Christina Witten didn’t want to be an escort! She wanted to be an administrative assistant, not a make-believe trophy on a man's arm. If she could only make a bit of money, she could finish her course at the college and have the career of her dreams. Fate, however, threw her nothing but curve balls. The men she dated as an escort were supposed to be boring and she was certainly not tempted to fall in love with one of them. It had been a breeze until Mark Lewis entered the scene.
Welcome to the world of Sleeping Beauty Inc. You may have already had a Sleeping Beauty Inc. adventure if you've read 'Rose Red' by Stephanie Van Orman. You can start with this story or that one. Book 1: Rose Red You can't buy a girl! But in the year 2214, you can. She can whip you into shape, design your diet, be your personal stylist, and turn you from geek to chic in just one year. After buying a model at Sleeping Beauty Inc. your life will never be the same. But what will happen when the model Harrison buys isn't exactly what he bargained for? Book 2: Sleeping Prince Set in the deep future, Gage is a pilot transporting models for hire between the Jovian moons. The girls are sold for a year or two doing everything required of them in their contracts. Gage is a sold man himself, having sold himself to Sleeping Beauty Inc. until he turns 30, but that might be a while as he spends 26 days out of 30 asleep on his ship. That is until one of the models he transports, Iona, has a contract for him. Looking over the contract, he can't believe his eyes. She can't really mean to buy him!
You can't buy a girl! But in the year 2214, you can. She can whip you into shape, design your diet, be your personal stylist, and turn you from geek to chic in just one year. After buying a model at Sleeping Beauty Inc. your life will never be the same. But what will happen when the model Harrison buys isn't exactly what he bargained for?
When a particularly cute prank goes sideways, Shannon finds herself handcuffed to Fletch in an abandoned camp kitchen. He has every reason to be furious with her, and it's her job to diffuse him, not to fall suddenly in love with him. Likewise, Fletch shouldn't be interested in her or finding out what Shannon paints on walls when no one is looking.
Beth Coldwell should have died. At fourteen years old, she was dying in a hospital bed, when her guardian, Christian Henderson, swept in and turned everything upside down. Years later, she’s alive and well, but she doesn’t know why. Christian did something unthinkable, possibly criminal, to save her life, but what? Beth must pick apart the mystery of why he’s being chased, kidnapped, spied upon, and drugged at every turn. How can she pull down the wall between them so he will welcome her to his world?
Bart has a two-week dating pattern. He wins them over with dinner dates, evenings out, and lavish experiences, but dumps them at the end of the 14 days. He doesn't mind the mascara smears because they are not on him. What will happen when his driver picks up the wrong girl?
Leander is in a disgusting situation. Yes, he's a knight. His armor used to be shiny, but now it is coated in green guck as he steps through Spiknit Woods. He's on a mission. What kind of mission? He doesn't exactly know. His quest is to go to a castle on the edge of the domain and do whatever the loyal taxpayers require. Lucky for him, it's to kidnap the Maiden in the red dress. With one eyebrow cocked, there is absolutely nothing Leander cannot do.
Juliet Hudson looks like spring. After all, she’s only eighteen years old and attending her first semester of university. Yet, even though Juliet’s eyes are clear and her heart as unspotted as the Virgin Goddess herself, she has her secrets. The least of which is that she loves darkness. Not only does she join an occult club, but she falls head over heels for a man who looks and acts exactly like a vampire. Seth, with his black hair, white skin and three perfect bite marks down the side of his neck. Juliet is convinced he is the vampire of her dreams. It would be perfect if something strange didn’t happen when they kiss. When his lips touch hers, she’s thrown into a world where violence is normal, romance and danger become the same thing, and where a simple kiss can lead to destruction.
A romantic novelette. Wyn did not want to live with Raif. He was a player. The only way to keep him a reasonable distance away from her is to make him do an unreasonable task every time he wants to speak to her. Will she be happy if he doesn't do any of them? How will her life change if he does ALL of them?
Welcome back to the world of spell books. This time we meet the teenage witches of Emi's old coven: Veda - Deceptively beautiful and deeply complex, she only looks like a porcelain doll. Fair Isle - A steampunk pixie with a dozen holes in her head. Intarsia - Looks like an elf strayed from the greenwood, who just had a meal of moss. Clementine - Would look like a Barbie doll if Barbie had been brutally beaten the night before. Pearl - Straggly and stringing like a rag doll, she looks like she'll never grow up. And... Salinger - who has come from his coven in the Yukon to find the girl of his dreams from among Veda and her cousins. It would be easy to choose, if their cousin, Antony, didn't keep getting in the way.
Jenna Fairchild should be enjoying her new position as the chair of the Octavian/Adamis Alliance, but she isn't. With the last sound of Sardius' clenched teeth ringing in her ear and the AAMC officers trashing her palace, Jenna flees through midnight waters to Favel's underwater mansion to take refuge. If only her own military wasn't against her! If only she knew if Sardius was alive! If only she knew what she was doing! Join Jenna as she crowns new diplomats, taunts the AAMC, gets new staff, and fights to protect peace in the universe the only way she knows how... By being fabulous!
In the sequel to 'His 16th Face', Beth Coldwell could not be more in love with Christian Henderson. If only all the terrible things he warned her about hadn't come true. Now that she is part of his world, she is chained up in a castle on Tombstone Mountain with a steel ring through her ankle. She's alone, except for the visitors that plague her with questions and demands. Where's Christian in all of this? Beth's kidnappers want him as far away from her as possible. How can she escape? The answers lie in the Red Forest... a place that needs a serious makeover.
Annaliese and Trip are best friends. They were best friends through high school and went to university together. Except, they have a secret that they've never told anyone... until they tell everyone.
Jenna Fairchild has a secret she has been keeping since she was a baby. Under her headband, under her grandfather's fedora, under her headphone strap, and under her messy bun, she has been hiding a black crown. No one could understand it, so she had to keep it hidden. That is, she had to keep it hidden until she was abducted by aliens, given riches beyond her wildest dreams, a palace to herself on an alien world, and been tasted head-to-foot by an enormous alien octopus. Then she was ready to take her place on the political stage of the universe. Jenna is not a princess, she's a diplomat. Armed with arms that are less plentiful than an octopus's, with fewer suction cups, and only one person who can help her... Sardius, who is only a voice speaking to her through an earpiece, Jenna has to crown seven more diplomats or blue and red blood will spill.
Christina Witten didn’t want to be an escort! She wanted to be an administrative assistant, not a make-believe trophy on a man's arm. If she could only make a bit of money, she could finish her course at the college and have the career of her dreams. Fate, however, threw her nothing but curve balls. The men she dated as an escort were supposed to be boring and she was certainly not tempted to fall in love with one of them. It had been a breeze until Mark Lewis entered the scene.
Jenna Fairchild has a secret she has been keeping since she was a baby. Under her headband, under her grandfather's fedora, under her headphone strap, and under her messy bun, she has been hiding a black crown. No one could understand it, so she had to keep it hidden. That is, she had to keep it hidden until she was abducted by aliens, given riches beyond her wildest dreams, a palace to herself on an alien world, and been tasted head-to-foot by an enormous alien octopus. Then she was ready to take her place on the political stage of the universe. Jenna is not a princess, she's a diplomat. Armed with arms that are less plentiful than an octopus's, with fewer suction cups, and only one person who can help her... Sardius, who is only a voice speaking to her through an earpiece, Jenna has to crown seven more diplomats or blue and red blood will spill.
Annaliese and Trip are best friends. They were best friends through high school and went to university together. Except, they have a secret that they've never told anyone... until they tell everyone.
A romantic novelette. Wyn did not want to live with Raif. He was a player. The only way to keep him a reasonable distance away from her is to make him do an unreasonable task every time he wants to speak to her. Will she be happy if he doesn't do any of them? How will her life change if he does ALL of them?
You can't buy a girl! But in the year 2214, you can. She can whip you into shape, design your diet, be your personal stylist, and turn you from geek to chic in just one year. After buying a model at Sleeping Beauty Inc. your life will never be the same. But what will happen when the model Harrison buys isn't exactly what he bargained for?
Welcome back to the world of spell books. This time we meet the teenage witches of Emi's old coven: Veda - Deceptively beautiful and deeply complex, she only looks like a porcelain doll. Fair Isle - A steampunk pixie with a dozen holes in her head. Intarsia - Looks like an elf strayed from the greenwood, who just had a meal of moss. Clementine - Would look like a Barbie doll if Barbie had been brutally beaten the night before. Pearl - Straggly and stringing like a rag doll, she looks like she'll never grow up. And... Salinger - who has come from his coven in the Yukon to find the girl of his dreams from among Veda and her cousins. It would be easy to choose, if their cousin, Antony, didn't keep getting in the way.
Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Sections include topics that are familiar to students such as painting, photography and movies, architecture, music, literature, and performance, as well as contemporary subjects such as mass art, popular arts, the aesthetics of the everyday, and the natural environment. Essays are drawn from both the analytic and continental traditions, and multiple others that bridge this divide between these traditions. Throughout, readings are brief, accessible for undergraduates, and conceptually focused, allowing instructors many different syllabi possibilities using only this single volume. Key Additions to the Fourth Edition The fourth edition is expanded to include a total of ninety-six essays with nineteen new essays (nine of them written exclusively for this volume), updated organization into new sections, revised introductions to each section, an increased emphasis on contemporary topics, such as stand-up comedy, the architecture of museums, interactivity and video games, the ethics of sexiness, trans/gendered beauty, the aesthetics of junkyards and street art, pornography, and the inclusion of more diverse philosophical voices. Nevertheless, this edition does not neglect classic writers in the traditional aesthetics: Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Collingwood, Bell, and writers of similar status in aesthetics. The philosophers writing new chapters exclusively for this fourth edition are: • Sondra Bacharach on street art • Aili Bresnahan on appreciating dance • Hina Jamelle on digital architecture • Jason Leddington on magic • Sheila Lintott on stand-up comedy • Yuriko Saito on everyday aesthetics • Larry Shiner on art spectacle museums in the twenty-first century • Peg Brand Weiser on how beauty matters • Edward Winters on the feeling of being at home in vernacular architecture, as in such urban places as bars.
In the sequel to 'His 16th Face', Beth Coldwell could not be more in love with Christian Henderson. If only all the terrible things he warned her about hadn't come true. Now that she is part of his world, she is chained up in a castle on Tombstone Mountain with a steel ring through her ankle. She's alone, except for the visitors that plague her with questions and demands. Where's Christian in all of this? Beth's kidnappers want him as far away from her as possible. How can she escape? The answers lie in the Red Forest... a place that needs a serious makeover.
Leander is in a disgusting situation. Yes, he's a knight. His armor used to be shiny, but now it is coated in green guck as he steps through Spiknit Woods. He's on a mission. What kind of mission? He doesn't exactly know. His quest is to go to a castle on the edge of the domain and do whatever the loyal taxpayers require. Lucky for him, it's to kidnap the Maiden in the red dress. With one eyebrow cocked, there is absolutely nothing Leander cannot do.
Lindsay is done trying to be an actress. That's why she left the city to go to a seaside town to renovate a hotel. Except she's caught between brothers. One is playful and one is a reformed yeti and there are so many other love interests for both of them. Will Lindsay find love?
Can we expect our scientific theories to make up a unified structure, or do they form a kind of "patchwork" whose pieces remain independent from each other? Does the proliferation of sometimes-incompatible representations of the same phenomenon compromise the ability of science to deliver reliable knowledge? Is there a single correct way to classify things that science should try to discover, or is taxonomic pluralism here to stay? These questions are at the heart of philosophical debate on the unity or plurality of science, one of the most central issues in philosophy of science today. This book offers a critical overview and a new structure of this debate. It focuses on the methodological, epistemic, and metaphysical commitments of various philosophical attitudes surrounding monism and pluralism, and offers novel perspectives and pluralist theses on scientific methods and objects, reductionism, plurality of representations, natural kinds, and scientific classifications.
Bart has a two-week dating pattern. He wins them over with dinner dates, evenings out, and lavish experiences, but dumps them at the end of the 14 days. He doesn't mind the mascara smears because they are not on him. What will happen when his driver picks up the wrong girl?
Beth Coldwell should have died. At fourteen years old, she was dying in a hospital bed, when her guardian, Christian Henderson, swept in and turned everything upside down. Years later, she’s alive and well, but she doesn’t know why. Christian did something unthinkable, possibly criminal, to save her life, but what? Beth must pick apart the mystery of why he’s being chased, kidnapped, spied upon, and drugged at every turn. How can she pull down the wall between them so he will welcome her to his world?
Jenna Fairchild should be enjoying her new position as the chair of the Octavian/Adamis Alliance, but she isn't. With the last sound of Sardius' clenched teeth ringing in her ear and the AAMC officers trashing her palace, Jenna flees through midnight waters to Favel's underwater mansion to take refuge. If only her own military wasn't against her! If only she knew if Sardius was alive! If only she knew what she was doing! Join Jenna as she crowns new diplomats, taunts the AAMC, gets new staff, and fights to protect peace in the universe the only way she knows how... By being fabulous!
Juliet Hudson looks like spring. After all, she’s only eighteen years old and attending her first semester of university. Yet, even though Juliet’s eyes are clear and her heart as unspotted as the Virgin Goddess herself, she has her secrets. The least of which is that she loves darkness. Not only does she join an occult club, but she falls head over heels for a man who looks and acts exactly like a vampire. Seth, with his black hair, white skin and three perfect bite marks down the side of his neck. Juliet is convinced he is the vampire of her dreams. It would be perfect if something strange didn’t happen when they kiss. When his lips touch hers, she’s thrown into a world where violence is normal, romance and danger become the same thing, and where a simple kiss can lead to destruction.
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