Ayesha Antoine
1) Cygnet
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A seventeen-year-old girl, abandoned by her parents, is reluctantly taken in by her grandmother, who lives on private Swan Island ten miles off the New Hampshire coast. But the island is populated only by senior citizens who want the youngster gone, and when her grandmother dies, she is left alone once again, struggling to get by with part-time work digitally retouching the mementos of one elderly resident and aching with loneliness and a deep wish...
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"Who Gets Believed? is a groundbreaking book about persuasion and performance that asks unsettling questions about lies, truths, and the difference between being believed and being dismissed in situations spanning asylum interviews, emergency rooms, consulting jobs, and family life"--
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"Thanks to a nomadic childhood, Revelle Lee is fluent in ten languages, which she puts to use at crime scenes and in courtrooms across London. Being a court interpreter is a stressful job, one that makes her privy to the most personal and often dark details of others' lives. In the meantime, she's close to adopting a six-year-old boy named Elliot from foster care. Revelle is determined to be the mother she never had, and to make up for a terrible...
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
5) Epoch
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Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield embarks on an epic adventure in ancient Atlantis: The Kraken's Lament by Mark Wright, The Temple of Questions by Jacqueline Rayner, Private Enemy No 1 by Tony Lee, and Judgement Day by Scott Handcock.
6) Road Trip
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Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield needs a job, but her quest for work doesn't go smoothly. Featuring Brand Management by Christopher Cooper, Bad Habits by Simon Barnard and Paul Morris, and Paradise Frost by David Llewellyn.
7) Legion
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1. Vesuvius Falling Written by Tony Lee Things aren't going great for Bernice Summerfield. Her one time comrade-cum-adversary, Irving Braxiatel, isn't the man she knew; her long-lost teenage son, Peter, isn't exactly pleased to see her; and she's woken up with one hell of a hangover… But when an ancient and dormant spacecraft threatens the safety of Legion City, Bernice and Peter have to put their differences aside in order to investigate an inexplicable...
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When Bernice Summerfield was invited to participate in a cult archaeology broadcast on the mysterious world of Saravas, she could never have imagined the secrets she might unearth there… or the terrible Truth that would stalk her back to Legion. With friends and family by her side, Bernice quickly finds herself flung into the face of danger: either combatting deranged despots at terraformed garden parties, appeasing gunslingers in the White Rabbit...
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As the Advent season approaches, Bernice finds herself faced with the prospect of an old-fashioned family holiday, surrounded by her loved ones on a world they now call home… a time to forge new memories, together… and for a bitter enemy to claim what is rightfully hers. Life is never straightforward, however. The most haunted planet in the galaxy is requesting an archaeologist, and something very peculiar is happening at the last manned shipyard...
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After killing her husband-a truly terrible man, Sally finds herself leading an extremely unusual self-help group of women who have come together to heal the damage their husbands have done-and to work out a plan to get rid of the bodies and get away withit.
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