![]() Luke’s loved Brooke for eight long years at this point. Luke is her billionaire best friend and is determined to break every single one of them. Brooke is a professional matchmaker that has strict rules for her own love life. “Miss Match” is the first novel in the “No Match For Love” series and was released in the year 2015. ![]() She’s married to her own Prince Charming, and they are happily married and raising precocious twin boys in the Rocky Mountains. She graduated wit a BS degree in history education from Utah Valley University. She is a firm believer in sigh-worthy kisses and happily ever afters, and loves expressing all of this in her writing. Like any true romantic, she loves ice cream, chick flicks, and chocolate. She writes flirty and fun romantic comedies, along with heartfelt women’s fiction which makes for perfect book club reads. ![]() Lindzee Armstrong is an award-winning author and USA Today bestseller that is best known for her #1 Amazon bestselling “No Match for Love” series, following the clients and matchmakers of Toujour on their journeys to love. ![]()
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![]() Helen resents the fact that she has to give up her bedroom for him, but he surprises her one day during her favorite activity, and she realizes that there is much they can learn from each other.īlack, White, Just Right!, by Marguerite Davol Helen’s grandfather has come from China to live with her family in the United States. This book features an African-American mother and a white father. But Grandmother manages to find the perfect solution. Molly is very excited about taking dance lessons, but she’s disappointed to learn that she will not be permitted to wear her grandmother’s silver dancing shoes to class. The Ahlbergs have managed to capture all of the energy and enthusiasm of this special occasion in their depiction of a multiracial kindergarten class. One of the most exciting days in a child’s life is the first day of kindergarten. ![]() ![]() Starting School, by Janet and Allan Ahlberg ![]() This delightful book was one of the first children’s books of its kind, offering readers a peek into a day in the life of a multiracial family. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to achieve this he embarked on a long journey in pursuit of self-knowledge. It slowly became clear that in order to reach a higher level of success and meaning he would need to reconcile his internal desires, his most important relationships, and the external signifiers of success. At the top of the world, he nonetheless felt adrift from his family and his own internal compass. ![]() More than a memoir, WILL is a rich meditation on living a fulfilled, fruitful life that is chock full of hard-won wisdom and insight.Īt the peak of his success coming off an unprecedented tear of box office successes, Will Smith found himself in an odd position. But despite his prominence, do we really know him? In this eye opening book, the Hollywood star opens up about his ascent to fame and how he came to reassess what was most important and central to his life. One of our most dazzling, mercurial stars, he rose to rapid fame first as a rapper and then the star of hit show The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, and has stayed in the public eye since. Nothing about the career of Will Smith was inevitable. ![]() ![]() While historical romance novels are certainly nothing new in the world of literature, what is a lot rarer is finding an author who can balance an educated awareness of the context they are writing in, and a gripping romantic narrative that captivates the reader’s attention, which is why Courtney Milan is so beloved. The most recent of which is “Trade Me” which was released in 2015 and has already been praised as one of her finest works to date. While Milan is most well known for her historical pieces including some of her most famous books such as Unveiled and Unlocked which are part of her Victorian Turner series, she has also dabbled in more modern romance stories recently in her Cyclone series of books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Suddenly their rivalry is starting to feel like an actual rom-com. until a real-life plot twist unfolds behind the camera when Emma and Sophia start seeing each other through a different lens. The movie is doomed before they even start shooting. ![]() Forget starry-eyed romance, Sophia knows what will win: an artistic film with a message.Ĭue the drama. She’s big into boycotts, namely 1) relationships, 2) teen boys and their BO (reason #2347683 she’s a lesbian), and 3) Emma’s nauseating ideas. She loves a meet-cute Netflix movie, her pet, Lady Catulet, and dreaming up the Gay Rom Com of her heart for the film festival competition she and her friends are entering. and finding out that real life romance is better than anything on screen.Įmma is a die-hard romantic. ![]() Underlined Paperbacks / Penguin Random HouseĪ sweet and funny debut novel about falling for someone when you least expect it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the midst of the storm, sparks begin to fly between Maddy and Gram's maddening neighbor, Connor Murphy.Īs the sisters pack up the family belongings, memories of idyllic, slow-paced summers are resurrected. Being with uptight Nora and free-spirited Emma at the place where their family broke apart is a struggle, and undercurrents of jealousy and resentment threaten to pull the sisters under. When her grandmother goes missing, she and her estranged sisters converge at the family beach house in Sea Haven, North Carolina. ![]() From the bestselling author of The Convenient Groom (now a beloved Hallmark Original movie) comes a heartfelt story of family secrets, forgiveness, and unexpected romance.įollowing a painful betrayal, Maddy Monroe's love life is a wreck, and her restaurant career is in shambles. ![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the latest research, The End of Procrastination synthesizes over one hundred scientific studies to create a program that is based on the way our brains actually work. ![]() With eight clear, approachable tools-from quick daily worksheets to shift your perspective to to-do lists that actually help you get things done- The End of Procrastination provides everything you need to change the way you manage your time and live your life. The keys to overcoming procrastination are simple. Author Petr Ludwig shows that ending procrastination is more than a wise time management strategy- it’s essential to developing a sense of purpose and leading a happier more fulfilled life. The End of Procrastination tackles this ubiquitous issue head on, helping you stop putting off work and reclaim your time. Simple, science-based tools to stop procrastination Even with overflowing inboxes, thousands of unread notifications, and unmet deadlines, most people still can’t manage to take control of their time and stop procrastinating. ![]() ![]() At 18, Briony understands and regrets her crime: it is the touchstone event of her life, and she yearns for atonement. ![]() A few years later, we see a wounded and feverish Robbie stumbling across the French countryside in retreat with the rest of the British forces at Dunkirk, while in London Briony and Cecilia, long estranged, have joined the regiment of nurses who treat broken men back from war. She witnesses an angry, erotic encounter between her sister and Robbie, sees an improper note, and later finds them hungrily coupling misunderstanding all of it, when a visiting cousin is sexually assaulted, Briony falsely brings blame to bear on Robbie, setting the course for all their lives. Briony is a penetrating look at the nascent artist, vain and inspired, her imagination seizing on everything that comes her way to create stories, numinous but still childish. ![]() In the first, longest, and most compelling of four parts, McEwan (the Booker-winning Amsterdam, 1998) captures the inner lives of three characters in a moment in 1935: upper-class 13-year-old Briony Tallis her 18-year-old sister, Cecilia and Robbie Turner, son of the family’s charlady, whose Cambridge education has been subsidized by their father. McEwan’s latest, both powerful and equisite, considers the making of a writer, the dangers and rewards of imagination, and the juncture between innocence and awareness, all set against the late afternoon of an England soon to disappear. ![]() ![]() ![]() The alien ship eventually declares its presence by shining a laser upon several Millenarian Maths (the bastions of those avout who have taken a thousand-year vow of isolation). The presence of the alien ship soon becomes an open secret among many of the avout at Saunt Edhar. Erasmas becomes aware of Orolo's discovery after Orolo is banished (in a rite called Anathem) from the concent for using a video camera (a forbidden technology) to observe the ship. His teacher, Fraa Orolo, discovers that an alien spacecraft is orbiting Arbre – a fact that the world government ( Sæcular Power) attempts to cover up. The narrator and protagonist, Fraa Erasmas, is an avout at the Concent of Saunt Edhar. The avout are normally allowed to communicate with people outside the walls of the concent only once every year, decade, century, or millennium, depending on the particular vows they have taken. ![]() ![]() The avout (intellectuals separated from Sæcular society) are banned from possessing or operating most advanced technology and are supervised by the Inquisition, which answers to the outside world. Thousands of years before the events in the novel, the planet's intellectuals entered concents (monastic communities) to protect their activities from the collapse of society. Anathem is set on the fictional planet of Arbre. ![]() ![]() ![]() Narrated by Hoid, a character well-known for his storytelling acumen, the book just reaches a new high with his witty humor, personal interjections, and the ability to use whimsy to tell a story to keep the audience gripped. While the book has Brandon's hallmark key strengths, we get to see him tackle a different side of prose than the one we usually see him using for most of his stories. In fact, the narrator's funny quips usually interjected within brackets reminded me greatly of the footnotes in the Discworld books. I have been on a Discworld binge recently, and I could see some glimpses of Pratchett-Esque humor in the story. It has been years since I last read or watches Stardust, but the whimsical nature of this story greatly reminded me of it. It starts a bit like The Princess Bride but then undergoes a role reversal, which Sanderson confesses in the postscript to be his intention while writing this story. This book feels as if it is the lovechild of 'The Princess Bride' and 'Stardust'. I went in blind and was pleasantly surprised with what the book had to offer. Although I knew its name, I had refrained from reading the preview chapters when Sanderson released them earlier last year. 'Tress of the Emerald Sea', also dubbed as Secret Project #1, marks the beginning of the Year of the Sanderson. ![]() |