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Official Duty
by Doreen RobertsGINNY MATTHEWS HAD A SIX-FOOT-ONE-INCH, COMPELLING REASON TO STAY AWAY FROM GOLD PEAK, OREGON: A LONG AND LEAN COWBOY BY THE NAME OF CULLY BLACKBut when her beloved foster parents were brutally murdered, Ginny knew she had no choice but to return. Facing her past-and long-buried feelings for the handsome sheriff who still owned her heart-was harder than she'd anticipated. The long months of hiding had taken their toll and Ginny could feel a presence lurking in the shadows. Watching. Waiting. And soon, she became a killer's next target. She'd have to once again place her trust in Cully, the only man who could keep her alive. But was his protective embrace part of his official duty...or something more?
Offre-moi un sourire
by Antonella MaggioNous nous cachons souvent derrière un masque ou un sourire... Virginia Collins a vingt-sept ans, elle ne croit pas aux rêves qui se réalisent mais elle porte chaque jour un nez rouge et se fait appeler (S)Miley parce qu’elle aime les enfants et vit pour eux, offrant des sourires et des moments de légèreté grâce à la clown-thérapie qu’elle pratique dans un hôpital pour enfants à Londres. Nick Lloyd est un jeune père, il ne vit que pour son fils, Nathan, et pour lui, il a tout abandonné, même son rêve : le théâtre. Les femmes ne sont qu’un passe-temps, à tenir à distance, il les collectionne et David, son meilleur ami et partenaire en affaire, tient les comptes et l’incite à en faire plus. Nathan, à la fois rebelle et grognon, se voit contraint de socialiser avec des enfants moins chanceux que lui qui séjournent à l’hôpital. Le soudain revirement de son fils ne passe pas inaperçu pour Nick, qui est curieux de rencontrer la fille qui a réussi à lui redonner le sourire... Le sourire est contagieux et provoque le bonheur, il prédispose à l’amour et ce dernier est toujours le protagoniste incontesté de nos vies, même lorsque nous pensons y être allergiques. Touchant, sensuel et profond.
Offside
by Ryan LovelessAdam Dumas is Major League Soccer's only openly gay player. When he is transferred to St. Louis, his new teammates don't exactly roll out the welcome mat. It doesn't help that Adam sees "the Gateway to the West" as a step down from his high-profile position in LA--an attitude Adam has no problem sharing with his new housemate and fellow center forward, Colin Evets. Colin is Adam's only friend on the team, but when Adam misinterprets Colin's Midwestern charm for something more, he could end up ruining both their friendship and their careers. As Adam struggles to make a better impression, Colin tries to decide if the person he's been showing the world is who he wants to be with Adam. The pressure to win influences decisions both on the field and off as Adam and Colin discover how making the wrong move can be very right.
Offside (Rules of the Game #1)
by Avery KeelanFrom TikTok sensation Avery Keelan comes Offside, an addictive college hockey romance where Hannah Grace meets Elle Kennedy. After being dumped on her 21st birthday, Bailey James rebounds right into the arms of her ex’s biggest competition...Chase Carter: antagonizer, womanizer, and infamous left winger for her college’s rival team.Following a string of scandals and substandard grades, Chase is on thin ice with his teammates and tyrannical coach. The last thing he needs is to have his focus and loyalty called into question by fraternizing with his team’s #1 competition, but a beautiful stranger who throws herself at him one night is too tempting to pass up... until she throws up on his shoes.Caught in the midst of a bitter rivalry that extends far beyond the arena, Chase and Bailey are on opposite sides of the bench. He’s worked his entire life to secure a future in the NHL. She’s tagged along while her brother has done the same. Fraternizing with the enemy is definitely out of the question, but what if the enemy is impossible to resist?At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior In Biodemographic Perspective
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesDespite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior, little of this work has penetrated into formal demography. Very few demographers worry about how biological processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have demographic consequences even though behavioral geneticists have documented genetics effects on variables such as parenting and divorce. Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Demographic Perspective brings together leading researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to review the state of research in this emerging field and to identify promising research directions for the future.
Oh Baby!
by Pamela FordSix years ago Annie McCarthy was a waitress in an all-night diner and Nick Fleming was just a customer. Late at night they shared their dreams over coffee and pie. Then along came a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity-if they married, Nick would inherit his trust fund early and Annie would get $250,000. After a quickie divorce, they could pursue those dreams-separately.Annie went to a small town in Wisconsin and bought a B and B and has had a wonderful life-just as she's always wanted. Now Nick has shown up at Annie's door, and he has shocking news. They're still married and he needs her to sign papers so he can get married for real. The problem is Annie's pregnant, and when she came to town she told everyone she was married...to Nick-and of course everyone thinks he's the father.Oh baby, this is going to be one interesting summer!
Oh Gad!
by Joanne C HillhouseA stirring novel about a woman facing cross-cultural odds and redefining everything she understands about her family, herself, and the country she's never really been able to call home. Nikki Baltimore was born in Antigua but grew up with her dad in the United States. With each year, she's grown further apart from her mother and maternal siblings, potters in rural Antigua. Her mother's funeral brings Nikki back to the island, and, at a professional and personal crossroads, she makes the impulsive decision to stay after being offered a job by the ruling government. Soon, Nikki is embroiled in a hurricane of an existence which includes a political hot potato, confusion in her romantic life, and deepening involvement in the lives of the family she left behind. Will Nikki eventually find her place in the chaos and begin to plant the roots that have escaped her all her life?
Oh Gad!: A Novel
by Joanne C. HillhouseA stirring novel about a woman facing cross-cultural odds and redefining everything she understands about her family, herself, and the country she's never really been able to call home. Nikki Baltimore was born in Antigua but grew up with her dad in the United States. With each year, she's grown further apart from her mother and maternal siblings, potters in rural Antigua. Her mother's funeral brings Nikki back to the island, and, at a professional and personal crossroads, she makes the impulsive decision to stay after being offered a job by the ruling government. Soon, Nikki is embroiled in a hurricane of an existence which includes a political hot potato, confusion in her romantic life, and deepening involvement in the lives of the family she left behind. Will Nikki eventually find her place in the chaos and begin to plant the roots that have escaped her all her life?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 1 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaAlone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech's Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever — reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy — a wish for anything in the world — Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm — it's males only!As the hapless student and his mysterious "foreign beauty" ride around looking for a new place to stay — risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she's a sinister witch — Keiichi's still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new "exchange student" companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return…
Oh My Goddess! Volume 10
by Kosuke FujishimaIt'll be one, two, three strikes you're out for the N.I.T. Softball Club if Keiichi can't help his sister win against their campus rivals-but with the Goddesses stepping up to bat, it's not going to be the old ball game! Then, it's an unrelaxing hot springs vacation when Mara returns to challenge Urd to the most feared battle imaginable-karaoke! Plus four pages of color, ten Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 11
by Kosuke FujishimaIf three goddesses are good, surely four must be better? Not for Keiichi, whose strange power to attract divine trouble has just dialed "P" for Peorth — Belldandy's rival in the helping-humans-out-by-phone biz. But Peorth wonders why Belldandy's still hanging around Keiichi if she's really fulfilled his wishes, and is determined to provide him better "service" — no matter how fast he tries to run! Plus six pages of twelve, color Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 12
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Maybe you think Peorth couldn't cause any more trouble — well, think again! Determined to provide Keiichi "better service" than Belldandy, she's dragging him out on a date . . . having studied human mating customs through shojo manga! But what is the secret slight from long ago that truly drives Peorth's efforts against her rival?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 13
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Learning to ride a bicycle is a little like encountering first love — a lot of panicked flailing and falling down! Skuld, who's suddenly doing both of those things at once, can't understand why her dear sister Belldandy, who's always there to help, wants her to work this out on her own. But of course, Belldandy knows a wisdom Skuld needs to learn...
Oh My Goddess! Volume 14
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Get a job! That's what you hope a college education can do for you — but when Keiichi applies to put his knowledge to work in a custom-bike shop, he finds it's not going to be as easy to graduate college as he thought! And it could be that no one's leaving Nekomi Tech ever again, when it falls under the mind-bending influence of two of the most sinister forces known to man — Mara's magic and Sayoko's ego!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 15
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!The battle to control the minds of every student at Nekomi Tech comes to its showdown, as the power behind Queen Sayoko's throne is revealed at last! Then it's back to good old-fashioned campus rivalries, as Megumi squares off against a different kind of royalty... the one who rules the road on the Inokuradai Pass!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 2 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaNow that Keiichi and the goddess in his life are the hot item on campus, they find themselves constantly putting out fires! First, to raise money for the N.I.T. Motor Club, they get roped into posing nude together for a life drawing class — even though, as Keiichi's sister correctly guesses, they haven't even kissed yet! Then his "buddies" in the club stake Bell-chan as the wager in a funnybike race — but Keiichi has trouble seeing the humor when it starts coming apart at high speed! After all this, Keiichi just wants to relax and watch some home videos… except this video introduces (literally) a second goddess into his life — Belldandy's "sophisticated" older sister, Urd!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 30
by VariousAs powerful (and wrathful) as Belldandy's older sister Urd is, what's the real reason she never became a Goddess First Class? Now, in order to finally achieve that exalted state, Urd must fulfill a challenge decreed by Peorth — give Keiichi a certain amount of happiness! That sounds great... until you realize that with Urd, giving a certain amount of happiness is going to mean inflicting a great amount of misery first!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 7
by Kosuke FujishimaIf you think Urd's magic love potions should be a controlled substance, wait 'till you see the danger they pose in their deadly crystal form — especially when cut with a little blundering from Skuld! But Keiichi can't blame alchemy for the way he embarrasses himself with the Motor Club's newest member, cute meganekko (girl with glasses) Sora Hasegawa! Plus four pages of color, fourteen Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, commentary and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 8
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! It's a-haunting we will go . . . with the N.I.T. Motor Club, as Urd and Belldandy join them on vacation to a mysterious hotel haunted by the g-g-g-ghost of a lovely young maid who wants to hold Keiichi to a promise his grandfather made long ago! And between Sora's crappy cooking and Skuld's funny feelings, the summer is bound to stay hot! Plus four pages of color, twelve Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters! * Oh My Goddess! is the longest-running manga on the U.S. market.
Oh My Goddess! Volume 9
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!When Urd and Skuld are called back to the heavenly realm for remedial training, Belldandy and Keiichi are alone at last! But two things are going to complicate their getting closer as man and woman — Belldandy has come down with a mysterious illness, and thanks to fooling with Urd's medicine to try and cure her, Keiichi isn't a man anymore — he's a woman!
Oh My! Rapture (Woe is Man Standalones #1)
by A. B. BindsOh My! Rapture is a steamy romantic comedy that is over-the-top! FOR EVIE It was a trip of a lifetime for Ancient Romance Literature college student Evie Eva. Finding herself trapped in a cavern with a hot stranger wasn't on her curriculum, especially since she was still not over her ex boyfriend. FOR ANGELO Angelo was a week away from finishing his doctoral religious studies in Italy and being ordained as a priest. He was ready and had sworn off of women ever since his heart was broken by his ex-fiance. What he didn't count on was getting trapped in a cavern with the sexiest and most desirable woman he had ever met. He knew he would have a hard time moving forward until he sees her again. But what happens when something simple suddenly becomes so complicated? Oh My Rapture! is a sexy New Adult Contemporary Romantic Comedy Part of the Author A Parody TV Series World
Oh So Wrong with Mr. Right & The Man She Loves to Hate (Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding)
by Jessica Lemmon Nadine GonzalezAt the Texas Cattleman&’s Club, Nadine Gonzalez and Jessica Lemmon prove love is hotter than the Texas sun… Don&’t get burned! Oh So Wrong with Mr. Right by Nadine GonzalezIf only falling in love was as easy as falling into his bed… Commitment-shy photojournalist Sasha Ramos is the latest in her family&’s long history of runaway brides. But when her sister&’s upcoming wedding triggers her need to flee, risk-taking businessman Nikola Williams gives her all the passionate reasons to stay. But falling in love? It will take a Texas-sized miracle—and one determined bachelor—to get this guarded, headstrong beauty to stay!The Man She Loves to Hate by Jessica LemmonIt's the wedding of the year. And she&’s falling for the man crashing it! Wedding planner Rylee Meadows will not let professional wedding crasher Patrick &“Trick&” MacArthur ruin her latest celebrity nuptials. Just because the social media bad boy is handsome, charming and oh-so tempting doesn&’t change the fact he simply can&’t be trusted! Not as a wedding guest…nor with her heart. But as her frustration becomes more sexual than antagonistic, will she embrace the spontaneous side Trick inspires?
Oh So Wrong with Mr. Right: A Flirty Fake Dating Romance (Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding #5)
by Nadine GonzalezWhen a serial runaway bride must attend her sister&’s celebrity wedding, she asks the man next to her on the plane to be her date in Nadine Gonzalez's newest book in the Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding series!If only trusting herself to fall in lovewas as easy as falling into his bed… Commitment-shy photojournalist Sasha Ramos was the latest in her family&’s long history of runaway brides. Now her sister&’s wedding has her reeling. So much that she asks risk-taking businessman Nikola Williams to be her plus-one—and to fake a romance for her sister&’s paparazzi. Nik agrees, but it will take a Texas-sized miracle—and one determined bachelor—to get this guarded, headstrong beauty to follow her heart before she loses it all!From Harlequin Desire: Passionate and provocative stories featuring rich, powerful heroes and scandalous family sagas.You&’ll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance, part of the Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding series: Book 1: A Cowboy Kind of Thing by Reese RyanBook 2: Designs on a Rancher by LaQuetteBook 3: Four Weeks to Forever by Karen BoothBook 4: Make Believe Match by Joanne RockBook 5: Oh So Wrong with Mr. Right by Nadine GonzalezBook 6: The Man She Loves to Hate by Jessica Lemmon
Oh! Be Flirted By A Dragon: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Hua JianjiuLin Jiu Jiu: Do I love you for a thousand years? Are you surprised? Are you moved? Meng Zhang: "Oh."Lin Jiu: "Oh?" Oh?! Oh?! Meng Zhang: "Surprise, touched."Lin Mai Jiu: Is that trouble for me, or is it for you to take the blame? Meng Zhang: "Hehe."Lin Jiu: "Hur hur?" Who are you acting cute for? Meng Zhang: "You." What a big face.Lin Jiu: You think I have a lot of face? Forget it, I'll wear it back. Meng Zhang: You want to run away after eating me dry? Friend, won't your conscience hurt?Lin Jiu: You still think I'm fat?! Hmm. I think you'd better die.//Again: The Mountain and Sea Realm can also be at peace with the world if the Mountain and Sea Realm is separated by the Mountain and Sea Realm.
Oh! You Pretty Things
by Shanna Mahin"A Hollywood native from the wrong side of the Walk of Fame makes a play for star status" (Cosmopolitan) in Shanna Mahin's acclaimed novel, called "quite a breakout" by The New York Times.Jess Dunne is third-generation Hollywood, but her star on the boulevard has yet to materialize. Sure, she's got a Santa Monica address and a working actress roommate, but with her nowhere barista job in a town that acknowledges zeroes only as a dress size, she's a dead girl walking.Enter Jess's mother--a failed actress who puts the strange in estrangement. She dives headlong into her daughter's downward spiral, forcing Jess to muster all her spite and self-preservation to snag a career upgrade.As a personal assistant for a famous (and secretly agoraphobic) film composer, Jess's workdays are now filled with shopping for luxury goods and cooking in his perfectly designed kitchen. Jess kills at cooking, a talent that only serves her intensifying urge to dig in to Los Angeles's celebrity buffet.When her food garners the attention of an actress on the rise, well, she's all too willing to throw it in with the composer and upgrade again, a decision that will have far-reaching ramifications that could explode all her relationships.All the while, her mother looms ever closer, forcing Jess to confront the traumatic secrets she's been running from all her life. Oh! You Pretty Things is a dizzying ride at the carnival of fame, a fast-paced and sharply funny work that dares to imagine what happens when we go over the top in a town of gilded excess.From the Hardcover edition.