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Chicago Stars volume 10
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Throw in a failed chocolatier... And her superstar football player brother... Add a quirky pink and purple food truck... Then, to really screw things up, mix in a very unfortunate murder. Brett Rivers is the hottest sports agent in the business--fast and furious, swift and deadly. Failure? Not an option. Rory Garrett is--let's be honest--a disaster. She has a big heart, an empty bank account, a passion for making exquisite chocolate, and a huge...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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Warring London neighbors Winston and Bernice share an empty patch of greenery lost to time, but when Winston receives photographs of the garden in bloom many years prior, they decide to lay down their arms to revitalize the garden and help revive the community spirit that's been languishing for so long.
3) Evergreen
Author
Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm
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"All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn't give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won't let him out of the house, telling him he's just not read ... All because he's a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad - the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn't a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
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Shermy finds his plans for a quiet, relaxing summer upended by the arrival of Shake, who moves in next door, and as they are forced to spend more and more time together, these polar opposites must learn how to get along.
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Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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"Emma can't wait for Christmas--the tree, the presents, the tasty turkey dinner! Her dad and stepmum Susan want Christmas to be perfect, but things aren't going to plan--and then their turkey disappears! Will Christmas be ruined? As Emma encourages her parents to appreciate what they have, their neighbors--the Taylor-Wilsons, the Singhs and Mrs Angel--come knocking to share their own festive traditions and help the family have a very merry Christmas"--...
7) Love me do
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Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 20 cm
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Lovelorn Brit Phoebe Chapman has barely set foot in her sister's house in the Hollywood Hills when she's swept up by lovable Bel, her sister's personal trainer, and handsome Ren, the sweet and sensitive carpenter next door. Bel has a head-over-heels crush on Ren but Ren has no idea Bel even exists. Certain that the two of them are meant to be together, Phoebe offers to play matchmaker. Caught up with writing love letters and an unexpected friendship...
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. According to her neighbors, she's prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past. Seventy-seven-year-old Dorothy Darling is Shelley House's longest resident, and if you believe the other tenants, she's as cantankerous and vindictive as they come. Except there's a good reason Dorothy spends...
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Publisher
HarperAvenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 24 cm
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One night, while lying in bed next to her husband, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum. This innocuous sound, which no one else in the house can hear, has no obvious source or medical cause, but it begins to upset the balance of Claire's life. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall...
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Publisher
Editorial Planeta
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
396 pages ; 20 cm
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Dos escritores, unas vacaciones y una apuesta. Todo puede suceder durante un verano. January Andrews es escritora de novelas romanticas y una sonadora empedernida. August Everett escribe novelas serias y cree que el amor verdadero es solo un cuento chino. Pero January y Gus tienen mucho mas en comun de lo que creen: Los dos estan arruinados. Los dos estan bloqueados. Y los dos necesitan escribir un bestseller antes de que termine el verano.
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Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
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"The Helena is an art deco apartment building that has witnessed the changing face of South Miami Beach for seventy years, observing the lives housed within. Among those who have called apartment 2B home across the decades are a Cuban concert pianist who performs in a nursing home; the widow of an intelligence officer raising her young daughter alone; a man waiting on a green card marriage to run its course so that he can divorce his wife and marry...
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Kezia Cooper Hobson, recently widowed, arrives in New York from San Francisco. Determined to make a fresh start, she has just completed the sale of her Pacific Heights home, not to mention her late husband's venture capital firm, and in doing so is also freed from her responsibility as a board member of the company. Bringing with her only a few personal treasures, she is excited to move into the blank slate of a beautiful midtown penthouse in the...
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Daniel Hawthorne novels volume 5
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"Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case--a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound."
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate. It is the perfect idyll,...
14) Underdog city
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Mortimer Bray is not okay. It seems like everything in his life is changing for the worse. After his own much-loved dog dies, he can't bring himself to carry on with his dog-walking business; there's a strange new girl who's moved into the house next door; and suddenly there's a buzzing feeling of anxiety in his head and heart when he's faced with something new. His neighborhood, Townsend Heights, used to feel like the most comfortable place in the...
15) Twisted lies
Author
Series
Twisted (Ana Huang) volume 4
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
553 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Charming, deadly, and smart enough to hide it, Christian Harper is a monster dressed in the perfectly tailored suits of a gentleman. He has little use for morals and even less use for love, but he can't deny the strange pull he feels toward the woman living just one floor below him. She's the object of his darkest desires, the only puzzle he can't solve. And when the opportunity to get closer to her arises, he breaks his own rules to offer her a deal...
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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
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Sloane Cooper is up for her dream job as a designer for a top video game company. During the interview, though, she somehow promises the all-male panel that she'll remain single and fully dedicated to the work. It's actually fine—after her last boyfriend cheated on her, she vowed to focus on her career anyway. Enter Charlie, aka Hot Neighbor Guy, a near-stranger who shocks her with the offer of an all-inclusive trip to a Turks and Caicos resort....
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Publisher
Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
624 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
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"On the day of Alec Salter's fiftieth birthday party, his wife, Charlotte, vanishes. Most of the small English village of Glensted is at the party for hours before anyone realizes she is missing. While Alec brushes off her disappearance, their four children--especially fifteen-year-old Etty--grow increasingly anxious as the cold winter hours become days and she doesn't return. Then Etty and her friend Morgan find the body of Morgan's father--and the...
18) The busy body
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Publisher
John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
332 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After a very public defeat, former Senator Dorothy Gibson retreats to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her, and soon the two women are drawn into a mystery when a neighbor dies under suspicious circumstances and find their investigation unfolding in a way no one couldve ever expected.
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Pub. Date
2024.
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Living with motion blindness, Leah, with her acute senses of smell and hearing, very little escapes her notice, is convinced her neighbor, who is trying to escape from an abusive husband, is going to be murdered and makes a decision that will test her courage, her strength and ultimately her sanity.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Sunday Forrester does things more carefully than most people. On certain days, she must eat only white food; she drinks only carbonated beverages; she avoids clocks. It's 1988, before autism was widely diagnosed. Sunday has an old etiquette handbook that guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly, her clever, headstrong teenage...
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