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Author
Publisher
Dell Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When an accidental mix-up puts the marriage of Brian, her most prized client, in danger, Marnie Fairchild, the brains and talent behind a personalized gift-buying service, must choose between her head and heart when Brian's gorgeous son Luke enters her life.
42) The checklist
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Killing it at work? Check. Gorgeous boyfriend? Check. Ambitions derailed by an insecure boss? Sigh--check. Things were going a little too well for Dylan Delacroix. After upstaging her boss on a big account, she gets dispatched to the last place she wants to be: her hometown, Seattle. There, she must use her superstar corporate-consulting skills to curb the worst impulses of an impossibly eccentric tech CEO--if she doesn't, she's fired. The fun doesn't...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The mayor is dead in his office and the very snow globe curio shop manager Camryn Brooks sold him earlier in the day lies in sparkling shards -- along with a large diamond. Does the snow globe hold a clue to Frosty's demise?
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Jen has reached her early thirties and has all but abandoned a once-promising painting career when, spurred by the 2008 economic crisis, she takes a poorly defined job at a feminist nonprofit. The foundation{u2019}s ostensible aim is to empower women, but staffers spend all their time devising acronyms for imaginary programs, ruthlessly undermining one another, and stroking the ego of their boss, the larger-than-life celebrity philanthropist Leora...
45) Killer crust
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
"Eleanor Swift isn't amused when Laughing Luigi, the sketchy frozen piza dough baron, walks into her Timber Ridge, North Carolina, pizzeria. But the contract for his pizza-making contest seems to be on the up-and-up, and sprucing up her beloved pizzeria, A Slice of Delight, with $25,000 in first-prize money would certainly be a dream come true"--From publisher description.
46) Forever strong
Author
Series
True heroes volume 6
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Jiang Ying Yue assumed her kidnapping was random, that she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. After all, who would want to harm her? But then her rescuer---a charismatic former soldier who takes her breath away---uncovers a traitor in her father's organization. Now, Ying Yue realizes that she's become a pawn in a dangerous game, and her kidnapper won't be satisfied until she disappears for good. Zu Anyanwu's work with Search and Protect and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This Christmas, Tallie Graver would like to take a break from running her cleaning business to be with her boyfriend, Max, and enjoy their first holiday together--alone. Instead, she's stuck keeping her mother and grandmother from duking it out during the town's annual Christmas Eve bingo game. As for festive spirit, she'll have to settle for her mean-spirited Aunt Ronda, whose mouth could use some soap. The night only gets worse after Tallie discovers...
Author
Publisher
AMACOM, American Management Association
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Venture Mom recounts inspiring stories from women who have channeled their passions into money-making products and services, from designer onesies to gluten-free cookies. They're thriving in the whirlwind of motherhood and entrepreneurship. Venture Mom helps anyone get started. It strips away the mystery of launching a business and unlocks a fast, easy formula.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gail DeMarco left Whiskey Creek, California, to make a name for herself in Los Angeles. Her PR firm has accumulated a roster of A-list clients, including the biggest box office hit of all -- sexy and unpredictable Simon O'Neal. But Simon, who's just been through a turbulent divorce, is so busy self-destructing he won't listen to anything she says. She drops him from her list -- and he retaliates by taking the rest of her clients with him. Desperate...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Darcy Fitzwilliam is 29, beautiful, successful, and brilliant. She dates hedge funders and basketball stars and is never without her three cellphones-one for work, one for play, and one to throw at her assistant. Darcy's never fallen in love, never has time for anyone else's drama, and never goes home for Christmas if she can help it. But when her mother falls ill, she comes home to Pemberley, Ohio, to spend the season with her family. Her parents...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a heartbroken Samantha "Sammy" Kane returns to her hometown of Heartsford, WI, for her best friend Kate's funeral, she learns that Kate's much-loved craft store is in danger of perishing with its owner. Confounding all her expectations of the life she would live, Sammy moves back home with her golden retriever and takes over Community Craft. A few doors down Main Street, fellow new arrival Ingrid Wilson has just opened the Yarn Barn, a real...
Author
Series
From Manhattan with love volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her brother{u2019}s best friend{u2014}and New York{u2019}s most in-demand date{u2014}offers her fledgling event planning company a big chance, Paige Walker must convince Jake Romano, the only man to break her heart who trusts no one, that she is definitely worth the risk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Melanie Cooper and Angie DeLaura are finally living out their dream as the proud owners of the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery. Their first big order is a sweet deal, too--five hundred cupcakes for a fashion designer's wedding. The only sour note is the demanding bridezilla who insists on original recipes for the cupcakes. When Mel stumbles upon the bride-to-be dead-by-cupcake, she immediately becomes the prime suspect. The police believe that a secret...
Author
Publisher
Nicholas Brealey America
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Just as individual strengths are based on who we are as people, gender-based strengths for women are essential assets of the female brand. Out of this provocative and challenging assertion, Women Who Brand delivers the very latest in gender research into the female brain to debunk the notion that women have to play the male game to win"--
Author
Series
Happily Inc volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Silver Tesdal has a head for business and a mouth made for kissing, and banker Drew Lovato has his eye on both. But ever since he was dumb enough to let her go, she's kept him at a distance. When the bank turns her down for a loan, Drew sees a double opportunity--he can finance her brilliant, unique idea to rock Happily Inc's wedding industry and win back her trust. Despite her reputation, Silver's not as tough as she seems. Losing Drew nearly destroyed...
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Althoff exposes the ways in which the current start-up paradigm was engineered by and for white men, and the ways in which women, non-binary, and trans folks face impossible barriers to landing funding from venture capitalists to make their companies viable"--
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