What's the Matter with Jayden Jackson?


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Jayden Jackson is always in trouble. He has a quick temper and gets detention on the regular. When Jayden meets rule-following Eli, they find common ground in the music they love. But Jayden can't tell Eli the truth behind his anger: that his dad is in jail. Jayden has fun hanging out with Eli, but can he really let another person in and show them who he really is?




Amy Price for President!


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It's the first day of middle school. Amy Price knows that's the most important day for making an impression on people. With her stutter, Amy has a hard time making friends. She has one dream, to be the class president. If only people could see her as a leader. Amy might be stuck sitting alone at lunch the first day. That is, until she find the Weirdo Table. They are all very different, but Amy finds a friendship in this unlikely place, and perhaps, the courage to launch her presidential campaign.




A Matter of Gravity


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Two genetically modified children escape from a government project into a dystopian Washington DC. One is rescued by a data spy after a terrorist attack. The three of them are recaptured by the project where they build a gravity control machine - used as a weapon for US take-over during a new Civil War. The three are captured by Russia and build another.




Maci Masaki Makes Her Mark


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Maci's parents won't stop bugging her about getting involved in middle school. Join clubs, meet people, make friends. However, Maci would rather draw quietly than join any of the clubs at school. With the help of some new "weirdo" friends, she finds a way to make her mark at school by painting the school mural.




Harlequin Desire August 2022 - Box Set 1 of 2


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Be transported to the luxurious worlds of American tycoons, ranchers and family dynasties. Get ready for bold encounters and sizzling chemistry. Harlequin® Desire brings you all this and more with these three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: Rivalry at Play Texas Cattleman’s Club: Ranchers and Rivals By Nadine Gonzalez Attorney Alexandra Lattimore isn’t looking for love. She’s home to help her family—and escape problems at work. But sparks with former rival, Jackson Strom, are too hot to resist. Will her secrets keep them from rewriting their past? A Colorado Claim Return to Catamount By USA TODAY bestselling Joanne Rock Returning home to defend her inheritance, Lark Barclay is surprised to see her ex-husband, rancher Gibson Vaughn. And Gibson proves hard to ignore. She’s out to claim her land, but will he reclaim her heart? Blame It on Vegas Bad Billionaires By Kira Sinclair Avid card shark Luca Kilpatrick hasn’t returned to the casino since Annalise Mercado’s family accused him of cheating. But now, he’s the only one who can catch a thief—if he can resist the chemistry that’s too strong to deny… For more stories filled with scandal and powerful heroes, look for Harlequin® Desire’s July 2022 Box set 2 of 2.




The Hawks of Texas


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When billionaire, ranch and rodeo company owner J. D. Hawk went on his annual poker trip to Las Vegas with his three brothers, he never in is wildest dreams thought that his life would change so drastically. But when he accidentally but literally broke a hot-tempered redhead's nose, everything changed. He falls in love with her at first sight. She gives him the peace he has never felt, but he found out quickly his life would never be boring with her around. Now the only thing is, he has to figure out how to keep her from leaving him when his secrets keep biting him in the ass. Cat Mackie was a beautiful redhead, past rodeo champion, and widowed rancher from the hills of Pennsylvania. Her dead husband came to her son in a dream, telling him to send her to Las Vegas for a convention. When she arrived at the Las Vegas airport, a hulk of a cowboy broke her nose, and her life was changed forever. She fell in love with the cowboy at first sight. She accepts his big family, which she knows half of them hate her, his six children, and hectic life. But would the secrets he keep from her send her back to the hills of Pennsylvania forever, or can she survive the new life that karma has dealt her?




Eli Michaels, Rule Breaker


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Eli Michaels is the school "goody two-shoes." As the son of a well-known pastor, Eli is expected to do the right thing at all times. But when Eli tries out for the football team, he's expected to go along with team traditions. And one of the traditions means breaking school rules and defacing school property. Will Eli try to break out of his goody two-shoes role to join the team?




Rhythm and Clues


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The rhythm is gonna get you. It’s been five whole months since the last murder in Cedar River, Texas, and Juni Jessup and her sisters Tansy and Maggie have been humming along when disaster strikes again. Their struggling vinyl records shop/coffee nook, Sip & Spin Records, is under pressure from predatory investors, though the Jessup sisters aren’t ready to face the music and admit defeat. But the night after their meeting, the sketchy financier is killed outside their shop during a torrential Texas thunderstorm that washes out all the roads in and out of town. Now the sisters find themselves trapped in Cedar River with a killer, and Juni is determined to solve the case. When the river spits out an unexpected surprise, Detective Beau Russell asks for Juni’s help, never predicting her investigation will spin her into danger. Up until now, the Jessup sisters have been playing it by ear, but with the whole town watching, can they catch a killer before he strikes again?




One Christmas Star


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Emily Parker is set to have the worst Christmas ever! Her flatmate's moved out, she's closed her heart to love and she's been put in charge of the school original Christmas show – with zero musical ability. Disgraced superstar, Ray Stone is in desperate need of a quick PR turnaround. Waking up from a drunken stupor to a class of ten-year-olds snapping pics and Emily looking at him was not what he had in mind. Ray needs Emily's help to delete the photos, and she needs his with the show. As they learn to work together they may just open their hearts to more than a second chance...




Friends Greed & Murder


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Isiah Daniels, an intelligent, articulate, athletic black man, from the projects, was recruited to play basketball at the University of Miami by their largest booster, Donovan Taylor, a white entrepreneur who eventually became the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the State of Florida. Isiah, after obtaining his MBA, was hired by Donovan to eventually run his publically held company. Isiah, with Donovan’s bigoted consent, also married Donovan’s eldest daughter, Sophie Taylor, an attorney at one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in Miami. Both of those events were fulfilled for Taylor’s political ambition to become the Governor of the State. Isiah, over Donovan’s objections, began to hire many blacks to work for Donovan’s company. Some of whom were eventually promoted over many better qualified white employees who had more seniority. Isiah’s wife believed that she became aware of a scheme, by employees and customers, to embezzle funds from her father’s Company. She believes that her husband, Isiah, may be one of the perpetrators. Before Sophie had the opportunity to communicate the scheme to the authorities, she was murdered by a hired black old friend of Isiah. That individual, without authorization, contracted out Sophie’s murder to a low life white criminal who bungled the murder dreadfully. That event caused the original black man hired to kill Sophie, to be murdered. This book takes the reader into the world of a racist reprisal by the Taylor family against their black son-in-law and the other persons involved in a multi-country scheme to embezzle funds from the billion dollar Company. The book sets forth the mystery of who committed both murders as well as who were involved in the complicated scheme of embezzlement. The greed of the Donovan’s family and the Daniels’ family and their friends, intensifies the mystery as to whom may have committed the murders and embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars.