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143) Thirteen hours
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"Stuck on a broken down elevator for thirteen hours two women discover how wrong first impressions can be-- and how right two strangers can feel together."--Back cover.
144) Bold coast love
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"When her lover Dana accepts a long-term assignment on a foreign shore, physician Jackie Claymont finds her quiet life in rural Maine abruptly transformed by two newcomers, each a nurse, each interested in romance, each capable of changing Jackie's world forever. Kind Joni's warm presence challenges Jackie to question her loyalty to far away Dana, while lusty Carin, a married woman, takes a direct approach in her quest to inspire the doctor's passion....
145) Maybe next time
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"Sabrina doesn't need love. She has worldwide fame as a brilliant concert violinist, houses on three continents, and endlessly available women for company. Nothing can shake her--except the memory of her very first love. "I hate that thing!" It was Jorie who shouted those words about the only constant in Sabrina's life--her violin. Jorie, her childhood love. Her true love. After relinquishing all hope of a life with Jorie, Sabrina immersed herself...
146) Rice and beans
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Marty has lost her job. Unable to work, she has no option other than to apply for welfare. She meets lively, intelligent Thea in the crowded waiting room of Tucson's unemployment office. Thea's optimism brings Marty out of her depression, and the two women decide to pool their resources. They wind up in a barrio apartment with no hot water, no refrigerator, no bathtub. But they have a diverse assortment of new neighbors, including the matriarchal...
147) Gut symmetries
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Aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand...
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"Big city girl in a small town--Liddy Peel has culture shock. Marian Pardoo, Reference Librarian for the Iowa City Public Library, would be happy if the woman she's loved for years wasn't already married. Annoyed by the thoughtless out-of-town Liddy, she isn't prepared for the seething passion that erupts when Liddy careens into her meticulously controlled life. Liddy has run two thousand miles from a devastating love affair. Now the idea of spending...
151) Tomorrow's promise
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"Adrienne Pierce, buffeted by fate and abandoned by love, seeks refuge from her past as well as her uncertain future on Whitley Point, a secluded island off the coast of Maine. Tanner Whitley - young, wild, and restless - and the heir to a dynasty, desperately seeks escape from both her destiny and the memories of a tragic loss. However, her wild nights of casual sex and substance abuse set a dangerous course that may ultimately destroy her. One timeless...
155) Sugar
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A struggling baker finds that losing everything can sometimes be a very good thing.
159) Margins
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Veronica Melendez has spent her life in the protected world of her Southern California Chicano family. She is just beginning graduate school when a tragic car accident shatters her leg and her life: her best friend and love was in the car too. In this tender, courageous and often funny novel, Veronica comes to terms with her grief and explores two new relationships with wildly different women. An insightful look at family relationships, recovery from...