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  • Pretty Beach Posies by Polly Babbington

    Pretty Beach Posies by Polly Babbington

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
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  • The Thing About Trouble by Juliana Stone

    The Thing About Trouble by Juliana Stone

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Cam Booker learned the hard way that commitment and love aren’t for him. Fresh out of a relationship that nearly saw him go to jail, he’s focused on building a life and building his business. But when he suddenly finds himself responsible for a motherless five-year-old, his world is turned upside down...
  • Saving Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

    Saving Mr. Terupt by Rob Buyea

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The kids and their favorite teacher from Because of Mr. Terupt and Mr. Terupt Falls Again return for a third book in the funny, warmhearted series for fans of Wonder. Seventh grade was going to be awesome. The only thing missing was Mr. Terupt.The kids from Mr. Terupt’s fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school...
  • A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French

    A Waltz for Matilda by Jackie French

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'Once a jolly swagman camped by a Billabong Under the shade of a Coolibah tree And he sang as he watched and waited till his Billy boiled You'll come a‐waltzing Matilda with me...' In 1894, twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But drought grips the land, and the shearers are on strike. Her father has turned swaggie and he's wanted by the troopers...
  • Harley by Laramie Briscoe

    Harley by Laramie Briscoe

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It is recommended that you read “Heaven Hill Generations” before starting this series, or you will be spoiled and lost! The heart wants what it wants.... Harley Walker Guilt. I face it every single day when I look at my twin sister. Everyone thinks I'm thriving, but no one knows the feelings I face when I'm alone. Well, that's not exactly true. One person does...
  • A Matter of Trust by Anne Schraff

    A Matter of Trust by Anne Schraff

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In grade school, Darcy Wills and Brisana Meeks were friends. But all that changed at Bluford High when Darcy started hanging with "the zeros"--a group of students Brisana despises. Now the former friends are bitter rivals, and the tension between them is getting worse. For a while, Darcy tries to stay calm, ignoring her old friend's daily taunts...
  • Forever Starts Tonight by Barbara Freethy

    Forever Starts Tonight by Barbara Freethy

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Seven best friends start out as bridesmaids and end up as brides! It's Jessica's turn to fall in love in the popular Bachelors & Bridesmaids Series by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Barbara Freethy...
  • Fighting For Our Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Fighting For Our Forever by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The members of Sinful Distraction are living their best life as they travel around the country on the heels of 4225 West’s sold-out tour. Unfortunately for drummer, Ajay Ballard, that means a stop at the county jail after he’s arrested for an outstanding warrant – one he didn’t even know about. With an overzealous judge, Ajay’s forced to hang out in his hometown longer than anticipated...
  • El paradís són els altres by Valter Hugo Mãe

    El paradís són els altres by Valter Hugo Mãe

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A narradora de O paraíso são os outros é uma menina intrigada com um estranho comportamento dos animais – e dos humanos: a necessidade de viver em casal. Ela observa que há casais de pinguins, golfinhos e também de homem com mulher, homem com homem, mulher com mulher. “Tudo por causa do amor...
  • Liam's Journey by Heidi McLaughlin

    Liam's Journey by Heidi McLaughlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The journey for Liam begins at eighteen. Having, what many would consider the brightest future, he gives it all up for the unknown. The bright lights beckon, but hearts break. Liam’s successful, smart and lonely. When a loss hits too close, he puts everything behind him to return home. To go back means to remember. To remember means to hurt again...
  • Fast Forward by Kat Mizera

    Fast Forward by Kat Mizera

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night can change everything.Musician Ford Malone left Texas, without so much as a backward glance—lured by the bright lights of L.A. and the all-consuming world of rock and roll. It’s taken a while, but his star is finally starting to shine. Ready to take the world by storm with his new band, Nobody’s Fool, nothing will stand in his way. Until he sees her again... the girl he left behind...
  • The Dirt Road Home by LM Terry

    The Dirt Road Home by LM Terry

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Dirt Road Home 2nd edition ~ previously published as Death and DaffodilsI thought my life was perfect. It was nothing but an illusion.Life was supposed to go as *Graduate high school*Move to the big city*Graduate college*Marry high school sweetheart*Get dream job*Have a baby…and that is where everything went wrong. Terribly wrong.So, I hung my head in defeat and took the dirt road back home...
  • Committed by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Committed by Cari Quinn, Taryn Elliott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A LOST IN OBLIVION Outtake - Simon & Margo With the crash and burn of Simon Kagan's singing career, things have been a little off between him and Margo Reece. The passion is there--it's always there--but he wants to make sure she knows just how invested and committed he is to making her happy. Even if that means breaking out a ring and convincing her to wear one...
  • Seducing Cinderella by Melanie Shawn

    Seducing Cinderella by Melanie Shawn

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Stand-alone Steamy Weekends romance, complete with HEA--and plenty of heat and heart along the way!Cinderella "CiCi" HowardI might have just received my freshly-minted divorce papers, but for the last decade I've been a single mom for all intents and purposes. Spending the weekend at Oasis Hot Springs Resort and Spa as the maid of honor at my best friend's wedding, I'm not on "mom duty...
    Categorized as:
    children  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • Jackson by Sheridan Anne

    Jackson by Sheridan Anne

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Elle - He’s the guy with the world against him and I’m the girl they all love to hate. Our reputations suck for two very different reasons and where he’s working to do something about it, I’m working to keep my head down and not draw attention to myself. Falling for Jackson would be a mistake. Falling for him would put me right back in the public eye, somewhere I swore I’d never be again...
  • Inferno by Deborah Bladon

    Inferno by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    INFERNO is the final part of HEAT, a four-part series from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, Deborah Bladon. Cadence Sutton knows that love is fleeting. She never felt it until she met Chef Tyler Monroe. He set her heart on fire the moment she saw him in Nova's kitchen. She was scared to let herself feel anything for him, but it was futile to fight the attraction...
  • My Girl by Patricia Hermes

    My Girl by Patricia Hermes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When your Dad's an undertaker, your Mom's in heaven, and your Grandma's got a screw loose... it's good to have a friend who understands you. Even if he is a boy. Thomas J. is Vada's best friend. They live near enough to each other to bike ride over and play, or even just hang out. The two are always together, sharing their afternoons, their adventures in the lake, and all of their secrets...
  • The Exposed Saga: Part One, Part Two, Part Three & Part Four by Deborah Bladon, Caylee Davison

    The Exposed Saga: Part One, Part Two, Part Three & Part Four by Deborah Bladon, Caylee Davison

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Exposed Saga Part One Harvard student Sadie Lockwood was given a second chance, and she's determined to make it count. She planned her life out with precision, and she refuses to be deterred from her course. She knows what she wants, and that is to honor the person who lost their life to save hers. When Hunter Reynolds steps into Sadie's world, she is knocked off of her axis...
  • Save the Cupcake! by Lisa Papademetriou

    Save the Cupcake! by Lisa Papademetriou

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This delicious new series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Papademetriou is a real treat -- full of humor and heart and cupcakes!Confession: My life is soooo not sprinkles and sunshine . . . Hayley's world is far from perfect: her parents have divorced, her mom has lost her job, and she and her sister Chloe are stuck sharing a bedroom in their grandmother's apartment...
  • Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

    Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline Wilson, Nick Sharratt

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Opal Plumstead might be plain, but she has always been fiercely intelligent. Yet her scholarship and dreams of university are snatched away when her father is sent to prison, and fourteen-year-old Opal must start work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory to support her family.Opal struggles to get along with the other workers, who think her snobby and stuck-up...
  • The Sister Switch by Jane B. Mason, Sarah Hines Stephens

    The Sister Switch by Jane B. Mason, Sarah Hines Stephens

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Andie and Caitlin are identical twins who couldn't be less alike. Fed up with being lumped together, the girls can't wait to start junior high. There, they'll finally be able to pave their own way. But it turns out that being mistaken for each other might work in their favor...
  • A Little House of Their Own by Celia Wilkins

    A Little House of Their Own by Celia Wilkins

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Just after Caroline Quiner starts teaching at the Concord School, she runs into her fiddle-playing neighbor Charles Ingalls, who's full of plans to head out west. As their friendship turns to courtship, Caroline realizes that she has a difficult decision ahead of her -- and a choice that may mean leaving behind her family and everything she's ever known...
  • Love Me Always by Michelle Lynn

    Love Me Always by Michelle Lynn

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    This is a novella in the The Invisibles Series and should not be read without reading the prior books. Sadie Miller and Brady Carson began their journey together two years ago. Now, after most of their friends have married, it’s finally their turn to say I do. Sadie and her bridezilla nature have made the Miller/Carson wedding the event of the year...
  • TENSE - The Complete Two-Part Novel Duet  (The TENSE Series) by Deborah Bladon

    TENSE - The Complete Two-Part Novel Duet (The TENSE Series) by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times, USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Deborah Bladon, TENSE - The Complete Two-Part Novel Duet. Volume One He's as beautiful as he is brilliant. Nicholas Wolf's mind is a dangerously dark place. He dreams up tales of murder, intrigue, and passion so intense that his detective novels have enthralled readers worldwide...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  romance
  • The Billionaire's Heart by Christina Tetreault

    The Billionaire's Heart by Christina Tetreault

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Is true love worth the risk? Three months ago when another relationship came to a disastrous end, billionaire Leah Sherbrooke put her love life on hold. Since then she’s spent her free time with family and friends, especially Gavin Kincaid. However, the more time she spends with Gavin the less she thinks of him as a friend and golfing companion. Instead, she sees him as the man she’s falling for...
  • Something Precious by M. Clarke

    Something Precious by M. Clarke

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As Jax and Rachel start their lives together, finally engaged and living in Los Angeles, all seems right with the world until Chloe wants to enter their lives again. She wants to be closer to her son, Jace, and in order to keep the peace, Jax agrees. Unfortunately, trouble seems to be swirling in the air when Rachel’s high school crush enters their lives; meanwhile Chloe proclaims to be pregnant...
  • Unbound by Shey Stahl

    Unbound by Shey Stahl

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Hurting makes you react in ways you shouldn’t. Makes you lie and use others until the pain’s gone and what you suddenly feel is nothing but loneliness. The way it should have been in the beginning.” There’s one place Rawley Walker feels at home. On a stage, gripping a mic in a darkened bar...
  • This Time by Marie Hall

    This Time by Marie Hall

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A phone call that changed our lives... I've lived my life in a daze, trying to save someone hell bent on destruction. But when my phone rings and I'm told that Angel, my on again off again boyfriend has OD'd for the second time in two years, I'm so numb. So tired. So when Tor Boler, the sexy Norwegian and drummer of Fok asks me to stay with him, I stay. We were friends and I needed to be held...
  • Shiver by Deborah Bladon

    Shiver by Deborah Bladon

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    SHIVER, a novella from New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author, Deborah Bladon.This is for readers who enjoyed the VAIN and RUIN series. Those series should be read before SHIVER.Noah Foster had an illustrious career before he gave it up to marry the love of his life, Alexa Jackson. Since the two of them said their vows, they've devoted their lives to raising their adopted twins...
  • Revenge of the Flower Girls by Jennifer Ziegler

    Revenge of the Flower Girls by Jennifer Ziegler

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In this middle-grade Bridesmaids, hilarity ensues as triplets have to stop a wedding! One bride. Two boys. Three flower girls who won't forever hold their peace. What could go wrong with this wedding? Everything! The Brewster triplets, Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, would usually spend their summer eating ice cream, playing with their dog, and reading about the US Presidents...
  • Verbannt ans Ende der Welt by Rainer M. Schröder

    Verbannt ans Ende der Welt by Rainer M. Schröder

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    England 1804: Abby Lynn ist gerade vierzehn Jahre alt, als sie an einem kalten Februarmorgen in den Straßen Londons in einen Taschendiebstahl verwickelt wird. Angeblich der Komplizenschaft überführt, verschwindet sie hinter den Mauern des berühmt-berüchtigten Gefängnisses von Newgate...
  • O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

    O, the Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages...
  • They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth

    They Loved to Laugh by Kathryn Worth

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Tears and laughter alternate in this novel of a young girl's growth to womanhood in the 1830s. 16-year-old orphan Martitia Howland has been transplanted into a Quaker farm family of five intimidating sons and one disapproving daughter. As Martitia runs their gauntlet, she suffers their teasing but finally begins to bloom...
  • Accidentally Friends by Lisa Papademetriou

    Accidentally Friends by Lisa Papademetriou

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The fourth book in our first Candy Apple mini-series from New York Times-bestselling author Lisa Papademetriou! Seventh grader Amy Flowers is at it again in her fourth fish-out-of-water adventure at super-snooty Allington Academy...
  • Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme - Tome 8 Les pieds sur terre by India Desjardins

    Le journal d'Aurélie Laflamme - Tome 8 Les pieds sur terre by India Desjardins

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    L’heure n’est plus à la procrastination pour Aurélie Laflamme ! À quelques mois de la fin du secondaire, elle a très peu de temps à consacrer à sa vie personnelle et devra mettre les bouchées doubles pour réussir son année. Elle doit remplir sa demande d’admission au cégep, préciser ses projets de carrière et, par-dessus tout, réussir à se convaincre que ses neurones sont bel et bien fonctionnels...
  • I Knew You Were Trouble by Paige Toon

    I Knew You Were Trouble by Paige Toon

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Life as the undercover daughter of a rock god isn't going to be easy...
  • Cô gái đến từ hôm qua by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

    Cô gái đến từ hôm qua by Nguyễn Nhật Ánh

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Nếu ngày xưa còn bé, Thư luôn tự hào mình là cậu con trai thông minh có quyền bắt nạt và sai khiến các cô bé cùng lứa tuổi thì giờ đây khi lớn lên, anh luôn khổ sở khi thấy mình ngu ngơ và bị con gái “xỏ mũi”...
  • A Secret Birthright by Olivia Gates

    A Secret Birthright by Olivia Gates

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Prince Fareed Aal Zaafer is driven by one purpose—to find his late brother's family. But when Gwen McNeal arrives, needing his help, Fareed is relieved she is not the woman he seeks, for he must claim her for his own. Fareed is Gwen's last—and most dangerous—hope. For he doesn't just overwhelm her senses, he sweeps her and her baby away to his kingdom—the last place she should ever go...
    Categorized as:
    children  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  steamy  romance
  • Tutus and Tinsel by Rhys Ford

    Tutus and Tinsel by Rhys Ford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Zig Reid-Harris has everything an eleven-year-old girl could ever want: a great home, two fantastic fathers named Deacon Reid and Lang Harris, and all the books she could possibly read. When a school assignment about holiday traditions unexpectedly broadsides her, she discovers burying the past isn’t as easy as it looks, and the stark reality of her life before her adoption sinks in...
  • Unsung by Shannon Richard

    Unsung by Shannon Richard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One Night In Nashville Harper Laurence has been jilted on her way to the altar. Desperate for some time away from her friends and family, Harper takes off for Nashville—only to meet a hot, scruffy, tattooed stranger. A man she liked a little too much, and who left her the teeniest bit . . . well, pregnant. Liam James is an up-and-coming country musician, who just found his muse...
  • More Than Cake: A Plus Size BBW Romance by Tani Hanes

    More Than Cake: A Plus Size BBW Romance by Tani Hanes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    MJ Jassemolada is a big girl, and has been a big girl her whole life. She’s been called all the hurtful names: Hefty heifer, dump truck, fat, porky pig, she’s heard them all. A bred and born LA girl, she feels like she’s surrounded by the thin and beautiful of the world, and having a widower father who tells her she’s beautiful every day just doesn’t help...
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  adult  book  fiction  new-adult  romance
  • Burnout by Shauna Allen

    Burnout by Shauna Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I live a perfect life. A perfectly, imperfect, suffocating life. Or I did, until I met Blake Travers—the tortured bad boy with the painful past I can only glimpse. But there’s just something about him that makes me yearn to break free and embrace the hurricane that is him. I need to know him, I can’t stay away. He makes me feel, he makes me want, me just . . . makes me...
  • First Came You by Faith Andrews

    First Came You by Faith Andrews

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From the author of MAN OF MY DREAMS and FEEL AGAIN First comes a nickel, Then comes a shove, Then comes loss only conquered by his love. This is the story of my first true love. The story of how the boy next door protected me, became my best friend, stole my heart, and rescued me from my darkest despair. FIRST CAME YOU is a new adult contemporary romance...
  • A Flirtationship by love-o-holic12babe, Shreya Pandey

    A Flirtationship by love-o-holic12babe, Shreya Pandey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “God, I like him. I like my best friend. Oh, and he has a girlfriend.” Scarlett has been best friends with Aiden for a very long time. She's almost like a sister to him. Problem is, Scarlett does not see him as a brother at all; far from it, in fact. Her traitor of a heart loves him--yes, as more than a friend. They are polar opposites...
  • Three Steps to Heaven by Pam Howes

    Three Steps to Heaven by Pam Howes

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It's the 1960's and Eddie Mellor is unhappy in his shotgun marriage; hates his boring factory job and is not unduly bothered when he is sacked. His young son Jonny, and his dreams of becoming a famous rock drummer with The Raiders, a career he was forced to shelve when he married Angie, are the two things that keep him going. But Eddie's luck is about to change for the better..
    Categorized as:
    coming-of-age  romance  contemporary  fiction  book  adult
  • The Nanny's Double Trouble by Christine Rimmer

    The Nanny's Double Trouble by Christine Rimmer

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Meet The Bravos of Valentine Bay...And the single father of twin toddlers in desperate need of a nanny! All his life Daniel Bravo has been the responsible one. So when he's left widowed with adorable twins to raise, he knows he needs help, fast. Enter family friend Keely Ostergard--a woman with love in her heart for his children, and a gigantic chip on her shoulder for him...
    Categorized as:
    children  romance  contemporary  fiction  family  book  adult
  • Afterglow by Aria Wyatt

    Afterglow by Aria Wyatt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    I’m a numbers girl.Or at least I thought I was, until my formula fell apart. Back home in Vermont, with my dream on hiatus, I’m working at the Busy Bean and taking online classes. As long as I keep my focus, I’ll be back in New York City next semester. Hopefully...
  • Phoenix Rising: Issue #3 by S.R. Watson, Ryan Stacks

    Phoenix Rising: Issue #3 by S.R. Watson, Ryan Stacks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once upon a time, Phoenix was Harlow’s light — her navigator from the brink of unsalvageable. That man is now unrecognizable, but she refuses to believe their connection has been severed. The question is, can she endure the heartache to ensure that they both come out on the other side?The Phoenix Rising tour has spiraled into a journey of secrets, consequences, deceit, and betrayal...
  • Our Happily Ever After by Lindsay Paige

    Our Happily Ever After by Lindsay Paige

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the fifth installment of the Bold of Love series, a lot is happening to propel this couple forward. It’s been three years since Jake and Emily moved to Chicago. Emily is planning their wedding, Jake is building their house, and Drake is turning fourteen. However, one person seems to be at the root of the disruption of this exciting time. Jake...
  • Early from the Dance by David Payne

    Early from the Dance by David Payne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cary and Adam are best friends from opposite sides of the Killdeer, N.C., tracks. Then Jane McCrae comes into their lives like a hurricane. When Cary falls in love with her, the boy's twosome becomes a tightly knit group of three, and they make plans for their summer after high school graduation...
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