The Karma Club

The Karma Club
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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages : 268
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429946391
ISBN-13 : 1429946393
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis The Karma Club by : Jessica Brody

Madison Kasparkova always thought she understood how Karma works. Do good things and you'll be rewarded, do something bad and Karma will make sure you get what you deserve. But when Maddy's boyfriend cheats on her, nothing bad comes his way. That's why Maddy starts the Karma Club, to clean up the messes that the universe has left behind. Sometimes, though, it isn't wise to meddle with the universe. It turns out Karma often has plans of its own.

The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club

The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 0545990270
ISBN-13 : 9780545990271
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis The Seventeen Secrets of the Karma Club by : Karen McCombie

Kezzy and Nell have their own club: a secret society for acts of kindness. It's theirmission to cheer people up with golden moments and sparkly surprises. But whenKezzy's mum admits a not-very-golden secret of her own, the Karma Club's bestintentions start going weirdly wrong. It's starting to look as if no good deed goesunpunished...

The Animals at Lockwood Manor

The Animals at Lockwood Manor
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Publisher : Mariner Books
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780358106401
ISBN-13 : 0358106400
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis The Animals at Lockwood Manor by : Jane Healey

August 1939. Hetty Cartwright arrives at Lockwood Manor to oversee a natural history museum collection, whose contents have been taken out of London for safekeeping. She must protect her charges from party guests, wild animals, Luftwaffe bombs. But she is unprepared for Lucy Lockwood, for whom the arrival of the museum brings new freedoms-- and nightmares. Hetty discovers that the manor is a place of secrets-- and someone is stalking her through its darkened corridors. -- adapted from jacket

Recipe for a Perfect Wife

Recipe for a Perfect Wife
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 356
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ISBN-10 : 9781524744946
ISBN-13 : 1524744948
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Recipe for a Perfect Wife by : Karma Brown

In this captivating dual narrative novel, a modern-day woman finds inspiration in hidden notes left by her home’s previous owner, a quintessential 1950s housewife. As she discovers remarkable parallels between this woman’s life and her own, it causes her to question the foundation of her own relationship with her husband--and what it means to be a wife fighting for her place in a patriarchal society. When Alice Hale leaves a career in publicity to become a writer and follows her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. But when she finds a vintage cookbook buried in a box in the old home's basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook’s previous owner--1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she realizes that within the cookbook’s pages Nellie left clues about her life--including a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to her mother. Soon Alice learns that while baked Alaska and meatloaf five ways may seem harmless, Nellie's secrets may have been anything but. When Alice uncovers a more sinister--even dangerous--side to Nellie’s marriage, and has become increasingly dissatisfied with the mounting pressures in her own relationship, she begins to take control of her life and protect herself with a few secrets of her own.

My Life Undecided

My Life Undecided
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages : 317
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781429940993
ISBN-13 : 1429940999
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis My Life Undecided by : Jessica Brody

PLEASE READ THIS! MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! Okay, maybe that was a bit melodramatic, but I'm sorry, I'm feeling a bit melodramatic at the moment. Here's the deal. My name is Brooklyn Pierce, I'm fifteen years old, and I am decisionally challenged. Seriously, I can't remember the last good decision I made. I can remember plenty of crappy ones though. Including that party I threw when my parents were out of town that accidentally burned down a model home. Yeah, not my finest moment, for sure. But see, that's why I started a blog. To enlist readers to make my decisions for me. That's right. I gave up. Threw in the towel. I let someone else decide which book I read for English. And whether or not I accepted an invitation to join the debate team from that cute-in-a-dorky-sort-of-way guy who gave me the Heimlich maneuver in the cafeteria. (Note to self: chew the melon before swallowing it.) I even let them decide who I dated! Well, it turns out there are some things in life you simply can't choose or have chosen for you—like who you fall in love with. And now everything's more screwed up than ever. But don't take my word for it. Read the book and decide for yourself. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll scream in frustration. Or maybe that's just me. After all, it's my life.

The Karma Booth

The Karma Booth
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 326
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780008101190
ISBN-13 : 0008101191
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis The Karma Booth by : Jeff Pearce

They say that executing a murderer won't bring your loved one back. But now it can.

Karma Cola

Karma Cola
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 9780307814630
ISBN-13 : 0307814637
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Karma Cola by : Gita Mehta

Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived in England and the United States, Gita Mehta was ideally placed to observe the spectacle of European and American "pilgrims" interacting with their hosts. When she finally recorded her razor sharp observations in Karma Cola, the book became an instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and longlived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them. In the dazzling prose that has become her trademark, Mehta skewers the entire Spectrum of seekers: The Beatles, homeless students, Hollywood rich kids in detox, British guilt-trippers, and more. In doing so, she also reveals the devastating byproducts that the Westerners brought to the villages of rural lndia -- high anxiety and drug addiction among them. Brilliantly irreverent, Karma Cola displays Gita Mehta's gift for weaving old and new, common and bizarre, history and current events into a seamless and colorful narrative that is at once witty, shocking, and poignant.

The Choices We Make

The Choices We Make
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Publisher : MIRA
Total Pages : 222
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ISBN-10 : 9781459293984
ISBN-13 : 1459293983
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Choices We Make by : Karma Brown

"Karma Brown's work is as smart as it is effortless to read." —Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Daisy Jones & The Six From #1 internationally bestselling author of Recipe for a Perfect Wife comes an unforgettable story that explores the intricate dynamics of friendship and parenthood Best friends Hannah and Kate have been inseparable almost all of their lives. While they're close as sisters, Hannah can't help but feel envious of the little family Kate and her husband, David, have created—complete with two perfect little girls. She and Ben have been trying for years to have a baby, so when they receive the news that she will likely never get pregnant, Hannah's heartbreak is overwhelming. They begin to tentatively explore the other options, and Kate offers to be Hannah's surrogate. But as these two families embark on an incredible journey toward parenthood, a devastating tragedy puts everything at risk of falling apart. Poignant, twisty and refreshingly honest, The Choices We Make is a powerful tale of an incredible friendship and the risks we take to make our dreams come true.

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries

Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries
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Publisher : Bodleian Library
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1851245022
ISBN-13 : 9781851245024
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries by : Rebecca Abrams

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of Maimonides' autograph draft of the Mishneh Torah; the earliest dated fragment of the Talmud, exquisitely illuminated manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible; stunning festival prayerbooks and one of the oldest surviving Jewish seals in England. Lavishly illustrated essays by experts in the field bring to life the outstanding works contained in the collections, as well as the personalities and diverse motivations of their original collectors, who include Archbishop William Laud, John Selden, Edward Pococke, Robert Huntington, Venetian Jesuit Matteo Canonici, Benjamin Kennicott and Rabbi David Oppenheim. Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centuries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders, from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history from the tenth to the twentieth century.

The Book Club

The Book Club
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Publisher : Constable
Total Pages : 384
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1472129679
ISBN-13 : 9781472129673
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis The Book Club by : C J Cooper

EVERYONE IS HIDING A SECRET. ONE OF THEM IS MURDER. 'I raced through it - edgy, tense' Harriet Tyce, author of Blood Orange 'I for one am terrified of the woman next door!' Louise Candlish, author of The Other Passenger 'Tightly plotted, edge-of-seat gripping' Sophie Hannah, author of Haven't They Grown 'Dark, twisty, claustrophobic' Jo Spain, author of The Confession _______________ The book club was her idea, of course. It was her way into our group. A chance to get close. I knew from the day she arrived that she couldn't be trusted. And I was right. Alice didn't come to the village for peace and quiet. She came for revenge. _______________ A deliciously addictive psychological thriller about a book club that unravels dark and scandalous secrets between one circle of neighbours. The perfect page-turner for fans of Big Little Lies and The Rumour. What readers are saying about The Book Club: 'Wow. What a page turner' 'Couldn't put it down!!!' 'Truly a five-star debut' 'Absolutely addictive' 'Seriously page-turning, totally gripping' 'A thrilling read, found it hard to put down once I'd started. Loved the ending' 'Brilliant, a proper page turner' 'Dark and creepy' 'Loved it!' 'Gripping to the last page' 'Fast paced and will make your blood run cold!' 'Had me on the edge of my seat'