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Merry Smith is pretty busy these days. She's taking care of her family, baking cookies, decorating for the holidays, and hoping to stay out of the crosshairs of her stressed and by-the-book boss at the consulting firm where she temps. Her own social life is the last thing she has in mind, much less a man. Without her knowledge, Merry's well-meaning mom and brother create an online dating profile for her -- minus her photo -- and the matches start...

Snowy weather and fish fossils help bring together two Jewish college freshmen spending winter break in Washington, D.C. "It all starts when Shani runs into May. Like, literally, with her mom's subaru. Attempted vehicular manslaughter was not part of Shani's plan. She was supposed to be focusing on her monthlong paleoichthyology internship. She was going to spend all her time thinking about dead fish and not at all about how she was unceremoniously...

"A popular Los Angeles teen tries to find love for her older, autistic sister"-- Chloe Mitchell's older sister, Ivy, is on the autism spectrum. Chloe decides Ivy could use a boyfriend, and already has someone in mind: Ethan Fields, a sweet, movie-obsessed boy from Ivy's special needs class. Ivy and Ethan aren't comfortable going out on their own so Chloe and his brother David have to tag along. Soon Chloe, Ivy, David, and Ethan form a quirky and...

Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best, but when he sees his little brother Isaiah's imminent death, he races against time, death, and circumstances to save him. As much as Alex Rufus tries, he often comes up short. It is hard to for him to be present when every time he touches an object or person, Alex sees into its future. When he touches his car, he sees it years from now, totaled and...