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Pretending
by Holly Bourne
Starring: April, who is kind, pretty and relatively normal—yet she can’t seem to get past date five. Every time she thinks she’s found someone to trust, they reveal themselves to be awful, leaving her heartbroken. And angry. Until she realizes that men aren’t looking for real women.
What happens: April starts pretending to be Gretel. Her alter-ego is perfect—beautiful but low-maintenance, sweet but never clingy, sexy but not too easy. She’s your regular, everyday Manic-Pixie-Dream-Girl-Next-Door with no problems. Dating becomes much more fun—especially once she reels in the unsuspecting Joshua. Finally, April is the one in control. It’s refreshing. Exhilarating, even. But as she and Joshua grow closer, and the pressure of keeping her painful past a secret begins to build, how long will she be able to keep on pretending?
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West End Girls
by Jenny Colgan
Starring: Lizzie and Penny Berry, twins and complete opposites. Penny is the life of the party, loud and outrageous, while quiet and thoughtful Lizzy is often left out of the crowd. The one trait they do share is a longing to do something spectacular with their lives, and as far as these two are concerned, there's no better place to make their dreams come true than London.
What happens: Presented with a once-in-a-lifetime house-sit at their grandmother's home in a very desirable London neighborhood, it finally seems like Lizzie and Penny are a step closer to the exciting cosmopolitan life they've always wanted. But the more time they spend in the big city, they quickly discover it's nothing like they expected.
For: Romantic comedy fans
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| Wild Rain: Women Who Dare by Beverly JenkinsWhat happens: Wyoming rancher Spring Rain Lee rescues traveling reporter Garrett McCray from a blizzard, earning his respect and -- if she'll have it -- his love.
Read it for: a fiercely independent heroine battling past trauma, a gentle hero forging his own path in life, and meticulously researched depictions of the lives of Black people in the 19th-century American West.
Series alert: Wild Rain is the 2nd book in the Women Who Dare series, which links the author's House of LeVeq and Old West series. |
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Not My Match
by Ilsa Madden-Mills
Starring: Bad boy wide receiver Devon Walsh and Giselle Riley, physics doctoral student and best friend of his brother's new wife.
What happens: After her apartment is damaged in a fire, Devon invites Giselle to stay with him. Homeless and heartbreakingly innocent, Giselle Riley walks into his penthouse and chaos follows.
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Two's Company
by Jill Mansell
Starring: Celebrity couple Jack and Cass Mandeville, who are successful, good-looking, likeable, and famous for having an ideal marriage.
What happens: On Jack's 40th birthday, a stunning, and stunningly intelligent, redhead named Imogen turns up to interview the couple for a high-profile magazine. Like a bolt of lightning, Jack is hit with a midlife crisis of epic proportions and Jack and Cass's proverbial bubble bursts. This drastic turn of events flips their lives upside down, and sends their entire family, friends, local community, and fans around the country, into a tailspin.
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Dance Away with Me
by Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Starring: When life throws her one setback too many, Midwife and young widow Tess Hartsong, who takes off for Runaway Mountain when life throws her one setback too many.
What happens: In this small town high in the Tennessee mountains, surrounded by nature, she hopes to outrun her heartbreak and find the solace she needs to heal. But instead of peace and quiet, she encounters an enigmatic artist with a craving for solitude, a fairy-tale sprite with too many secrets, a helpless infant, a passel of curious teens, and a town suspicious of outsiders, especially one as headstrong as Tess.
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Everything After
by Jill Santopolo
Starring: Emily, a psychologist at NYU who helps troubled college students like the one she once was. Together with her caring doctor husband, Ezra, she has a beautiful life. They're happy. They hope to start a family.
What happens: When a tragic event in Emily's present too closely echoes her past, and parts of her story that she'd hoped never to share come to light, her perfect life is suddenly upturned. Then Emily hears a song on the radio about the woman who got away. The melody and voice are hauntingly familiar. Could it be? As Emily's past passions come roaring back into her life, she'll find herself asking: Who is she meant to be? Who is she meant to love?
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The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
by Josie Silver
What happens: Lydia and Freddie have been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia's twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life--and perhaps even love--again. But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Michigan City Public Library 100 E. 4th Street Michigan City, Indiana 46360 219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
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