![]() ![]() A marriage could be mutually beneficial, if they can fool everyone into thinking it’s a love match. Gemma needs a wife to meet the terms of her grandfather’s will and Tansy needs money to save her struggling bookstore. When Gemma discovers a beautiful stranger has been pretending to date her for months, she decides to take the charade one step further-and announces their engagement. But the title comes with one tiny condition: she must be married in order to inherit. ![]() Gemma van Dalen is a wild child, the outcast of her wealthy family, and now the latest heir to Van Dalen Publishing. They’ll never actually meet, so what’s the harm in a little fib? Yet when real-life Gemma crosses Tansy’s path, her white lie nearly implodes. Tired of her stepfamily’s questions about her love life, Tansy invents Gemma, a fake girlfriend inspired by the stunning cover model on a bestselling book. But when it comes to actual romance… Tansy can’t get past the first chapter. Tansy Adams’ greatest love is her family’s bookstore, passed down from her late father. Lambda Literary award winner and national bestselling author Alexandria Bellefleur returns with a steamy sapphic rom-com about a quiet bookseller and a romance novel cover model who agree to a modern-day marriage of convenience… ![]()
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![]() ![]() Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. The very latest discoveries in paleontology-many of them made by the author and his students-are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. ![]() Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty. ![]() But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites-such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. ![]() ![]() It isn’t until she sets out on the road to find her father that she finally meets one of her own kind. She ate the son of her mother’s boss during a party. She ate a boy who befriended her at summer camp. She devoured the kind babysitter who showed her affection, and things only got worse from there. Maren started eating people when she was a little kid. In DeAngelis’ ( Petty Magic, 2010, etc.) third novel, 16-year-old Maren is determined to track down her father after her mother, who clearly loves her but is scared for her own life, abandons her, leaving behind some money and the girl's birth certificate, which includes some important information: her father’s name. ![]() ![]() Love is challenging for any species-but things get more complicated when you’re a ghoul who wants to eat anyone who gets close to you. ![]() ![]() In a whirling twenty-four hours, Kotler must face the ultimate reckoning, both with those who have betrayed him and with those whom he has betrayed, including a teenage daughter, a son facing his own moral dilemma in the Israeli army, and the wife who once campaigned to secure his freedom and stood by him through so much. There, shockingly, Kotler encounters the former friend whose denunciation sent him to the Gulag almost forty years earlier. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand regarding the settlements in the West Bank, his political opponents expose his affair with a mistress decades his junior, and the besieged couple escapes to Yalta, the faded Crimean resort of Kotler's youth. ![]() These incandescent pages give us one fraught, momentous day in the life of Baruch Kotler, a Soviet Jewish dissident who now finds himself a disgraced Israeli politician. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Unbeknown to them, the Russian mafia has set their sights on Reece in a deadly game of cat and mouse.In his most visceral and heart-pounding thriller yet, Jack Carr explores the darkest instincts of humanity through the eyes of a man who has seen both the best and the worst of it.Praise for Jack Carr: 'This is seriously Used . ![]() Half a world away, James Reece is recovering from brain surgery in the Montana wilderness, slowly putting his life back together with the help of investigative journalist Katie Buranek and his longtime friend and SEAL teammate Raife Hastings. Jack Carr is the real deal’ Andy McNab Deep in the wilds of Siberia, a woman is on the run, pursued by a man harboring secrets – a man intent on killing her. A suspenseful and exhilarating thrill-ride. Jack Carr’s James Reece is the kind of guy you’d want to have in your corner. **SOON TO BE A TV SERIES STARRING CHRIS PRATT**‘A propulsive and compulsive series. ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() Writing in an entertaining narrative style, the author tackles major intellectual issues related to the underestimation of the influence of happenstance on our lives. Set against the backdrop of the most conspicuous forum in which luck is mistaken for skill-the world of trading- Fooled by Randomness provides captivating insight into one of the least understood factors in all our lives. ![]() ![]() This book is about luck-or more precisely, about how we perceive and deal with luck in life and business. Nassim Nicholas Taleb-veteran trader, renowned risk expert, polymathic scholar, erudite raconteur, and New York Times bestselling author of The Black Swan-has written a modern classic that turns on its head what we believe about luck and skill. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes.įooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() She went on to study at the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at the American Ballet Theatre and is now the youngest principal dancer with the Dance Theatre of Harlem. But it was at the orphanage that Michaela would find a picture of a beautiful ballerina en pointe that would help change the course of her life.Īt the age of four, Michaela was adopted by an American family, who encouraged her love of dancing and enrolled her in classes. Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin condition that makes her skin appear spotted. For every young brown, yellow, and purple dancer, she is an inspiration!” -Misty Copeland, world-renowned ballet dancer "Michaela is nothing short of a miracle, born to be a ballerina. The extraordinary memoir of an orphan who danced her way from war-torn Sierra Leone to ballet stardom, most recently appearing in Beyonce’s Lemonade and as a principal in a major American dance company. ![]() ![]() ![]()
![]() ![]() It’s spring and Three Pines is reemerging after the harsh winter. Louise lives in a small village south of Montréal.Ĭhief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny’s beloved series. ![]() In 2017, she received the Order of Canada for her contributions to Canadian culture. She has won numerous awards, including a CWA Dagger and the Agatha Award (eight times), and was a finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Novel. LOUISE PENNY is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA Today, and Globe and Mail bestselling series of Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novels, and coauthor with Hillary Rodham Clinton of the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller State of Terror. ![]() Join #1 New York Times bestselling author, Louise Penny, to discuss her latest spellbinding novel, “A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES,” featuring the return of Chief Inspector Armand. ![]() |