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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.

More to Life Than This by Carole Matthews

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Also by Carole Matthews:

Welcome To The Real World, May 2008
Trade Size (reprint)
Welcome to the Real World, September 2006
Hardcover
With or Without You, July 2006
Trade Size
Girls' Night Out, June 2006
Trade Size
More to Life Than This, March 2006
Trade Size

MORE TO LIFE THAN THIS
By: Carole Matthews

Sure, I have it all. Except... wait, what's that word again? Oh, right: fun!

Red Dress Ink
March 2006
Featuring: Ben Mahler; Kate Lewis
320 pages
ISBN: 0373895682
Trade Size
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Contemporary Chick Lit

I'm exactly what every woman dreams of being at thirty- five: I have a lovely house, a handsome, loving husband and two perfect children. All right, so Jeffrey's "loving" can only be counted on to happen once a week, with lights off and pajamas on. And the children -- well, is it normal for children to remind their mother to eat her vegetables? It might be time to make a few changes -- which is why I signed up for this Tai Chi retreat, to concentrate on finding myself. Yes, this is the week for thinking about ME. Not my bumptious best friend Sonia's attempts to shag our instructor. Not the perils of leaving Jeffrey alone for the week with a stunning Australian au pair. And definitely, definitely not my handsome classmate Ben Mahler...

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