Books Like The Rosie Project
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Christmas at Hickory Lantern
K.C. Mitchell
Christmas doesn’t simply arrive in Hickory Lantern—it glows from every window and welcomes strangers as though they have finally come home. Callie Harper has built a life in the town she loves, but between running her café and helping at her parents’ inn, taking care of everyone else leaves little time for love. A handsome visitor is a tempting distraction—even if Elliot Reeves arrives with a girlfriend who would rather be elsewhere. When he returns for Christmas, single and eager to spend time with her, Callie discovers how good it feels for someone to take care of her. Letting him lend a hand is easy. Wanting his arms around her—and a place in his future— is far more dangerous when the life he built somewhere else is waiting. But surrounded by harbor lights and holiday traditions, Elliot is finding plenty of reasons to stay. Callie is becoming his favorite. A heartwarming, clean small-town Christmas romance about being chosen—and finding a love worth staying for.
Contemporary
Better Light at Bridger Ranch
K. J. Curtis
My student’s grumpy single dad doesn’t want my Ag program on his ranch. But he needs the lease payments. Sam signs the contract, and suddenly I’m spending my days with a stubborn rancher who’d rather I stay out of his way. That works for me. Until our arguments turn into teasing, and I discover the man behind the scowl is dangerously hard to resist. Then he kisses me. I should stop him. I don’t. Somewhere between his daughter, my Ag kids, and long days together, the ranch I couldn’t wait to leave starts feeling like somewhere I belong. Then he said the worst thing he could say to me. I don’t know that I can survive this.
Contemporary
The Days of our Birth
Charlie Laidlaw
Peter and Sarah grow up living next door to one another in a small town in the east of Scotland. They also share the same birthday. He’s not so bright, but she’s formidably intelligent. She’s also autistic, and can’t understand why nobody except Peter likes her. The days of our birth follows Peter and Sarah over twenty years. His journey into adulthood is fairly effortless; hers, more complex. It explores how two very different people can grow up as best friends, but never quite understand why they’re best friends and what they really feel about one another. The book, filled with humour and poignancy, is an exploration of how people change, the things we could have said and done and, sometimes, how we can make things right again. Peter and Sarah are finally forced to confront what they really feel, about themselves and about each other. For them, it is also about realising that love and friendship mean more than the sum of their differences.
Literary Fiction
The Things We Keep
Avery Solenne
Some things you keep. Some things were never yours. Eighteen months after her father's death, Margot Whitcomb has one sale standing between his auction house and the end of it. Then the headline lot — a Cartier brooch worth seven figures — comes back flagged as possibly stolen. And her father's initials are on the file. Adrian Keane works for the insurer. He is careful, exacting, impossible to hurry, and the only person alive who can tell Margot what her father actually knew in 2009. He is also required to report every answer to someone else. So they build a rule. He tells her when something exists, even when he can't tell her what it is. It holds for two weeks. What Margot finds in the file is not a crime. It's worse — a decent man with one more question to ask, a payroll due Friday, and a reason to stop. What she finds in Adrian is the first person in a year who refuses to make anything easier than it is. Neither of them can afford this. He would have to disclose it. She would have to explain it to a client whose brooch may not be hers. They do it anyway. A slow-burn, closed-door contemporary romance about two careful people, one unresolved object, and the difference between keeping something and keeping it unchanged.
Contemporary
An Introvert's Guide To World Domination
Nick Shelton
A practical, honest guide to networking for people who hate networking. Nick Shelton shares the exact system that took him from dreading every room to being remembered in the ones that matter, without ever pretending to be someone he's not.
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