The Romance of the Calendar


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A history of the calendar, from humankind first theories of time, to the Julian calendar, the influence of Islam, to the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese calendar and beyond and including the varying religious and cultural influences that helped shape the various calendars of today.




The Wedding Date


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A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in this fun and flirty multicultural romance debut by New York Times bestselling author Jasmine Guillory—author of the Resse Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick The Proposal. THE USA TODAY BESTSELLER #5 LibraryReads Pick “A swoony rom-com brimming with humor and charm.”—Entertainment Weekly (The Must List) “What a charming, warm, sexy gem of a novel....One of the best books I've read in a while.”—Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist. On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend.... After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other.... They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want.... One of... Entertainment Weekly’s “12 Romances for V-Day” • Cosmopolitan’s “2018 Anticipated Reads” • Elle’s “2018 Must Reads” • Harpers Bazaar’s “New January Must Reads” • The Fug Girls’ “Best Books of the Year” • Elle UK’s “Books to Get You Through 2018” • Nylon’s “January Must Reads” • Hello Giggles’ “New Release Recs” • Electric Lit’s “Books by WoC to Read in 2018” • Bitch Media’s “2018 Must Reads” • BookBub’s “2018 Romance Must Reads” • Bookriot’s “Must Read 2018 January Releases” • RetailMeNot’s “2018 Must Reads”




January


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“Fresh, fun, and unbelievably hot, Audrey Carlan's Calendar Girl series will have you falling in love over and over again and craving the next installment." ~ Meredith Wild, #1 NYT Bestselling Author It’s really simple. I needed money. A lot of money. One million dollars to be exact. The amount didn’t matter. All that mattered is that at the end of that price tag held my father’s life. No money. No life. The time limit was one year. On January 1st I had to pay up or my Father was going to be killed. When you’re faced with an ultimatum like this, you do whatever you have to do. And that’s exactly what I did. The job…Exquisite Escorts. My role, serve as high priced arm candy to anyone that can afford the $100,000 price tag for a month of my company. Sex is optional (for me) and a 20% increase on the price. Mia Saunders just barely escaped a paltry life back home in Las Vegas until she gets the call that her Father has been beaten to within an inch of his life for not paying his gambling debt. Problem is, the lone shark is her lousy, ruthless ex-boyfriend. Another guy in a long line of men she’d fallen head over heels for. Not anymore. Mia’s mission is simple. Serve as a high-priced escort for her Aunt’s company and pay monthly against her Father’s bad debt. A month with a rich man who she doesn’t have to sleep with if she doesn’t want to? Easy money. At least that’s the way it was supposed to go. Warning: This book is designed for audiences 18+ due to language and graphic sexual content.




Mr. November


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From international bestselling author Nicole S. Goodin, comes a new standalone, hero romance. Rhett Jensen. Handsome stranger. Hero lifeguard. ... And nursing a broken heart. Libby Reed. Booklover. Honey haired beauty. ... And harbouring a secret. When Rhett saves a woman from the sea, he never expects her to invade his every thought from that moment on. When Libby and Rhett are thrown together a second time, Libby can't deny that she's intoxicated by the gorgeous man who saved her life, but no matter how hard he tries, she still doesn't know how to trust. Rhett wants Libby to let him in. Libby wants to keep her past in the past. Can Libby look forward to a future with Rhett when all she's ever done is look back over her shoulder?




Mr. January


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From international bestselling author Nicole S. Goodin, comes a new standalone, second chance romance. Andrew Woodman. Andy to his friends. Criminal in the eyes of the justice system. ... And now a free man. Dylan Davies. Fiery redhead. Hater of bad-boys. ... And still his wife. Three years ago, Andy took a ride in the back of a police car and out of Dylan's life. Now he's fresh out of prison with only one goal in mind - win back the woman who wants nothing to do with him. Dylan wants to get over her convict ex-husband, but all she can think about doing is getting under him. Andy wants to share his truths. Dylan wants to keep her secrets. Will the raw, sexy attraction that reeled Dylan in all those years ago have the same charm now? Or will Andy find himself riding his bike into the sunset alone? This is a standalone story.




Mr. December: A Stepbrother Romance


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From international bestselling author Nicole S. Goodin, comes a new standalone, stepbrother romance. Lukah Andrews. Sexy stripper. Hater of his father. ... And trouble with a capital 'T'. Margot Lowell. No nonsense kind of girl. Sassy mouthed. ... And his new stepsister. A drunk, half-naked Santa isn't quite what Margot expected when she imagined meeting her brand-new stepbrother, but if there's one thing Lukah knows how to do, it's put on a show. Their mutual attraction is instant, undeniable and most importantly, forbidden, yet breaking the rules has never felt this good. Lukah wants a repeat performance. Margot isn't buying what he's selling. With nowhere to hide, and sparks flying between them, will Lukah convince Margot to give in to temptation and admit that once was never going to be enough?




Calendar


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Jet


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The weekly source of African American political and entertainment news.




Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England


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Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England offers a new history of Middle English romance, the most popular genre of secular literature in the English Middle Ages. Michael Johnston argues that many of the romances composed in England from 1350-1500 arose in response to the specific socio-economic concerns of the gentry, the class of English landowners who lacked titles of nobility and hence occupied the lower rungs of the aristocracy. The end of the fourteenth century in England witnessed power devolving to the gentry, who became one of the dominant political and economic forces in provincial society. As Johnston demonstrates, this social change also affected England's literary culture, particularly the composition and readership of romance. Romance and the Gentry in Late Medieval England identifies a series of new topoi in Middle English that responded to the gentry's economic interests. But beyond social history and literary criticism, it also speaks to manuscript studies, showing that most of the codices of the "gentry romances" were produced by those in the immediate employ of the gentry. By bringing together literary criticism and manuscript studies, this book speaks to two scholarly communities often insulated from one another: it invites manuscript scholars to pay closer attention to the cultural resonances of the texts within medieval codices; simultaneously, it encourages literary scholars to be more attentive to the cultural resonances of surviving medieval codices.




The Seven Day Circle


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Reprint. Originally published in 1985 by the Free Press and Collier Macmillan. Zerubavel (sociology, Rutgers U.) discusses the rhythm that the week--an arbitrary invention--imposes on our activities. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR




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