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A novel about Catholic girls poised - hilariously- on the brink of going all the way, Virgins recalls in aching detail what it was like to be an 18-year-old Catholic high school senior...in the '50s. This book contains the rules and regimen, hijinks and longing of that time.

Paris Adieu is a coming-of-age tale of life lessons, romance, and self-empowerment all wrapped in the sights, sounds, and smells of Paris. The first time Ava Fodor visits Paris as a 19-year old au pair, she has no idea who she is. Paris introduces Ava to the type of woman she'd like to become. Her French boyfriend introduces her to the concept of being comfortable in her own skin. She's intrigued. If only she knew how...

Tess Marlow has finally started her new life in New York City. She's found success with her event planning business, and as she's let go of her past with her ex-boyfriend, she's found comfort and excitement in the arms of Captain Landon Beckett, an airline pilot. Just as they begin to test the waters of their new relationship, someone from Landon's past reappears, and it changes everything. Tess wants to believe in Landon, and as he confides in her, their bond only increases.

Being rescued in the middle of a blind date by a gorgeous fireman is the last thing that Bridget Grant expects. When he throws all caution aside to defend her honor, she sees something that she has been craving for years. Inviting him back to her place can't hurt, can it? Dane Beckett has been in a relationship for the past two years that has pulled the life from within him. Just as he breaks up with his girlfriend, another woman crosses his path. She's everything he never knew he wanted. She wants to take her time.

After ruining the best relationship he thought he'd ever had, Elliot's life takes a turn for the worst, and he isn't happy with who he's become. Deciding to spend three months in the UK on a working visa in a bid to find himself again, he boards a plane to London. During the flight he meets Paige, a fellow Aussie with a closed heart and a lot to hide. The closer he gets to Paige, the more he's sure she's hiding something. Will it be enough to send him running? Or does he love her enough to fight this time?

Let there be light. My name is Calla Price and I'm broken. My pieces are all around me, floating on the wind, even as I desperately try to grasp them. Who is dead? Alive? Insane? What is the truth? I don't know. I do know this: The darkness is strangling me. With every breath, I choke on another lie. My mind has protected me, but that shield will soon be lowered. All will be revealed. Every answer to every question. It's all been leading to this. Don't be afraid. Be terrified.

A confused and conflicted but not altogether angry young man shares his observations, disappointments, rants, and sexual desires in a revealing series of letters to an unnamed friend. Our hero wants to be a writer, but is stuck doing mind-numbing work for an unscrupulous encyclopedia publisher. He muddles through two engagements, one to a bright-eyed Catholic virgin, the other to a woman pregnant with another man’s child.

Stephanie Lang and Christine Avery meet in ballet school. Although they share the same dream - to become great dancers - they could not be more different. Ballet is in Stephanie’s blood; her mother, Anna, is a former dancer who lives to see her daughter achieve the fame she herself never attained. Christine has lived a sheltered life, secure in the love of her family. But her privileged upbringing conceals a devastating secret.

Alexa Jackson was falling hard and fast for Noah Foster. The world-renowned photographer had woven a path straight into her heart. He offered her another chance at love, and she offered him the path to a world that he no longer believed existed for him. That all ground to a startling halt when Alexa came face to face with Noah's past. Not everything is at it seems, and as he helps her piece together the puzzles that exist within his world, they both realize that their needs might not match what's best for either of them.

A struggling single mother. Rianna Cutter strips to survive. It's the best paying gig for a young woman with little education and puts a roof over her child's head and food on the table. Working toward a better life for her son, she has no time or energy for love. A tough criminal businessman. Jonah Wyatt is ready to make a big change, moving away from his successful pot growing business into a legitimate enterprise. He's all business all the time and has no interest in finding love he doubts even exists.

MacKenzie Cahill has dealt with overbearing and overprotective brothers her entire life, making it near impossible to enjoy her teenage years. Having a boyfriend was practically impossible until she met a guy that wasn't afraid to stand up to them - Dominic. He was sweet, thoughtful, and everything MacKenzie ever wanted in a man. But when they go away to college at Old Dominion University, MacKenzie sees a whole new side of Dominic and begins to wonder if he really is different from every other guy.

Ivy wanted Jax to be the man of her dreams. After all the lies, the mysteries, and the manipulations, she was ready to start on the path toward a new beginning. That all came to a crashing halt that blindsided them both. The images that flashed across his computer screen are burned forever in her memory. They're inescapable, and the only way out of the darkness leads straight back to him.

Villa Bohème is a Puerto Rican motel where, in the words of one of the "strays" who have assembled there, the people are biding their time. They drink, they play darts, they wait on the beach for something to happen. This washed-up place is run by a washed-up lawyer with one remaining client, and into it steps Tito, the lawyer's son, 14 years old, smart and surly, fleeing his mother and her annoying boyfriend.

When their grandfather goes missing, teenage Santiago and seven-year-old Izzy fear being separated. In order to raise his little brother, Santiago sacrifices a scholarship to Duke and often outwits Immigration Control. But when Izzy fights a classmate, Santiago struggles to teach him that real men avoid violence - without revealing his secret: to provide for him, he has joined MS-13, America's most dangerous gang.

Before A Beautiful Struggle, Katrina and David's friendship was a bond that couldn't be broken. Starting with that fated moment when David carried Katrina to the emergency room, we travel back through David's memories as he waits to hear if his best friend and the one woman he truly cares for are going to survive.... "I can't lose her. You don't understand how important she is to me," I ramble. I guess I'm in shock because all I can think about is the sight of all that blood over Katrina's beautiful face.

This is not a hair book. It's a dark comedy of a spiritual misfit, a child with a dream born into the wrong town. Religious cults, corporate cults, and insane clients - Francis can't catch a break. Francis has observed his own inability to fit in since birth, and his decision to be a professional cosmetologist only exacerbates his innate oddness.

The story of a father and son - and is it true, as Wordsworth claimed, that "the child is father of the man" or can one's character actually change as one grows older?

Josie Sullivan adores her Cedar Key home. It's been the ideal place to raise her daughter, Orli, who's just turning 16. Now that Josie has realized her dream of becoming a registered nurse, she's been offered the perfect job too - helping Dr. Simon Mancini run his new practice. Until the clinic opens, Josie is filling in at Yarning Together, where she launches a series of knitting classes for men. Yet for all the vibrant changes, there are some tangled threads.

At St. Stephen's Academy, the students are on the verge of revolt. While the younger boys plot an insurrection, the older ones are preoccupied with sneaking out of bounds, thrashing each other, tearing each other's clothes off - or some combination of the three. Morgan Wilberforce, for one, can't take it any longer. Everything Wilberforce touches turns to disaster in his desperate attempts to fight off desire, boredom, and angst.

Kayla Monroe felt safe in the arms of Dr. Ben Foster. He was helping her move past a broken heart, and she was guiding him toward a reclaimed relationship with the brother he'd lost years ago. Their bond was unique, strong, and bordering on a love that would change them both forever. Then Kayla found herself thrust into the middle of a triangle she wanted no part of. She heard things that altered her reality completely.