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October Reads Worth Falling For

Danger, desire, second chances, and unexpected romanceβ€”discover this month’s Fresh Fiction Featured Books.

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A poisoned cousin, a five-year-old's life, and a family with too many secrets.


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Supernatural sparks fly
between a bookseller
& her hard-boiled ghost.


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If Her Highness thinks I’ll let another man claim her and my child, she’s lost her royal mind. Sophaya’s mine.


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She found a body. Then she started asking the wrong questions.


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He ghosted her ten years ago. Now she’s stuck with him for Christmas.


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She’s the lady everyone overlooks. He’s the prince who can’t look away.

I Was Told It Would Get Easier by Abbi Waxman

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Deadly Does It, July 2026
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Christa Comes Out of Her Shell, April 2024
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Adult Assembly Required, May 2022
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I Was Told It Would Get Easier, June 2020
Trade Size / e-Book
The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, July 2019
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Other People's Houses, April 2018
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The Garden of Small Beginnings, May 2017
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I WAS TOLD IT WOULD GET EASIER
By: Abbi Waxman

Berkley
June 2020
On Sale: June 16, 2020
352 pages
ISBN: 0451491890
EAN: 9780451491893
Kindle: B082H2SF7M
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Women's Fiction | Romance Comedy

Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their carefully mapped-out college tour devolve into a series of off-roading misadventures, from the USA Today bestselling author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill.

Jessica and Emily Burnstein have very different ideas of how this college tour should go.

For Emily, it's a preview of freedom, exploring the possibility of her new and more exciting future. Not that she's sure she even wants to go to college, but let's ignore that for now. And maybe the other kids on the tour will like her more than the ones at school. . . . They have to, right?

For Jessica, it's a chance to bond with the daughter she seems to have lost. They used to be so close, but then Goldfish crackers and Play-Doh were no longer enough of a draw. She isn't even sure if Emily likes her anymore. To be honest, Jessica isn't sure she likes herself.

Together with a dozen strangers--and two familiar enemies--Jessica and Emily travel the East Coast, meeting up with family and old friends along the way. Surprises and secrets threaten their relationship and, in the end, change it forever.

Media Buzz

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