FROM CEO…TO DADDY? Texas tycoon Jason Rayburn had been raised to take charge. To make decisions. To avoid emotion. So when he's forced to return to Brighton Valley to inventory his grandmother's small-town ranch for sale, the executive delegates the work to his new hire, local waitress Juliana Bailey. Jason never mixes business with pleasure, but even he can't ignore his attraction to the redheaded beauty—in spite of the secret she's clearly hiding… For Juliana, the job at the Leaning R was too good to be true, offering her a place to lie low until she could confess her pregnancy to her family—and avoid local scandal. But she hadn't counted on the searing sparks flying with the corporate cowboy! Now, the expectant assistant knows the billionaire boss is no family man. But she'll fight for the right to show him he's got daddy potential! Views: 19
RetailPeople have been getting naked in public for reasons other than sex for centuries. But as novelist and narrative journalist Mark Haskell Smith shows in Naked at Lunch, being a nudist is more complicated than simply dropping trou. “Nonsexual social nudism,” as it’s called, rose to prominence in the late nineteenth century. Intellectuals, outcasts, and health nuts from Victorian England and colonial India to Belle Époque France and Gilded Age Manhattan disrobed and wrote manifestos about the joys of going clothing-free. From stories of ancient Greek athletes slathered in olive oil to the millions of Germans who fled the cities for a naked frolic during the Weimar Republic to American soldiers given “naturist” magazines by the Pentagon in the interest of preventing sexually transmitted diseases, Haskell Smith uncovers nudism’s amusing and provocative past. Naked at Lunch is equal parts cultural history and gonzo participatory journalism. Coated in multiple layers of high SPF sunblock, Haskell Smith dives into the nudist world today. He publicly disrobes for the first time in Palm Springs, observes the culture of family nudism in a clothing-free Spanish town, and travels to the largest nudist resort in the world, a hedonist’s paradise in the south of France. He reports on San Francisco’s controversial ban on public nudity, participates in a week of naked hiking in the Austrian Alps, and caps off his adventures with a week on the Big Nude Boat, a Caribbean cruise full of nudists. Views: 19
Ledger of the Open Hand looks at the intimate power of money and emotional debt through the eyes of a woman trying to grab hold of her own life. Beholden to a shrewd friend and burdened by family obligations and guilt, Meriel-Claire (MC) finally stumbles into what she’s been missing. She falls in love and finds her calling as a debt counsellor in the midst of a national financial crisis. But balancing the books for strangers is easier than reconciling her own complicated relationships. Regrets and deficits accumulate until MC must decide what she owes to those she loves. With humour and insight, Ledger explores giving, taking, and our tendency to treat love as a balance sheet. Views: 19
Hardworking waitress Melissa Speights wakes up in a strange bed with a raging hangover and a diamond the size of a golf ball on her ring finger. And she’s not alone. The sexy stranger lying next to her was at a party last night surrounded by women and spending money like water. She remembers his blue eyes, handsome features and cocky smile. Too bad the rest of the night is a blur. But whatever happened between them, she wants the marriage annulled--immediately. Prince Raymond Kharmin has finally gone too far. He’s always had a thing for women, but marrying one is something he never wanted. He’s already banished from home for his womanizing, and when his mother learns of this, there’s no way she’ll let him return. His only hope is to convince Melissa to get a quiet divorce in one month. But with Melissa's challenging and stubborn attitude, he's already counting down the days. Melissa learned early not to depend on anyone, especially not a spoiled royal like Ray. The two come from different worlds, but as sparks fly between them, Melissa can’t help but wonder if they might have a future after all. ** Views: 19
Skepticism: a Life. Destiny. Fate. novel Views: 19
Shadow of the Knight is the third book in the epic fantasy series, The Orb. For fifteen years Champion Nidon has kept Enna, daughter of Prince Morin and Hadde of Landomere, hidden and safe. They are forced into the events of the wider world when the undead ravage their peaceful community and demand Enna’s allegiance. Orlos, the young spiridus, is tormented by dreams of the ancient massacre of his race. His discovery of a mystical tomb draws him into a dangerous plot to overthrow a queen. Telea, a healer from the Belenese Empire, is the first Easterner to reach the Kingdom of Salador in five hundred years. She brings tales of summoners and demons, death and invasion. The fate of the world balances on her words.
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In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's Parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next four years, as Charles Moore relates in this central volume of his uniquely authoritative biography, Britain's first woman prime minister changed the course of her country's history and that of the world, often by sheer force of will.The book reveals as never before how she faced down the Miners' Strike, transformed relations with Europe, privatized the commanding heights of British industry and continued the reinvigoration of the British economy. It describes her role on the world stage with dramatic immediacy, identifying Mikhail Gorbachev as 'a man to do business with' before he became leader of the Soviet Union, and then persistently pushing him and Ronald Reagan, her great ideological soulmate, to order world affairs according to her vision. For the only time since Churchill, she ensured that Britain had a central place in... Views: 19
