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Just One Kiss: A Black Alcove Novel (The Black Alcove Series Book 1)

A first kiss is hard to forget—and Kelsey Brian’s just walked into the bar where she works and isn’t planning to leave anytime soon. It figures. With her last semester of college finally here, Kelsey can’t wait to finish the year smoothly and start a new chapter. She doesn’t need to drive over yet another bump in the road. Ethan Connelly has spent most of his adult life trying to be accepted by his father, and now he has the chance to make him proud. He’s also just stepped into another chance with the girl who got away. Deciding who matters most to him isn’t an easy choice. If he picks his father, he’ll lose her again—if he picks her, everything he’s worked for will be for nothing. Can Kelsey learn to trust him, or will Ethan’s secret of why he’s really back in town tear them apart? **
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Nabbed!: The 1925 Journal of G. Codd Fitzmorgan

Each book in the Crime Through Time series is hosted by a different child member of the famous Fitzmorgan detective family. While the young sleuth unravels a fictional mystery, readers learn about the real historical setting and actual crime-solving methods from the different eras. In sidebar activities, readers take on the role of assistant, helping to crack the case. Breathtakingly suspenseful but never violent and always age-appropriate, the books read like private investigative journals, with photos, maps, news clippings and crime scene sketches.In book 2, set in 1925, G. Codd Fitzmorgan arrives at a storm-battered mansion for a party. But more than an engagement celebration seems to be afoot, as our detective unravels a mystery involving a seance, a reckless aviator, and sale of liquor banned under Prohibition.
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Hair in All The Wrong Places

What has he done? What’s happening to him? And what on Earth is that smell? For Colin Strauss, puberty stinks. Blackouts, hallucinations, and lapses in memory are the perils of growing up werewolf. Worse than that, Colin worries he might have had something to do with the recent attacks on the townspeople. He may have eaten a person. It doesn’t matter that it’s someone he doesn’t particularly like. What kind of boy goes around eating people? Foolishly, all Colin can think about is how Becca Emerson finally kissed him for the first time. Yep, hormones are afoot. Yikes! But girls will have to wait. Collin better get himself under control before someone else ends up hurt or worse . . . dead.
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Books of Adam

Adam Ellis knew it was time to leave art school when a fellow student presented her final project to the class: "I put a condom on the Virgin Mary," she announced, unveiling a cheap figurine sheathed in latex. The professor loved it.Baffled by the praise his classmate receives, and intent on becoming an artist on his own terms, Adam plots his escape to Portland, Oregon to begin his life in the real world--only to realize that adulthood is a lot harder than it looks. Based on the blog of the same name, BOOKS OF ADAM details Adam's hilarious trials and tribulations in his attempt to become a functioning member of society. From his arrest after shoplifting a bottle of chocolate milk to a misguided attempt to make friends that lands him in a shack with a hippie couple who have just skinned a rabbit and are trying to entice him into a three-some, Adam is an amicable guy who can't seem to keep himself out of trouble. Paired with his signature...
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The Tao of Apathy

Meet the members of St Jude's Hospital. You already know them. You work with them, but take a madcap meeting with them anyway. In this Catch-22 meets Scrubs story, you will learn the power of Apathy. Be one of the few, the disgraced, the apathetic.
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Wicked Mafia Prince: A dark mafia romance (Dangerous Royals Book 2)

Wicked Mafia Prince: A Dangerous Royals Romance, Book 2
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The Last Honest Seamstress

THE LAST HONEST SEAMSTRESS Seattle 1889Too many rough, lonely men, too few respectable women; Brothels full of prostitutes who call themselves seamstresses; Two sewing machines; One real seamstress who desperately needs a husband--of convenienceAnd one man who will do anything to win her love...Even make a dangerous deal with Seattle's most notorious madam.If you're a fan of The Dressmaker, you'll love the gripping historical details and emotional epic love story in The Last Honest Seamstress.               *Other books by Kindle bestselling author Gina Robinson:T*he Spy Who Left Me "Robinson's clever concoction of lust and longing is a refreshing tropical cocktail."--Publishers WeeklyDiamonds Are Truly Forever* "Readers are in for a fun, rollicking read..." --Romance Reviews TodayLive and Let Love,* Coming December 26, 2012Pink Slipper*, fun, lighthearted women's fiction about finding love and the perfect jobSpy Games* "Robinson delivers an entertaining story of stalking, spying, secret identities, and hidden agendas."--Romantic Times BOOKReviewsSpy Candy *"With the perfect amount of suspense and humor, this story will stay with readers long after the book is over"--Romantic Times BOOKReviewsLipstick Spy School*, a short storyFrom the Back CoverTHE LAST HONEST SEAMSTRESSSeattle,1889--A frontier town filled with rough men and prostitutes who call themselves seamstresses.SHE NEEDS A HUSBAND...After too many business setbacks and unwanted marriage proposals, beautiful and ambitious Fayth Sheridan, a seamstress who actually sews for a living, desperately needs to find a husband of convenience. Now if she can only convince handsome sea captain Con O'Neill, the one man in Seattle who's shown no interest in her, that he's the one...HE NEEDS TO WIN HER LOVE...When Seattle burns to the ground, taking Fayth's shop with it, Con vows to do anything to protect her. Even marrying her before she falls in love with him. When he's forced to make a deal with Seattle's notorious madam, he risks losing everything, including any chance at love with the last honest seamstress in Seattle.
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Sweet Murder

What's a witch to do when the meanest man in the county drops dead in his coleslaw during her shift at the local barbecue joint? Noelle does what any good Southern girl would do: she flicks a wrist to clean up the mess, then thanks the stars for doing the world a favor. But that's just the beginning.She has the Magical Oversight Committee on her back because she can't keep her unruly little sister in line and the hunky new city-slicker sheriff would like to take her to dinner, except he suspects her of murder. To top it off, her possessed miniature donkey is being particularly calamitous and the old hens at the local beauty parlor are laying bets on her love life. A skydiving best friend and a bossy, living-impaired aunt become the least of her worries when the killer decides to bump up the plan by bumping her off. Can she figure it out in time to save all that she holds dear, or will Noelle be next on the list of folks who've turned up dead?
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A Fox's Hostility

A Tail of Fanservice! Kevin Swift has faced many problems since becoming Lilian’s mate: bullies, the older sister of bullies, the older sister’s jabronis, bratty kitsune, yōkai assassins, anti-yōkai militant groups, tentacle monsters, and the mightiest Celestial Kitsune in the entire world. He’s survived through it all, growing stronger and more mature in the process—at least, he likes to think so. But another problem is about to descend upon him, one that will affect far more than just him. The Sons and Daughters of Humanity are making their move, and neither Kevin nor his family are in any way prepared for the coming storm.
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Sensation Machines

A razor-sharp and deeply human satire of data-mining, automation, marketing, finance, and universal basic income, Sensation Machines is a virtuoso rendering of a future that's nearly upon us. Michael and Wendy Mixner are a Brooklyn-based couple whose marriage is failing in the wake of their daughter's stillbirth. Michael, a Wall Street trader, has secretly lost the couple's life savings. Wendy, a digital marketing strategist, has been hired onto a data mining project, whose mysterious owner has ambitions to reshape America's social and political landscapes. When Michael's best friend is murdered, the evidence leads back to Wendy's client, setting off a dangerous chain of events that will profoundly change the couple—and the country. Adam Wilson inhabits the perspectives of the Wall Street bros, the marketing mad men, the Silicon Valley sociopaths—and uncomfortably humanizes them, while considering the ways everyone is complicit in the...
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