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    Beach Read

    by Emily Henry

    January Andrews is a romance writer who no longer believes in love. When she spends the summer in a vacation home she meets Augustus Everett, a literary writer stuck in a rut. Together they engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
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    Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

    by Gail Honeyman

    Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have been living. And it is Raymond’s big hear that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one.
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    The Night Circus

    by Erin Morgenstern

    Within the striped canvas tents of the Night Circus is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. But behind the scenes two young magicians, Celia and Marco, must engage in a deadly game of cunning. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance.
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    One Day in December

    by Josie Silver

    Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.
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    Outlander (Starz Tie-in Edition)

    by Diana Gabaldon

    Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.
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    This Time Next Year

    by Sophie Cousens

    Their lives began together, but their worlds couldn’t be more different. After thirty years of missed connections, they’re about to meet again… A moving, joyful love story, This Time Next Year explores the way fate leads us to the people we least expect—no matter what the odds.
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    The Wedding Date

    by Jasmine Guillory

    On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew Nichols is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend…Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn’t normally do. But there’s something about Drew that’s too hard to resist. These two are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty romance.
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    Redeeming Love (Movie Tie-In)

    by Francine Rivers

    California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel, sold into prostitution as a child, survives by keeping her hatred alive. That is until she meets Michael Hosea, who promises to marry her and love her unconditionally. A powerful retelling of the story of Gomer and Hosea, Redeeming Love is a life-changing story of God’s unconditional, redemptive, all-consuming love.
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    Me Before You (Movie Tie-In)

    by Jojo Moyes

    Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life, until she ends up taking a job working for Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy—but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected. Me Before You bring to life two people who couldn’t have less in common—a heartbreakingly romantic novel that asks, What do you do when making the person you love happy also means breaking your own heart?
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    Ties That Tether

    by Jane Igharo

    At twelve years old, Azere promised her dying father she would marry a Nigerian man and preserve her culture, even after immigrating to Canada. But when Azere falls for a man she knows will break her mother’s heart, she must choose between love and her family.
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    Waiting to Exhale

    by Terry McMillan

    When the men in their lives prove less than reliable, Savannah, Bernadine, Gloria, and Robin find new strength through a rare and enlightening friendship as they struggle to regain stability and an identity they don’t have to share with anyone. Because for the first time in a long time, their dreams are finally OFF hold…
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    The Marriage Game

    by Sara Desai

    A high stakes wager pits an aspiring entrepreneur against a ruthless CEO in this sexy romantic comedy. As they face off in close quarters, the sarcasm and sparks fly. But when the battle for the office becomes a battle of the heart, these two will have to decide if this is love or just a game.
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    Ayesha at Last

    by Uzma Jalaluddin

    Ayesha has a lot going on. She dreams of being a poet but settles for a teaching job so she can pay the bills. She is lonely but doesn’t want an arranged marriage. Then she meets Khalid, who is smart and handsome, but also conservative and judgmental. When a surprise engagement is announced between Khalid and Ayesha’s cousin, Ayesha is torn between how she feels and the unsettling new gossip she hears about his family. A modern-day Muslim Pride and Prejudice for a new generation of love.
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    Faker

    by Sarah Echavarre Smith

    Emmie is a professional faker. She has to be to survive as one of the few female employees at Nuts & Bolts, a power tool company staffed predominantly by gruff men. One thing she doesn’t have to fake? Her disdain for coworker Tate who has been hostile to her since the day they met. When Emmie and Tate are forced to work together on a project, things get…heated. Emmie’s beginning to see that beneath Tate’s chiseled exterior lies a soft heart, but it will take more than a few kind words to erase the past and convince her that what they have is real.
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    The Love Hypothesis

    by Ali Hazelwood

    When a fake relationship between scientists meets the irresistible force of attraction, it throws one woman’s carefully calculated theories on love into chaos. She’ll discover that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.
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    Something to Talk About

    by Meryl Wilsner

    Hollywood powerhouse Jo is photographed making her assistant Emma laugh on the red carpet, and just like that, the tabloids declare them a couple. The so-called scandal couldn’t come at a worse time—threatening Emma’s promotion and Jo’s new movie. But what if the rumors aren’t so off base after all?
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    Playing the Palace

    by Paul Rudnick

    When a lonely American event planner starts dating the gay Prince of Wales, a royal uproar ensues: is it true love or the ultimate meme? Find out in this hilarious romantic comedy.
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