Laney's Kiss


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Tomboy Laney Jenkins has all she ever wanted in Harper, Kansas--an adopted family, a job, a home of her own... but most of all, Luke St. John. Impetuous by nature, she decides to prove to him that she's more than just another cowhand. Luke, a rancher, dreams of heading off to Oregon. He figures a woman belongs with her man--and since Laney's kiss just proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that she's the woman for him, he considers the matter settled. He should have known better--Laney is the most unsettling woman around. But then again, he's one stubborn man. What will it take for them to listen to the Lord and find a love that can endure?




The Four Ms. Bradwells


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BONUS: This edition contains a The Four Ms. Bradwells discussion guide and excerpts from Meg Waite Clayton's The Wednesday Sisters, The Language of Light, and The Wednesday Daughters. Mia, Laney, Betts, and Ginger have reunited to celebrate Betts’s appointment to the Supreme Court. But when Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in the friends’ collective closet, they retreat to a summer house on the Chesapeake Bay, where they find themselves reliving a much darker period in their past—one that stirs up secrets they’ve kept for, and from, one another, and could change their lives forever.




After the Snap


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I finally get the nerve to tell my best friend I’m in love with him and he has the audacity to ask me to be his fake girlfriend. Alayna I’ve been secretly in love with my best friend, Dom, for years, but after his latest scandal, I can’t do it anymore. I can’t keep letting him take advantage of our friendship…or breaking my heart every time I have to watch him hook up with some model or actress or [insert any woman who’s not me here]. I’m done. But Dom’s stubborn, and when I try to end our friendship, he won’t hear it, until I confess the secret I’ve held onto for dear life. Instead of responding like I expect him to, he has the nerve to try to convince me to be his fake girlfriend for a PR stunt to clean up his image. Seriously? Dominic When I come over to my best friend’s house to convince her to be my fake girlfriend, the last thing I expect is for her to tell me she’s in love with me. I may act fast on the football field, but when it comes to my personal life, I’m a guy who needs time to process. But I know one thing with certainty: I can’t lose Laney. When I’m forced to face the feelings I’ve ignored for years, I start seeing all the ways I’ve let her down, and worse, made her feel like she’s not the most important person in my world. I have six months to convince her to not give up on me. Six months to show her I’m not going to keep letting her down anymore. Six months to prove to her I love her as much as she loves me. Because losing her would be cutting my own heart out, and that’s not an option. After the Snap is a steamy best friends to lovers standalone sports romance. It is book six in the LA Wolves Football series.




Finding H.F.


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Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south. Their journey through the heart of the American South awakens both teens to the realization that there is a life waiting for them that is very different from what they have known and that the concept of family is more far-reaching than they had ever imagined. Finding H.F. is the winner of the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction. First Published by Alyson Books 2001.




Until I Keep You


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Wanting one man you can’t have is bad enough. But wanting two is torture… I knew better than to fall for my latest client. But Nate Lyons is not easy to resist, and being his live-in physical therapist is an exercise in restraint. One I’m not sure I’ll be able to pull off. Enter Mason Lotts. Nate’s best friend. My very hot ex-boyfriend. The very man I have been trying to forget. You’d think my attraction to Nate would help me put the past behind, but the chemistry between me and Mason remains undeniable. So when Nate gets sick of being stuck at home and suggests going on a little trip, I should be relieved. Instead, I dread being alone with him. He is still my client, and this cabin in the woods is too cramped to hide my growing desire for him. So yes, things are complicated. And that’s before Mason shows up to spend a week with us. Now, I’m suddenly torn between the two sexiest men alive. And they don’t seem to be opposed to sharing…




This Is Not an Accident


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From a truly distinctive voice brimming with wicked humor, tales of the little disasters that befall and befuddle us April Wilder’s characters (some normal, some less so) have this in common: they are spiraling (or inching) toward self-destruction. An almost poetic range of disasters are sought out and savored in This Is Not an Accident, from bad romance to iffy adoption decisions to unsteady liaisons with animals and dolls; from compulsive driving to compulsive written correspondence with oneself. A house sitter hides among poets in Salt Lake City after his canine charge dies tragically. A grandma’s boyfriend holds a backyard barbecue under siege—with the kids as his pint-sized guards. The world of these slightly off-center individuals is similarly off by a few degrees. But by the end, we realize it’s not as far off as we would like to think: this is modern American life. What Wilder captures is not a dark side, but rather the side we all know well and hide from others, and ourselves. In the tradition of Wells Tower and Jim Shepard, This Is Not an Accident signals a bold new voice and delivers the kind of insanely incisive moments only a master of the human condition can conjure.




I Smile Back


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"Powerful. Koppelman's instincts help her navigate these choppy waters with inventiveness and integrity." —Los Angeles Times Now a major motion picture starring Sarah Silverman in her dramatic-acting debut, and Josh Charles, I Smile Back tells the affecting tale of Laney Brooks, a mother and wife on a self-destructive streak. She takes the drugs she wants, sleeps with the men she wants, disappears when she wants. Lurking beneath Laney's seemingly composed surface is the impulse to follow in her father's footsteps, to leave and topple her family's balance in the process. “This crushing novel by the author of A Mouthful of Air is a shocking portrait of suburban ennui gone horribly awry. Koppelman’s prose style is understated and crackling; each sentence is laden with a foreboding sense of menace. Like a crime scene or a flaming car wreck, it becomes impossible not to stare.” —Publishers Weekly




Dear Diary


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Its about a girl reading her best friends diary, learning that her friend has this whole secret life, and winds up killing herself over some guy. Her best friend had to face challenges in life that she couldnt help with. In the end she learns the truth as to why her best friend did what she did.




Bullies and Mean Girls in Popular Culture


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The numerous anti-bullying programs in schools across the United States have done little to reduce the number of reported bullying instances. One reason for this is that little attention has been paid to the role of the media and popular culture in adolescents' bullying and mean-girl behavior. This book addresses media role models in television, film, picture books, and the Internet in the realm of bullying and relational aggression. It highlights portrayals with unproductive strategies that lead to poor resolutions or no resolution at all. Young viewers may learn ineffective, even dangerous, ways of handling aggressive situations. Victims may feel discouraged when they are unable to handle the situation as easily as in media portrayals. They may also feel their experiences are trivialized by comic portrayals. Entertainment programming, aimed particularly at adolescents, often portray adults as incompetent or uncaring and include mean-spirited teasing. In addition, overuse of the term "bully" and defining all bad behavior as "bullying" may dilute the term and trivialize the problem.




Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie


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An analysis of novelistic explorations of modernism in mathematics and its cultural interrelations.