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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.

LOVE IN TRANSLATION
By: Wendy Nelson Tokunaga

For anyone who?s ever dreamt of finding love and family in an unexpected place...

St. Martin's Griffin
December 2009
On Sale: November 24, 2009
Featuring: Celeste; Takuya
272 pages
ISBN: 0312372663
EAN: 9780312372668
Paperback
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Contemporary Women's Fiction

Stuck.Β  That’s how 33-year-old aspiring singer Celeste Duncan feels, with her deadbeat boyfriend and static career. But then Celeste receives a puzzling phone call and a box full of mysterious family heirlooms which just might be the first real clue to the identity of the father she never knew. Impulsively, Celeste flies to Japan to search for a long-lost relative who could be able to explain. She stumbles head first into a weird, wonderful world where nothing is quite as it seemsβ€”a land with an inexplicable fascination with foreigners, karaoke boxes, and unbearably perky TV stars.

With little knowledge of Japanese, Celeste finds a friend in her English-speaking homestay brother, Takuya, and comes to depend on himΒ for all variety of translation, travel and investigatory needs. As they cross the country following a trail after Celeste'sΒ family,Β she discovers she's developing "more-than-sisterly" feelings for him.

But with a nosy homestay mom scheming to reunite Takuya with his old girlfriend, and her search growing dimmer, Celeste begins to wonder whether she's made a terrible mistake by coming to Japan.Β Can Celeste find her true self in this strange land, and discover that love can transcend culture?

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