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Alex's traditional family Christmas Compromise means spending the holiday at a second-rate theme park, Poseidon's Planet, but Alex doesn't mind. He enjoys the rides and the company of his family, and it's a good break from his going-nowhere existence back in Indiana. Then he meets a certain sexy employee in a pirate costume, and Alex's vacation gets even better. But thrill rides last only a short time, and sooner or later everyone has to return to...
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After Andrew's boyfriend dumps him just before Christmas, he decides to take a job far, far away from city life. It's a dishwashing job on a remote island off the coast of Georgia. Expecting sunshine, palm trees, and some quality alone time, Andrew is surprised to find alligators, mosquitoes, rattlesnakes, and Garrett-a devilishly handsome naturalist. Andrew desperately tries to resist Garrett's charm, because a twice-broken heart before Christmas...
223) Warren's Peace
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The holidays are a time for second chances. Warren Blessing lost his wife (two years ago), and his kids decide he's been alone too long. They send him on a holiday singles cruise so he can meet someone new. On the flight from Chicago to Miami, he sits next to an attractive man, but when the flight's over, he doesn't think he'll see him again. Fletcher Hammond is a professional mystery shopper for vacation destinations and travel. After a split from...
224) Make a Circle
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Pagan punk musician Lucas is fully prepared to spend this Yule with the rest of the band and his beautiful bass guitar when Oliver, his boyfriend of almost a year, asks if he wants to join the rest of the Han family for their annual winter celebration. It comes as a shock since Ollie has gone to great lengths to keep the two apart, and Lucas always assumed he was the reason. Since they're planning to be together long-term, Lucas can't say no to meeting...
225) Barbies and Beaches
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For the first time ever, Shane is not looking forward to the annual Boxing Day barbeque at Matty's house. He recently divorced, none of his friends know what to say to him now, and Shane is tired of the pity and awkwardness. Things take a turn, however, when he meets Matty's English cousin. Neil is struggling with the Australian heat, having left the UK after a bad breakup. When Shane suggests the two of them head to a secluded beach to cool off,...
226) Tulsi Vivah
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The festival of Tulsi Vivah ushers in the Hindu wedding season and tears away the love of Kristopher's life. Three years of passion and tenderness are reduced to a shameful skeleton in the closet as Arjuna submits to the marriage his parents have arranged for him. His family has never even heard Kristopher's name.
The festival, a ritualistic wedding between the holy basil plant, Tulsi, and her eternal lover, Vishnu, is as much of a play-act as Arjuna's...
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Jared's been all over the world as a traveling manny with Holiday Helpers, and the itch to put down roots is starting to eclipse his wanderlust-especially since his current family is a handful.
After culinary school, Wes did some wandering of his own, exploring Central America before settling as a resort chef in his mother's homeland of Costa Rica, a place he loves and plans to stay. If he's learned one thing, it's to be wary of flings with vacationers....
228) Haste Ye Back
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The situation seems ideal: a month off work and a sweet deal to extend his stay in an unexpected paradise. Needless to say, Aaron is thrilled to snag an extra few days in Scotland after his work conference to soak up the magic of the country.
However, his plans to tourist his way around Edinburgh before his January 1st flight home are thwarted by a strange influx of people into the capital. Add in trains that don't run on New Year's, fireworks, first-footing,...
229) Colina de Lavanda
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Lord protector of whores, thieves, sorcerers, and deviants.
Owning a parcel of land the railroad needs to cross means Edward gets to run the border town around the station as he sees fit. What starts as a place to indulge his varied appetites becomes a haven to society's castoffs, and if Edward encourages legends about its founder to flourish, well, he's not so much a liar as a man who wants to protect all the cultures living in peace. Being mayor...
230) Once In a Lifetime
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All his life, astrophysicist Peter has dreamed of seeing the comet that last appeared on his birthday-and won't be seen for another thirty-eight years. Since it could be his only chance, he travels to New Zealand. But his dream might be quashed after all when his rental car breaks down on the way to the observatory. He doesn't even have a place to stay.
Fortunately a New Zealand native with a heart of gold offers assistance. But is kindness the only...
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Black Rose Writing
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2019.
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"With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason to live. He finds it in Jason Cashman, a ten-year-old boy with a terminal heart defect and a list of five things he wants to do before he dies. Together, they race against the limited time each has left, ticking off wishes one by one. Along the way, Murray remembers what it's like to be young, and Jason fights for the oppotunity to grow old. But when...
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Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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[2018]
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"Now that her sisters Natasha and Darya have had their turn, Ava Blok finally gets her Wishing Day. But after seeing the unintended consequences of the wishes her sisters made, she's not sure what to wish for. The only thing she's certain of is that it's her job to set things right. Hopeful that she can put her broken family back together, and eager to prove her pessimistic older sisters wrong, Ava realizes that fixing the future means changing...
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Black Rose Writing
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2021.
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English
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"Jason Cashman has reached the goal he spent the last twenty years seeking, but instead of feeling content, he feels empty. When he meets Alexandra Lopez, a ten-year-old America-loving girl facing deportation, he is inspired by his old friend, Murray McBride, to give her five wishes before she must leave. They set out to check off as many wishes as possible, but when Jason's transplanted heart begins to fail, he must choose between his obligations...
234) The wishing wings
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Butterfly wishes ; 1
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Just after sisters Addie and Clara move to the country, they discover magical butterflies called Wishing Wings that need their help to lift a dark enchantment." --
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Wishing chair ; 1
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Hodder Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Can you imagine anything quite so exciting as being flown to fairytale lands and granted your every wish. When Mollie and Peter go to buy their mother a birthday present, they discover the most extraordinary thing - a chair that can fly and grant wishes. The Wishing Chair takes them on some marvelous adventures - to a castle where they narrowly escape from a giant and rescue a pixie, to the Land of Dreams, to a disappearing island, and much, much...
236) Happily ever after
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Forever
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2013.
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English
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ADDICTED TO LOVE: Growing up in Valentine, Texas, can make anyone believe in happily ever after. Anyone except Rachael Henderson. After having not one but two grooms ditch her at the altar, Rachael commits an uncharacteristic act of rebellion and gets arrested by sexy Sheriff Brody Carlton, her childhood crush. Rachaels sworn off of love, but now shes fantasizing about Brody. Can it be possible to have her wedding cake and eat it too?
ALL OF ME:...
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Harlequin Enterprises Limited
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[2021]
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"Coming home means...Confronting her former crush. Trick rider Kenna Hewitt can't avoid the company of Channing Pearce--not when the handsome cowboy needs Kenna's help saving his family's rodeo arena. Working together, and being in a wedding together, soon has old feelings resurfacing. But as a gal who does stunts for a living, trusting in a possible future with the cowboy of her dreams is still the most dangerous task she'd ever faced." --
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