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61) More than words
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Nina Gregory has always been a good daughter. Raised by her father, owner of New York City's glamorous Gregory Hotels, Nina was taught that family, reputation, and legacy are what matter most. And her devoted boyfriend feels the same. But when Nina's father dies, he leaves behind a secret that shocks Nina to her core. As her world falls apart, Nina begins to see the men in her life--her father, her boyfriend, and unexpectedly, her boss, Rafael--in...
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"She wrote him a letter...and he stole her heart. Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except...she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her...and more. Did he think she was mad Eloise...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Valerie rushes home to Orchard Valley, Oregon, when her father, David, suffers a heart attack. She and her two younger sisters, Stephanie and Norah, are gathering at his side, praying he'll live, fearing he'll die. At a time like this, falling in love with her father's heart surgeon is the last thing on Valerie's mind. Meanwhile, Stephanie has other worries besides her father's health. She'd fled Orchard Valley three years earlier after her humiliating...
65) The sound of us
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Pub. Date
2005
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1st ed.
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324 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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As a sign-language interpreter, Alice is used to facilitating other people's conversations, but when a late-night phone call brings a scared 6-year-old into her life, she sees love is a universal language.
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Two possible futures loom before Miss Anne Davenport. The first option: sharing an unhappy home with her father and soon-to-be stepmother. The second: a life of independence at the Spinster House--if only her friend, Cat, would vacate the premises and marry the Duke of Hart. A well-placed whisper about the pair's secret tryst might speed the course of true love. But the duke's stubborn cousin poses an obstacle. A ridiculously handsome, very persuasive...
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Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
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284 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Lo Gunderson feels trapped in her small midwestern hometown until she sees an ad for a free car in the local paper. To maintain her staunch anticapitalist values, she refuses to spend money on what she can find for free, so this car is the perfect ticket out of the town. Though it doesn't cost any money, it still comes with a price. Blanche Peterson is dying and asks that Lo track down her estranged son. But before she can decide whether to fulfill...
71) Blood vines
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Following her mother's suicide, Alexandra Owens decided to visit the last person known to have talked to her mother, Detective Daniel Reed. She's shocked to learn that her mother had once been married to a wealthy vintner and an infant son had disappeared. When the marriage ended, Alex's mother left with Alex and moved to San Francisco. Now the bones of an infant had been unearthed in a Sonoma vineyard. Could her mother have killed her baby brother?...
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Pub. Date
2010
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English
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Annie Ferguson was a bright young Manhattan architect. Talented, beautiful, just starting out with her first job, new apartment and boyfriend, she had the world in the palm of her hand, until a single phone call altered the course of her life forever. Overnight, she became the mother to her sister's three orphaned children, keeping a promise she never regretted making, even if it meant putting her own life indefinitely on hold.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"When Emma Montague left the strict confines of upper-crust British life for New York, she was sure it would make her happy. Away from her parents, and their expectations, she felt liberated, throwing herself into a Manhattan life replete with a high-paying job, a gorgeous apartment, and a string of successful boyfriends. But the cutthroat of world of finance and the relentless pursuit of more began to take a toll. This wasn't the life she wanted,...
74) Sunstroke
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2006
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English
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Gloria Mendez is thirty-six, single, and hopelessly in love with her oblivious boss, a soft-spoken loner twenty years her senior. So when he disappears while on vacation in Mexico, it's Gloria who goes in search of him. As she follows his trail, she discovers her boss was not the man she thought she knew, nor was he anything she could have imagined.
75) Bare necessity
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Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Homeless, jobless, loverless ... and scandalous at thirty-two, Emily turns to her best friend Cara, who thinks yoga, aromatherapy, and the perfect potion will turn Emily's karma around. Why not, Emily figures. It might even help attract the real Mr. Right.
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"Following a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven, North Carolina. Being with uptight Nora and free-spirited Emma at the place where their family broke apart is a struggle, and undercurrents of jealousy and resentment threaten to pull the sisters under. In the midst of the storm,...
77) The plus one
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G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
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324 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Meet Kelly. Twenty-nine, go-getter, a brilliant robotics engineer, and perpetually single. When her younger sister's wedding looms and her attempts to find a date become increasingly cringeworthy, Kelly does the only logical thing: she builds her own boyfriend.
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"Imogen Finch has just been through her seventeenth breakup. She saw it coming, so she's not as crushed as she might be, but with all seventeen of her exes leaving her for other partners, she's come to believe a prediction her well-intentioned and possibly clairvoyant mother made over twenty years ago: that Imogen would never come first at anything or to anyone. Is her love life failing due to a magical curse? Insufficient effort? Poor timing or personality...
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Pub. Date
2008
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English
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"Lucy Binoche is attractive and intelligent, and she has better-than-average hair. So why is she nearly 30 and still single? When stunningly gorgeous Justin Gerard joins the singles group at church, Lucy is convinced he's the answer to her prayers. And when he signs up for a camping trip in Snowball, Arkansas, Lucy is quick to write her name on the line beneath his. There's only one problem: Lucy's idea of 'roughing it' is suffering through a long...
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Now, you would obviously never, ever look up your exes on Facebook. Nooo. And even if you did, you most certainly wouldn't run off trying to track them down, risking your job, family and happiness in the process. Posy Fairweather, on the other hand... Posy is delighted when Matt proposes--on top of a mountain, in a gale, in full-on romantic mode. But a few days later disaster strikes: he backs out of the engagement. Crushed and humiliated, Posy starts...