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"Dallas once believed in forever love, but that was before her marriage hit a dead end. When Trenton Smith walks into her life, he's ready to love her how she deserved to be loved - only Dallas's walls are up. In time she will know if he is merely history on repeat or the kindred connection she's been praying for. Sasha wanted nothing more than to have a baby with her fiancé, Hunt. After years of trying to conceive, she's finally concluded that...
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Buddy Hayes is an ugly, defiant little man, a would-be Don Juan trapped in Quasimodo's body. He lives with his mother and ailing grandfather in a decaying, post-industrial city. The mother is Emily Post with a color changing and a mood-indicating scar. The grandfather is a one-eyed double amputee, who spends his days happily dangling in a hydraulic patient lift. Their life is a working-class hallucination of blueblood extravagance. They luxuriate...
123) The magic keys
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"Growing up brilliant and curious in Alabama, Scooter was told he was destined for greatness. Now newly married and a graduate student in humanities at New York University, he goes about discovering just what he is destined to be great at. Anchored by Eunice, his "Mrs. Me," Scooter makes the rounds of Manhattan's libraries, jazz hangouts, galleries, skyscrapers, and endlessly fascinating streets, meeting the people who will help him find his way:...
124) The best of Simple
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Langston Hughes's stories about Jesse B. Semple--first composed for a weekly column in the Chicago Defender and then collected in Simple Speaks His Mind, Simple Takes a Wife, and Simple Stakes a Claim--have been read and loved by hundreds of thousands of readers. In The Best of Simple, the author picked his favorites from these earlier volumes, stories that not only have proved popular but are now part of a great and growing literary tradition.
125) Pleasure on call
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Pleasure on call. "There was a time when the only work Kharem Reynolds valued was what he put in in between the legs of the beautiful women he suckered. From lying and cheating, to false I love yous, Kharem played his role in breaking hearts and leaving a few women emotionally damaged. This all changed the day he set eyes on his daughter Hope. Now he's a dedicated father whose only goal is to be a good provider and a shining example of the type of...