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Virgin River volume 2
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John "Preacher" Middleton is about to close the bar when a young woman and her three year old son come in out of the wet October night. A marine who has seen his share of pain, Preacher knows a crisis when he sees one, the woman is covered in bruises. He wants to protect them, and to punish whoever did this, but he knows immediately that this is more than just instinct. Paige Lassiter has stirred up emotions in this gentle giant of a man, emotions...
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Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
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Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
3) Hot stuff
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Bartender Cate Madigan's roommate has gone missing, leaving behind a bullmastiff named Beast. At work, an ex- cop name Kellen McBride has made Cate's bar his nightly hang-out. When her apartment is later ransacked, she realizes that Kellen may know more than he's saying, but she also wonders if he has an ulterior motive for getting close to Cate.
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p2008
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Maddie is determined to uncover the untold story about the town's sordid past-her past. As a child, Maddie lost everything, and now she's back at the scene of the scandal-a local establishment that's always belonged to the Hennessys-determined to uncover the truth, and nothing is going to stand in her way. Especially not a black-haired, blue-eyed Hennessy.
Everyone in Truly knows that the Hennessy men are irresistible, and the current owner, Mick,...
6) Can't let go
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Original heartbreakers volume 5
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2017.
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With trust issues a mile long, Ryanne Wade has sworn off men. Then Jude Laurent walks into her bar, and all bets are off. The former Army Ranger has suffered unimaginably, first being maimed in battle then losing his wife and daughters to a drunk driver. Making the brooding widower smile is priority one. Resisting him? Impossible. For Jude, Ryanne is off-limits. And yet the beautiful bartender who serves alcohol to potential motorists tempts him like...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild. Everyone in her daughter's life is determined to shut Kenna out, no matter how hard she works to prove herself. The only person who hasn't closed the door on her completely is Ledger Ward, a local bar owner and one of the...
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Maureen Coughlin novels volume 1
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"Maureen Coughlin?s life isn?t turning out as planned. At twenty-nine, she?s stuck waiting tables in a Staten Island bar, and her only excitement comes from the next cigarette or a discreet dash of coke before her shift. But when a tryst between her coworker Dennis and an aspiring state senator named Frank Sebastian turns deadly, Maureen is jolted out of her routine. Soon she?s on the run through the borough?s seedy underbelly, desperate to stop Sebastian....
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When shots ring out in a crowded L.A. club, bartender Harper Flynn watches helplessly as her boyfriend, Drew, is gunned down in the cross fire. Then someone throws a Molotov cocktail, and the club is quickly engulfed in flames. L.A. Sheriff Deputy Aiden Garrison sees a gunman in a hoodie and gas mask taking aim at Harper, but before he can help her, a wall collapses, bringing the building down and badly injuring him. A year later, Harper is trying...
10) No holding back
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McKenzies of Ridge Trail volume 1
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"Trucker Sterling (Star) Parson is no stranger to the challenges a woman faces, both in her industry and in life. But she can take care of herself. She’s never needed—or wanted—a man around...until she meets Cade McKenzie. The take-charge bar owner sets off all kinds of alarm bells for Sterling, but he also sets her heart racing. Cade’s lived in Ridge Trail long enough to know trouble when he sees it, and the moment Sterling—Star—walks...
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[2019]
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If there's anything worse than being fired from the lousiest restaurant in town, it's coming home early to find your boyfriend in bed with someone else. Reeling from the humiliation of a double dumping in one day, Georgina takes the next job which comes her way: bartender in a newly opened pub. There's only one problem: the pub is run by a guy she fell in love with years ago. And—make that two problems—he doesn't remember her. AT all. But she...
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[2019]
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"There's a reason Jackson Lymond left the Air Force, but he's not telling a soul. He'd rather keep things simple, while trying to start a new life helping his older brother on their northern California ranch. At least Morgantown's flirty local bartender can keep his mind off the past--that is, until he runs into Daisy Miller... Daisy doesn't really expect Jackson to remember her. Back in school she did her best to blend in--and pretend she didn't...
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2022.
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"Two lifelong friends, a bartender and a pastor, decide to trade places the week before Christmas and end up finding love along the way in this delightful novel from the queen of holiday stories, #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Peter Rhinehart and Hank Meyer are best friends, but their lives couldn't be more different. Peter is a local pastor who is dedicated to his community. He spends his time visiting the flock, attending...
16) Run to you
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There's nothing like fleeing Miami to ruin a girl's day. Stella Leon's bartending gig was going fine until gorgeous ex-Marine Beau Junger decked her mob-connected boss, spirited her out of the city, and claimed that Stella's half-sistert́he one with the perfect lifeśent him. Now Stella has no choice but to go along for the ride... and seduce. Beau's military-issue socks off... The Marine Corps was Beau's escape from his old man's legacy of naval...
18) You know her
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2023.
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"Killing Eve meets My Sister the Serial Killer in this lush, savage Southern Gothic about two women: a burgeoning murderer and the cop hell-bent on catching her"--
Two hours before he vanished, Mark Dixon stole a glass of wine. That's what bartender Sophie Braam told the cops when they questioned her about the customer whose mutilated body was just found. What she didn't tell them is that she's the one who killed him. Officer Nora Martin is new to...
19) Looking for it
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[2004]
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In this book, Ford introduces a diverse group of men in a small, upstate New York town, struggling with dreams and desires, coping through friendship, and searching for the things they want--or the things they think they want. Mike is the bartender at a meeting place for the small but thriving community of gay men in Cold Falls. As witness to the men who come here looking for what they need--sex, direction, friendship, spiritual fulfillment, and love--he...