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The Good Girl Exception
Maten Moore
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.

The Bad Boy Rule
MAREN. MOORE • 2025
I Hope This Finds You (An I Hope This Doesn't Find You Novella)
Ann Liang • 2025

Comeback
Rebecca Jenshak • 2025

Lessons In Faking
Selina Mae · 2025

Funny Story
Emily Henry · 2024
<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Emily Henry.<br><br>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024<br><br>Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by <i>TIME</i> ∙ NPR ∙ <i>ELLE</i> ∙ Parade ∙ <i>Woman’s World</i> and more!</b><br><b> </b><br>Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.<br><br>Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.<br><br>Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?<br><br>But it’s all just for show, of <i>course,</i> because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

Hello Trouble
Kelsie Hoss · 2025

Lovesick
Celeste Briars · 2025
Dancer and self-proclaimed perfectionist, Merit Lawson, has spent her whole life appeasing others, including walking away from a promising dance career. After she collapses following a heart-related incident at her old college, her helicopter parents relocate her back home to snowy Minnesota—where hockey is a religion, and the players are gods. Merit wants one last night of freedom before she’s thrown into a maelstrom of inflated egos and bad decisions, even if that means becoming a hookup culture statistic.<br/><br/>NHL-bound hockey player, Crew Calloway, yearns to be seen for who he is, rather than his flashy accomplishments or playboy reputation. With a deadbeat dad and a roster of manipulative exes, it’s going to take a lot to crumble his defenses. However, unexpected sparks fly when he meets one fiery, pint-sized brunette at the bar who seems to be the only girl who doesn’t know his name. Before long, they’re back at his place executing the perfect hat trick—sans clothes. But just as Crew thinks he’s found his match, she disappears the next morning.<br/><br/>When Crew gets a dinner invite from his coach, he doesn’t expect his blast from a not-so-distant past to answer the door. Merit has a personal vendetta against the hockey player species, and Crew knows that dating the coach’s daughter would end his career, but neither of them can deny the unbidden hunger they share. Now, growing closer than ever after being assigned to the same fundraiser committee, their hormones will be the least of their worries if Merit’s father finds out about their not-so-platonic relationship.<br/><br/>Will Crew and Merit fold under the pressures of the outside world, or will love finally be in the cards for two romantically challenged souls?<br/><br/>Lovesick is a heart-warming college hockey romance featuring a bad boy hockey captain with a thirst for trouble, a good girl dancer who’s determined to stay away from him, a fundraiser of epic proportions, spice hot enough to make you question your religious values, and a chance at love between two star-crossed lovers. It’s the first book in a series but can be read as a standalone.<br/><br/>Lovesick is a college hockey romance, coach’s daughter, dislike to lovers, friends with benefits, hockey captain x dancer, bad boy x good girl, forced proximity romance with no cheating and a satisfying happily ever after.

The Quarterback and the Ballerina
Anne-Marie Meyer · 2020
Collette would kill to be the kind of dancer her mom wants her to be, but it's just not in the cards. She's sick of dieting. She'll never fit into the perfect ballerina mold and she's tired of wishing that she could. She's over it and done trying. She's perfectly content to dance alone in the dark while the rest of the school is sleeping. Meanwhile, Ethan's coach says his football team needs discipline, and that practicing ballet is how they'll learn their lesson. Only problem is that Ethan doesn't have time for ballet. He's too busy trying to be the star quarterback, the dutiful son, and the perfect student, all so he can achieve his father's dream. When he meets Collette, Ethan can't help but take notice. She's a vision of grace and beauty all wrapped up in snark and sass. And she helps him see that his own dreams aren't so stupid after all. He just wishes she could see that in herself"--Adapted from cover, page 4.

Can I Tell You Something?
Holly June Smith • 2023

Between Love and Loathing
Shain Rose • 2023
Bad Little Bride
Meagan Brandy • 2025
Selling Dreams
April Dawson • 2026
One Bossy Proposal
Nicole Snow • 2022
Find Me in the Rain
Pru Schuyler • 2023

The Wrong Quarterback A Football Romance
C. R. Jane • 2025

Normal People A Novel
Sally Rooney • 2020
