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After finding out that my boyfriend cheated on me, I packed my bags and moved to Sunshine Falls. My uncle's ready to retire, and he has always dreamed of me taking over his partnership at the animal clinic in town. My surprise came when he introduced me to my new partner—and it's the cute guy I was talking to at the coffee shop. It's okay, though. I'm not looking for a relationship. My priorities are my career and starting over. Ivan and I clash at every turn, and our transition is anything but smooth. Throw in the exotic animals that keep showing up, and I think we're doomed.

Oakland-bred LaVeesha “Vee” Gilliam (Coco Jones) is a determined single mother of an autistic son and a gifted aspiring coder. When Vee loses her job as a food-services worker at the onsite restaurant at Grapengine, a large Silicon Valley tech company, she’s unable to pay for her son’s much-needed specialized education. By a twist of fate, mistaken identity, and her tech skills, Vee meets Troy Wilson (Keith Powers), the company’s wealthy founder and CEO and a wunderkind in the tech industry, who believes that Vee is a college-educated techie who works at his company.

"Just three dates. That's all I'm asking. One boy shares your sense of humor. Another has similar interests and ideals. The third boy has a helpful heart like yours." When Aditi Gupta comes home late from work as a pediatric resident one night and her grandfather offers this pitch, she reluctantly agrees. She's far too busy with med school to be dating, and besides, she dreams of a love for the ages, like her parents, not an arranged marriage. And yet she finds herself agreeing to three dates because she loves her grandfather. All she has to do is make herself utterly ineligible.

Touré Wallace and Niomi Spencer were close friends at Finley College, the prestigious HBCU they attended. The attraction that simmered between them every semester was a question they never got to ask or answer before soaring ambitions launched them to opposite corners of the world. Both chased their dreams of grit and glamor as high-profile journalists. They got it all...except a shot at being more than friends. Years later, Touré is an award-winning investigative journalist and Niomi is America's most popular morning-show host, but they both feel like something’s missing.

Museum curator Amara Grant has big plans. Open a museum in Haiti plans. Return local artifacts to their country of origin plans. Getting fired from the prestigious museum she works at? Not part of the plan. But that’s exactly what happens when she discovers that a priceless set of bracelets on display are actually fake.

No-nonsense executive Naomi Reyes can't believe she let her boss manipulate her into babysitting Donovan Taylor, the most insufferable creative director of all time. Worse, she'll be trapped on a private island with him, while a bevy of gorgeous models vie for a coveted chance to grace the cover of M-Class Magazine's inaugural Swimsuit Edition - and, if the office rumors are true, an equally coveted place in Donovan's bed.

Ever since his mother passed away two years ago, Caleb Pine has been stuck while the rest of his family seem to have moved on. Alone at Christmas, he finds himself drawn back to Martha’s Vineyard and the Gingerbread Inn, where his family spent a wonderful Christmas holiday when he was a teen. To his surprise, the local girl he almost kissed under the mistletoe all those years ago is now grown up and running the Inn.

In this romantic-comedy novella, the sexiest player in the NFL and a small-town librarian prove that when opposites attract, their chemistry can be game changing.

A domineering force in Miami’s volatile criminal underworld, Brad Black is respected. Feared. His deadly accurate trigger finger and indestructible persona has earned him his intimidating reputation and, up until six months ago, hookers, drugs, and protecting the Black empire was the sum of his life’s purpose. Until he saved her. Wild, brave, and beautiful, Pearl Kennedy is Brad’s kryptonite.

Brought to you by Penguin. As Pyle's naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as Fowler intervenes he wonders why: for the greater good, or something altogether more complicated? 'The novel that...

The Reese's Book Club Pick! 'An achingly romantic, compulsively readable love story - with chemistry that burns up every page' TAYLOR JENKINS REID 'Smart and romantic, with fine observations about theater and life . . . The final act will stay with me' GABRIELLE ZEVIN 'The truth is there's...

When an unexpected blizzard grounds all flights, Nia and Andrew’s holiday plans are put on ice, and they’re stuck spending Christmas Eve at the airport. Soon the pair of travelers decide to make the best of it and team up to spread holiday cheer to the other stranded passengers. After all, just because their flight is cancelled doesn’t mean Christmas is. Now they’re about to discover that with the right person, home for the holidays can be anywhere—and life’s crossroads are the perfect place to begin a new story.

There's no place like home for the holidays ... especially for Lesley Carver. Life in the big city just wasn't her jam and now she's back in Hickory Falls, working at the family diner and helping her mom after she took a tumble. Lesley longs to build a life here, working at the cafe, selling her handmade ornaments and ... er, apparently reviving her high school crush on her best friend’s older brother. Only one problem, her mom wants her to leave Hickory Falls far behind.

Holiday, Texas is known far and wide as the most celebratory town south of the Mason-Dixon - and no shindig is complete without one of its founding members. It's a shame the last remaining Holiday is a city slicker, but what's that old saying about putting lipstick on a pig? Beckett has no intention of being charmed by some crazy Texas town, but the minute he lays eyes on his grandfather's old honky tonk - and Charlie, the beautiful cowgirl who runs it - he finds himself wishing maybe things could be different.

Stella Jackson loves being the youngest mayor of Hickory Falls, Michigan, a charming town she's turned into a Christmas destination. But when her ambitious plans to host a holiday movie shoot spiral into chaos, Stella finds herself juggling frustrated citizens, delayed production schedules... and a growing attraction to the movie’s leading man.

Lizzie Winchester, la heredera de una de las grandes fortunas de Nueva York. Conrad Stone, un chico que vive de su imagen y se muda a un edificio un tanto peculiar. Modelo de fotografía y pasarela, acostumbrado a gustar y a que las mujeres se postren a sus pies. Lizzie, una chica con varios trabajos para poder costearse los estudios y el alquiler, un pasado que quiere olvidar y un vecino al que odiar. Un puñado de almas que buscan sobrevivir en una sociedad sin escrúpulos. ¿Alguna lo logrará? Un amor inesperado. El dichoso destino.

Nueva York, Navidad y un juego muy peligroso que tal vez no debieron comenzar. ¿Sabrán ganar la partida? Brooke Mackenzie, una chica del SoHo que se muda al Upper East Side, uno de los barrios más exclusivos de Manhattan, en contra de su voluntad a la corta edad de diez años, pero que gracias a su arrolladora personalidad y a su nuevo mejor amigo consigue adaptarse sin problemas.

Alice Mackenzie, una chica que ha crecido con la figura de un bombero condecorado por su labor durante el 11-S y que sueña con ser como él. Alice llega al parque setenta y seis dispuesta a demostrar su valentía, esfuerzo y coraje. Tristan Jordan, Teniente de la Brigada de rescate ciento once, también descendiente de bomberos y un pasado demoledor que solo desea olvidar.

Brought to you by Penguin. EMBARK ON THE JOYOUS AND NOSTALGIC JOURNEY OF A LIFETIME IN THE LATEST NOVEL FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THIS TIME TOMORROW AND ALL ADULTS HERE Annie is on a journey straight back to her past. When the American Fantasy cruise ship sets sail for a...

Ava, una fotógrafa que ama Manhattan y el barrio de Nolita, lugar en el que creció y vive con sus dos mejores amigas. Ava está harta de relaciones fugaces y tóxicas. Ava ha aprendido que el amor no duele ni empequeñece, sino sana y nos crece.