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When Ari Mitchell has an unexpected one-night stand with her best friend's future brother-in-law, she fully intends to move on from it without any dramas. But Dylan Summers is someone she can't stop thinking about— and wanting again. Problem is, he doesn't do relationships.   Dylan Summers only...

For Kristen McCann, her best friend's wedding brings out desires she can't ignore. No, it's not a boyfriend she's after--her needs are too immediate for that. After a year of recovering from a disastrous relationship, all she craves is a good, hot, short fling. When Trey Andrews learns that...

Samantha Lane wants to resign from her father's accounting practice and move to another state to follow her dream of establishing a catering business. But she doesn't want to break her parents' hearts. When her cousin jokingly suggests to tell them that a man is the reason behind her decision, she...

Far Hills Ranch has bound the Susland family for nearly a century and a half. For just as long, there’s been a legend that the ranch and its family are cursed. Now, says the legend, the current generation is the last with a chance to break the curse. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ He's the kind of man...

One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening...

A woman's struggle for self-realization in contemporary Iran, a novel with "the clarity and spare sensuousness of Persian poetry or miniature painting."-Ruth Prawer Jhabvala When Minou Hakini marries a man of her own choosing-an intellectual and a radical-and moves to Abadan, a thriving...

Collects two volumes of short stories by one of contemporary South Africa's most acclaimed novelists. With a tender wit, Vladislavić cuts through the ordinary, the profound, and the truly perplexing to reveal absurdities and truisms alike. From a man who forms a strong emotional attachment...

From Lori Handeland, a group of classic contemporary love stories. Humor with heart! Originally published as Doctor, Doctor No kids, no pets, no everlasting love. Growing up an Army brat Elijah Drycinski swore that one day he would find a place to call home. When he moved to Pine...

It's New Year's Eve, and Lily is feeling anything but festive.Lily Lang has just discovered at the age of forty that she can't have it all. Her career with Doctors Without Borders is rewarding but consuming, and her recent divorce proves it. As she announces the bad news to her...

Love stories, with a twist, by Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love...

From the author of You Had Me at Halo, comes the first in a new contemporary romance series where a woman must decide between her own fears and true love. MAYBE, BABY... Kate Mitchell is finished with love. After a recent relationship disaster, she's had it. Sure, she's noticed her smoking...

Book 2 of the Lucky trilogy From New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a contemporary Western romance filled to the brim with sexy cowboys, gutsy heroines, and genuine down-home Texas twang. Jane Day is on the run from a former fiancé who's out to kill...

Book 1 of the Lucky trilogy From New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author Carolyn Brown comes a contemporary Western romance filled to the brim with sexy cowboys, gutsy heroines, and genuine down-home Texas twang. Beau Luckadeau has always been lucky at cards, lucky with cattle,...

Nine years ago Prince Andreas Karedes returned to his island kingdom of Aristo in the Mediterranean Sea to take up his regal duties, not knowing that Holly, the sweet Australian girl with whom he'd briefly fallen in love, had become pregnant…. Tragically, Holly lost their baby. She remained...