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Thanks For Last Night

A sexy new friends-to-lovers standalone! Let me list the reasons why dating a sexy, charming, pro hockey star is a bad idea: 1. He's one of my closest friends 2. All our friends are friends 3. The wounds I've got from past relationships go deep. And so do his. We're both devoutly single — it's just safer for the heart that way. But there's no reason not to bid on the gorgeous, clever athlete at the charity auction this weekend. If I win, it'll be a friendsdate. And I do win. I win him big. And hard. And all night long. The trouble is . . . what happens in the morning?
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The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering

Rachel Griffin Knows a Secret Everyone Else Has Forgotten... ...She has discovered she has an older sister named Amber, who was stolen-away as a baby. Nobody but Rachel remembers her—not even their parents. Rachel is determined to find Amber and restore her to the family. But how? She doubts it will be as easy as overhearing the name Rumpelstiltskin. Meanwhile, Rachel has bigger problems. Wild fey have invaded the campus. If they so much as bewitch even one more student, Roanoke Academy will be forced to close its doors. Rachel and her friends must solve this menace before the academy cancels more classes or, worse, the Year of the Dragon Ball! But she has hope—if she can keep the school open—because, as Rachel's late grandmother told her, Masquerade balls are a time of wonder...when anything is possible.
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The Collected

It's been five years since Josie squared off against the evil Beryl and her killer haunted dolls. She hasn't talked about it since, and likes to pretend it didn't happen. Too bad she didn't tell her younger sister, Anna. Because Anna is now the one being drawn in to the evil — and the evil has some new tricks this time.
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Filthy Beasts

Running with Scissors meets Grey Gardens in this gripping, true riches-to-rags tale of a wealthy family who lost it all and the unforgettable journey of a man coming to terms with his family's deep flaws and his own long-buried truths. "Wake up, you filthy beasts!" Wendy Hamill would shout to her children in the mornings before school. Startled from their dreams, Kirk and his two brothers would wonder—would they find enough food in the house for breakfast? Following a rancorous split from New York's upper-class society, newly divorced Wendy Hamill and her three sons are exiled from the East Coast elite circle. Wendy's middle son Kirk is eight when she moves the family back to her native Bermuda, leaving the three young boys to fend for themselves as she chases after the highs of her old life—alcohol, men, and other indulgences. After eventually leaving his mother's dysfunctional orbit for college in New Orleans, Kirk only...
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The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction. In a profoundly strange country called Inner Horner, large enough for only one resident at a time, citizens waiting to enter the country fall under the rule of the power-hungry and tyrannical Phil, setting off a chain of injustice and mass hysteria.An Animal Farm for the 21st century, this is an incendiary political satire of unprecedented imagination, spiky humor, and cautionary appreciation for the hysteric in everyone. Over six years in the writing, and brilliantly and beautifully packaged, this novella is Saunders' first stand-alone, book-length work—and his first book for adults in five years.
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An Elegant Woman

A powerful, moving multigenerational saga from National Book Award finalist Martha McPhee that explores one family's story against the sweep of 20th-century American history.On a winter day in 1910, at a train station in Ohio, two girls wait in the cold with their mother to begin a new life in the West. Tommy, the eldest, feels responsible for her sister, and in the years to come, as their mother campaigns for women's suffrage and teaches in one-room schoolhouses across Montana, she takes care of Katherine: trapping animals, begging, keeping house, cooking, while her sister goes to school. But as soon as Katherine graduates, Tommy makes a decision that will change the course of both of their lives—separating the two sisters forever, sending one to California and the other to New York. A profound meditation on memory, history, and legacy, ten years in the writing, An Elegant Woman follows one woman over the course of the 20th century, taking the...
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My Bare Lady

Suzie Samuels is the only thing standing between Clifford and his life's work. All he has to do is change everything about her. Perception creates reality and Clifford Rutledge needs the irascible stripper to prove it. Suzie Samuels is set to prove once and for all she's more than Short Fuse Suze, stripper for the Black Demons and renowned motorcycle arsonist. If all it takes is hard work, then Suzie knows how to work it hard. But Suzie's scandalous spirit tests Clifford's resolve. And Clifford's buttoned-up bullying is driving Suzie bonkers. Can Clifford move past their differences long enough to pull off the impossible task of changing the bare lady into a fair lady? More importantly, as perceptions shift and priorities change, will he want to? 'My Bare Lady' is a full-length contemporary romantic comedy, can be read as a standalone, and is book#1 in the Scorned Women's Society series, Green Valley World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
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