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How many weddings does it take to fall in love?One year ago, Amelie had it all. Almost engaged to her high school sweetheart, close to her childhood best friend, and cooking at her dad's restaurant: her life was exactly what she'd ordered.Until Ian, an opinionated wedding-hater, popped up out of nowhere and proved she might like something off menu. ***One year later, Amelie has lost it all. She's unemployed, single, and taking a break from her friendship. As for Ian? He's gone too.When she visits Ian's hometown to teach at a week-long cooking conference, she hopes for a fateful meet-cute. But their reunion is far from joyful when Amelie discovers Ian is the son of her father's business rival. Even bigger fiasco? He only wants friendship.Amelie has one week to change his mind, and if the truth of why her whole life fell apart remains hidden, their love story might even end with a wedding.The Wedding Menu is a steamy, dual-timeline, laugh out loud romcom about weddings, secrets, and French delicacies. It features two friends who should be rivals but keep choosing each other against all odds.

A hot single dad romance between one reluctant dog sitter and one sexy, hot vet. Delilah Daniels>On the bright side, Dr. Herriot could star in his own veterinary reality TV show, if there is such a thing. The man is sex in scrubs. The vet might just become the highlight of my year. As it turns out, not only is he single, but he also needs some fun in his overworked life. And fun? That I can do. Mason Herriot>Delilah Daniels walks into the clinic on one of those days. My partners are out with the flu, and I, once again, am stuck at work. I can't even explain why I ask her out. It's spontaneous. There's an energy to her. A zest for life. And there's something about how she cares for her friend's dog. We aim for casual. I may be a single dad, but I'm not blind. Delilah packs some curves and it proves hard to keep those dates family-friendly. In a nanosecond, casual loses all appeal. We can make this work. If I can convince Delilah her home's no longer in the Big Easy... >Walk the Dog is the third book in the West Side Series, a set of contemporary romances about a group of friends living on the west side of Manhattan. Each standalone love story in the series features a different couple, and the series can be read in any order. Walk the Dog features a single dad romance and family drama, southern style. Expect a sexy, angsty, single dad romance with a guaranteed happily ever after. Download today and let the binge-reading begin! REVIEWS "Fun and a great HEA!" - Amazon reviewer "Absolutely delightful!" - Bookbub reviewer "Compelling characters, wonderful story, and terrific writing combine to make this a must-read." Goodreads reviewer

As the daughter of a clergyman, Julia Addison knows she'll never be able to fulfill her lifelong dream of acting on the stage. But writing forthright reviews of the Season's most popular plays for Mrs. Goode's Magazine for Misses, popularly known as Goode's Guide to Misconduct is surely the next best thing. Even better, she's got a ticket to Ransom Blackadder's latest irritating satire about English society. Best of all, she's sharing a theater box with the gruff but handsome Lord Dunstane, which is enough to make Julia call for an encore . . Graham McKay, the Earl of Dunstane, rarely leaves his home in the Scottish Highlands. Why would he? Nothing about London has ever held his interest--until he meets Julia. But when Graham realizes she is the critic who panned his last play--and she discovers he is in fact the man behind Blackadder's wicked pen--will it bring down the curtain on their romance--not to mention the magazine that published the humiliating review? Or can an unexpected collaboration set the stage for a scandalous love affair?

Inspired by true eventsAs the adopted son of an abusive father, seventeen-year-old Dean feels alone in the world and sees his life through jaded, bitter eyes. With music and a few close friends as his only toeholds, he acts out in self-destructive ways. When Dean is forced to go to a new school for artistic but troubled kids, he meets a gifted student who changes his negative mindset. But is the school's philosophy of love enough to transform Dean's life completely...or are his scars too deep to overcome? School director Mia's dedication to her work leaves no room for anything else in her life, including romantic love. When the school she created is threatened with financial ruin, she lands at a crossroads that involves two men, the island of Kauai, and a decision. Will Mia run away from herself and all that's important to her...or will the power of love save the day? From acclaimed celebrity photographer and hairstylist Mitch Stone and New York Times bestselling author Riley J. Ford, The Goal is a thought-provoking, funny, and raw collaboration that explores the transformative powers of love in those brave enough to experience it...and what it means to truly live.

"A preview of Two wrongs make a right"--Page 343.

"A longtime good girl and unapologetic bad boy score the love of their life when they least expect to in this swoony, slow-burn sports romance. Ziggy Bergman is tired of being underestimated. Sure, she's the youngest player on the National Soccer team and the baby of the family, but that doesn't mean she still deserves to be treated like a kid. It's time for her angelic image to get a makeover. What better way to do that than hanging out with trouble incarnate and her brother's best friend, Sebastian Gauthier? Sebastian has hit rock bottom. His hockey career and sponsorships are in jeopardy of ending if something doesn't give. Seb's not willing to actually change his destructive ways, but he's happy to pretend he's a reformed reprobate by faking a friendship for publicity with sweet, shy Ziggy Bergman. When faking starts to feel real, Ziggy and Seb discover an unexpected friendship they're happy to hold on to. At least, until their once-fake friendship becomes the most loving, empowering relationship they've ever known, and the end goal--for both of them--changes"--

"Oliver Bergman is a beloved rising soccer star, all sunshine smiles and the heart of his team's spirit. To make matters worse, he's obscenely attractive. In short: he's genetically designed to get under misanthropic, miserable Gavin's aggravated skin. Ten years older than Oliver and a legendary player at the end of his career, Gavin Hayes is the team's demanding captain. He's also a giant--albeit gorgeous--grump who lives to rain on Oliver's parade. Especially when Oliver and Gavin are named cocaptains of the team. Sick of their hostility, Coach gives them an ultimatum: put an end to their enmity or say goodbye to being captains. Forced to finally to lower their guards, Gavin and Oliver realize that they also have chemistry off the field, and it's fueled by something much more powerful than competition--an explosive attraction"--

The TikTok sensation, now with new exclusive content!Opposites attract in this heartfelt, modern marriage-of-convenience romance about finding love—and home—in the most unlikely of places.Rooney Sullivan is sunshine incarnate and the antithesis of quiet, reserved Axel. He’s been able to hide his attraction to her until a party game gets out of hand and ends in an unexpected kiss. Months later, Rooney’s staying just next door to him for a cozy A-frame getaway and temptingly within reach.Axel, the eldest Bergman brother, is a gorgeous grump and Rooney’s longtime crush. Their kiss was an accident, and months later, so is stumbling into him at the Bergman family’s property. Rooney’s sure her feelings are unrequited, thanks to the distance Axel keeps, so she keeps her attraction to herself.But when Axel and Rooney unexpectedly find their paths—and problems—converging, marriage proves the perfect solution. At least, until they face a new dilemma: a marriage of convenience that’s inconveniently become a love match, after all.

"Freya Bergman has spent a dozen years loving Aiden and never thought they'd find their marriage on the rocks. He's her partner and best friend, the person she knows she can count on most. Until one day Freya realizes the man she married is nowhere to be found. Now Aiden is quiet and withdrawn, and as the months wear on, the growing distance between them becomes too much to bear. Aiden would spend a dozen lifetimes making his wife happy. But the one thing that will make her happiest is the one thing he's not sure he can give her: a baby. With the pressure of providing and planning for a family, his anxiety is at an all-time high. They're drifting apart and he doesn't know how to change the tide. As if weathering marriage counseling wasn't enough, Freya and Aiden are thrown together for a Bergman family island getaway. Will this trip help them finally work through their trouble in paradise, or be the final wave that tows them under?"--

"A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. Too bad it turned out to be more of a prequel, a complication to Peter's actual love story, the one that ends with him dumping Daphne before their wedding to begin a relationship with his lifelong best friend, Petra. And so that's how Daphne's story really begins: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children's librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only other non-Peter-related person she knows: Petra's heartbroken ex, Miles Nowak. Just until she can get a new dream job literally anywhere else. Scruffy and chaotic, Miles is entirely the opposite of buttoned-up Daphne, and they mainly avoid one another until one night, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship. Miles decides he will convince Daphne to give Waning Bay a real shot. He'll show her why he loves this idyllic town and its residents, and if they happen to post deliberately misleading photos of their adventures together-for a particular audience of two-who could blame them? Miles believes Daphne deserves the chance to build a life here, her own life. As she begins to fall for the town, Daphne wonders what this summer is supposed to mean. Is it just for fun? An interlude to her own love story? Or maybe it was never meant to be a love story? Maybe it was just an anecdote to share at future dinner parties: that time she fell in love with her ex-fiancâe's new fiancâee's ex-boyfriend. Who's to say?"--

"A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--

À Nantes, dans le cadre de l'atelier d'écriture "Du Pinceau à la Tablette", sept auteurs ont écrit de nombreuses micronouvelles chinoises. En relation avec leurs perceptions de la Chine, leurs textes se situent aussi bien là-bas que dans le quartier du Bouffay, lieu d'implantation historique des chinois à Nantes. Neuf d'entre elles ont été traduites en chinois et rassemblées dans ce recueil bilingue.

When Siddharth and Rahul, two influential businesspeople, were brought in by the families of Aditi and Shanaya to help plan their wedding, Aditi was a stunning young woman who was prosperous and developing every day. While some relationships have an easy beginning, others don't, and Aditi's relationship with Siddharth was one of those; it was a total disaster when it first started.When "secrets," "histories," and "past" knock on the door of their existence, they stand up for it together as if they were destined to do so. As time goes on, things change, as do people, but certain things remain constant. Love? You'll have to read to find out what happens in Aditi and Siddharth's narrative, but I can assure you that it is a twisted one with a happy ending. Explore the book to find out what happens when two people become so deeply linked with one another that all they can think about is "Forever Together"

I just agreed to a business proposition by my best friend that will determine the direction of my adult life.Jonah and I have had each other's backs since kindergarten. He's the best friend I've ever had, and we know each other better than we do our own siblings. That's why I'm shocked to learn he doesn't want to take over his family's successful hardware store.He wants to flip a foreclosed mansion in Apple Cart to establish himself as a homebuilder and remodeler, mainly to prove to his parents why he doesn't need the store. Oh, and he wants to bring me on board as the designer.In true Jonah fashion, he takes it a step further by making me "heart swear" (our thing since fourth grade) if we double our money I'll move back to Apple Cart and start my own interior design business.Until now, I'd planned on staying in Auburn and getting a design job. However, I've dreamed of helping make people's personal dreams come true ever since I designed the lodge for Gamer's Paradise.And, more than anything, I want to help Jonah succeed.We're together all the time but never like this. Something about working side by side and sharing our dreams have me viewing him differently.It only complicates things further when I accidentally hit him in the head with a hammer, and he unconsciously kisses me. Of course, the best kiss of my life would come from my best friend while he has a concussion.Maybe it's the kiss, or Jack and Bianca's wedding. Or maybe it's because I'm about to graduate college and start adulting full time. But my mind starts to drift toward thoughts of a future with Jonah.A future where he's more than my best friend.

Melli wohnt im Deutschland der nahen Zukunft und trägt ein Stigma, das sie zunehmend vom gesellschaftlichen Leben ausschließt. Als die Einschränkungen immer größer werden und sie Angst um ihr Leben bekommt, flüchtet sie nach Schweden in die Einsamkeit eines abgelegenen Waldes. Von dort aus schreibt sie Emails an ihre Freundin Charlotte, die in der Heimat zurückgeblieben ist. Sie bekommt nie eine Antwort, Charlotte scheint spurlos verschwunden. Stigma - Eine Geschichte über bunte Menschen in grünen Wäldern, einen schwarzen Hund und den leisen Kampf für Freiheit und Vielfalt.

Lebenskunst ! oder die Kunst NEIN zu sagen !Du wurdest geboren, mit der Fähigkeit, jemandes Leben zu verändern. Verschwende es nicht immerzu nur. Verändere dich nicht und die Leute werden dich mögen. Sei du selbst. So langsam ist am Ende unser Kreisen. Man kann das Auf und Ab nicht unterscheiden, Das Dauernde von der Veränderung. Sämtliches, mit dem ich konfrontiert werde ist ein 'Echo meiner Wahrnehmung'. So baut sich Liebe vor mir auf. Sie sieht einem gern in die Augen und antwortet leicht. Sie sagt - So habe ich mich entschieden ! In jeder Verurteilung liegt die Überzeugung eigener Schuld.

There are three things to know about Tilly Mahoney: 1. She's a liar.2. She thinks she's in love with her best friend.3. She's got a plan to ruin his wedding. Tilly and her best friend have been through it all. For decades, he has been her support system, and she's been his right hand gal, and now he's engaged to someone else? Not on her watch."Hey, want to help me break up a wedding?" is a dubious start to an unlikely friendship, but the bride's ex-boyfriend, Zack, is the perfect partner in crime for Tilly's misguided plan to spoil the nuptials. The bearded and brooding man is clearly desperate to win back the love of his life, and she's all too willing to help if it'll break up the happy couple. But the more she tries to interfere with the wedding and the closer she gets to Zack, the more confusing Tilly's feelings become. About a decades-long friendship, about what she thought was love, and most terrifyingly, about the way Zack saves all of his smiles for her.

Ella Lovelace is sweeter than honey at her bridal boutique, but on her own time she prefers to live life more rough and tumble. She's a bundle of contradictions, and she likes it that way.Not one to draw things out, Ella has nearly given up on romance. It's sad, but understandable. All the men she meets seem to get spooked when they see a glimpse of her-ahem!-wild side.But when a spark ignites with a different kind of guy, it might be time to give love one more chance.Will Ella find her happily ever after?Yes Rehearsal is the third book in The Romantics Series of steamy, Southern, small town romantic comedy.

Überall sind sie zu finden, leben mitten unter uns und auch Sie sind bereits einem derlei wundersamen Wesen begegnet. Gut getarnt hinter Pullundern und Nickelbrillen warten Nerds, Gamer und Streberinnen darauf, dass ihre Sternenzeit beginnt.Entdecken Sie mit diesem Buch eine neue Galaxis: Als Enzyklopädie der Nerdigen, Fibel der Fabelhaften und Handbuch für Anhalter berichtet es sagenhafte Abenteuer aus der Welt der Geeks und Klugscheißer. Zusammengetragen von poetischen Wissenschaftlerinnen und intelligenten Barden finden Sie Antworten auf Fragen, die Sie sich nie gestellt haben. Falsifizieren und beweisen Sie Klischees gleichermaßen ¿ mit Texten, die Sie garantiert klüger machen, denn Intelligenz ist keine Krankheit!Mit Texten von:Jan Cönig | Lenny Felling | David Grashoff | Björn Högsdal | Björn H. Katzur | Khaaro | Harry Kienzler | Yasmin Köseli | Lisa Maria Olszakiewiecz | Sören Pischki | Theresa Sperling | Xenia Stein | Dustin Werle | Martin Weyrauch | Mit einem Vorwort von Elias Raatz und Illustrationen von Barbara Gerlach

Five old friends. Two new partners. One big problem... In Erin's beachfront home in Ireland, I blink at my former best friends and laugh. Is it awkward we haven't seen each other in ten years and nobody really knows why? Yes. So I pull out the champagne with a flourish and start blasting our old playlist. It's a reunion weekend, after all... But it's not long before my determination to have fun starts to fizzle. Perhaps inviting new partners was a mistake. I'm already exhausted by Becky's new girlfriend, and Beth's husband is trying too hard with the compliments. No, I'm not trying out a "cool silver highlights" look. It's a grey hair. Still, at least the others have partners. The most exciting romantic development I can report is a quick flirt with a handsome stranger on the plane over. Even flighty, non-committal Tara is bringing someone. But if that wasn't surprising enough, I could never have anticipated Tara's 'someone' would be the man from my flight. If things weren't already awkward, they certainly are now... The weekend was meant to finally bring us all back together. But will this reunion only push us further apart? A hilarious and uplifting page-turner about the power (and pitfalls) of friendship and romance. Fans of rom-coms by Sophie Kinsella, Marian Keyes and Mhairi McFarlane will devour this laugh-out-loud tale. What readers are saying about Joanna Bolouri: 'The perfect summer read... LOL funny, packed with awkward moments, and romance for a cherry on top. Blissful.' Bobs and Books, ¿¿¿¿¿ 'The quintessential summer beach read! I LOVED this book because it gave me all the things I want in a modern-day love story... Prepare to laugh out loud, and to absolutely love this fabulously fresh new read... witty, humorous and fun.' Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Funny, romantic and surprisingly insightful... I legit laughed out loud.' Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿ 'Unputdownable.' Goodreads reviewer, ¿¿¿¿¿

È una verità universalmente riconosciuta che un uomo single in possesso di peli sul viso debba avere bisogno di radersi. E di darsi una riordinata. E di un finto appuntamento.Mi chiamo Holly Hyman. Amo l'ordine e i numeri primi... e sono nei guai. L'azienda per cui lavoro sta prendendo una svolta che non mi piace. La nostra nuova gestione? Alex Chortsky, un bellissimo e trasandato diavolo russo. La nostra nuova direzione? Intrattenimento virtuale di tipo piccante.Forse, la cosa non mi dispiacerebbe così tanto, se il lavoro della mia vita non fosse destinato ai bambini. O se non avessi accidentalmente rimorchiato una versione virtuale del mio capo diabolicamente bello.L'unico modo per salvare il progetto dei miei sogni è stringere un patto faustiano. Per una sera, fingerò di essere la ragazza di Alex Chortsky.Che cosa potrebbe mai andare storto? NOTA: Questa è una commedia romantica a sé stante, licenziosa e piccante, che narra di un'eroina anglofila, bizzarra e un po' nerd, di un eroe russo strafigo e di un cucciolo indisciplinato di dimensioni enormi. Se uno qualsiasi di questi elementi non è di vostro gradimento, scappate subito! Altrimenti, allacciatevi le cinture per una corsa che vi farà ridere a crepapelle.