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Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole life is on fire, though.A New England Book Award Winner!Charlie Vega is a lot of things. Smart. Funny. Artistic. Ambitious. Fat. People sometimes have a problem with that last one. Especially her mom. Charlie wants a good relationship with her body, but it's hard, and her mom leaving a billion weight loss shakes on her dresser doesn't help. The world and...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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“Breathlessly atmospheric…A gorgeous, hopeful book.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, author of Today Tonight Tomorrow
The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this Pura Belpré Award–winning novel that’s an irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer...
The Hating Game meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter in this Pura Belpré Award–winning novel that’s an irresistible romance starring a Mexican American teen who discovers love and profound truths about the universe when she spends her summer...
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2022
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English
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You should know, right now, that I'm a liar.
They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent. But they're still lies...
Golden-haired Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and tons of followers. Her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.
Except it's all fake.
"Max" is actually Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic 17-year-old living in drab Bakersfield,...
They're usually little lies. Tiny lies. Baby lies. Not so much lies as lie adjacent. But they're still lies...
Golden-haired Max Monroe has it all: beauty, friends, and tons of followers. Her picture-perfect existence seems eminently enviable.
Except it's all fake.
"Max" is actually Kat Sanchez, a quiet and sarcastic 17-year-old living in drab Bakersfield,...
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Imagine Curious Incident of the Dog . . . with a romance, and you have the beginnings of this story of a young man struggling with the world outside his head--and the woman who gets inside it.The term "cognitive disorder" implies there is something wrong with the way I think or the way I perceive reality. I perceive reality just fine. Sometimes I perceive more of reality than others.Marcelo Sandoval hears music that nobody else can hear - part of...
5) Daykeeper
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Cool Empire Press
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Ed Nelson is struggling to recover from the devastating loss of his wife to cancer. As Ed’s depression begins to deepen, his older brother steps in to help him make the critical changes necessary to bring him back from the brink. Into this new environment walks Tanya, a woman half his age, who immediately reminds him of his late wife. Ed and Tanya develop an unlikely friendship, but as things quickly evolve into something more intimate, he must...
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Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Historical romance takes to the high seas. Famed spy Lady Lisbeth Medford is on a ship bound for the West Indies, and the only thing more dangerous than her mission is the elusive Duke she's trying to capture.
Lady Lisbeth Medford, Countess of Waterstone and famed international spy, is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. She's determined to infiltrate a notorious smuggling ring in the West Indies while on a covert mission as a ship's...
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Lady Rivendale's Connections volume Book Three
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ePublishing Works!
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2023.
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English
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In a World of Art, Abduction Conceals Dark Secrets in If His Kiss is Wicked, a Historical Regency Romance from Jo Goodman
When a chilling abduction leaves her battered and bruised, Emmalyn Hathaway's memories are fragmented, and her trust is shattered. Seeking safety for herself and her cousin, Marisol, she turns to Restell Gardner, a man rumored to be a rake and ne'er-do-well but also a man of unwavering determination.
No stranger to the art of...
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Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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This festive season, two very special women are about to discover that love is a gift that isn't just for Christmas! Found out how in these two magical holiday romances from Betty Neels and Lee Tobin McClain.
A Christmas Proposal.
Ever since Bertha Soames's father remarried she's found herself living in her stepsister's shadow. But the modern-day Cinderella is about to be swept off her feet by committed bachelor Dr. Oliver Hay-Smythe! The moment...
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
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[2023]
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English
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The stakes are sky-high for one playboy billionaire in this secret-pregnancy romance by Millie Adams!
Their one night…
only raises the stakes!
Poker pro Jessie Hargreave's future depends on the riskiest game of her life. And playboy billionaire Ewan Kincaid has just gone all in! Winning Ewan's Scottish Highland estate is astounding. But it's their sizzling night together that is most shocking, especially when she discovers the consequences…
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Penguin Random House Grupo Ed
Pub. Date
2023
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Español
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Una de las historias más personales de Isabel Allende, repleta de emoción, amor y segundas oportunidades. Isabel Allende parte de la célebre cita de Albert Camus -«en medio del invierno aprendí por fin que había en mí un verano invencible»- para urdir una trama que presenta la geografía humana de unos personajes propios de la América de hoy que se hallan «en el más profundo invierno de sus vidas»: una chilena, una joven guatemalteca ilegal...
11) Finding Joy
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2023
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English
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As his twenty-sixth birthday approaches, Desta Joy Walker finds himself in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the one place he's been actively avoiding most of his life. For Desta, the East African capital encompasses some of the happiest and saddest parts of his life-his first home and the place where his father died. When an unavoidable work obligation lands him there for twelve weeks, he may finally have a chance for the closure he so desperately needs. What...
12) What She Missed
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Ebony Jones is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother’s house in the country. There’s absolutely nothing for Ebony in Alula Lake, Texas. So she thinks.Award-winning author Liara Tamani’s What She Missed is a rich and emotional novel that celebrates change, nature, friendship, growing up, and love, for readers of Sarah Dessen’s The Rest of the Story and Elizabeth Acevedo’s Clap When You Land. When...
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2023
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English
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"When Susannah and I were lovers, the fact that she was married seemed irrelevant to me, except it limited our being together. I knew she could not love me any more than she did, husband or no husband, that he could not matter in the same way, that if she made love to David in the morning and me at noon it subtracted nothing from the truth of our love. She did do that, at least once; she told me so. But not to make me jealous, or threaten
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GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Cecilia's parents live very humbly in a tenement. The father is an inventive bricklayer but can scarcely pay the expenses incident for the illness of the dying mother Mary. After her death, all the cares fall on "Celie," who tries to mother the brother and care for her father. Father McGowan, the priest of the parish, is interested in the family and helps the father to sell an invention to his advantage.
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Feedbooks
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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The story is a blending of the romance and adventure of the middle ages with nineteenth century men and women; and they are creations of flesh and blood, and not mere pictures of past centuries. The story is about Jack Winthrop, a newspaper man. Mr. MacGrath's finest bit of character drawing is seen in Hillars, the broken down newspaper man, and Jack's chum.
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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"Miss Billy" is a romantic story centered around Virginia's golden age. This book describes the story of a lady who resides in Cherry Street with willful ways and incredible girlhood which is every woman's dream. Did she fall in love with the man of her dream? How was life for a woman with such a bright lifestyle?
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18) Athalie
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D. Appleton and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Robert William Chambers (1865–1933) was an American artist and prolific writer of mystery, thriller and espionage fiction. 'Athalie' tells the story of clairvoyant Athalie Greensleeve and her protracted romance with Clive Bailey, Jr. To live the lives they desire, the lovers defy the conventional social norms of the time; the book thus comprises scathing condemnation of them. [Source: Wikipedia, book]
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James R. Osgood and Company
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Not the intrinsic merits of this story embolden me to inscribe it to you, my dear friend, but the fact that you, more than any other man, are responsible for its writing. Your advice and encouragement first led me to book-making; so it is only fair that you should partake of whatever obloquy (or honor) the practice may bring upon me.
The ensuing pages may incline you to suspect their author of a repugnance to unvarnished truth; but,—without prejudice...
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Hodder and Stoughton Limited
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Philippa Harford breathed a sigh of relief at finding herself alone in her compartment, and arranging her belongings round her with the method of an experienced traveller, she settled herself in a corner seat and took up her book. She did not read for long, however, for in a few moments her eyes wandered to the window and there fixed themselves on the swiftly passing landscape. She let her hands fall into her lap and sat thinking. - from chapter 1...
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