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  • Silent Night by Robert Thier

    Silent Night by Robert Thier

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 39 ratings
    A dark night. An even darker mission. Mr Rikkard Ambrose is stalking the wintry alleys of London, doing something he has never done before...But does he do it for himself - or is it a sacrifice for someone special?This tale tells the story of an extraordinary moment in the relationship of Lilly Linton and Rikkard Ambrose...
  • Nana, Vol. 21 by Ai Yazawa

    Nana, Vol. 21 by Ai Yazawa

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Reads R to L (Japanese Style). The all-time best-selling shojo title in Japan Tragedy strikes as the Search Weekly team takes their snooping too far! Hounded to the limit by remorseless reporters, Ren spins his car off the icy road in a horrible accident that will change the course of everyone's future..
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  • Nana, Vol. 19 by Ai Yazawa

    Nana, Vol. 19 by Ai Yazawa

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The all-time best-selling shojo title in Japan R to L (Japanese Style). The tabloid feeding frenzy has finally brought Blast down, but Nana is determined to keep hope alive. She's going to take a gig as a solo artist, and even accept acting jobs she has no interest in. As long as she keeps herself in the spotlight, she knows there's a chance Blast can make a comeback...
  • Secretly Married by forgottenglimmer

    Secretly Married by forgottenglimmer

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Phoebe Bernal shares a secret with one of the country's hottest stars, Kent Fuentabella. Their secret? They've been married for a year. Of course, no one can know, lest Kent's stellar status goes kaput along with his on-screen love team with the It Girl of the moment, Elisa.Phoebe has known Kent since he was a gangly nobody, and she doesn't even know how they feel about each other...
  • Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga by Sam Maggs, Rainbow Rowell

    Fangirl, Vol. 1: The Manga by Sam Maggs, Rainbow Rowell

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 46 ratings
    The manga adaptation of the beloved novel by #1 Bestselling author Rainbow Rowell! New York Journal of Books Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, everybody is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life. Cath's sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath just can't let go. Now that they’re in college, Cath must decide if she’s ready to start living her own life...
  • The Gym by Lawrence H. Sola

    The Gym by Lawrence H. Sola

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    It was five years later. Peter Pan Man still struggled to look forward as regret held him captive in the shadows of his ruined career. Although The Show, his rise-and-fall inspired novel, ushered in the fresh start he craved, it would be a new manuscript, born in the newspaper pages of local business opportunities, which set him on the course he was meant to take...
  • Royal Magic by K.M. Shea

    Royal Magic by K.M. Shea

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 18 ratings
    Gwendafyn is slowly suffocating. As the second princess of the elves of Lessa she is the acting regent of her people and is expected to behave with the serene grace and poise of a model elf. But that is not who she is. Instead, her very character is constantly criticized as being too passionate, too fiery, and overall “too much”...
  • My Rosebud Boy by Rainbow Rowell

    My Rosebud Boy by Rainbow Rowell

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This short story was written as a bonus for people who ordered SCATTERED SHOWERS from the Bookworm in Omaha, Nebraska. It's an alternate universe story about Simon Snow and Baz Pitch, characters from Rainbow's Simon Snow Trilogy. It was printed by the author in a brochure format...
  • Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka

    Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, Vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 32 ratings
    As leaders of their prestigious academy’s student council, Kaguya and Miyuki are the elite of the elite! But it’s lonely at the top… Luckily for them, they’ve fallen in love! There’s just one problem—they both have too much pride to admit it. And so begins the daily scheming to get the object of their affection to confess their romantic feelings first… Love is a war you win by losing...
  • Damnation by Carrie Leighton

    Damnation by Carrie Leighton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    There is no light without shadow. There is no love without pain.Loving each other has never been easy for Thomas Collins and Vanessa Clark. Their love is fueled by passionate nights and fierce jealousy, romantic sparks and seemingly insurmountable misunderstandings. After nearly losing each other, their relationship finally appears to be growing in the right direction...
  • Rites of Spring by Diana Peterfreund

    Rites of Spring by Diana Peterfreund

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    From “witty and endearing” to “impossible to put down,” the critics have given elite marks to Diana Peterfreund’s Secret Society Girl and Under the Rose . Now, in a wildly captivating new novel, Amy “Bugaboo” Haskel and her fellow Rose & Grave knights are trading cold, gray, hyperintellectual New Haven for an annual rite of spring (well, early March) in Florida...
  • The Atlas of Us by Kristin Dwyer

    The Atlas of Us by Kristin Dwyer

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    “A complete knockout. Readers will be thinking of this story long after they finish the final page.” —Adalyn Grace, New York Times bestselling author of Belladonna“Utterly compelling and impossible to put down.” —Rachel Griffin, New York Times bestselling author of Bring Me Your Midnight“I’ve never read a book that felt so much like picking up pieces of a broken heart—powerful, poignant, and true...
  • Vampire Princess by Cameron Drake

    Vampire Princess by Cameron Drake

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I'm the first Vampire human hybrid. Someday I will reclaim my father's throne. Until then, I'm stuck in freaking high school. No one knows I survived the attack on my royal family all those years ago. I owe my life to my guardians, two ancient Vampires who would give their lives to protect me...
  • Now Presenting by Elizabeth Stevens

    Now Presenting by Elizabeth Stevens

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One tattooed girl. Three frustrated tutors. A whole lot of accidents waiting to happen. It’s time for me to join my dad and older sister in Gallyr, to dust off the cobwebs and leather jackets of a normal person’s life and don the mantle of Lady Tatiana Bethany Penrose. For the first time, all eyes are on me and I have to be presented to society at a ball in my honour...
  • One True Loves by Elise Bryant

    One True Loves by Elise Bryant

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    Lenore Bennett has always been a force. A star artist and style icon at her high school, she’s a master in the subtle art of not giving a . . . well, you know what. But now that graduation is here, she’s a little less sure.She’s heading to NYU in the fall with a scarlet U (for “undeclared”) written across her chest...
  • A Slight Smile is Very Charming by Gu Man (顾漫)

    A Slight Smile is Very Charming by Gu Man (顾漫)

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    What is it that makes a man fall in love with a woman at first sight? Appearance? Aura? Wealth? NO, when campus prince and gaming expert, student Xiao Nai first saw Bei Wei Wei, what made him fall in love was not her extraordinary beauty; but her slim and slender fingers that were flying across the keyboard and her calm and composed manner! Embarrassing, no?At the same time, gaming expert Bei...
  • Ellie and the Prince by J.M. Stengl

    Ellie and the Prince by J.M. Stengl

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Ellie knows better. He’s a dashing prince, sought after by every beautiful lady in sight. She’s an overalls-wearing herder of cinder sprites. No WAY is Omar going to look twice at her! Working as an employee at the illustrious Faraway Castle resort, eighteen-year-old Ellie is well aware that staff do not mingle with the guests. Period...
  • Family Ties by Stephie Walls

    Family Ties by Stephie Walls

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    With a history like ours, the meaning of the word family tended to tangle into something unrecognizable. DNA and bloodlines didn’t tie us together, and neither did our last names. Various shades of grey blurred the branches of our twisted family tree. I wasn’t her brother. They weren’t my parents. Not that it mattered… She was off limits. Portia was my friend. Then my foster sister...
  • If I Fall by Jessica Sorensen

    If I Fall by Jessica Sorensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    I remember the first time I tried it, it tasted like poison. And somehow the poison burned the fear out of me. For a moment, I broke free of my past and the scary, unfamiliar world that terrified me every hour of every day. It felt like I could do anything. But then came the fall. And eventually I had to crash. This is the start of my story...
  • Fated by Cosette Verga

    Fated by Cosette Verga

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Book One of the Fated Series Fate stole his memory. Fate shattered her world. But fate’s cruelest trick is still to come. Twenty-year-old Areya wakes in a jail cell with her mother’s blood on her hands—and no memory of how it got there.Then he arrives.Ash is a shadow made flesh. A weapon without a past, bound by a curse that erased every trace of who he once was...
  • Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot

    Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 54 ratings
    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Princess Diaries series, comes the very first adult installment, which follows Princess Mia and her Prince Charming as they plan their fairy tale wedding--but a few poisoned apples could turn this happily-ever-after into a royal nightmare...
  • Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 6 by Bisco Hatori

    Behind the Scenes!!, Vol. 6 by Bisco Hatori

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s winter break, and the Art Squad is helping a local children’s center put on a holiday puppet show. No classes means the squad can spend loads of time preparing, but all that togetherness is torture for poor heartsore Ranmaru...
  • Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose

    Caught in a Bad Fauxmance by Elle Gonzalez Rose

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A fresh, fun contemporary rom-com from debut author Elle Gonzalez Rose, about an aspiring artist who agrees to fake date one of his family’s longtime enemies in the hopes of gathering intel good enough to take down their rivals once and for all.Devin Baez is ready for a relaxing winter break at Lake Andreas...
  • Collision by Carrie Leighton

    Collision by Carrie Leighton

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 37 ratings
    There is no rose without a thorn. There is no passion without torment.Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rain and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Marked by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good guy that all mothers—including hers—would like next to their daughter...
  • Scalebound by Logan Piercey

    Scalebound by Logan Piercey

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    FOURTH WING by Rebecca Yarros meets POWERLESS by Lauren Roberts, and LIGHTLARK by Alex Aster in this fairytale story of dragons, plagues, and curses.Aurelia grew up knowing she was the result of the tattoo on her father's wrist. The engraved sign came from killing a dragon, which caused him to obtain one of the five curses. Aurelia was that curse...
  • Sweet Nothing: A Novel by Jamie McGuire

    Sweet Nothing: A Novel by Jamie McGuire

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    It is enough to break any watching what could have been my future slip away before it was ever in my grasp.The possibility of losing someone I loved before she was even mine is something I never would have imagined. Certainly nothing I'd ever wish on anyone. I go to her every day and wait. Wait for the impossible, for a sign, for her to look at me...hoping that sinners are granted miracles, too...
  • Collision by Carrie Leighton

    Collision by Carrie Leighton

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    There is no rose without a thorn. There is no passion without torment.Vanessa Clark, a second-year college student, has a visceral love of books and rain and an unbreakable bond with her best friends. Marked by her parents' difficult divorce, she found comfort in Travis, apparently the good guy that all mothers—including hers—would like next to their daughter...
  • Courted by Jennifer Chance

    Courted by Jennifer Chance

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    "An awesomely fun, modern day fairy tale!" - Lori Foster, NYT bestselling author Aspiring concert violist Emmaline Aurora Grace Andrews is torn between her love of family and her love of music. A year ago, she deferred entering a prestigious graduate program to help her parents recover from a devastating accident. Now the deferment is expiring, but her parents still need her...
  • Once Upon a Prince (Royal Wedding Series) by Rachel Hauck

    Once Upon a Prince (Royal Wedding Series) by Rachel Hauck

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 36 ratings
    The story that inspired the Hallmark Original movie! He’s a royal prince. She’s an ordinary girl. But this holiday could change everything. Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess—just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn’t going according to plan...
  • Enchantress by James Maxwell

    Enchantress by James Maxwell

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    Ella and her brother, Miro, are orphans, their parents killed long ago in the ongoing struggle against the mad Emperor. From the day Ella witnesses an enchanter using his talents to save Miro from drowning, she knows what she wants to be. But the elite Academy of Enchanters expects tuition fees and knowledge. Determined, Ella sells flowers and studies every book she can...
  • All I've Never Wanted by Ana Huang

    All I've Never Wanted by Ana Huang

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    The Scions were the four richest, most powerful guys at Valesca Academy, and they ruled the school with iron fists. Everyone wanted to date them or be them...everyone, that is, except Maya Lindberg, who just wanted to avoid them until she could graduate. She almost succeeded, until an ill-advised outburst on her part put her right in the Scions' path...
  • Hat Trick by Diana Foster

    Hat Trick by Diana Foster

    Rated: 3.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Tyler Thompson is recruited by Woodridge State to play Division I Hockey following the worst summer of his life. He is sullen, easily sent back into himself, and he absolutely does not want to be here. The ice just reminds him of his dad...
  • She Belongs To The King by Crystal5466

    She Belongs To The King by Crystal5466

    Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Mia White was just an ordinary girl that walked the face of the earth. She was who people looked up to. She had good grades, was the kindest person you'd ever meet, and was breathtakingly beautiful. Everyone in ClearHills Academy loved her. But, there were also some who feared and despised her...
  • The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

    The Half-Drowned King by Linnea Hartsuyker

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Since the death of Ragnvald Eysteinsson's father in battle, he has worked hard to protect his sister Svanhild and planned to inherit his family's land when he comes of age. But when the captain of his ship tries to kill him on the way home from a raiding excursion, he must confront his stepfather's betrayal, and find a way to protect his birthright...
  • Prince of Thorns by E.J. Knox, Elizabeth Stevens

    Prince of Thorns by E.J. Knox, Elizabeth Stevens

    Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    From Elizabeth Stevens, writing as E.J. Knox, comes…The bad boy willing to risk everything – even his life – to get the girl.People call them the V.I.C.E.S. because they’ll wring you for everything you are and leave you ruined. They are the Princes of Rosewood Hall, and no one says no to them. Until now.Vaughn Saint. The racer. He dubbed the Prince of Thorns...
  • Inheritance by Katharine McGee

    Inheritance by Katharine McGee

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    Princess Beatrice realizes what’s expected of her as heir apparent—and it is not riding in cars, alone, with her Revere Guard. But what the Crown doesn’t know won’t hurt it…right? Princess Samantha is already bored of her own graduation party. She swears she isn’t looking for trouble, but when the king and queen are away, the spare will play…...
  • Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey

    Last Chance Books by Kelsey Rodkey

    Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 17 ratings
    Don’t you just love the smell of old books in the morning?Madeline Moore does. Books & Moore, the musty bookstore her family has owned for generations, is where she feels most herself. Nothing is going to stop her from coming back after college to take over the store from her beloved aunt...
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