Download or read book Incidental Fate Book 1 written by Summer Leigh and published by Incidental Fate. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fated, soulmates, love at first sight-Gavin and Sadie were all those things. Possessive, protective, overbearing, unhinged from a love that hit too hard, too fast-Gavin was all those things. One kiss, one spark, and Sadie knew Gavin was trouble. One kiss, one spark, and Gavin knew Sadie was more than a night, more than a kiss. Gavin Romano was the youngest of five, his siblings all a decade older. Age meant nothing to him, other than an inconvenience. Age meant everything to Sadie, especially when the man who made her heart race was in his 20's, while she was in her 30's. She moved to San Diego to start over, to get away from the judgment that had always followed her. Now here it was again, a younger guy-more judgment. But on that night, she couldn't stop. Her back was against the wall, Gavin towered in front of her, his body encroached, his lips lowered, their shared breath created a spell neither could pull away from, and that first kiss created a need neither could run from. One kiss led to one night-which was all it ever could be because while their age made Sadie think twice, it was Gavin being a senior at the same university as her freshman son that made her slam to a stop. Only while she put on the brakes, Gavin was full steam ahead. He knew Sadie was more than a crush, more than a night, more than a kiss-he just had to convince her of that. Gavin Romano and Sadie's story, Incidental Fate, spans 6-books. Their story also spawned a spin-off, Romanoverse, following Gavin's siblings in New York: LUCA, SOFIA, STEFANO, and GIORGIA. Incidental Fate through Gavin's eyes coming 2022. Social Media: @AuthorSummerLeigh @IncidentalFate

Download or read book Incidental Cougar Book 1 written by Summer Leigh and published by Summer Leigh. This book was released on 2019-09 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant sparks. All consuming. Gavin couldn't let her go, Sadie knew it should have never started. He was too young, too possessive... but there was something so undeniable between them.A seemingly normal day, a chance encounter, and a spark that neither was prepared for becoming a wildfire neither could contain. Only love can never be that easy, not with fears in the way.Gavin had never loved anyone, so he was holding on too tight, while Sadie was pulling away, protecting herself and her son. The last thing she wanted was for her son Grant to find out she was sleeping with a guy from his college- heck she didn't want anyone to know.This is Book 1 of Author Summer Leigh's Debut six-book series, Incidental Cougar®.? New Adult Contemporary? 6 Books in Series + Spin-Off? Incidental Age gap"I was lost, lost in a feeling I'd never felt before. Lost in a passion I didn't know I was capable of." - SadieGavin, 22, an old soul who left New York to escape a painful past, finding solace his senior year of college. But that's not all he found...Sadie, 36, was finally living life for herself. Her only son was off to college, albeit right down the street, but she could finally breathe... that is until Gavin took her breath away.www.AuthorSummerLeigh.comInstagram.com/AuthorSummerLeighIncidental Cougar® & Romanoverse® Spin-Off by Author Summer Leigh. One world. Two Series. Twelve+ Books.

Download or read book Incidental Happenstance written by Kim DeSalvo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidental: Occurring or likely to occur as an unpredictable or minor accompaniment* Happenstance: A chance circumstance * Neither was looking for it. Neither was expecting it. But sometimes, life has other plans... One year after the loss of her fiancé, Tia Hastings needed to find a way to start over. She had to figure out how to be single again, but she had no idea how to do it. Last Stop was a tiny pub with no significance-she chose it to be anonymous, to watch the interactions between the sexes so she could figure out how to start her life over... Dylan Miller was a megastar. It was impossible for him to move amongst the general population without being recognized, but he longed to simply blend into a crowd. He donned a disguise and wandered into Last Stop, a dark little hole-in-the-wall where he was sure he wouldn't be recognized... When their worlds collide, Tia and Dylan discover something neither of them thought possible-love. But when a fallen star sees Dylan as her ticket back to the top and will stop at nothing to make him hers, Tia wonders if she's out of her league; and out of time to rescue the love she thought she'd never find again... Is it fate? Coincidence? Or both? *freedictionary.com

Download or read book Never Contented Things written by Sarah Porter and published by Tor Teen. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sarah Porter is a genius. Her language is lush and dangerous, and her books burn with the beautiful, ferocious intensity of a bonfire in the darkest night.”—Brittany Cavallaro, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Charlotte From critically-acclaimed author Sarah Porter comes Never-Contented Things: a standalone surreal young adult fantasy of teenagers ensorcelled into a wicked bargain with otherworldly beings... Every moment of the night— Forever changing places— And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces... —Edgar Allan Poe, “Fairy-Land” Bound by haunting tragedies, Ksenia Adderley and Joshua Korensky have shared a home as foster siblings since they were children. Despite their opposite personalities—Ksenia is prickly, mistrustful, Josh, flamboyant and outgoing—they are fiercely protective of one another. As teens, they’ve grown even closer. Some say unnaturally so. With Ksenia's eighteenth birthday approaching, their guardians expect her to move out. They want to free Josh of his obsession with the foster-sister whom they regard as a strange, unhealthy influence. But they don’t understand the depths of Josh’s feelings for Ksenia and how desperate he is to ensure they stay together—forever. The one called Prince understands all too well. Attracted by the intensity of Josh’s desires and Ksenia’s fears, he can grant them a home among his kind: beautiful creatures not of this earth. All they have to do is surrender their very humanity and succumb to the cruel whims of Prince and his fae courtiers... “A creepy new world like none I’ve seen before. Eerie, edgy and filled with mystery, Porter takes us to the depths of the magical and psychological.”—Danielle Paige, New York Times bestselling author of Dorothy Must Die At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Their Fate Is Our Fate written by Peter Doherty and published by The Experiment + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this book by Nobel Prize–winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty is this striking observation: Birds detect danger to our health and the environment before we do. Following a diverse cast of bird species around the world—from tufted puffins in Puget Sound to griffon vultures in India, pigeons in East Asia, and wedge-tailed shearwaters off the islands of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef—Doherty illuminates birds’ role as an early warning system for threats to the health of our planet and our own well-being.Their Fate Is Our Fate is an impassioned call not only to attention but to action. As “citizen scientists” we can collect data, vital to cutting-edge research, that depends on the birds that are all around us. Armed with our observations, scientists will continue to uncover new ways to glimpse our future in birds—and to affirm how, truly, their fate is our fate.

Download or read book Fever Dream written by Samanta Schweblin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderful nightmare of a book: tender and frightening, disturbing but compassionate. Fever Dream is a triumph of Schweblin’s outlandish imagination.” –Juan Gabriel Vasquez, author of The Sound of Things Falling and Reputations A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He's not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Download or read book The Age of Miracles written by Karen Thompson Walker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A stunner.”—Justin Cronin “It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world. “Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan’s Emerald City.”—The Denver Post “Pure magnificence.”—Nathan Englander “Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.”—Curtis Sittenfeld “Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.

Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

Download or read book His Model Student written by No‘l Cades and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Sera's new art teacher mistakes her for a model and demands that she strip naked, sparks start to fly. Will Mr Marek be able to keep his student at arm's length after seeing everything she has to offer? And what happens when his malicious, scheming ex girlfriend appears on the scene?

Download or read book The Great Hunt written by Robert Jordan and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine! In The Great Hunt, the second novel in Robert Jordan’s #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, Rand al’Thor and his companions set out to retrieve a powerful artifact from The Dark One’s Shadowspawn. For centuries, gleemen have told the tales of The Great Hunt of the Horn. So many tales about each of the Hunters, and so many Hunters to tell of... Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages. And it is stolen. In pursuit of the thieves, Rand al’Thor is determined to keep the Horn out of the grasp of The Dark One. But he has also learned that he is The Dragon Reborn—the Champion of Light destined to stand against the Shadow time and again. It is a duty and a destiny that requires Rand to uncover and master extraordinary capabilities he never imagined he possessed. Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters. The last six books in series were all instant #1 New York Times bestsellers, and The Eye of the World was named one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read. The Wheel of Time® New Spring: The Novel #1 The Eye of the World #2 The Great Hunt #3 The Dragon Reborn #4 The Shadow Rising #5 The Fires of Heaven #6 Lord of Chaos #7 A Crown of Swords #8 The Path of Daggers #9 Winter's Heart #10 Crossroads of Twilight #11 Knife of Dreams By Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson #12 The Gathering Storm #13 Towers of Midnight #14 A Memory of Light By Robert Jordan and Teresa Patterson The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time By Robert Jordan, Harriet McDougal, Alan Romanczuk, and Maria Simons The Wheel of Time Companion By Robert Jordan and Amy Romanczuk Patterns of the Wheel: Coloring Art Based on Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book Incidental Cougar Book 6 written by Summer Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final book in the Incidental Cougar series. This book features chapters and story sets through the twins high school graduation. Incidental Cougar is a six book series + spin-off Romanoverse.

Download or read book Fate of the Gods written by Laura Wylde and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stranded on an island with 4 hot guys. When Rose Wilson, a successful, beautiful model, boarded a plane in California bound for her home in New York, she never guessed that she'd be waking up only hours later on a deserted island, surrounded by four of the hottest men on the planet.But all is far from fantasy.Dazed and confused the group begins to realize that they may not be the only ones on the island.Rose's burden only becomes more difficult to bear when she's visited by characters who seem to have walked right off the pages of a Greek Mythology textbook. Unfortunately, they leave her with more questions than answers...Rose has three days to figure it out, or face living out her days on a deserted island with four hot men...and that might just pose another question, would that really be so bad?

Download or read book Luca written by Summer Leigh and published by Romanoverse. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LUCA Romano, of the Romanoverse. #ItalianMMC #NigerianItalianFMC #Dramedy #Spicy #LucaRomano Women were just a number, never a name-until her. Crystal was to be only a night, a game, a challenge. But she became a name, a kiss, a need-one that Luca wasn't ready for. Luca Romano, eldest Romano brother, had women falling to their knees, Wall Street at his fingertips, and his famiglia under his wings. Brash, impatient, playboy, jerk-he was all those things.Some called him heartless, little did they know. An accident a decade ago, stole his desire to love away-fate would bring it back. But Luca's about to fight tooth and nail to keep those feelings at bay because love was not his four letter word of choice. Unbeknownst to Crystal, she's about to become the eye of Luca's storm. Batten down the hatches because this storm's coming in hot. This book is written in Luca's (male) POV. LUCA Books 2 & 3 Coming 2022. Luca was first introduced in Summer Leigh's Incidental Fate series (Gavin Romano & Sadie Jones), and his book is part of the Romanoverse. Luca is the eldest Romano, age 39 at the start of this book. The Romanoverse is an interconnected series telling the stories of the Romano siblings: Sofia, Luca, Stefano, Giorgia, and Gavin. For more: @AuthorSummerLeigh @Romanoverse AuthorSummerLeigh.com Romanoverse.com

Download or read book Writing Your Story s Theme written by K. M. Weiland and published by Penforasword Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theme Is What Your Story Is Really AboutTheme-the mysterious cousin of plot and character. Too often viewed as abstract rather than actionable, theme is frequently misunderstood and left to chance. Some writers even insist theme should not be purposefully implemented. This is unfortunate, because in many ways theme is story. Theme is the heart, the meaning, the point. Nothing that important should be overlooked. Powerful themes are never incidental. They emerge from the conjunction of strong plots and resonant character arcs. This means you can learn to plan and implement theme. In doing so, you will deepen your ability to write not only stories that entertain, but also stories that stay with readers long after the end.Writing Your Story's Theme will teach you:?How to create theme from plot and character.?Why every supporting character and subplot should enhance the theme.?How to prevent theme from seeming preachy or "on the nose."?What to consider in identifying the best theme for any given story.?And much more!Conscious mastery of theme will elevate every story you write and allow you to craft fiction of depth and meaning.Take Control of Your Story Via a Powerful Implementation of Theme

Download or read book The Lifecycle of Software Objects written by Ted Chiang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the best way to create artificial intelligence? In 1950, Alan Turing wrote, "Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. This process could follow the normal teaching of a child. Things would be pointed out and named, etc. Again I do not know what the right answer is, but I think both approaches should be tried." The first approach has been tried many times in both science fiction and reality. In this new novella, at over 30,000 words, his longest work to date, Ted Chiang offers a detailed imagining of how the second approach might work within the contemporary landscape of startup companies, massively-multiplayer online gaming, and open-source software. It's a story of two people and the artificial intelligences they helped create, following them for more than a decade as they deal with the upgrades and obsolescence that are inevitable in the world of software. At the same time, it's an examination of the difference between processing power and intelligence, and of what it means to have a real relationship with an artificial entity.

Download or read book The Shape of Ideas written by Grant Snider and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Snider has] created something unique: a synthesis of comics, philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal ideas in cartoon boxes.” —The Los Angeles Review of Books What does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt even more questions. Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student pursuing a creative career, a person of faith, someone who likes walks on the beach, or a dreamer who sits on the front porch contemplating life, this collection of one- and two-page comics will provide insight into the joys and frustrations of creativity, inspiration, and process—no matter your age or creative background. “A creative kaleidoscope of humor, insight, and truth. An inventive window into the creative experience filled with hope and encouragement for daydreamers and doodlers, sketchers and scribblers, inventors, explorers, and spinners of yarns.” —Clare Vanderpool, New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author “Grant Snider’s work delivers introspection, humor, and inspiration in visually stunning drawings. They are a colorful look into the creative process—from the moments of quiet contemplation to the days of frenzied desperation.” —Susan Cain, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking “A friendly, encouraging depiction of the creative process, with its highs and lows, from a comics creator.” —The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

Download or read book Sofia written by Summer Leigh and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOFIA: Book 1 of the Romanoverse Series.Sofia Romano, eldest sister of the tight-knit Romano family, was one to be envied. A posh society darling since birth, proudly sitting atop the highest pedestal. So high that no one could see the cracks in her perfect façade, including that of her marriage, which was nothing more than a shelter from her parents' death a decade ago.And she was perfectly content, until now.It's the holiday season and she's left alone, forced to face the cracks in her picture perfect life-the husband who's never there, the home that's always empty, and the heart that never had a place in her marriage.All this culminates when she has a chance encounter with her brother's new neighbor.Eric Walker had just moved to New York. A big-hearted country guy exploring the city for his next book. He had a zest for life, no cares about what others thought, and a heart that leapt out of his chest the second he saw Sofia Romano waiting in his hall.First impressions go awry; second impressions fail just as miserably, but as they say, third time's the charm.That country boy with a heart of gold is about to show this uptight city girl how great love can truly be. This will be a Christmas & New Year's Sofia will never forget!The Romanoverse series is a spin-off of Summer Leigh's Incidental Fate series, and focuses on the lives of the Romano siblings.