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If she has her way . . .Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn't even remember her . . .He'll get nothing but coal in his stocking. Saddled with his great-aunt's Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else's capable...
2) Secrets
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2008
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English
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Having harbored an unrequited love for a man she met in childhood, Cassandra impulsively breaks an engagement to become the now-widowed man's nanny, but realizes that her chance for winning his heart is threatened by dark secrets.
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Montgomery brothers volume 6
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English
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When an Alaskan expedition goes horribly wrong, leaving him injured, Zach Montgomery finds himself at the mercy of his assistant Gabriella Martine who, as they spend more and more time together, becomes someone he could see himself spending the rest of his life with.
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Grand Central Publishing
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2015.
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English
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"Stanley and Vera, academically precocious but awkward teenagers, form a bond when they tie for first place in the National Spelling Bee. Though their mothers have big plans for them -- Stanley will become a senator, Vera a mathematics professor -- neither wants to follow these pre-determined paths. So Stanley hatches a plan to marry Vera in a sham wedding for the financial freedom to pursue his one true love: crossword puzzle construction. In enlisting...
5) Ghosted and breadcrumbed: stop falling for unavailable men and get smart about healthy relationships
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New World Library
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A self-help book for women who fall in love with emotionally unavailable men. The author classifies the personality types of unavailable men, describes the "red flags" that give them away, and then provides strategies for avoiding romantic entanglement with them"--
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W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"A magical and comedic take on modern love, the power of friendship, and the allure of disguise. Meet the Knights of Creation, a group of artistic friends struggling with society's standards of beauty. Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, chooses to don a fat suit in hopes that it will help her meet the man of her dreams- a man who can see beyond her looks. Lily, Barb's brilliantly talented, unfortunate-looking musician friend, goes to fantastic...
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
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2018.
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English
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A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
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Bold Strokes Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Arlette Adair has always done what's right. From the day she was born, she's lived the life her parents forced upon her. Now, she's stuck in a sparkless relationship and a job she never wanted. Her father's presidential campaign will forever root her in the world of politics that she's trying to escape from. Brooke Dawson has always made her own rules. She's a struggling freelance artist by day and a catering bartender at night, but her heart is full......
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Do you know who you are? Are you comfortable in your skin? Outed by her best friend in front of the whole neighborhood, Niya is trying to come to terms with being a lesbian. When she falls for her straight neighbor, Jamilla, there is no more denying who she really is. Niya will do whatever it takes to prove her love, even if it means taking a life. What will happen when family issues, fame, the struggle for love, and reality set in? How will Niya...
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Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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2020.
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English
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"Since their college days, Kip Woods has been infatuated with Thaddeus Kaufman, who, years later, is a married father of two children and desperately trying to revive a failing career. Kip's devotion to Thaddeus has been life-defining and destiny-altering, but it has been one that Thaddeus has either failed to notice or refused to acknowledge. But over the course of this heated and mesmerizing novel, set against a background of privilege and affluence...
12) Six years
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"Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 25
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Español
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"De jovenes, Florentino Ariza y Fermina Daza se enamoran apasionadamente, pero Fermina eventualmente decide casarse con un medico rico y de muy buena familia. Florentino est̀ anonadado, pero es un romantico. Su carrera en los negocios florece, y aunque sostiene 622 pequęos romances, su corazon todavia pertenece a Fermina. Cuando al fin el esposo de ella muere, Florentino acude al funeral con toda intencion. A los cincuenta anos, nueve meses, y cuatro...
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O'Neil brothers volume 3
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Harlequin HQN
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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This winter, ex-skiing champion, reformed heartbreaker, and single dad Tyler O'Neil has only one mission: making sure his daughter Jess has the best Christmas ever. The fact that his best friend Brenna is also temporarily moving into his chalet at the overbooked Snow Crystal resort is a delicious distraction he's simply going to have to ignore. Theirs is the one relationship he's never ruined, and he's not about to start now.
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How to build a girl volume 2
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous...
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"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
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Everyman
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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"These three brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-class people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion...
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