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Off the court, tennis star Jason Cartwright's playboy image is taking a public beating. On the court, he's down 40-love. A knee injury is shutting down his game, and the paparazzi are splashing his love life on every magazine. A comeback is in order, but the makeover he needs to save his faltering career is in the hands of the woman he loved and left 15 years ago. While single-mom Izzy Connors sees people for who they really are through the lens of her camera, even without it, she knows Jason isn't the star he appears to be.

Money, power, prestige...reject. Ransom Cox is - The Player. His whole life, hockey player, Ransom Cox, has watched the people he loves the most reject and leave him. He's learned it's better to be on his own. After the scandal of his wife walking out on him right before the championships, citing his bedroom "over" prowess as the reason, he can't seem to escape the spotlight. The last thing he wants is to be stranded in a cabin with the one girl he's always wanted. The one girl who could destroy him.

Smart mouthed and in charge, magazine editor, Micha Bennett, has learned the hard way to choose her career over love. When she's up for the job of a lifetime, the competition becomes deadly fierce. To protect their best asset, her company hires the one person who's ever put Micha on edge and threatens her sense of control. Sexy, security consultant, Caleb Atkins, knows what he wants and it's Micha Bennett. He just has to convince her that she wants him too.

I have a dirty mouth. That's the truth. Women love it. And I have no plans on changing. Why would I? I like my life. The women, the partying, the fun. Until I meet my new neighbor. She's messing with my good thing. She's annoying, and persistent, and a pain in the . . . well you get the idea. She's also gorgeous, and smart . . . and completely immune to me. And now she needs my help with a little Ex payback and I'm more than happy to lend my expertise.

In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti's virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre.

The stories that you will hear in this collection highlight all things Accra, everything that the city was and is - the remaining vestiges of colonialism, the pride of independence, the nexus of indigenous tribes and other groups from all over the world, the tension between modernity and traditionalism, the symbolism and storytelling both obvious and coded, the moral high ground, the duplicity and deceit, the most basic human failings laid bare alongside fear and love and pain, and the corrupting desire to have the very things you are not meant to have.

Money, power, prestige...trouble. Dax Coulter is The Player. Forget prodigal son, forget black sheep. Most of the Coulter family would just as soon disown Dax for his bad boy, womanizing ways. But, with his career in jeopardy and the Coulter legacy on the line, he needs to turn it all around. Too bad the one person who can help him has legs for miles, curves for days...and is his best friend's little sister. For once he can focus on the game and not on her body, right?

Nach einem Schiffbruch strandet ein intelligenter Roboter namens Roz auf einer unbewohnten Insel. Er muss sich an die raue Umgebung anpassen. Doch die tierischen Inselbewohner scheuen die Anwesenheit des Neuankömmlings und fürchten sich vor ihm. Doch als er ein verwaistes Gänseküken findet, bekommt das Dasein des Roboters eine neue Berechtigung. Fortan kümmert er sich aufopferungsvoll um sein Ziehkind und versucht, ihm mit Überlebenstipps zur Seite zu stehen.

Ana Flor é uma jovem romântica que sonha encontrar seu príncipe encantado e viver feliz para sempre. Sempre tida como aérea, sem namoros sérios, cede aos avanços de Vítor e acabam ficando noivos. É então que ao ver uma foto do primo de Vítor, se apaixona no primeiro instante. Quando conhece João Pedro Valente, seu mundo vira do avesso. Virgem e sonhadora, abre mão de tudo por ele, sem imaginar que em vez de encantado, trata-se de um homem sombrio, cheio de traumas, pornográfico, que pratica sexo pesado.

Yeah, I'm trouble . . . so what? Women seem to like it. That and my big . . . bank account. Who am I kidding? They like what I can do with my tongue too. I had a good thing going. Until my father threatened to cut me off if I didn't settle down. So I picked the one woman he couldn't object to. Falling for her was never part of the plan.

Chronic list-making, event planner, Jaya Trudeaux Westhorpe, envisioned a fairytale ending once she married hotel magnate, Alec Westhorpe - complete with a steamy, extended honeymoon and an eventual family. What she didn't expect was a baby on their doorstep and a family-phobic husband. When reformed playboy, Alec Danthers Westhorpe, married the woman of his dreams, he thought he'd finally found his happy ending. But a long-hidden secret threatens to jeopardize what he holds most dear.

This book contains fiction and nonfiction book samples and summaries. Best-Selling Books; Inspiring Stories; Thought-Provoking Proverbs; Intriguing Quotes; Dramatic Poems; Insightful Articles; and Heart Warming Speeches from African Writers.These are great minds reaching out to the world with their depth thoughts and feelings from the proud African continent. This book is like having a conversation with the great African writers such as Chinua Achebe, Adwoa Badoe, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ama Ata Aidoo, Atukwei Okai and many more. A mega compilation of fiction and non-fiction books, stories, ...

Luísa Marilac nasceu em Minas Gerais e assumiu-se travesti aos 17 anos. Além dos tradicionais traumas associados à transição de gênero em uma família conservadora e de classe baixa, levou sete facadas aos 16 anos, foi vítima de tráfico sexual na Europa, prostituiu-se, foi estuprada e presa mais de uma vez. Alçou-se à fama depois que viralizou no YouTube um vídeo seu com o bordão "E disseram que eu estava na pior".

I've wasted years waiting to get my life back, and I finally have an opportunity. It's a simple undercover job-but with a catch. A thirteen month-old, crying, diaper-wearing catch. Because I'm not going undercover as a cook, or a driver. I'm the new manny. If it will get me back in the royal family's good graces, I'll grin and bear it. Even on the worst days, I know this will be worth it. I'll keep my head down and do my job. But it's getting harder and harder to ignore my forbidden attraction to the baby's mother.

Ofoufouk est une petite chauve-souris qui se sent seule dans sa jungle, son village. Il rêve de trouver un ami qui le comprenne et partage son amour pour la nuit. Par hasard, Ofoufouk rencontre Nyam, le soleil, et ils deviennent rapidement amis, passant leurs journées à jouer ensemble. Mais lorsque la mère d'Ofoufouk tombe gravement malade et décède, il se retrouve à nouveau seul et triste. C'est alors qu'il rencontre Mawee, la lune. Elle lui montre que, même dans les moments les plus sombres, l'amitié peut apporter du réconfort.

I'm no knight in shining armor. My suit is tarnished. It was a mistake to lie to Neela, but I had no choice. Protecting her and her baby has become more than a job to me. It's personal. But she'll never trust me again now—and I can't blame her. Our relationship was a house of cards that came tumbling down when she discovered the truth. Luckily for me, she can't fire me. We're stuck together, at least for as long as the threat remains. And I plan to use every second to convince her we belong together.

Oi, eu sou a Nana. Aqui a gente conversa sobre um bando de coisa, às vezes sozinhos, às vezes com mais gente. Sempre buscando enxergar novos pontos de vista, como enxergamos quando brincamos com as palavras de um anagrama.

FBI Agent Dylan Donovan is a man with a plan. Or at least he was. He had the girl, the job, the family until a split-second decision to trade one life for another turned his whole world upside down. With nothing left to lose, he's ready to course correct...until he's assigned to protect the impetuous and free-spirited Serafina Justice. Sera is off men. With an overbearing mother and a bad-news ex-boyfriend, all the lifestyle brand manager wants to do is focus on her job.

Anything can be fixed with a little Duct Tape and sass... At least that's what celebrity fixer, Delilah Donovan, used to think. She prides herself on being able to handle anything. But when she's asked to fix the new CEO of Synth Games, she never dreams she'll come face to face with the only man to ever break her heart. The past can't always be fixed... When a friend calls in a long ago favor, reformed hacker, Nate Williams, worries that his shady past will come back to haunt him.

Club owner Serena Bennet has been in love with Tyson Leigh for years. Too bad he sees her only as his best friend's kid sister. She's never had a problem getting what she wants, but when it comes Tyson, she morphs into a clumsy mess. All she wants is for him to see her as more than his best friend's sister. Good thing her cousin, Micha, has just the cure. Nothing a killer pair of stilettos and a little sass can't fix.