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Love on the Brain

Ali Hazelwood · 442 pages

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results. Like an avenging, purple-haired Jedi bringing balance to the mansplained universe, Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering projec

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Nobody's Baby But Mine

Susan Elizabeth Phillips · 433 pages

Genius physics professor Dr. Jane Darlington desperately wants a baby. But finding a father won't be easy. Jane's super-intelligence made her feel like a freak when she was growing up, and she's determined to spare her own child that suffering. Which means she must find someone very special to father her child. Someone very ... well ... *stupid*. Cal Bonner, the Chicago Stars’ legendary quarter

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Resistance is Futile

Jenny Colgan

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Attraction

Penny Reid · 156 pages

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A Week to Be Wicked

Tessa Dare · 375 pages

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Bellwether

Connie Willis · 247 pages

Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and Nebula winning author of Doomsday Book. Sandra Foster studies fads and their meanings for the HiTek corporation. Bennet O'Reilly works with monkey group behavior and chaos theory for the same company. When the two are thrust together due to a misdelivered package and a run of seemingly bad luc

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The Ornithologist's Field Guide to Love

India Holton · 384 pages

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Absolutely, Positively

Jayne Ann Krentz · 349 pages

Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's scientific foundation, is furious with her new consultant, Dr Harry Stratton Trevelyan, who is brilliant, sexy, and absolutely impossible. But as a dangerous predator closes in on Molly, he reveals himself in a totally unexpected light.

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Imperfect Chemistry

Mary Frame · 239 pages

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Remedial Rocket Science

Susannah Nix · 260 pages

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Vinegar Girl

Anne Tyler · 250 pages

Anne Tyler's retelling of the Shakespeare play "The taming of the shrew."

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How Not To Fall

Emily Foster · 280 pages

"Data, research, scientific formulae--Annabelle Coffey is completely at ease with all of them. Men, not so much. But that's all going to change after she asks Dr. Charles Douglas, the postdoctoral fellow in her lab, to have sex with her. Charles is not only beautiful, he is also adorably awkward, British, brilliant, and nice. What are the odds he'd turn her down? Very high, as it happens. Somethi

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I'm Not Your Manic Pixie Dream Girl

Gretchen McNeil · 343 pages

Beatrice Maria Estrella Giovannini is starting senior year at the top of her class, she's a shoo-in for a scholarship to M.I.T., and she's got a new boyfriend she's crazy about. But through high school Bea and her best friends Spencer and Gabe have been the targets of horrific bullying. So Bea uses her math skills to come up with a 100% mathematically guaranteed path to social happiness in high sc

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Sun at Midnight

Rosie Thomas · 488 pages

Alice Peel is a geologist, on her way to a small Antarctic research station. James Rooker is a man on the run, who ends up at the research station. There is an attraction between the pair, but there are also hidden dangers on the southern continent.

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The First Day

Marc Levy

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Undetected

Dee Henderson · 480 pages

When asked what he does for a living Commander Mark Bishop is deliberately low-key: "I'm in the Navy." But commanding the ballistic missile submarine USS Nevada, keeping her crew trained and alert during ninety-day submerged patrols, and being prepared to launch weapons on valid presidential orders, carries a burden of command like few other jobs in the military. Mark Bishop is a man who accepts t

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Red Joan

Jennie Rooney · 392 pages

"Inspired by the true story of Melita Norwood, a woman unmasked in 1999, at age 87, as the KGB's longest-serving British spy, Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a brilliant young physicist during the Second World War ... Risking both career and conscience, leaking information to the Soviets, but struggling to maintain her own semblance of morality, Joan is caught at a crossroads in

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The Alchemist's Daughter

Katharine McMahon · 329 pages

There are long-held secrets at the manor house in Buckinghamshire, England, where Emilie Selden has been raised in near isolation by her father. A student of Isaac Newton, John Selden believes he can turn his daughter into a brilliant natural philosopher and alchemist. Secluded in their ancient house, with only two servants for company, he fills Emilie with knowledge and records her progress obses

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The Rosie Effect

Graeme Simsion · 419 pages

"The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because--surprise--Rosie is pregnant. Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he's left Claudia and moved in with Don

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The Shark Club

Ann Kidd Taylor · 288 pages

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Remanence

Jennifer Foehner Wells · 450 pages

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The Secret Life of Violet Grant

Beatriz Williams · 436 pages

"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a bud

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The Man Who Loved Pride & Prejudice: A Modern Love Story with a Jane Austen Twist

Abigail Reynolds · 439 pages

Marine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab.

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