![]() Max follows Lina’s lead in pretending that they don’t know one another. He’s shocked to walk in and discover the wedding planner he must work worth is none other than his brother’s ex-fianceé. Max Hartley is determined to prove his worth to his mother’s company when a marketing challenge with a new client pits him against his older brother. When the expansion opportunity of a lifetime comes up, Lina eagerly embraces it with no idea what she’s walking into. She was able to overcome that painful and embarrassing event to continue her successful wedding planning business. Three years ago, Carolina Santos was left at the altar. I seem to have a thing for the ex-fiancee’s brother trope. It has tones of The Hating Game meets The Unhoneymooners with the steam level of The Kiss Quotient. This story is a diverse romance and #ownvoices story. Mia Sosa is a new to me author and also a Latina romance author so this book meets a couple of my 2021 reading goals. ![]() I was super excited when my hold for the audio version came in last week. The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa has been on my radar since it published in February of last year. ![]()
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![]() Why did you decide to strike out in a new direction, and what can fans expect from this installment? But it seems the new sequel Seasonal Fears, while set in the same universe, follows entirely different characters. It’s an amazing story, and I for one got pretty attached to the old Midwich cuckoos. ![]() In Middlegame you introduced us to Roger and Dodger, twins separated at birth who are reunited to fulfill a great destiny, but only at great cost. ![]() McGuire met with me over Zoom to discuss the new book, cursed beans, and why humanity’s oldest stories are nightmares. To mark the release of Seasonal Fears, a return to the world of Middlegame, Ms. In addition to the Alchemical Journeys series, her critically acclaimed works include Every Heart a Doorway, which won a Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Locus Award, and Alex Award the year it was released. Campbell Award), and currently holds the world record for most Hugo Award nominations in a single year. In 2010, she won the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (previously the John W. ![]() Seanan McGuire is the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Middlegame and the new Seasonal Fears, along with dozens of other critically acclaimed novels and novellas. ![]() ![]() Unfortunately, Lily Wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. ![]() Ready to leave the past behind him, Leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love. Leo Grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. Frankly, Lily would like to take him out into the wilderness and leave him there. It pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dream of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. But Lily is resourceful, and now uses Duke’s coveted hand-drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of Utah. ![]() Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily without much patience for the profession…or much money in the bank. ![]() ![]() The “reigning romance queens” ( PopSugar ) and New York Times bestselling authors of The Soulmate Equation and The Unhoneymooners present a charming and laugh-out-loud funny novel filled with adventure, treasure, and, of course, love. ![]() ![]() Keri Ann has relied on herself so long, dealing with her family’s death and the responsibilities of keeping up her family’s historic mansion, that boys and certainly the meager offering of eligible boys in Butler Cove, have never figured into her equation. He doesn’t count on meeting Keri Ann Butler. Jack hopes the sultry southern heat in this tiny coastal Lowcountry town will hide him not only from the tabloids and his cheating girlfriend, but his increasingly vapid life and the people who run it. When his co-star and real-life girlfriend is caught cheating on him with her new director, A-list hottie, Jack Eversea, finds himself in sleepy Butler Cove, South Carolina. ![]() An orphaned, small-town, southern girl, held hostage by responsibility and self-doubt.Ī Hollywood A-list mega-star, on the run from his latest scandal and with everything to lose.Ī chance encounter that leads to an unlikely arrangement and epic love affair that will change them both forever. ![]() ![]() ![]() Winner of t he Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize Highly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 'A passionately personal, robustly argued and uplifting book. ![]() To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. 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After searching for leftovers and meals left for other unaware pets turned fruitless, Chi and her new friend Cocchi resort to more extreme measures to keep their energy flowing. Now collected in a larger three-volume omnibus Konami Kanata’s Chi’s Sweet Home is once again shattering all expectations and taking the comics industry by storm. Confused and hungry the two decide to hunt around the community for scraps as substanance. While exploring her new neighborhood with a new young feline peer, she becomes lost as a downpour has masked the scents she was so heavily relying upon for direction. In the seventh volume of Chi's Sweet Home, the titular feline heroine of this series finds herself in her biggest predicament yet. Every moment of their daily life is filled with something we can all cherish. And before she could even know what hit her, the little kitty was picked up and soon under the protection and care of Yohei's family-the Yamada's. After taking a tumble Yohei feels just as distraught as the kitten he sees before him, and he quickly takes comfort in feeling a sense of sympathy with the cat. ![]() ![]() When the kitten feels all hope is lost, she is found in a park by a young boy named Yohei and his mother. Seperated from the warmth and protection of her mother, desperately attempts to reunite with her family of feral cats. Chi is a michievous newborn kitten who on a leisurely stroll with her family finds herself lost and alone. ![]() ![]() ![]() So plenty of book-smart people enter the workplace, but far fewer can read a room or effectively negotiate in the heat of a debate or handle other pressure-filled challenges. ![]() This means that the vast majority don’t know how to harness their emotions for personal and professional betterment, and instead get dragged around by their emotions. A comprehensive battery of tests (500,000 people) revealed that only thirty-six percent of participants could accurately identify their emotions as they experience them. A growing body of research shows that EQ explains success far better. ![]() Studies are revealing that IQ is an unreliable predictor of success in professional and private life. Ideally, there is a steady flow of communication between the brain’s centers of reason and emotion. This isn’t an inferior arrangement, just something we need to be aware of. So we feel things before our reason gets a grasp of the situation. These signals pass through the brain’s emotional center, called the limbic system, before making their way back to the brain’s reasoning center. Whatever we experience enters the brain through the spinal cord in the form of electrical signals. This is a common problem, because the biological deck is stacked in favor of emotion. Emotions will dominate if we’re not careful. This makes emotional intelligence an imperative skill, because we need it every day. Effectively managing our emotions is a normal part of life. ![]() ![]() ![]() You might say Stendhal dated serially or you might say he had a thing for racking up sexual conquests. He dug the military and the theater, serving in Napoleon’s army, engineering a rescue on a river that was much discussed, then sojourning in Italy where he picked up some dandified ways, which played well in Paris, where he went through woman after woman. He disliked his father, thinking he wasn’t creative enough, and doted on his mother, who died when he was seven. He went by a lot of different names in France in the first half of the 19th century, being King Pseudonym. This middle bit, that’s when you know you’re hooked.”īut if ever there was a born literary dissector, that would be the Frenchman Marie-Henri Beyle, better known as the novelist Stendhal. This part here, that takes care of the arousal. To pin it to a dissecting tray, fold back the layers, and say, “see that part over there? That makes for skipped heart beats. ![]() For all of the works of prose that focus on the subject of love-surely the greatest theme and mystery in literature-it’s curious how rarely authors get clinical about the subject. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Oh, these odious gigs!' said Isabella, looking up. This evil had been felt and lamented, at least three times a day, by Isabella since her residence in Bath and she was now fated to feel and lament it once more, for at the very moment of coming opposite to Union Passage, and within view of the two gentlemen who were proceeding through the crowds, and threading the gutters of that interesting alley, they were prevented crossing by the approach of a gig, driven along on bad pavement by a most knowing-looking coachman with all the vehemence that could most fitly endanger the lives of himself, his companion, and his horse. ![]() Everybody acquainted with Bath may remember the difficulties of crossing Cheap Street at this point it is indeed a street of so impertinent a nature, so unfortunately connected with the great London and Oxford roads, and the principal inn of the city, that a day never passes in which parties of ladies, however important their business, whether in quest of pastry, millinery, or even (as in the present case) of young men, are not detained on one side or other by carriages, horsemen, or carts. ![]() Half a minute conducted them through the pump-yard to the archway, opposite Union Passage but here they were stopped. ![]() ![]() ![]() The weight of any such item can be found on its detail page. ![]() Please also note that the shipping rates for many items we sell are weight-based. 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