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1) Six years
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
2) Secrets
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
At age twelve, Cassandra Madden fell in love with Jefferson Ames, whom she meets on a business trip with her mother. After college, Cassie moves to Jeff's hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia, and eventually becomes nanny to widower Jeff's daughter, Elsbeth. Jeff treats Cassie as part of the family, but reserves his romantic feelings for gorgeous Skylar, who despises Cassie and ignores Elsbeth. When she hears gunshots next door and finds aging film...
Author
Series
Heartbreaker Bay novels volume 2
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Language
English
Description
Willa Davis is wrangling puppies when Keane Winters stalks into her pet shop with frustration in his chocolate-brown eyes and a pink bedazzled cat carrier in his hand. He needs a kitty sitter, stat. But the last thing Willa needs is to rescue a guy who doesn't even remember her. Saddled with his great-aunt's Feline from Hell, Keane is desperate to leave her in someone else's capable hands. But in spite of the fact that he's sure he's never seen the...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La historia de una boda fantástica, de la vuelta de la novia a sus padres en deshonra, de la resolución de sus hermanos para intentar venganza en su corruptor, y de la denegación de los townspeoples para salir de rutina.
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
This is a novel about the attempts...
Author
Language
English
Description
"As a young man, Gigi Paulo arrives in New York and is immediately drawn to a girl he sees in a bar near Penn Station. Before he can approach her, she is gone. He returns to the bar for weeks, hoping to see her again, dreams of her at night and searches the crowds for her face. Quiet and careful, he is not the type to become obsessed by a stranger. But obsessed he is. Two years later he meets her at a party. Her name is Corrine. She seems to like...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The one thing that Emmie has been counting on is gone for good, and everything she planned is up in the air. It doesn't help that Emmie's job isn't lucrative, that her mother flickers in and out of her life, that no romantic prospects are in sight, and that even her landlady is giving her the cold shoulder. Worst of all, she's pretty sure she's lost her best friend. Emmie's dreams that life has something wonderful in store for her are beginning to...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"College was supposed to be an escape for Emily Skinner. But after failing out of school, she's left with no choice but to return to her small Arkansas hometown, a place run on gossip and good Christian values. She's not alone. Emily's former best friend--and childhood crush--Jody Monroe is back with a baby. Emily can't resist the opportunity to reconnect, despite the uncomfortable way things ended between them and her mom's disapproval of their friendship....
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A short story collection featuring elements of magic realism while touching on the themes of love, knowledge, grief, hope, and jealousy. Teeming with uncanny characters whose lives unfold in worlds at once strikingly human and eerily original, these stories demonstrate the strength and power -- known and unknown -- of the imagination.
Author
Publisher
William Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitised. As the novel progresses and their...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1917 in the South Dakota Badlands and the summer has been hard. Rachel and Isaac DuPree had left Chicago fourteen years ago to stake their claim. Isaac, a former Buffalo Soldier, is fiercely proud: black families are rare in the West, and black ranchers even rarer. But it hasn't rained in months, the cattle are bellowing with thirst, and supplies have dwindled. Struggling to feed her family, Rachel is isolated by more than just geography. She...
Author
Language
English
Description
"We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body appears to age backwards, growing younger every year. And yet, his physical curse proves to be a blessing, allowing him to try to win the heart of the same woman three times as at each successive encounter...
13) Cyrano
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
Author
Series
Description
La historia de una boda fant©Łstica, de la vuelta de la novia a sus padres en deshonra, de la resoluci©đn de sus hermanos para intentar venganza en su corruptor, y de la denegaci©đn de los townspeoples para salir de rutina.
The story of a fantastic wedding, the return of the bride to her parents in disgrace, her brothers' resolve to seek revenge on her corruptor, and the townspeoples' refusal to depart from routine.
This is a novel about the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Shojo beat manga ed.
Physical Desc
[188] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Takemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna's unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Will Kaguya and Miyuki share the shelter of an umbrella in a storm? Is carrying a knife dripping with blood proof that Kaguya is trying to kill a member of the student council? How will Kaguya react when Chika introduces her to potty humor? Then, Chika must intervene when Miyuki dispenses bad advice on a topic he knows nothing about, Miyuki tries to develop his kinesthetic intelligence, and Kaguya and her personal assistant play a practical joke...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
[195] pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Takemoto, a sophomore art student in Tokyo, thinks his greatest worries in life are finding ways to eat more meat and getting to class on time. But with friends like his, life is never going to be that tame"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Physical Desc
198 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first...?! As leaders of their prestigious academy's student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it's lonely at the top... Luckily for them, they've fallen in love! There's just one problem--they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first... Love...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Physical Desc
203 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first...?! Will a mysterious love letter to Kaguya make Miyuki jealous? Is drinking from a coffee cup with Kayuga's lipstick on the rim an indirect kiss? How will Miyuki react when Kaguya says she's 'done it' before? Then, Miyuki's phobia is revealed, the student council VP of Shuchiin Academy's sister school in France displays epic Gallic rudeness, and the student council...