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Atria Paperback, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"A sexy new romance about a small-town woman who saves the life of a mysterious man, and finds herself unexpectedly thrown into a whirlwind love affair, featuring bestselling author K.A. Tucker's signature "well-constructed, pulse-pounding suspense" (USA TODAY). Twenty-four-year-old truck stop waitress and single mother Catherine Wright has simple goals: to give her five-year-old daughter a happy life and to never again be the talk of the town in...
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"Not since Good Grief has a book about a young widow been so poignant, funny, original, and utterly believable. A compelling debut novel about loss. Give grief a chance. Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years--ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she's just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and...
244) The friendship list
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English
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"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...
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Atheneum, a Caitlyn Dloughy Book
Pub. Date
[2019]
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Juan has plans. He's going to get out of El Paso, Texas, on a basketball scholarship and make something of himself - or at least find something better than his mom Fabi's cruddy apartment, her string of loser boyfriends, and a dead dad. Basketball is going to be his ticket out, his ticket up. He just needs to make it happen. HIs best friend JD has plans, too. He's going to be a filmmaker one day, like Quinten Trantino or Guillermo del Toro (NOT Steven...
246) A simple favor
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A mommy vlogger seeks to uncover the truth behind her best friend Emily's sudden disappearance from their small town
247) Her Last Goodbye
Author
Series
Morgan Dane novels volume 2
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out... and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband-- the prime suspect-- hires Morgan Dane to find his wife and prove his innocence. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea's family. She wants to track down the criminal-- unaware she's his next target
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Pub. Date
2024
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English
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"A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifying secrets in the captivating new horror novel from the national bestselling author of Good Girls Don't Die and Horseman. Harry Adams has always loved horror movies, so it's not totally a coincidence that she took the job cleaning house for movie director Javier Castillo. His forbidding graystone Chigago mansion, Bright Horses, is filled from top to...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
250) Lecciones de química
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"Elizabeth Zott es madre soltera y renuente estrella del programa de cocina de televis̤in ̀ms seguido de Estados Unidos. El enfoque inusual de Elizabeth para cocinar, combinar una cucharada dè cido ačtico con una pizca de cloruro de sodio, resulta revolucionario. Sin embargo, a medida que sǔ xito aumenta lo hacen tambǐn sus enemigos, porque Elizabeth no ̤slo es̀t ensęando a las mujeres a cocinar sino tambǐn desafìndolas a alterar el orden...
251) Dreamland: a novel
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Wish comes a poignant love story about risking everything for a dream--and whether it's possible to leave the past behind. Colby Mills once felt destined for a musical career, until tragedy grounded his aspirations. Now the head of a small family farm in North Carolina, he spontaneously takes a gig playing at a bar in St. Pete's Beach, Florida, seeking a rare break from his duties at home. But...
252) Just between us
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Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Return of Rafe Mackade: Ten years after disappearing from Antietam, Maryland, the bad boy has come home. Cleaned up, successful and still dangerously good-looking, Rafe MacKade plans to open a bed-and-breakfast with the help of antique shop owner Regan Bishop. Though independent Regan claims to not want to get involved with a rebel, working in such close quarters has her struggling to resist Rafe's charms. And even though she wants to keep their...
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