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2) Frogged
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Princess Imogene hates doing her homework, so instead she goes outside to look at the pond whenever she can. One day she meets a frog that used to be a prince. Kissing him to reverse the spell like in the fairy tales, Imogene is instead herself turned into a frog. Now she has to find someone to kiss her to turn her back.
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"Avoiding relationships to protect her sensitive heart, plus-sized Molly supports her once-cynical twin, Cassie, when the latter has her own bout of lovesickness, a situation that is complicated by sibling dynamics and an unexpected romantic triangle."--Provided by publisher.
4) The storm
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"Ninety-seven percent of the population is dead. And the killer rain keeps falling. Ruby's not sure she can make it on her own much longer. So when a chance encounter leads her to a camp with the last boy she may ever kiss (it's not easy to date during an apocalypse), Ruby gratefully accepts the army's protection. But safety comes with a price: If Ruby wants to stay, she must keep her eye -- and her mouth -- shut. Except Ruby stumbles across a secret...
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John O'Hara's novellas and his long short stories represent much of his best work. They are marked by the meticulous attention to detail and veracious dialogue that are habitual to O'Hara. His style of fiction, which often follows one individual or relationship through an unpredictable and unstable course, is frequently better served by the shorter form. The ten stories presented here were written in the sixties, the last decade of O'Hara's life,...