Riley Mills sells love. Or, rather dangles it like mistletoe at Lovestruck, the world's most popular social dating app. She's got her sights set on improving the app for others, but she doesn't date. Period. For a Christmas bonus though, she'll help the event planning team with the annual Holiday Mix'n'Mingle—even if it means speed dating her ridiculously hot office nemesis.Web developer Chase Campbell eats, breathes, and speaks code. With metadata that's all about romance and soul mates, maybe he'll learn a thing or two about the love his parents shared. At the least, he's got eight merry minutes at the company's holiday event to decipher all the reasons maddeningly beautiful Riley Mills hates him.So what if their chemistry is undeniable, Riley doesn't believe in messy office romances. But back at work when their family-minded boss announces a holiday party to get to know his team better and rumors spark of a promotion, she tells a teensy, tiny, white... Views: 123
You will LOVE this wonderfully warm-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny romantic comedy for fans of Sophie Ranald, Mhairi McFarlane and Sophie Kinsella. Emma Londstown spent her twenties travelling, and now needs to make up for lost time. All her friends are married, having babies, and settling into domestic bliss. Determined to catch up, Emma plunges herself headfirst into the online dating world, and discovers single men in Sydney are one of three things; jerks, illiterate, or nerds that work in IT (she must be sending out subtle hints in binary code). This story, set in the bustling city of Sydney, is a humorous, light-hearted novel for every woman who has ever wanted to find The One. With a clear underlying message – be yourself. Readers can't get enough of Just As You Are... 'Absolutely loved this novel! The writer has a beautiful and seamlessly flowing narrating style and I literally could not put the book down' Julia, NetGalley Reviewer 'The storyline was perfect. I could not... Views: 123
In the irresistible new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace . . . It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city—and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Matthew. As Cecily reaches for the phone to call him, she hears a guy on the barstool next to her say, "Don't do it—you'll regret it." Something tells her to listen to him, and over the next several hours—and shots of tequila—the two forge an unlikely connection. That should be it, they both decide the next morning, as Cecily reminds herself... Views: 123
Somewhere in the Unknown World is a themed collection of stories of refugees from around the world who have converged on Minneapolis, collected and told by the award-winning author of The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet.Back in the 1980s, Minnesota's University Avenue was barely clinging to life. Lined with church thrift stores, boarded windows, and prostitutes leaning against streetlights, the sidewalks were thick with bloody, discarded needles. Today, University Avenue is a bustling commercial center, a hub of Halal butchers, Mexican carnicerias, grocery stores selling delicacies to new arrivals from Ethiopia and Bosnia, Iraq and China. A dying strip of America has been revived by the stateless.As the country's doors are closing and nativism is on the rise, Kao Kalia Yang—herself a refugee from Laos—set out to tell the stories of the refugees to whom University Avenue is now home. Here are people who have summoned the... Views: 123
Life would be hell if you were the only demon in history to not be able to cast magic. Views: 123
Paula Harrison's Royal Rescues #5: The Cuddly Seal, illustrated by Olivia Chin Mueller, is the fifth book in this sweet illustrated chapter book series about a pet-loving princess who finds and helps animals in trouble—even if it's against the rules!"A royal palace is no place for pets, Beatrice!" says her father, King George.But Princess Bea won't let royal rules stop her from helping animals in need. While exploring Silver Rock Bay, Bea finds a little seal pup alone on some rocks. Can she and her friend Keira reunite the baby seal with its mother before the big storm comes? Views: 123
When Ms. Pepper Anne Barrington isn't driving her convertible Aston Martin or writing her bestselling mysteries, she's busy solving real-life dilemmas happening to her three grown children or the guests visiting her Atlanta bed and breakfast, Edgewater Coventry B & B. It seems to Miss Pepper, there's always an air of romance, mystery, and perhaps a little adventure and mayhem at the restored 19th century plantation.When handsome handyman and popular up and coming musician, Bradley Fielding, inherits his grandmother's Victorian estate in Georgia, he relocates his band from Nashville to Atlanta to oversee the renovations. He decides to stay at the Edgewater Coventry B & B while the Fielding house that has been in his family for generations is being remodeled. All kinds of things begin to go wrong, including the disappearance of his sister and an antique pocket watch.Patricia Johnston, avid reader and administrative assistant to Miss Pepper, is perhaps the most disturbed of all when she is framed for stealing Brad Fielding's antique watch. She's off to the wrong start in her new job—and with one of the country's most eligible bachelors.Don't miss the adventure, romance, and sometimes mystery in A Persevering Heart, Book 1 of the new, exciting Christian and inspirational series, 'Georgia Peaches,' where each novella ends with a happily ever after in spite of a number of obstacles. Views: 123
