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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Georgia Bottoms, a Southern belle who keeps six lovers--none of whom know of the others--so she can maintain a lavish lifestyle, finds her ruse crumbling when a married preacher she has been seeing plans to confess their affair in front of his congregation.
42) Until we touch
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin Hqn
Pub. Date
c2014
Physical Desc
376 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
When her feelings for her boss, former football hero Jack McGarry, are exposed, Larissa Owens tries to convince him to take a chance on love.
44) The good dream
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
441 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Denounced by her 1950 Tennessee community as an old maid, 30-something Ivorie Walker hides her loneliness and grief over her mother's death behind good-humored independence before advocating on behalf of a feral boy who has been stealing vegetables from her garden.
45) The cactus
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"For Susan Green, messy emotions don't fit into the equation of her perfectly ordered life. She has a flat that is ideal for one, a job that suits her passion for logic and an 'interpersonal arrangement' that provides cultural and other, more intimate, benefits. But suddenly confronted with the loss of her mother and the news that she is about to become a mother herself, Susan's greatest fear is realized. She is losing control. When she learns that...
46) Four to score
Author
Series
Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Two bounty hunters vie to capture a revenge-seeking waitress wanted for car theft. One hunter is Stephanie Plum of New Jersey, the other is her arch-enemy Joyce Barnhardt.
47) Windfallen
Author
Publisher
William Morrow & Co
Pub. Date
2013, c2003.
Physical Desc
xii, 494 pages ; 21 cm.
Description
A breathtaking house on the hills above a crashing seascape brings together two modern-day women whose lives become entangled as they share camaraderie along with heartbreak and despair as both learn the true nature of love and its capacity to repair and restore anything.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A collection of ten stories is filled with unwelcome house guests, disastrous birthday parties, needy but loyal friends, betrayal, jealousy, and flirtatious older men, and takes readers on a guided tour of the human heart.
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"Smart, warm, uplifting, the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes the only way to survive is to open her heart. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: she struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she's thinking. That, combined with her unusual appearance (scarred cheek, tendency to wear the same clothes year in, year out), means that Eleanor...
Author
Series
Bear Mountain rescue volume 1
Publisher
BookShots/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 137 pages ; 18 cm
Description
Allie Fairchild made a mistake when she moved to Montana. Her rental is a mess, her coworkers at the trauma center are hostile, and her handsome landlord, Dex Belmont, is far from charming. But just when she's about to throw in the towel, life in Bear Mountain takes a surprisingly sexy turn.
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Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
52) Epic game
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Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player. She is single, childless, and happy about it. But when her best friend, Josie, commits suicide, Kat becomes the temporary guardian of Josie's ten-year-old son, David. As the days pass, Kat begins to realize that all the money and success in the world don't mean a thing unless you have someone to share it with.
53) Dear Emmie Blue
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A novel about teenager Emmie Blue, who releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky, only to fall head-over-heels for the boy who finds it; now, fourteen years later, the one thing Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air"--
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
368 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Vanessa is a whiz of a chef, so good she makes her grandstanding boss, Hawk--of Albuquerque's chic Nuevo American restaurant Hawk--look good. But Vanessa has a problem--she keeps falling for married men. Swearing off men altogether, she begins helping out at her parents' house until she meets Paul, her parents' neighbor. Just when Vanessa's guard goes down, the red flag goes up: Could Paul be yet another married man?
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Rita-Mae has lived in fear for as long as she can remember. Fear of being alone, fear of her past and, above all, fear of her husband, Harry. Until she spots an advertisement for a vacant cottage in a small town in Northern Ireland. She makes her escape filled with hope, ready to start a new life in a new home, free from the pain of her past. But her place of refuge may not be as safe--or as anonymous--as she thought.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 310 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Nicole has become sexually and emotionally entangled with her mentor. To break free, she must retrace her entire life's journey--from her strict Irish Catholic upbringing to her drug-fueled year as a teenage runaway. Even as she reinvents herself in NewYork City, her master's intoxicating voice pursues her, whispering dangerously in her ear. Somehow, he knows everything. A hypnotic and daring debut, The Devoted asks what it takes, and what you'll...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
438 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Thirty-nine-year-old Rachel is having a really bad year. After losing her job and breaking up with her boyfriend, Rachel has inherited her late aunt's house, her beloved Border collie and a crowded rescue kennel, despite the fact that she knows almost nothing about dogs. Still, considering her limited options, she gamely takes up the challenge of running the kennel. And as Rachel starts finding new homes for the abandoned strays, it turns out that...
Author
Publisher
BookShots, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 137 pages ; 18 cm
Description
Chelsea O'Kane escapes to Maine with a gun and fresh bruises. She's ready to begin anew, until she runs into her old flame, Jeremy Holland. As he helps to fix her inn, her heart heals and they rediscover what they once loved about each other. But as the two play house, it starts to seem too good to last.
59) Not quite a wife
Author
Series
Lost lords (Mary Jo Putney) volume 6
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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...
60) Millie's fling
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Bestselling novelist Orla Hart owes her life to her friend Millie Brady, whose rotten boyfriend has just left her. So Orla invites Millie to Cornwall, where Millie looks forward to a summer without any dating whatsoever. But Orla envisions Millie as the heroine of her next novel and decides to find Millie the man of her dreams. Except the two women have drastically different ideas about what kind of guy that should be.
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