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Off the map novels volume 1
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty-one-year-old Natalia Stolfi is saying good-bye to the past-and turning her life upside down with a trip to the land down under. For the next six months, she'll act like a carefree exchange student, not a girl sinking under the weight of painful memories. Everything is going according to plan until she meets a brooding surfer with hypnotic green eyes and the troubling ability to see straight through her act. Bran Lockhart is having the worst...
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English
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Lana Parker is an expert girlfriend. After a disastrous breakup with her high school boyfriend, she's bounced from long-term relationship to long-term relationhip and even works as the dating and relationships columnist for one of Los Angeles's trendiest websites. But when Lana suddenly finds herself single, she's ready to take a break, both personally and professionally. That is, until her high school ex, Seth Carson, takes an assignment at Lana's...
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Series
Brides of Bliss County volume 3
Language
English
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Believing she will not be as successful as best friends Hadleigh and Melody in finding true love, Bex focuses on her career before unexpectedly falling for an aloof single father who does not believe in romance.
64) Ask anyone
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Trinity Harbor volume 2
Language
English
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Waking up to discover an antique carousel horse and an armed guard in his front yard is not what Bobby Spencer needs on a quiet Sunday morning. Once again the Spencers are going to be the talk of Trinity Harbor, Virginia. And Bobby isn't feeling very kindly toward the person responsible. But Jenna Pennington Kennedy is a desperate woman. That carousel horse is her ticket to capturing Bobby's attention and convincing him to offer her the opportunity...
66) The blue castle
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English
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Valancy Stirling, an inhibited twenty-nine-year-old spinster whose daydreams of the blue castle console her, undergoes a total personality change when a doctor tells her she has no more than one year to live. Oppressed by family and small-town prejudice, her apparently imminent death gives her the courage to assert herself and seek love.
68) Not quite a wife
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Series
Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 6
Language
English
Description
James, Lord Kirkland, owns a shipping fleet, half a London gaming house, and is a ruthlessly effective spymaster. Laurel Herbert gave James her heart as an innocent young girl, until she saw him perform an act of shocking violence. That night she left the husband who is far more than the fashionable lord he seems, and he let her go without a word of protest. Now, ten years later, a chance encounter turns passionate, with consequences that cannot be...
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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...
70) The forgiven
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Series
Keepers of the promise volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Central Pennsylvania, current day. Rebecca Fisher gladly accepted her husband Paul{u2019}s dreams as her own, but now that he has passed away, she{u2019}s struggling to raise two children and keep her home. Renting her stable to carpenter Matthew Byler offers a partial solution{u2014}even though Matthew has a troubled history, having sometimes failed to embrace Amish beliefs. As Matthew seeks to prove himself, Rebecca realizes how dependent she has...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the beloved Big Stone Gap series, now a major motion picture written and directed by Adriana Trigiani, starring Ashley Judd, Patrick Wilson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Benjamin Hickey, Jane Krakowski, Anthony LaPaglia, and Jenna Elfman
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
This edition features behind-the-scenes bonus material from the film—including photos, excerpts from the script, and favorite recipes...
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Alaskan nights volume 1
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
New York socialite Sloan McKinley travels to tiny Indigo, Alaska, to help her best friend handle a sudden inheritance. Happening in town at the same time is the annual bachelor competition, cooked up by local grandmothers determined to marry off their stubbornly single grandsons. Sloan is intrigued by both the competition and her friend's lawyer, rugged outdoorsman Walker Montgomery.
75) Breathe into me
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Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Author Sara Fawkes had fans clamoring for more with her New York Times bestselling e-serial erotic romance, Anything He Wants. Now, she's giving readers exactly what they want with her New Adult debut and first full length novel, Breathe into Me, a sexy, deeply emotional romance that brings Fawkes' signature heat to a highly popular new genre. How did my life get so broken? It's a question Lacey St. James asks herself every day. Stuck raising her...
77) The choice
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing career aspirations weekly. But then one night Joanna hears footsteps on the way home. Is she being followed? She is sure it's him; the man from the bar who wouldn't leave her alone. Hearing the steps speed up Joanna turns and pushes with all of her might, sending her pursuer tumbling down the steps and lying motionless on the floor. Now Joanna has to do...
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Shapeshifters of the Beau Monde volume 1
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English
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Alfred Blakesley, Duke of Lowell, has long been an enigma. No one dares to give a man of his status the cut direct, but there's simply something not quite right about him. What would the society ladies say if they learned the truth--that the Duke of Lowell is a wolf shifter and the leader of a pack facing extinction if he doesn't find his true love? So now he's on the hunt...for a wife. Felicity Templeton has a goal of her own: to remain unwed until...
Author
Series
Pioneer promises volume 3
Publisher
Whitaker House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Janie Dunn flees Boston and moves far away to raise the son of her deceased cousin where he'll be protected from his violent father, and finds that prairie life is far more difficult--and far more wonderful--than she could have imagined"--
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People is a whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against an exclusive summer haven on Fire Island. None of them would claim to be a particularly good person. But who among them is actually capable of murder? Jen Weinstein and Lauren Parker rule the town of Salcombe, Fire Island every summer. They hold sway on the beach and the tennis court, and are adept at manipulating...
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