From the Heart by Lisa Emme5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() It was like they were meant to be together. It’s just as well, because when Allie starts playing detective, she may find herself in over her head.ĭon't let the sweet cover fool you. When strange things start to happen around town, his protective instinct is sent into high gear. He knows there’s something there, but the reluctant, single mom is going to take some convincing. When Mike first sets eyes on Allie, sparks fly. The small town has a lot to offer – especially after a chance encounter with Allie. Hoping to escape the fast-paced, anonymous life in the city, he’s bought a partnership in the local veterinarian practice. Mike Finn didn’t roll into town on his Harley looking for love he just wants to find a place to call home. The last thing she wants is any more complications. She’s just looking for a safe place to raise her son. After a series of misfortunes, she and her small son have come home to the town she thought she had left behind. ![]() Allie Daniels hopes they are wrong, whoever they are. ![]()
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Letting Go In Bergamo by Daniel Hansen5/30/2023 ![]() They hardly ever ventured beyond their local cafe, Patty’s Bar. Orlandi had a connection to China, his wife seemed befuddled. She didn’t test him for the virus because Italian protocols, adopted from the World Health Organization, recommended testing only people with a link to China, where the outbreak had originated. Orlandi’s symptoms puzzled Monica Avogadri, the 55-year-old anesthesiologist who treated him at Pesenti Fenaroli Hospital. Italy had not recorded a single domestic coronavirus case, but Mr. Two days later, an ambulance brought the 83-year-old back. But a Times investigation found that faulty guidance and bureaucratic delays rendered the toll far worse than it had to be.īERGAMO, Italy - When Franco Orlandi, a usually hale former truck driver, arrived in mid-February with a cough and fever at an emergency room in the northern Italian province of Bergamo, doctors determined that he had a flu and sent him home. ![]() The northern Italian province became one of the deadliest killing fields for the virus in the Western world. ![]() Rescue Me by Susan May Warren5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Sam’s brother Pete, also a member of the PEAK Rescue squad, has always been the wild one. Despite Sam and Willow’s best efforts to avoid each other, they are put together as leaders on a youth-group trek into the mountains where nothing goes as planned. ![]() When he kisses Sierra’s younger sister, Willow, by mistake, things get messy in a hurry. He’s also on a mission to keep Sierra Rose from ending their tenuous relationship. Cool, calm, and always in control, he is determined to do the rescuing whenever anyone is in trouble-in the mountains or otherwise. Deputy Sam Brooks works on the Mercy Falls Sheriff’s Department and for PEAK Rescue. ![]() In this follow-up to Wild Montana Skies, Susan May Warren shines the spotlight on two couples in which both partners long to be together but are fighting their feelings due to complicated circumstances. ![]() Samarkand maalouf5/30/2023 ![]() His final day as CEO will be 30 June, after which he will remain available to support and advise the business until the end of 2023. Keith intends to return with his family to the US. InterContinental Hotels Group (“IHG”) today announces that Keith Barr has informed the Board of his decision to step down from his role as Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and from the IHG Board.
Keeper Of The Heart by Johanna Lindsey5/30/2023 ![]() Now, to avoid falling into a ruthless nobleman’s trap, Julia must enter a risky, intimate charade with a man she never believed she could love. Charmed by a masked Frenchman who gives her her first kiss, she can’t help but pursue this mysterious man-until she makes a shocking discovery. Thrilled that her solicitors have finally come up with a way to free her from her betrothal contract to the Earl of Manford’s son who abandoned her years ago, heiress Julia Miller is ready for the marriage mart and hopes to find that perfect someone at her friend Georgina’s ball. ![]() But his reckless attempt to woo Georgina at a masked ball turns out to be the worst mistake of his life because it brings him face to face with another beautiful woman. ![]() ![]() When he slips back into England to carry out an urgent task, Richard becomes infatuated with a married woman, Georgina Malory. Determined to live his own life, he took to the sea and settled in the Caribbean, joining a band of treasure-hunting pirates and adopting the persona of a carefree, seductive Frenchman named Jean Paul to guard the secrets of his past. Nine years ago, Richard Allen fled England and his controlling father. ![]() ![]() The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. ![]() “Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” The bestselling poet and author of the “powerful” (People) and “luminous” ( Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age. ![]() Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Good Housekeeping, Goodreads, Zibby Mag, Newsweek, BookPage, and LitHub ![]() “This book is extraordinary.” -Ann Patchett ![]() Thief cassie mint epub5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() He gave me a job and put a roof over my head. ![]() And he runs the North Pole, not a whisky-soaked bar. He’s generous and kind, and he always knows when we’ve been bad.īut the storybook Santa rides a sleigh, not a motorbike. Jack is burly and bearded, with silver in his hair. But the truth is, I’d die to sit on his knee. Santa Baby - We’re messing around when we call our boss Santa. That’s all I need to last.Ī few more days in his good graces-and out of his bed. Worst of all, he’s starting to suspect.Ī few more days. He’s stern, impossible to please, and distractingly handsome. Clean his room and keep up the ruse until his fancy car is fixed and he can drive off into the sunset. How hard can it be to take care of a guest? ![]() My honey has barely sold, and the bills are piling up. Pit Stop - This grumpy billionaire has mistaken my house for a hotel. Suddenly more than anything, I wish this wedding was real. He takes me over, body and soul, with barely a glance. The plan works perfectly, except for one thing-the Fox is the most handsome man I’ve ever seen. With one harmless switch, she can avoid this wedding. When the Fox demands my sister as payment, we hatch a plan. He demands the one thing my father loves: my twin sister as a bride.Īs far as the world is concerned, I died eleven years ago. Swapped Bride - My father has wronged a powerful man. She writes outrageous, OTT instalove with tons of sugar and steam! Overview: Cassie Mint is a romance author with her head firmly in the clouds. Requirements: epub/azw3/mobi reader, 9 mb 930 kb ![]() ![]() ![]() Every man she dates ultimately leaves her aching for the gentle comfort and intimacy she shares with him. Against her better judgment, and pleas from family and friends, Patty refuses to give up on Ethan. ![]() There's just one small problem: He is also gay. Will she find Mr Right and start a family? But Patty is in love - with a man who is not only attractive and financially sound, but sensitive and warmhearted. Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Every man she dates ultimately leaves her aching for the gentle comfort and intimacy she shares. ![]() Doomsday book willis5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() What meaning do they add to the narrative? Bells are a constant in the book, both in 2054 and the 1300s.What are your impressions of how historians are going about the study of history in 2054? How do you feel about the addition of the scientific method?.Here are our topics to begin our conversation: ![]() ![]() The guidelines above are in effect there too. There are also some additional topics that I’ll be putting up over at our Facebook Group, Cannonball Read Book Chat, throughout the course of the afternoon if you feel like chatting there as well. Not that I’m expecting to need to, but be warned that I retain the right to delete any comments which go beyond the normal civil banter we have here at Cannonball Read.Please reference the topic number you are responding to (if you are) so other Book Clubbers can hunt up the topics they want to discuss with you. ![]() The goal around here is to have a conversation, so do try to keep the thoughts flowing and give your fellow readers something to respond to.
![]() ![]() By 2006, with over 58 Million copies of her books have been sold worldwide, with translations appearing in 12 languages, Johanna Lindsey is one of the world's most popular authors of historical romance. Johanna Lindsey wrote her first book, Captive Bride in 1977 "on a whim", and the book was a success. After her husband's death, Johanna moved to Maine, New England, to stay near her family. The marriage had three children Alfred, Joseph and Garret, who already have made her a grandmother. In 1970, when she was still in school, she married Ralph Lindsey, becoming a young housewife. Her father always dreamed of retiring to Hawaii, and after he passed away in 1964 Johanna and her mother settled there to honor him. The family moved about a great deal when she was young. Johanna Helen Howard was born on Main Germany, where her father, Edwin Dennis Howard, a soldier in the U.S. ![]() |