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Lillys volume 2
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"Once upon a time, the pressure to be the perfect daughter nearly broke Kayla Whitman. Desperate to find an outlet away from her controlling mother, she picked up a pair of drumsticks, forever altering the rhythm of her life. Since then, she's been determined to make her own way, finding her home with her bandmates even as she fights to keep her past and her present firmly separate. Things were simple enough when the Lillys were playing local gigs...
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Pages - Book 3, by EA Harwik - A modern family saga. ------ ISBN: 9780980677652Pages - Book 3 is the story of two the younger Page siblings, Peta and Jamie. Unlike their older brother David. Peta and Jamie are the product of a privileged boarding school education.The Pages trilogy will question and define the boundaries of normal in modern society. Where secrets challenge the fabric of friendship and family. --------- Book 1 - ISBN: 9780980677621...
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"Bestselling author Aimie Runyan makes her contemporary women's fiction debut with this charming escape into the lavender fields of Southern France and a young woman who discovers her family's secrets and the hope for her own future"--
Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since she lost her beloved mother at the tender age of thirteen. When her workaholic father passes fifteen years later, Tempèsta...
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One little word. One bad habit. One year to stop saying sorry. What happens when one woman resolves to 'break up' with saying sorry? Charlotte Thomas is polite. Manners cost nothing, her mother always said … yet there's a fine line between diplomat and doormat. But every woman has their breaking point and Charlotte has just found hers. It wasn't because she said sorry to her boss for challenging his terrible idea for a staff social, or because she...
5) Let Her Pray
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Fiona Red, a brilliant but quirky FBI loner, spends most of her time in the lab or at crime scenes. She comes from a family used to being around death and bodies, her parents having run a funeral parlor, and she would have run the family business if not for a tragedy in her past: her sister was abducted when she was a teenager, and never found. Fiona remains determined to crack her sister’s case. But in the meantime, as an FBI agent, she applies...
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With a fresh new hook for readers of Regency romance by Julia Quinn, Lisa Kleypas, and Madeline Hunter, New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries returns to the Dazzling Debutantes series featuring a trio of ladies who defy social constraints by starting a business as party planners to the ton. The creative force behind London's most dazzling events, these young women know plenty about fashion, food, and the perfect setting—but...
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Can a Greek escape be the start of something special?
Xanthe Fox has it all: a famous, drop-dead gorgeous boyfriend, a dream career and bright future – until heartbreak sends her life into a tailspin.
So when Xanthe's Greek godmother unexpectedly leaves her a villa on the sumptuous island of Kefalonia Xanthe jumps at the chance to put her life in London on hold and escape to the island hideaway to rethink her future.
The break allows Xanthe the...
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«Pequeñas labores» es una amalgama literaria singular y embriagadora que encuentra su principal fuente de inspiración en el fascinante El libro de la almohada, la obra maestra del periodo Heian escrita por la dama de la corte Sei Shōnagon. Igual que en aquel magnífico ensayo digresivo, pieza inaugural del género conocido como zuihitsu, la prosa de Galchen traspasa las fronteras de los géneros para revelarnos las pesadumbres, debilidades y...
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What happens when a perfectionist real estate agent can't sell a house at the start of the season? For Lexi Martin this means learning to pivot and not only dodging curveballs but learning how to hit them out of the park. Life in Meadow Ridge is idyllic. Lexi should know-she lives on Poppy Lane where all the neighbors get along, celebrate at every opportunity, and hardly ever move away. But when a freak spring snowstorm leads to losing clients, she...
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So much for her author brand, built on the premise that women in their fifties and beyond can still find love and happiness.
Her solution? A week at a northern California bed-and-breakfast, where she hopes to overcome a bad case of writer's block in time to meet her next deadline while deciding how to handle her relationship issue.
As she struggles to resolve both situations, Fran finds encouragement and support not only from her long-time friend...
11) Unrequited
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After a coffee date from hell, Sally Estes and her friends come up with an idea for a business-The Widower Whisperers, LLC. They train Newbies, recently widowed and divorced men, on how to start living again and to do the things their wives used to do for them. The hardest part is teaching them how to treat and court a contemporary woman. Little did Sally know this new venture would change all their lives forever, bringing back a man from her past...
12) DISInformation
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In this epic birdlife tale, the first of the Woody & Sir Humphrey Series, word is out that Woody the Canary is going to lose his feathers.
Just the thought makes poor Woody shiver!
To the rescue comes Woody's closest friend, Sir Humphrey, the Princess Parrot, who vows to find out which bird in their neighbourhood is spreading this nasty rumour.
They fly here and there, but no one is willing to own up as the source of the story - until they...
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I could make her. Or break her. I plan to do both...
I don't like the word 'no.' Especially when the word comes from the lips of the curviest, most gorgeous blonde I've ever seen. Elizabeth Downing thinks she can give me the brush-off. Maybe because she has no idea what kind of cold, ruthless bastard she's dealing with.
Or that I own the best art gallery in town.
She wants to sell her paintings. I can make that happen. She wants to support her disabled...
14) The Fifth Star
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How Ohio's women were essential to the national women's suffrage movement
Conversations and legal battles surrounding voting rights, once again a topic looming large in the United States, reflect a long history of such debates and suffrage campaigns. The struggle for women's voting rights, in particular, required persistence in the face of defeat, and unbeknownst to most people, Ohio-the fifth state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment-played a key...
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I, The Second Option' has many sources as an inspiration fountain, and it presents the perspective of a feminine protagonist, a woman who's constantly identifying in the second place of every aspect of her life, incapable of overcoming her moral condition. The story reaches its climax with the protagonist's realization that even a pure and noble feeling such as love has the power of placing her second, resulting, thus, in her continuous psychological...
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First-wave feminism takes front and center in this fearless novel, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, about women determined to succeed in a man's world-only to be foiled by their own ambition "A Woman Needs a Man Like a Fish Needs a Bicycle." It's the 1970s, and the sexual revolution is just beginning. Four women have decided to open a feminist publishing house. Named in honor of the gorgon who turned men's hearts to stone, MedusaPublishing...
17) Marry Christmas
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Phillip and Keilah plan a Christmas wedding with unexpected surprises.
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A Christmas Romance Novel
Genius billionaire Galen Dunne knows many things, and one of those things is that love does not exist. Relationships are fleeting, and time isn't to be wasted on trying to make something work that was doomed from the start.
Homeless street urchin from London Ariel Pendragon knows very little, but the one thing she's sure of is that there's a true love for every person on the planet. Life is all about love, and every person...
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Welcome to Boob Tube, a novel that takes readers behind the scenes of the wild and wacky world of daytime television soap operas. When Actress Gina Martin lands a role on a top daytime soap, she soon discovers herself immersed in a strange world filled with mystery, intrigue and danger. Days after she joins the cast, her predecessor is found dead in the Hollywood hills. Will Gina be next? Boob Tube introduces a cast of characters inspired by real...
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Dr. Lenny Faulkner, a single, African American doctor is living a charmed life in Atlanta; compared to the poor childhood she experienced growing up in Madoosa County, a small southeast section of Georgia that reeks of the local box manufacturing plant. Lenny is dedicated to the care and treatment of her female patients. Lenny has been successful in achieving all her goals except one: She yearns to marry her live-in love Ralph and start a family.
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