Cosima's Club Owner Daddies


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How many daddies does it take to heal a broken little girl? Cosima Valtolina has been trapped in a living hell for eight long years, held hostage by a man she thought would be her savior but who turned out to be a monster. One fateful night frees her from her nightmare come true but also leaves her beaten and bloody in a ditch. Ian Galbraith, Hudson Lindberg, and Ryker Donahue have been looking for a little to love together for two decades. They never expected their best prospect to turn up half-dead on their doorstep. Hudson falls hard from the start for sweet and submissive Cosima, and Ian's not far behind, but the enigmatic Ryker isn't interested in risking his heart again for anything. The owners of Clover City's favorite fetish club can help Cosima's body mend, but can they heal and win her heart? Or will ghosts and demons from their pasts keep them from their happily ever after? Cosima's Club Owner Daddies is a standalone novel in the Clover City Littles series. It features a damaged but determined little girl in need of a guardian angel-or three-and a trio of protective and devoted best friends who have vowed to share everything, even love.




Devaney's Doctor Daddy


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When you're a single mom, who's your daddy? Devaney Bishop is glad to be free of her ex-husband, but juggling work and two on-the-go sons isn't easy for anyone, and Devaney's been struggling with debilitating health problems. Problems that culminate in a mortifying moment in front of her kids' dreamboat doctor. Eric Southerland is Clover City's most well-respected pediatrician--and also the first person mommies and daddies call when their littles are injured, under the weather, or due for a very special trip to the doctor's office. As beloved as he is, Doctor Eric hasn't found a little he'd like to call his very own...until newly divorced Devaney Bishop falls ill in his exam room. Devaney's used to doing everything herself, but compulsive caretaker Eric won't tolerate her self-destructive stubbornness. He might get his way while she's sick, but once she's recovered will she still want what he has to offer? And will she be able to trust him after the abandonment she's already suffered? Devaney's Doctor Daddy is a standalone novel in the Clover City Littles series. It features a stressed-to-the-brink single parent who needs someone to take as good care of her as she takes of her boys, and an attentive dominant daddy who might be just what the doctor ordered.




A Scoundrel of Her Own


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Lady Ophelia Darby exists in two worlds. In one, she is the impudent, willful daughter of a powerful marquess and darling of the ton. In the other, she moves through the underworld’s shadows as songstress Lady Starlight, protected only by the notoriously wealthy scoundrel Devlin Byrne. But when she stumbles upon her beloved father’s darkest secrets, the line between her two worlds quickly blurs. Now she needs the help of the one man a lady should never trust. Devlin Byrne stands on the edge of London society, knowing he will never be accepted. No one else knows that his obscene wealth and ruthlessness aren’t without purpose. Or that his purpose has golden-brown eyes that shimmer with mischief, the palest of skin, and a lush mouth that beckons to be kissed, and deeply. But having Ophelia is only the beginning of Devlin’s plans. It’s undeniable that Devlin Byrne is a dangerous temptation—but just as Ophelia begins to trust him, maybe even fall for him, she discovers she’s not the only one with secrets. And his would lead her down more than just the path of scandal... Each book in the Sinful Wallflowers series is STANDALONE: * My Darling Duke * Her Wicked Marquess * A Scoundrel of Her Own




Twyla's Teacher Daddy


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She's been a very bad girl, he could be the man to teach her a lesson...Gunnar Fox has the patience of a saint. You have to when you teach high school. But one thing that isn't so saintly is the thoughts he's had about Twyla Smith. She's nineteen, in her second senior year at Clover Hills High, and she has a reputation. She's loud, she's crude, and she breaks all the rules. Gunnar doesn't like brats but something about Twyla says she's just never had anyone teach her how to be good. Maybe he could be that man. Maybe he could be her daddy. When Gunnar comes to her rescue after some boys gang up on her after school, they'll have the chance to find out.




Sable's Santa Daddy


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No one makes a little's Christmas wish come true like a Santa daddy...Jethro Del Bosque owns Clover City's best garden center. He's also Clover City's most sought after Santa, and he's got his eye on one of his elves. Sable Hollingsford is heir to the Hollingsford real estate fortune, and she's one of the city's wealthiest and most sophisticated women. She's completely out of Jethro's league. Sable's always wanted a daddy who would spoil and discipline her, and she's always liked the look of Jethro, but being little isn't in the cards for a ruthless businesswoman like her. Except a chance encounter at the club Jethro frequents and where Sable fulfills her secret needs gives them an inkling of hope. And when a stranger at the club won't take no for an answer, Jethro rushes to Sable's aid. His heroics give them both second thoughts about what might be possible...especially at Christmas.




Land of Love and Drowning


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Recipient of the 2014 American Academy of Arts and Letters Rosenthal Foundation Award A major debut from an award-winning writer—an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s, the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule, and an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea. Orphaned by the shipwreck are two sisters and their half brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular magic that will either sink or save them. Chronicling three generations of an island family from 1916 to the 1970s, Land of Love and Drowning is a novel of love and magic, set against the emergence of Saint Thomas into the modern world. Uniquely imagined, with echoes of Toni Morrison, Gabriel García Márquez, and the author’s own Caribbean family history, the story is told in a language and rhythm that evoke an entire world and way of life and love. Following the Bradshaw family through sixty years of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, love affairs, curses, magical gifts, loyalties, births, deaths, and triumphs, Land of Love and Drowning is a gorgeous, vibrant debut by an exciting, prizewinning young writer.




The Consolations of Philosophy


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From the author of How Proust Can Change Your Life, a delightful, truly consoling work that proves that philosophy can be a supreme source of help for our most painful everyday problems. Perhaps only Alain de Botton could uncover practical wisdom in the writings of some of the greatest thinkers of all time. But uncover he does, and the result is an unexpected book of both solace and humor. Dividing his work into six sections -- each highlighting a different psychic ailment and the appropriate philosopher -- de Botton offers consolation for unpopularity from Socrates, for not having enough money from Epicurus, for frustration from Seneca, for inadequacy from Montaigne, and for a broken heart from Schopenhauer (the darkest of thinkers and yet, paradoxically, the most cheering). Consolation for envy -- and, of course, the final word on consolation -- comes from Nietzsche: "Not everything which makes us feel better is good for us." This wonderfully engaging book will, however, make us feel better in a good way, with equal measures of wit and wisdom.




The Paris Apartment


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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Told in rotating points of view, this Tilt-A-Whirl of a novel brims with jangly tension – an undeniably engrossing guessing game.” — Vogue "[A] clever, cliff-hanger-filled thriller." — People From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide… Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up – to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? – he’s not there. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question. The socialite – The nice guy – The alcoholic – The girl on the verge – The concierge Everyone's a neighbor. Everyone's a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.




The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing


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Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing is the New York Times bestselling novel by Melissa Bank The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing maps the progress of Jane Rosenal as she sets out on a personal and spirited expedition through the perilous terrain of sex, love, relationships, and the treacherous waters of the workplace. Soon Jane is swept off her feet by an older man and into a Fitzgeraldesque whirl of cocktail parties, country houses, and rules that were made to be broken, but comes to realise that it's a world where the stakes are much too high for comfort. With an unforgettable comic touch, Bank skilfully teases out universal issues, puts a clever new spin on the mating dance, and captures in perfect pitch what it's like to come of age as a young woman. 'This chronicle of a New Yorker's relationships has a wit and perceptiveness that singles it out from the crowd' Guardian 'As hilarious as Girls' Guide is, there's a wise, serious core here' Wall Street Journal 'A sexy, pour-your-heart-out, champagne tingle of a read-thoughtful, wise, and tell-all honest. Bank's is a voice that you'll remember' Cosmopolitan




Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture


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This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.