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She's everything, he's just Ken.

We all know Barbie and Ken are end-game. Feel the Ken-ergy with these books featuring boss ladies and their more-than-smitten love interests.

Whitby Public Library

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  • A fresh, funny romance, with the unforgettable Elle Woods proving blondes will run the world.
    eBook, 2015Diversion Books, 2015
  • When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but…
    eBook, 2015Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015
  • Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. Sure, she…
    eAudiobook, 2021Books on Tape, 2021
  • Though forbidden by the alliance council to kill the corrupt king responsible for his parents' murders, Maddek vows to avenge them, even if it costs him the Parsathean crown. But when he learns it was the king's daughter who lured his parents to…
    Book, 2020New York : Jove, [2020]
  • When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the pleasure she'll forgo as a…
    Book, 2019New York : Avon Books, [2019]
  • King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time—in bed and out—and that’s exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She’s immune to his charm and looks, but…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
  • This time the gossip columnists have it wrong. London's most elusive bachelor Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry--he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield--the most meddlesome woman ever…
    Book, 2015New York, New York : Avon Books, [2015].
  • In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test…
    Book, 2008New York : Scholastic Press, 2008.
  • In this reimagining of The Arabian Nights, Shahrzad plans to avenge the death of her dearest friend by volunteering to marry the murderous boy-king of Khorasan but discovers not all is as it seems within the palace.
    Book, 2015New York : Penguin Random House, c2015.
  • Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her…
    eBook, 2011HarperCollins, 2011
  • Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the…
    Book, 2013New York : Macmillan, 2013, c2012.