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It all starts when Jamie decides to increase revenues for her newspaper by starting a personal ads section. Suddenly the town gets "all sexed up." The local Chinese-food joint starts creating risque fortune cookies. A trashy lingerie shop opens. The bakery starts making pornographic pastries. Everyone gets the idea that sex sells. But someone has more sinister objectives.
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Argeneau series volume 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
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Accidentally transformed into a vampire, Elvi Black seeks the help of rich, powerful and handsome Victor Argeneau to learn how to be vampire--and escape those who would put a stake through her heart.
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"In town, they called her 'Crazy Widow Dinsmore.' But Elly was no stranger to their ridicule--she had been an outsider all her life, growing up in a darkened house under the strict eye of her eccentric grandparents. Now she was all alone, with two little boys to raise, and a third child on the way. Will Parker drifted into Whitney, Georgia, one lazy summer afternoon, hoping to put his lonely past behind him. He yearned for the tenderness he had never...
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Single mom Meg Remington isn't looking for another chance at love, but her teenage daughter, Lindsay, has other plans, so she places a personal ad on her mother's behalf. When it's answered by Steve Conlan, he actually seems...perfect! But there's more at work, as the reluctant couple soon discovers. Meg and Steve want to teach their matchmakers a lesson--if only they weren't really falling for each other!
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c2011
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The proliferation of dating websites, printed personals and self-help relationship books reflect the new ways Americans seek close, personal relationships. Exposed to changing and often conflicting values, trends, and fashions-disseminated by popular culture, advertising and assorted "experts"-Americans face uncertainties about the best ways to meet important emotional and social needs. How do we establish lasting and intimate personal relationships...
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[2002]
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On her 35th birthday, Bella, an overworked waitress, is set up on a date with Bruno, an irresponsible cab driver and father of two. One of Bella's regulars, a long time widow, responds to an ad and meets Emily. Soon, however, a random encounter changes Bella's life in a way she could never have imagined.
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[2002], c2001
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Fed up with her fruitless search for "Mr. Right" and tired of blind dates from hell, attractive journalist Jessica Stein whimsically responds to a classified ad-- from Helen! Making and breaking new rules of dating as they go, the two women muddle through an earnest but hilarious courtship that blurs the lines between friendship and romantic love.
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There something funny about Jodie and Mark's grandparents' farm, but nobody's laughing, especially when twelve strange new scarecrows scare more than just the crows. Matt Amsterdam wished his family were different, until he wakes up from a nap in the attic to find things are suddenly very different. Ricky Beamer hopes for revenge when he puts a mean girl's phone number in a personal ad. When he starts getting scary midnight calls, he is the one getting...
13) On the line
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[2002], c2001
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A young man meets a girl on a train, but being a shy guy, he lets her go without getting her name or her number. Aided by his best friend, they use posters and signs to find her, and it soon begins to gain public notice. Will he ever find her again?
14) Our stop
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2019
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"Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at her friend Emma's after too much wine. Daniel really does get the 7.30 train every morning, which is easy because he hasn't been able to sleep properly since his dad died. One morning, Nadia's eye catches sight of a post in the daily paper: To the cute girl with the coffee stains on her dress. I'm the guy who's always standing near the doors.......
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2007
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Maus nos cuenta la historia de Vladek Spiegelman, un judío superviviente del Holocausto, y de su hijo, un historietista que intenta reconciliarse con su padre, con la terrible historia de este y con la mismísima Historia. La forma de este relato, un cómic (donde los nazis son gatos y los judíos, ratones), logra desposeernos de cualquier atisbo de cercanía que podamos tener con los hechos que aquí se refieren, y lo consigue precisamente porque...
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[2013]
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"Head to Hope Falls, Colorado, where three enterprising young women put an ad in the paper for healthy, hardworking husbands-for-hire, never dreaming the suitors would respond so promptly--and in person! Out of the logjam of eligible bachelors, which one will Evelyn, Lacey, and Naomi choose?"--Amazon.com, viewed November 25, 2013.