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Publisher:
Jove
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
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Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and a would-be investigative reporter. Due to a combination of good looks and lucky (or unlucky?) breaks, he's become the how-to guy for a buzzy, internet media company instead of covering hard-hitting politics. Fed up with his fluffy job and the app-based dating scene as well, he reluctantly agrees to write an article on how to lose a girl in two weeks. Easier said than done when the subject of his experiment...
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Language:
English
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2 stars
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France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officers dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything--her family, her reputation, and her life--to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young...
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Publisher:
Author's Republic
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
Danielle is a young girl who travels from New York City to Georgetown Guyana to visit family for the first time. When she gets there she has all types of adventures. This is the tale of when her Auntie Julia is trying to find out why Danielle doesn't want her to get married.
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Pub. Date:
2011
Language:
English
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"Hilarious, smart, and utterly addicting. Watch out, Nora Ephron." -Valerie Frankel
Jenna McCarthy presents an uproarious but insightful peek behind the curtains at the unholy state of matrimony. With ballsy wit and bawdy humor, she explores everything from male domestic idiocy and the frustrating misfires in spousal communication to how to stay true to the peskiest of vows: forsaking all others. Part in-your-face guide,
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HL: High-Low 660L
Language:
English
Description:
A Muslim-American teen goes into denial mode about her role in an out-of-control party that occured during Ramadan, a situation that escalates until she incurs damage that is harder to repair, forcing her to come to terms with her true self. --Publisher.
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Publisher:
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
Description:
"The week before Luna's twin sister Solina was supposed to head back for her final semester at Kingswood Academy, an elite boarding school in the Washington mountains, she told Luna she was dropping out. When Luna refused to let her throw away her future, Solina disappeared. Twelve hours later, she was dead. Luna knows Solina's death wasn't an accident, even if the police say otherwise. There's a reason Solina didn't want to go back to Kingswood,...
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English
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To everyone she meets, Morgan Kemper comes across as sweet, pretty, and put together. But for over a year she's shoplifted countless pieces of clothing and makeup. When she's caught and sentenced to thirty hours of community service, the image Morgan has carefully constructed starts to crumble. Morgan is determined to complete her punishment without her friends discovering the truth. Then she meets Eli, the nephew of the owner of the charity shop...
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Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Language:
English
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You never know what secrets people are hiding. Isabel: Beautiful. Talented. Bored. Mathew: Mysterious. Handsome. Dangerous. For Isabel Archer, dating is a way to pass the time in her otherwise comfortable life. She casts herself as the Perfect Girlfriend for every man she matches with, playing a different girl with a different back-story every night for months. It's innocent - one goodnight kiss before swiftly deleting each profile - until she goes...
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Publisher:
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
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Does the heart never really forget? When Ava's partner Will is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour, the doctors give Will one chance to survive - an operation which means he will lose his recent memory. Ava begs him to take the chance, sure that she can cope with Will forgetting her. After all, they have something very special to live for. But they are also keeping a heart-breaking secret, and if Will loses his memory, Ava will have to carry that...
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Series:
Unconventional ladies of Mayfair volume 1
Publisher:
Forever
Pub. Date:
©2021
Language:
English
Description:
William Atherton, Earl of Norwood, is as shocked as the rest of London to discover his betrothal via an announcement in the morning paper. Furious at what appears to be a shrewd marriage trap, William tracks down his alleged fianc?e before her plans can affect his campaign for a coveted political post. But then William realizes an engagement, however fake, may benefit them both...Miss Charlotte Hurst may be a wallflower, but she?s no shrinking violet....
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Publisher:
Kokila
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
"In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Using a variety of poetic forms, from haiku to free verse, Watson shares recollections of her childhood in Portland, tender odes to the Black women in her life, and urgent calls for Black girls to step into their power."--
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Publisher:
Balboa Press
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
ave you ever wondered why nearly 50 percent of women marry the wrong guy and then divorce himor whether your Mr. Right might be your Mr. Maybe? A quick, feisty read, Should You Marry Him? A No-Nonsense, Therapist-Tested Guide to Not Screwing Up the Biggest Decision of Your Life, gives you the skinny on the ten most common red flags women overlook before tying the knot. Written by a licensed psychotherapist who has worked with hundreds of married and...
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Publisher:
Anthonia Bakare
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
A wise person sits down and calculates the cost of the project he's about to embark on and so in the realm of doing this, he will be able to tell himself that he is ready and capable or not to get into work, without minding what the crowd thinks. In this book, "WILL YOU MARRY ME?", we want to help people, especially the single ladies to understand that, there is more to that question than what they think. It's a question that is asked by a man, to...
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Publisher:
Elizabeth Frearson
Pub. Date:
2019
Language:
English
Description:
It's 1987, and three schoolgirls contemplate what they will be like at fifty: with so many different paths they could take, limitless opportunities unfurl before them. One warning rings out amid their speculations: be careful who you marry. Halloween approaches, and the Young Farmers' disco with it, a simple night out that changes lives forever. That night, three different choices create three wildly diverging destinies. Lilli never expected that...
Publisher:
DMR
Pub. Date:
2004
Language:
Mongolian
Description:
He had a wonderful life, a loving family, a fulfilling job as a psychiatrist, well-equipped to advise his clients on their issues. But when his first love unexpectedly returns, he's willing to risk everything-and use every mind-bending method at his disposal-to have her back.
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Publisher:
Phindile Yende
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
Often times the burden we carry as women derives from the erroneous decision taken when choosing our lifetime partners. The connection we make with these men leads us to believing that we have found our "perfect-match" or soul-mate! Then without hesitation, we disregard contemplating or the urge to seek guidance through giving ourselves time to know what the "perfect-match" is all about nor who he really is. "Bear in mind that not every women has...
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Publisher:
Findaway Voices
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
Description:
Immigration is a current hot topic, and when it's in your family it's hotter than an inferno. We don't get to choose who our kids fall in love with. And no one can prepare us for who they end up marrying. You Married a What?! is the amazingly, absurdly, deliciously funny journey of a mom having to accept her daughter's choice of husband, especially when they come live with her, and have a baby. Ali is from Egypt, and as a Muslim he brings a different...
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Publisher:
PJ Watters Books LLC
Pub. Date:
2015
Language:
English
Description:
Will You Marry Me? continues the intimate chronicle of a young couple's romantic courtship that began in 1850. Lizzie Andrews is just 14 years old when she receives her first letter from Edward Jarvis Tenney. Both from prominent New England families, her suitor is a 16-year old Harvard scholar and her third-cousin! One hundred and fifty years after they were written, Edward's letters were discovered in a dusty attic. Will You Marry Me? includes Edward's...