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Hot and hammered volume 2
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English
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High school sweethearts Rosie and Dominic Vega are madly in love. Well, they used to be, anyway. Now Rosie's lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. Her friends have three words for Rosie: marriage boot camp. To her surprise, Dom is all in, and the relationship rehab forces her to admit her own role...
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"For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother...
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English
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"Seven Days. Seven Questions. Forever Changed. That's how The Eden Test, a week-long getaway, advertises itself for couples in trouble. And that's what Daisy, a talented actress, has signed up for, in the hopes of saving her marriage. It's a tall order, seeing as her husband Craig plans on leaving her for another woman. In fact, his bags are packed in the back of the car as he drives to the cabin in the woods in upstate New York. But spending time...
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English
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Gretchen and Steve have been married for a long time. Living in San Francisco, recently separated, with two children and demanding jobs, they've started going to a marriage counselor. Unfolding over the course of ten months and taking place entirely in the marriage counselor's office, John Jay Osborn's Listen to the Marriage is the story of a fractured couple in a moment of crisis, and of the person who tries to get them to see each other again. A...
5) The ex talk
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Public radio co-hosts navigate mixed signals in this romantic comedy. Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she can't imagine working anywhere else. But lately it's been a constant clash between her and her newest colleague, Dominic Yun, who's fresh off a journalism master's program and convinced he knows everything about public radio. When the struggling station needs a new concept, Shay...
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"A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"As [five] women share never-before-uttered secrets and bond over painful truths, they work on coming to terms with their husbands' addictions and developing healthy boundaries for themselves. Meanwhile, their outside lives become more and more intertwined, until, finally, a series of events forces each woman to face her own denial, betrayal, and uncertain future head-on"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The Harmony Resort promises hope for struggling marriages. Run by celebrity power couple Drs. Miles and Grace Markell, the "last resort" offers a chance for partners to repair their relationships in a luxurious setting on the gorgeous Mayan Riviera. Johanna and Ben have a marriage that looks perfect on the surface, but in reality, they don't know each other at all. Shell and Colin fight constantly: after all, Colin is a workaholic, and Shell always...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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At age eight, Jenny Rowan was abducted and kept for two years in a box beneath her captor's bed. Eventually she escaped and, after living for eighteen months on cast-offs at the local mall, was put into the child-care system. Suing for emancipation, at age sixteen she became a legal adult. Nowadays she works as a production editor for the local public TV station, and is one of the world's good people. One evening she returns home to find a detective...
10) The helpline
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Germaine Johnson doesn't need friends. She has her work and her Sudoku puzzles. Until, that is, an incident at her insurance company leaves her jobless--and it turns out that there are very few openings these days for senior mathematicians with zero people skills. Soon enough though, Germaine manages to secure a position at City Hall answering calls on the Senior Citizens Helpline. But it turns out that the mayor has something else in mind for Germaine:...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Dark secrets are revealed when a therapist becomes obsessed with her troubled new patients.
When Erin and Will walk into Maggie's office for a marriage counseling session, Maggie believes they are an ordinary couple with ordinary communication, intimacy, the usual. When Erin mentions something connected to Maggie's past that she couldn't possibly know, Maggie is disturbed: Why does Erin know anything about Maggie's long-missing sister? She wants...
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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a tramp in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local tramp, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn't talk much, but he allows Leonard to accompany him as he sets rabbit snares and to visit his small, secluded dwelling. Being with Bill is everything to young Leonard--an escape from...
13) The cabinet
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Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Cabinet 13 looks like a normal filing cabinet, but it's filled with files on "symptomers"--people with weird abilities and bizarre experiences. And harried Mr. Kong, who is the office worker responsible for the cabinet, must deal with all the symptomers who call the office looking for help.
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Yen ON, an imprint of Yen Press, LLC
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English
Description
"From exactly midnight until daybreak, the Namiya General Store advice box will be reopening for one night only. When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store's shutter. This seemingly simple request for advice sets the trio on a journey of discovery as, over the course of a single night, they step into the role of the kindhearted...
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Publisher
Rizzoli ex Libris
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
An under-cover Roman policeman ravaged by guilt meets a woman on the run from her past. Every Monday and Thursday, Roberto Marías crosses Rome on foot for his appointment with his psychiatrist. There he sits in silence, flooded by memories of a past that has left him devastated. A chance meeting with a woman named Emma, also ravaged by a profound guilt, begin to painfully revive him.
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Publisher
James Lorimer and Company Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Udoka Clendon is a first-year university student and a product of basketball systems that have produced professional players. He's been pushed relentlessly by the obsessive mentorship of his older brother, which has been tolerated by his hard-working single mother. For years his brother has taken him to tournaments and pushed him to succeed on the outdoor courts of the west end. Burdened by expectations and self-doubt, Udoka tries to reignite his...
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2012
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English
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In this story, an intern at a mental health helpline is unable to empathize with her callers. Hoping it will give her guidance, her bosses insist she see a counselor. But being forced to talk about herself proves to be even more challenging.
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Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Rosie y Dominic Vega son la pareja perfecta: novios de secundaria, mejores amigos, perdidamente enamorados. Bueno, solían serlo de todos modos. Ahora Rosie tiene suerte de recibir un gruñido cavernícola del ex soldado cada vez que entra por la puerta. Dom es fiel y un gran proveedor, pero el hombre del que se enamoró hace diez años no se encuentra por ningún lado. Cuando sus amigas alientan a Rosie a exigir más de la vida y perseguir su sueño...
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