States of Love, Collection 1


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Visit five states in this collection of single-parent, enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, found family, grumpy-sunshine, and billionaire romances. ALABAMA ADMIRER: Single dad Xander trusted a beautiful stranger with his little girl. When the worst thing imaginable happens, he’ll do anything to protect them both. ALASKA ADVENTURER: Boone is a grumpy mountain man. When Quinn arrives on his doorstep in remote Alaska — with his orphaned niece and nephew in tow — their instant attraction is hot enough to melt a glacier. ARIZONA ARTIST: Kendall is hurt, betrayed, and stranded. Her rescuer is a sexy, artistic type. But life has taught her that when someone seems too good to be true, he’s hiding something. ARKANSAS ATHLETE: Bristol is stranded on the side of a highway on the verge of giving birth. Athletic Lane is about to make the most important catch of his life. Maybe he shouldn’t mention that he passed out during the childbirth video in high school health class. CALIFORNIA CRUSH: Brody is the king of both cryptocurrency and surfing. When his massive fortune is stolen, the only logical suspect is his new love, Vella. The States of Love books are scorching stories with heat, heart, suspense, and laughter. They feature hunky heroes, strong heroines, seductive instalove, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily-ever-after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-read them all. Dive in now to satisfy your steamy romance craving.




States of Love, Collection 3


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Visit four states in this collection of small-town, rock star, firefighter, enemies-to-lovers, forbidden, hockey, and opposites attract romances. IDAHO IDOL: Gavin Timberbatch is the hottest rock star on the planet, until he isn’t. When scandal strikes, Gavin gets canceled. Will Gavin and Demi’s brand-new relationship be able to survive? ILLINOIS INNKEEPER: After Graham’s inn burns down, his life turns upside down. Firefighter Miranda doesn’t want to believe the evidence, which seems to show that Graham intentionally set his inn on fire. Will Graham and Miranda’s explosive chemistry burn out before their flame of passion can fully ignite? INDIANA IDEALIST: Leo is a passionate environmentalist with a sustainable Christmas tree farm. He is constantly at odds with Camille, the owner of a successful golf course––with fertilizer runoff that pollutes a local stream. Despite their differences, Leo and Camille keep being drawn together by his ornery and lovable pot-bellied pig, Charlotte. IOWA INTELLECT: No one expects professional hockey player Brock Mann to be smart or creative, and that’s exactly how he likes it. Dr. Caroline Wilson is growing weary of patching up the battered and bruised hockey player. When Brock and Caroline are put to the test, who will come out on top? The States of Love books are scorching stories with heat, heart, suspense, and laughter. They feature hunky heroes, strong heroines, seductive instalove, sizzling bedroom scenes, and satisfying happily-ever-after endings. Start anywhere. Binge-read them all. Dive in now to satisfy your steamy romance craving.




States of the Body Produced by Love


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Love is a many-headed snake in Nisha Ramayya's debut poetry collection, twisting its way through devotion, sacrifice, and bliss. Seeking a way home, Ramayya discovers that homecoming - the impossible return - is a process of make-believe and magical thinking across Britain, India, and the infinite expanse. Ramayya's visionary poetry traces an opalescent, treacherous world by way of heritage, ritual, and myth. Thousand-petalled lotuses bloom inside skulls, goddesses with dirty feet charm honeybees, strains of jazz standards bleed into anti-national anthems. Meditating on diasporic identity and relationships, her writing roams the Indo-European language family, finds consolation in genealogies of decolonial and anti-racist resistance, and roots itself in the movements between ancient Sanskrit texts and contemporary feminist prose poems. In Ramayya's hands, the body assumes many forms as love produces many states: attraction and repulsion, excitement and exhaustion, selfishness and the dissolution of self. Desire, eroticism, and care contain the possibilities of shame, fury, and destruction. Moving towards and away from love, being translated and transformed by love, suffering under love and refusing its power - the poems in this book never leave love's hold.




Empire State


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Jimmy is a stereotypical geek who works at the library in Oakland, California, and is trapped in his own torpidity. Sara is his best friend, but she wants to get a life (translation: an apartment in Brooklyn and a publishing internship). When Sara moves to New York City, Jimmy is rattled. Then lonely. Then desperate. He screws up his courage, writes Sara a letter about his true feelings, and asks her to meet him at the top of the Empire State Building (a nod to their ongoing debate about Sleepless in Seattle). Jimmy's cross-country bus trip to Manhattan is as hapless and funny as Jimmy himself. When he arrives in the city he's thought of as "a festering hellhole," he's surprised by how exciting he finds New York, and how heartbreaking—he discovers Sara has a boyfriend! Jason Shiga's bold visual storytelling, sly pokes at popular culture, and subtle text work together seamlessly in Empire State, creating a quirky graphic novel comedy about the vagaries of love and friendship. Praise for Empire State: "He [Shiga] displays a wicked sense of comic timing." -Publishers Weekly "Empire State: A Love Story (Or Not) is funny, sweet, geeky and affecting, and definitely worth a read." -Wired.com "Shiga's illustrations . . . are unique and endearing, and his images of NYC are instantly recognizable." -am New York "If Woody Allen grew up in Oakland rather than Manhattan, he'd most likely see the world, and especially New York City, as Jason Shiga does in Empire State." -Big Think.com













On Love, Family, and the State: Philosophical-sociological Essay


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The problems of love, family, and state are topics that are widely discussed both in the West and in Russia. This essay, however, differs from all previous research work in that Alex Battler elevated the well-known words “love,” “family” and “marriage” to the level of concepts. This enabled the author to correlate them to the conception of force and progress he had substantiated in the book Dialectics of Force: Ontóbia, and ultimately to define the regular connection between the destruction of marriage and the collapse of a state within the context of the law of entropy growth, or “the law of death.”




Psycho Killers in Love


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FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUPERVILLAINY SAGA What if all the villains of slasher movies were real? What if the movies made about them were just adaptations of real-life killers with supernatural powers? This is a fact known to William and Carrie because their father, Billy the Undying, was one of the worst slashers of all time. So much so that they've spent the past decade in an asylum out of fear they'd end up just like him. Escaping, the two have decided to form a new life on the road. Except, a chance encounter in a dingy diner introduces William to the girl of his dreams. Too bad she's a girl on a mission to kill all slashers. But maybe the best way to catch a supernatural serial killer is with another pair of them. Enjoy this exciting prequel to the United States of Monsters books!




New York State Hospitals Bulletin


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