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Senior sleuths volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"When a typically closed-off Peg attempts online dating at Rose's strong urging, the experience plays out like an embarrassing mistake. At least, until she matches with Nolan Abercrombie -- intelligent, attractive, and a self-proclaimed dog lover. The two share an instant connection that has Peg cautiously excited to finally bring someone special into her busy world of Standard Poodles and conformation shows. Before Peg can admit that Rose was right...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. When a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, Mille and her four best guy friends make a pact that they'll join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event. There's only one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and Reid Campbell secretly spent the sexiest half-night of their lives together. Thanks to the dating service, the guys are inundated with quality matches and potential...
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"In this dazzling debut, Lara Avery crafts a story of heart, humor, and hope, as a young widow learns that her late husband signed her up for a dating service before his death, propelling her on an uplifting journey of possibility, second chances, and falling in love again...with life. Robin Lindstrom spent her first year as a young widow cocooned in the safe haven of the Minnesota farmhouse she'd once shared with Gabe, the love of her life - the...
Author
Series
Searching for volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Can a woman who sells love convince a man who believes it's a lie find a happy ever after? Kate has given up on love -- at least for herself. She is both blessed and cursed with the ability to sense (and even forge) a romantic connection between two people--a magic matchmaking gene that has been passed down in her family for generations. The first in her family cynical enough to try to turn this gift into a profitable business, Kate launches her...
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English
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She met him through a dating app. An intriguing picture on a screen, a date at a downtown bar. What she thought might be just a quick hook-up quickly became much more. She fell for him - hard. It happens sometimes, a powerful connection with a perfect stranger takes you by surprise. Could it be love? But then, just as things were getting real, he stood her up. Then he disappeared - profiles deleted, phone disconnected. She was ghosted. Maybe it was...
7) This is supposed to be fun: how to find joy in hooking up, settling down, and everything in between
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Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Modern dating can feel overwhelming, with so many online dating apps offering a seemingly endless sea of possible matches. Ghosting, outdated assumptions about relationships, and a massive assortment of dating platforms have obscured the point of all of it: this is supposed to be fun. Enter professional sex and dating coach Myisha Battle. Over the course of a decade as a licensed clinical sexologist, she's developed a set of tools that allow singles...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Nev Schulman provides millenial readers with an essential roadmap to better connect their digital personas with their true selves. Woven throughout with his personal stories, this book explores relationships in the era of social media. Nev explores the pressing issue of connectivity versus genuine connection which is plaguing our relationships.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"Online, you can choose who you want to be. If only real life were so easy ... Emma Nash may be down, but after months of wallowing, stalking her ex online and avoiding showering--because, really, who's going to care? --Emma's ready to own her newly single status, get out with her friends and chronicle her dating adventures on her private blog. But life online doesn't always run smoothly. Stumbling upon her mother's Tinder dating profile, getting...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"By day, Mel Strickland is an underemployed help-desk tech at a startup incubator, Hatch, where she helps entitled programmers who can't even fix their own laptops, but are apparently the next wave of startup geniuses. By night, she goes on bad dates with misbehaving dudes she's matched with on the ubiquitous dating app Fluttr. After one inappropriate pic too many, Mel has had it. Using her coding skills, she designs an app of her own, one that allows...
13) Pretending
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"April is kind, pretty, and relatively normal, yet she can't seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she's found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry. Until she realizes that what men are looking for is Gretel. Gretel is perfect, beautiful but low maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not a slut. She's a Regular Everyday Manic Pixie Dream Girl Next Door With No Problems. When April...
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Perfect strangers Graham Larkin and Ellie O'Neill meet online when Graham accidentally sends Ellie an e-mail about his pet pig, Wilbur. The two 17-year-olds strike up an e-mail relationship from opposite sides of the country and don't even know each other's first names. What's more, Ellie doesn't know Graham is a famous actor, and Graham doesn't know about the big secret in Ellie's family tree. When the relationship goes from online to in-person,...
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English
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"Driven to desperation by divorce, boredom, infidelity, or a beloved husband's death, a young woman named Paige, her cousin and rival Heather, her best friend Chloe, and her mother, Joan, all decide to try their hand at online dating. They each download an app, hoping to right-swipe their way to love and happiness. But one of them unwittingly makes a date with a killer, starting the clock on a race to save her life"--
Paige and Heather are cousins,...
17) Online dating is hell (and hella hilarious): a real woman's real conversations with real men online
Author
Publisher
Hella Good House of Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"After separating from her husband, TinderHella jumped right into online dating. What followed was two years of hilarious conversations and witty one liners. At the urging of friends, Ms. Hella has gathered these together and shows us just how dangerous it is to match with an attractive, funny, and intelligent woman like TinderHella.
Author
Series
Boyfriend project volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Samiah Brooks never thought she would be "that" girl. But a live tweet of a horrific date just revealed the painful truth: she's been catfished by a three-timing jerk of a boyfriend. Suddenly Samiah - along with his two other "girlfriends," London and Taylor - have gone viral online. Now the three new besties are making a pact to spend the next six months investing in themselves. No men, no dating, and no worrying about their relationship status...
Author
Series
Written in the stars volume 2
Language
English
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Brendon Lowell loves love. It's why he created a dating app to help people find their one true pairing and why he's convinced "the one" is out there, even if he hasn't met her yet. Or... has he? When his sister's best friend turns up in Seattle unexpectedly, Brendon jumps at the chance to hang out with her. He's crushed on Annie since they were kids, and the stars have finally aligned, putting them in the same city at the same time. Annie booked a...
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