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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Aspiring writer Lucy Minninger has no trouble putting the comedy in her rom-coms. It's the romance part of the equation that's the problem ... Rudy Riziero made his mark on some of the most popular kids shows of the Z90s. But ... [he's]'s actually ready for a relationship, if he could just find someone uninterested in who he used to be ... When Lucy and Rudy match online, they're eager to meet. But after their first date ends in a psychic's prophecy...
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Series
Christmas Notch volume 2
Description
A washed-up former member of a boy band agrees to star in a sexy Santa biopic that also stars his ex, in the second novel of the series following A Merry Little Meet Cute.
Kallum Liebermanis the funny one. As the arguably lesser of the three former members of the boy band INK, he enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame and then moved home where he opened a regional pizza chain called Slice, Slice, Baby! He's living his best dad bod life, hooking up with...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
90 pages ; 19 cm
Description
"In this long short story, or short novella, Dave Eggers gives us an unforgettable duo, Helen and Peter Mahoney, a homebody niece and her adventurous, almost-British uncle. Helen designs invitations to parties and galas to which she is not welcome, and is quite comfortable with that. One day, though, Peter wonders, "Why not print an extra invite and I'll be your plus one?" What starts out as an innocuous lark becomes much more -- a very funny and...
5) East is East
Author
Pub. Date
1991, ©1990
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages ; 20 cm
Description
Young Japanese seaman Hiro Tanaka, inspired by dreams of the City of Brotherly Love and trained in the ways of the samurai, jumps ship off the coast of Georgia and swims into a net of rabid rednecks, genteel ladies, descendants of slaves, and the denizens of an artists' colony. In the hands of T. Coraghessan Boyle, praised by Digby Diehl in Playboy as "one of the most exciting young fiction writers in America," the result is a sexy, hilarious tragicomedy...
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"Lucy Young is twenty-six and tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, sick of going on disastrous dates, and done with living in a damp flat with roommates who never buy toilet paper. After another disappointing date, Lucy stumbles upon a wishing machine. Pushing a coin into the slot, Lucy closes her eyes and wishes with all her might: Please, let me skip to the good part of my life. When she wakes the next morning to a handsome...
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Series
Stupendous switcheroo volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
293 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
What would happen if you woke up every single day with a different, surprise SUPERPOWER?! Find out in this zany, hilarious illustrated novel from Mary Winn Heider and Chad Sell. The morning of his mom's business trip, Switcheroo wakes up to discover he has telekinesis. Which is super convenient when he has to give his babysitter-robot the slip to fight crime all day. But it's less convenient when he's recruited to fight crime again the next day, only...
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"Kate is a bit of a mess. Two years after losing her young husband Cameron, she's grieving, solo parenting, working like mad at her university fundraising job, always dropping the ball-and yet clinging to her sense of humor. Lurching from one comedic crisis to the next, she also navigates an overbearing mom and a Tinder-obsessed best friend who's determined to matchmake Kate with her hot new neighbor. When an in-flight problem leaves Kate and her...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"March 1919. Far-flung Korean patriots establish the Korean Provisional Government to protest the Japanese occupation of their country. This government-in-exile proves mostly symbolic, its petitions ignored by heads of state as Korea's nationhood is erased. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the KPG dissolves and civil war erupts, resulting in the North-South split that remains today. But what if the KPG still existed now, today--working toward...
12) Do your worst
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Pub. Date
2023.
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Description
"Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family's knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she's hired to break the curse on an infamous Scottish castle. Used to working alone in her alienating occupation, she's pleasantly surprised to meet a handsome stranger upon arrival-until he tries to get her fired. Fresh off a scandal, Clark Edgeware can't allow a self-proclaimed "curse breaker" to threaten his last chance for professional...
13) The wrong book
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
In this giggle-inducing story, the narrator is WRONG about everything, including that bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout Ding Dong! before putting out a fire, until the characters within the book set him straight.
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
ix, 292 p. ; 17 cm.
Description
When Northelm Boarding School is terrorized by a deadly demonic ghost named Hatchet Jack, M.J. Holliday, gifted with the ability to communicate with the dead, is hired to send Hatchet Jack back to hell, while dealing with an uncooperative dean, her partners, and a gorgeous doctor.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls' weekend away. They plan a trip to Atlantic City, but odds are-seeing as it's actually a cover story to negotiate a deal with a dangerous loan shark, save Vero's childhood crush Javi, and hunt down a stolen car-it won't be all fun and games. When Finlay's ex-husband Steven and her mother insist on tagging along too, Finlay and Vero suddenly have a few too many meddlesome...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kiki Siregar is a fabulous gamer girl with confidence to boot. She can't help but be totally herself... except when she's online. Her secret? She plays anonymously as a guy to avoid harassment from other male players. Even her online best friend--a cinnamon roll of a teen boy who plays under the username Sourdawg--doesn't know her true identity. Which is fine, because Kiki doesn't know his real name either, and it's not like they're...
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Series
Unofficial Minecraft diary volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
It has taken years of determination, but finally Bern the Zombie has assembled the largest army of zombies that Minecraftia has ever seen. What exactly does Bern plan to do with his army? Take over the Overworld, of course! But Bern is the first to admit that most zombies aren't terribly bright. For instance, they have trouble with basic things, like knowing their left from their right.
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