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All Grown Up
by Jami Attenberg
Hiding the truth about her unhappiness and struggles with anxiety from everyone including her family, best friend and therapist, an alcoholic designer joins her loved ones in a reevaluation of family strength in the wake of a newborn's heartbreaking ailment.
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Before the War
by Fay Weldon
An unfashionable and intelligent spinster in the 1920s gets married to a charismatic gentleman while hiding the secret that she will die in childbirth after bearing another man's baby.
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The Book of Polly
by Kathy Hepinstall
A 10-year-old girl in a small conventional Texas community resolves to keep up with her aging, crazy-as-a-fox mother in order to keep them both alive and learn the truth about her mother's long-secret past.
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Close Enough to Touch
by Colleen Oakley
A young woman with a rare and debilitating allergy to other humans is forced to venture out into the world after the death of her abandoning mother before forging an unusual bond with a struggling single dad.
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The Confessions of Young Nero
by Margaret George
A tale inspired by the rise of the Emperor Nero follows the ascension of a youth to the head of Julius Caesar's imperial dynasty, where he navigates corruption and his mother's ruthless ambitions to pursue his ideals in the arts and athletics.
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Edgar and Lucy
by Victor Lodato
A grieving little boy who had been cared for by his late grandmother during his mother's dysfunctional episodes becomes an at-risk youth in the New Jersey Pine Barrens home of an unsettlingly attentive adult who harbors dubious intentions.
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Exit West
by Mohsin Hamid
The best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist presents the story of two young lovers, whose furtive affair is shaped by local unrest on the eve of a civil war that erupts in a cataclysmic bombing attack, forcing them to abandon their previous home and lives.
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The Fall of Lisa Bellow
by Susan Perabo
When a popular middle-school girl is abducted in broad daylight by a masked man, the victim's rival, Meredith, struggles with terror while their community organizes vigils and searches.
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The Hearts of Men
by Nickolas Butler
A scarred Vietnam veteran and successful businessman reflects on his teen years as a social outcast and friend to a popular youth during a summer camp reunion marked by selflessness and an unthinkable event involving his friend's family members.
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Her Secret
by Shelley Shepard Gray
A young woman and her family are forced to move from their bustling Amish town to a new community to escape a threatening stalker who challenges her faith and makes her afraid to trust her growing feelings for a kindhearted neighbor.
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The Hollywood Daughter
by Kate Alcott
A coming-of-age novel inspired by Hollywood icon Ingrid Bergman describes how the daughter of a PR executive helps make Berman a star in the face of the illegitimate child the actress has with Robert Rossellini, the heated era of McCarthyism and family secrets that challenge her father's health.
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The Hope Chest
by Viola Shipman
Three individuals—including fiercely independent ALS patient Mattie, her devoted but in-denial husband and her caretaker—unlock a parent's hope chest, in which they discover long-ago treasures that trigger inspirational memories.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect.
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If Not For You
by Debbie Macomber
Moving away from her oppressive parents in hopes of taking charge of her own life, Beth takes a job as a school music teacher and initially resists her attraction to a tattooed mechanic who is the epitome of everything her conservative parents fear.
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The Illusionist's Apprentice
by Kristy Cambron
Harry Houdini's one-time apprentice holds fantastic secrets about the greatest illusionist in the world. But someone wants to claim them . . . or silence her before she can reveal them on her own.
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Ill Will
by Dan Chaon
A psychologist is unwittingly embroiled in two spectacular unsolved murders, three decades apart, when the foster brother convicted of killing their family years earlier is exonerated, making him question the testimony that led to the conviction.
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The Last Chance Matinee
by Mariah Stewart
When celebrated and respected Hollywood agent Fritz Hudson passes away, leaving behind two separate families who never knew the other existed, three sisters are brought together under strange circumstances—to restore an old theater in Pennsylvania’s Pocono Mountains.
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Love Story
by Karen Kingsbury
Whether you're meeting the Baxter family for the first time or finding them all over again, this will stir your heart and remind you of the generational impact of love and the eternal bond of family.
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The Memory of You
by Catherine West
From a breakthrough author, the complex, relatable story of Natalie Mitchell, a wounded heart who must choose whether to bury her past - or overcome it.
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Minds of Winter
by Ed O'Loughlin
When one of the chronometers from the ill-fated 1845 campaign to find the Northwest Passage appears in London, Nelson Nilsson, searching for his brother, encounters Fay Morgan by chance, and they discover that their unanswered questions are inextricably linked.
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Miramar Bay
by T. Davis Bunn
Setting aside his fiancée and acting career to find himself in a small coastal Los Angeles community, Connor bonds with hardworking artist's daughter Sylvie, who captures his heart and inspires him to rethink his life choices.
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Next Year, for Sure
by Zoey Leigh Peterson
Longtime romantic partners experiment with an open relationship that challenges them to reconsider everything they thought they believed about love.
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The Principles Behind Flotation
by Alexandra Teague
When a salty sea appeared overnight in a cow pasture in Arkansas, it seemed, to some, a religious miracle. But to self-assured sophomore A.Z. McKinney it’s her chance to make history-- and gain admission to the prestigious Sea Camp. If only she can get out on the water.
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Rabbit Cake
by Annie Hartnett
A debut novel by an award-winning writer follows the darkly comic experiences of a precocious 12-year-old girl named Elvis who worries about her troubled family and tries to figure out her place in the world in the aftermath of her mother's accidental death.
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The River of Kings
by Taylor Brown
Two brothers, a college student and a Navy SEAL, travel the storied past and present of Georgia's "Little Amazon" Altamaha River to scatter their enigmatic father's ashes while exploring the work of 16th-centry artist Jacques Le Moyne and sharing what they know about their father's death.
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Spaceman of Bohemia
by Jaroslav Kalfar
Raised by his grandparents on the Czech countryside and rising to the country's first astronaut, Jakub abandons his wife to atone for his father's sins as a Communist informer by accepting a dangerous solo mission to Venus and encounters fantastical, philosophical elements before clashing with Russian rivals.
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The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
by Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family's destiny for generations.
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The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley
by Hannah Tinti
A once-professional killer protects his daughter from the legacy of his criminal past, an effort that is challenged by his daughter's struggles with the death of her mother and the reckoning of old enemies.
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Two Good Dogs
by Susan Wilson
A worried mother takes her withdrawn teenage daughter, Cody, to a new town to get a fresh start by opening a bed and breakfast, where Cody bonds with a rescued pit bull, but a terrifying secret she is keeping could threaten their lives.
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The Underworld
by Kevin Canty
A tale inspired by true events from an isolated Iowa mining town in the 1970s traces the experiences of a handful of survivors after a disastrous fire and how they struggled to endure wrenching losses while rebuilding and pursuing dreams rendered harder by the tragedy.
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The Wanderers
by Meg Howrey
Auditioning for the first-ever mission to Mars, three astronauts share experiences that push the boundary between the real and surreal while irrevocably changing their relationships and familial bonds.
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White Tears
by Hari Kunzru
Two ambitious young musicians—one shy, the other a glamorous heir—are drawn into the dark underworld of blues-record collecting while navigating the ghosts of a repressive past and the fallout of a scam involving one's claim that a viral video of an unknown singer is the long-lost recording of a famous blues musician.
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With Love, Wherever You Are
by Dandi Daley Mackall
After a whirlwind romance and courthouse wedding, Helen and Frank are sent to the front lines of Europe with only letters to connect them for months at a time. Surrounded by danger and desperately wounded patients, they soon find that only the war seems real—and their marriage more and more like a distant dream. If they make it through the war, will their marriage survive?"
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The Women in the Castle
by Jessica Shattuck
In a novel set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, three widows' lives and fates become intertwined.
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The Black Book
by James Patterson
A devoted Chicago cop from a family of career detectives miraculously survives an attack that kills his partner but that he cannot remember himself, an event that causes him to be charged with double murder and tasked with uncovering what really happened to clear his name.
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Black Fall
by Andrew Mayne
An FBI agent and an illusionist, Jessica Blackwood, while learning to embrace her unconventional past, finds her very different investigations converging, leading her to confront something darker and more powerful than anyone expected—the Warlock.
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Blue Light Yokohama
by Nicholás Obregón
Newly reinstated Tokyo Homicide Division Police Inspector Iwata works with reluctant colleagues to investigate the brutal murder of an entire family and other deaths that are identified as the work of the same killer.
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Celine
by Peter Heller
With an excellent record as a missing-persons tracker who specializes in reuniting families (to make amends for a loss in her own past), Celine searches for a presumed-dead photographer in Yellowstone only to be targeted by a shadowy figure who would keep the case unsolved.
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The Cutaway
by Christina Kovac
A young television producer lands in a deadly, tangled web of corruption and cover-up in Washington, D.C., when she investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Georgetown lawyer.
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The Cutthroat
by Clive Cussler
Hired to find a young woman who ran away from home to become an actress in 1911, Chief Investigator Isaac Bell begins a manhunt that is complicated by the acts of a serial killer whose victims resemble the missing girl.
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Dangerous Games
by Danielle Steel
A television journalist and an ex-Navy SEAL place their lives at risk during a perilous assignment involving a corrupt Vice President and his connections to the revered widow of a visionary, assassinated scion of a powerful political family.
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Dead Man Switch
by Matthew Quirk
The suspicious deaths of two members of an elite undercover military team are investigated by Special Ops legend Captain John Hayes, who is horrified to discover that his protégé, a brilliant assassin, is the prime suspect.
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A Death by Any Other Name
by Tessa Arlen
After a cook is framed for poisoning a guest at the Hyde Rose Society, Lady Montfort and her housekeeper investigate.
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The Devil's Triangle
by Catherine Coulter
Recently appointed Covert Eyes team heads Nicholas Drummond and Michaela Caine tackle a dangerous first case when an artifact is stolen from Istanbul and they receive a warning that a series of fatal Gobi sandstorms are actually manmade phenomena.
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Find Me
by J. S. Monroe
Tormented by disturbingly real sightings of Rosa, his girlfriend who committed suicide, Jarlath Costello, after Rosa’s aunt gives him her diary, embarks on a frantic quest to finally make sense of the highly suspicious circumstances surrounding her death, which plunges him into a dark underworld that threatens his own life.
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Girl in Disguise
by Greer Macallister
Going undercover to infiltrate the seedy side of Chicago, first female Pinkerton detective Kate Warnes assumes a range of sophisticated identities to track down evildoers and bring them to justice.
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In Farleigh Field
by Rhys Bowen
World War II arrives at the ancestral home of Lord Westerham and his five daughters when a soldier with a failed parachute falls to his death on the estate and MI5 operative and family friend Ben Cresswell is covertly tasked with investigating at the same time one of the daughters takes a secret job at Bletchley Park.
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In This Grave Hour
by Jacqueline Winspear
Maisie Dobbs is plunged into a treacherous personal battle when she stumbles on the deaths of refugees who may not be who they seem against a backdrop of the outbreak of World War II in England.
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Lenin's Roller Coaster
by David Downing
The latest Jack McColl British spy thriller finds him accepting a sabotage mission in German-influenced central Asia, while his suffragette journalist girlfriend risks her life to cover the revolution.
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Lola
by Melissa Scrivner Love
Hiding her role as the true leader of a small gang in South Central Los Angeles, Lola pretends to be the submissive girlfriend of the gang's "boss" while her intelligence and leadership are increasingly tested by high-stakes betrayals and escalating violence between rival drug cartels.
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The Loving Husband
by Christobel Kent
Wrongly targeted for her husband's shattering murder, Fran struggles with isolation and paranoia while their claustrophobic community is increasingly unraveled by dark secrets.
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Mangrove Lightning
by Randy Wayne White
Approached by a legendary charter captain who believes his family has been cursed for their role in a multiple murder in 1925, a skeptical Doc Ford follows trails of attacks on the family from Key Largo to Tallahassee, only to suffer a series of near-fatal mishaps himself.
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Man Overboard
by Judith A. Jance
When a brilliant software engineer falls to his death from a stateroom suite balcony, the police are unable to collect needed information from the victim's tough maiden aunt and enlist the help of Ali Reynolds to discover that really happened.
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Mississippi Blood
by Greg Iles
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that includes The Bone Tree finds a shattered Penn Cage shut out by his once-revered Southern doctor father, who is about to be tried for murder in the wake of revelations about a mixed-race child and KKK associations.
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Murder on the Serpentine
by Anne Perry
Privately summoned by Queen Victoria when one of her closest confidantes is murdered, Thomas Pitt navigates the secretive world of London society in what becomes the most dangerous case of his career.
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Never Let You Go
by Chevy Stevens
Ending a marriage to an abusive man sentenced to prison, Lindsey starts over with a new business while raising a traumatized daughter who she is challenged to protect when her ex is released and someone begins stalking through their new hometown.
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The Night Ocean
by Paul LaFarge
A tale inspired by the scandals, secrets and pulp fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and his literary circle follows the experiences of a psychiatrist whose husband goes missing during his obsessive investigation into the story of H. P. Lovecraft's unspoken relationship with a gay teen fan.
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Pekoe Most Poison
by Laura Childs
Invited by one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses to a philanthropic "Rat Tea" where guests are served by attendants in rodent costumes, Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning lands in the middle of a dangerous game of cat and mouse when the hostess' husband is poisoned.
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Perfect Obsession
by Heather Graham
Investigating a serial killer who is leaving his victims gruesomely displayed in mausoleums and underground tombs, FBI Special Agent Craig Frasier and forensic psychologist Kieran Finnegan become increasingly desperate to track down the murderer, who may be targeting Kieran.
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Police at the Station and They Don't Look Friendly
by Adrian McKinty
In 1988 Belfast, a man is killed with a crossbow in front of his own house, and uncovering who is responsible for the murder will take Detective Sean Duffy to a lonely clearing on a high bog where three masked gunmen will force Duffy to dig his own grave.
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Reservations
by Gwen Florio
An eco-terrorist bombing escalates the controversy surrounding a new coal mine on Arizona’s Navajo Reservation, and when Journalist Lola Wick digs deeper, she can’t escape the feeling that her husband’s family is somehow involved—a suspicion that jeopardizes not only her marriage, but her life.
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Say Nothing
by Brad Parks
When their children are abducted by a man who blackmails them to follow instructions at the risk of the children's lives, a judge and his wife endure a terrorizing ordeal of no-holds-barred deceit and bond-breaking suspicions.
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Seconds to Midnight
by Philip Donlay
While on a routine flight above northern Canada, Donovan Nash narrowly misses colliding with a Boeing 737 that sinks after an emergency landing on a frozen lake leaving behind an unidentified female survivor and a mystery that will impact the fate of the world.
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A Shattered Circle
by Kevin Egan
Protecting her husband, New York City judge William Lonergan, after an accident leaves him mentally impaired, Barbara, who doubles as his confidential secretary, must make a tough decision when a court officer looks into a decades-old courthouse murder, which causes the judge to be attacked.
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Signature Wounds
by Kirk Russell
While in Las Vegas on his way to a Fourth of July celebration, FBI bomb expert Paul Grale hears a deep blast and sees the smoke rising. Grale soon discovers both family and friends were caught up in the explosion and must pick his way through a maze of twists, turns, and sudden dead ends in order to stop another attack.
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A Simple Favor
by Darcey Bell
A single mother's life is turned upside down when her best friend vanishes, an event that prompts her to reach out to her blog readers and the missing woman's handsome husband before nightmarish realities come to light.
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Vicious Circle
by C. J. Box
Rescuing his daughters from the violent Cates family, game warden Joe Pickett realizes that his new adversaries have plotted revenge against his entire family and teams up with his friend, Nate, to take defensive steps.
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The Violated
by Bill Pronzini
When a registered sex offender who has been implicated in a string of attacks is found murdered in small California town, police chief Griffin Less and detective Robert Ortiz are pressured by a results-oriented mayor as they reconstruct events from the testimonies of the offender's wife and the irate husbands of women victims.
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The Wages of Sin
by Kaite Welsh
Despite numerous barriers, Sarah Gilchrist is determined to become a doctor in 1882, the first year the University of Edinburgh admitted women, but is drawn into a murder mystery when a former acquaintance turns up as a corpse in the dissecting room.
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Without Mercy
by David Hunt
An illicit acquisition of nuclear weapons by ISIS triggers panic and two devastating attacks on strategic American targets, including Manhattan, causing hundreds of thousands of deaths before Islamabad CIA Station Chief Bill Gorman unearths evidence of a third bomb.
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Bedchamber Games
by Tracy Anne Warren
After her barrister father dies unexpectedly, Rosamund Carrow disguises herself as a man and steps into the courtroom to finish his cases and puts both her reputation and heart at risk after she defeats Lord Lawrence Byron, who is determined to discover everything he can about his rival.
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An Extraordinary Union
by Alyssa Cole
During the Civil War two undercover agents, Elle Burns, a former slave, and Malcolm McCall a detective in Pinkerton’s Secret Service uncover a plot that could lead to a Confederate victory and vow to preserve the Union at any cost.
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A Million Little Things
by Susan Mallery
Feeling alone after breaking up with a longtime boyfriend, Zoe Saldivar's life gets complicated when her father begins flirting with her best friend's mom and she starts seeing Jen's brother in a new way
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Red Clover Inn
by Carla Neggers
Rethinking her decision to avoid romance when she is asked to be a bridesmaid at a cousin's wedding, marine archaeologist Charlotte Bennett agrees to housesit for the newlyweds and clashes with fellow guest, Diplomatic Security Service agent and single father Greg Rawlings.
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Someone to Love
by Donna Alward
When a fling between free-spirited Willow and Ethan Gallagher, a firefighter and single dad struggling to raise his kids, results in a surprise pregnancy, their relationships takes a turn neither of them expect, proving that sometimes you don’t know what you want until you risk losing it all.
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The Undateable
by Sarah Title
Rendered as a love-hating, undateable librarian after a video of her rolling her eyes at a marriage proposal goes viral, Melissa “Bernie” Bernard, who doesn’t believe in happily-ever-afters, but never backs down from a challenge, agrees to let reporter Colin Rodriguez find her the perfect match.
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You May Kiss the Bride
by Lisa Berne
Searching for a biddable bride who can produce an heir and then live separate lives as generations before him, wealthy and arrogant Gabriel Penhallow sets his sights on Livia Stuart who, after provoking him into a kiss, challenges him at every turn and refuses to become his wife.
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The Case of the Green-Dressed Ghost
by Lucy Banks
Kester Lanner didn’t know what to expect when he followed his mother’s dying request to contact the mysterious Dr. Ribero, but he wasn’t expecting to find his long lost father. Nor was he expecting to join the family business: catching supernatural spirits.
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The Collapsing Empire
by John Scalzi
When humanity discovers the existence of an extra-dimensional field capable of transporting travelers to different worlds instantly, a significantly depopulated Earth is threatened by a subsequent finding that the field is unstable and may be cutting travelers off on the wrong side of Earth-friendly worlds.
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New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
When a New York City of the near future is submerged by rising waters, the residents rapidly adapt the thriving metropolis until it becomes a vibrant, though permanently changed, canal region of island skyscrapers and remarkable inhabitants.
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Silence Fallen
by Patricia Briggs
Rendered a pawn against werewolf Adam and the Tri-Cities vampires, Mercy flees her captor and struggles to recruit allies while avoiding activities that could cause an interspecies war.
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Star's End
by Cassandra Rose Clarke
After taking over the family business, Esme discovers the company’s sinister work with alien DNA and betrayal that estranged her sisters from their father.
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