Curse of the Bearded Girlfriend


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"The Curse of the Bearded Girlfriend" is a tour de force of a coming of age novel set in the twilight of the hippie era. The voice is of a grown man looking back on the adventure of his life when he was 17. With a friend, he set out on an epic quest across the country via their outstretched thumbs. The journey turns dark after they hitch a ride with a young woman whose mental state rapidly deteriorates. While black comedy, this story is also a painfully authentic portrayal of a teenage boy grappling with his budding feelings of lust, love and the distinction between the two. Think of Curse as a modern day "Portnoy's Complaint."




Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe


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“Chasing the Albino Pygmy Giraffe” is a laugh aloud yet insightful parody about how little Chinese and Americans understand one another. The story unfolds as a college professor leads a group of American and Chinese students 3,500 miles across the heart of Western China down the fabled Silk Road. Along the way, the travelers brave everything from squat toilets and donkey meat to insurrection and the Red Army. Author Charles Haddad is eminently qualified to spoof Chinese and Americans alike. Not only has he seen more of China than most Chinese themselves. Haddad speaks Chinese and is well versed in Chinese history and culture. While fiction, Haddad’s tale rings true. It offers great insight for those worrying about the future of Sino-American relations. And worry they should, suggests this humorous adventure story.




The Girlfriend Curse


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It's uncanny! Within six months of breaking up with her, Peg Silver's ex-lovers always meet and marry the women of their dreams. Even worse than being the eternal bridesmaid, she's the last girlfriend, the one who awakens in a guy theknowledge of what he's always wanted in a relationship ... and it's never with Peg. Obviously, a major lifestyle change is seriously called for, which is why the distraught interior landscape designer says good-bye to Manhattan and late-night lattes with pal Nina, and hello to a farmhouse on ten acres in tiny, backwater Manshire, Vermont, hoping to meet the ultimate, all-organic country man (without too much facial hair) to keep her warm in those frosty New England winters. Instead, Peg finds herself at Inward Bound -- a proactive adult-education retreat for the hapless and hopelessly lovelorn -- to try to lift her dreaded "girlfriend curse." A steamy (and expressly forbidden) dalliance with gorgeous woman-eater Ray probably isn't going to help cure her. But some romantic insight could arise from her attraction to Linus, Inward Bound's sexy, scruffy, smart and still-single founder. Perhaps there is a secret to be unearthed in the crunchy Green Mountains, one that will magically transform Peg Silver from the Perpetual Also Ran to the Big Winner in love.




Curse of the Bearded Girlfriend


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The Curse of the Bearded Girlfriend is a spoof on the coming-of-age genre that parodies the twilight of the hippie era. Curse takes its teenage protagonist on a cross-country journey with his former bully - a journey that grows dark after they hitch a ride with a young woman whose mental state rapidly deteriorates. While black comedy, this story is also a painfully authentic portrayal of a teenage boy grappling with his budding feelings of lust, love and the distinction between the two. Think of Curse as a modern day Portnoy's Complaint.




Mumm's Curse


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"This latest novel in the Mumm series is even better than the first..." - Hollis George, editor and anthologist "Like a .22 bullet loaded with testosterone..." - H.L. Osterman, Short Changed "My second favorite spy novelist ... but it's a close call because Banks tosses in more sex than Le Carré." —Byron McCafferty, Online Critics Corner That trying-to-be-retired CIA shooter Leslie Carroll Mumm returns with his beautiful island-born wife in a second adventure that involves murder, blackmail, a female assassin named Charlie, an oversexed albino televangelist, and a crack sniper working for the Libyans. High-caliber shoot-'em-up action for less than the price of a couple of bullets.




When Bad Boys Fall Boxset


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Where opposites attract, the unexpected happens, and bad boys fall… The Biker and the Professor – When Toni Blume sets out for a fresh start after a painful divorce, the last thing she expected was to fall for her student twelve years her junior. The Biker and the Gamer – Successful gamer Alec Vaughn couldn’t be more different from Kendra Tisdale. But Alec is deeply fascinated by the tough-talking, tattooed biker girl, and he’s determined to make her his. The Biker and the Loner – Leyana shared her deepest secret—as well as her innocence—with Scratch the night before his big sendoff only because she never expected to see him again. But five years later, he’s back, and he’s determined to pick up where they left off. The Biker and the Baker – Pia is convinced Onyx is prejudiced against her, but Onyx swears he has no idea what her problem is with him. Suffice it to say, they do not get along. But things take a surprising turn when she’s forced to call him her “boyfriend” in front of her family… This boxset consists of four complete standalones with HEAs. No cliffhangers. Tags: romance boxset, age gap romance, student teacher romance, opposites attract romance, enemies to lovers romance, second chance romance , romance bundle, multicultural romance, latina romance, interracial romance




Fantastic Monsters of the Films Complete Collection


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Horror guaranteed to shock you dead or your life refunded! The cult classic monster magazine is back. All of the horror, all of the madness, all of the monsters, all together in one complete collection for the first time ever! Delve back in to the nostalgia of the golden age of horror in a time before the internet if you wanted the latest scoop on your favorite monsters and how they were created you got Fantastic Monsters of the Films, featuring the Devil’s Work Shop and Monster of the Month. Over 450 pages of ghoulish delight the time has come to go back to the grave and resurrect the forgotten past of monster movie history.




Lover


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Reprint of the Daughters edition of 1972 with a new 57 p. introduction in which Harris blasts the original publishers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




The Biker and the Loner


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​I told him something I shouldn’t have. I gave him something I shouldn’t have. He went away to die—I prayed that he’d survive. ​I shouldn’t have done that either. Now, five years later, he’s back. Mangled, but alive. And it’s all my fault. He has my secret. He has my card. And he’s determined to finish what we started. This is not how it was supposed to go. But when has life ever been obedient to our wills? PLEASE NOTE: All MC happenings takes place off-page. This is not a dark romance. This is not an erotica. Written in first-person present tense. Contains mature content. Tags: second chance romance, interracial romance, MC romance, MC series, motorcycle romance, biker bad boy, Latina romance, Latinx romance, series romance, set in Denver, series starter, romance series, romance saga, romantic family saga, tattooed heroes, forbidden romance, strong alpha, alpha hero, foster hero, top romance reads, outlaw heroes, lawless romance, sweet and sexy romance, multicultural romance, interracial romance, series to binge read, back from the military romance




You, CEO's Real Lover


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Three years ago, because of the betrayal of her fiancé and best friend, she got drunk in a bar and met this enigmatic president of the devil. When she fell in love with him and became pregnant with his flesh and blood, she discovered that their marriage was nothing more than a conspiracy. Three years later, she returned with her child, but she didn't want to meet this man that she didn't want to meet again in her entire life ...