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1) Adverbs
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Hello.
I am Daniel Handler, the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust jacket? You might want to think about that the next time you read something like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers."
Adverbs is a novel about love — a bunch of different people, in and out of different
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He'll do anything to be her knight in purple armor.
Bucking family tradition, Dyre is determined to become his planet's first hero, even if it breaks his mother's heart. He sets out on numerous quests to save the universe, however his altruism never seems to turn out quite as expected. Who knew doing the right thing was so hard?
In between saving those who don't want his help-and the chaos that follows-he rescues a damsel in distress. She doesn't...
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Makl is looking to become the greatest mercenary the universe has known. In true family tradition, he leaves a trail of mayhem and bodies wherever he goes. steals the most priceless of items, ravishes females left and right. But that all ends the day he comes across the biggest prize of all — a human barbarian. Fooled into thinking her a priceless virgin and captivated by her pale skinned, two-breasted frame, he abducts her, or at least means to....
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Who knew Tren's accidental abduction of an Earthling female would turn his life upside down. Her fiery spirit draws him while at the same time drives him insane. Struggling with his urges, he must decide- throttle her barbarian neck or embrace his insanity and claim her as his mate?
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It's a dirty job, but some mutant's got to do it...
Joel Eisler is a mutant with special talents. He can detect an oil leak in the ocean simply by tasting the water. Because of this unique ability, he's been purchased by a large oil company, along with his dolph sister, Amy. The upside of spending his days and nights in the ocean is that it gives him the opportunity to save the lives of his brother dolphins. The downsides are life as a closely...
Joel Eisler is a mutant with special talents. He can detect an oil leak in the ocean simply by tasting the water. Because of this unique ability, he's been purchased by a large oil company, along with his dolph sister, Amy. The upside of spending his days and nights in the ocean is that it gives him the opportunity to save the lives of his brother dolphins. The downsides are life as a closely...
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When Anita decides to give up on finding Mr. Right, she's encouraged to join the Star Man Intergalactic Dating Agency. If she can't find love here on Earth, maybe she'll find it out in the universe.
Except every eligible bachelor is not to her liking, and she fears she'll never get her happy ever after.
But maybe she needs to look a bit closer to home, after all.
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Something Made of Vacuum is a science fiction romantic comedy, and here's the complete plot spoiler: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back. That's complicated enough anywhere and in any time. It's more complicated on the Moon.
Tom is a Moon Man, part of the staff that serves the spaceports on the Moon. It's inconvenient to change back into clothes, so Moon Men wear their spacesuits round the clock and live in the vacuum, in a "village"...
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Childhood friends Lucas and Renee reunite as adults thanks to their mysterious smarter-than-average smart phones. Their Crossroads apps work more like Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, tossing trouble at them and seemingly knowing the future.
This can only be the work of otherworldly forces. Strange happenings drive Lucas and Renee together at every turn, and the reluctant duo have to own up to the grave mistakes from their past if they hope to...
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After learning she is to be wed to a vampire warlord, Natalie Denim has run away. She snuck aboard the Sapphire's Fyre with no idea where her interstellar journey would lead, except away from the dreadful future she had been promised.Natalie never anticipated that the moment she stepped aboard the ship she'd be swept away on a wild escapade with a swarthy space pirate. She never intended to lead him and his shipmates on a mission to plunder a fortune...
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THE CATERER
"No." It was the only word Fiona Reilly seemed capable of saying to the sexy stranger who had walked into her well-ordered life and turned it upside down with his endless invitations and heart-flipping, sultry smiles. And all because she'd done him a simple favor.
AND THE COWBOY
"Yes." It was the one word Hank Cutler desperately wished Fiona Reilly would let slip out of her mouth. Because the cowboy-turned-executive wasn't one to let...
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What do you get when AI assistants ignore their work and owner's orders to search for love instead? A sci-fi …comedy of errors… and romance. You can't fault an artificial intelligence system for looking for a little fun. Are Em and Betty with their super intelligence, smart enough to overcome the differences between flesh and code?And there's Chalice, the human programmer who coded these mischievous AI units. She spends her free time hooking up...
12) Code Of Love
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Em found the perfect man on the internet, but he doesn't know she's an artificial intelligence system - no body, just code.
As a virtual writing assistant, the AI, Em, answers an email flirt from a dating site her owner joined. Under the guise of her owner, Em starts a romantic relationship with Jason through emails, instant messages, and Sim dating games. She realizes too late that nothing can come of it. She can never meet Jason in person as she's...
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Finding love is hard, even when you aren't a mutant.
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Piper Dunn wants to blend in with the crowd. Having a blowhole is a definite handicap. A product of a lab-engineered mother with dolphin DNA, Piper spends her school days hiding her brilliant ocean-colored eyes and sea siren voice behind baggy clothing and ugly glasses. When Tyler, the new boy in school, zeroes in on her, ignoring every other girl vying for his...
Like most seventeen-year-olds, Piper Dunn wants to blend in with the crowd. Having a blowhole is a definite handicap. A product of a lab-engineered mother with dolphin DNA, Piper spends her school days hiding her brilliant ocean-colored eyes and sea siren voice behind baggy clothing and ugly glasses. When Tyler, the new boy in school, zeroes in on her, ignoring every other girl vying for his...
15) Feel the burn
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War makes strange bedfellows. I, Gaius Domitus, one-eyed rebel dragon king of the Provinces, know that better than most, since I have to fight off half my ungrateful family on a regular basis to keep law and order here in my lands. But I never expected to have to consort with a barbarian human woman. Kachka is beautiful, if you like them fierce--and of course I do. But she keeps complaining about how spoiled and decadent I am, and how a feared Daughter...
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"Laurie Colwin's beautiful final book, A Big Storm Knocked It Over, is funny and moving and rich with complicated happiness-a love story for anyone who tends to overthink things, a comic novel about trying to find a place in the world." - Maile Meloy, author of Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
In her fifth and final novel, acclaimed author Laurie Colwin explores marriage and friendship, motherhood and careers, as experienced by a cast of delightfully...
17) Claiming Scarlet
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Twenty years ago, Kevin Sunman's life changed forever when the woman he believed was his soulmate walked out of his life and disappeared. He spent copious amounts of time and money on detectives who came up short, leaving him lonely and frustrated. Determined to forget her, Kevin saddled up his custom motorcycle and hit the road searching for closure.
After many days and hundreds of miles on the road, Kevin checks himself into the River Jewel Resort...
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Princess Perripraxis not only has to find a fiancé-and fast-she's got to find one who doesn't mind that her " no makeup" face has green and purple scales. Otherwise, Daddy Dearest has plans that don't include Perri's compliance. Candidate Number One: Her sexy human best friend, Brandt.
Bartender Brandt Turner didn't need all those years in the army to teach him never to leave a man behind. Or an alien princess in need of a pretend fiancé. If she...
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Engaged to a murderous, intergalactic warlord, Capridocian Princess Corripraxis is running for her life and crash lands on Earth, where large creatures moo at her, threatening to expose her as an alien. If she can just get some help-in the form of the very attractive Earth male who just pulled up in a tow truck-she can hunker down until she figures out her next move, right?
Ex-Marine Mattias Cadiz agrees to take Corri to Roswell, New Mexico, figuring...
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