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1) Love Stories
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What is love? What can love drive us to do? In these stories, love pushes us to revenge, to reach beyond the boundaries of life and death. To rescue a family member. To fight the good fight without even knowing it, or to risk everyone and everything to save someone who may or may not be worthy. To make the wrong decisions and walk into hell. To transcend who we are. Love can make us both the best and worst versions of ourselves. "Katherine Villyard's...
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"Valentine's Day Love Stories Volume 1" is a captivating anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the enchanting world of love on the most romantic day of the year. Within the pages of this collection, love unfolds in diverse and unexpected ways, spanning various genres and settings to create a rich tapestry of emotional narratives.Embark on a journey through bustling cities, remote villages, virtual reality games, and more, as each...
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Three tales of Amish Romance to warm the heart. AMISH WISHES : Joanne is an Amish woman whose mother has just passed away. The loss of her mother has crushed her father and brothers. Joanna provides a shoulder to cry on but she soon meets an "outsider", David, at the city library. It is love at first sight for the two of them but her father forbids her from dating "outsiders", warning her of the dangers as David comes to court her. Will she leave...
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Dive into the enchanting world of "Valentine's Day Love Stories," a captivating anthology comprising four volumes that collectively weave a tapestry of 62 romantic short stories. Each volume, from the inaugural to the evocative, explores the multifaceted dimensions of love against the backdrop of Valentine's Day.Volume 1 introduces you to the heartwarming narratives that kickstart this romantic journey. Across its pages, you'll encounter tales of...
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Love is a pure and sincere emotion. Cupid may be blindfolded, yet it continually finds its way into people's hearts. Love, in essence, is recognizing others' "self" as one's own. Love is the enrichment of life, much like a cup brimming with wine. What matters is love, not being loved.
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This December, take a break from dreidel spinning, gelt winning, and latke eating to experience the joy of Chanukah. When you fall in love during the Festival of Lights, the world burns a whole lot brighter.
It's definitely not love at first sight for Amanda and her cute but mysterious new neighbor, Ben. Can a Chanukah miracle show them that getting off on the wrong foot doesn't mean they can't walk the same road?
Lawyers in love, Shari Cohen and...
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Christmas is coming – and so is love. Love is in the air this Christmas, and three couples are finding that working at the holidays comes with an unexpected benefit – a soul mate. This holiday anthology includes three previously published novellas, together for the first time in one collection. Each steamy story features a midlife couple, an alpha male, an independent woman, meddling friends, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Dating Santa:...
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Meet the people who make it all happen-the photographers, chefs, and the writers who have helped orchestrate and document the perfect day for countless couples-as they find their own happy endings in three sweet novellas.
Picture Perfect Love: A June Wedding Story by Melissa McClone
When image becomes everything, it's up to love to refocus the heart. Photographer Jenna Harrison wants every bride and groom to look picture perfect on their special...
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America's World War II is most often told through the stories of its great battles, when an entire generation of our young men was suddenly thrust across the oceans to represent the New World in deadly combat against the great powers of the Old. On sea, in the air, and on land our boys fought against totalitarian powers that threatened to overturn the American ideal of liberty for every individual, even civilization itself. But while often forgotten,...
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During the most turbulent decade of our nation's history, four Southern women-their destinies forged by birth and heritage-face nearly impossible choices on their journeys in life . . . and in love. To Mend a Dream by Tamera Alexander: Savannah Darby would do almost anything to revisit her family home. So when the new owner Aidan Bedford seeks to redecorate the house for his fiancée, Savannah jumps at the opportunity. But can she find the box her...
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Annie didn't think she could find love until a handsome Englisch teacher comes into her Amish community. He is kind, strong, caring, impossibly handsome, and his deepest desire is for a wife and family to love. But then tragedy struck.He suffers a terrible injury and begins to push both God and her away. Annie begins to wonder if they are even meant to be together. Will her prayers and efforts be enough to pull her love out of the despair he is in?...
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When TV network journalist Corina Corado's six-year-old son and husband vanish while walking through Central Park, detectives uncover shocking family secrets as a bombshell revelation surfaces online alleging the boy never belonged to the couple at all.
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These heart-soaring tales of romance and tragedy are widely considered four of the finest novels in English literature. Wuthering Heights is an immortal story of love and obsession on the stormy Yorkshire moors. The fate of the Earnshaw family is forever changed when they adopt a dark-skinned orphan boy named Heathcliff. As the years pass, Heathcliff and young Catherine Earnshaw fall deeply in love, but their passion cannot survive the pressures...
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Embark on an enchanting journey with "Chasing Fireflies," the captivating fourth volume of the Valentine's Day Love Stories series. Within these pages, discover a tapestry of love tales, each weaving its unique spell of romance, fate, and serendipity. From the whimsical glow of "Chasing Fireflies" to the healing embrace of "The Healing Garden," and the intricate mosaic of love in "A Love Mosaic," this collection explores the depths of the human heart...
16) Play It Again
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~ Holly Schindler is a critically acclaimed author: Starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, silver medal recipient in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, IPPY Awards gold medal winner. ~ Four years after their unexpected summer romance, the compass that guided Chelsea and Clint to safety is still pointing north, toward everything Chelsea left behind. But can something that rescued you once rescue you a second time? It's late spring at the...
17) Playing Hurt
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~ Holly Schindler is a critically acclaimed author: Starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, silver medal recipient in Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, IPPY Awards gold medal winner. ~ It's hard to get back in the game-of life or love-when you're still playing hurt. Once, she was a small-town celebrity. One of the most talented high school basketball players her hometown had ever seen. Bound for something far bigger beyond the city limits...
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Linford
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Alice fled to Kilhaven to escape a love gone badly wrong. She designs costumes for a TV dance competition her mother longs to win - only to find herself accused of murder! DI Ben Gently is on the case, leaving no sequin unturned in his efforts to find the killer. He soon realises that nothing in Kilhaven is quite what it seems... but will he be able to prove Alice's innocence?
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
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"The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revolutionary collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience, and intimacy in all its myriad forms. What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another...
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