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Holly Bourne
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“It made me cry and laugh and rage...A really important, timely book. Sheer brilliance.” (Lucy Foley, New York Times best-selling author of The Guest List)
“Thoughtful, smart and painfully true.” (Cosmopolitan UK)
He said he was looking for a “partner in crime,” which everyone knows is shorthand for “a woman who isn’t real.”
April 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 - they’re looking for Gretel.
Gretel 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.
When April starts pretending to be Gretel, 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?
“The most freeing, reassuring book on dating after #MeToo I’ve read. Perceptive. Hilarious. Brilliant.” (Laura Jane Williams, author of Our Stop)
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Still reeling from a recent tragedy, Erin Connolly knows she needs to start living, but has no idea how. When she accidentally donates her favorite book—a heavily annotated copy of To Kill a Mockingbird containing a memento she can’t be without—to a local Little Free Library, she’s devastated. But then the book turns up a week later, back in the library with fresh notes in the margins, along with an invitation in a copy of Great Expectations to meet her newfound pen pal.
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It's ok if you have extra credits.
- By Christina on 12-21-24
By: Tessa Bickers
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Under Your Spell
- A Novel
- By: Laura Wood
- Narrated by: Ellie Heydon
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Dumped by her cheating ex, fired from her dream job, and about to lose her flat: Clementine Monroe is not having a good day. So when her sisters get her drunk and suggest reviving a childhood ritual called the Breakup Spell, she doesn’t see the harm in it. But now Clemmie has accidentally ruined a funeral, had her first one-night stand, and she’s stuck with a new job she definitely doesn’t want—spending six weeks alone with the gorgeous and very-off-limits rock star, Theo Eliott.
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Savior Cliché
- By Gwynn on 07-22-24
By: Laura Wood
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A Season to Wed
- Three Winter Love Stories
- By: Cindy Kirk, Rachel Hauck, Cheryl Wyatt
- Narrated by: Julie Carr, Amber Quick, Kristy Ragland
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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They've helped orchestrate the perfect day for countless couples. Now 12 new couples will find themselves in the wedding spotlight in the second Year of Weddings novella collection.
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Heart touching Winter Weddings!
- By A+D on 01-30-18
By: Cindy Kirk, and others
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The Gentleman's Book of Vices
- Lucky Lovers of London, Book 1
- By: Jess Everlee
- Narrated by: Tommy Hawthorne
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can’t love will force his carefully curated collection into hiding. Before it does, Charlie is determined to have one last hurrah: meeting his favorite author in person.
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Great set up for a rollercoaster last quarter
- By Timothy P. Donovan on 12-29-22
By: Jess Everlee
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The Memory Collectors
- By: Kim Neville
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Ev has a mysterious ability, one that she feels is more a curse than a gift. She can feel the emotions people leave behind on objects and believes that most of them need to be handled extremely carefully, and - if at all possible - destroyed. The harmless ones she sells at Vancouver’s Chinatown Night Market to scrape together a living, but even that fills her with trepidation. Meanwhile, in another part of town, Harriet hoards thousands of these treasures and is starting to make her neighbors sick as the overabundance of heightened emotions start seeping through her apartment walls.
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Had potential
- By Bianca on 04-06-25
By: Kim Neville
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The Key to Happily Ever After
- By: Tif Marcelo
- Narrated by: Cynthia Farrell
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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The de la Rosa family and their wedding-planning business have been creating happily-ever-afters in the Washington, DC, area for years, making even the most difficult bride’s day a fairy tale. But when their parents announce their retirement, the sisters - Marisol, Janelyn, and Pearl - are determined to take over the business themselves. But the sisters quickly discover the wedding business isn’t all rings and roses. Even when disaster strikes - whether it’s a wardrobe malfunction or a snowmageddon in the middle of a spring wedding - they realize they’ll always have each other.
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Eh.
- By Lily Iten on 06-13-20
By: Tif Marcelo
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If I Were You
- A Novel
- By: Cesca Major
- Narrated by: Katherine Press, Nikolas Salmon
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Amy and Flynn have been dating for two years. And they love each other. Don’t they? Only Amy can’t read Flynn’s mind and Flynn can’t read Amy’s. Little do they know this weekend is make or break. Amy’s nervous older sister is getting married at the world’s swankiest wedding venue in rural Devon and is relying on her younger sister to be the perfect Chief Bridesmaid. Frustrations on the way to the wedding escalate until both Amy and Flynn are shouting at each other in a country lane during a thunderstorm. Why can’t they see things from the other’s point of view?
By: Cesca Major
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Mister Hockey
- Hellions Angels, Book 1
- By: Lia Riley
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese, Vanessa Edwin
- Length: 5 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Jed West is Mr. Hockey: the captain of the NHL’s latest winning team and the hottest player on the ice—at least, according to Breezy Angel, who’s been drooling over Jed at games for years. He plays a starring role in her most toe-curling fantasies. But dirty dreams don’t come true, right? Everything changes when Jed saunters through the doors of Breezy’s library as a last-minute special guest for a summer reading event. Their chemistry is immediate and hot enough to thaw an entire rink in record time.
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Ummm
- By Carly Carcelli on 06-22-24
By: Lia Riley
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Eight Perfect Hours
- A Novel
- By: Lia Louis
- Narrated by: Emma Powell
- Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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On a snowy evening in March, 30-something Noelle Butterby is on her way back from an event at her old college when disaster strikes. With a blizzard closing off roads, she finds herself stranded, alone in her car, without food, drink, or a working charger for her phone. All seems lost until Sam Attwood, a handsome American stranger also trapped in a nearby car, knocks on her window and offers assistance. What follows is eight perfect hours together, until morning arrives and the roads finally clear.
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Wish I can get my credit back
- By mak89 on 12-09-21
By: Lia Louis
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The Somerset Girls
- By: Lori Foster
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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When they’re running the Kentucky animal-rescue farm they inherited from their grandparents, Autumn and Ember Somerset are perfectly in sync. At all other times, not so much. Dependable Autumn would rather curl up with a good book than paint the town red with Ember. After the disaster that was Autumn’s last relationship, it’s pure self-protection. But when her high-school crush comes back to town with his adorable young daughter, igniting memories best left forgotten, there’s only one person to whom Autumn can turn....
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A major disappointment
- By Macy on 05-20-20
By: Lori Foster
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My Mother Cursed My Name
- A Novel
- By: Anamely Salgado Reyes
- Narrated by: Yareli Arizmendi, Marisa Blake, Karla Serrato
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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For generations, the Olivares women have sought to control their daughters’ destinies, starting with their names. In life, Olvido constantly clashed with her carefree daughter. Then teenage Angustias discovered she was pregnant and left her mother’s home in search of her own. Ten years later, Felicitas finally meets her estranged grandmother and is terribly disappointed when Olvido is nothing like a grandmother should be. She is strict, cold, and…dead. Now, Olvido is convinced the only way her spirit will cross over is if she resolves her unfinished business.
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The family dynamic between 3 generations of women/females.
- By Melissa on 04-06-25
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Where the Truth Lies
- A Novel
- By: Anna Bailey
- Narrated by: Natalie Simpson
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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When 17-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn’t believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment of both Abigail’s family and the people of Whistling Ridge, Colorado begin to surface with devastating consequences.
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All of it
- By shayla on 04-10-24
By: Anna Bailey
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The Fourth Child
- A Novel
- By: Jessica Winter
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her the “extraordinary debut” (The Guardian) with a moving novel about motherhood and marriage, adolescence and bodily autonomy, family and love, religion and sexuality, and the delicate balance between the purity of faith and the messy reality of life.
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Just OK - Considered Bailing
- By Madeleine Homan on 04-18-21
By: Jessica Winter
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The Laughter
- A Novel
- By: Sonora Jha
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove, Deepti Gupta
- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Dr. Oliver Harding, a tenured professor of English, is long settled into the routines of a divorced, aging academic. But his quiet, staid life is upended by his new colleague, Ruhaba Khan, a dynamic Pakistani Muslim law professor. Ruhaba unexpectedly ignites Oliver’s long-dormant passions, a secret desire that quickly tips toward obsession after her teenaged nephew, Adil Alam, arrives from France to stay with her. Oliver becomes a mentor to Adil, using his friendship with the boy to draw closer to his aunt.
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One of the best campus novels I’ve ever read
- By basicindiebro on 02-24-24
By: Sonora Jha
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- David
- 04-16-21
Another home run from Holly Bourne
I LOVE Holly Bourne's writing style. She fearlessly delves into difficult topics that everyone is afraid to talk about and proudly declares that our fear is a stupid reason to avoid these uncomfortable issues. The writing is so poignant and realistic, yet takes incredible unexpected twists and turns. This book brought me to tears especially the kickboxing classes. April's hurt and anger is palpable and I raged along with her. It is beautiful.
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- 09-17-22
I couldn’t
This audiobooks description should come with a trigger warning. From beginning to end it describes rape and I never knew how triggering that could be. I needed to be warned before listening to this. Had to stop part way through and return. Not okay to not warn about the storyline when it’s there and discussed in every minute of the book. Not okay.
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