18 books like Cometh the Hour
This Was a Man
"This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an…
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All the Little Moments
successful anaesthetist, Anna is focused on herself, her career, and her girlfriend. Everything changes abruptly when her brother’s and sister-in-law’s deaths devastate her and her family. Left responsible for her young niece and nephew, Anna finds herself dumped and alone in Melbourne, a city she doesn’t even like. She tries to navigate the shock of looking after two children battling with their…
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Secrets of the Morning
Shadowed by her tortured past, Dawn has a bright new life of glimmering hopes...
Dawn can hardly believe she's a student at one of New York City's best music schools. Now her most precious wish, to become a singer, can come true. But Dawn still dreams about Jimmy, her strong, intense boyfriend, and the love and anguished secrets they share.
Then Michael Sutton arrives, a new teacher at the…
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Ordinary Grace
Looking back at a tragic event that occurred during his thirteenth year, Frank Drum explores how a complicated web of secrets, adultery, and betrayal shattered his Methodist family and their small 1961 Minnesota community.
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La Société du spectacle
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism and everyday life in the late twentieth cenlury. Now finally available in a superb…
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Only Time Will Tell
"From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with the words, "I was told that my father was killed in the war." A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects…
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Septiembre
Con motivo de una fiesta de cumpleaños, una serie de personajes procedentes de Inglaterra. Estados Unidos, Escocia y España coinciden en el pequeño pueblo de Strachroy. En Septiembre, en Escocia, se prodigan celebraciones, cacerías y bailes. Sin embargo, al compás de ese ambiente festivo, el destino arrasará a los protagonistas a situaciones tan dramáticas como sorprendentes, y les obligará a…
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Blue Labyrinth
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse. The mystery has all the hallmarks of the perfect murder, save for an enigmatic clue: a piece of turquoise lodged in the stomach of the deceased. The gem leads Pendergast to an abandoned mine on the shore of California's desolate Salton Sea, which in turn…
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Coach
Now, for the first time, the complete story of A.L. Williams, told by the Coach himself!
Art Williams shares the inspirational story of what it took to build a tiny "peanut" of a company into an industry giant. Full of heroes and villains, amazing victories and dashing defeats, this book is a must-read for anyone who's ever dreamed of building a team, of winning big, of doing what others said…
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Life
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
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Nowhere to Hide
A tension packed, chilling story of long-awaited revenge from Top 10 Bestselling author Keri BeevisPassion. Obsession. Cruelty. Control... There is no limit to how far some people will go for love.Duncan Stone is one of the country's most eligible bachelors, and he wants to take me, Callie Parker, on a date.At first I am surprised and flattered, the envy of my friends. Then when our whirlwind…
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Murder in Portofino
The next instalment in the gripping Armstrong and Oscar cozy mystery series...It's murder in paradise!A much-needed holiday…Dan Armstrong hasn’t done much retiring since moving to Tuscany, and with his new career as a successful private investigator taking off, it seems murder seems to follow him. He’s hoping a much-needed trip to beautiful Portofino will give him the break he needs and quality…
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One in Three
‘I raced through this tale of a murderous love triangle. Tense, twisty, and that ending – wow!’ Jackie KablerBoth of them loved him. One of them killed him …Louise has had to watch her husband, Andrew, start a new family in the four years since he left her. The ‘other woman’ is now his wife – but Louise isn’t ready to let Caz enjoy the life that was once hers, or to let go of the man she still…
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Cover the Bones
When archaeologists discover a skeleton in secluded woodland, the body is first thought to be related to an ancient Saxon settlement.
Then the torn and rotten remains of another woman’s bones are uncovered, her injuries bearing the markings of abuse and a violent death.
Detective Mark Turpin is tasked with finding their killer, except the forensic evidence is perplexing and the victims’ bodies…
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Famous Last Words
It is June 21, the longest day of the year, and the life of new mother Camilla is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop off her infant daughter at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.
Then it starts. Breaking news: A hostage situation…
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In Kedar's tents
If it be a duty to respect other men's claims, so also is it a duty to maintain our own.'
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Fallen Hearts
With Fallen Hearts, V.C. Andrews returns again to the number one best-selling saga of the Casteels, continuing the story that was begun in Heaven and Dark Angel.
In Fallen Hearts, Heaven returns to her Winnerow and begins to live out her childhood dreams--she becomes a respected schoolteacher at the local school and marries her sweetheart, Logan Stonewall. After their wedding trip back to…
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Dawn
Cutler Family #1
Here is the stunning debut of a phenomenal new series...a compelling story of sinister secrets, shattered illusions, tender drams...and a young girl's desperate yearning for the sheltering warmth of a true home and a happy family.
Dawn Longchamp wants more than anything to believe that, at last, she's safe and secure. Her daddy has a good job as a janitor at a private school in…
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Cometh the Hour
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