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The Pumpkin Spice Café
Laurie Gilmore
A spicy small-town romance and TikTok phenomenon, perfect for fans of Hannah Grace and Stephanie Archer.<br/><br/>'This is everything I love! Cozy small town romance, fall vibes, coffee house vibes, and grumpy x sunshine trope that was done perfectly!'<br/>⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ NetGalley Reviewer<br/>The Sunday Times bestseller<br/>When Jeanie’s aunt gifts her the beloved Pumpkin Spice Café in the small town of Dream Harbor, Jeanie jumps at the chance for a fresh start away from her very dull desk job.<br/>Logan is a local farmer who avoids Dream Harbor’s gossip at all costs. But Jeanie’s arrival disrupts Logan’s routine and he wants nothing to do with the irritatingly upbeat new girl, except that he finds himself inexplicably drawn to her.<br/>Will Jeanie’s happy-go-lucky attitude win over the grumpy-but-gorgeous Logan, or has this city girl found the one person in town who won’t fall for her charm, or her pumpkin spice lattes…<br/>The Pumpkin Spice Cafe is a cozy romantic novel with a grumpy x sunshine dynamic, a small-town setting and a HEA guaranteed!<br/>Tropes: Grumpy x Sunshine Small town Found family Spicy<br/><br/>Readers have fallen for Dream Harbor, will you?<br/><br/>‘Wonderful story with tears, laughter, mysteries, uncertainty and happiness’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>‘Compelling, cozy and delightful narrative’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>‘A charming small town romance with sizzling chemistry and plenty of spice’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>‘I LOVED THIS SO BAD. The vibes of the small town were immaculate, the cast of people around Jeanie and Logan amazing, the story soooo heartwarming’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>'Ooohh I adored this! Fall setting, small town, coffee shop, grumpy sunshine!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>'This book makes my heart happy!’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>'As a lover of fall and small town romance, this book was the perfect kind of romance for me’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>'This was a gorgeous cinnamon spiced huge mug of psl and cozy jumpers and autumn leaves sort of a book’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐<br/>Laurie Gilmore's book 'The Pumpkin Spice Café' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2023-10-30.
The Seven Year Slip
Ashley Poston
"A gorgeous love story from one of the finest romance writers out there." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After<br/><br/>A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023<br/><br/>A Most Anticipated Book by Entertainment Weekly ∙ Harper's Bazaar ∙ PopSugar ∙ Real Simple ∙ BookRiot ∙ and more!<br/><br/>An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.<br/><br/>Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.<br/><br/>So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.<br/><br/>And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.<br/><br/>Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.<br/><br/>Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.<br/><br/>After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.
Final Offer
Lauren Asher
Terms and Conditions
Lauren Asher
Declan<br/>I’m destined to become the next CEO of my family’s media empire.<br/>The only problem? My grandfather’s inheritance clause.<br/>Fulfilling his dying wish of getting married and having an heir seemed impossible until my assistant volunteers for the job.<br/>Our marriage was supposed to be the perfect solution to my biggest problem.<br/>But the more we act in love for the public, the more unsure I feel about our contract.<br/>Caring about Iris was never part of the deal.<br/>Especially not when breaking her heart is inevitable.<br/><br/>Iris<br/>My plan to marry Declan was simple in theory.<br/>Move in together. Throw a wedding. Have a baby.<br/>We set rules to prevent any kind of issues.<br/>Ones that were never meant to be broken, no matter how much Declan tempts me.<br/>But what happens when our fake relationship bleeds into our real one?<br/>Falling in love was never an option.<br/>At least not for me.<br/><br/>Terms and Conditions is the second book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers.
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Yellowface 📝
R.F. Kuang
Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars: same year at Yale, same debut year in publishing. But Athena's a cross-genre literary darling, and June didn't even get a paperback release. Nobody wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.<br/><br/>So when June witnesses Athena's death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena's just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers to the British and French war efforts during World War I.<br/><br/>So what if June edits Athena's novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song--complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn't this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That's what June claims, and the New York Times bestseller list seems to agree.<br/><br/>But June can't get away from Athena's shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June's (stolen) success down around her. As June races to protect her secret, she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.<br/><br/>With its totally immersive first-person voice, Yellowface takes on questions of diversity, racism, and cultural appropriation not only in the publishing industry but the persistent erasure of Asian-American voices and history by Western white society. R. F. Kuang's novel is timely, razor-sharp, and eminently readable.
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The Fine Print 🎢
Lauren Asher
Rowan<br/>I’m in the business of creating fairy tales.<br/>Theme parks. Production companies. Five-star hotels.<br/>Everything could be all mine if I renovated Dreamland.<br/>My initial idea of hiring Zahra was good in theory, but then I kissed her.<br/>Things spiraled out of control once I texted her using an alias.<br/>By the time I realized where I went wrong, it was too late.<br/>People like me don’t get happy endings.<br/>Not when we’re destined to ruin them.<br/><br/>Zahra<br/>After submitting a drunk proposal criticizing Dreamland’s most expensive ride, I should have been fired.<br/>Instead, Rowan Kane offered me a dream job.<br/>The catch? I had to work for the most difficult boss I’d ever met.<br/>Rowan was rude and completely off-limits, but my heart didn’t care.<br/>At least not until I discovered his secret.<br/>It was time to teach the billionaire that money couldn’t fix everything.<br/>Especially not us.<br/><br/>Dreamland Billionaires is the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following three billionaire brothers.
Icebreaker ⛸️
Hannah Grace
Holes 🦎
Louis Sachar
