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Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
After a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives an invitation from Alice Lovelace— an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother-- offering a nanny position at Lovelace...
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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach will be kind to her. She will have a good life. But these are human concerns. These are the concerns of those confined to land, those with legs. Ren grew up on stories of creatures of the deep,...
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"This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...
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Sisters Beck and Avery travel to an isolated Arizona town to investigate its connection to their mother's death, but uncover more than they anticipated.
Beck Birsching has been adrift since the death of her mother, a brilliant but troubled investigative reporter. She finds herself unable to stop herself from slipping into memories of happier days, clamoring for a time when things were normal. So when a mysterious letter in her mother's handwriting...
5) Homebodies
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A Best in Fiction Book for 2023
"[A] sharp, charming and passionate debut." —New York Times Book Review
A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Elle, USA Today, Bustle, Ebony, Harper's Bazaar, PopSugar, New York Post, The Skimm, and The Millions.
A Best Book of 2023 by Marie Claire, Esquire, Vogue, them, Autostraddle, Betches, Gay Times, and Cosmopolitan.
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"A sapphic rivals to lovers rom com for fans of Ted Lasso and A League of Their Own, where two soccer teammates are at odds before falling in love as their team gears up for the World Cup. Grace Henderson has been a star of the US Women's National Team for ten years, even though she's only 26. But when she's sidelined with an injury, a bold new upstart, Phoebe Matthews, takes her spot. 22-year-old Phoebe is everything Grace isn't-a gregarious jokester...
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Sometimes what you're running from is exactly what you need Olivia Chevalier is perfectly happy living a quiet life of solitude with her two cats in the tempestuous countryside of Brittany. Olivia's peace is disrupted when heartbreaker extraordinaire Marie Dievart moves in to the holiday home next door after an event at work makes her flee her everyday life. Olivia hates having a neighbour and Marie is put off by Olivia's cranky ways. But maybe these...
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"The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to be met with both joy and sorrow. Their mentor, Cleric Thien, has died, and rests among the archivists and storytellers of the storied abbey. But not everyone is prepared to leave them to their rest. Because Cleric Thien was once the patriarch of Coh clan of Northern Bell Pass--and now their granddaughters have arrived on the backs of royal...
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In 1970s Texas, on the Gulf Coast, twenty-nine-year-old Lou, mourning her brother's death in Vietnam, attempts to solve the murder of her elderly neighbor and unearths disturbing secrets involving the history of her tight-knit, religious small town and its residents that may be the key to catching a killer.
1970s. Parson, Texas is a small town ravaged by a devastating hurricane and the Vietnam War. Lou is diligently renovating a decaying old mansion...
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Emory needs a win, a promotion…and a date to her ex-fiancée's Hollywood wedding in this sapphic fake-relationship rom com. Emory Jordan has been rising through the ranks of the boys' club at a venture capital firm in New York, where she's competing for her dream promotion. When Emory's estranged ex-girlfriend Mari-who broke off their engagement to pursue her acting ambitions-sends her a wedding invitation, it's the perfect opening for Emory to...
11) Learned by heart
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"Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary...
12) Ellen
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Ihren Traumjob vermutet Nina nicht gerade im Pressebüro eines Pharmakonzerns, denn bisher schrieb sie Kinderbücher. Es ist Geldmangel, der sie in die fremde Bürowelt treibt, wo sie direkt vor der Nase der kühlen Chefin Ellen McGill landet. Eine Landung mitten in einem neuen Leben-und in eine neue Liebe.
Der Job macht Nina erheblichen Stress. Doch sie beißt die Zähne zusammen. Schließlich ist sie nicht nach Wien gezogen, um unglücklich zu werden....
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Im Weißen Rössl... spielt dieser Roman zwar nicht, aber Vanessa betreibt mit ihren Eltern den Auhof am Wolfgangsee. Und natürlich trägt sie Dirndl... Doch ihre Neigung gilt nicht nur der traditionellen Welt im Salzkammergut, sondern auch: Frauen. Als sie sich an ihrem 27. Geburtstag vor ihren engsten Freundinnen als lesbisch outet, reagieren sie offen, aber erstaunt. Ob Vanessa denn schon einmal eine kennengelernt habe, die ihr gefalle... ?
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14) Beach Dreams
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A fantastic dream that they made a reality. Sometimes dreams do come true...
Hasn't there always been a place you wanted to go to, that you dreamed about? What if you made it a reality with the one that you love? All your fantasies and dreams come true?
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The Preacher's Daughter is a story of love, loss, and second chances. Hunter Morgan, a former Black Hawk pilot and firefighter, is haunted by her past and has been avoiding love and relationships. Dr. Lauren Briscoll, a hardworking physician, has been living a fast-paced life, putting her job before everything else. When Lauren's grandmother passes away, she returns to her hometown, where she reunites with Hunter, her high school sweetheart, and they...
16) The Trip
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I didn't think I'd ever return to this town.
We weren't together long, but I loved my wife deeply. Brooke meant the world to me and in her dying days, I married her. It's been a year since I lost her and I haven't been quite the same. It feels like my life has been put on hold and I'm not sure how to get it back on track.
But apparently, Brooke believed she knew how to help me through my grief. On the anniversary of her death, a stranger shows up...
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Gina hasn't always made the best choices, there are people in her past that she's deeply hurt. One of those people being Jess, her best friend who she'd completely lost contact with. Though she never stopped thinking of her, she could never bring herself to reach out after the shame of what she'd done to her. Gina didn't even want to come back to her hometown in fear of running into Jess, but she had to take care of her mother who is ill with cancer.
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18) Love Me Not
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I don't know if I'm cut out for passionate love.
Me and my ex-husband were best friend's and I harbor no negative feelings toward him, but I never felt very passionate about him. We had a marriage of convenience and I didn't feel very connected to him. I'm starting to believe I can't fall passionately in love with anyone.
But when I have to hire a dog sitter, Anna, I start to think maybe I've been wrong. Maybe I just haven't been looking in the...
19) Half Baked
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This isn't what I pictured for my future.
I really do care about my boyfriend Charlie, he's been my best friend since we were teenagers. He's kind of my only friend. Which is why I said yes when he proposed. But when I imagined what getting married was going to feel like, I imagined it would be like it is in the movies. Full of passion, sparks flying, the intense feeling that you've found your soulmate. But I told myself that passionate love like...
20) My 2 Moms
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In a world where love knows no boundaries, Emily and Sarah, a courageous lesbian couple, yearn to fulfil their dream of starting a family. Their hearts are captivated by a six-year-old girl named Lily, a deep and curious child longing for the warmth of a loving home. Their journey unfolds with incredible resilience as they navigate bureaucratic hurdles, societal prejudices, and a legal battle that threatens to tear them apart. Fueled by unwavering...
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