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Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
2) Breathless
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From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
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Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside--and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them. Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close...
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In 1980, a rural Cuban family is torn apart during the Mariel Boat-lift. Uxbal Encarnación--father, husband, political insurgent--refuses to leave behind the revolutionary ideals and lush tomato farms of his sun-soaked homeland. His wife Soledad takes young Isabel and Ulises hostage and flees with them to America, leaving behind Uxbal for the promise of a better life. But instead of settling with fellow Cuban immigrants in Miami's familiar heat,...
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Cupcake queen volume 1
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Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, has opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.
8) Home games
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"Twelve-year-old Ben is a shy, quiet kid. His life isn't perfect, but he feels at home in his New York City apartment. Then his dad takes a job in London, and everything changes. His parents separate, and Ben's mom moves them back to her hometown of Austin, Texas. Ben's simple life is suddenly complicated. He misses his apartment, his best friend, Jake, and his dad. Then he meets Mabley, who becomes a bright spot to Ben's day. But when his mom starts...
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"A beautifully written, finely wrought, race-to-the-end novel about finding your family, finding a life and finding yourself. Tish Cohen is the next great thing in women's fiction." - Allison Winn Scotch, New York Times bestselling author of The One That I Want and Time of My Life
Just as Delilah's father falls further and further into Alzeimer's, she discovers that he's been harboring a horrible secret for over 15 years, but he no longer remembers...
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El 13 de agosto de 1961, los berlineses se despiertan con la amarga noticia de la construcción del muro. Alzada por sorpresa y ante la indignación de medio mundo, la pared no solamente divide la ciudad en dos, sino que también separa a numerosas familias como la de Stefan, que se ve alejado de su mujer y su hija.Stefan y unos amigos deciden cavar un túnel subterráneo, pero el riesgo es mayúsculo...
On August 13, 1961, people in Berlin wake...
11) Purgatorio
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"«Me separé hace poco más de tres años, y desde entonces solo puedo ver a mi hijo cada dos semanas, justo el tiempo que un señor que no me conoce y que no sabe nada sobre mí, ha plasmado en una sentencia judicial. Por si fuera poco, la cantidad de dinero que debo pagar cada mes es abusiva, teniendo en cuenta que, una vez que la he satisfecho, ni siquiera puedo hacer frente a los gastos corrientes de una casa.» Alex es un policía, escritor...