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1) Bet Me
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Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairly tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Cal Morrisey knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they cut their losses and agree never to see each other again. But Fate has other plans, and it's not long before Min and Cal are dealing with a jealous ex-boyfriend, Krispy Kreme donuts,...
4) Choco-Louie
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Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Louie's older brother bets his new skateboard that Louie can't go an entire week without eating any chocolate.
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"Reluctant socialite Coraline Baxter longs to live a life of significance and leave her mark on the world. When her local suffragette group asks her to climb Mount Rainier to raise awareness of their cause, she jumps at the chance, even though she has absolutely no climbing experience. If she can do it, any woman can do it. And after her mother issues an ultimatum--that Cora marry the man of her mother's choosing if she is not successful--Cora must...
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Byrons of Braebourne novels volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
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"He had to marry her. Everyone in London agrees the Byrons are just "as mad, bad, and dangerous to know" as their poetic non-relation. But Lord Jack Byron is facing a predicament that is scandalous...even for him! Marry a young woman because he lost a bet? Unreformed rake Lord Jack Byron would do anything to get out of it. But the rich merchant who holds his debt insists Jack lead his on-the-shelf daughter to the altar...and make her believe it's...
8) Grizz!
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Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In a cowboy version of a traditional tale found in both Russia and Germany, Lucky Doolin makes a deal with the Devil, agreeing not to wash, shave, or change his clothes for seven years, thus earning a fortune and the hand of his true love.
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2019.
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Everyone has heard of the Gameshouse, but few know all its secrets. It is the place where fortunes can be made and lost through chess, backgammon—every game under the sun. But those whom fortune favors may be invited to compete in the higher league, where the games played are of politics and nations, of economics and kings. It is a contest where capture the castle involves real castles and where hide-and-seek takes place on the scale of a continent....
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Chapel of love volume 4
Pub. Date
2018
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When she overhears hotshot lawyer Matthew Lyndon taking a bet to seduce her, wedding planner Courtney Wallace decides to play along in an attempt to beat him at his own game, but the tables soon turn as the stakes are raised by love.
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Who was Annie Londonderry? She captured the popular imagination with her daring 'round the world trip on two wheels. It was, declared The New York World in October of 1895, "the most extraordinary journey ever undertaken by a woman." But beyond the headlines, Londonderry was really Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, a young, Jewish mother of three small children, who climbed onto a 42-pound Columbia bicycle and pedaled away into history. Reportedly set in motion...
15) Taos lightning
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2018
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Fifteen-year-old Evan Kendrick has traveled from New Mexico Territory to Galveston, Texas, with his father, Edward, who will be competing in a horse race that's offering a $3,000 prize to the winner. But a terrible accident seriously injures Evan's drunken father, forcing Evan to saddle up instead. And this is no ordinary race. Its course is eighteen hundred miles -- and maybe even longer -- between Texas and New England, and Evan will be riding an...
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Pub. Date
c2009
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Johannes Cabal, a brillian scientist and notorious snob, is single-mindedly obsessed in heart and soul with raising the dead. Well, perhaps not soul--he hastily sold his years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. But now, tormented by a dark secret, he travels to the fiery pits of Hell to retrieve it. Sataon, who is incredibly bored these days, proposes a little wager, Johannes has one years to persuade one hundred people to sign over their...
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[2013]
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"Maddie Post is privileged, sheltered, and polite, and does not belong in Blake, Maine. But thanks to a high-stakes bet, she's waiting tables at a riverfront diner catering to boat-builders and living in Janet Gilbertson's $200-a-month guest room. And Janet's dark and stormy son, Hank, back in Maine after 10 years as an active duty Army diver, isn't without his troubles, either. Their flirty friendship has many passionate ups and downs, but when Maddie...
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Regency vows volume 2
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"The widowed Diana, Lady Templeton and Jeremy, Marquess of Willingham are infamous among English high society as much for their sharp-tongued bickering as their flirtation. One evening, an argument at a ball turns into a serious wager: Jeremy will marry within the year or Diana will forfeit one hundred pounds. So shortly after, just before a fortnight-long house party at Elderwild, Jeremy's country estate, Diana is shocked when Jeremy appears at her...
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Two brothers -- Will and Jeff -- and their friend Tom are out one night at their favorite South Beach bar, the Wild Zone, and decide to make a bet on who can be the first to seduce a mysterious-looking young woman drinking by herself. Pretty, dark-haired, blue-eyed Suzy has an innocent, almost ordinary girl-next-door way about her. Little do the friends know that their harmless bet is about to take on a life of its own, a life full of deadly consequences...
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