Author : Angela Hayes
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1509206140
With Valentine’s Day right around the corner, gorse fairy, Flora Hawthorne is up to her neck in flowers, chocolate, and all things romance. She has no time for love, until she comes face to face with her own personal Cupid and the sparks fly! Looking to settle down, Cupid Tharin Terize wants fairy Flora Hawthorne to be his valentine, not just for one night, but for the rest of time. Now, all he has to do is convince her.
Author : Tina Martin
Publisher : Tina Martin Publications
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2017-12-19
Category :
ISBN :
At Padma Alexander’s request, the family all assemble for a two-day family reunion at her grand estate in the Outer Banks. The week leading up to the reunion proves to be uplifting for some couples and challenging for others. Gabrielle and Tyson are still blissfully in love, but something he keeps from her has her questioning whether he ‘settled’ for her and isn't living up to his full potential. Dilvan is still battling feelings of worthlessness with his bipolar diagnosis. Some days he takes his medicine. Other days he doesn’t. The constant mood swings are proving to be too much for Eden as she hides a secret that she’s afraid to tell him. She loves him, but there’s only so much she can take. Preston and Tamera are both busy with their writing careers. Their current lifestyle is carefree, eating out on a regular and always busy with work, but Preston has been thinking more and more about starting a family. Tamera is not on board, at least not while she’s trying to get her business off the ground. Lalita searches for a purpose. Prasad can’t understand her reasoning since he provides her with everything she needs. Charity runs a school that was only supposed to be a summer school. She ends up opening a year-round, after-school program, but Heshan thinks it’s too much for her to manage. Henry considers dating again but thinks he’s too old to get back in the game. That is until a woman visits the pastry shop who piques his interest... Padma would like nothing more than to get all her family together for this reunion but will the drama surrounding these Alexander couples turn this reunion into one big disaster? * * * Discover the entire Alexander Series: The Millionaire's Arranged Marriage, Book 1 Watch Me Take Your Girl, Book 2 Her Premarital Ex, Book 3 The Object of His Obsession, Book 4 Dilvan's Redemption, Book 5 His Charity Challenge, Book 5 Different Tastes, Book 7
Author : Jilli Waters
Publisher : Hutia LLC
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
I return to my small hometown, determined to save my family's restaurant. The Shake N Tail has seen better days, but it's been the Deeb family restaurant for three generations. The old lobster shack has history, and I won't let it go down without a fight. Just when things are starting to look up, trouble walks in. Piercing dark eyes and strong arms kind of trouble. Ben Carlisle. The man looks like he just stepped out of an L.L. Bean centerfold, complete with scruffy strong jawline, broad shoulders, and hands that could span a moose’s antlers. In an instant, my heart beats to a rhythm it hasn’t ever known. While Ben might be a tall drink of Maine-crafted beer, I soon learn that he's my brand-new enemy. Ben's corporate run seafood franchise threatens to put my family's struggling diner out of business. Ben's seafood restaurant is everything I can't stand, and goes against everything I hold dear, right down to its gleaming square footage. Nevermind flannel shirts and hiking boots never made me feel so hot and bothered. Every time I bump into my new rival, I can't fight the way my skin tingles against his touch, or the image in my mind of his large, strong hands caressing my body. He's charismatic, handsome, kind, and his presence makes me want to do things that should never be done with one’s enemy. There’s a lot more at stake than just business, but can I afford to let my heart take the lead? You’ve Got Love and Lobsters is a steamy, small-town, enemies-to-lovers, swoonworthy romance, with a guaranteed HEA. It is the first in the standalone Shipbuilt Shenanigans series. It’s filled with snark, epic Maine scenery, and lots of butter.
Author : Jilli Waters
Publisher : Hutia LLC
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2024-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Recipe-- add a curvy Sassy Sunshine and a burly Lobsterman Grump together in a one-bed hotel room. Sprinkle in puzzles, tattoos, a baking competition, motorcycles, and an adorable dog. Mix well. Bake until hot and steamy on the inside. I may be the best baker in Shipbuilt, Maine, but to my senator mom, I’ve wasted my life…and my waistline. Mom demands I bring a +1 for her weekend birthday celebration, even though I don’t have a boyfriend or time. My application for the Pastries of the Northeast Competition is my golden ticket to buy Shipbuilt’s bakery, The Cream Puff. I have to perfect my recipes and run my annual cookie-palooza at the bakery. Birch is just one of a thousand tattooed, gruff lobstermen in Maine, right? Wrong, he is the perfect blend of no-nonsense to protect me from Mom's criticisms. But his sculpted body keeps me up at night, wondering how far down that tattoo goes. Solving one problem by being my fake date for the weekend might just complicate things. It's cold outside. The oven’s hot, and I’ve been burned before. He's sworn off romance, I've sworn off men from Maine. What could go wrong? You've Got Love and Cinnamon Rolls is a deliciously steamy one bed, fake dating, curvy girl + hot cinnamon roll hero with a guaranteed HEA. It’s the second standalone book of the Shipbuilt Shenanigans small-town series. The books can be read in any order, but the characters and town drama starts in book 1.
Author : Jilli Waters
Publisher : Hutia LLC
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
What happens on a tropical island stays on a tropical island...Right?? I love to mark off all the boxes of my to-do lists; love to plan what comes next. But one box that remains permanently unchecked is the relationship status box. Frustrated after another failed date, my friends convince me that a week of sand and sun will revive me and help me shake free of failed dating apps, work, and the dreariness of spring in Shipbuilt. First day in my tropical paradise and I faint, probably from dehydration, and fall into the arms of my new hero, self-made Dominican-New Yorker, Carlos. He promises me the week of a lifetime, and I let myself believe him. After all, you only live once. His ease of all things island life--from motorcycles to waterfall jumps to finding the tastiest coconuts and pineapples, lull me into letting go of my need to be in control and let him take the lead. Dimpled smiles and bronzed muscles fill me with a heat that has nothing to do with the Caribbean sun. For a brief flicker of time, I think there might be more to our fling than just hot tropical lust, but Carlos ghosts me soon after I leave the Caribbean paradise. Vacation over, reality smacks hard: cold gray days, long hours at work, and a positive pregnancy test. You've Got Love in Paradise is a juicy, steamy vacation romance, complete with a cinnamon roll hero, accidental pregnancy, and a guaranteed HEA. It's a standalone in the small-town series, Shipbuilt Shenanigans.
Author : David Wagner
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,40 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781565846371
A groundbreaking critique of American charity which Barbara Ehrenreich says "demolishes the conventional wisdom that private philanthropy is innately superior to public welfare measures." What's Love Got to Do with It? is an insightful debunking of the way charitable giving disguises American neglect of the public welfare. Award-winning Professor of Social Work and Sociology David Wagner points out that while the United States prides itself on being one of the most generous nations, it provides its citizens with the lowest public benefits of any Western society and has rates of poverty and inequality among the highest in the industrialized world. These two facts, Wagner argues, are not unrelated: independent philanthropy actually provides a cover for the harshness of America's free-market capitalism. In a book that Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, says "raises sobering questions for all of us who want to live in a just society," Wagner offers a provocative contribution to our thinking on philanthropy and social welfare.
Author : Maureen Michelle Waters-Graham
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1483623513
This book speaks of love. Love wanted, love found, love strong and love lasting. For me that love was made with Scott T. Graham who has assisted me in putting this book together but has also been the inspiration for all the poems that are written. I will forever love this man.
Author : L. Martin
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1622954610
Every couple has a story. This is the story of Ty and Katee, complete with trials and tribulations. When Ty Henry moves onto his grandpa's farm in Iowa, he starts his senior year at a new school. He is soon attracted to Katee Roberts, who also finds herself drawn to the new football player. But their mutual attraction must overcome misunderstandings and interference by Chaz Thomas, who resents the breakup of the Gang: Chaz, Denny, Teej, and Katee. This charming novel portrays the ups and downs of high school romance. Leonard Martin thoughtfully depicts one guy who's Got a Love'n Heart and the girl who could return his affection. Got a Love'n Heart provides joy and humor in the blossoming attraction of young love as two high schoolers develop a friendship despite the interference of another.
Author : E. Lynn Harris
Publisher : NAL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Four brand-new, original stories from four of the biggest names in black writing today. Sexy, raucously funny, and unfailingly honest - they deal with modern relationships, navigating the complex landscape of the human heart whilst creating characters as fresh and real as love itself.
Author : Sarah Jaffe
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 25,41 MB
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1568589387
A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives. You're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." Whether it's working for "exposure" and "experience," or enduring poor treatment in the name of "being part of the family," all employees are pushed to make sacrifices for the privilege of being able to do what we love. In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social movements, examines this "labor of love" myth—the idea that certain work is not really work, and therefore should be done out of passion instead of pay. Told through the lives and experiences of workers in various industries—from the unpaid intern, to the overworked teacher, to the nonprofit worker and even the professional athlete—Jaffe reveals how all of us have been tricked into buying into a new tyranny of work. As Jaffe argues, understanding the trap of the labor of love will empower us to work less and demand what our work is worth. And once freed from those binds, we can finally figure out what actually gives us joy, pleasure, and satisfaction.
