Mounting Desire
10 best books like Mounting Desire (Nina Killham): The Girl in the Ice, The Art of French Kissing, Rabbit Cake, Lover Avenged, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Kept Woman, Simply Irresistible, The Game of Lives, Daisy's Back in Town, The Birds & the Bees
Her eyes are wide open. Her lips parted as if to speak. Her dead body frozen in the ice…She is not the only one.
When a young boy discovers the body of a woman beneath a thick sheet of ice in a South London park, Detective Erika Foster is called in to lead the murder investigation.
The victim,...
The Art of French Kissing
| Author | Kristin Harmel |
| ISBN | 0446581437 |
How do you say, 'So many men, so little time, ' in French? Well, Emma Sullivan can always figure that out later. The point is -- she's in Paris! Which would be great, except that she's stuck doing public relations for one of the hottest -- and craziest -- rock stars on the planet. Making things worse is Gabriel...
Elvis Babbitt has a head for the facts: she knows science proves yellow is the happiest color, she knows a healthy male giraffe weighs about 3,000 pounds, and she knows that the naked mole rat is the longest living rodent. She knows she should plan to grieve her mother, who has recently drowned while sleepwalking,...
| Author | J.R. Ward |
| ISBN | 0451225856 |
Rehvenge has always kept his distance from the Brotherhood—even though his sister is married to a member, for he harbors a deadly secret that could make him a huge liability in their war against the lessers. As plots within and outside of the Brotherhood threaten to reveal the truth about Rehvenge,...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0192123173 |
'Holmes,' I cried. 'Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of that awful abyss?'
Missing, presumed dead, for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr Watson. And not before time! London has never...
| Author | Susan Donovan |
| ISBN | 0312939507 |
WHEN A GOOD-GIRL DIVORCEE
Playing by the rules has left Samantha Monroe with an AWOL ex-husband, maxed out credit cards, and the task of raising three children on a hairstylist's salary. It's time for a new game plan. When Sam learns that politician Jack Tolliver needs someone to play the part of...
| Author | Rachel Gibson |
| ISBN | 0380790076 |
Georgeanne Howard leaves her fiancé at the altar when she realizes she can't marry a man old enough to be her grandfather, no matter how rich he is. Hockey superstar John Kowalsky unknowingly helps her escape, and only when it's too late does he realize that he's absconded with his boss's bride. This...
Michael used to live to game.
Now the games he was playing have become all too real. Only weeks ago, Sinking into the Sleep was fun. The VirtNet combined the most cutting-edge technology and the most sophisticated gaming for a full mind-body experience. And it was Michael’s passion. But now...
| Author | Rachel Gibson |
| ISBN | 0755334035 |
When Daisy Monroe walked out of Lovett, Texas fifteen years ago, she thought she'd left troublemaker Jackson Lamott Parrish behind her. But some things you can't just leave in the past. Now she's back and she needs to clear the air by confessing to Jackson the reason she left him all those years ago. But...
| Author | Milly Johnson |
| ISBN | 1416525912 |
Romance writer and single mum Stevie Honeywell has only weeks to go until her wedding when her fiance Matthew runs off with her glamorous new friend Jo MacLean.
It feels like history repeating itself for Stevie, but this time she is determined to win back her man. She isn't going to act as he might...
| Author | Katie Fforde |
| ISBN | 1846054494 |
Sophie Apperly's family has never taken her seriously. Fiercely academic, they see her more practical skills as frivolous whilst constantly taking advantage of her. So when her best friend Milly invites her over to New York, she jumps at the chance. It'll do her ungrateful family good to do without...
| Author | Anita Shreve |
| ISBN | 0316059862 |
At a New England boarding school, a sex scandal is about to break. Even more shocking than the sexual acts themselves is the fact that they were caught on videotape. A Pandora's box of revelations, the tape triggers a chorus of voices--those of the men, women, teenagers, and parents involved in the scandal--that...
| Author | Yoshiki Nakamura |
| ISBN | 1421517531 |
• An ongoing manga series in Japan—over 14 volumes to date
• Consistent ranking in Japan’s Top 10 manga sales
• An American Idol-style manga
• Every new volume has appeared in Japan’s Tohan Top 1
• Previewed and promoted in VIZ Media’s Shojo Beat magazine
•...
| Author | Mary Carter |
| ISBN | 0758213549 |
This Novel is the “Steal” of the Century!
Melanie is a young, aspiring actress that deals with her stress by shoplifting. She knows that it’s wrong, but she just can’t resist the “warm-all-over-feeling” that she gets when she takes just “a little something” home after a bad...
| Author | Padma Viswanathan |
| ISBN | 0307356329 |
In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami is about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that...
| Author | Adolfo Bioy Casares |
| ISBN | 1590170954 |
Lucio, a normal man in a normal (nosy) city neighborhood with normal problems with his in-laws (ever-present) and job (he lost it) finds he has a new problem on his hands: his beloved wife, Diana. She’s been staying out till all hours of the night and grows more disagreeable by the day. Should Lucio have...
From Beyond the City "How deeply are our destinies influenced by the most trifling causes! Had the unknown builder who erected and owned these new villas contented himself by simply building each within its own grounds, it is probable that these three small groups of people would have remained hardly...
| Author | Zoe Rice |
| ISBN | 0451218442 |
Introducing this season's most delightful new heroine.
Yesterday Izzy was a happily single, full-fledged New York gallerista, selling hundred-thousand dollar paintings, and in line for a whopping promotion. Today? The ancient owner of the gallery dropped dead, leaving Izzy's entire...
| Author | Guillaume Musso |
| ISBN | 2845638086 |
Je me souviens très bien de cet instant. Nous étions face à la mer. L'horizon scintillait. C'est là qu'Anna m'a demandé :
" Si j'avais commis le pire, m'aimerais-tu malgré tout ? "
Vous auriez répondu quoi, vous ?
Anna était la femme de ma vie. Nous devions nous marier dans trois...
| Author | Whitney Gaskell |
| ISBN | 0553383140 |
No one is better than Kate Bennett at playing by the rules–because no one has quite her knack for running into bad luck. Orphaned while in college, Kate handled her loss by graduating with honors and acquiring a secure job and a dependable boyfriend. But now, with her thirtieth birthday around the corner,...
| Author | Katie Fforde |
| ISBN | 1846056500 |
Sian Bishop has only ever experienced one moment of recklessness – a moment that resulted in her beloved son Rory. It’s not that she doesn’t love the outcome of that wild night, but since then she has always taken the safer route. So when dependable, devoted Richard suggests a move to the beautiful...
| Author | Isabel Allende |
| ISBN | 8401353750 |
"Mi vida sexual comenzó temprano, más o menos a los cinco años, en el kindergarten de las monjas ursulinas, en Santiago de Chile." Con estas palabras, Isabel Allende inicia este compendio sobre amor y eros compuesto por fragmentos escogidos de sus obras, que esbozan a través de sus personajes la...
| Author | Ken Follett |
| ISBN | 0451216725 |
A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there; he does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn’t until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he...
| Author | Pierre Lemaitre |
| ISBN | 2226218777 |
Qui connaît vraiment Alex? Elle est belle. Excitante. Est-ce pour cela qu'on l'a enlevée, séquestrée, livrée à l'inimaginable? Mais quand la police découvre enfin sa prison, Alex a disparu. Alex, plus intelligente que son bourreau. Alex qui ne pardonne rien, qui n'oublie rien, ni personne....
| Author | Jane Fallon |
| ISBN | 0141034408 |
The brilliantly witty novel from the Top Ten Sunday Times bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew.
A husband. A wife. A mistress. And the ultimate plan for revenge . . .
The husband
James never intended to lead a double life - with a wife in London and a mistress in the country,...
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0340640278 |
I can't believe that there are people on GR who found this book boring. What is to bore with Le Carré's beautiful writing? What is to bore with a book that teaches so much about the forgotten people, the Ingush, and the intrigues and treachery of Russian politics? What is to bore with the master of the spy...
| Author | Miasha |
| ISBN | 1416546758 |
MIASHA'S STUNNING DEBUT NOVEL... WITH A TWIST THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SHOCKED!
At nineteen years old, Celess and Tina are at the top of their game. They've got the looks and the bodies to attract attention from men wherever they go -- and they work it. From New York to Philly to Vegas, they hit all the...
| Author | Katie Fforde |
| ISBN | 1780890834 |
I normally like Katie Fforde's books, but not this one. I think the problem lies, for me, in two elements: too many leading ladies, and too much sex too soon.
Having three main characters, all having love interests, means that none of them get the attention they deserve. The characters were very...
| Author | Fiona Gibson |
| ISBN | 1847563651 |
“What do you need a boyfriend for? You’re a mum.”
Fiona Gibson returns with a laugh-out-loud read, sharply observed and full of dating disasters.
Three blind dates
Two teenage boys messing up her plans
And one man who'll melt Alice's heart.
'You need to get...
Din Bucurestii Trasurilor cu Cai
| Author | Paul Emil Miclescu |
| ISBN | 1973645230 |
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