Download or read book A Holiday Match written by Belle Calhoune and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A season for second chances An Alaskan Christmas by Belle Calhoune Single mom Maggie Richards is ready for a new start in Love, Alaska. And her little boy is ready for a new dad! But Maggie just wants to open her gift shop in time for Christmas—with help from childhood friend Finn O’Rourke. Like Maggie, Finn’s hiding too many secrets to ever wed. But Maggie and her son have him dreaming of a ready-made family for Christmas… North Country Dad by Lois Richer Widower Grant Adams loves his twin stepdaughters, but what does he know about being a full-time father? And when he meets Dahlia Wheatley, he realizes the twins need more than a nanny—they need a mother. With her own harrowing past, Dahlia is as reluctant to get emotionally involved as Grant is. Yet his startling proposition just may form a happy new family of four. 2 Uplifting Stories An Alaskan Christmas and North Country Dad

Download or read book The Single Dad s Holiday Match written by Tanya Agler and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Tis the season…For unexpected love! Officer Jonathan Maxwell is just as devoted to his job as he is to his two young daughters, leaving zero time for a social life. Until he meets Brooke Novak. The newly hired community center director is a single parent, too, and also part of his latest investigation. Jonathan needs Brooke’s help if he's going to close his case by Thanksgiving…but she might be the biggest distraction from keeping his mind on his job. Smoky Mountain First Responders Book 1: The Single Dad's Holiday Match

Download or read book The Holiday Match written by Tori Samuels and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a bad breakup with his ex, Richard has no choice but to return to his hometown Bolton. Being home for the holidays should be comforting, but when Richard runs into his middle school crush, Allison, he can't decipher how he feels about his return. Caught in a battle of emotions trying to get over the traumas of his past relationship and what's transpiring between him and Allison, things aren't as simple as he'd like. His Ex's parting wasn't mutual and she left him with a holiday present, a fake application for the town's Secret Santa dating service. Forced to go through blind dating seems like agony but what's worse is Allison runs the matchmaking service and the Mystery Girl and him are actually hitting it off. Who will steal Richard's heart for the Holidays? Tori Samuels is the well-known author of Moral Bloodlines and Caged By Steel & Gems, under her Fantasy pseudonym S.V. Filice.

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Download or read book A Match Made at Christmas written by Courtney Walsh and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hayes McGuire never believed the stories about the famous Nantucket matchmaker, Noni Rose, until he's roped into filling in while Noni leaves the island for Christmas. So he enlists the help of the one person he can trust with this crazy scheme-his best friend, Prudence. Armed with a series of rules, a book of success stories and the promise of Christmas magic, the pair of old friends sets out to make a Christmas match that would make Noni Rose proud. Little do they know that magic doesn't discriminate, and the pair soon finds their years of friendship deepening into something more. Will Pru and Hayes ignore the electricity in the air between them or will there be more than one match made at Christmas?

Download or read book A Holiday By Gaslight written by Mimi Matthews and published by Perfectly Proper Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will easily fall for Sophie and Ned in their gaslit surroundings." -Library Journal, starred review A Courtship of Convenience Sophie Appersett is quite willing to marry outside of her class to ensure the survival of her family. But the darkly handsome Mr. Edward Sharpe is no run-of-the-mill London merchant. He’s grim and silent. A man of little emotion—or perhaps no emotion at all. After two months of courtship, she’s ready to put an end to things. A Last Chance for Love But severing ties with her taciturn suitor isn’t as straightforward as Sophie envisioned. Her parents are outraged. And then there’s Charles Darwin, Prince Albert, and that dratted gaslight. What’s a girl to do except invite Mr. Sharpe to Appersett House for Christmas and give him one last chance to win her? Only this time there’ll be no false formality. This time they’ll get to know each other for who they really are.

Download or read book Match for the Holidays written by Eden Winters and published by Rocky Ridge Books. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventures in computer dating. What starts as Barry Richards' desire for someone to share Christmas grows into an adventure in friendship and a little matchmaking of his own. Now the three-story set: The Match Before Christmas, Fanning the Flames, and A Lie I Can Live With have been combined into a single collection. Follow Barry and his friends as they navigate the tricky (and often bizarre) world of Internet dating, in their search for love. Contains the complete texts of The Match Before Christmas, Fanning the Flames, and A Lie I can Live With, which are also available separately. The Match Before Christmas Candlelight, mistletoe, gaily wrapped packages beneath a trimmed tree, and someone to share it with. That's all Barry Richards wants for Christmas. Desperate for a traditional holiday, he creates a profile on "GetaDate.com."One date after another goes sour, while all around him friends are falling in love, and Barry starts to lose faith. The world fills with seasonal cheer, all except for Barry, for whom time is running out. Facing the prospect of a lonely holiday, he tries just once more to make The Match Before Christmas. Fanning the Flames The man of Barry's dreams has gone from a sugarplum fantasy to sweet reality, thanks to the GLBT dating site GetaDate.com. The romantic demands of Valentine's Day are beyond Barry's imagination. His piteous cry for help brings all kinds of suggestions. Believing he's found the perfect ways to charm his sweetheart, Barry isn't prepared to hear "Achoo " at every turn. Adam's allergic to what? And will sneezes and welts wreck Barry's painstaking plans for Fanning the Flames? A Lie I Can Live With A fake dating site profile hasn't made done much for geeky gamer Otis Tucker's social life, so what does he have to lose by putting his real picture and honest interests online? His pal Barry swears there's someone out there who will love Otis for himself.

Download or read book An Amish Christmas Match written by Winnie Griggs and published by Forever. This book was released on 2024-09-24 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one Amish woman give a struggling widower with five rowdy boys a helping hand—and chance at love—this Christmas season? Phoebe Kropf knows everyone thinks she’s a bit odd—and more than a little accident-prone. She doesn’t understand why they fuss over her at home rather than see her as a bright, independent Amish woman. So when a friend asks Phoebe to help care for a house full of young men in nearby Sweetbrier Creek, she leaps at the chance to prove she’s more than her shortcomings . . . Widower Seth Beiler is in over his head with his five orphaned brieder to care for and all the Christmas orders his woodworking shop needs to fulfill. When he asked for help with some cooking and cleaning, he wasn’t expecting a housekeeper as unconventional—or lovely—as Phoebe. Yet her warm care and holiday traditions win their hearts one by one. And soon the farmhouse finally starts to feel like home again. When the Christmas season and Phoebe’s time there is nearly at an end, will Seth convince her that the greatest gift would be her staying . . . as part of their familye?

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Download or read book Forecasting Time Series Data with Prophet written by Greg Rafferty and published by Packt Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Create and improve fully automated forecasts for time series data with strong seasonal effects, holidays, and additional regressors using Python Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook Key Features Explore Prophet, the open source forecasting tool developed at Meta, to improve your forecasts Create a forecast and run diagnostics to understand forecast quality Fine-tune models to achieve high performance and report this performance with concrete statistics Book DescriptionForecasting Time Series Data with Prophet will help you to implement Prophet's cutting-edge forecasting techniques to model future data with high accuracy using only a few lines of code. This second edition has been fully revised with every update to the Prophet package since the first edition was published two years ago. An entirely new chapter is also included, diving into the mathematical equations behind Prophet's models. Additionally, the book contains new sections on forecasting during shocks such as COVID, creating custom trend modes from scratch, and a discussion of recent developments in the open-source forecasting community. You'll cover advanced features such as visualizing forecasts, adding holidays and trend changepoints, and handling outliers. You'll use the Fourier series to model seasonality, learn how to choose between an additive and multiplicative model, and understand when to modify each model parameter. Later, you'll see how to optimize more complicated models with hyperparameter tuning and by adding additional regressors to the model. Finally, you'll learn how to run diagnostics to evaluate the performance of your models in production. By the end of this book, you'll be able to take a raw time series dataset and build advanced and accurate forecasting models with concise, understandable, and repeatable code.What you will learn Understand the mathematics behind Prophet’s models Build practical forecasting models from real datasets using Python Understand the different modes of growth that time series often exhibit Discover how to identify and deal with outliers in time series data Find out how to control uncertainty intervals to provide percent confidence in your forecasts Productionalize your Prophet models to scale your work faster and more efficiently Who this book is forThis book is for business managers, data scientists, data analysts, machine learning engineers, and software engineers who want to build time-series forecasts in Python or R. To get the most out of this book, you should have a basic understanding of time series data and be able to differentiate it from other types of data. Basic knowledge of forecasting techniques is a plus.

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