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In the heart of Birmingham, Alabama, eighty-six-year-old GiGi, a boxing enthusiast with a penchant for colorful language. disrupts her boxing match with a plea of assistance in picking up her grandson, Michael from school. As then clock ticks closer to Michael's school dismissal. GiGi witnesses a group of boys bullying her grandson. Unfazed by the traffic behind her, GiGi takes matters in to her own hands, brandishing a wooden bat to scare off the...
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Bug is a clever twelve-year old tomboy with an aptitude for mischief. Like most preteen girls, she struggles with bullies, relationships, and the growing pains of finding who you are. But, when bug's family move to a new home there's one more obstacle she must face -- Ghosts.
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Deputy Sheriff and full-time tomboy Traci Winston agrees to marry Taekwondo Master Travis Seaver, provided they exchange vows at 2000 feet while skydiving over the Grand Canyon. However, Traci's mother has more conventional plans, and she finds herself trying on dresses and planning an elaborate ceremony in their hometown church complete with butterflies and cummerbunds. Can Traci manage to smile while walking down the aisle? Or will she collapse...
4) Wild Grit
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Marshal Ben Stockton chases after three outlaws until he gets shot while riding his horse. Unconscious, he is taken by his mount to a farm where the Matthew family tends him back to health. He meets Becky, a sassy tomboy who's on the verge of becoming a woman. When the outlaws come back into town, Becky finds herself in the middle of danger, and only Ben can save her.A Western short story (9,000 words) full of action, romance and adventure.
5) Freeing Asia
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Asia is fed up with being in the "friend zone." She sheds her tomboy persona just in time to meet a sexy playboy and club owner who sweeps her off her feet. He's also on the verge of stealing her heart until her first love comes back to claim it.Finding love won't be easy, but finding herself will be even harder.With the chance of new love, Asia is torn between possibilities and the past, but to follow her heart she must first set it free.**Not recommended...
6) Lady Luck
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Tomboy and Old West sheriff's deputy Samantha has heard tell the pretty lady gambler, Lady Luck. When the Lady comes to her town, though, she's prepared for fancy clothes and a cheating heart, not a down to earth woman who takes more of an interest in Samantha than any man ever has.Maggie runs a clean game, and wants no trouble in Samantha's town. Until she meets Sammy, that is. Then she wants all the trouble she can wrap her hands around. Can the...
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Three Boston sisters are alone after the death of their father. The oldest is a tomboy and teased by her sisters that she will never find a husband. The middle sister, Debbie, is a twin to the oldest, Callie. She is Suzy homemaker and at twenty one still hopeful that she might marry and have a family. The youngest girl, Emily, has just been jilted and left without hope for a marriage. She has become bitter toward men. The three decide to take a wagon...
8) Broken
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Rodeo took him from her once. Will it take him again? It's been a decade since Garth Nash left the Triple R Ranch to become a bull riding star. Now he's back home to pay his final respects to the man he'd loved like a father, and to console the pesky tomboy he'd loved like a little sister. But there's nothing pesky or boyish about Amarilla Ray now. She's a gorgeous, barrel-racing cowgirl who knows exactly what she wants. Thing is, what she wants might...
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Tyler saw the stunning young woman sitting on top of a hay bale. She had short, cropped hair that barely covered her ears. Somehow, it complimented the roundness of her face. Set between that face was a pair of jade-colored eyes. And, even hidden by her tomboy outfit, Tyler could tell she had a lovely figure. His hormones flooded his system. He wanted this woman. No, he needed her. And by God, he would get her, one way or another. He stepped forward,...
10) Texas Wild
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Hollywood's hot playboy stuntman Randall Mackey replaced the adrenaline rush of his career in the SEAL Teams with another life courting danger, but that existence is jeopardized by injury. The sexy bad boy of Sweetgrass Springs returns to the town where his teenage exploits made him a legend, only to find that his buddy's tomboy little sister has grown up in very interesting ways. If he thinks, however, that gifted horse trainer Rissa Gallagher will...
11) Little Women
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Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are abridged; the quality is complete. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) with the respect they deserve.
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, set during the Civil War, has always captivated even the most reluctant readers. Little girls, especially,...
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Amy Schumer, Samantha Bee, Mindy Kaling, Melissa McCarthy, Tig Notaro, Leslie Jones, and a host of hilarious peers are killing it nightly on American stages and screens, smashing the tired stereotype that women aren't funny. But today's funny women didn't come out of nowhere. Fay Tincher's daredevil stunts, Mae West's linebacker walk, Lucille Ball's manic slapstick, Carol Burnett's athletic pratfalls, Ellen DeGeneres's tomboy pranks, Whoopi Goldberg's...
13) Texas Magic
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Empire builder Dominic Santorini is surrounded by women angling to share the luxurious life his wealth will buy. Eccentric, colorful tomboy Lexie Grayson encounters a hot guy in a hotter classic car broken down on the side of the road, and an afternoon as his mechanic leads to a scorching night with a man she knows only as Nikos-but when dawn arrives, he's vanished, never to be seen again.
She buries her heartache in her new job, staging an extravaganza...
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All four books in the best-selling My Paper Heart series in one omnibus.Libby got into her top choice sorority, but after failing out of college, she is sent to live with her great aunt in rural Louisiana where she meets the town playboy, Blaine Crabtree.Libby is used to getting what she wants and Blaine is no exception, but as the two grow closer, bigger problems arise. After a summer spent with her Aunt Dee in tiny Elsbury, Louisiana, former Chicago...
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This story takes you from the recollections of a four-year-old through the years to a baby boomer's senior years. A glimpse of elementary school, junior high, and high school, to college and beyond. She shares her relationships, lets us know her family, friends, teachers, and colleagues. You will learn to know her and those who were and are part of her life- the ones who changed her life.
There are loves and loses, all portrayed in a sincere, honest,...
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