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Pub. Date
2013.
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English
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When Logan Montgomery, a personal trainer to the country's most famous pro athletes, offers to help her get back in shape, young widow Holly Brennan, deciding to make at least one positive change in her life, throws herself into exercise and into Logan'sarms.
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Savannah Reid mysteries volume 14
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Obnoxious diet guru Clarissa Jardin reports her womanizing, gambling husband, Bill, missing. When Bill turns up as a frozen corpse with a bullet in his skull, Bill's mother hires Savannah to prove Clarissa killed her son or hired someone to do it.
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Victoria Dawson was a chubby little girl born to slender L.A. parents. Her father belittled her about her body and she was a disappointment to her mother, neither acknowledged her academic achievements. Her perfect younger sister is about to be married to a narcissistic man, just like their father, and Victoria worries about her sisters future happiness. As the wedding draws near, a chance encounter, an act of stunning betrayal, and a family confrontation...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Plus-sized sleuth Savannah Reid investigates the death of a champion bodybuilder and Hollywood's newest action hero, who is found with a lethal dose of steroids and growth hormone in his system--and the drugs were administered by someone other than the victim.
9) Big summer
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English
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Six years after the fight that ended their friendship, Daphne Berg is shocked when Drue Cavanaugh walks back into her life, looking as lovely and successful as ever, with a massive favor to ask: ... [to] be [Drue's] maid-of-honor at the society wedding of the summer ... Daphne's no longer the same self-effacing sidekick she was back in high school. She's built a life that she loves, including a growing career as a plus-size Instagram influencer. Letting...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Amateur sleuth Odelia Grey tries to get a band back together -- and get her mother off the hook -- in book eleven of the award-winning series. It's a rockin' flashback for Odelia Grey when her mother asks her to look into the disappearance of her neighbor Bo Shank, the former lead singer for a band Odelia idolized in her youth. But when a body is found in Bo Shanks house, everything quickly gets thrown out of tune.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Emerson, Georgia and Marley have been best friends ever since they met at a weight-loss camp as teens. When Emerson tragically passes away, she leaves one final wish for her best friends: to conquer the fears they still carry as adults. For each of them, that means something different. For Marley, it is coming to terms with the survivor's guilt she has carried around since her twin sister's death, which has left her blind to the real chance for romance...
13) Secondhand stiff
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English
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Odelia uncovers a deadly storage war involving her husband's cousin.
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While renovating her house and her life, Savvy Sheldon finds things going not as planned and soon realizes that she should have started her renovation the other way around, beginning with how she sees and loves herself before she can love someone else.
16) Thugs and kisses
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English
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"With the class bully murdered at her 30th high school reunion and her annoying boss Michael Steele suddenly missing, Odelia Grey, aka 'Corpse Magnet,' doesn't know which mystery to poke her big nose into first. The action is hot and heavy as Odelia confronts demented contract assassins, tangled love relationships, and killer cravings for Thin Mints Girl Scout Cookies."--Book Jacket.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body--at least, most of the time--and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that her...
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Is the "Holy Pail" cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchbox—a prototype based on the 1940s TV western—has died. And now Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Grey's law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail—worth over thirty grand—has disappeared at the same time? Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of this...
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English
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When a 90-year-old former movie star is murdered inside her derelict 1920s mansion, plus-sized PI Savannah Reid, Dirk, and the Moonlight Magnolia gang search for her killer by exploring the "good old days" of Hollywood-when both she and Tinsel Town were young, but far from innocent.
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"Cowritten by #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Murphy and USA Today bestselling author Sierra Simone--a steamy plus-size holiday rom-com about an adult film star who is semi-accidentally cast as a lead in a family-friendly Christmas movie, and the former bad-boy pop star she falls in love with"--
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