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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nTitle : It Happened One Summer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author:<\/strong> Tessa Bailey<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synopsis:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dive bar… in Washington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Piper hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s determined to show her stepfather\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand the hot, grumpy local\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than a pretty face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d like to read this book you can place a hold on a copy for pickup in any of our libraries by requesting it here<\/a> or get it now on your BorrowBox<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Title : The Bridgerton Collection <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author:<\/strong> Julia Quinn<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synopsis:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n An enchanting collection containing the first three novels in New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beloved Bridgerton series set in Regency England\u00e2\u20ac\u201dThe Duke and I, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and An Offer from a Gentleman\u00e2\u20ac\u201dnow a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Duke and I – <\/p>\n\n\n\n When Daphne Bridgerton and Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, agree to a fake courtship, they think they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found the perfect solution to their problems. Romantically associated with one of London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most desirable catches, Daphne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prospects among the ton will soar. For avowed bachelor Simon, an attachment to Daphne will deter would-be brides and their ambitious mamas. Their plan works like a charm\u00e2\u20ac\u201dat first. But amid the glittering, gossipy, cut-throat world of London\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s elite, there is only one certainty: love ignores every rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Viscount Who Loved Me – <\/p>\n\n\n\n London’s most elusive bachelor, Anthony Bridgerton is determined to wed. But one obstacle stands in his way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhis intended’s older sister, Kate Sheffield, who is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal. Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands, and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s determined to protect her sister\u00e2\u20ac\u201deven as she fears she may not be able to resist the reprehensible and oh so desirable rake herself . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n An Offer from a Gentleman –<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sophie Beckett never dreamed she’d be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor that she would be spinning in the arms of her “Prince Charming”\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton. But when the clock strikes midnight, Sophie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s enchanting evening ends. Since that night Benedict has been able to think of nothing but the bewitching young woman, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sworn to find and wed his mystery miss. Yet will another unexpectedly steal his heart\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand his chance for a fairy tale love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d like to read this book you can place a hold on a copy for pickup in any of our libraries by requesting it here <\/a>or get it now on your BorrowBox<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Title : <\/strong>Beach Read<\/p>\n\n\n\n Author:<\/strong> Emily Henry <\/p>\n\n\n\n Synopsis:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. They’re polar opposites. In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they’re living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer’s block. Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. But as the summer stretches on, January discovers a gaping plot hole in the story she’s been telling herself about her own life, and begins to wonder what other things she might have gotten wrong, including her ideas about the man next door<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d like to read this book you can place a hold on a copy for pickup in any of our libraries by requesting it here <\/a>or get it now as an ebook<\/a> or audiobook<\/a> on Borrowbox. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Title : Fix Her Up<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author:<\/strong> Tessa Bailey<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synopsis:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Georgette Castle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family runs the best home renovation business in town, but she picked balloons instead of blueprints and they haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t taken her seriously since. Frankly, she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over it. Georgie loves planning children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday parties and making people laugh, just not at her own expense. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s determined to fix herself up into a Woman of the World… whatever that means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phase one: new framework for her business (a website from this decade, perhaps?) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Phase two: a gut-reno on her wardrobe (fyi, leggings are pants.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phase three: updates to her exterior (do people still wax?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Phase four: put herself on the market (and stop crushing on Travis Ford!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Living her best life means facing the truth: Georgie hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been on a date since, well, ever. Nobody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s asking the town clown out for a night of hot sex, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for sure. Maybe if people think she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s having a steamy love affair, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll acknowledge she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153little sister\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who paints faces for a living. And who better to help demolish that image than the resident sports star and tabloid favorite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Travis Ford was major league baseball\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hottest rookie when an injury ended his career. Now he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flipping houses to keep busy and trying to forget his glory days. But he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even cross the street without someone recapping his greatest hits. Or making a joke about his\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 bat. And then there’s Georgie, his best friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister, who is not a kid anymore. When she proposes a wild scheme\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat they pretend to date, to shock her family and help him land a new job\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhe agrees. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the harm? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s real. But the girl Travis used to tease is now a funny, full-of-life woman and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing fake about how much he wants her…<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d like to read this book you can place a hold on a copy for pickup in any of our libraries by requesting it here<\/a> or get it now as an ebook<\/a> or audiobook<\/a> on Borrowbox.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Title : Just Haven’t Met You Yet <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Author:<\/strong> Sophie Cousens<\/p>\n\n\n\n Synopsis:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura has built a career out of interviewing people about their epic real life love stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When she picks up the wrong suitcase at the airport, Laura wonders if this could be the start of something that’s written in the stars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From piano sheet-music to a battered copy of her favourite book, Laura finds in the bag evidence of everything she could hope for in a partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If Laura’s job has taught her anything it’s that when it comes to love, you can’t let opportunity pass you by. Now Laura is determined to track down the owner of the suitcase, and her own happy ending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But what if fate has other ideas?<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you’d like to read this book you can place a hold on a copy for pickup in any of our libraries by requesting it here<\/a> or get it now on Borrowbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Emma Doran, Leixlip Library Happy Valentines Day to all our wonderful library users. In this blog post I have selected a couple of contemporary romance books for the day that’s in it. Enjoy! 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