Download or read book The Ivy Chronicles written by Karen Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she's been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business, helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman's bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman's tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance, set in a looking-glass world where even tots have résumés. "If you think you may be a neurotic parent, read this and feel sane." —Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It "Entertaining . . . Picks up where The Nanny Diaries left off." —The New York Post "[A] ferociously funny tale." —Us Weekly "Hilarious." —Child magazine "Tales of Manhattan?s elite trying to get their tots into private schools is sure to make you smirk condescendingly . . . The Ivy Chronicles delivers." —Boston Herald "The brilliant, witty, and ultimately soulful heroine is a perfect tour guide who will leave you laughing up your latté..."—Jill Kargman, author of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing "With humor and heart, Karen Quinn brilliantly skewers the insanely competitive world of wealth we love to hate. Readers will cheer for Ivy!" —Leslie Schnur, author of The Dog Walker

Download or read book Foreplay written by Sophie Jordan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepper has been hopelessly in love with her best friend's brother, Hunter, for, like, ever. He's the key to everything she's always craved: security, stability, family. But she needs Hunter to notice her as more than just a friend. Even though she's kissed exactly one guy, she has the perfect plan to go from novice to rock star in the bedroom: take a few pointers from someone who knows what he's doing. Her college roommates have the perfect teacher in mind. But bartender Reece is nothing like the player Pepper expects. Yes, he's beyond gorgeous, but he's also dangerous and deep—with a troubled past. Soon what started as a lesson in attraction is turning both their worlds upside down, and showing them just what can happen when you go past foreplay and get to what's real. . . .

Download or read book Wild written by Sophie Jordan and published by William Morrow Paperbacks. This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A good girl goes fabulously bad in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sexy New Adult romance series, in which three Ivy League suite-mates seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go. Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, she’s ready to change her image, and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong than a hot night of sexual adventure at the secret campus kink club? In the shadowy den of the kink club, she unexpectedly runs into Logan Mulvaney, her friend’s little brother. A player extraordinaire too hot for his own good, he may be younger, but the guy is light years ahead when it comes to sexual experience. Now he’s telling her to go home—“good girls” don’t belong here! Georgia is tired of having others define her. She’s going to teach Logan a lesson he won’t forget—one white hot, mind-wrecking kiss . . . that leads to another . . . and another . . . and. . . . Realizing she’s way in over her head, Georgia runs. Only Logan won’t let her go. Everywhere she goes he’s there, making her want every inch of him. Making her forget who she is. Who he is. And just how wrong they are for each other.

Download or read book Tease written by Sophie Jordan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young college woman gets schooled in life, sex, and love in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sizzling New Adult romance series—where three Ivy League suite-mates testing their boundaries as they seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go. A born flirt and good-time party girl, Emerson has never had a problem finding a willing guy. She’s always chosen her hook-ups carefully, and she's never broken her three cardinal rules: Never let them see the real you. Never fall in love. Always leave them begging for more. Then comes Shaw. A hotty from the wrong side of the tracks, he’s immune to her flirtatious banter and come-hither smile. After rescuing her from a disastrous night at a biker bar, he doesn’t even try to take her to bed—he calls her a tease and sends her home instead. Unable to resist a challenge, or forget the sexy dark-eyed bad-boy biker, she vows to bring him to his knees. But instead of making Shaw beg, she finds herself craving him. For the first time in her life, she’s throwing out her rulebook. Suddenly, she’s the one panting for a guy she can’t control. A guy who won’t settle for anything less than the real Emerson, who forces her to do things she’s never imagined, including facing a past she thought she'd buried. A guy who just might leave her wanting more . . .

Download or read book Soar The Empire Chronicles 1 written by Alyssa Rose Ivy and published by Alyssa Rose Ivy. This book was released on 2013-11-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * New Adult Paranormal Romance* In the city that never sleeps the Chronicles continue… Serving coffee is temporary, just like Casey's year off from school. She’s going to come up with a plan to stay in New York City and go back to college, and that plan does not involve dating a paranormal creature—let alone two. Running the supernatural society of New York is not as fun as it sounds, especially when you still have to answer to your ex-girlfriend’s fiancé. Toby doesn’t mean to bring Casey into the chaos of his life, but he can't resist the girl who makes him smile when he thought no one else ever could. Jared's in New York checking out a security risk for his best friend, the king. He plans to return to New Orleans quickly, but not if it means losing his chance with the brunette who pretends she wants nothing to do with him. In over her head with a bunch of winged creatures who most definitely are not angels, Casey has to figure out who to trust with her life and maybe her heart.

Download or read book Flight The Crescent Chronicles 1 written by Alyssa Rose Ivy and published by Alyssa Rose Ivy. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes you just have to take flight. A summer in New Orleans is exactly what Allie needs before starting college. Accepting her dad’s invitation to work at his hotel offers an escape from her ex-boyfriend and the chance to spend the summer with her best friend. Meeting a guy is the last thing on her mind—until she sees Levi. Unable to resist the infuriating yet alluring Levi, Allie finds herself at the center of a supernatural society and forced to decide between following the path she has always trusted or saving a city that might just save her. *Mature YA/ NA Paranormal Romance*

Download or read book The Ivy Chronicles written by Karen Quinn and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When turbocharged Park Avenue mom Ivy Ames finds that she's been downsized from her platinum-card corporate job and her marriage, she swiftly realizes that she's going to need a whole new way to support herself and her two private-school daughters. So she dreams up a new business, helping upscale New Yorkers get their little darlings into the most exclusive kindergartens in the city. What begins as one woman's bid to earn a living becomes an everywoman's tale of midlife reinvention and unexpected romance, set in a looking-glass world where even tots have résumés. "If you think you may be a neurotic parent, read this and feel sane." —Allison Pearson, author of I Don't Know How She Does It "Entertaining . . . Picks up where The Nanny Diaries left off." —The New York Post "[A] ferociously funny tale." —Us Weekly "Hilarious." —Child magazine "Tales of Manhattan?s elite trying to get their tots into private schools is sure to make you smirk condescendingly . . . The Ivy Chronicles delivers." —Boston Herald "The brilliant, witty, and ultimately soulful heroine is a perfect tour guide who will leave you laughing up your latté..."—Jill Kargman, author of The Right Address and Wolves in Chic Clothing "With humor and heart, Karen Quinn brilliantly skewers the insanely competitive world of wealth we love to hate. Readers will cheer for Ivy!" —Leslie Schnur, author of The Dog Walker

Download or read book The Sins of Man The Ivy League Chronicles written by E. K. Prescott and published by Eve Cassano. This book was released on 2021-10-03 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1924, he thought he wanted to retire, but once a detective, always a detective. After his last taste of solving a murder, Richard Wikki wants to get back in the field. Fortunately (or unfortunately), there's been another suspicious death, and this time, it's one of Scott Judson's Wolf's Head secret society brothers at Yale University. The police rule it accidental alcohol poisoning, but Richard's gut tells him otherwise. When four more of Scott's friends turn up dead at the same party, leaving only one survivor, Richard knows it's no coincidence. There's something suspicious going on, and he will leave no stone unturned until he uncovers the truth. Meanwhile, Maize has sweet-talked her way into a secret ghostwriting job on Yale's all-male newspaper. While selling ads for the Yale Daily News, she catches the attention of Tommy Mulhaney. She doesn't realize that her charming new nemesis is the nephew and successor to the notorious crime lord of New Haven's Irish Mob, Seth Mulhaney. While Maize heads deeper into unknown territory, Richard's case takes a turn. Nothing is what it seems. The Sins of Man is book two in The Ivy League Chronicles. If you're ready for more of the intrigue and conspiracy from 9 squares, pick up a copy today E. K. Prescott, Ph.D., is an award-winning, five-star author who has leveraged her research skills and deep interest in history to write The Ivy League Chronicles, a murder mystery series that is set in the Roaring Twenties. Prescott's passion is to make true history come alive through engaging fictional stories. She also teaches workshops on the writing process, historical research for fiction books and movie scripts, and American history during the 1920s.

Download or read book Wildwood written by Colin Meloy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of the Chronicles of Narnia comes the first book in the Wildwood Chronicles, the New York Times bestselling fantasy adventure series by Colin Meloy, lead singer of the Decemberists, and Carson Ellis, acclaimed illustrator of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Wildwood captivates readers with the wonder and thrill of a secret world within the landscape of a modern city. It feels at once firmly steeped in the classics of children's literature and completely fresh. The story is told from multiple points of view, and the book features more than eighty illustrations, including six full-color plates, making this an absolutely gorgeous object. In Wildwood, Prue and her friend Curtis uncover a secret world in the midst of violent upheaval—a world full of warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with the darkest intentions. And what begins as a rescue mission becomes something much greater as the two friends find themselves entwined in a struggle for the very freedom of this wilderness. A wilderness the locals call Wildwood. The bestselling trilogy from Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis consists of Wildwood, Under Wildwood, and Wildwood Imperium.

Download or read book The Bound Witch written by Ivy Asher and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when you thought it was all over, only to realize it's all just begun? I died. I looked into Rogan Kendrick's eyes, told him I loved him...and then I died. So how the hell am I standing naked in the middle of a morgue, doing my best not to freak the fuck out? I'm a Bone Witch, or at least I was before Rogan bound us together. Blood magic now flows through my veins too, and I think somehow the man I shouldn't love, the one who betrayed me, who couldn't choose me...has saved me. If the High Council finds out they'll hunt us, and they won't be the only ones. A certain bastard demon did promise to see me soon. I don't know exactly what the hell is going on, but I do know this: My name is Lennox Osseous and it's time to show them why you don't fuck with the Bone Witch.

Download or read book The Bone Witch written by Ivy Asher and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I never thought in a million years that the bones would choose me.The power, the magic, was supposed to go to someone else in the family. I was counting on it. But now my Grammy Ruby is gone, and here the bones sit on my kitchen table. I thought bitter relatives would be my biggest problem. But I've barely had time to find a familiar before trouble comes a-knocking. The kind that possesses smoldering green eyes and a smile that can turn any woman dumb.His name is Rogan Kendrick, and he's certain that someone is hunting down and taking my kind. According to him, I'm next. This is a world that I never wanted to be a part of, but magic gives no fucks and takes no prisoners... At least we have that much in common.I don't know what my ancestors were thinking when they chose me, but I'm going to give them a run for their money. My name is Lennox Osseous, but you can call me the Bone Witch.

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Download or read book Wife in the Fast Lane written by Karen Quinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-03-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinn, author of the hilarious hit novel "The Ivy Chronicles," recounts the misadventures of a successful career woman who learns that Rhaving it allS and Rhaving to "do" it allS are two entirely different things.

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Download or read book The Chronicles of Barsetshire The last chronicle of Barset written by Anthony Trollope and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: