Download or read book Texting Olivia written by Galya Gerstman and published by Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press. This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texting Olivia is a funny, fast-paced, modern take on the epistolary novel, using phone texts and calls instead of letters as the main form of communication. Fay is a paralegal in her forties with thwarted career ambitions, which she blames on her mother. Indeed, she has done almost everything opposite to her own upbringing in raising Olivia. But Fay’s assumptions about what it means to be a good mother—and also a good daughter—are put to the test when she and her husband take a madcap trip from New Jersey to San Francisco to help Olivia move out of her dorm.

Download or read book A Networked Self and Love written by Zizi Papacharissi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We fall in love every day, with others, with ideas, with ourselves. Stories of love excite us and baffle us. This volume is about love and the networked self. It focuses on how love forms, grows, or dissolves. Chapters address how relationships of love develop, are sustained or broken up through technologies of expression and connection. Authors explore how technologies reproduce, reorganize, or reimagine our dominant rituals of love. Contributors also address what our experiences with love teach us about ourselves, others, and the art of living. Every love story has a beginning and an end. Technology does not give love the kiss of eternity; but it can afford love new meaning.

Download or read book Olivia s Journey written by Latrina R. Graves McCarty and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia thinks she was ready for a relationship. Little does she know the progression of time for the dating scene is not at all like it was fifteen years ago when she met her only true love, Isaiah. There is not a day that goes by that Olivia does not think of him. It was the simple things that he would do. Seldom did he need to tell her that he loved her, because his actions would speak loud and clear for themselves. Never had she even considered life without her husband, her best friend, and the father of their children, Isaiah II and Isabella. Now she is faced to journey the rest of her life without him. During the first couple of years, it took all her strength to maintain her daily routine. Her children, family, career, and friends were her distractions. However, now that her children are older and her businesses are well established, Olivia faces her true feelings on love and relationship. Each of her three chosen relationships presented its own challenges, and at the end of each relationship, Olivia would always question God: why on earth would he take her Isaiah and leave them walking the earth? Olivia knew that if she wanted a reputable relationship, it was imperative she learn how to trust. Could she believe true love would find her again? Would she continuously allow deversions to distract her journey? Or would she finally realize that everything she needed was already inside of her?

Download or read book Olivia Thompson Mysteries Box Set Three written by Jullian Scott and published by Jullian Scott. This book was released on with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful and romantic series that explores the depth of family loyalty, the cruelty of evil, and the power of love. It's been four years since Rosie Thompson's murder was solved. Nate and Olivia have built a happy life together with their two kids. Just when they start to think they've found their happily-ever-after, a new evil threatens to destroy everything. This Olivia Thompson box set contains books seven, eight, and nine in the series.

Download or read book You Were Meant for Me written by Yona Zeldis McDonough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you have to give up the person you love most? Thirty-five-year-old Miranda is not an impulsive person. She's been at Domestic Goddess magazine for eight years, she has great friends, and she's finally moving on after a breakup. Having a baby isn't even on her radar--until the day she discovers an abandoned newborn on the platform of a Brooklyn subway station. Rushing the little girl to the closest police station, Miranda hopes and prays she'll be all right and that a loving family will step forward to take her. Yet Miranda can't seem to get the baby off her mind and keeps coming up with excuses to go check on her, until finally a family court judge asks whether she'd like to be the baby's foster parent--maybe even adopt her. To her own surprise, Miranda jumps at the chance. But nothing could have prepared her for the ecstasy of new-mother love--or the heartbreak she faces when the baby's father surfaces.... CONVERSATION GUIDE INCLUDED

Download or read book Master of Magic written by Angela Knight and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to New York Times bestselling author Angela Knight’s Mageverse in this never-before-published novella about a man with mysterious abilities and a hidden past—and the woman who must help him decipher his secrets. Olivia Flynn finds herself on the brink of death, unable to call upon her Sidhe magic, when a handsome stranger rescues her. But this male is no ordinary human, and Olivia wants nothing to do with him. The foreign magic boiling around him is far beyond the power of even the Sidhe. Rhys Kincade has never been able to explain his magical abilities. Olivia is the first person he’s encountered who shares his gifts. But before he can ask her about them, they find themselves under attack by a pack of werewolf assassins. An even deadlier threat follows, and the pair is forced to rely on each other as they fight unknown enemies—and an ever-growing attraction between them.

Download or read book A Token of Love written by Carrie Turansky and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1885 London, Lillian Freemont embarks on a treacherous journey to reunite with her long-lost niece who was abandoned at the Foundling Hospital eight years ago. Fueled by her sister's plea and armed with the gold token that identifies her niece, Lillian teams up with investigative reporter Matthew McGivern to expose the grim reality of the shadowed streets of London. As Lillian and Matthew unravel the mystery of Alice's disappearance, their partnership blossoms into one of shared purpose and undeniable attraction. In present-day London, Janelle Spencer finds herself unexpectedly running the Foundling Museum. When filmmaker Jonas Conrad arrives to document the museum's history, their collaboration takes a surprising turn as they uncover articles from the past that shed light on a haunting connection to the present. As Janelle becomes caught between exposing the truth and protecting the museum's reputation, she must decide if she can risk everything for love and justice. In this heartfelt dual-time tale, bestselling author Carrie Turansky weaves a story of two eras bridged by the quest for love and truth.

Download or read book Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts written by Mary Ellen Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proposing a fresh approach to scholarship on the topic, this volume explores the cultural meanings, especially the gendered meanings, of material associated with oral traditions. The collection is divided into three sections. Part One investigates the evocations of the 'old nurse' as storyteller so prominent in early modern fictions. The essays in Part Two investigate women's fashioning of oral traditions to serve their own purposes. The third section disturbs the exclusive associations between the feminine and oral traditions to discover implications for masculinity, as well. Contributors explore the plays of Shakespeare and writings of Spenser, Sidney, Wroth and the Cavendishes, as well as works by less well known or even unknown authors. Framed by an introduction by Mary Ellen Lamb and an afterword by Pamela Allen Brown, these essays make several important interventions in scholarship in the field. They demonstrate the continuing cultural importance of an oral tradition of tales and ballads, even if sometimes circulated in manuscript and printed forms. Rather than in its mode of transmission, contributors posit that the continuing significance of this oral tradition lies instead in the mode of consumption (the immediacy of the interaction of the participants). Oral Traditions and Gender in Early Modern Literary Texts confirms the power of oral traditions to shape and also to unsettle concepts of the masculine as well as of the feminine. This collection usefully complicates any easy assumptions about associations of oral traditions with gender.

Download or read book Unexpected Father written by Carolyne Aarsen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newfound Family Denny Norquest has a plan. Lease a ranch in Hartley Creek and raise cattle. But the baby dropped in his lap changes everything. Soon he's deep in diaper duty--with no end in sight Bookseller Evangeline Arsenau feels compelled to help the handsome single dad care for his little girl. She's learned the hard way that men can't be trusted, but Denny's unexpected devotion to his daughter has her falling for dad and baby. Is she willing to let down the boundaries she's placed around her heart for the chance at happily ever after? Hearts of Hartley Creek--In this small town, love is just around the corner

Download or read book Olivia s Enchanted Summer written by Lyn Gardner and published by Nosy Crow. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia can't believe she's really at the legendary Edinburgh Festival. Every summr, people put on plays, they dance and tell jokes, and this year, it's the magnificent Swan Circus! But the run doesn't go smoothly. The Circus ends up homeless, it keeps raining and there's a thief in their midst who's determined to steal the show. As the Festival draws to a close, can anything turn Olivia's soggy summer into a truly enchanted one?

Download or read book Who Is Olivia Green written by David Heaton and published by Anaphora Literary Press. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawyer. Spy. Lover. Fighter. This debut thriller follows Olivia Green as she becomes all these and yet remains a mystery, even to herself. Lawyer: A young associate in a high-powered firm building a fledgling office in Augusta, Georgia. Spy: Recruited in high school to work for a secret organization that was formed after 9/11, an organization tasked with doing whatever it takes to keep the country safe. Their protégé, Olivia, surpasses expectations on her first assignment and moves onto her next mission, an assassination. Lover: From teachers to gym instructors, no man can resist her charm and fierce intensity. Fighter: Shady men lurking in the shadows get more than they bargained for from this CrossFit enthusiast.

Download or read book Fierce written by Lark O'Neal and published by Barbara Samuel. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIERCE Going the Distance II – YOLO A full-length, stand-alone romance. Distance. Chelsea Anderson uses it to flee a violent past and escape into the welcome anonymity of travel as she backpacks around the world. But when an explosion derails her train and strands her in the middle of nowhere, Chelsea, her travel buddy Madeline, and the fiercely sexy Alec McRae are forced to camp out in a tiny mountain village in the Alps. Fighting to escape the dark memories that surface, Chelsea finds herself sharing a very hot kiss with the brooding Alec—but flees back into the safety of distance. If Alec McRae had invented the perfect girl, she would have looked like Chelsea, and the more time he spends with her, the more he wants her. A simmering sexual tension burns between them, but Alec, too, is using distance as a buffer to hide two secrets: the shame of a life spent in brutal poverty, and guilt that someone in his life made a supreme sacrifice to give him a fresh start. When the group escapes the Alps, Chelsea and Alec share a magical week in Venice, where the lovers are confronted with everything they’ve tried to leave behind. Will they take a stand and embrace their love or let distance destroy everything?

Download or read book Let it Show written by Tawna Fenske and published by Tawna Fenske. This book was released on 2021-03-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step one in starting my new life: Don’t fall for my shrink. Scratch that. Step one is settling my daughter in our new small town life. So what if it’s the set of a reality TV show? I agreed to let cameras follow me around, but stay the hell away from my kid. And screw the storyline about a grumpy single dad finding love. I’m here for the fresh start. It’s bad enough I’ve got these sessions with sexy psychologist Mari. Mari and her foul-mouthed parrot and her love of quirky trivia. Mari and our blazing hot kiss in a bizarre underground bunker. I can’t fall for her. See, I’m pretty sure the good doc’s hiding something huge. And a woman with secrets is a recipe for heartache. Take it from a guy who knows. A romance like this is forbidden six ways to Sunday. So why can’t we keep our hands off each other? One-click this forbidden doctor/patient rom-com about a single dad trying to find a new life in a small town and the psychiatrist with a secret who could just be his new chance at love.

Download or read book Falling for the Judge written by Evelyn Hoffmann and published by Evelyn Hoffmann. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling for the Judge In the quaint town of Landmark Mountain, a chance encounter with the irresistibly charismatic Judge turns young nanny Emma's world upside down. Drawn together by fate and circumstance, Emma finds herself navigating the complexities of forbidden desire and undeniable attraction. As she steps into the role of nanny to the judge's son, Owen, Emma discovers more than just a job—she finds herself entangled in a whirlwind of emotions, ignited by his captivating charm and deep brown eyes that seem to hold secrets of their own. Their connection grows stronger with every stolen glance and lingering touch, but the shadows of the judge's prestigious status and the gap between their ages threaten to pull them apart. Can they defy the odds and pursue a love that defies convention? "Falling for the Judge" is a passionate tale of love, risk, and the courage to follow one's heart against all odds. Perfect for fans of steamy romance and heartwarming stories of forbidden love, this novel will keep you turning pages late into the night, rooting for Emma and the judge's love to triumph. Discover the power of love and the thrill of forbidden romance in "Falling for the Judge," where every heartbeat brings them closer to a love that knows no bounds.

Download or read book Shotgun Romance written by Elizabeth Spaur and published by Elizabeth Spaur. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He had no faith in love. She had no faith in men. They've got eight months to find faith in each other.Since the night his life had taken a dramatic left turn, Nick Jacobs had been searching for a chance to prove he was the man he'd always wanted to be. When his old friend calls him and offers him a chance to help rebuild the Cormac University football program, he thinks this is his shot. He didn't count on falling for Olivia or getting her pregnant. Can he juggle all his responsibilities and prove to himself, once and for all, that he's worthy of love?After the traumatic loss of her mother, Olivia Valenti shut herself off from the world. Running the Cormac University English department is a dream come true. She didn't think she would ever want or need anything else. One night with Nick in Las Vegas and motherhood is on the horizon. Can she open her heart to Nick and build the home she never knew she dreamed of?An instant attraction and a night of celebration leads to an unexpected pregnancy, which Nick and Olivia are determined to face together. Unfortunately, their pasts and present are about to collide, and old secrets will challenge the foundation they're trying to build their family on. Can they learn to let go of the past in time to share a future?Will they realize that love always wins?Welcome to Shotgun Romance, the second book in the Gridiron Knights series set in King's Folly South Carolina, where football is king, and the locals have something to say about everything. When you come for a visit, you'll never want to leave.This is a stand-alone romance. It can be read and enjoyed on its own. If it's your first taste of the Gridiron Knights, check out Second Chance Option and find out how Tess and Cade found their happily-ever-after.

Download or read book Olivia Thompson Mysteries Box Set Five written by Jullian Scott and published by Jullian Scott. This book was released on with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspenseful and romantic series that explores the depth of family loyalty, the cruelty of evil, and the power of love. Olivia and Nate have settled into their new suburban life. Despite having left the city behind, they can't avoid being pulled into new mysteries and find themselves working together to bring criminals to justice. This Olivia Thompson box set contains books thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen in the series.

Download or read book Mia s Boiling Point written by Coco Simon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mia tries to make friends with Olivia, the new girl, but when Olivia makes fun of the other Cupcake Club girls and tells Mia she shouldn't hang out with them, Mia must make a decision about her new friendship.