![]() ![]() Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author "Adorable and steamy fun filled with Gilmore Girls vibes." * content warnings: alcoholism, parental estrangement, homelessness Add on Goodreads But will following her heart mean losing her chance to break into the big time? Suddenly Adi has to wonder if maybe TV got it all wrong after all. ![]() The only upside is Finn Adams, who’s more mouthwatering than the homemade cherry pie Adi can’t seem to find-even if he does work for the company she’d hoped to bring down. Only Pleasant Hollow isn’t exactly “pleasant.” There’s no charming bakery, no quaint seasonal festivals, and the residents are more ambivalent than welcoming. ![]() and maybe even find her dream man in the process. ![]() So when a big-city real estate magnate targets tiny Pleasant Hollow for development, Adi knows she’s found the perfect story-one that will earn her a position at a coveted online magazine, so she can finally start adulting for real. If she’s learned anything from made-for-TV romance movies, it’s that she’ll find love in a small town-the kind with harvest festivals, delightful but quirky characters, and scores of delectable single dudes. Fans of the Hallmark Channel and Gilmore Girls will adore this delightful rom‑com about a city girl who goes in search of small-town happiness, only to discover life-and love-are nothing like the TV movies.Įmerging journalist Adina Gellar is done with dating in New York City. ![]()
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They’re sitting in a Plexiglas box, and I slide my papers back to her through a slot in the wall. “He goes to a special school,” one of the office ladies explains to the other when I leave. All summer long, we’re not even allowed to walk to Tescos without a chaperone and permission from the Queen-then, in the autumn, I just sign myself out of the children’s home and go. There’s always a fuss over my paperwork when I leave. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tharoor has written numerous books in English. He has also served as a trustee of the Aspen Institute, and the Advisory of the Indo-American Arts Council, the American India Foundation, the World Policy Journal, the Virtue Foundation and the human rights organization Breakthrough He is also a Patron of the Dubai Modern High School and the managing trustee of the Chandran Tharoor Foundation which he founded with his family and friends in the name of his late father, Chandran Tharoor. He is also an adviser to the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva and a Fellow of the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. ![]() He has served on the Board of Overseers of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He is also a prolific author, columnist, journalist and a human rights advocate. ![]() He previously served as the United Nations Under-Secretary General for Communications and Public Information and as the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs. ![]() Shashi Tharoor is a member of the Indian Parliament from the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. ![]() ![]() After high-powered politician Bridget O’Keefe sweeps. Is it just a meaningless night of passion, nothing more? Because there’s absolutely no way ambitious, beautiful Bridget wants anything more from Emma. by Liz Rain ( 471 ) £7.99 £11.99 When your new boss is hot as hell, what hope is there for a poor lovestruck office worker A light-hearted, age-gap lesbian office romance with sexual tension leading the polls. There’s a lot for Emma to wrap her mind around, even as her body loves wrapping itself around Bridget’s curves. In Episode 24, Season 4 of Ravage Love we discuss the Queens death, Chuck Bucks, and spicy Prime Ministers. ![]() ![]() A political scandal leads to a fall from grace and Emma suddenly finds herself the one Bridget turns to for comfort. Yes, she knows she’s an idiot because unrequited lust at work is a terrible idea. Hapless, hopeless Emma is smacked with an instant crush on the polished woman who’s her new boss…her hot, untouchable, straight boss. Perks of Office by Liz Rain ( 119 ) 6.99 When your new boss is hot as hell, what hope is there for a poor lovestruck office worker A light-hearted, age-gap lesbian office romance with sexual tension leading the polls. ![]() When your new boss is hot as hell, what hope is there for a poor lovestruck office worker? A light-hearted, age-gap lesbian office romance with sexual tension leading the polls.Īfter high-powered politician Bridget O’Keefe sweeps into the uninspiring life of Australian electorate officer Emma Ives, nothing is the same again. Perks of Office by Liz Rain – Free eBooks Download ![]() ![]() ![]() The bag was full of money and Charlotte wasn't her real name. on her death Sophie comes it to try and find an address book in order to contact Charlotte's next of kin and finds a whole new side of her find that she knew nothing about. The day before Charlotte Crocker, Henley Colleges librarian gives Sophie her gym bag to look after so it is not sat in the car all day in a bad part of town. ![]() Why well do you know the people around you? It turns out not vey well for Professor Sophie Knowles when a lady she called a very close friend is murdered. The mystery was interesting and did keep me guessing. I think I probably enjoyed this more than the first one because I knew more about the charters who are likeable and I liked the unusual job of the main characters boyfriend, It is nice that he is not a policeman and always telling her to but out not to say that there isn't one but still. This is book two and you don't ned to have read the first book to enjoy this one because each book is a stand alone. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed this is a nice easy and fun murder mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His non-fiction works include Charleston: City of Memory (with photographs by N. Harlan Greene is author of the novels Why We Never Danced the Charleston, What the Dead Remember and The German Officer’s Boy. This cult classic, set in the most intriguing period of one of America's most beautiful cities, is now restored to print with an afterword by its author that traces the facts upon which it is based. Told in intoxicatingly beautiful prose, this story of passion, beauty and the deadly effects of sexual repression takes us to a specific time and place, yet simultaneously blossoms as a universal tale of the human heart in conflict with its era. As an old man confronts those demanding the truth, we catch brilliant flashes of the confrontation between the dark, doomed Hirsch Hess, son of immigrants, and the fantastically ethereal Ned Grimke, a scion of the city. ![]() ![]() Years later, whispers emerge of something baffling and tragic that happened back then. The scene is Charleston, South Carolina the time, the 1920s, when old ladies dream of the past and a strange new dance, "the Charleston," is seducing the youth of the city. ![]() ![]() ![]() Best of all, she kept the stairs spotlessly clean and the outside world at bay. Nevertheless, her tales harmed no one and she was entertaining. Chatterjee believes she simply mourns her family and wraps herself in illusion. Dalal of the third floor can’t fathom how a landowner ends up sweeping stairs, wives think she is the victim of changing times, Mr. Each resident of the building had a different interpretation of her tales. But her tales were so impassioned that no one could dismiss her outright. The details of her journey across the border shift in each retelling. Each litany ends with the same phrase, “Believe me, don’t believe me.” She chronicles the easier times in her life, the feasts and servants and marble floor of her home. ![]() Tied to the end of her sari is a set of skeleton keys belonging to coffer boxes that housed her valuables. She was separated from her husband, two daughters, and home. As she sweeps, her raspy voice details the losses she has suffered because of Partition. Each day, she trudges up the stairs, lugging her reed broom and flimsy mattress behind her. Boori Ma, an increasingly frail 64-year-old woman, is the durwan (live-in doorkeeper) to an apartment building of Calcutta. ![]() ![]() ![]() They slaughter orcs and avoid Nudin the Knowledge-Lusty (Nôdʼonn the Doublefold), a magus who has fallen under the spell of The Perished Land (the evil spirit of Girdlegard). Along the way he meets Boïndil Doubleblade and Boëndal Hookhand, two secondling twins, who lead him to Ogreʼs Death, a fortress in their kingdom. Tungdil's "foster father", the venerable magus Lot-Ionan, sends him on an errand to return some artifacts to one of his former pupils and travel to the secondling dwarf kingdom. These realms, rich in magical energy forcefields, are ruled by magi, while other lands are ruled by the kings and queens of Girdlegard. Tungdil Goldhand, a young blacksmith, is the only dwarf in Ionandar, one of Girdlegard's five enchanted realms. A video game named The Dwarves, developed by King Art Games, is based on the first book it was funded through Kickstarter. The book was originally written in English and German. The story follows an orphan dwarf by the name of Tungdil Goldhand who is raised by humans. The Dwarves (German: Die Zwerge) is the first novel in the eponymous high fantasy series The Dwarves by German fantasy author Markus Heitz. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With nothing to lose, he took it, and went from drinking coffee in a Brooks Brothers suit to serving it in a green uniform. One day as Gill sat in a Manhattan Starbucks with his last affordable luxury-a latté-brooding about his misfortune and quickly dwindling list of options, a 28-year-old Starbucks manager named Crystal Thompson approached him, half joking, to offer him a job. Gill had no money, no health insurance, and no prospects. Around the same time, his girlfriend gave birth to a son. Then, he was diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, prognosis undetermined. Next, an affair ended his twenty-year marriage. By the time he turned sixty, he had lost everything except his Ivy League education and his sense of entitlement. In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a big house in the suburbs, a loving family, and a top job at an ad agency with a six-figure salary. ![]() ![]() ![]() The British East India Company, a trading company, invaded and destroyed the Indian civilization of which Durant was so astonished and outraged. Insights from Chapter 9 Insights from Chapter 1 Insights on Shashi Tharoor's Inglorious Empire It conquered and absorbed a number of states, and imposed executive authority through a series of high-born governors-general appointed from London. ![]() #4 The East India Company, with an army of 260,000 men at the start of the nineteenth century, extended its control over most of India. The first British ambassador, Sir Thomas Roe, presented his credentials in 1615 at the court of the Mughal Emperor, Jehangir, but the empire was collapsed within a century and a half. ![]() #3 The East India Company was a British company that was established to trade in silk and spices, but it ended up trading in conquest as well. They displaced nawabs and maharajas for a price, and took over their states through various methods. #2 The British East India Company subjugated a vast land through the power of their artillery and the cynicism of their amorality. They were carelessly destructive of art and greedy for gain. #1 The British East India Company, a trading company, invaded and destroyed the Indian civilization of which Durant was so astonished and outraged. ![]() Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. ![]() |