Cleage, Pearl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLEFerguson, Melissa
Summary: "Cassie Everson is an expert at escaping bad first dates. And, after years of meeting, greeting, and running from the men who try to woo her, Cassie is almost ready to retire her hopes for a husband--and children--altogether. But fate has other plans, and Cassie's online dating profile catches the eye of firefighter Jett Bentley. In Jett's memory, Cassie Everson is the unreachable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson Inc. 2019
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Summary: Dr. Garrett Gibson, the only female physician in England, has never been tempted to embark on an affair. Until now.... Ethan Ransom, a former detective for Scotland Yard, as gallant as he is secretive, is rumored to be an assassin. For one exhilarating night they give in to their potent attraction before becoming strangers again. As a Ravenel by-blow spurned by his father, Ethan has little...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KLELowell, Joanna
Summary: "When an artist and a duke cross paths in the bustling London slums, an unlikely love story begins and their lives will be forever changed. Royal Academy painting student Lucy Coover quickly comes to the aid of the naked drunkard she stumbles upon one evening in the Shoreditch slums. If only she could banish his lovely form from her dreams as easily. Instead, she finds herself compelled to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jove 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LOWHadlow, Janice
Summary: "What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HADKleypas, Lisa
Summary: Four young ladies enter London society with one common goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. Annabelle Peyton, determined to save her family from disaster, decides to use her beauty and wit to tempt a suitable nobleman into making an offer of marriage...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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Summary: Beloved by generations of Chinese readers, The Dream of the Red Chamber is China's touching equivalent of the Romeo & Juliet story. In addition to being a tale of star-crossed lovers, this epic novel also follows the story of five generations of one Chinese family giving modern readers a multi-layered dramatic plot to get lost in at the same time as it offers up key insights into Chinese culture.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tuttle Pub. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CAORoberts, Nora.
Summary: For a change of pace, renowned anthropologist Kasey Wyatt takes a job working for bestselling author Jordan Taylor, who needs helps researching his latest novel about the Plains Indians. Upon arriving at Jordan's impressive Palm Springs estate, Kasey finds all the trappings of a family, but none of the warmth. Jordan's forbidding mother is immediately suspicious of her, while Jordan's shy and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Trade 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUIPollack, Eileen
Summary: Jane Weiss is obsessed with finding the genetic marker for Valentine’s Disease, a neurodegenerative disorder. Her pursuit is deeply personal—Valentine’s killed her mother, and she and her freewheeling sister, Laurel, could be genetic carriers; each has a fifty percent chance of developing the disease.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POLGuillory, Jasmine
Summary: "Vivian Forest has been out of the country a grand total of one time, so when she gets the chance to tag along on her daughter Maddie's work trip to England to style a royal family member, she can't refuse. She's excited to spend the holidays taking in the magnificent British sights, but what she doesn't expect is to become instantly attracted to a certain Private Secretary and his charming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Guillory 2019Balogh, Mary
Summary: "Left unable to walk by a childhood illness, Lady Jennifer, sister of the Duke of Wilby, has grown up to make a happy place for herself in society. Outgoing and cheerful, she has many friends and enjoys the pleasures of high society--even if she cannot dance at balls or stroll in Hyde Park. She is blessed with a large, loving, and protective family. But she secretly dreams of marriage and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2024
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Summary: "She wants a fake relationship. He needs something real. If there's one thing Rae can't stand, it's pity. She's forty, frazzled, and fed up - so attending an awards ceremony alone while her ex swans about with his new wife? Not an option. To avoid total humiliation, Rae needs a date of her own. And her young, hot-as-hell new best friend is the perfect candidate... Zach Davis, king of casual...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nixon House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIBSerle, Rebecca
Summary: Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it, the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she'd spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2024
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC SERJeffries, Sabrina
Summary: As a viscount's heir, Rafe Wolfford must take a wife but one not too independent and not inclined to delve into his escapades as a spy. The forthright Lady Verity is altogether the wrong choice, or is she?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: "After a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONQuinn, Julia
Summary: Assuming that his long-time correspondent, Eloise Bridgerton, is a homely, quiet, unassuming spinster sho would be desperate for an offer of marriage, Sir Phillip proposes through the mail, never expecting to discover that his prospective fiancee is a stunningly beautiful young woman who is the toast of London.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 2017
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Summary: New York Times bestselling author Julie Ann Walker continues to thrill readers with her sexy Black Knights, Inc. romantic suspense series. Behind the facade of their tricked-out motorcycle shop is a covert team comprised of the most elite ex-military specialists. Carlos 'Steady' Soto's nerves of steel have served him well at the covert government defense firm Black Knights Inc. But nothing has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Inc 2014
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Solow, Jennifer.
Summary: A Manhattan kleptomaniac remembers her childhood spent in her uncle's Madison Avenue department store, where she lived a fairy-tale existence before her recruitment into an organized South American shoplifting ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLKann, Claire
Summary: Alice's last girlfriend, Margo, ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual. Now Alice is sure she's done with dating ... and then she meets Takumi. She can't stop thinking about him or the rom-com-grade romance feelings she did not ask for. When herblissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library-employee badge, Alice has to decide if she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Swoon Reads 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction KannKinsella, Sophie
Summary: It's been over two years since Effie's beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she's become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) girlfriend, Krista. And now, more earth-shattering news: Greenoaks, the rambling Victorian country house Effie called home her whole life, has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2021
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Summary: Struggling with a meager existence on a Prohibition-era farm in Southern California and devastated by the losses of four of her children to a wasting disease, Rosa flees with her surviving children after a shattering act of violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Chiaverini 2012Monroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: In this tale that explores the themes of class, women's rights and domestic abuse in the 1970s American South, the author returns to her classic Southern setting in the Isle of Palms with the sequel to her novel The Beach House. She weaves together issues of class, women's rights, and domestic abuse set in the tumultuous South during the 1970s as she tells the story of Olivia, "Lovie" Rutledge,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MONChiaverini, Jennifer.
Summary: As the nation grapples with the strictures of Prohibition, Rosa Barclay lives on a Southern California rye farm with her volatile husband, John, who has lately found another source of income far outside the federal purview. Mother to eight children, Rosa mourns the loss of four who succumbed to the mysterious wasting disease that is now afflicting young Ana and Miguel. Two daughters born of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2012