Download or read book The Matchmaker s Gift written by Lynda Cohen Loigman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of Fall 2022 by Parade • BuzzFeed • New York Post • GMA.com • People "Loigman's latest is a gem. A scrappy Jewish teenager newly arrived in 1920s New York struggles to follow her calling as a matchmaker––seventy years later, her cynical divorce-attorney granddaughter realizes she has very inconveniently inherited the family gift for matching soulmates. Both funny and moving, The Matchmaker's Gift made me smile from start to finish." ––Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code Is finding true love a calling or a curse? Even as a child in 1910, Sara Glikman knows her gift: she is a maker of matches and a seeker of soulmates. But among the pushcart-crowded streets of New York’s Lower East Side, Sara’s vocation is dominated by devout older men—men who see a talented female matchmaker as a dangerous threat to their traditions and livelihood. After making matches in secret for more than a decade, Sara must fight to take her rightful place among her peers, and to demand the recognition she deserves. Two generations later, Sara’s granddaughter, Abby, is a successful Manhattan divorce attorney, representing the city’s wealthiest clients. When her beloved Grandma Sara dies, Abby inherits her collection of handwritten journals recording the details of Sara’s matches. But among the faded volumes, Abby finds more questions than answers. Why did Abby’s grandmother leave this library to her and what did she hope Abby would discover within its pages? Why does the work Abby once found so compelling suddenly feel inconsequential and flawed? Is Abby willing to sacrifice the career she’s worked so hard for in order to keep her grandmother’s mysterious promise to a stranger? And is there really such a thing as love at first sight?

Download or read book A Match Made in Heaven written by Shari Macdonald and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salinger Sisters Series spins the tales of four sisters who find love–in spite of themselves. The love–and laughs–began in Love on the Run and continue in Book Two, A Match Made in Heaven. Lucy Salinger has always been brilliant at making matches–for everyone else. But though she is owner and leading “matchmaker” at one of the most prestigious dating services in Los Angeles, Lucy finds herself withdrawing from every man who might be interested in dating her. Then handsome and successful behavioral psychologist Dr. Campbell Howard comes into her office…and Lucy proceeds to set him up on the most disastrous dates in dating history! Is Lucy just losing her touch? Or is she, on a subconscious level, choosing women she knows aren’t right for Cam…just so she can save him for herself?

Download or read book The Doctor and the Matchmaker written by Cheryl Harper and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His troublesome matchmaker… Could be “the one”! Former navy surgeon Wade McNally is sure his upcoming date with a lovely lady will check “meet the perfect woman” off his to-do list. Until he learns his date’s sister tricked him. Desperate to keep her shenanigans a secret, Brisa Montero agrees to find Wade the right match. But summer days swimming and exploring with the handsome doctor and his clever daughter make Brisa wonder if the right match is closer than she thought! USA TODAY Bestselling Author From Harlequin Heartwarming: Wholesome stories of love, compassion and belonging. Veterans’ Road Book 1: A Soldier Saved Book 2: The Dalmatian Dilemma Book 3: The Doctor and the Matchmaker

Download or read book The Wedding Game written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating romance about the inimitable Duncan sisters and their clandestine matchmaking service, a handsome new client throws youngest sister Chastity into an unexpected quandary. Chastity listens to Dr. Douglas Farrell’s distressingly unromantic requirements for a wife: wealth and social status. Her instinct is to refuse service to the tall, muscular, dark-eyed physician, but she can’t turn away a paying client. Yet the doctor conceals a secret. He’s prepared to sacrifice his bachelorhood for his true passion: caring for the poorest of London’s poor. Of course, his dream requires capital. For that, he is convinced he needs a well-to-do, well-connected wife. Little does Chastity know that if she ever learned the selfless truth, the handsome doctor just might steal her heart. And if Douglas ever lifted the veil that covers this mysterious woman, he might discover his perfect match.

Download or read book The Wartime Sisters written by Lynda Cohen Loigman and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Lilac Girls, the next powerful novel from the author of Goodreads Choice Awards semifinalist The Two-Family House about two sisters working in a WWII armory, each with a deep secret. "Loigman’s strong voice and artful prose earn her a place in the company of Alice Hoffman and Anita Diamant, whose readers should flock to this wondrous new book." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Orphan’s Tale "The Wartime Sisters shows the strength of women on the home front: to endure, to fight, and to help each other survive.” —Jenna Blum, New York Times and international bestselling author of The Lost Family and Those Who Save Us Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reunited at the Springfield Armory in the early days of WWII. While one sister lives in relative ease on the bucolic Armory campus as an officer’s wife, the other arrives as a war widow and takes a position in the Armory factories as a “soldier of production.” Resentment festers between the two, and secrets are shattered when a mysterious figure from the past reemerges in their lives. "One of my favorite books of the year." —Fiona Davis, national bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Masterpiece "A stirring tale of loyalty, betrayal, and the consequences of long-buried secrets.” —Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of The Edge of Lost and Sold on a Monday

Download or read book The Bachelor List written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-02-03 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exhilarating new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather, a trio of spirited sisters secretly run a thriving matchmaking service. But these three good catches of impeccable pedigree have little interest in matrimony themselves—until, one by one, they meet their matches. Constance Duncan may be the eldest of three sisters, but she has more important things on her mind than finding a husband—for herself, at any rate. Through the Personals services of her popular newspaper, The Mayfair Lady, Constance connects lonely hearts. But her own heart lies in her work, and nothing will distract her from it—until she finds herself irresistibly drawn to a man of disastrously different views. Max Ensor is a politician whose outmoded attitudes outrage her—even as his powerful presence intrigues her. Clearly there is only one thing to do with such an exasperating man: convert him! Little does Constance know that Max has the same plan in mind for her. . . . What follows is a fiercely passionate duel in which two headstrong people discover that, differences or not, sometimes one gender cannot—will not—do without the other.

Download or read book The Bride Hunt written by Jane Feather and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Jane Feather’s dazzling, irresistible romance, London’s most charming matchmakers are faced with a ruinous lawsuit—and now Prudence, the brainy, beautiful middle sister, must save them. Soon after the Duncan sisters’ personals service turns a profit, their controversial newspaper The Mayfair Lady offends a powerful earl—who is now determined to demolish them in court. In dire need of counsel, the women turn to England’s most sought after young barrister. Sir Gideon Malvern is notorious for his aggressive style—and his love of a challenge. Spirited Prudence, with her beauty unsuccessfully hidden behind spectacles and frumpy clothes, provides him with exactly that. But how in the world will the Duncan sisters be able to afford Gideon’s fee? Prudence proposes a barter: Gideon defends their case; they find him a bride. It’s an exchange of services even this most cynical single barrister cannot refuse.

Download or read book Monstrous Matchmakers written by Luna Graves and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After noticing Yvette, the principle of Y.I.K.E.S.S.S. (Yvette I. Koffin's School for Supernatural Students), has been rather cranky recently, twin witch sisters Bella and Donna decide to cheer her up by bringing a little romance into her life.

Download or read book The Matchmaker s List written by Sonya Lalli and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One devoted modern girl + a meddlesome, traditional grandmother = a heartwarming multicultural romantic comedy about finding love where you least expect it. Raina Anand may have finally given in to family pressure and agreed to let her grandmother play matchmaker, but that doesn't mean she has to like it--or that she has to play by the rules. Nani always took Raina's side when she tried to push past the traditional expectations of their tight-knit Indian-immigrant community, but now she's ambushing Raina with a list of suitable bachelors. Is it too much to ask for a little space? Besides, what Nani doesn't know won't hurt her... As Raina's life spirals into a parade of Nani-approved bachelors and disastrous blind dates, she must find a way out of this modern-day arranged-marriage trap without shattering her beloved grandmother's dreams.

Download or read book A Matchmaker s Challenge written by Teresa Southwick and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone thinks they’re made to be… This matchmaker has her work cut out for her… Despite his feelings on love and marriage, Gabriel Blackburne works for his aunt’s matchmaking company—but only on the financial side! So he’s not exactly thrilled when, much like his meddlesome family, a teenager shows up and tries to set him up with her mom. But when it becomes clear that Courtney Davidson is equally uninterested—if incredibly compelling—he proposes a mutually beneficial fake relationship to keep both his family and her daughter out of their business…

Download or read book Memoir of a Psychiatrist written by Ahmed EL Toumi and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir is the story of my life, which, as a practicing physician, covered several thousand miles in travel and living among people different from each other, and regions in the same country different from each other. The anthropology and medical experiences were different from one place to another.

Download or read book The Matchmaker s Apprentice written by Karen Toller Whittenburg and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Get me a date with a wonderful mate! When You're Playing Cupid… The minute Dr. Ivan Donovan saunters into her office, Ainsley Danville's got only one thing on her mind—proving her genius for sniffing out soul mates. The handsome Texan is, in her professional opinion, a marked man. As soon as she sets up his "date" with destiny—her unsuspecting sister, that is—his life as a fancy-free bachelor will be over. Don't Shoot Yourself In The Foot! Ainsley's very first match, though, is a complete catastrophe. While trying to ignite the spark of passion between her clients, her matchmaking career starts going up in smoke. Because she's fallen for Ivan herself!

Download or read book Fortress Besieged written by Zhongshu Qian and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of Chinese literature, this magnificent litany of mishaps begins on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, when Fang Hung-chien, with no particular goal in life and a bogus degree from a fake university in hand, returns home to Shanghai, meeting two Chinese beauties, Miss Su and Miss Pao, on the way. Fang eventually obtains a teaching post at a newly established university in the interior, where he encounters effete pseudo-intellectuals. Soon he falls into a marriage of Nabokovian proportions of distress and absurdity.

Download or read book The Matchmaker s Match written by Jessica Nelson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Marriage Ultimatum He has three months to find a wife--or lose his estate. Spencer, Lord Ashwhite, doubts he'll find a suitable bride among the ton, until the unconventional Lady Amelia Baxley agrees to provide a list of candidates. It should be an ideal arrangement, were Spencer not growing attached to the one woman Amelia refuses to consider as a prospect: herself. Independence means everything to Amelia, who has been burned in love before. The charming marquis is quickly putting her entire life in turmoil, and controlling her stubborn heart has never been such a challenge. But does the ever-practical Amelia dare to go from bride-finder to wife?

Download or read book The Matchmaker s Match written by Nicole Flockton and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could the best man be her best option? The last person Meredith Turner expects to see at her best friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner is the guy she had a one night stand with. What’s worse, Lincoln Forrest is the best man and as maid of honor, her partner. To add insult to injury, she has to leave the rehearsal dinner early, and Lincoln is the one to help her with a deeply personal problem. The aftermath of that night brings big changes for them both. Lincoln Forrest has helped his best friend meet the woman of his dreams, but recently he’s made a series of bad decisions, the biggest being leaving his career with the Army. Now the former K-9 handler is looking for a new career and trying to get his life back on track. Helping Meredith in her time of need connects her to him more than he expected. On a mission to right the wrong he created, Linc will do whatever is needed. But when the attraction that first drew them together flares to life again, will the obstacles between them be too much to overcome? Or has the matchmaker met his match?

Download or read book True Destiny written by Annu Hirae and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of a bilingual girl growing up on the island of Okinawa, who possesses unusual intelligence and obsesses with movie stars and a pornographic novel she reads by accident. She meets and falls in love with a man through language practices but when her wild imagination leads her to create a naughty love story, it prevents him from proposing to her. They are separated for thirty-fi ve years but miraculously meet on a trip and rekindle their relationship. True Destiny is a heartwarming romance novel about a love lost and found after many long years. It shows that love can endure even after a long separation and as it is rekindled, proves that love is sweeter the second time around. The book weaves a rich tapestry of love and life in general that explore and analyze the fears of marriage and a story that unravels through two languages. Readers who love romantic stories about destiny and fated encounters with their own lost love will love this book. It will make them reminisce about their youth and dream about having their own miraculous encounters with their lost love and at the same time they can fancy their own True Destiny.

Download or read book A Thousand Hills to Heaven written by Josh Ruxin and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One couple's inspiring memoir of healing a Rwandan village, raising a family near the old killing fields, and building a restaurant named Heaven. Newlyweds Josh and Alissa were at a party and received a challenge that shook them to the core: do you think you can really make a difference? Especially in a place like Rwanda, where the scars of genocide linger and poverty is rampant? While Josh worked hard bringing food and health care to the country's rural villages, Alissa was determined to put their foodie expertise to work. The couple opened Heaven, a gourmet restaurant overlooking Kigali, which became an instant success. Remarkably, they found that between helping youth marry their own local ingredients with gourmet recipes (and mix up "the best guacamole in Africa") and teaching them how to help themselves, they created much-needed jobs while showing that genocide's survivors really could work together. While first a memoir of love, adventure, and family, A Thousand Hills to Heaven also provides a remarkable view of how, through health, jobs, and economic growth, our foreign aid programs can be quickly remodeled and work to end poverty worldwide.