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She sees them at her son’s new playgroup. The other mothers. A group of sleek, sophisticated women who live in a neighborhood of tree-lined avenues and stunning houses. The sort of mothers Tash herself would like to be. When the mothers welcome her into their circle, Tash discovers the kind of life she has always dreamt of—their elegant London townhouses a far cry from her cramped basement flat and endless bills. She is quickly swept up into their wealthy world via coffees, cocktails, and playdates.

But when another young woman is found dead, it’s clear there’s much more to the community than meets the eye. The more Tash investigates, the more she’s led uncomfortably close to the other mothers. Are these women really her friends? Or is there another, more dangerous reason why she has been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world? Who, exactly, is investigating who?]]> 384 Katherine Faulkner 1668024780 Caitlin 0 3.79 2023
author: Katherine Faulkner
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2024/05/23
date added: 2024/05/23
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes the romance that will define a generation.

Daphne Bell believes the universe has a plan for her. Every time she meets a new man, she receives a slip of paper with his name and a number on it—the exact amount of time they will be together. The papers told her she’d spend three days with Martin in Paris; five weeks with Noah in San Francisco; and three months with Hugo, her ex-boyfriend turned best friend. Daphne has been receiving the numbered papers for over twenty years, always wondering when there might be one without an expiration. Finally, the night of a blind date at her favorite Los Angeles restaurant, there’s only a name: Jake.

But as Jake and Daphne’s story unfolds, Daphne finds herself doubting the paper’s prediction, and wrestling with what it means to be both committed and truthful. Because Daphne knows things Jake doesn’t, information that—if he found out—would break his heart.

Told with her signature warmth and insight into matters of the heart, Rebecca Serle has finally set her sights on romantic love. The result is a gripping, emotional, passionate, and (yes) heartbreaking novel about what it means to be single, what it means to find love, and ultimately how we define each of them for ourselves. Expiration Dates is the one fans have been waiting for.]]> 272 Rebecca Serle 1982166827 Caitlin 0 3.58 2024
author: Rebecca Serle
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at: 2024/04/13
date added: 2024/04/13
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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]]> 42931074 For readers of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, debut author Suzy Krause delivers a quirky, colorful story about love, loss, second chances, and what it means to truly live.

Valencia, a timid debt collector with crippling OCD, is afraid of many things, but the two that scare her most are flying and turning thirty-five. To confront those fears, Valencia’s therapist suggests that she fly somewhere—anywhere—before her upcoming birthday. And as Valencia begins a telephone romance with a man from New York, she suddenly has a destination in mind. There’s only one problem—he might not actually exist.

Mrs. Valentine is an eccentric old woman desperate for company, be it from neighbors, telemarketers, or even the funeral director (when you’re her age, you go to a lot of funerals). So she’s thrilled when the new cleaning girl provides a listening ear for her life’s story—a tale of storybook love and incredible adventures around the world with her husband before his mysterious and sudden disappearance.

The stories of Valencia and Mrs. Valentine may at first appear to have nothing in common…but then again, nothing in life is as straightforward as it seems.]]> 251 Suzy Krause 1542090393 Caitlin 0 3.53 2019
author: Suzy Krause
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at: 2024/03/01
date added: 2024/03/01
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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The brilliant Shimada Kiyoshi arrives on the scene, but as he investigates the seemingly impossible events of that evening, death strikes again, and again...

Can Shimada get to the truth before the killer gets to him? And can you solve the mystery of the Mill House Murders before he does?]]> 253 Yukito Ayatsuji 1782278338 Caitlin 0 3.63 1988
author: Yukito Ayatsuji
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1988
rating: 0
read at: 2024/01/20
date added: 2024/01/20
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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]]> 124950295 397 Hannah Bonam-Young 1778027784 Caitlin 5 4.25 2023
author: Hannah Bonam-Young
name: Caitlin
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/14
date added: 2024/01/14
shelves: audiobook-listens, book-boyfriends, disability-representation, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page.

But then Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact—a “friendfic� diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined. To an overwhelmed Georgie, the diary’s simple, small-scale ideas are a lifeline—a guidebook for getting started on a new path.

Georgie’s plans hit a snag when she comes face to face with an unexpected roommate—Levi Fanning, onetime town troublemaker and current town hermit. But this quiet, grouchy man is more than just his reputation, and he offers to help Georgie with her quest. As the two make their way through her wishlist, Georgie begins to realize that what she truly wants might not be in the pages of her diary after all, but right by her side—if only they can both find a way to let go of the pasts that hold them back.

Honest and deeply emotional, Georgie, All Along is a smart, tender must-read for everyone who’s ever wondered about the life that got away . . .]]> 340 Kate Clayborn 1496737296 Caitlin 5 3.75 2023
author: Kate Clayborn
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/01/05
date added: 2024/01/05
shelves: audiobook-listens, book-boyfriends, read-in-2024, via-scribd
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Twenty-six-year-old Cassy Brookes thinks she has everything under control, but one disastrous morning changes all that. She soon finds herself torn between searching for love and outwitting work-rival, Martin. Then, stuck in a doctor's surgery, Cassy scribbles a message in a puzzle book and when she returns for a check-up she sees someone has replied. Will finding the mystery puzzle-man be the cure to all her problems or will the truth turn out to be a bitter pill to swallow?]]> 0 Rachael Featherstone 1786150263 Caitlin 0 3.24 2017
author: Rachael Featherstone
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.24
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/28
date added: 2023/12/28
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2023, via-scribd
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In the hospital and forced to face the possibility that nothing will ever be the same again, Margaret must figure out how to move forward on her own terms while facing long-held family secrets, devastating heartbreak, and the idea that love might find her in the last place she would ever expect.]]> 302 Katherine Center 1250149061 Caitlin 4 4.06 2018
author: Katherine Center
name: Caitlin
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/04
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, disability-representation, read-in-2023, via-scribd
review:

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After her soul-crushing breakup, Haley Kineman is stepping out of her comfort zone, moving to sunny Tucson, Arizona, and shooting for the stars—literally. When she’s not working as a phlebotomist, Haley’s striving to meet her celebrity crush who’s filming locally.

Haley has even enlisted her grumpy next-door neighbor—affectionately nicknamed Yeti—to help her get onto the movie set. With his long enviable locks, masculine beard, and alpine mountain physique, he’s an obvious choice for an ally.

All Yeti wants is to quietly develop software in his home office, but Haley throws his protective nature into overdrive after being injured in an incident. Then Yeti has no choice but to accompany Haley on her sight-seeing, thrift-shopping, iguana-saving adventures.

But Haley’s bright demeanor keeps messing with his head, making him consider things that aren’t possible. Because with Yeti’s damaging past, no woman would want him.

As their friendship deepens, Haley’s not sure if she should stick to her star-studded plan, or if a real love story is closer to home.]]> 357 Laura Langa Caitlin 4 3.88 2023
author: Laura Langa
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/17
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, book-boyfriends, disability-representation, read-in-2023, via-scribd
review:
This is definitely an underrated book that deserves more attention. I LOVED Yeti! My only gripe is with the subplot featuring the famous actor. There was some manufactured drama about Yeti fearing that Haley would end up dating the actor, but that wasn’t a real possibility and also unnecessary to the plot.
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Banished to Yorkshire as a boy for faults his father failed to beat out of him, Damon Blackbourne has no use for English society and had vowed never to return to his family’s estate at Thorne Hill, much less London. However, when his father and brother die in a freak carriage accident, it falls on Damon to take up the mantle of the Malford dukedom, and to introduce his sisters to London Society–his worst nightmare come to life.

He never planned on Lady Grace Mattersley. The beautiful debutante stirs him body and soul with her deep chocolate eyes and hesitant smiles. Until she stumbles across his dark secret.

Shy and bookish Grace much prefers solitude and reading to social just-about-anything. Her family may be pressuring her to take on the London Season to find herself a husband, but she has other ideas. Such as writing a novel of her own.
But she has no idea how to deal with the Duke of Malford.

Will she betray him to the world? Or will she be his saving Grace?]]> 306 Margaret Locke 0996317074 Caitlin 0 3.81 2017
author: Margaret Locke
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at: 2023/06/25
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, disability-representation, read-in-2023, via-scribd
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American Ella Durran has had the same plan for her life since she was thirteen: Study at Oxford. At 24, she’s finally made it to England on a Rhodes Scholarship when she’s offered an unbelievable position in a rising political star’s presidential campaign. With the promise that she’ll work remotely and return to DC at the end of her Oxford year, she’s free to enjoy her Once in a Lifetime Experience. That is until a smart-mouthed local who is too quick with his tongue and his car ruins her shirt and her first day.

When Ella discovers that her English literature course will be taught by none other than that same local, Jamie Davenport, she thinks for the first time that Oxford might not be all she’s envisioned. But a late-night drink reveals a connection she wasn’t anticipating finding and what begins as a casual fling soon develops into something much more when Ella learns Jamie has a life-changing secret.

Immediately, Ella is faced with a seemingly impossible decision: turn her back on the man she’s falling in love with to follow her political dreams or be there for him during a trial neither are truly prepared for. As the end of her year in Oxford rapidly approaches, Ella must decide if the dreams she’s always wanted are the same ones she’s now yearning for.]]> 352 Julia Whelan 0062740652 Caitlin 3 3.85 2018
author: Julia Whelan
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/10
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2023, via-scribd
review:

]]> 58729979 314 Ilsa Madden-Mills 1542034795 Caitlin 2 4.08 2022
author: Ilsa Madden-Mills
name: Caitlin
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2022
rating: 2
read at: 2023/06/25
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2023, via-scribd
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]]> 63924005 From New York Times bestselling author Jenn McKinlay comes the Museum of Literature RomCom Omnibus. For the first time all three novellas are in one volume.




Royal Valentine

The Attraction Distraction

It Happened One Christmas Eve




Come join the fun--with a secret identity and a trip to England, a second chance romance while in search of an ancient literary artifact in Greece, and a holiday caper starting with a hijacked sleigh--as the intrepid librarians and archivists of the Museum of Literature travel the world for the love of books, discovering their own happily ever afters along the way. What more could any romcom adoring book lover want?]]> 340 Jenn McKinlay Caitlin 0 via-scribd 3.50 2023
author: Jenn McKinlay
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2023/08/13
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: via-scribd
review:

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So when a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, Mille and her circle make a pact that they’ll join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event. There’s only one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and one of the guys, Reid Campbell, secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together, but mutually decide the friendship would be better off strictly platonic.

But online dating isn’t for the faint of heart. While the guys are inundated with quality matches and potential dates, Millie’s first profile attempt garners nothing but dick pics and creepers. Enter “Catherine”—Millie’s fictional profile persona, in whose make-believe shoes she can be more vulnerable than she’s ever been in person. Soon “Catherine� and Reid strike up a digital pen-pal-ship...but Millie can’t resist temptation in real life, either. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear—intimacy—or risk losing her best friend, forever.]]> 384 Christina Lauren Caitlin 3 3.69 2018
author: Christina Lauren
name: Caitlin
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2023/08/17
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, read-in-2023, via-scribd
review:

]]> 59867868 208 Amy Kenny 1587435454 Caitlin 0 4.17 2022
author: Amy Kenny
name: Caitlin
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at: 2023/09/11
date added: 2023/10/08
shelves: audiobook-listens, disability-representation, read-disabled-authors, read-in-2023, via-scribd
review:

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