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A widow without a penny to her name. A cattleman needing a woman's gentle ways.Cora Hatch thought she could raise a family and grow old with her husband, but when she finds herself a young widow with nothing to her name, she answers an advertisement to become a cook, housekeeper, and farm help to a stranger out west. Now all she has to do is take a train across the country and marry a cattleman she's only communicated with through letters, though...
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Grace comes to Birch Creek for a new start, Jed isn't sure he's ready to let go of the past.Grace has loved caring for her brother's children, but when her brother remarries, Grace knows it's time to move on. With the invitation from a good friend to move out west and start a new life there, Grace knows it might be the only chance she would have to find a place where she'd fit in. She won't let her childhood injury keep her from fighting for what...
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In this unique romance series debut, two timeless young lovers find each other amid the madcap antics of the silent film industry.
Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love.
In 1913, the world is thrilling to that fabulous...
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It's finally John Mason's turn to secure the love he found with Rosalind Walker. John is a cautious man. He's been putting off getting married until everything is perfect. But his fiancee has different ideas. She's started a business growing and selling flowers to local florists. She's ready to expand her operation, but she needs John to finalize wedding plans before she can increase her profit.
Their relationship is already strained when Rosalind's...
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In this unique time-shift romance series, two young lovers find each other-once again-as trouble brews in Depression Era New York City.
Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love.
In 1933, Jack and Susan are both married...
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She flees one problem only to find the alternative is just as bad, until he steps in.After her friend moves out west as a mail-order bride, Annabelle decides to do the same and leaves for the same town. After all, no man can be worse than the factory owner who won't leave her alone.Colten couldn't understand why someone would be crazy enough or desperate enough to order a bride through an advertisement. When Annabelle arrives to marry the worst possible...
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In this time-shift romance series by the screenwriter of Beetlejuice, the timeless lovers are on a daring adventure through 1950s NYC and Havana.
Regardless of what the calendar says, Jack and Susan are always, eternally, twenty-seven years old. They are destined for each other like Hepburn and Tracy, Dagwood and Blondie, Nick and Nora. And somehow, they always acquire a shaggy white dog on the way to falling in love.
In 1953, New York City is at...
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The complete World Clock Journals trilogy, a dystopian steampunk romance.
Late Boston is a city held hostage by time.
It has been five years since inventor Ezra Huxley's wife mysteriously disappeared through a portal in the time machine he was building. When he finally gives up hope and uses the same technology to craft a perpetual motion clock in the Custom House Tower, everything goes horribly wrong-at his daughter's wedding, no less.
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70) The Wedding Gift
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2023.
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A bride with cold feet might just make the mistake of a lifetime... Includes two bonus novellas to help you celebrate the seasons!
A week before your wedding is one heckuva time for your ex to ride back into town, stirring up trouble. But that's exactly the predicament Darla McAdams finds herself in. Darla's on the verge of breaking up with her fiancé, Will Jackson-only a week before the wedding. Her parents would disown her, but Darla's sure that...
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Newark Minutemen is a true 1930s legend about one man's mission to save a nation's soul without losing his own.
In between the world wars, during the Great Depression, American democracy is being threatened by a shadow Hitler-Nazi party in America, complete with a self-proclaimed American Hitler and a 1939 Nuremberg-like rally at Madison Square Garden.
Inspired by a true American legend, a Jewish boxer trained by the mafia and FBI fights the rising...
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Mary Pinchot Meyer was possibly the only woman John F. Kennedy ever loved. Follow their affair in this fictional diary of the woman murdered for asking too many questions after the JFK assassination.
John F. Kennedy said he needed sex every three days or he got a headache. In the White House, he never had a headache. Kennedy met Mary Pinchot in 1935, when he was eighteen and she was sixteen. Twenty years later, when she was living in Virginia and...
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"A debut novel everyone will be talking about," Avery Cunningham's epic love story is "a triumph" and "a tale of intrigue, racial tension, and class warfare, set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of early 20th century Chicago."
When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago.
The year...
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This 1922 short story, 'Winter Dreams', encapsulates the Jazz Age. With themes of unrequited love and self-made success, F. Scott Fitzgerald used this elegiac short story as the basis for his masterful novel The Great Gatsby (1925).
Dexter Green is the son of a middle-class grocery store owner. To earn money, he starts working as a golf caddie and it is on the golf course that he meets the beautiful socialite Judy Jones. Several years later, after...
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"Personal reflections on the vital role of the notebook in creative writing, from Dorianne Laux, Sue Grafton, John Dufresne, Kyoko Mori, and more. This collection of essays by established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshops -- places to collect, to play, and to make new discoveries with language, passions, and curiosities. For these diverse writers, the journal also serves as an ideal forum to develop...
77) Thelma's Song
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Though her bluesy voice can bring grown men to tears, Thelma Waters moves to Oyster Harbor for a peaceful life-avoiding singing and men. Anything to forget her wild youth as a performer, so addicted to fame she'd do anything to get it. When Tom Lewes-Oyster Harbor's remaining bigot-hires her as a lounge singer to save his failing restaurant, he stirs up more than her old talent.His obsession with profits reminds her of every man who used her, especially...
78) Cali's Hurricane
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Despite the racial tensions brewing in Oyster Harbor in the 1930s, three interracial couples have found love. When a hurricane blows through, will hate finally be washed away or will it grow back stronger than ever?Jonathan Carter, filled with hate from a childhood incident, cares only about keeping the Klan strong on the island. Cali Waters, still grieving for her husband who died from a Klan attack, longs to use her healing gift instead of being...
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She craves solitude… When a disastrous holiday party leaves Imogen Radford publicly jilted, she hightails it to her family's remote cabin in the Cascade Mountains. But her desire to sulk alone with her photography equipment for Christmas is challenged by the arrival of a captivating half-naked scoundrel. A scoundrel who just so happens to be her former childhood best friend… He's on the run… Tommy Solberg prides himself on three things: tidiness,...
80) Let It Shine
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*2016 RITA Award finalist for Best Novella*Sofronia Wallis knows that proper Black women don't court trouble by upending the status quo, but it's 1961 and the Civil Rights movement is in full swing. Sofie's spent half her life being prim, proper, and reserved-as if that could bring her mother back-but the nonviolent protests happening across the South bring out her inner agitator. Ivan Friedman has devoted his life to boxing, loving the finesse of...
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