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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he dates goes on to find their soul mate the second they break up. When a woman slides into his DMs with the same problem, they come up with a plan: They'll date each other and break up. Their curses will cancel each other's out, and they'll both go on to find the love of their lives. It's a bonkers idea and it just might work. Emma hadn't planned that...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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When Christmas comes: Deciding to spend Christmas with her daughter, widow Emily Springer, through the Internet, swaps houses with history professor Charles Brewster, but destiny intervenes when this unlikely couple is forced to spend the holidays together.
Christmas Letters: When Katherine O'Connor, who writes Christmas letters for other people, meets Dr. Wynn Jeffries, a child psychologist, at the French cafe on Blossom Street, their opposing viewpoints...
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Western light volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Beth Rutledge and her mother's one chance to escape Beth's tyrannical father is a wagon train heading west. Wagon train scout Jake Holt senses the secretive Beth is running from something and finds a new hope for his future in protecting her. Can they risk trusting each other with their lives--and their hearts--with danger threatening their every step?
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Cowboy protectors volume 3
Publisher
Love Inspired
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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When her daughter is the only witness able to identify a group of bank robbers, single mom Penny Jackson knows their lives are in danger. These men will do anything to keep Missy quiet-permanently. Escaping to a small Texas town was supposed to be safe, but when the criminals track them down, police chief Caleb Harmon becomes their only hope for survival.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mum to a teenage daughter and working as a full-time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma, having plunged from a bridge onto train tracks below. But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin pushed and if so, by whom and why? Meghan has always tried to...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Hazel Sharp's detective father dies and leaves her the family home, forcing her to confront a dysfunctional family and unanswered questions about her missing mother. Her brothers are upset with her for moving away and seem to be hiding secrets. Hazel's former love also appears to be hiding something, making Hazel feel isolated and alone. Her home town of Mirror Lake is suffering through a drought, and objects under the surface of the lake begin...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp—an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan—herbalist and eccentric Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three estranged daughters. The youngest—the beautiful, inscrutable, and lazy Rose...
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Series
Celestial Kingdom volume 3
Publisher
Voyager
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sue Lynn Tan's highly acclaimed, bestselling Celestial Kingdom duology is expanded with this new compilation of stories from before, during, and after the events in Daughter of the Moon Goddess and Heart of the Sun Warrior, all from the perspectives of beloved characters.
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Myrtlewood mystery volume 2
Publisher
Iris Beaglehole
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Rosemary and Athena are just settling into their new life in the unapologetically magical village of Myrtlewood. After so many years in financial turmoil, things are looking up, and Rosemary even nabs the perfect part-time job while waiting on a certain handsome vampire lawyer to process her inheritance. Life is surprisingly peaceful until strange disappearances throw everything into chaos leading up to the Spring Equinox. Meanwhile, Athena is newly...
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Maren Winter is a world-renowned restaurateur who has built an empire. No one heeds the whispers of her retirement more closely than her three daughters, all in service to their mother's legacy. On the night of Maren's annual New Year's Eve party, a line is crossed, and word of a humiliating family meltdown spreads like a Northern California wildfire through the culinary elite. It's a golden opportunity for one of them to step into power-and a trigger...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Housewife Lucy is mildly concerned when her teenage daughter Eden doesn't show up after school. Concern turns to horror when Eden is pulled unresponsive from a nearby lake. When Eden is revived, Lucy and her husband James are thrilled. Then Eden's behavior changes radically. She insists that her name is Eli, which alone wouldn't be too alarming, as teenagers explore identity all the time. But Eli was Eden's twin who vanished in the womb. As Eden's...
13) Accidental magic
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Series
Myrtlewood mystery volume 1
Publisher
Te Ra Aroha Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Life's a struggle for Rosemary Thorn and her teen daughter, Athena. But their regular troubles are turned upside down after Granny Thorn's mysterious death. Despite her cousin's sinister manoeuvrings, Rosemary returns to Myrtlewood and the sprawling, dilapidated Thorn Manor. But there's more to the old house than meets the eye, as Rosemary and Athena soon find out - in a whirlwind of magic, adventure, mystical creatures, and endless cups of tea. Life...
14) Never ever
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Series
Eva Rae Thomas mystery volume 3
Publisher
Buoy Media LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ex-agent Eva Rae Thomas is on the run. The past month she has done things she never knew she was capable of while hunting for her kidnapped daughter. Eva Rae has risked everything, her career, her newfound love, her freedom. She's looking for the man they call the Iron Fist. The trail has led her to Miami. Meanwhile, Miami is under attack. Hundreds of passengers in the Metrorail are exposed to a deathly nerve gas on a peaceful Monday morning. When...
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Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 2011, Eunju Oh opens her door to greet a stranger: a young Korean American woman holding a familiar-looking knife--a knife Eunju hasn't seen in more than thirty years, and that connects her to a place she'd desperately hoped to leave behind forever. In South Korea in the 1980s, young Eunju and her mother are homeless on the street. After being captured by the police, they're sent to live within the walls of a state-sanctioned reformatory center...
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Shellseeker Beach volume 2
Publisher
[Hope Holloway]
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New arrivals to Shellseeker Beach prompt Eliza to extend her trip...and fall deeper under the spell of Sanibel Island. The group of close family and friends are determined to settle the ownership of the beachfront property once and for all. But it seems there are forces outside of their control determined to shatter all their dreams. As she takes time to reconsider her career, Eliza's daughter finds herself in the middle of conflicting feelings for...
17) In her boots
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rhett Gallagher's adventurous life is imploding. Just as she turns the big 4-0, her long-term relationship collapses and her gran's death draws her back to the family farm. The only silver lining is that Rhett's inspirational book, The Modern Pioneer Girl's Guide to Life--written under a pseudonym--has become a wild success, so much so that when her big publicity moment comes, self-doubting Rhett panics and persuades her best friend, Jasmine, to step...
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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Celia is trapped in a life that's not hers. Celia wakes up in a house that's supposed to be hers. There's a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family-and this life-is not hers. Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip-but then her friend's boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about...
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Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Painter Annie Shaw appears to be living the American dream with her renowned journalist husband, Duncan, and daughter, Tabitha, in the Virginia countryside. The facade starts to crack when Annie discovers her elderly Vietnamese refugee mother's dead body among her hoarded goods in Annie's carriage house. In the weeks that follow, the emotionally fragile Annie gradually loses her grip on reality. Medication that once kept her obsessive-compulsive disorder...
20) Holiday country
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Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Ada adores spending every summer in a Turkish seaside town with her mother and grandmother at the family villa. The glittering waters, picturesque olive groves, and her spirited friends make it easy for Ada to leave her idle life in California behind. But no matter how much Ada feels she belongs to the country where her mother grew up, deep down, her connection to the culture feels as fleeting as the seasons. When Levent, a mysterious...
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