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National Bestseller • She’s the city girl who refuses to be saddled with a man. He’s the cowboy who wants her anyway. From the author of the BookTok sensation *Done and Dusted* comes the next book in the Rebel Blue Ranch series, a small-town romance featuring opposites attract and forced proximity. The last thing Ada Hart needs is a man to take care of her. Not anymore. After failing out of her interior design program and the disaster that was her short-lived marriage, Ada clawed her way up from her rock bottom.

National Bestseller -- "Naina Kumar turns the arranged marriage plot on its head... A sparkling new voice in the romance stratosphere." -Entertainment Weekly (Grade: A-). "I couldn't put down this page-turner... The new When Harry Met Sally... a warm, smart, sexy, and absolutely charming debut." -Colleen Hoover. A teacher with big dreams joins forces with a no-nonsense engineer to survive an ex's wedding and escape matchmaking pressure from their Indian families. Their plan? Faking an engagement, of course. An Elle Best Book of the Year.

"Bursting with the magic of first love, it's everything I want in a summer romance." -Carley Fortune, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After. Named a Best Book of Summer by Real Simple -- Reader's Digest -- Country Living -- The Skimm -- BookBub -- GoodReads. Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run into your first love. Sam's life is on track.

A delightful novel about alien invasions, conspiracies, and the incredibly silly things people are willing to believe-some of which may actually be true-from the Nebula and Hugo award-winning author of Blackout and All Clear. "An absolute blast with abundant humor, copious references to old westerns, and... a delightful, intergalactic twist on the romantic comedy." -Publishers Weekly (starred review). A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year -- Locus Award Finalist.

New York Times Bestseller -- A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in this chemistry-filled romance from the author of The Cheat Sheet and When in Rome. A PopSugar and Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year. Annie Walker is on a quest to find her perfect match-someone who complements her happy, quiet life running the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky. But finding her dream man may be harder than Annie imagined. Everyone knows everyone in her hometown, and the dating prospects are getting fewer by the day.

An Indie Next and a Hall of Fame LibraryReads Pick! A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science—from *New York Times* bestselling author Ali Hazelwood. Rue Siebert might not have it *all*, but she has *enough*: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought.

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food. Nothing could be more out of character, but after fifty-nine years of marriage, as her husband Bernard’s health declines, and her friends' lives become focused on their grandchildren—which Jenny never had—Jenny decides she wants a little something for herself. So she secretly applies to be a contestant on the prime-time TV show *Britain Bakes*. Whisked into an unfamiliar world of cameras and timed challenges, Jenny delights in a newfound independence.

Two people make a wager on who can find love first, not realizing what they should be betting on is each other, in this new romantic comedy by Lynn Painter, *New York Times* bestselling author of *Mr. Wrong Number*. Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bottom), she decides it’s time to become a full-on adult. She gets a new apartment, a new haircut, and a new wardrobe, but when she logs onto the dating app that she has determined will find her new love, she sees none other than Jack, the guy whose room she snuck out of.

Inspired by C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, this wild and wondrous novel is a fairy tale for grown-ups who still knock on the back of wardrobes-just in case-from the author of The Wishing Game. "This is the book you've been waiting for." -Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and the North Bath Trilogy. As boys, best friends Jeremy Cox and Rafe Howell went missing in a vast West Virginia state forest, only to mysteriously reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd gone or how they'd survived.

New York Times Bestseller -- A Time Must-Read Book of the Year -- From the iconic internationally bestselling author of the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy: A forbidden affair erupts volcanically amid a decadent tropical wedding in this outrageous comedy of manners. A Most Anticipated Book: The New York Times -- The Washington Post -- Time -- Entertainment Weekly -- Cosmopolitan -- CNN -- Lit Hub -- Minneapolis Star Tribune -- Reader's Digest -- BookRiot -- SheReads -- PureWow -- Publishers Weekly.