Southern Fried Sushi: A Novel

By Jennifer Rogers Spinola / Genre: Romance, Religious Fiction / Rating: 4.6 out of 5 stars (43 reviews)

Ride the rollercoaster of Shiloh Jacobs’s life as her dreams derail, sending her on a downward spiral from the heights of an AP job in Tokyo to penniless in rural Virginia.

Trapped in a world so foreign to her sensibilities and surrounded by a quirky group of friends, will she break through her hardened prejudices before she loses those who want to help her? Can she find the key to what changed her estranged mother’s life so powerfully before her death that she became a different woman—and can it help Shiloh too?

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Distant Dreams (Ribbons of Steel Book #1)

By Judith Pella / Genre: Romance, Historical Fiction / Rating: 4.1 out of 5 stars (52 reviews)

The year is 1835 and Carolina Adams finds herself enchanted by an unlikely suitor…the railroad. Frustrated by society’s expectations upon her gender, she longs to study more masculine subjects and is thrilled when her father grants her a tutor.

James Baldwin arrives to serve as Carolina’s teacher, but of more importance, he is to court Carolina’s beautiful older sister, Virginia. Will expectations–and Virginia’s southern charm–elicit the hoped-for proposal? Or will James and Carolina dare to acknowledge the mutual interests and feelings growing between them?

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The Queen Bee of Bridgeton (Dancing Dream #1)

By Leslie DuBois / Genre: Young Adult / Rating: 4.4 out of 5 stars (87 reviews)

When fifteen-year-old Sonya Garrison is accepted into the prestigious Bridgeton Academy, she soon discovers that rich girls are just as dangerous as the thugs in her home of Venton Heights. Maybe more so. After catching the eye of the star, white basketball player and unwittingly becoming the most popular girl in school, she earns the hatred of the three most ruthless and vindictive girls at Bridgeton. Can she defeat the reigning high school royalty? Or will they succeed in ruining her lifelong dream of becoming a world class dancer?

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Into the Arms of a Cowboy

By Isabella Ashe / Genre: Contemporary, Romance / Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (29 reviews)

Cassie Carlisle is on the run — and wanted for murder. When she hides in the back of a pickup truck, it’s just her luck that the truck belongs to a cowboy-turned-sheriff.

Jess Logan, with his dark eyes and bruised heart, just wants to to win a few more saddle bronc competitions and then go home alone to his cabin in the woods. But he can’t resist his sexy blonde stowaway, secrets and all.

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The Battered Heiress Blues

By Laurie Van Dermark / Genre: Literary Fiction / Rating: 4.3 out of 5 stars (60 reviews)

When the life of her child is threatened, philanthropist Julia Spencer is faced with a most difficult decision- do nothing, thereby saving herself or forge ahead and lose everything she holds dear. While one child is spared, another is lost forever.

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