When her best friend is once again cheated upon by her boyfriend, Penny decides to form a club that identifies jerks and steers girls away from them and toward nice boys, but finds it more difficult than she thought.
A teenage aspiring fashion designer continues her club dedicated to calling out bad boys in the second entry of this humorous romantic manga series. It is a truth universally acknowledged that, with rare exception, girls are fatally drawn to jerks! Penny has a great boyfriend, the anti-Pyrite revolution continues to grow, everything seems like it’s going great . . . or is it? With Hannah working some backstabbing magic behind the scenes, Orion going from affectionate to clingy a little too quickly for comfort, and school and costume work piling up, Penny may be a little more over her head than head over heels! All of which gets exceedingly more complicated when she finds herself attracted to Pyrite-supreme Blake!
A teenage aspiring fashion designer continues her club dedicated to calling out bad boys in the second entry of this humorous romantic manga series. It is a truth universally acknowledged that, with rare exception, girls are fatally drawn to jerks! Penny has a great boyfriend, the anti-Pyrite revolution continues to grow, everything seems like it’s going great . . . or is it? With Hannah working some backstabbing magic behind the scenes, Orion going from affectionate to clingy a little too quickly for comfort, and school and costume work piling up, Penny may be a little more over her head than head over heels! All of which gets exceedingly more complicated when she finds herself attracted to Pyrite-supreme Blake!
“I’m coming home… With my bride-to-be.” Tyler Blackwell just announced that he and Hadley Sullivan are getting married. And they’ve never even dated! Now she and her boss are in Montana so Tyler can sell his family ranch. Hadley only agreed to continue the deception in exchange for a promotion. But moving up the corporate ladder pales beside her growing feelings for Tyler. Will his past and Blackwell family secrets sabotage what Hadley wants more than anything—a real wedding?
* A Bank Street Best Children's Book of 2017 * A Georgia Peach Book Award Nominee * Read the book New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith calls “powerful and haunting,” and acclaimed author Peter Brown Hoffmeister calls “beautiful and sad.” Now Is Everything is a stirring debut novel told in alternating THEN and NOW chapters, perfect for Sarah Dessen and Jennifer Niven fans, about what one girl is willing to do to protect her past, present, and future. The McCauleys look perfect on the outside. But nothing is ever as it seems, and this family is hiding a dark secret. Hadley McCauley will do anything to keep her sister safe from their father. But when Hadley’s forbidden relationship with Charlie Simmons deepens, the violence at home escalates, culminating in an explosive accident that will leave everyone changed. When Hadley attempts to take her own life at the hospital post-accident, her friends, doctors, family, and the investigator on the case want to know why. Only Hadley knows what really happened that day, and she’s not talking.
“I’m coming home… With my bride-to-be.” Tyler Blackwell just announced that he and Hadley Sullivan are getting married. And they’ve never even dated! Now she and her boss are in Montana so Tyler can sell his family ranch. Hadley only agreed to continue the deception in exchange for a promotion. But moving up the corporate ladder pales beside her growing feelings for Tyler. Will his past and Blackwell family secrets sabotage what Hadley wants more than anything—a real wedding?
When a 1950s Manhattan socialite's life takes a turn for the grotesque, only Madame Xanadu can resolve her problems. Also, take a look at Madame Xanadu's early days, set in ancient, pastoral England, as the rivalry between our hero and her evil sister, Morgana, is first born.
Vivian started a Silicon Valley data analytics firm to escape her agricultural roots, but wealth and polish are lonelier than she imagined. Hoping to reconnect with Damon, a laid-back friend with a knack for making money—legally and illegally—she attends his release-from-prison homecoming party. Lost amid the people who love Damon, she savors his return, but she refuses to deepen the relationship, still hindered by their age difference. Damon confesses to an ill-advised cryptocurrency investment, but he refuses Vivian's help to recover his assets. He struggles to track down the currency CEO who’s disappeared. Reconciling his feelings for Vivian and his neighborhood's expectations muddle his decisions. As the line between friendship and lust blurs, he'll do anything to keep her safe and reclaim the money destined for neighborhood kids. But can he have both?
Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships imbued with the traditional values so important to you: home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: THE RANCHER’S FAKE FIANCƒE Return of the Blackwell Brothers by Amy Vastine Tyler Blackwell’s had to make a deal with a coworker to get himself out of a family jam. Hadley Sullivan’s willing to play the part of his fiancée for a promotion…until winning Tyler’s heart becomes her only desire. AVA’S PRIZE City by the Bay Stories by Cari Lynn Webb EMT Ava Andrews is desperate to win a design contest’s cash prize. Her simple, revolutionary hearing aid has also attracted entrepreneur Kyle Quinn. Will his decision mean the end of their relationship before it begins? A COWBOY’S CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL The Sweetheart Ranch by Cathy McDavid As Molly O’Malley manages the chaos of the first day of her Western-themed wedding business at Sweetheart Ranch, help comes in the form of Owen Caufield, a wedding officiant—with his three young children in tow! RESCUED BY THE FIREFIGHTER Shores of Indian Lake by Catherine Lanigan Firefighter Rand Nelson heroically rescues Beatrice Wilcox and two children from a fire. But with his risky profession, Beatrice knows Rand can’t be her hero—especially when his investigation into the fire threatens to shut down her summer camp… Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!
Contracts: Cases, Discussion, and Problems, Fourth Edition is known for its strikingly clear, straightforward text that illuminates cases as well as concepts and theory. The book focuses on modern cases to expose students to contemporary contract law, but it also includes many important or iconic older cases. The cases are set in context by extensive author-written explanatory text. Insightful questions draw attention to difficult and crucial aspects of the law and prompt vigorous class discussion. Numerous problems, ranging from simple to complex, supplement cases and introduce topics taught most effectively through problems. The casebook’s traditional organization begins with formation and then corresponds to the sequence followed by the Restatement (2nd) of Contracts and treatises. Its concise, efficient presentation results in an optimum length for the course. Procedural issues are highlighted when presented by the cases and transactional issues such as drafting, client counseling, and negotiation are raised through the use of questions and small exercises throughout the text. Strengthening the text’s focus on contemporary methods of contracting, modern issues in standard contracts are explored along with contracts entered into electronically. International and comparative material offers alternative approaches for students to consider, such as those taken by the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.
In this action-packed adventure from a New York Times bestselling author, two teenagers from opposite worlds must fight their way through a vast walled quarantine zone in a dystopian America toward their only chance for survival. Seventeen-year-old Maisie Rojas has spent her entire life in the Q—a post-pandemic quarantine zone that was once Austin, Texas. Born and raised behind the high security walls that sealed their fate, she's now a trusted lieutenant for one of the territory's controlling families. Lennon Pierce, the charismatic son of a US presidential candidate, has just been kidnapped by his father's enemies and dropped out of a plane into the Q with nothing but a parachute strapped to his back. Lennon is given a temporary antidote to the disease and crucial intel for his father, but Maisie must get him out of the zone within forty-eight hours--or he will be permanently infected and forced to remain. With unrest brewing both inside and outside the Q, reaching the exit is a daunting and dangerous task. But if Maisie and Lennon fail, it could mean disaster for the entire quarantine zone and its inhabitants—and could cost Lennon his life. Strap in for breakneck action and compelling characters in this timely, nonstop thriller.
Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: MONTANA WISHES (A Blackwell Sisters novel) by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine A life-changing family secret, two impulsive proposals and best friends navigating feelings they’re both afraid to share. Will Amanda Harrison and Blake Collins’s new relationship survive when truths are revealed on the Blackwell Ranch? RESCUING THE RANCHER (A Heroes of Shelter Creek novel) by Claire McEwen Firefighter Jade Carson had no problem handling the Northern California wildfire evacuations until Aidan Bell. The stubborn rancher refuses to leave his sheep and appears to care little for his own survival. Will they survive the night—and each other? HILL COUNTRY SECRET by Kit Hawthorne Lauren Longwood lived a carefree existence, but pregnancy from a failed marriage leads her to a friend in Texas. There she instantly connects with Alex Reyes, a man who can’t afford the distraction from saving his family’s ranch. ALL THEY WANT FOR CHRISTMAS (A Montgomerys of Spirit Lake novel) by M. K. Stelmack After her aunt passes away, Bridget Montgomery is surprised when her ex-fiancé, Jack Holdstrom, returns with two adopted daughters in tow. But she’s downright shocked to discover Jack’s been willed the other half of Bridget’s home and business! Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!
Hadley lost her sister to cancer. When an explosion puts her in the middle of a family squabble, Johann asks for a week of discretion to protect his brother. Torn between her research and the loneliness in his gaze, she agrees, but family dynamics upend her understanding of loyalty.
An “engaging” study of Machu Picchu’s transformation from ruin to World Heritage site, and the role a National Geographic photo feature played (Latin American Research Review). When Hiram Bingham, a historian from Yale University, first saw Machu Picchu in 1911, it was a ruin obscured by overgrowth whose terraces were farmed by a few families. A century later, Machu Picchu is a UNESCO World Heritage site visited by more than a million tourists annually. This remarkable transformation began with the photographs that accompanied Bingham’s article were published in National Geographic magazine, which depicted Machu Picchu as a lost city discovered. Focusing on the practices, technologies, and materializations of Bingham’s three expeditions to Peru in the first decade of the twentieth century, this book makes a convincing case that visualization, particularly through the camera, played a decisive role in positioning Machu Picchu as both a scientific discovery and a Peruvian heritage site. Amy Cox Hall argues that while Bingham’s expeditions relied on the labor, knowledge, and support of Peruvian elites, intellectuals, and peasants, the practice of scientific witnessing, and photography specifically, converted Machu Picchu into a cultural artifact fashioned from a distinct way of seeing. Drawing on science and technology studies, she situates letter writing, artifact collecting, and photography as important expeditionary practices that helped shape the way we understand Machu Picchu today. Cox Hall also demonstrates that the photographic evidence was unstable, and, as images circulated worldwide, the “lost city” took on different meanings—especially in Peru, which came to view the site as one of national patrimony in need of protection from expeditions such as Bingham’s.
Harlequin® Heartwarming celebrates wholesome, heartfelt relationships that focus on home, family, community and love. Experience all that and more with four new novels in one collection! This Harlequin Heartwarming box set includes: A COWBOY’S FOURTH OF JULY The Cowboy Academy by USA TODAY bestselling author Melinda Curtis Banker Dix Youngblood knows he should be foreclosing on the Burns Ranch—home to his former crush, Allison. Instead, he finds himself helping her consolidate the family’s debt…and trying his best not to act on his years-old crush! HIS TEXAS RUNAWAY BRIDE Stop the Wedding! by USA TODAY bestselling author Amy Vastine Small-town sheriff Bryce Koller thinks there’s something off about the new nanny he’s hired for his son, but Willow Sanderson being a runaway bride in hiding is a surprise! He can keep her secret—but can he keep his distance? AN UNEXPECTED TWINS PROPOSAL Cupid’s Crossing by Kim Findlay Jess Slade has returned to her hometown looking for a safe haven during her surprise pregnancy. But now a temporary office job is making her want something permanent—with handsome lawyer Deacon Standish! LAST SUMMER ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND Return to Christmas Island by Amy Denman Violet Brookstone can’t imagine Christmas Island without her best friend, Jordan Frome. But when Jordan needs help winning a promotion that would send him hundreds of miles away, Violet steps up as his fake fiancée—only to fall for real! Look for 4 compelling new stories every month from Harlequin® Heartwarming!
Caught between friendship and falling in love… Amanda Harrison’s life is changing way too fast. Discovering that she’s really one of the Montana Blackwells was hard enough. Now Blake Collins—her best friend and the guy Amanda’s secretly in love with—is engaged to someone else. But Montana cowboy country has a way of claiming its own. And being a Blackwell means Amanda must learn how to fight for herself…and for the love she deserves. USA TODAY Bestselling Author
Sixteen-year-old Stella dreams in such detail that she can't be sure which side of wakefulness is reality. Some days she is Stella Barone, private school rich girl, and others she is Stella McGillivray, poor waif from the east valley. She lives in the same city, only a matter of miles, and a full week, apart. Diagnosed with nightmare disorder, Stella's condition becomes especially significant when her friends start disappearing on both sides of wakefulness. Someone is taking them and she has the peculiar means of finding out who, if only she can avoid being taken herself.
The Wedding Must Go On by Robyn Grady With his best friend's wedding suddenly cancelled, and an important business deal riding on it, Nate Sparks needs to get them back up the aisle ASAP! The best person to help is the feisty maid of honour, Roxy Trammel, otherwise known as 'trouble'... Luckily Roxy also needs this marriage to go ahead – her reputation as a wedding dress designer depends on it! Nate proposes a plan to get the jilted lovers back together – and if it doesn't work? He'll walk Roxy down the aisle in her design himself! All Roxy can wonder is, was that a threat...or a promise? The Devil And The Deep by Amy Andrews Author Stella Mills has writers block. Her swashbuckling debut romance was a mega hit – and the world is crying out for a sequel. Problem is, her sexy–as–sin hero was based on childhood friend Rick Granville, who's never looked at her that way. So being forced to spend weeks on adventurer Rick's luxury yacht could be just the cure – forget Johnny Depp, pirate Rick is pure perfection! Of course, spending night and day with Rick could be sailing too close to the wind...
This book tells the story of the daily lives of women industrial workers in World War II shipyards. It focuses on their struggle against the persistence of occupational segregation, the sexual and racial hierarchy of the shipyard work force, and the pervasive emphasis on female sexuality which served as a constant reminder that women were transient and marginal imposters. In addition, Fleeting Opportunities demonstrates that despite the myth that these women yearned to return to their kitchens, in fact many wanted to continue using their wartime skills in the postwar period. However, finding themselves excluded from jobs by union and management, those who continued to work ended up in low-paying, predominantly female occupations.
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