Glass artist Savannah Smith expected a marriage proposal for Thanksgiving—just not from her strong, silent, super-hot neighbor. But when misplaced mail and a wayward can of paint lands them in a compromising position right as her family arrives for dinner, they assume he’s “The One” she’s been talking about.Then his family shows up.Fate dealt a crippling blow to paramedic Beau Montgomery’s heart, and he isn’t about to put it at risk again. Except, with his mother crying tea...

The last thing Laura wants is a relationship.The only thing Austin needs is his independence.Sometimes love sneaks up on you when you least expect it.Austin's car accident shattered his life and his leg. His main focus is on proving his independence. Figuring out how to shut up the new voices in his head would be an added bonus. They like to converse at the most inopportune times.Laura's built a wall around ...

Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students who, seeking truth in great literature, find each other instead. Like all young couples, they lie to each other, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story as if it's one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow each other throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafic...

This is a brilliant study of the nature of love in modern society. Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim argue that the nature of love is changing fundamentally, creating opportunities for democracy or chaos in personal life.

In this book you will get the 10 Insider IELTS tricks that more than 500 students have already used to score their 7 or higher on IELTS.This book is for the student who is stuck at a band score of 6 or 6.5 and is ready to move to a 7 or higher. Our tricks show you exactly what you need to do to increase your score on the Academic or the General Exam. Every trick is directly linked to the way the examiner grades your exam.You'll learn:* Why you must have an overall tr...

Many people wonder how they got where they are and what they should do now. They feel called to help others and change the world but they just don't know how. Too often, they end up stuck in careers and relationships that don't fit. Now, in Finding Your Way In A Wild New World, popular life coach Martha Beck shows readers how to find their true selves and extend healing to everyone and everything around them. She identifies this growing body of people as wayfinders.Drawing...

Become the applicant Google can't turn downCracking the Tech Career is the job seeker's guide to landing a coveted position at one of the top tech firms. A follow-up to The Google Resume, this book provides new information on what these companies want, and how to show them you have what it takes to succeed in the role. Early planners will learn what to study, and established professionals will discover how to make their skillset and experience set...

*2026 National Indie Excellence Award winner for Romantic Comedy*Welcome to the Misty Meadow Inn. Come for the matchmaking and memories. Stay for the hauntings and hijinx.Maya Richards is up to her eyeballs in problems. Not only is the current crop of singles attending her inn’s week-long matchmaking event shaping up to be a doozy—who brings a taxidermied cat and a sock puppet to a matchmaking event?—but the new guest is trouble with a capital T.Dav...

**Brought to you by Penguin.A piercing story of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers**Marianne Clifford, 15, only child of a peppery army colonel and his vain wife, Lal, falls helplessly and absolutely for Simon Hurst, 18, whose cleverness and physical beauty suggest that he will go forward into a successful and monied future, helped on by doting parents. But fate intervenes. Simon's plans are blown off course, and Marianne is forced to ...

She was a broken angel that had the light beat right out of her.He was the man responsible for her life, her protector …He never expected to fall for the fragile woman, with soft eyes, and lips that begged to be kissed.He knew what she saw when she looked at him, a ruthless fighter, a man with a broken past, too far gone to be reached, sinking deeper and deeper into the darkness.Still, somehow her light reached him, the innocence inside her called to him and...

I had a plan. It was simple. Find my sister, bring her home, and then disappear where no one could find us—especially him.But you know what they say about plans? They have a tendency to go awry, like a train off the tracks barrelling in the wrong direction… toward the wrong people.That's what happened. Them. Jericho. Sheppard. Arrow. The mafia heir and his two best friends. They came into my life with obsession bleeding through their veins, and the only per...

In the footsteps of Charles Bukowski comes Hosho McCreesh's magnum opus of drunk poetry. Mammoth in size and scope, DrunkSkull books is pleased to release the audiobook version of A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst, a drunken, epic collection about death and love that is unlike any of McCreesh's previous work."Because writing and drinking go hand in hand, it may seem an impossible challenge for a poet to offer new perspective of this well-worn, symbiotic relationship. But Hosho Mc...