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A Manhattan dog trainer agrees to help her best friend's older brother, who also happens to be her ex, train his over-dramatic husky in the third novel of the series following Pets of Park Avenue.

Gifted chocolatier Allison Thomas is out to save the world, one truffle at a time. Although her career is delicious, her love life is semisweet at best--okay, nonexistent--until Matt Baker arrives in coastal Saint Maggie, California, with an intriguing smile and a mysterious past. Since tragedy derailed his life, Matt has bounced from town to town, always alone. But despite his attempts to stay away from Ali, her kindness and beauty begin to melt...

Mickey Chambers is an adjunct instructor with a meager summer class schedule and too many medical bills, courtesy of her chronic illness. Picking up a bartending gig seems perfect. Sure, Mickey' never done this before, but the grumpy bar owner, Diego Acosta, might be the perfect man to teach the teacher... if he wasn't so stressed. Diego is worried he's running his late wife's bar into the ground. Add the pressures of returning to college part-time...

On a routine trip to the Piggly Wiggly in Albany, Georgia, widower Fletcher Dukes smells a familiar perfume, then sees a tall woman the color of papershell pecans with a strawberry birthmark on the nape of her neck. He knows immediately that she is his lost love, Altovise Benson. Their bond, built on county fairs, sit-ins, and marches, once seemed a sure and forever thing. But their marriage plans were disrupted when the police turned a peaceful protest...

Paul Auster's eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner--phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor--has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel unfolds into spirals of memory and...