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| Birding With Benefits by Sarah T. DubbAs part of her ongoing post-divorce quest to embrace new experiences, 42-year-old Celeste Johanssen agrees to partner with quiet birder John for the Arizona Ornithological Society's annual birdwatching competition. This heartfelt, upbeat debut boasts mature leads, a well-drawn supporting cast, and plenty of authentic birding details. You might also like: Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance; Maggie North's Rules for Second Chances. |
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The rom-commers
by Katherine Center
Hired to write a rom-com screenplay with her hero, movie-writing legend Charlie Yates, Emma, arriving in LA, discovers he's a jerk and doesn't even believe in love and refusing to go down without a fight, she decides to write her dreams into reality whether he likes it or not.
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Just for the Summer
by Abby Jimenez
Emma and Justin have one thing in common: all of their exes have gone on to find their soul mates after breaking up with them. By that logic, dating each other should produce similar results, right? Read-alikes: Lynn Painter's Happily Never After; Alison Rose Greenberg's Bad Luck Bridesmaid; Jacqueline Firkins' The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch.
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Not in love
by Ali Hazelwood
A successful biotech engineer, Rue Siebert, when a hostile takeover and its front man, Eli Killgore, threaten to bring her stable, hard-fought world crashing down, is torn between loyalty and undeniable attraction when they embark on a forbidden, no-strings-attached affair that proves all's fair in love and science.
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Funny story
by Emily Henry
Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together-for a particular audience of two-who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancé’s ex-boyfriend.
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My Heart Still Beats : A Novel
by Helen Hardt
Struggling with even the most mundane tasks after being victimized by a deceitful man, Tess Logan, finding a way to be the maid of honor her best friend deserves, catches the eye of best man Ben Black, who isn't frightened by her demons since he's been fighting his own for decades. Original.
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The best life book club
by Sheila Roberts
Leaving Seattle and her cheating husband behind, single mother Karissa moves to Puget Sound where she meets her new neighbors, who are also dealing with their own crises, and together they start a book club as a distraction until it becomes a way to build a better life together.
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All roads lead to Rome
by Sabrina Fedel
When she's in the wrong gelato shop in Rome at the right time, introverted, slightly anxious Astoria Herriot is drawn into a fake dating scheme, one full of unexpected surprises and feelings, with a Scottish heartthrob for the sake of protecting his relationship with a pop princess. Original. Simultaneous eBook.
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Seven summer weekends
by Jane L. Rosen
Inheriting a property on Fire Island, along with a list of eclectic guests, tying her to the island for seven summer weekends, advertising exec Addison Irwin, constantly butting heads with her surly neighbor, must choose between picking up where she left off or embracing entirely new possibilities.
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The heiress's daughter
by Anne Gracie
When he falls in love with heiress Clarissa Studley, in whom he sees a beauty others cannot, notorious rake Lord Randall must prove he has changed his scandalous ways to win her heart, especially when a rival for her affections appears. Original.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Albert Lea Public Library 211 E Clark St. Albert Lea, Minnesota 56007 (507) 377-4350alplonline.org |
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