A Solo Dance with a Second Chance


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The backdoor of ORyans Pub opened, and Jack slipped out into the blackened evening. Unrelenting fingers of the frozen night air wrapped themselves around his body while painful visions of Meg haunted him like razors slicing through his veins. Too many times he had been down this road. Meg Greystone longed to leave the city of Beaverton, where all hope diminished. When she accepted a position with Mahto Ranger Station in northern Idaho, little did she realize the enormous challenges her new choice would bring. With a cold heart of stone, would she allow this journey to help her discover Gods grace, healing, and purpose?




A Ring, a Dance, a Second Chance


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Jonell Kirby Cash's love story picks up Katie and Taylor's romance right where it left off, their senior year of high school. However, Katie isn't the same girl Taylor remembers. As a widow, she values her independence, living alone, and making new friends, and when Taylor calls Katie she is on the threshold of exploring herself in the larger world. Taylor, ever the old-fashioned man, is surprised by the new, vibrant Katie. The two must learn how to rid themselves of their old memories and expectations and learn to accept the fifty years of change that has taken place. A Ring, a Dance, a Second Chance is a novel about love at any age. 'Jonell Kirby Cash writes with great feeling and insight into family relationships in her debut novel, A Ring, a Dance, a Second Chance. Readers, especially those who are wondering if marriage after sixty can be a part of their future, will identify with and root for Cash's Katie and will come away with a positive belief in love at any age.' Donny Bailey Seagraves, author of Gone from These Woods




Second Chance with Her Army Doc


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Can a chance reunion... Rekindle an old flame? Heart surgeon Sloane Manning and army doc Carter Holmes were the perfect couple. Until Carter walked away, leaving Sloane heartbroken. Determined to finally move on, Sloane heads off for a desert vacation, only to find Carter’s there, too! He’s still as ruggedly gorgeous and irresistibly charming as she remembers, but there’s a pain in his eyes Sloane must uncover before they can recapture what they once had...




The Secret Recipe for Second Chances


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A surprising, smart, charming novel that shows every day is a second chance. If you love Offspring and the 'opposites attract' charm of The Rosie Project, you will love this story! Lucy Muir is leaving her husband. It's complicated. They're joint owners and chefs at one of the best restaurants in town, so making a clean break is tough. But, let's face it, a woman can only take so much cheating, recipe stealing and lack of good grace. Despondently driving around the back streets of Woolloomooloo one night, Lucy happens upon an old, empty terrace that was once the city's hottest restaurant: Fortune. One minute she's peering through grimy windows into an abandoned space, the next she's planning a pop-up bistro. When Lucy fires up Fortune's old kitchen she discovers a little red recipe book that belonged to the former chef, the infamous Frankie Summers. As she cries over the ingredients for Frankie's French Onion Soup, she imagines what Fortune was like in its heyday. It's strange, Lucy can sense Frankie beside her, almost see him there ... This fiery chef, who lived with a passion for food and women in almost equal measure, just might help Lucy cook herself up a better life. But is she brave enough to believe? **INCLUDES an extract from J.D.'s new novel, The Upside of Over, publishing in July 2018**




Kids in America


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Generation X was born between the legions of Baby Boomers and Millennials, and was all but written off as cynical, sarcastic slackers. Yet, Gen X's impact on culture and society is undeniable. In her revealing and provocative essay collection, KIDS IN AMERICA: ESSAYS ON GEN X, Liz Prato reveals a generation deeply affected by terrorism, racial inequality, rape culture, and mental illness in an era when none of these issues were openly discussed. Examined through the lens of her high school and family, Prato reveals a small, forgotten cohort shaped as much by Sixteen Candles and Beverly Hills, 90210, as it was by the Rodney King riots and the threat of nuclear annihilation. Prato is unflinching in asking hard questions of her peers about what behavior was then acceptable or overlooked, and how we reconcile those sins today. KIDS IN AMERICA illuminates a generation that is often cited, but rarely examined beyond the gloss of nostalgia.




You Get What You Pray For


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Lorain has been a prisoner of her secrets for almost her entire life. At the age of thirteen, she managed to keep her pregnancy a secret, discarding the infant and leaving it for dead. Years later, Lorain’s mother finally met the love of her life, and Lorain couldn’t find the courage to tell her mother that her new beau was the man who molested Lorain and impregnated her. Now, to complicate matters, Lorain discovers that the baby she abandoned all those years ago survived, and God has placed Lorain in her now adult child’s life. It seems like the legacy of secrets has been passed on, too, as Lorain helps her daughter conceal the true details behind one of her own pregnancies. Lorain has managed to maneuver the secrets and lies like pieces in a strategic game of chess and is now living the lavish, fairy-tale life of a doctor’s wife. But even that is a lie. With the rug about to be pulled out from under Lorain by the woman who raised her abandoned child, all Lorain prays for is that everything will end well. In this cycle of lies, secrets, shame, and guilt, will Lorain get what she prays for?




No Match for Second Chances


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Love second romances? Then this five-book collection is for you! - 1,200+ pages of reading - 2,200+ five-star reviews - Each story can be read as a stand alone - Guaranteed HEA in every book! Miss Match: With the matchmaking company she works for in decline, Brooke is desperate to sign Luke, a notorious playboy and her best friend, as a client. But the billionaire CEO only has eyes for Brooke! Can he show her he’s a changed man? Not Your Match: When her best friend buys her a subscription to a professional matchmaking service, Andi reluctantly agrees to try it out. But matching with a celebrity client just might turn Andi’s world upside down! Match Me Again: Since the death of her parents, chasing tornadoes is the only thing that makes Lauren feel alive. But when a funeral brings her face-to-face with Tanner, the boyfriend she left behind, old feelings resurface–just as a deadly tornado arrives in town. Strike a Match: After a house fire, Kate turns to a matchmaking service in the hopes of leaving her past behind. But what happens when she’s paired with the firefighter she met on that fateful night? Meet Your Match: Brooke’s convinced all boys are trouble. Luke’s a player who loves the thrill of the chase. Can a set of crazy rules keep these two safely in the friend zone? Each of these full-length romances features snappy dialogue, complex characters, and laugh-out-loud scenes. If you love friends to lovers, second chances, small towns, billionaires, and firefighters, then you'll love this collection. Grab your copy today!




The Risk of Writing


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What happens when you cannot do what you loved the most? Do you obey the rules, or follow your heart? For Lottie, Jerry, Kayla, Sienna and Melanie, they chose to put everything on the line for their passions. But is the risk worth it?




Christmas in Bayberry: Second Chance, Small Town Romance


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She’s trying to save the family candle company. He’s trying not to fall for Bayberry―and her―again. Kate Taylor knows what she wants in life: to one day run her family’s candle business, which is at the heart of the close-knit community of Bayberry, Vermont. But the company isn’t doing well. Wesley Adams is on the fast track to be an assistant vice president at his financial firm in Manhattan. Before the promotion is announced, he’s sent to this small town from his past to do an analysis of the candle company. He doesn’t expect to bump into his childhood crush, Kate, and when he does, sparks fly. As he spends time in Bayberry, he falls for the town’s Christmas traditions―and for her. But he has a responsibility to submit an honest report. Will it extinguish Kate’s dreams…along with any chance they have for a future together? The Bayberry, Vermont series: Book 1 – Christmas in Bayberry Book 2 – Valentines in Bayberry




Polish Popular Music on Screen


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This book examines the interface between Polish popular music and screen media against the background of Polish history, cinema, and popular culture and situates that interface in a local as well as global context. It looks at Polish musicals, biographical films about musicians, documentary films and, finally, music videos. The author draws attention to the immense popularity of musical comedies in Polish interwar cinema, the enduring appeal of musical genres during the period of state socialism, despite their low status in film criticism, and the re-birth of musicals in the 2010s. Mazierska also discusses the most important stars, directors and authors of songs presented in Polish films, and points to the effect of technological changes on inception and transformation of music-centred genres of screen media, including the effect of YouTube on their growth and preservation. The book is informed by the question of how parochial and universal is Polish popular music and its screen representation.