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Allie Beckstrom novels volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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Devon Monk is casting a spell on the fantasy world...
Using magic means it uses you back, and every spell exacts a price from its user. But some people get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Then it’s Allison Beckstrom’s job to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. But when she finds a boy dying...
Using magic means it uses you back, and every spell exacts a price from its user. But some people get out of it by Offloading the cost of magic onto an innocent. Then it’s Allison Beckstrom’s job to identify the spell-caster. Allie would rather live a hand-to-mouth existence than accept the family fortune—and the strings that come with it. But when she finds a boy dying...
Author
Series
Furever yours volume 9
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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How to fetch a family
Bookshop owner—and recently heartbroken—Lucy Tucker never imagined how dramatically life would change once she started fostering Buttercup, a pregnant golden retriever. The biggest change? Growing a lot closer to the businessman next door, Calum Ramsey, especially after the two of them help Buttercup welcome her five puppies into the world. One romantic night later, and they're expecting a baby...
Bookshop owner—and recently heartbroken—Lucy Tucker never imagined how dramatically life would change once she started fostering Buttercup, a pregnant golden retriever. The biggest change? Growing a lot closer to the businessman next door, Calum Ramsey, especially after the two of them help Buttercup welcome her five puppies into the world. One romantic night later, and they're expecting a baby...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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In this "sweet tale of secrets, truths and the beauty of second chances" (Woman's World), a woman starts over and discovers that, when it comes to finding love, there's no place like home.
Rising-star reporter Dakota Jones is usually the one breaking the news—until an inadvertent scandal wrecks her career. The only place she can go to regroup is Holly Grove Island. But her small North Carolina...
Rising-star reporter Dakota Jones is usually the one breaking the news—until an inadvertent scandal wrecks her career. The only place she can go to regroup is Holly Grove Island. But her small North Carolina...
84) His Third Wife
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Surprises aplenty in this highly charged tale of romantic suspense." —Booklist
For a man with a past, the top isn't the safest place to be. . .
Dark secrets and a string of messy affairs haven't stopped self-made millionaire Jamison Jackson from becoming mayor of Atlanta. But while he may have a gorgeous new wife and new alliances, he can't quite escape his past and those who want to see him fail. There's his jilted first...
For a man with a past, the top isn't the safest place to be. . .
Dark secrets and a string of messy affairs haven't stopped self-made millionaire Jamison Jackson from becoming mayor of Atlanta. But while he may have a gorgeous new wife and new alliances, he can't quite escape his past and those who want to see him fail. There's his jilted first...
85) A Winning Season
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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Sliding home...for a lifetime
The girl next door...
Or a grand slam love?
Baseball ace Sutton Reed's returned home triumphant after years in the majors. When he moves next door to a troubled young man, he's determined to help—for the boy's sake and for the boy's gorgeous older sister, Zoey Allen. After sacrificing everything to keep her family together, Zoey has no time for romance...even with a hometown...
The girl next door...
Or a grand slam love?
Baseball ace Sutton Reed's returned home triumphant after years in the majors. When he moves next door to a troubled young man, he's determined to help—for the boy's sake and for the boy's gorgeous older sister, Zoey Allen. After sacrificing everything to keep her family together, Zoey has no time for romance...even with a hometown...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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There's No Place Like Home...
Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town he left behind years before. Or so he thinks, before he meets his sister's best friend. As soon as he matches wits with gorgeous, gregarious teacher Jessica Calhoun, Sawyer realizes he's got a lot to learn about friendship...and love.
Smart, savvy Jessica wants to grow old in Wickham Falls. Software engineer Sawyer has made it to the big city—and...
Nothing could draw Sawyer Middleton back permanently to the town he left behind years before. Or so he thinks, before he meets his sister's best friend. As soon as he matches wits with gorgeous, gregarious teacher Jessica Calhoun, Sawyer realizes he's got a lot to learn about friendship...and love.
Smart, savvy Jessica wants to grow old in Wickham Falls. Software engineer Sawyer has made it to the big city—and...
Author
Series
Blessed trinity volume 5
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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Vanessa is a superb storyteller. —ReShonda Tate Billingsley
A Blessed Trinity Novel
As Pastor George Landris welcomes a new member to the Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center, jealousy begins to shake up the congregation. . ..
Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl. But her life takes a very different turn, and it's not the future she'd envisioned for herself. Feeling a void she can't...
A Blessed Trinity Novel
As Pastor George Landris welcomes a new member to the Followers of Jesus Faith Worship Center, jealousy begins to shake up the congregation. . ..
Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl. But her life takes a very different turn, and it's not the future she'd envisioned for herself. Feeling a void she can't...
88) Thug Lovin'
Author
Series
Thug novels volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
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The hood's favorite power couple moves to LA and finds big money — and major temptation — in the fourth book of Wahida Clark's thrilling series perfect for fans of Love & Hip Hop.
Tasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even with their relocation to sunny Los Angeles, the drama of New York cannot be escaped. From running a nightclub to dealing with models, shady lawyers,...
Tasha and Trae, the hood's favorite couple, are still together following the events of Thug Matrimony. Even with their relocation to sunny Los Angeles, the drama of New York cannot be escaped. From running a nightclub to dealing with models, shady lawyers,...
90) Conspiracy
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A sex worker framed for a high-profile murder fights to clear her name in this romantic suspense novel by the bestselling author of the Divas series.
De'nesha Diamond brings her dynamic storytelling talent to DC's treacherous corridors of power—where scandal is merely the first move in a high-stakes game that makes its own rules . . .
Six years after a harrowing abduction, Abrianna Parker is forced to repay a debt that
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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From the author of the award winning Devil in a Blue Dress comes a short story rife with mystery and suspense, an enthralling introduction to the complex protagonist Leonid McGill.
When Walter Mosley published the first Leonid McGill novel, The Long Fall—the acclaimed New York Times bestseller that is now being developed as a series for HBO—it was clear that this new hero was a man with a past. He was...
When Walter Mosley published the first Leonid McGill novel, The Long Fall—the acclaimed New York Times bestseller that is now being developed as a series for HBO—it was clear that this new hero was a man with a past. He was...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Four young men struggle to liberate themselves from the burden of being black and male in America in an assured debut "as up-to the-minute as a Kendrick Lamar track and as ruefully steeped in eternal truths as a Gogol tale" (Kirkus, starred review).
Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to...
Bound together by shared experience but pulled apart by their changing fortunes, four young friends coming of age in the postindustrial enclave of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, struggle to...
93) Liar's Game
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
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In this sensational New York Times bestseller, Eric Jerome Dickey explores how real people come together and fall apart in a story about a love that starts with a lie....
Dana Ann Smith has ditched New York—and a relationship gone bad—for Los Angeles, looking for a new man, a new career, and some stability. She thinks she's found it in Vincent Calvalry Browne Jr., a handsome, hardworking aerospace tech. They've offered...
Dana Ann Smith has ditched New York—and a relationship gone bad—for Los Angeles, looking for a new man, a new career, and some stability. She thinks she's found it in Vincent Calvalry Browne Jr., a handsome, hardworking aerospace tech. They've offered...
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Series
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection
James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures today as it was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.
In “Come Out the Wilderness,” an essential and tremendous classic of American literature, Baldwin unmasks the heartbreak of one African American woman’s spiritual, sexual,...
James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures today as it was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement.
In “Come Out the Wilderness,” an essential and tremendous classic of American literature, Baldwin unmasks the heartbreak of one African American woman’s spiritual, sexual,...
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Series
West Investigations volume 4
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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She thought she'd escaped her past...
Has it caught up with her?
Erika Powell has lived in hiding for years to protect her son from his wealthy, tyrannical grandfather. Wary of strangers, she's suspicious of James West, who's renting a neighboring cabin, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when attempts are made on Erika's life, James fears he may have endangered her—because the undercover PI's investigation...
Has it caught up with her?
Erika Powell has lived in hiding for years to protect her son from his wealthy, tyrannical grandfather. Wary of strangers, she's suspicious of James West, who's renting a neighboring cabin, despite their sizzling chemistry. But when attempts are made on Erika's life, James fears he may have endangered her—because the undercover PI's investigation...
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Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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His skills can keep her safe
Her secrets could get them killed...
Security expert Ryan West's worst fears come to life when hotel CEO Nadia Shelton is pushed in front of a taxi and nearly killed. Someone will do whatever it takes to find the brother Nadia thought was dead, and the only way Ryan can protect her as they uncover the truth is to stay strictly professional. But the sparks igniting between them are nearly impossible...
Her secrets could get them killed...
Security expert Ryan West's worst fears come to life when hotel CEO Nadia Shelton is pushed in front of a taxi and nearly killed. Someone will do whatever it takes to find the brother Nadia thought was dead, and the only way Ryan can protect her as they uncover the truth is to stay strictly professional. But the sparks igniting between them are nearly impossible...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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This Christmas novella is set in charming Sanctuary Cove featuring popular characters from Rochelle Alers' bestselling small-town, Cavanaugh Island contemporary romance series.
Love is always in season.
There's no place like home for the holidays, especially for divorced pastry chef Iris Nelson. After escaping an abusive marriage, she's found peace on charming Cavanaugh Island. As the holiday approaches, Iris looks forward to spending...
Love is always in season.
There's no place like home for the holidays, especially for divorced pastry chef Iris Nelson. After escaping an abusive marriage, she's found peace on charming Cavanaugh Island. As the holiday approaches, Iris looks forward to spending...
Author
Series
Blessed trinity volume 7
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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"A great story about His ability to turn even the worst situation into a blessing." —Kimberla Lawson Roby, New York Times bestselling author
How far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life—with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well...
Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected—even...
How far will faith and love go when an ambitious man finds himself in the fight of his life—with a woman who knows the other side of goodness all too well...
Fifty-year-old Alabama congressman Lawrence Rudolph Simmons will do whatever it takes to get re-elected—even...
99) The Love List
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Being a little bit bad never felt so good...
A wedding planner who gets jilted at the altar—it's not a good look. Even worse, Korrie Noel's ex-fiancé has finally shown up to a wedding, but it's one she's coordinating. Taking refuge outside, she finds her hiding place already occupied by an insanely hot, young, tattooed Viking look-alike who makes straitlaced Korrie wonder if maybe it's time to try breaking loose.
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A wedding planner who gets jilted at the altar—it's not a good look. Even worse, Korrie Noel's ex-fiancé has finally shown up to a wedding, but it's one she's coordinating. Taking refuge outside, she finds her hiding place already occupied by an insanely hot, young, tattooed Viking look-alike who makes straitlaced Korrie wonder if maybe it's time to try breaking loose.
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Three friends. One slim chance to beat the streets. But even when you fight your way out by any means necessary, cold hard cash is still no guarantee you'll escape . . .
Secret. Penny. Isis. Two sisters, one best friend. Between neglectful parents and growing up in Miami's worst neighborhood, the three have had each others' backs since forever. So there's nothing Secret won't do to grab the cash flow and glamorous lives...
Secret. Penny. Isis. Two sisters, one best friend. Between neglectful parents and growing up in Miami's worst neighborhood, the three have had each others' backs since forever. So there's nothing Secret won't do to grab the cash flow and glamorous lives...
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