Author: Elaine Patch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736595008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Brielle loves adventure more than she craves caffeine-okay, not quite, but almost. So when she gets a desperate call from her longtime best friend needing her help, she doesn't even hesitate to make this life-changing move. What she wasn't expecting, however, was taking on her biggest challenge yet?Kennen Davis. A highly intelligent, irritable CEO who wants nothing to do with her creative personality and insane ideas.Kennen is a creature of habit, loathes change, and people in general. So, when his new annoyingly cheerful, overly colorful, yet seductive executive assistant joins the firm right in the middle of a major merger, he finds himself quickly losing his mind. He's also losing total control of everything else. But when a reoccurring affliction threatens his entire life's work and his company's future, can he put up with her long enough to follow through on her ridiculous plan to save him??Brilliantly Beautiful is a contemporary romance that will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride, leave you laughing out loud and wanting more steamy, flirtatious fun in your own life.
Brilliantly Beautiful
Author: Elaine Patch
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736595008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Brielle loves adventure more than she craves caffeine-okay, not quite, but almost. So when she gets a desperate call from her longtime best friend needing her help, she doesn't even hesitate to make this life-changing move. What she wasn't expecting, however, was taking on her biggest challenge yet?Kennen Davis. A highly intelligent, irritable CEO who wants nothing to do with her creative personality and insane ideas.Kennen is a creature of habit, loathes change, and people in general. So, when his new annoyingly cheerful, overly colorful, yet seductive executive assistant joins the firm right in the middle of a major merger, he finds himself quickly losing his mind. He's also losing total control of everything else. But when a reoccurring affliction threatens his entire life's work and his company's future, can he put up with her long enough to follow through on her ridiculous plan to save him??Brilliantly Beautiful is a contemporary romance that will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride, leave you laughing out loud and wanting more steamy, flirtatious fun in your own life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781736595008
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Brielle loves adventure more than she craves caffeine-okay, not quite, but almost. So when she gets a desperate call from her longtime best friend needing her help, she doesn't even hesitate to make this life-changing move. What she wasn't expecting, however, was taking on her biggest challenge yet?Kennen Davis. A highly intelligent, irritable CEO who wants nothing to do with her creative personality and insane ideas.Kennen is a creature of habit, loathes change, and people in general. So, when his new annoyingly cheerful, overly colorful, yet seductive executive assistant joins the firm right in the middle of a major merger, he finds himself quickly losing his mind. He's also losing total control of everything else. But when a reoccurring affliction threatens his entire life's work and his company's future, can he put up with her long enough to follow through on her ridiculous plan to save him??Brilliantly Beautiful is a contemporary romance that will take you on an emotional roller-coaster ride, leave you laughing out loud and wanting more steamy, flirtatious fun in your own life.
Defeat Depression (52 Brilliant Ideas)
Author: Sabina Dosani
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
52 ways to beat the blues once and for all. Written by a psychiatrist with years of experience-both professional and personal--Defeat Depression offers real insight into depression, along with practical, proven techniques to help readers or their loved ones regain their energy and joy.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440621985
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
52 ways to beat the blues once and for all. Written by a psychiatrist with years of experience-both professional and personal--Defeat Depression offers real insight into depression, along with practical, proven techniques to help readers or their loved ones regain their energy and joy.
Thankful
Author: Elaine Vickers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534477357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Stunning, diorama illustrations bring to life this “wonderfully evocative” (BookPage) lullaby of a picture book about celebrating everyday things that make life wonderful. I am thankful for a home where I am safe and warm. Thankful for parents who read me stories and comb my hair gently, gently. Who whisper the same poem every night when they tuck me in. When the first snow falls, a little girl writes down the things she’s thankful for on strips of paper and links them together. As one idea leads to another, her chain grows longer. There’s so much good in her life: a friend, things that are warm, things that are cold, color, things that can be fixed. This beautiful story is a much-needed reminder to observe and honor life’s small joys.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534477357
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Stunning, diorama illustrations bring to life this “wonderfully evocative” (BookPage) lullaby of a picture book about celebrating everyday things that make life wonderful. I am thankful for a home where I am safe and warm. Thankful for parents who read me stories and comb my hair gently, gently. Who whisper the same poem every night when they tuck me in. When the first snow falls, a little girl writes down the things she’s thankful for on strips of paper and links them together. As one idea leads to another, her chain grows longer. There’s so much good in her life: a friend, things that are warm, things that are cold, color, things that can be fixed. This beautiful story is a much-needed reminder to observe and honor life’s small joys.
Marilou is Everywhere
Author: Sarah Elaine Smith
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241400961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, a richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America... 'Remarkable. This novel reads like a miracle' NPR 'Brimming with longing, with heartbreak' New York Times Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white. One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else's. She is becoming Jude... 'Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot 'One of the most exquisitely written books I've read in a long time. A haunting novel about craving escape so badly you're willing to erase yourself, by a writer I would follow anywhere' Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241400961
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, a richly atmospheric debut about lost innocence and rural America... 'Remarkable. This novel reads like a miracle' NPR 'Brimming with longing, with heartbreak' New York Times Jude is popular, beautiful, wealthier than most in Deep Valley. Cindy is Jude's neighbour - younger, poorer, a kid from the kind of family everyone knows will come to no good. Jude is black and Cindy is white. One summer, Jude disappears. Search parties go out but come back empty-handed and strangely pleased. Jude thought she was better than everyone else. Look at her now. Meanwhile Cindy is performing a vanishing act of her own. She is slipping out of her old life and into someone else's. She is becoming Jude... 'Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot 'One of the most exquisitely written books I've read in a long time. A haunting novel about craving escape so badly you're willing to erase yourself, by a writer I would follow anywhere' Julie Buntin, author of Marlena
My Perfect Sister
Author: Penny Batchelor
Publisher: Embla Books
ISBN: 1471414760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
'Omg what an ending, I did not see that coming! What a brilliantly gripping book... I loved it!' Reader review, 5 stars Annie is five when her beloved big sister, Gemma, leaves for school and is never seen again. The police search for weeks and Annie never gives up hope that Gemma will one day come home to her. Now, twenty years after her sister mysteriously vanished, Annie returns to her childhood home to care for her ill mother. Opening the door to Gemma's room, Annie finds it untouched from the day her sister disappeared, with her make up still on the dresser and her books open on her bed. Annie is certain that the answers to what happened to Gemma are here in her old room. But in the search to finally find Gemma, will Annie discover her perfect sister is not who she thought she was? And will her quest for answers put her in deadly danger? Someone knows the truth. And they will do anything to stop Annie from finding it... An absolutely gripping psychological thriller about the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors, with a killer twist you just won't see coming. Perfect for fans of K.L Slater, Sue Watson and Shalini Boland. **LONGLISTED for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize** Readers and authors are gripped by My Perfect Sister: 'Wow, this book shocked me. I never in a million years would have guessed the ending... Incredible... A must read for anyone who enjoys mysteries/thrillers!' Reader review, 5 stars 'Brilliant... Mind-blowing. Amazing characters... Truly a gripping story' Reader review, 5 stars 'A fast -paced storyline with a completely unexpected ending... Truly suspenseful thriller' Reader review, 5 stars 'Thrilling - a true page-turner in which no one can be trusted' Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet
Publisher: Embla Books
ISBN: 1471414760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
'Omg what an ending, I did not see that coming! What a brilliantly gripping book... I loved it!' Reader review, 5 stars Annie is five when her beloved big sister, Gemma, leaves for school and is never seen again. The police search for weeks and Annie never gives up hope that Gemma will one day come home to her. Now, twenty years after her sister mysteriously vanished, Annie returns to her childhood home to care for her ill mother. Opening the door to Gemma's room, Annie finds it untouched from the day her sister disappeared, with her make up still on the dresser and her books open on her bed. Annie is certain that the answers to what happened to Gemma are here in her old room. But in the search to finally find Gemma, will Annie discover her perfect sister is not who she thought she was? And will her quest for answers put her in deadly danger? Someone knows the truth. And they will do anything to stop Annie from finding it... An absolutely gripping psychological thriller about the dark secrets that lurk behind closed doors, with a killer twist you just won't see coming. Perfect for fans of K.L Slater, Sue Watson and Shalini Boland. **LONGLISTED for the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize** Readers and authors are gripped by My Perfect Sister: 'Wow, this book shocked me. I never in a million years would have guessed the ending... Incredible... A must read for anyone who enjoys mysteries/thrillers!' Reader review, 5 stars 'Brilliant... Mind-blowing. Amazing characters... Truly a gripping story' Reader review, 5 stars 'A fast -paced storyline with a completely unexpected ending... Truly suspenseful thriller' Reader review, 5 stars 'Thrilling - a true page-turner in which no one can be trusted' Catherine Cooper, author of The Chalet
The Biological Mind
Author: Justin Garson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000547272
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, including three new chapters on race, sex and human nature Second edition is split into thirteen more manageable chapters (instead of eight long ones in the first edition), matching course syllabi more effectively and making it easier for students and teachers to use the book Covers the essential topics, such as selection, adaptation, modularity, genes and the environment, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and free will and determinism Additional textbook features include: chapter summaries, annotated further reading and glossary.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000547272
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Thoroughly revised and updated, including three new chapters on race, sex and human nature Second edition is split into thirteen more manageable chapters (instead of eight long ones in the first edition), matching course syllabi more effectively and making it easier for students and teachers to use the book Covers the essential topics, such as selection, adaptation, modularity, genes and the environment, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and free will and determinism Additional textbook features include: chapter summaries, annotated further reading and glossary.
How to Read Now
Author: Elaine Castillo
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593489632
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.” “A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book Review) Offering “its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we’re all too often spoon-fed into order to restore ourselves to chaos and complexity — a way of seeing and reading that demands so much more of us but offers even more in return." (Los Angeles Times) "I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed while reading these essays from the phenomenal Elaine Castillo. What powerful writing, what a rigorous mind. For as long as I live, I want to read anything Castillo writes, and you probably do, too." —R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, “she moves to wrest reading away from the cotton-candy aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.” (Vulture) How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman’s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy—within ourselves, and with each other.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593489632
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
“How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories.” “A book that doesn’t seek to shut down the current literary discourse so much as shake it up.” (The New York Times Book Review) Offering “its audience the opportunity to look past the simplicity we’re all too often spoon-fed into order to restore ourselves to chaos and complexity — a way of seeing and reading that demands so much more of us but offers even more in return." (Los Angeles Times) "I gasped, shouted, and holler-laughed while reading these essays from the phenomenal Elaine Castillo. What powerful writing, what a rigorous mind. For as long as I live, I want to read anything Castillo writes, and you probably do, too." —R.O. Kwon, author of The Incendiaries How many times have we heard that reading builds empathy? That we can travel through books? How often have we were heard about the importance of diversifying our bookshelves? Or claimed that books saved our lives? These familiar words—beautiful, aspirational—are sometimes even true. But award-winning novelist Elaine Castillo has more ambitious hopes for our reading culture, and in this collection of linked essays, “she moves to wrest reading away from the cotton-candy aspirations of uniting people in empathetic harmony and reposition it as thornier, ultimately more rewarding work.” (Vulture) How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of something better: a more engaged relationship not just with our fiction and our art, but with our buried and entangled histories. Smart, funny, galvanizing, and sometimes profane, Castillo attacks the stale questions and less-than-critical proclamations that masquerade as vital discussion: reimagining the cartography of the classics, building a moral case against the settler colonialism of lauded writers like Joan Didion, taking aim at Nobel Prize winners and toppling indie filmmakers, and celebrating glorious moments in everything from popular TV like The Watchmen to the films of Wong Kar-wai and the work of contemporary poets like Tommy Pico. At once a deeply personal and searching history of one woman’s reading life, and a wide-ranging and urgent intervention into our globalized conversations about why reading matters today, How to Read Now empowers us to embrace a more complicated, embodied form of reading, inviting us to acknowledge complicated truths, ignite surprising connections, imagine a more daring solidarity, and create space for a riskier intimacy—within ourselves, and with each other.
The Man Who Loved His Wife
Author: Vera Caspary
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558618473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A husband falls into a psychological spiral in a novel by the author of Laura, “an expert at suspense and suspicion” (The New York Times). When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, nineteen years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder... With what Graham Greene once called her “devilish cunning,” Vera Caspary reveals, with sure psychological insight, the strange desires that hide in the hearts of seemingly respectable people. Out of a web of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate, she has woven one of her most suspenseful thrillers. “Caspary writes emotive entertainments, part romance, part suspense, about women destined to kill or doomed to die.”—Kirkus Reviews “A beautiful job.”—The Boston Herald The Man Who Loved His Wife is part of the Femmes Fatales series, featuring the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era with such titles as Now, Voyager; Stella Dallas; Bunny Lake is Missing; The Girls in 3-B; and more.
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 1558618473
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
A husband falls into a psychological spiral in a novel by the author of Laura, “an expert at suspense and suspicion” (The New York Times). When Fletcher marries Elaine, his second wife, nineteen years his junior, he can't imagine a more passionate union. Then an illness destroys his confidence, and all he can picture is her next affair. He keeps a secret diary of his fantasized suspicions, making his impending suicide look like murder... With what Graham Greene once called her “devilish cunning,” Vera Caspary reveals, with sure psychological insight, the strange desires that hide in the hearts of seemingly respectable people. Out of a web of love, jealousy, guilt, and hate, she has woven one of her most suspenseful thrillers. “Caspary writes emotive entertainments, part romance, part suspense, about women destined to kill or doomed to die.”—Kirkus Reviews “A beautiful job.”—The Boston Herald The Man Who Loved His Wife is part of the Femmes Fatales series, featuring the best of women’s writing in the classic pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era with such titles as Now, Voyager; Stella Dallas; Bunny Lake is Missing; The Girls in 3-B; and more.
Inside Out
Author: Juliet Carrera
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781560232025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
When hidden passions are brought to light and long-held secrets revealed, either triumph or tragedy can follow. Inside Out explores this dangerous territory through the lives of three very different women. Set in New York, LA, and Washington, DC, this novel weaves contemporary issues into a compelling tale of political treachery and persistent love. This book will be of interest to lesbians, as well as fans of romance.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781560232025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
When hidden passions are brought to light and long-held secrets revealed, either triumph or tragedy can follow. Inside Out explores this dangerous territory through the lives of three very different women. Set in New York, LA, and Washington, DC, this novel weaves contemporary issues into a compelling tale of political treachery and persistent love. This book will be of interest to lesbians, as well as fans of romance.
Geographies, Mobilities, and Rhythms over the Life-Course
Author: Elaine Stratford
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113511742X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of movements, rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing multidisciplinary field that includes, among other things, studies on smart cities, infrastructures and networks; mobile technologies for automated highways or locative media; mobility justice and rights to stay or enter or reside. These activities, cadences and changing attachments to place have profound effects—first upon how we conduct or govern ourselves and each other via many social institutions, and second upon how we constitute the spaces in and through which our lives are experienced. This scholarship also has clear connections to numerous aspects of social and spatial policy and planning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113511742X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
By thinking in terms of the geographies of mobilities, we are better able to understand the central importance of movements, rhythms and shifting emplacements over the life-course. This innovative book represents research from a new and flourishing multidisciplinary field that includes, among other things, studies on smart cities, infrastructures and networks; mobile technologies for automated highways or locative media; mobility justice and rights to stay or enter or reside. These activities, cadences and changing attachments to place have profound effects—first upon how we conduct or govern ourselves and each other via many social institutions, and second upon how we constitute the spaces in and through which our lives are experienced. This scholarship also has clear connections to numerous aspects of social and spatial policy and planning.