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Any dream will do : a novel
by Debbie Macomber
Taking a bank job after her abusive father passes away, Shay risks everything to save her brother from a dangerous drug lord and winds up sentenced to two years in prison before finding love and healing at the side of a widowed pastor.
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The Kiss Quotient
by Helen Hoang
A 30-year-old math whiz with Asperger's tries to make her love life as rich as her career by hiring an escort to help her with her lack of knowledge and experience in the dating department.
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The Rosie project
by Graeme C. Simsion
A socially awkward genetics professor who has never been on a second date sets out to find the perfect wife, but instead finds Rosie Jarman, a fiercely independent barmaid who is on a quest to find her biological father.
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A Princess in Theory
by Alyssa Cole
Mistaken by his betrothed as a pauper instead of a prince, Prince Thabiso, the sole heir to the throne of Thesolo, decides to keep his real identity a secret as he experiences life and love with Naledi Smith—until the truth comes out, which changes everything.
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The girl you left behind
by Jojo Moyes
A German Kommandant, occupying a French town in World War I, obssesses over a portrait of Sophie, a woman who risks everything to reunite with her husband; and a century later, Liv, a widow, is caught in a a dispute over the ownership of the valuable work.
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Hello stranger
by Lisa Kleypas
Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, is as daring and independent as any man--why not take her pleasures like one? Yet she has never been tempted to embark on an affair, until now. Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, is as gallant as he is secretive, a rumored assassin whose true loyalties are a mystery. They share a one-night stand before becoming embroiled in a dangerous mission that is complicated by a government plot and their growing feelings for one another.
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The time traveler's wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel.
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The Bollywood bride
by Sonali Dev
Traveling home to Chicago to attend a family wedding and ride out a scandal, Bollywood star Ria Parkar reunites with Vikram Jathar, whose heart she broke to pursue her career.
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Seven minutes in heaven
by Eloisa James
Witty and elusive Eugenia Snowe, who owns an agency offering premiere governesses, clashes with brilliant inventor Ward Reeve, who is willing to resort even to kidnapping in order to find a governess for his half-siblings.
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Map of the heart
by Susan Wiggs
Accompanying her aging father on a trip to his native France, a widowed photographer is led by his memories of World War II to unexpected revelations about their family's history. At the same time she bonds with a handsome American historian.
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The Lawrence Browne Affair
by Cat Sebastian
Brilliant scientist Lawrence Browne has a servant problem: none want to work in a house that could very well explode at any moment. Now, despite Lawrence's best efforts to convince everyone that his experiments on a new type of communication device are perfectly safe, he still finds himself in need of a new secretary. Meanwhile, con man and thief extraordinaire Georgie Turner finds himself persona non grata in London after he refuses to bilk a nice old lady, as gang-leader Jamie Brewster insists he should. Posing as a candidate for Lawrence's secretary job would not only get Georgie out of the city but would also repay a favor Georgie owes his brother Jack. It seems like the perfect plan, until Georgie arrives in Cornwall and finds himself falling hard and fast for his new employer.
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A rogue by any other name
by Sarah MacLean
Determined to keep his new wife, the very proper Lady Penelope Marbury, away from London's illicit underworld, the Marquess of Bourne, the owner of London's most exclusive gaming hell, finds this task quite challenging when Penelope discovers her own desires.
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The Other Lady Vanishes
by Amanda Quick
After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over.
Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover cures and tonics. One such customer is Jake Truett, a recently widowed businessman in town for a therapeutic rest. But unbeknownst to Adelaide, his exhaustion is just a cover.
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Outlander
by Diana Gabaldon
Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier.
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What we find
by Robyn Carr
Abandoned by her boyfriend in the aftermath of wrongful malpractice suit, a Denver neurosurgeon relocates to a small rural town named after her ancestor, where she slowly recovers and reconnects with her estranged father while bonding with a mysterious loner.
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Hate to want you
by Alisha Rai
Meeting once a year for a single, illicit night of pleasure, parting ways before dawn, sworn enemies Nicholas Chandler and Olivia Tanaka cannot stop wanting each other as secrets from the past threaten to come to light.
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Wired
by Julie Garwood
Needing to recruit a top-notch computer expert who can help him identify a mole, a hotshot FBI agent encounters difficulties coordinating with a beautiful computer hacker who is hiding secrets that she does not want revealed.
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Bridget Jones's diary : a novel
by Helen Fielding
A hilarious journal chronicles a year in the life of Bridget Jones, a single, thirty-something woman on a perpetual quest for self-improvement, as she struggles to cope with relationships, weight control, and the other baffling complexities of modern life.
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First comes love : a novel
by Emily Giffin
While Meredith becomes increasingly unsure about the strength of her bond with her seemingly perfect husband and daughter, her once-happily single sister, Josie, frantically dates and considers her options in her desperation to have a baby.
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Once a rancher
by Linda Lael Miller
Offering a troubled boy a job on the ranch he shares with his younger siblings, Wyoming businessman Slater falls for the youth's beautiful guardian, Grace, a resort manager whose busy life is threatened by dangers from her past.
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Tempest
by Beverly Jenkins
When Regan Carmichael, his mail-order bride, arrives, widower Dr. Colton Lee, who is in need of someone to care for his daughter, gets the unexpected in the form of this independent beauty who makes him believe in second chances.
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Secrets of the tulip sisters
by Susan Mallery
Estranged by their mother's abandonment and their own secrets, sisters Kelly and Olivia harbor longtime crushes for popular brothers Griffith and Ryan, whose return a decade after high school leads to embarrassing memories, unexpected disillusionment and romantic closure.
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Wanted, a Gentleman
by K. J. Charles
Merchant Martin St. Vincent, a black freedman, goes into the offices of London's Matrimonal Advertiser to aid an underage girl targeted by a conman, he also finds Englishman Theodore Swann. The two soon embark on a recovery mission that allows the two men a great deal of private time together.
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The notebook
by Nicholas Sparks
In a testimony to the lasting power of love, a man tells an elderly woman a story from a faded old notebook, his voice relating the heartbreaking tale of two lovers and their 50-year journey to happiness.
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Because of Miss Bridgerton
by Julia Quinn
A first entry in a prequel series finds the tomboyish Billie Bridgerton unexpectedly falling in love with longtime adversary and less-than-ideal match George Rokesby, whose arrogance and wicked sense of humor clash with Billie's proper sensibilities.
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Pride and prejudice
by Jane Austen
Human foibles and early nineteenth-century manners are satirized in this beloved romantic tale of English country family life.
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Heroes are my weakness
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
A down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows finds herself trapped on a remote island off the coast of Maine with a sexy horror novelist who knows a dozen ways to kill with his bare hands.
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Sweet little lies
by Jill Shalvis
When she makes a wish in a wishing well for Finn to fall in love and find the happiness he deserves, Pru finds herself way in over her head—and heart—when he sets his sights on her and she realizes she must tell him the truth, which could ruin everything.
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Darkness
by Karen Robards
A brilliant ornithologist finds herself trapped on remote Attu Island in Alaska with a handsome stranger, fighting for their lives.
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The girl from Summer Hill
by Jude Deveraux
Clashing with a gorgeous Hollywood star who is playing Darcy in a local production of Pride & Prejudice, Casey, a chef who puts her career first and who believes the actor's brother-in-law's damning claims, finds herself becoming attracted to him in spite of herself.
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Come sundown
by Nora Roberts
Running the Montana ranch that has been home to four generations of her family, Bo and the man she is starting to love encounter her badly injured aunt, who ran off decades earlier, before a local murder reveals sinister activities in the mountains that surround their home.
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