When Cupid's Arrow Strikes


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Millionaire investor Adrianna Johnson's life is soaring high, but her romantic compass seems to be stuck on turbulence. Her boyfriend, Jacques, stationed in France, is technically perfect—sort of. Adrianna, too occupied to sort out the details, is blissfully unaware of her family's disapproval of the elusive Jacques. Back home, airplane pilot Austin Fletcher is navigating the complexities of life after receiving an unexpected gift—a dog from his ex-girlfriend. Everything is flying smoothly until Adrianna, a cat owner with a penchant for serendipitous landings, literally drops into his arms. Unfortunately, Austin's attempts to secure her number result in a slip through his fingers. Fate, it seems, is a persistent wingman. Cupid, having taken a liking to Skye Travels, orchestrates three chance encounters between Adrianna and Austin. As laughter and chemistry intertwine, the duo discovers that love, much like a well-executed landing, is a perfect combination of timing and connection. In this witty, funny, and endearing contemporary romance, join Adrianna and Austin as they navigate the skies of love, discovering that sometimes the heart lands where you least expect it. Will their romance take off to new heights, or will it face unexpected turbulence along the way? Buckle up for a journey filled with laughter, surprises, and the perfect blend of sweet romance.




Cupid's Arrow


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In this absorbing book, renowned psychologist Robert J. Sternberg presents a psychological approach to human relationships that reveals how and why people fall in and out of love. Fascinating reading for anyone who wants to learn more about love, Cupid's Arrow draws on fields ranging from history to cognitive science to folklore, offering a comprehensive account of love in its many forms. Grounded in Sternberg's own 'triangular theory', the book explores the many varieties of love as diffe




The P.I. Contest


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Kate Cooper cut all ties to her NYPD precinct and dumped her cheating fiancé. Jay Savage has gained custody of his teenage nephew and needs a stable job yesterday. When both are offered the only available position at the Fox & Fisher Detective Agency, the obvious solution is to pit seasoned pro against amateur sleuth. And may the best investigator win. But what happens when this professional competition gets personal? There's no denying the attraction between these adversaries, but they have different dreams for the future. There's more on the line than a simple career change. In this contest, they're playing for the heart.




25 Roses


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During the annual Valentine's sale of chocolate roses, each grade competes to sell the most, and the popular people receive the most, making others feel left out. Since Mia's in charge of the seventh-grade sale this year, she's decided to do something to make sure both these issues swing in her favor.




Perfect Match


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A girl’s well-intentioned Valentine’s Day meddling entangles her in a love triangle with her best friend and a girl with a crush on him in this tween romance perfect for fans of Courtesy of Cupid. This year, Mia is selling and delivering roses and chocolate for the Valentine’s Day fundraiser, and just like the year before, the same few popular girls are slated to receive bouquets of deliveries from their best friends. To shake things up a bit, Mia delivers an extra twenty-five roses from made-up “secret admirers” to overlooked girls who she thinks could use a confidence boost. But Mia’s meddling might have done more harm than good—especially when she realizes that one of her rose deliveries has inspired Sun Patterson to get a makeover and pursue Alex, Mia’s best friend who she might feel more than friendly toward. As the messy consequences of the extra roses unfold, Mia finds herself torn between her newfound goal to help others find their perfect match, the heavy weight of her secret actions, the friendships she is struggling to find time for, and some seriously confusing feelings for Alex. Maybe this matchmaker stuff is more complicated than it seems. Formerly published as 25 Roses.




Love


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We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on poetry, fiction, letters, memoirs, and art, and with the aid of a rich array of illustrations, historian Barbara H. Rosenwein explores five of our most enduring fantasies of love: like-minded union, transcendent rapture, selfless giving, obsessive longing, and insatiable desire. Each has had a long and tangled history with lasting effects on how we in the West think about love today. Yet each leads to a different conclusion about what we should strive for in our relationships. If only we could peel back the layers of love and discover its “true” essence. But love doesn’t work like that; it is constructed on the shards of experience, story, and feeling, shared over time, intertwined with other fantasies. By understanding the history of how we have loved, Rosenwein argues, we may better navigate our own tumultuous experiences and perhaps write our own scripts.




The Starstruck Series Two-Book Set


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Two complete novels plus never-before-published bonus materials! This volume contains the first two books of the Starstruck series, along with an extended preview of book 3 and additional bonus content providing additional insights into the series. The middle of nowhere is getting a lot more interesting! Nerdy astronomy geek Marsha, M to her few friends, has never been anybody special. Orphaned as an infant and reluctantly raised by an overly-strict “aunt,” she’s not even sure who she is. M’s dream of someday escaping tiny Jewel, Indiana and making her mark in the world seems impossibly distant until hot new quarterback Rigel inexplicably befriends her. As Rigel turns his back on fawning cheerleaders to spend time with M, strange things start to happen: her acne clears up, her eyesight improves to the point she can ditch her thick glasses, and when they touch, sparks fly--literally! When M digs for a reason, she discovers deep secrets that will change her formerly mundane life forever…and expose her to perils she never dreamed of. Welcome to the award-winning Starstruck series, where teen romance blends with science fiction to open a whole new world of action, adventure and discovery! Inside you’ll find the first two complete novels in the series, an extended preview of Starbound, book 3, and bonus materials including a Martian glossary and other content mentioned in the books but never before published.




Monstrous Little Voices


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Mischief, Magic, Love and War. It is the Year of Our Lord 1601. The Tuscan War rages across the world, and every lord from Navarre to Illyria is embroiled in the fray. Cannon roar, pikemen clash, and witches stalk the night; even the fairy courts stand on the verge of chaos. Five stories come together at the end of the war: that of bold Miranda and sly Puck; of wise Pomona and her prisoner Vertumnus; of gentle Lucia and the shade of Prospero; of noble Don Pedro and powerful Helena; and of Anne, a glovemaker's wife. On these lovers and heroes the world itself may depend. These are the stories Shakespeare never told. Five of the most exciting names in genre fiction today – Jonathan Barnes, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Emma Newman, Foz Meadows and Kate Heartfield – delve into the world the poet created to weave together a story of courage, transformation and magic. Including an afterword by Dr. John Lavagnino, The London Shakespeare Centre, King's College London.




The Course of True Love


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Pomona, a gifted hedge-witch of advancing years in fair Illyria, is walking about her own business when she spies a fairy gentleman trapped in a secret garden. Vertumnus, King Oberon's emissary to the Duke, has been taken captive by proud Titania, and a war is in the offing... unless Pomona can prevent it. Monstrous Little Voices is a collection of five short novellas, a single long tale set in Shakespeare's fantasy world of fairies, wizards and potions, in honour of the four-hundredth anniversary of the Bard's death.




Poetic Authority


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