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Author
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Trixie Nguyen is determined to make her sex toy business a success, proving to her traditional Vietnamese parents that she can succeed in a nontraditional career. She's made a fresh start in Washington DC, and her first pop-up event is going well--until she runs into the ex who dumped her. With a Post-it note. The last person Andre Walker expected to see in his soul food restaurant was the woman he left behind in New Orleans. Their chemistry is still...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn't come at a worse time-threatening Emma's promotion and Jo's new movie. As the gossip spreads, it starts to affect all areas of their lives. Paparazzi are following them outside the office, coworkers are treating them differently, and a "source" is feeding information to the...
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 244 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"After nine years together, Kathryn and Chris have the sort of relationship most would envy. They speak in the shorthand they have invented, complete one another's sentences, and help each other through every daily and existential dilemma. When Chris tells Kathryn about his feelings for Emily, a vivacious young woman he sees often at the Laundromat, Kathryn encourages her boyfriend to pursue this other woman--certain that her bond with Chris is strong...
25) Make them pay
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
St. Martin's paperbacks edition.
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy Kincaid and Sean Rogan are finally tying the knot. Two weeks before their wedding, a surprise visitor shows up at their door: Eden, Sean's estranged sister from Europe. She claims she's in town for the wedding and wants to mend fences. Lucy invites Eden to stay with them--after all, family is family--but her boss, SSA Noah Armstrong, knows far more about Eden's sketchy past than he's let on. While Lucy is focused on her investigation tracking...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A rom-com novel about two young people at a crossroads in their relationship"--
Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the...
28) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Evelyn Maltravers knows exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself by making the biggest splash in the one sphere she excels: on horseback. In haute couture. But to truly capture London's attention she'll need a tailor who's not afraid to take risks with his designs--and with...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of a long, hot summer in London, the lives of three very different married couples collide when their children join the same tutoring circle, resulting in illicit relationships, shocking violence, and unimaginable fallout. There's Eve, a bougie earth mother with a well-stocked trust fund; she has three little ones, a blue-collar husband and is obsessed with her Instagrammable recipes and lifestyle. And Melissa, a successful interior...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Winning the lottery has ruined Opal Devlin's life. After quitting her dead-end job where she'd earned minimum wage and even less respect, she's bombarded by people knocking at her door for a handout the second they found out her bank account was overflowing with cash. And Opal can't seem to stop saying yes. With her tender heart thoroughly abused, Opal decides to protect herself by any means necessary, which to her translates to putting almost all...
32) The whispers
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When the pandemic first hits, thirty-one-year-old Kelly tries to make the best of quarantine but it soon becomes clear there are some lemons you just can't make into lemonade. She loses her job and her boyfriend in one fell swoop, and she finds herself looking for any way to get out of the apartment she's still sharing with her now-ex. So when she rekindles a friendship with a bestselling author she knows from childhood, who invites Kelly to stay...
34) A match of wits
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Zayne and Agatha have always been a match in wits, but will unlikely circumstances convince them they could also be a match made in heaven as they return home to 1880s New York City?"--
35) The guilt trip
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack's brother Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel to Portugal for their destination weekend. As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering waves...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...
Author
Series
Mure volume 5
Language
English
Description
"On the little Scottish island of Mure--halfway between Scotland and Norway--Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of sweetheart weddings, a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald--who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things--returns with a wedding...
38) After Francesco
Author
Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, [an imprint of] Kensignton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kevin Doyle, a gay man who lost his partner, Francesco, to AIDS in mid-1980s New York wallows in his loss and at a mind-numbing job before hitting rock bottom and realizing it is time to return home to Minnesota to start over"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie? Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do. You'd like to get to know Grace better. But it's difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are never apart. Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn't work. How...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they've built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it's rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther's accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if...