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A career-ending injury destroys track star Agnes Chan's hopes of a college scholarship, putting her on a journey through the underbelly of Malaysian stand-up comedy, and directly into the path of her archnemesis, the ridiculously wealthy and disgustingly handsome Royce Taslim.
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"From the outside, Isabel doesn't seem to have much going on. It's the summer after college graduation and she's moved back to her hometown, where she spends her days house-sitting, babysitting, working the front desk at a yoga studio, and hanging out with her childhood friend Ellie. But on the inside, Isabel's mind is always running, always analyzing, and right now, she's trying hard to not let her thoughts give weight to boys. So when Isabel spots...
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2024.
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"Remy Pendergast, vampire hunter, and his unexpected companions, royal vampires Lord Zidan Malekh and Lady Xiaodan Song, are on the road through the kingdom of Aluria again after a hard-won first battle against the formidable Night Empress, who threatens to undo a fragile peace between humans and vampires. Xiaodan, severely injured, has lost her powers to vanquish the enemy's new superbreed of vampire, but if the trio can make it to Fata Morgana,...
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Peachtree Teen
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[2024]
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English
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Moving to Miami, Andres, who made a deal with Death for new life, meets Renee and Llora and embarks on a polyamorous relationship, but when Llora falls into a coma, he and Renee journey into the underworld to retrieve her spirit, which comes with a high price.
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Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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A woman who uses her email "drafts" folder to pen unsent sarcastic replies to her boss, difficult truths to her friends and love declarations to an engaged man must face all her repressed feelings when they all get sent.
11) Wild about you
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Indoorsy theater girl Natalie must team up with surly nature-lover Finn in an Amazing Race-style reality competition show set in the Appalachian wilderness--if they do not kill (or kiss!) each other first"--
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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After breaking his leg and having his summer plans and college dreams dashed, high school football star Theo Claverback finds a new purpose and relationship while working as a prep cook in a high-end French restaurant, but soon discovers the harsh realities of the culinary world and the risks of crossing the wrong people.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
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[2024]
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English
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Raffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they can't understand. As Raffi's carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they dream of a universe where they mean as much to Britt as Britt does to them. Touring parallel worlds, Raffi reaches for a life that feels authentically their own. But Raffi's divergent existences...
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Swallow Press/Ohio University Press
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[2013]
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English
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"This third novel in the three Cases of Circumstantial Evidence provides an intimate portrayal of deception and corruption in one small poor Parisian family in the late 1600s. In contrast to the majesty of the court of Louis XIV and the bloodthirsty crowds of Paris at that time, the simple lives of Jean Larcher and his wife and son are pitiably ruined by the presence of a seducer and his political pamphlets. The personal and public passions mesh to...
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Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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As a bartender at Terror & Virtue, a swanky New York City cocktail lounge known for its romantic atmosphere and Insta-worthy drinks, Mel has witnessed plenty of disastrous dates. That, coupled with her own romantic life being in shambles, has Mel convinced love doesn’t exist. Everything changes when Bebe walks into the bar. She’s beautiful, funny, knows her whiskeys—and is happily married to her partner, Kade. Mel’s resigned to forget the...
18) The lady waiting
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"One bright Los Angeles day, a young Polish émigrée named Viva is driving along the freeway when she's flagged down by a dazzling, disheveled woman in green chiffon. The woman is Bobby Sleeper, a fellow Eastern European and erstwhile art gallerist with a mysterious background and even more mysterious filmmaker husband. Within days the couple hire Viva as their assistant, then enlist her as an accomplice in an improbable scheme involving a long-lost...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"You've Got Mail for a new generation, set in the days of AOL and instant messenger, following a lonely editorial assistant in publishing whose surprise meeting with "the other woman's" boyfriend changes the trajectory of her summer Summer Fridays is a witty and emotional love letter to New York City that also captures the feeling of being young and starting out, uncertain of what to do on your Summer Friday. It's also perfect for readers who remember...
20) Love changes
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Urban Books
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©2008
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English
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"Toni and Beatrice have faced many challenges together since their childhood friendship began. That friendship is put to the test, however, when one's disloyalty to the other is revealed. Beatrice is searching for a rich man who will continue to lavish her in the high-maintenance lifestyle to which she's accustomed. The perfect world she envisions is destroyed when Toni inadvertently finds the love she has been longing for. Down-to-earth Toni believes...