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The Reading Group: March (Part #4)
by Della Parker'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley. Meet the Reading Group: five women in the seaside village of Little Sanderton come together every month to share their love of reading. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red!Jojo has felt ruined for romance ever since her husband and love of her life, Big Al, left on an around-the-world trek to 'find himself' and never came back. Then her colleague Daniel asks her on a date. He's conscientious, sincere and serious - everything Big Al wasn't - and Jojo begins to think they might have a real future together. But a romantic dinner date in his pristinely impressive home reveals his pad to be a practical mausoleum to his troubled past . . . causing Jojo to wonder if her new man's heart is really ready to move on.This month the Reading Group is devouring Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and wondering if fiction really does mirror real life!
The Reading Group: Sometimes real life is stranger than fiction...
by Della Parker'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' TRISHA ASHLEY'Della is always worth reading!' WOMAN'S WEEKLYGrace, Anne-Marie, Kate, Jojo and Serena are as different as can be but each month they meet in Serena's beautiful cliff-top cottage to discuss a good book - and their lives, which are sometimes stranger than fiction! Between new loves and old flames, cheating husbands and wayward children, there's always a surprise around the corner... Rated 5 stars by REAL READERS: 'If you enjoy the classics - like me - there's a good chance you'll love this novel too! I couldn't put it down' Alison, Amazon reviewer'A delightful, heart-warming story of true friendship' Shelley, Amazon reviewer'Reminds me of some of Debbie Macomber's books' Krystyna, Amazon reviewer
The Reading Group: Summer Holiday! (Medieval Mysteries #5)
by Della Parker'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley. Perfect for fans of Cathy Bramley and Holly Martin.Meet the Reading Group: six women in the seaside village of Little Sanderton come together every month to share their love of reading. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red! Wedding bells are ringing . . . but who's the blushing bride? The Reading Group leave Little Sanderton behind for a sun-soaked summer holiday! But will vacay drama be the undoing of this close-knit circle of friends? This summer the Reading Group is tackling The Great Gatsby . . . and attending the party to end all parties!
The Reading Group: The laugh out loud read of the year - perfect to curl up with!
by Della Parker'Exceptional' Amazon reviewerGrace, Anne-Marie, Kate, Jojo and Serena are as different as can be but each month they meet in Serena's beautiful cliff-top cottage to discuss a good book - and their lives, which are sometimes stranger than fiction! Between new loves and old flames, cheating husbands and wayward children, there's always a surprise around the corner...
The Reading Group: The laugh out loud read of the year - perfect to curl up with!
by Della Parker'Exceptional' Amazon reviewerGrace, Anne-Marie, Kate, Jojo and Serena are as different as can be but each month they meet in Serena's beautiful cliff-top cottage to discuss a good book - and their lives, which are sometimes stranger than fiction! Between new loves and old flames, cheating husbands and wayward children, there's always a surprise around the corner...
The Reading Group: The laugh out loud read of the year - perfect to curl up with!
by Della Parker'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley, Sunday Times bestselling author.Meet the Reading Group: forever friends you can count on in good times and bad. No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red! Grace, Anne-Marie, Kate, Jojo and Serena couldn't be more different, but each month they meet in Serena's cliff-top cottage to discuss a good book - oh and their lives, which are stranger than fiction. Or are they? Between new loves and old flames, cheating husbands and wayward children, there's always a surprise around the corner...thank goodness they have each other to share it with.A laugh-out-loud tale of friendship, loyalty and love. Perfect for fans of Jo Thomas and Lucy Diamond.(P)2017 WF Howes Ltd
The Reading Group: a FREE short story (The Reading Group #1)
by Della ParkerA FREE teaser to the wonderful THE READING GROUP, coming soon in November 2018.Read it here first! Grace knows that the holiday season is going to be different this year. No turkey, no tinsel, no gorgeously wrapped gifts under the tree . . . how on earth is she going to break it to her little boys that Christmas is effectively cancelled? And can she bear to tell anyone her embarrassing secret? Enter the Reading Group: Grace's life might have turned upside down but there's no problem they can't solve. Meet the Reading Group: No topic is off-limits: books, family, love and loss . . . and don't forget the glass of red! 'Brims with laughs, love, family and friendship. You will love this heartwarming read!' Trisha Ashley.
The Real Deal
by Debbi RawlinsEmily Carter is in Manhattan for a weeklong adventure-shopping, sightseeing and maybe, possibly, hopefully, sex. She's got a copy ofErotic New Yorkand she's not afraid to use it.... Nick Corrigan finds Emily's naughty guidebook in their cab and hand-delivers it to her hotel. Enticingly anonymous for once, the sexy all-star pitcher is intrigued by the bossy, brainy out-of-towner. Soon the unlikely pair is steaming up the windows of Nick's penthouse apartment. Could this be just a fun vacation fling...or the real thing?
The Real Deal
by Fern MichaelsThe New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Fern Michaels delivers her signature mix of thrilling twists and relatable heroines in this exciting novel following an independent woman driven by passion and bound by duty in Washington, DC. Resourceful and steadfast FBI agent Quinn Star has always relied on herself—how else could she have survived the boys club of the FBI or navigated the heartbreak of a thwarted affair with her boss? Today, Quinn risks her life every day in the Secret Service as she protects the First Lady of the United States. But unfortunately, she can&’t safeguard her from the ruthless advisors who are intent on hiding the President&’s debilitating illness for their political gain. Suspecting a conspiracy that places the fate of the President, his wife—and the nation—on the line, Quinn whisks the First Lady out of the capital to her South Carolina home. But are they truly safe from whoever is pulling the strings in this lethal game? And Quinn&’s fortitude is tested further when a mysterious lover emerges from the shadows of the past...
The Real Deal
by Lucy MonroeLike a classic Spencer Tracy-Katharine Hepburn/Doris Day-Rock Hudson movie--but with plenty of steamy heat--Lucy Monroes debut novel introduces a pair of delightfully sparring opposites whose undeniable attraction is about to take them beyond the edge of reason. . . and right into the throes of delicious passion. . . Shut Up And Kiss Me The most important thing in Amandas life is negotiating a successful merger between her company and Brant Computers, a family-held competitor. Company president Eric Brant is on board with the idea, but when Amanda arrives in Erics office, it is his cousin Simon Brant who greets her--and Simon is anything but agreeable. Squaring off against the sexy, brilliant, sexy, obstinate, sexy, eccentric, not to mention sexy Simon is completely frustrating--and a total turn-on. . . Simon has never met a woman as driven as Amanda, or as devastatingly attractive. He cant decide if he wants to put her on the next plane home--in the cargo hold--or kidnap her and spend a long weekend showing her the kind of negotiating he likes best. But when intimacy leads to an explosive passion, it might be time to think of a different, more permanent kind of merger. . . one thats less about business and all about pleasure. . .
The Real Deal: A Novel
by Lauren BlakelyGet ready for your next favorite romantic comedy, THE REAL DEAL, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely! April Hamilton wants you to know she hasn’t been on GigsForHire since that time she sold her futon after college. She doesn’t even spend that much time online. And even if she did, she would not be looking up personal ads. But going home alone for her family's summer reunion is an invitation for every single relative to butt into her personal life. She simply can’t handle another blind date with the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker from her hometown. So when she finds the GigsforHire ad for a boyfriend-for-hire, she’s ready to pay to play.Heading Home and Need a Buffer? I’m the REAL DEAL.Theo Banks has been running from the past for years. He’s this close to finally settling all his debts, and one more job as a boyfriend-for-hire will do the trick. He’s no gigolo. Please. He’s something of an actor, and he knows how to slip into any role, including pretending to be April’s new beau -- the bad boy with the heart of gold.Even if it means sleeping in close quarters in that tiny little bed in her parents’ inn. Even if it means spinning tales of a romance that starts to feel all too true. What neither one of them counts on is that amid the egg toss, the arm wrestling, and a fierce game of Lawn Twister that has them tangled up together, they might be feeling the real deal.She only wanted to show her family once and for all that she had no need to settle down.He didn’t expect to have the time of his life at her parent’s home.They didn’t plan on loving every single second of the game.But can a masterful game of pretend result in true love?
The Real Enemy (Sophie Trace Trilogy, Book #1)
by Kathy HermanBrill Jessup just became the first female police chief in Sophie Trace, Tennessee, and is riding on the credentials of a stellar eighteen-year career on the Memphis police force. She may be a pro at finding clues, but she tends to ignore the obvious in her personal life. Her husband, Kurt, is weighed down by her unrelenting anger as he struggles to let God redeem the stupidest mistake he ever made. Brill hides behind her badge and her bitterness, deciding that moving her family away from Memphis is the only change she needs to make. Before she even has time to unpack her boxes,people start disappearing. Lots of them. To complicate matters, a local legend has many residents believing that the cause is unearthly--tied to the "red shadows," or spirits of the departed Cherokee who once inhabited the land. While Brill draws on all of her experience and instinct to solve the case, she must confront an enemy that threatens everything she holds dear--one that cannot be stopped with a badge and a gun.
The Real Fantasy
by Caroline AndersonShe was his living fantasy... Dr. Matthew Jarvis advertised for a trainee doctor, preferably female, for his small rural clinic. To his total shock, one of the applicants was Dr. Linsey Wheeler, the girl he had rescued from drowning eight years ago. Even then she had had an impact on him, but the present reality was a far cry from the fantasy he had cherished-it was considerably better! She had never forgotten him-but Matthew didn't consider himself anything special, until Linsey set out to prove him wrong!
The Real Me
by Ann HerrickWhen Mattie has issues with her weight, she decides to take charge of her life, redo her image, find confidence and maybe even dare to talk to guys. She also discovers that boys can be insecure and have self-doubts too. Will a change in lifestyle, a friend, a tormentor, and a dream guy help Mattie discover her real self and find romance along the way?
The Real Mother: A Novel
by Judith MichaelJudith Michael is beloved around the world for powerful stories of love and family. Now this renowned author returns with a richly emotional tale of the many kinds of love and the collision of good and evil that threatens to tear a family apart.Sara Elliott has been forced to give up the life she's dreamed of to return home to Chicago and take charge of her sisters and brother. She finds a job and settles into the house she grew up in, building a life for ten-year-old Doug and teenagers Carrie and Abby.But Sara has another brother, Mack, now twenty, who left home three years earlier. Suddenly he reappears, cheerful and unconcerned, as if he had never broken his promise to stay and help Sara with the children and the house. With bewildering volatility, Mack swings from kindness to cruelty, affection to hostility, keeping the family always on edge, his past and present a mystery. But with expensive gifts, storytelling, and the excitement of his presence, he is winning over the children, and sometimes the four of them stand together against Sara.Mack challenges all Sara has achieved in trying to be a mother and keep her family together. And he does it at a time when she is confronted by crises at work that spill over into her home. Suddenly, events seem to be speeding past and Sara feels she cannot slow them down to regain control.And then, when she thinks her life has room only for work and family, she meets Reuben Lister, a client from New York. As Sara helps him find and furnish a house and explore the city, they discover a closeness neither has known before and share new ways of dealing with conflicts each has always faced alone. Together, Sara and Reuben find answers to the questions: What is a mother? What is a parent? What is a family?This is Judith Michael's most poignant exploration of the pressures and joys facing modern adults and children, in a story that will resonate with everyone for its universal themes and discoveries.
The Real Mr. Right
by Karen TempletonIs an old crush the new beginning this single mom has been searching for? Find out in the first book of award-winning author Karen Templeton's new miniseries, Jersey Boys! Finding refuge from her ex-husband at her friend's house was her best option, Kelly McNeil thought-until Matt Noble answered the door. She'd had a huge, unrequited crush on him as a teenager! But as adults, he'd never even given her a second look. Then she got married and left town and, well, now here they are again.... Matt had never mustered up the courage to ask Kelly out, and now fate has literally knocked on his door and given him a second chance. But Kelly is afraid to risk her independence and her children with a man who could only hurt them again. He'll have to prove that he's worth the risk-and that he's the Mr. Right she can truly depend on. Forever.
The Real Mrs. Price: A Novel (Blink, Texas Trilogy #1)
by J. D. MasonLucy Price is living the American dream. She has been married to her successful husband and businessman, Edward Price for a year and couldn’t be happier until she learns that Eddie is a dangerously ruthless man, heavily involved in illegal activities that threaten not only her marriage, but her life. Eddie abruptly disappears, but not before warning Lucy that if she wants to keep breathing she'd better keep her mouth shut. Six months later, word of her husband surfaces when she learns that he is presumed murdered in a small Texas town, apparently killed by his “wife”, Marlowe Price.Marlowe is no stranger to trouble. An outcast in her own community for being one of those "hoodoo women," who can curse you or cast you under her beguiling spell, Marlowe is shunned at every turn. Six months ago, a whirlwind romance in Mexico led Marlowe to marry the man she thought she’d spend the rest of her life with. For Marlowe and Eddie, there is no such thing as trouble in paradise. But late one night, when Marlowe witnesses her husband putting the body of a dead man in the trunk of his car, the illusion comes crashing down around her and she knows she has to move fast before the devil comes calling once again.Now, Lucy and Marlowe must come together to find out where and who Eddie really is, and help each other through the threat he poses. There's nothing more dangerous than a woman scorned...except for two women scorned who are willing to put their pasts behind them and band together to take one bad man down...
The Real Real: A Novel
by Nicola Kraus Emma McLaughlinThe bestselling authors of The Nanny Diaries introduce a new heroine to root for: Jesse O'Rourke, coffee barista, high school senior, and unwitting reality TV star.Imagine there was never a Laguna Beach, a Newport Harbor, the shimmering Hills. Imagine that your hometown—your school—is the first place XTV descends to set up cameras.Now imagine they've trained them on you.When Jesse O'Rourke gets picked for a "documentary" being filmed at her school in the Hamptons she's tempted to turn down the offer. But there's a tuition check attached to being on the show, and Jesse needs the cash so she can be the first in her family to attend college. All she has to do is trade her best friend for the glam clique she's studiously avoided, her privacy for a 24/7 mike, and her sense of right and wrong for "what sells on camera." . . . At least there's one bright spot in the train wreck that is her suddenly public senior year: Jesse's crush has also made the cast.As the producers manipulate the lives of their "characters" to heighten the drama, and Us Weekly covers become a regular occurrence for Jesse, she must struggle to remember one thing: the difference between real and the real real.
The Real Reasons Men Commit
by Kimberly Dawn Neumann Joel D BlockI need my space. We need to slow down. I'm just not ready to settle down yet.Single women have heard all these excuses and more from the men in their lives. And with a growing number of people choosing not to marry at all, women who do want to get married are increasingly frustrated by men who, in the end, refuse to make that commitment. In this book, women will learn: how men really view commitment; what factors influence their decision to commit; the difference between cold feet and an intractable single-forever stance; which men are most likely to go the distance; strategies to persuade commitment-phobic men to take the chance on love and marriage; and more. With this book, women looking for commitment from their men can push them off the fence - and into the wedding chapel. Or, if they're found wanting, simply cut them loose with that other famous line: Maybe we should see other people.
The Real Reasons Men Commit: Why He Will - or Won't - Love, Honor and Marry You
by Joel D BlockI need my space. We need to slow down. I’m just not ready to settle down yet.Single women have heard all these excuses and more from the men in their lives. And with a growing number of people choosing not to marry at all, women who do want to get married are increasingly frustrated by men who, in the end, refuse to make that commitment. In this book, women will learn: how men really view commitment; what factors influence their decision to commit; the difference between cold feet and an intractable single-forever stance; which men are most likely to go the distance; strategies to persuade commitment-phobic men to take the chance on love and marriage; and more. With this book, women looking for commitment from their men can push them off the fence - and into the wedding chapel. Or, if they’re found wanting, simply cut them loose with that other famous line: Maybe we should see other people.
The Real Reasons Men Commit: Why He Will - or Won't - Love, Honor and Marry You
by Joel D. Block Kimberly Dawn NeumannI need my space. We need to slow down. I'm just not ready to settle down yet. Single women have heard all these excuses and more from the men in their lives. And with a growing number of people choosing not to marry at all, women who do want to get married are increasingly frustrated by men who, in the end, refuse to make that commitment. In this book, women will learn: how men really view commitment; what factors influence their decision to commit; the difference between cold feet and an intractable single-forever stance; which men are most likely to go the distance; strategies to persuade commitment-phobic men to take the chance on love and marriage; and more. With this book, women looking for commitment from their men can push them off the fence - and into the wedding chapel. Or, if they're found wanting, simply cut them loose with that other famous line: Maybe we should see other people.
The Real Rio D'Aquila (Orsini Brides #2)
by Sandra MartonItalian by birth, this street urchin lived a life of extreme poverty until he escaped to Brazil-where he cast off his roots, took a new name and pulled himself up from the streets.Now Rio D'Aquila is beyond wealthy, with a reputation for being uncompromising in business...and incomparable in bed! But on meeting vulnerable Isabella Orsini, he feels something deep within him stir, and he finds himself pretending to be that long-forgotten man.Passion flares and their affair spirals, but Isabella still doesn't know that her lover has lied to her. Who is the real Rio D'Aquila?
The Real Romero
by Cathy WilliamsThe Secret Billionaire Billionaire Lucas Romero is many things-brooding, talented and a consummate womanizer. The one thing he's not? The "ski instructor" beautiful, innocent Milly Mayfield thought she was giving herself to in a sumptuous, secluded French ski chalet! And now she's livid! Arrogant playboy Lucas is bewildered by Milly's decidedly unusual reaction to the revelation of his substantial wealth-he's never had complaints before! But even Milly cannot ignore the sexual chemistry between them. So when a family emergency means he needs a willing woman by his side, Milly suddenly finds herself whisked away to Spain...and engaged!
The Real Thing
by B. G. Thomas2nd EditionBryan Mills has fantasized about cowboys all his life. Real cowboys, that is. He even dresses in what his roommate calls “cowboy drag” when he visits his favorite bar, in the hope of attracting the attentions of a genuine cowboy. But all he usually finds are posers and guys his own age. Then one night, to his surprise, Curtis Hansen buys him a beer, and Bryan has no doubt this is the real thing. Curtis is a rugged, gorgeous man who is every bit a cowboy. He even owns his own ranch. What follows is about the most amazing night of Bryan’s young life. But can they move beyond a night of incredible sex when Bryan admits to Curtis that the only horse he’s ever ridden was a birthday party pony? And that he’s nothing but a poser himself? Maybe, just maybe, Curtis can find the real cowboy inside Bryan, and they can ride off into the sunset together!First Edition published as The Real Thing in Riding Double by Dreamspinner Press, 2011.
The Real Thing
by Barbara DelinskyNeil Hersey has found that his promising career as a lawyer has hit a snag. He turns to a friend who has a little island off the coast of Mane where he hopes to find some piece away from everyone and figure out the answer to his problems. Deirdre Joyce has suffered an injury that not only hurts her sense of pride but lays her open to the demands of her family. She just needs time to think about how this injury will determine the future. She calls her friend who has a little Mane getaway on an island totally away from everyone no phone to ring and no way for any of her family to continue to pressure her to help the family business. Unknown to both, Deirdre and Neil, their friend thinks that they need each other more than solitude. With a little help from a Lobsterman She succeeds in stranding both on the secluded island. Nothing barring serious injury will get them back to the mainland before their two weeks are up.