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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Brinkley Saunders has a secret. To everyone in the academic world she left behind, she lost it all when she dropped out of grad school. Once a rising star following in her mother's footsteps, she's now an administrative assistant at an insurance agency-or so they think. In reality, Brinkley works at Heartbreak for Hire, a secret service that specializes in revenge for jilted lovers, frenemies, and long-suffering coworkers with a little cash to spare...
82) Scandalous
Author
Series
Banning sisters trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Star Books
Pub. Date
©2001.
Language
English
Description
"Faced with poverty after the death of her half-brother, the Earl of Wickham, on his Ceylon tea plantation, Lady Gabriella Banning plans to secure the future of her two younger sisters--Claire and Elizabeth--by marrying off Claire to a wealthy aristocrat, but her scheme is threatened by a charming stranger who claims to be the Earl of Wickham."--NovelList
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.
Author
Publisher
Biteback Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"2016 marked the dawn of the post-truth era. The year saw two shock election results, each of which has the potential to reshape the world: the UK's decision to leave the EU, and the elevation of Donald Trump to the office of US President. The campaigns highlighted many of the same issues in their home countries: social division, anger at the elite, anti-immigration sentiment and more - but, more than anything, they heralded an unprecedented rise...
Author
Publisher
Suma de letras, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, 2021
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
Description
"Una aspirante a actriz cansada de hacer castings...Un artista reconocido en plena crisis creativa...Unos valiosos cuadros encontrados en un desv̀n...Y el arte del engąo para cambiar las leyes del karma. Despǔs de vender m̀s de 3.000.000 de ejemplares de sus novelas, El̕sabet Benavent vuelve con El arte de engąar al karma, una novela donde despliega su virtuosismo narrativo, la magia para crear historias, con un estilo lleno de risas y l̀grimas,...
86) Empty vows
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Popular, generous, forty-something widow Jessie Tucker decides to make herself indispensable to recently widowed Hubert Wiggins but is disappointed when he is not everything she dreamed he would be and instead turns her attentions to a much younger man.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The author of Nine Women, One Dress delivers a charming, unforgettable novel about four women, one little lie, and the big repercussions that unite them all. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. When Eliza Hunt created The Hudson Valley Ladies' Bulletin Board fifteen years ago she was happily entrenched in her picture-perfect suburban life with her husband and twin preschoolers. Now, with an empty nest and a crippling case of agoraphobia, the once-fun...
89) The Stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Parents Adam and Hannah Price confront the shocking secret on which their marriage was built, leaving Adam to wonder whether he ever truly knew his wife at all, and soon he stumbles into a dark conspiracy that places lives at risk.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A twisty, domestic suspense debut about a clique of mothers that shatters when one of their own is murdered, bringing chaos to their curated idyll. She was the perfect wife, with the perfect life. You would kill to have it... Ciara Murphy has it all - a loving husband, well-behaved children, and a beautiful home. Her circle of friends in their small Irish village go to her for tips about mothering, style, and influencer success - a picture perfect...
Author
Series
Rules for the reckless volume 5
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Trapped in the countryside, facing an unwanted marriage and the theft of her fortune, Jane Mason is done behaving nicely. To win her freedom, she'll strike a deal with the most dangerous man she knows, a rising star in politics, whose dark good looks mask an even darker heart. The bitter past has taught Crispin Burke to trust no one. He'll gladly help a lovely young heiress, provided she pays a price. Yet when a single mistake shatters his life, it...
92) 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.
Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A faux summer fling seemed like the perfect solution... until they start falling in love for real. Teacher Stella Marshall's summer break has just began, but the gossip is already sizzling: Luke Keegan's back in town! Stella's high school crush is all grown up and smolderingly sexy. She might even consider a fling with the former Navy SEAL, if she hadn't already sworn off all romantic entanglements. But there isn't a single thing she can do to stop...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Hattie Hoffman has spent her whole life playing many parts: the good student, the good daughter, the good citizen. When she{u2019}s found brutally stabbed to death on the opening night of her high school play, the tragedy rips through the fabric of her small town community. Local sheriff Del Goodman, a family friend of the Hoffmans, vows to find her killer, but trying to solve her murder yields more questions than answers. It seems...
96) Can't catch me!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Jake claims to be the fastest mouse in the world, and doesn't think any animal can ever catch him. Clever Old Tom Cat will just have to see about that!
97) Fire bound
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her remarkable skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissas real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong. Enlisted as her bodyguard is Casmir Prakenskii, a trained...
98) Distrust
Author
Publisher
Zebra Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Midnight sun: "There's nothing secretive about the hostility between two of Oregon's leading lumber families. The feud has been long, ruthless, and bloody, and Ashley Stephens and Trevor Daniels are still reeling from the damage it's caused. Now, eight years after their relationship ended, Trevor discovers that not only is his bid for a senate seat in jeopardy, but his life may be too. And the future of both may lie with Ashley..."--Publisher,
Renegade...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the linked and tightly thematic stories of I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I AM, Kispert explores deception, performance, and the uneasiness of reconciling a queer identity with the wider world, with characters who try to navigate that dissonance by acting like another person for someone else. Throughout the collection we meet gay characters who have created sometimes elaborate falsehoods and who now must cope with the way that those deceptions eat at the...
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