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Conway Cash is definitely finally ready to settle down, and he has the perfect woman in his sights. The only thing is, he’s dead set against being a father—and Isi Lopez has twin four-year-old boys.When he finds himself roped into babysitting for them, life starts getting complicated! Kids or no, Conway soon discovers he and Isi make a great couple. And hanging around with her kids isn’t so bad—that is, until they beg him to be their new daddy. The pressure is piling up for this formerly...
| Автор | Marin Thomas |
Life’s been full of surprises lately for rancher Garrett Frost – and not in a good way. His mother has just dropped a bombshell about his past, so Garrett takes some time away to come to terms with family secrets.And who should he run into? Arden Cade, the beautiful photographer who shared a single night of passion with Garrett six months ago. He is even more shocked when he discovers she's pregnant–and he's the daddy. To make matters worse, Arden hadn’t even planned on telling Garrett...
| Автор | Tanya Michaels |
He's Just The Hired Help…What kind of cockeyed Pollyanna is Colin Cade working for? Her porch is rotting, her «guest cabin» is cheerless and her land and livestock have only a geriatric cowboy to care for them. Yet Hannah Shaw is positive she can turn her ranch into a successful B and B–and that Colin's the man to make it happen.But Colin can't stick around. He lives with the loss of his family by avoiding the memories, and the way he feels around Hannah and her young son is like...
| Автор | Tanya Michaels |
FALLING IN LOVE IS THE BEST MEDICINE!A summer in Steamboat Springs could be just what the doctor ordered for injured trauma nurse Andrea Caputo . . . especially when she meets her sexy, deeply caring physical therapist. Ryan Bradshaw has a unique, hands’ on approach to healing–inside and out.Ryan was looking for a fresh start in this scenic Colorado town. Now he has a new mission possible. It’s an undeniable thrill taking Andi horseback riding and slow dancing together. Doesn’t this beautiful,...
| Автор | Tracy Madison |
A baby wasn’t in their plans… but that doesn’t stop Logan Daugherty from proposing four months after spending one amazing night with Anna Rockwood. And, when the mother-to-be says yes, the rancher is ready to fulfil his part of the bargain. So why is Logan secretly longing to make their temporary arrangement permanent?The Steamboat Springs baker didn’t expect her homecoming to leave her with a precious gift. But Anna has no illusions about romance and happy endings. Are Anna and Logan ready to...
| Автор | Tracy Madison |
Left hand, ring finger…Best friend Bridgett Owens's gigantic diamond winked at the eldest Deveraux son, Chase, like a coy madam at an old-time bordello. The fun-loving playboy of Charleston, South Carolina, wasn't supposed to go gaga over the grown-up daughter of the family housekeeper. Except welling up in the bachelor's brain were protective, intimate feelings that he just couldn't – didn't want to – discount.But can a man who's definitely not the marrying kind...
| Автор | Cathy Gillen Thacker |
Dr. Gabe Deveraux hated to see any woman cry – especially his good friend Maggie Calloway.So when the feisty designer turned to him with tears in her eyes, needing a strong shoulder to cry on, there was no way the good doctor would turn her away. The cause of her distress: Maggie wanted to have a baby before it was too late! Ever the knight in shining armor, Gabe agreed to help Maggie get pregnant.Only, he had one stipulation – they marry in secret…and conceive the old-fashioned way. But soon...
| Автор | Cathy Gillen Thacker |
Mixing business and pleasure was out of the question for Connor Templeton.Except with Kristy Neumeyer, he was reassessing his options. The spirited widow of twin little girls had her hands full with a ramshackle waterfront resort. But for some reason Connor, the real-estate raider, was helping her restore the building instead of bulldozing it!Could the take-no-prisoners tycoon be assuming the role of chairman of Kristy's family? More important, were Kristy and her girls preparing for a...
| Автор | Cathy Gillen Thacker |
Amy Deveraux's biological clock was tick…tick…ticking!To make matters even worse, she had agreed to look after her three-month-old godson while his mother was out of the country. Except, sharing the baby-sitting responsibilities with Nick Everton – the baby's handsome uncle – wasn't part of the bargain! She and Nick were as different as night and day.But seeing Nick in the role of temporary daddy and spending long days – and nights – playing house with him made Amy yearn to turn...
| Автор | Cathy Gillen Thacker |
This Texas cowboy wants the one woman he can’t have…from USA TODAY bestselling author Kathie DeNosky!Jaron Lambert has his pick of willing women, but he only has eyes for lovely, young Mariah Stanton. For years, he’s tried to stay away. But on one perfect, tender night they set aside their nine-year age difference and indulge in everything they’ve both been wanting.But Jaron is still dealing with the effects of his dark, troubled past. He can’t tell Mariah the truth so he has to tell her their...
| Автор | Kathie DeNosky |
After a wonderful vacation in the Med with her sisters, Piper has come back to reality with a thud.Her sisters are now happily married – so Piper feels a little like the one left on the shelf. Worse, she can't even concentrate on work. All she can think about is a man she'd fallen for in Spain – gorgeous aristocrat Nic de Pastrano…But now it seems that Nic needs her help. In fact, his family's future depends on it. It might be the marriage proposal she was hoping for…but does he...
| Автор | Rebecca Winters |
"The Innocence of Father Brown" by G. K. Chesterton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and...
| Автор | G. K. Chesterton, Gilbert Chesterton |
His unexpected wife!Cristo Ravelli paces the floor of his father’s Irish country estate, ruing the day he heard the Brophy name. That his father died and left a brood of illegitimate children is hardly surprising, but to silence this scandal Cristo must bring their guardian, the enchanting Belle, in line with his plans!Belle Brophy’s only concern is her half-siblings. She’ll do anything to provide them with the security she never had. So when this gorgeous Italian offers marriage she won’t say...
| Автор | Lynne Graham |
First published serially in 1840–41 in Dickens' own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, and in book form in 1841, The Old Curiosity Shop was an immediate popular success. The heart-wrenching story of Little Nell and her doting grandfather offered a rich amalgam of misery and malice, goodness and generosity, love and loyalty — all with a pervading veneer of sentimentality that greatly appealed to Victorian readers.As the story opens up, Nell and her grandfather are...
| Автор | Charles Dickens, Чарльз Диккенс |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.’Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future – one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс |
Marrying the shy princess…When playboy prince Alexandros Sancho discovers he’s inherited his older brother’s betrothed, he’s horrified! Princess Eva Lataiva might be beautiful, but his belief in marriage died with his first love. However, walking down the aisle is his royal duty….unless he can persuade Eva to break the engagement herself?Except Alex’s plan backfires – far from putting her off, he finds himself falling for the warm but shy princess! Now he must convince sweet-hearted Eva he wants...
| Автор | Susan Meier |
Longlisted for 2020 Center for Fiction's First Novel PrizeCorey Sobel challenges tenacious stereotypes in this compelling debut novel, shedding new light on the hypermasculine world of American football. The Redshirt introduces Miles Furling, a young man who is convinced he was placed on earth to play football. Deep in the closet, he sees the sport as a means of gaining a permanent foothold in a culture that would otherwise reject him. Still, Miles's body lags behind his ambitions, and...
| Автор | Corey Sobel |
She was no man magnet.From her Gypsy clothing to her feline fan club to her transparent attempt at seeming helium-headed, Violet Campbell screamed, «Run for your life,» her lucrative lavender fields be damned. But Cameron Lachlan had never wanted to be anywhere…with anyone…more. Somehow, someway, this bewildering lady had transformed his wanderlust to age-old desire.But instead of wanting the moon, which she deserved, Violet seemed to accept that he would leave her bed – and her. Which he might...
| Автор | Jennifer Greene |
Recently burned by heartache, a fierce blizzard and a sexy stranger were exactly what Daisy Campbell needed.When she returned to her hometown and found herself stranded with Teague Larson, she never expected to throw caution – and her clothes – to the wind. But as the intensity of their attraction rose with the falling temperatures, they had to stay warm somehow, didn't they?Teague was deeply drawn to Daisy's independence and sophistication – not to mention those long, sexy-as-all-hell...
| Автор | Jennifer Greene |
Генри Джеймс, Henry Foss James и др.
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.’Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс, Henry Foss James и др. |
Генри Миллер – виднейший представитель экспериментального направления в американской прозе XX века, дерзкий новатор, чьи лучшие произведения долгое время находились под запретом на его родине, мастер исповедально-автобиографического жанра. Скандальную славу принесла ему трилогия, составленная романами «Тропик Рака», «Черная весна» и «Тропик Козерога»: именно эти книги шли к широкому читателю десятилетиями, преодолевая судебные запреты и цензурные рогатки. «Тропик Козерога» – это история любви и...
| Автор | Генри Миллер |
Генри Миллер – виднейший представитель экспериментального направления в американской прозе XX века, дерзкий новатор, чьи лучшие произведения долгое время находились под запретом на его родине, мастер исповедально-автобиографического жанра. Именно «Тропик Рака» и «Черная весна» принесли ему скандальную славу, именно эти романы шли к широкому читателю десятилетиями, преодолевая судебные запреты и цензурные рогатки. Это история любви и ненависти, история творчества и безумия; это история...
| Автор | Генри Миллер |
Originally written in Russian in 1920 and first published in English in 1924, “We” is the dystopian novel by Russian science-fiction writer Yevgeny Zamyatin. “We” takes place hundreds of years into a bleak future, where the citizens live under the total control and surveillance of a police state, called One State. The country is made almost entirely out of glass, which makes it easier for the government to watch every move of its citizens. One State manages all aspects of the society with a...
| Автор | Yevgeny Zamyatin, Евгений Замятин |
Чарльз Буковски – культовый американский писатель, чья европейская популярность всегда обгоняла американскую (в одной Германии прижизненный тираж его книг перевалил за два миллиона), автор более сорока книг, среди которых романы, стихи, эссеистика и рассказы. Несмотря на порою шокирующий натурализм, его тексты полны лиричности, даже своеобразной сентиментальности.
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| Автор | Чарльз Буковски |