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61) The red book
Author
Publisher
Voice
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Centering around Harvard's Red Book, a collection of personal triumphs and failures from graduates, this tongue-in-cheek novel follows a group of roommates from the class of 1989 as they prepare for their twentieth reunion weekend.
62) The gender fall
Author
Series
Gender game volume 5
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Continue Violet and Viggo's heart-racing journey in the epic fifth book of The Gender Game series.
63) He started it
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the latest thrillingly savage stand-alone from the twisted mind behind mega hit My Lovely Wife comes the story of a family--not unlike your own--just with a few more violent tendencies thrown in.... Beth, Portia, and Eddie Morgan haven't all been together in years. And for very good reasons--we'll get to those later. But when their wealthy grandfather dies and leaves a cryptic final message in his wake, the siblings and their respective partners...
64) The winter bride
Author
Series
Chance sisters romances volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Marriage-phobic Damaris Chance finds herself trapped in a compromising situation with the handsome rake Freddy Monkton-Coombes, she has no choice but to agree to wed him.
65) The Lotus Palace
Author
Series
Lotus Palace volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Maidservant Yue-ying is not one of those beauties. Street-smart and practical, she's content to live in the shadow of her infamous mistress -- until she meets the aristocratic playboy Bai Huang. Bai Huang lives in a privileged world Yue-Yuing can barely imagine, let alone share, but as they are thrown together in an attempt to solve a deadly mystery, they both start to dream of a different life. Yet Bai Huang's position means that all she could ever...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Revealing herself as the illegitimate daughter of a recently deceased English lord, young Frenchwoman Phaedra gradually overcomes her outraged relatives' frosty reception, only to have her position threatened by a forbidden passion.
68) His right hand
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Draper, Utah, a tight-knit Mormon community is thrown into upheaval when their ward's second counselor -- one of the bishop's right-hand men -- is found dead in an elaborately staged murder on church property. Carl Ashby was known as a devout Mormon, a pillar of the community, and a loving husband and father. Who would want him dead? Linda Wallheim, the wife of the ward's bishop, can't rest as long as the ward is suffering. She is particularly...
Author
Series
State of grace volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"January Sanders grew up believing karma was more reliable than an imaginary higher power, but after suffering her worst heartbreak in 29 years, she's open to just about anything, including taking a temporary position at her aunt's church. Keeping her lack of faith a secret, January is determined to use her photographic memory to help Grace Community's overworked staff, all while scraping herself off rock bottom.What she doesn't count on is meeting...
Author
Series
Fool novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket.This trio of cunning plotters--the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago--have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising him an evening of spirits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia....
Author
Series
Taming of the dukes volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lord Lysander Blackstone, the stern and fractious Duke of Montcroix, has only one interest: increasing his already considerable fortune. Thanks to a series of betrayals, he keeps his emotions buried deeper than his coffer. Money, after all, can't break a man's heart-nor make promises it can't keep. But when his reputation for being heartless jeopardizes a new business deal, he finds himself seeking the most unusual-and alluring-of solutions . . ....
72) Home to you
Author
Publisher
A Signet Eclipse book
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When he is stranded at his family's cabin with a beautiful visitor named Kendall during a Nor'easter, Jackson Sullivan III hides his true identity as they share more than they dreamed, but when the truth comes out, the woman he has come to love may not be able to forgive his betrayal.
73) Against the sun
Author
Series
Raines of Wind Canyon volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's not in bodyguard Jake Cantrell's job description to share his suspicions with his assignments. Beautiful executive Sage Dumont may be in charge, but Jake's not on her payroll. As a former special forces marine, Jake trusts his gut, and it's telling him there's something off about a shipment arriving at Marine Drilling International. His instinct is aroused...in more ways than one. A savvy businesswoman, Sage knows better than to take some hired...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dora Blake is a talented jewelry designer who lives under the thumb of her suspicious and odious uncle, who is running her late parents' beloved shop of antiquities into the ground. When he begins acting erratically after a mysterious Greek vase is delivered and locked in the basement, Dora enlists the help of Edward Lawrence, a young antiquarian scholar, who (unbeknownst to her) sees the vase as an opportunity to unlock his academic future. Dora...
Author
Series
John Keller novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
With a new wife and a baby on the way, Keller, a.k.a. Nicholas Edwards, is done killing people for money until a phone call from Dot draws him back into the old game, taking him to Dallas to settle a domestic dispute, to New York, where people might remember him.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A freshman at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Nasrin is seemingly living her dream, except her parents think she is attending business school and it gets harder and harder to keep lying to them, especially after they surprise her in New York.
77) Size matters
Author
Series
Perfect fit (Alison Bliss) volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When Sam Cooper tells her judgmental mother that they are engaged, baker Leah Martin must keep up with the fake engagement, stay "just friends" and make her family hate him enough to call the whole thing off, but Sam has an insatiable sweet tooth for both her decadent desserts and her decadent curves.
78) The gender end
Author
Series
Gender game volume 7
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The conclusion to Violet and Viggo's journey and to the Gender game series.
Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Back under the same roof and bickering like old times before her best friend's February 14th wedding, maid-of-honor Lissette Alonso and Brian Anderson, who is the reason for all her Valentine's Day hatred, call a truce when someone he is trying to avoid shows up at the reception.
80) Cursed
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
Serilda finds herself ensnared in a deadly game of make-believe with the Erlking, who is determined to propel her deeper into the castle's lies. She is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery...
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