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6) Echo
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Jade Avery is away on a business trip when her young cousin disappears. Easton Cooper is a Seattle cop who moonlights at the club where a waitress, a woman he was dating, has gone missing. Months later, both cases have gone cold. Jade and Easton connect over the missing women, sharing their guilt over those lost on their watch, unaware that a vengeful spirit follows the killer. Intense sexual temptation rapidly develops between Easton and Jade while...
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Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government.
But when her Mainland mother dies, Elimina finds herself...
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Nick Morgan fell for jazz singer Ava Abbott two years ago when he tried to recruit her for one of his nightclubs. But he rushed the relationship and scared her into bolting, when he proposed on Christmas Eve. He wants her back, but finding his skittish, runaway fiancée wasn't easy. After two years without Nick, Ava's one regret is leaving him. While baking holiday cookies, she hits her head and suffers temporary amnesia, knocking those lonely years...
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Unapologetic bachelor Tucker Julian is co-CEO of the country's fastest-growing online dating site. When he hires Dr. Joelle Scarbrough-Jacobs, he finds himself intrigued by the prickly researcher and sets out to win her over. Joelle is focused on establishing a name for her small research company and doesn't have time for a relationship. But sparks fly between them, weakening her resolve to stay focused on work. Maybe she's not immune to love and...
10) Fate's Do-Over
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Through hard work and sacrifice, pro-baller Jaxon Thorne is making his mark on Major League Baseball. But it's not enough. He misses Jules, the woman he left behind and can't forget. Putting into play his plan to win her back, Jaxon returns home and gets an assist from Fate. Photojournalist Jules Anderson is content with her independent lifestyle and fulfilling career. When she fills in for a colleague at a sports event, she is pulled back into the...
11) Bait
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After being burned by Wall Street financier Scott Lowell, Jenna Alexander takes a much-needed vacation. But Karma is tricky. On her first day in Bermuda, a total hunk literally saves her life. Unexpected sparks ensue, tempting her to do something she's never done - indulge in a no-strings holiday fling. Supervising US Marshal Wyatt Stone leads the government's law enforcement contingent tracking Scott who fled the US after his firm was shut down....
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When Jordan Jacoby's brother is injured, she heads to Vegas to complete an important deal for her family's business. Matt Wade's company is the other half of the deal. He is unaware that she is filling in for her brother and mistakes her for a high-class escort. Sparks fly between the two, which Jordan is determined to extinguish. Matt, on the other hand, welcomes the heat and is prepared to gamble it all. Will his blunder and her reservations doom...
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Alexia Craddock is a small-town attorney who moonlights during her lunch break at her grandmother's ice cream parlor. She's delivering flyers for her grandmother's annual specials when she tangles with a pesky Pomeranian and falls at the feet of a handsome stranger whose chivalrous humor eases her embarrassment and kicks her pulse into overdrive. Wounded captain Jesse Garland has moved to Craddock's Cove to recuperate and discover what life holds...
14) Accidental Sin
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Jana Sinclair returns to her hometown to settle her grandmother's affairs. While there, she experiences what she believes is a visit by her deceased parents, which casts doubt on the manner of their deaths. After passing out, she wakes up in single, successful, and seriously sexy Garrett Sanatota's arms. Garrett fans the embers of her long-buried adolescent crush. But his property is the site of her parents' deaths and the focus of Jana's exploration....
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Trevor Hudson needs Jacqi Armstrong's help resolving a personal crisis. His godmother, a prominent businesswoman who took him in when he was orphaned, has been experiencing nightmares that she attributes to a visiting spirit from her plantation's unsavory history. When Trevor's quest for an answer leads him to Jacqi, she soon discovers that the physical and spiritual realms don't always peacefully co-exist. Battling an intense attraction to Trevor,...
16) Because You Are
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A picture book about self-esteem, inner beauty and making a difference from celebrated author, festival organizer and diversity advocate Jael Richardson
Little one,
there's something you should know
You are just right
just enough
as you are
Conceived of as a letter to her younger self, Because You Are captures Jael Richardson's insightful lessons about growing up, being joyful and loving yourself as a young Black girl. By exploring what inner...
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Undivided Rights captures the evolving and largely unknown activist history of women of color organizing for reproductive justice - on their own behalf. Undivided Rights presents a textured understanding of the reproductive rights movement by placing the experiences, priorities, and activism of women of color in the foreground. Using historical research, original organizational case studies, and personal interviews, the authors illuminate how women...
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When the Faerie Queen is out for blood ... danger lurks everywhere. Wren Carezby has always lived with her uncle her whole life and has never heard a word from her parents before. Until one day, she brought the subject up. She finds out she is of the blood of the royal family. The catch: a royal family in a world nothing like the one she was living in right now. Determined to learn more about her parents, she runs away and a search mission finds...
19) Lords and ladies
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Discworld volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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A comic tale about people blinded by the superficial. The citizens of a fantasy world let themselves be seduced by the chic and glamour of elves, only to learn that elves are very nasty beings. By the author of Small Gods.