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]]> 198274763 Georgia has shattered the glass ceiling of Formula 1 as the newest female racer to join the Valkyrie F1 racing team, an innovative, all-female-run outfit with a mission to smash gender barriers in motorsport. Her lifelong dream of competing alongside her twin brother, Henri Dubois, has finally become a reality. Her singular focus? To claim the title of World Driver's Champion, a feat no woman has achieved before. However, when Georgia's career is imperiled by the media's unfair portrayal and skeptical sponsors, her team hatches an audacious plan to change public perception. Their solution: Georgia should date the charming but egotistical playboy of F1, Luca Rossi.

Luca "Playboy" Rossi
Luca's life has been a whirlwind of charisma and charm, until an infamous yacht incident in Majorca tarnishes his image, branding him as a reckless playboy. Facing the threat of losing his prestigious Hermes F1 driver's seat, Luca is presented with an ultimatum - mend his reputation or face the consequences. The catch? The person chosen to reform his image is none other than Georgia Dubois, his #1 nemesis on the F1 grid and teammate's most cherished sister. She is sharp-tongued and insufferable, and Luca knows she still harbors resentment for how he treated her all those years ago.

"A Man's World" is a steamy standalone, but will be the first installment of a series of books. Recommended for mature audiences.

You'll love "A Man's World" if you love...

Sizzling enemies-to-lovers banter
Spicy scenes you'd be too embarrassed to show grandma
A witty female protagonist
A woman-owned and operated sports team
Bad boy athletes
Watching the MFC get a little too close to her brother's teammate]]> 469 Grace Newman Bhavya 4 3.92 2023
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name: Bhavya
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]]> 75670216 Three bickering half sisters. One unique antiques shop. The coziest holiday season of their lives.

Wildly different half sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen one another since their sprightly summers at Rowan Thorp, their eccentric father Augustus’s home. Known for his bustling approach to the knick-knack shop he ran, Augustus was loved by all and known by none, not even his daughters.

Now, years later, the three estranged women are called upon for the reading of Augustus’s will and quickly realize he's orchestrated a series of hoops through which they must jump to unlock their inheritance—the last thing any of them want to do. But Maggie and Star desperately need the money. And who would Simone be to resist? 

Through hilarious goose chases, small-town mishaps, and one heart-warming winter solstice celebration, love, hope, and reconcilation is in the air, if only the three sisters can let themselves grasp it.]]> 413 Jenny Bayliss 0593422244 Bhavya 4 3.68 2023
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When Iris decides to move to New York to restart her life, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic movies set in New York she’d watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe gelato didn’t quite do it justice. 

But Bobby, Iris’s best friend, isn’t about to let her hide away. He drags her to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy, and as they walk through the food stalls, a little family-run gelateria catches her eye—could it be the same shop that’s in an old photo of her mother’s?

Curious, Iris returns the next day and meets the handsome Gio, who tells her that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their family’s gelato recipe, is in a coma, so they can’t make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato and her gelato are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows their secret recipe when she’s not sure why Gio’s uncle gave it to her mother in the first place?

Iris offers her services as a chef to help them re-create the flavor and finds herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio’s uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she’s been building all winter long.]]> 384 Josie Silver 0593724933 Bhavya 0 to-read 3.64 2023
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]]> 197125681 That pursuit now includes me.

The cocky bad boy of racing struts onto my father's team like he owns it. One look from him and I can tell he thinks he owns the boss's daughter too.

I'm determined to resist that panty-melting smile he keeps flashing my way. I have no time for distractions. Fulfilling a last promise to my father is my only goal.

Race after race, city after city, I do my best to keep it professional. I swear I do.But one night after a hard-fought win, we're celebrating, and Riggs claims his own sweet victory. Me.

His sizzling touch owns my body, but it’s the broken man beneath the public façade who slowly wins my heart.

Before I realize it, Riggs is the one I’m willing to risk everything for. Even if it means breaking a promise. But with our hearts on the line, will he risk everything for me?

A steamy, forbidden sports romance from New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg!]]> 316 K. Bromberg Bhavya 4 3.87 2023
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name: Bhavya
average rating: 3.87
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My father had one request—more like a condition—to allow me to leave our large, Indian joint family and move to New York to pursue my master’s degree.
To not get involved with anyone who wasn’t a Desi boy.
And I did not miss a beat before I agreed.
Because why not?

All I wanted was Freedom. To live away from my overbearing—but very sweet and supportive—family.
To study hard.
Find a job in NYC.
And make it on my own, like millions of my fellow Indian immigrants.

My plan was all set.

So, of course, it’s completely ruined when I sit beside him on the first day of my class.

Sam White.
Sam White, my White American classmate.
Sam, with his dark-as-sin clothes, a permanent frown etched on his face, and his perfect grades in class.
Sam, with his total ignorance about my Indian culture but his determination to understand it better.
So what if he makes me feel a little more at home in an unknown country?
So what if he looks at me like I’m the only one he sees?
I will not fall for him.
I cannot fall for him.
I absolutely cannot break my promise to my father.
So, of course, I do.]]> 387 N.M. Patel Bhavya 5 3.64 2024
author: N.M. Patel
name: Bhavya
average rating: 3.64
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]]> 59611973
A party turns into a nightmare for four teenagers.

Alisha guards a secret that will shatter those who know her.

Sharad is crushed under his family's expectations.

Good little Ruhi makes a single mistake that will come back to haunt her.

And AK is let down disastrously by those he trusts the most.

As they struggle through this pitch-black time in their lives, they must make life-changing choices that could hurl them backwards, or help them claw towards the light.

TALK SPACE: A psychologist analyses teen dilemmas.]]> 212 Jane De Suza 8194715318 Bhavya 0 to-read 4.27
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