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  • Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 106 ratings
    Sparks are igniting.Flames are spreading.And the Capitol wants revenge. Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and her longtime friend, Gale. Yet nothing is the way Katniss wishes it to be...
  • Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Purity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable - it felt like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened up the door, and started swinging....The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice. Louie died instantly...
  • Visions in Death by J.D. Robb

    Visions in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    "The summer had been long hot and bloody. Fall, with its cooler temperatures was coming. Maybe people wouldn't be as inclined to kill each other. But she doubted it." Eve Dallas' latest case involves the murder of a young mother, found raped and strangled. As Eve starts investigating an offer of help comes from an unlikely source...
  • Born in Death by J.D. Robb

    Born in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Eve Dallas has a grisly double homicide to solve when two young lovers—both employees of the same prestigious accounting firm—are brutally killed on the same night. It doesn't leave Eve a lot of leftover time to put together a baby shower for her buddy Mavis, but that's supposedly what friends are for.Now Mavis needs another favor...
  • Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Golden in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    In the latest thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, homicide detective Eve Dallas investigates a murder with a mysterious motive―and a terrifying weapon.Pediatrician Kent Abner received the package on a beautiful April morning. Inside was a cheap trinket, a golden egg that could be opened into two halves...
  • Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Survivor In Death by J.D. Robb, Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    No affairs. No criminal connections. No DNA. No clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - not to mention having the lavish resources of her husband Roarke at her disposal - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The family members were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision...
  • No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    No Questions Asked (A Lexi Carmichael Mystery) by Julie Moffett

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ONE LAST FLING (WITH DANGER)Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m going to have the wedding of the year…whether I like it or not...
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    female-mc  humor  adult  alpha-mc  audiobook  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Memory In Death by J.D. Robb

    Memory In Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    For once detective Eve Dallas can look at her latest murder victim and feel absolutely nothing. For Trudy Lombard awakens memories in Eve she'd rather forget. A seemingly ordinary middle-aged woman, Lombard was also one of Eve's foster parents and Eve was one of many traumatised children placed in her haphazard care. But now - only a few days after showing up in Eve's office - Lombard is dead...
  • Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Delusion in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    After years on the force, Eve Dallas didn't think she could be shocked anymore... until now.It was just another after-work happy-hour bar downtown, where business professionals unwound with a few drinks, complained about the boss, maybe hooked up with someone for the night. Until something went terribly wrong. At first it was just a friction in the air. The noise intensified...
  • Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Devoted in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 37 ratings
    Eve Dallas tracks a couple whose passion is fueled by cold brutality in the newest crime thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Obsession in Death and Festive in Death. When Lieutenant Eve Dallas examines a body in a downtown Manhattan alleyway, the victim’s injuries are so extensive that she almost misses the clue...
  • Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Thankless in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    In the latest suspense thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, the year 2060 is drawing to a close in New York City and loved ones are coming together for Thanksgiving. But sometimes the deepest hatreds seethe within the closest relationships, and blood flows faster than water… Lieutenant Eve Dallas has plenty to be grateful for this season...
  • No Mercy by L. Divine

    No Mercy by L. Divine

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Misty and the rest of Esmeralda's evil brood are busy concocting a sinister plan to not only destroy Jayd and the rest of her powerful lineage, but Esmeralda and Rousseau are also using their powers to take over G's drug business. Mama's in and out of a dangerous dream state due to Esmeralda's wicked manipulation and unable to properly shut her evil neighbor down...
  • Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Celebrity in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a good time at the celebrity-packed bash celebrating 'The Icove Agenda', a film based on one of her cases. What comes as a surprise however is seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the pool on the roof of the director's luxury building...
  • Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Defy Me by Tahereh Mafi

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 51 ratings
    The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shatter Me series. Will Juliette’s broken heart make her vulnerable to the strengthening darkness within her?Juliette’s short tenure as the supreme commander of North America has been an utter disaster...
  • Checkmate by Malorie Blackman

    Checkmate by Malorie Blackman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dramatic conclusion to the award-winning Noughts and Crosses trilogy.Can the future ever erase the past? Rose has a Cross mother and a Nought father in a society where the pale-skinned noughts are treated as inferiors and those with dual heritage face a life-long battle against deep-rooted prejudices...
  • Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Remember When by Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Part 1: Hot RocksPart 2: Big JackShe's one author - with two number-one New York Times-bestselling careers. As Nora Roberts, her novels include Three Fates and Birthright. As J. D. Robb, she offers such novels as Portrait in Death. Now she unites her separate identities in a riveting two-part novel that combines edgy suspense and romantic passion - and journeys through past, present, and future...
  • Connections in Death by J.D. Robb

    Connections in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    In this gritty and gripping new novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, Eve Dallas fights to save the innocent—and serve justice to the guilty—on the streets of New York.Homicide cop Eve Dallas and her billionaire husband, Roarke, are building a brand-new school and youth shelter...
  • Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb

    Midnight in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The number-one New York Times best selling In Death series explodes with intrigue, passion, and suspense. Now, Nora Roberts, writing as J. D. Robb, propels you into the darkest night of Lieutenant Eve Dallas' life - when a killer comes to call.Eve's name has made a Christmas list, but it's not for being naughty or nice. It's for putting a serial killer behind bars...
  • Festive in Death by J.D. Robb

    Festive in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Personal trainer Trey Ziegler was in peak physical condition. If you didn’t count the kitchen knife in his well-toned chest.Lieutenant Eve Dallas soon discovers a lineup of women who were loved and left by the narcissistic gym rat...
  • Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    On Manhattan's Upper East Side a woman lies dead at the bottom of the stairs, stripped of all her valuables. Most cops might call it a mugging gone wrong, but Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows better.A well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, Marta Dickenson doesn't seem the type to be on anyone's hit list...
  • The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune

    The Bones Beneath My Skin by T.J. Klune

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    In the spring of 1995, Nate Cartwright has lost everything: his parents are dead, his older brother wants nothing to do with him, and he's been fired from his job as a journalist in Washington DC. With nothing left to lose, he returns to his family's summer cabin outside the small mountain town of Roseland, Oregon to try and find some sense of direction. The cabin should be empty. It's not...
  • Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak

    Loved and Lost: Author's Edition by Stephanie E. Kusiak

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Blake Fortier and Rachel Kaplan are the perfect couple. Driven and successful in their own pursuits, they're fifteen years into a marriage that will seemingly last forever. When a tragic accident tears them apart, Blake is left with nothing but the harsh light of hindsight and the bitterness of regret...
    Categorized as:
    drama  female-mc  adult  angst  book  contemporary  fiction  lesbian-mc
  • Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Winter's Burn by Elena Aitken

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Single mom, Beth Martin is doing her best raising her daughter Jules on her own after moving back to the small town she grew up in. She's been welcomed back by old friends and a decent job at the Springs resort. Things are going well, but something—or someone—is missing. When sexy rock star, Slade Black comes to town, it just might be what Beth is looking for...
  • Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb

    Concealed in Death by J.D. Robb

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    In a decrepit, long-empty New York building, Lieutenant Eve Dallas’s husband begins the demolition process by swinging a sledgehammer into a wall. When the dust clears, there are two skeletons wrapped in plastic behind it. He summons his wife immediately—and by the time she’s done with the crime scene, there are twelve murders to be solved...
  • Suddenly Engaged by Julia London

    Suddenly Engaged by Julia London

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Single mother Kyra Kokinos spends her days waiting tables, her nights working on her real estate license, and every spare moment with her precocious six-year-old daughter, Ruby—especially when Ruby won’t stop pestering their grumpy next-door neighbor. At first glance, Dax Bishop seems like the kind of gruff, solitary guy who’d be unlikely to offer a cup of sugar, let alone a marriage proposal...
    Categorized as:
    family  female-mc  humor  adult  audiobook  book  breakup  cheating
  • For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    For Batter or Worse by Jenn McKinlay

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Fairy Tale Cupcake crew must discover the truth behind a death sprinkled with suspicion before Mel and Joe can say I do", in the thirteenth Cupcake Bakery Mystery from New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay.Life is sweet and business is booming at the Fairy Tale Cupcakes bakery--and the fact that Mel and Joe are getting married is the icing on the cake...
    Categorized as:
    humor  family  female-mc  romance  mystery  cozy  audiobook  fiction
  • The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

    The Love of My Afterlife by Kirsty Greenwood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A recently deceased woman meets “the one” in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up…If she wasn’t dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment...
  • Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

    Happily Ever After by Kiera Cass

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The contents of Happily Ever After are as follows:-The Prince (with the two bonus chapters), Maxon’s novella-The Guard, Aspen’s novella-The Queen, Amberly’s novella-The Favorite, Marlee’s novella-Three scenes from Celeste’s POV-Lucy’s scene (bonus scene from The One)-The bonus epilogue-Where are they now?-A map-Various...
  • Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, Amélie Sarn

    Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, Amélie Sarn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Tobey wants a better life - for him and his girlfriend Callie Rose. He wants nothing to do with the gangs that rule the world he lives in. But when he's offered the chance to earn some money just for making a few 'deliveries', just this once, would it hurt to say 'yes'?The captivating conclusion/companion Novel of the Noughts and Crosses series...
  • Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

    Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    You will be punished…Celestine North lives a perfect life. She’s a model daughter and sister, she’s well-liked by her classmates and teachers, and she’s dating the impossibly charming Art Crevan.But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule and now faces life-changing repercussions. She could be imprisoned. She could be branded...
  • Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi

    Through the Ever Night by Veronica Rossi

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 57 ratings
    It's been months since Aria learned of her mother's death.Months since Perry became Blood Lord of the Tides, and months since Aria last saw him.Now Aria and Perry are about to be reunited. It's a moment they've been longing for with countless expectations. And it's a moment that lives up to all of them. At least, at first. Then it slips away...
  • Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

    Every Soul a Star by Wendy Mass

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    And as streams of light fan out behind the darkened sun like the wings of a butterfly, I realize that I never saw real beauty until now.At Moon Shadow, an isolated campground, thousands have gathered to catch a glimpse of a rare and extraordinary total eclipse of the sun...
  • Imprisoned by Evangeline Anderson

    Imprisoned by Evangeline Anderson

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A girl dressed as a boy In a Triple Max prison full of savage predators A Kindred warrior undercover, trying to protect What he thinks is an innocent boy. Lathe can't understand why he is so drawn to Ari But when her secret comes out, will it kill them both? You'll have to read Imprisoned to find out..
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • Hope by Marc Levy

    Hope by Marc Levy

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For anyone who’s dreamed of immortality comes a twice-in-a-lifetime love story by Marc Levy, the phenomenal, internationally bestselling French author of P.S. from Paris and The Last of the Stanfields.In Massachusetts, neuroscience students Luke, Josh, and Hope have formed an unbreakable and unconditional friendship...
    Categorized as:
    drama  humor  adult  audiobook  book  contemporary  fiction  medical
  • A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    A Million Worlds with You by Claudia Gray

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A million universes. A million dangers. One destiny.The fate of the multiverse rests in Marguerite Caine’s hands. Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud since she first traveled to another universe using her parents’ invention, the Firebird...
  • The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

    The Other Side of Now by Paige Harbison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A hilarious and heartfelt novel about how loves and lives are never truly lost, for fans of Rebecca Serle and Taylor Jenkins Reid. With a leading role on a hit TV show and a relationship with Hollywood's latest heartthrob, Meg Bryan appears to have everything she ever wanted. But underneath the layers of makeup and hairspray, her happiness is as fake as her stage name, Lana Lord...
  • The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard

    The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau, Amélie Hesnard

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same?The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it...
  • Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Better Than Friends by Jill Shalvis

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Old flames reignite in Sunrise Cove in this charming enemies-to-lovers, second-chance, small-town, forced-proximity love story about family, friendships, and true love from New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis.When Olive Porter’s off-the-grid parents go missing, she reluctantly seeks out Noah Turner, her ex and the only person she both trusts implicitly and not at all...
  • Recoil by Joanne Macgregor

    Recoil by Joanne Macgregor

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When a skilled gamer gets recruited as a sniper in the war against a terrorist-produced pandemic, she discovers there’s more than one enemy and more than one war. The Game is real.Three years after a series of terrorist attacks flooded the US with a lethal plague, society has changed radically...
  • The Best Christmas Surprise by Brenda Novak

    The Best Christmas Surprise by Brenda Novak

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Your Christmas wish come true! Enjoy this touching classic by New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak, originally published under the title Just Like the Ones We Used to Know in the 2006 anthology Once Upon a Christmas. Angela Forrester’s foster child Kayla has just one wish for Christmas…to meet her real dad...
  • The Mad Lieutenant by K. Webster, Nicole Blanchard

    The Mad Lieutenant by K. Webster, Nicole Blanchard

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Her voice brought me back from the darkness, but I don’t want the sweet relief she promises. Unlike the rest of the morts on my planet, I don’t want a mate. Especially not her.She’s loud, boisterous, and doesn’t take no for an answer.Unlike the rest of the alien females my brothers have woken from cryosleep, Molly doesn’t find my growls intimidating...
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  aliens  alpha-mc  book  contemporary  fiction
  • The After Wife by Cass Hunter

    The After Wife by Cass Hunter

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'Grab a box of tissues because this beautiful story will make you cry' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsWhen Rachel and Aidan fell in love, they thought it was forever.She was a brilliant, high-flying scientist. He was her loving and supportive husband.Now she's gone, and Aidan must carry on and raise their daughter alone...
  • Promise Me Darkness by Paige Weaver

    Promise Me Darkness by Paige Weaver

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "He was my darkness and I was his light.We couldn't exist without each other."For me, life was simple. I went to school and studied. I spent time with my friends and stayed out of trouble. I didn't drink or swear and I only dated gentlemen. I was the typical good girl with a bright future. My world seemed perfect.But that was about to change.Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life...
  • Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    What would you do to save someone you love?Time is slipping away. . . .Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything...
  • Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

    Because You'll Never Meet Me by Leah Thomas

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    In an acclaimed literary debut, two boys on opposite ends of the world begin an unlikely friendship that will change their lives forever.Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie has a life-threatening allergy to electricity, and Moritz's weak heart requires a pacemaker. If they ever did meet, they could both die...
  • In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    All These Things I’ve Done, the first novel in the Birthright series, introduced us to timeless heroine Anya Balanchine, a plucky sixteen year old with the heart of a girl and the responsibilities of a grown woman. Now eighteen, life has been more bitter than sweet for Anya...
  • Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

    Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 104 ratings
    My name is Katniss Everdeen.Why am I not dead?I should be dead.Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding...
  • If I Could Turn Back Time by Nicola Doherty

    If I Could Turn Back Time by Nicola Doherty

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    If you love Lindsey Kelk and Mhairi McFarlane's YOU HAD ME AT HELLO, you'll love this book... What if you found The One, then lost him again? Or not so much lost him as became the neurotic, needy girlfriend from hell. The girl who tried to make him choose between her and his job, and got seriously paranoid about his relationship with his female best friend..
    Categorized as:
    female-mc  humor  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  magic  paranormal
  • Fury: Book One of The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy

    Fury: Book One of The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When emotions are erased from the world, creating a civilization of mindless drones, only those with fury can survive. On the same day each year Josephine Luquet wakes naked, shivering and covered in blood that is not her own. Under the cold gaze of the blood moon she is someone else entirely, but when dawn breaks her memories vanish and she is left with only an icy horror, a burning fury...
  • Cool. Awkward. Black. by Amerie, Kalynn Bayron

    Cool. Awkward. Black. by Amerie, Kalynn Bayron

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A multi-genre YA anthology of bestselling, critically acclaimed Black authors challenging the concept of the geek, featuring contributions from Amerie, Kalynn Bayron, Terry J. Benton-Walker, Roseanne A. Brown, Elise Bryant, Tracy Deonn, Desiree S. Evans, Isaac Fitzsimons, Lamar Giles, Jordan Ifueko, Leah Johnson, Amanda Joy, Kwame Mbalia, Tochi Onyebuchi, Shari B. Pennant, K...
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