of The Good Life

(2018) Since the dawn of civilization, we’ve been asking ourselves what it means to live a good life: how should I live, what will truly make be happy, how much should I earn, how should I spend my time? In the absence of a single simple answer, what we need is a toolkit of mental models, a guide to practical living.

Factfulness

(2018) Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of carrying only opinions for which you have strong supporting facts. When asked simple questions about global trends – what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty; why the world’s population is increasing; how many girls finish school – we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.

In Factfulness, professor of international health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two longtime collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective – from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse). Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.

It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most. Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.

Shadow and Bone

(2012) See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.

Enter the Grishaverse with Book One of the Shadow and Bone Trilogy by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom.

Soldier. Summoner. Saint. Orphaned and expendable, Alina Starkov is a soldier who knows she may not survive her first trek across the Shadow Fold—a swath of unnatural darkness crawling with monsters. But when her regiment is attacked, Alina unleashes dormant magic not even she knew she possessed.

Now Alina will enter a lavish world of royalty and intrigue as she trains with the Grisha, her country’s magical military elite—and falls under the spell of their notorious leader, the Darkling. He believes Alina can summon a force capable of destroying the Shadow Fold and reuniting their war-ravaged country, but only if she can master her untamed gift.

As the threat to the kingdom mounts and Alina unlocks the secrets of her past, she will make a dangerous discovery that could threaten all she loves and the very future of a nation.

Welcome to Ravka . . . a world of science and superstition where nothing is what it seems.

A New York Times Bestseller

A Los Angeles Times Bestseller

An Indie Next List Book

This title has Common Core connections.

Read all the books in the Grishaverse!

The Shadow and Bone Trilogy

(previously published as The Grisha Trilogy)

Shadow and Bone

Siege and Storm

Ruin and Rising

The Six of Crows Duology

Six of Crows

Crooked Kingdom

The King of Scars Duology

King of Scars

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

The Severed Moon: A Year-Long Journal of Magic

Praise for the Grishaverse

“A master of fantasy.” —The Huffington Post

“Utterly, extremely bewitching.” —The Guardian

“This is what fantasy is for.” —The New York Times Book Review

“[A] world that feels real enough to have its own passport stamp.” —NPR

“The darker it gets for the good guys, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly

“Sultry, sweeping and picturesque. . . . Impossible to put down.” —USA Today

“There’s a level of emotional and historical sophistication within Bardugo’s original epic fantasy that sets it apart.” —Vanity Fair

“Unlike anything I’ve ever read.” —Veronica Roth, bestselling author of Divergent

“Bardugo crafts a first-rate adventure, a poignant romance, and an intriguing mystery!” —Rick Riordan, bestselling author of the Percy Jackson series

King of Scars

(2020) See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.

The much-anticipated first book in a brand-new duology by New York Times bestselling author, Leigh Bardugo.

Face your demons . . . or feed them.

Nikolai Lantsov has always had a gift for the impossible. No one knows what he endured in his country’s bloody civil war – and he intends to keep it that way. Now, as enemies gather at his weakened borders, the young king must find a way to refill Ravka’s coffers, forge new alliances, and stop a rising threat to the once-great Grisha Army.

Yet with every day a dark magic within him grows stronger, threatening to destroy all he has built. With the help of a young monk and a legendary Grisha Squaller, Nikolai will journey to the places in Ravka where the deepest magic survives to vanquish the terrible legacy inside him. He will risk everything to save his country and himself. But some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried–and some wounds aren’t meant to heal.

Language of Thorns

(2017) See the Grishaverse come to life on screen with Shadow and Bone, now a Netflix original series.

From bestselling author of SIX OF CROWS, Leigh Bardugo, comes a lavishly illustrated collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice and love.

Inspired by myth, fairy tale and folklore, THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS will transport you to both lands familiar and strange that millions have visited through the novels of the Grishaverse.

Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.

Travel to a world of dark bargains struck by moonlight, of haunted towns and hungry woods, of talking beasts and gingerbread golems, where a young mermaid’s voice can summon deadly storms and where a river might do a lovestruck boy’s bidding but only for a terrible price.

Inspired by myth, fairy tale, and folklore, no. 1 New York Times-bestselling author Leigh Bardugo has crafted a deliciously atmospheric collection of short stories filled with betrayals, revenge, sacrifice, and love.

Perfect for new readers and dedicated fans of the Grishverse.

This collection of six stories includes three brand-new tales, all of them beautifully illustrated with art by Sara Kiplin that changes with each turn of the page, culminating in six stunning full-spread illustrations as rich in detail as the stories themselves.

Ghost Boys

(2018) This was one of my most anticipated 2018 books and I was not disappointed. A must read.” -Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give

‘tender, timely … surprising and hopeful’ – Observer

A heartbreaking and powerful story about a black boy killed by a white police officer, drawing connections with real-life, from award-winning author Jewell Parker Rhodes.

ALIVE

Twelve-year-old Jerome doesn’t get into trouble. He goes to school. He does his homework. He takes care of his little sister.

Then Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat.

DEAD

As a ghost, watching his family trying to cope with his death, Jerome begins to notice other ghost boys.

Each boy has a story and they all have something in common…

Bit by bit, Jerome begins to understand what really happened – not just to him, but to all of the ghost boys.

A poignant and gripping story about how children and families face the complexities of race and racism in today’s world.