Download or read book What You Will Not Do for Love written by Wendy Coakley-Thompson and published by Dafina Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A failed engagement has led 36-year-old Chaney Braxton from New York to Washington, D.C. Orphaned as a child, and now betrayed by her fiance, Chaney is through dealing with things that die, leave or wilt. No plants, no pets, no men. Until she meets half-black, half-Korean and wholly hot veterinarian Devin Rhym... Thing is, Devin is 28. And even if Chaney is willing to countenance the possibility of getting back in the water, she isn't sure she wants to do it with a tadpole. On the other hand, though there are older fish around, she can't deny that she wants this one...

Download or read book What You Won t Do For Love A Conversation written by David Suzuki and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another? "Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder of how blessed we are to be in the struggle with elders like David and Tara.” – Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis ‍ What You Won’t Do for Love is an inspiring conversation about love and the environment. When artist Miriam Fernandes approached the legendary eco-pioneer David Suzuki to create a theatre piece about climate change, she expected to write about David’s perspective as a scientist. Instead, she discovered the boundless vision and efforts of Tara Cullis, a literature scholar, climate organizer, and David’s life partner. Miriam realized that David and Tara’s decades-long love for each other, and for family and friends, has only clarified and strengthened their resolve to fight for the planet. What You Won’t Do for Love transforms real-life conversations between David, Tara, Miriam, and her husband Sturla into a charmingly novel and poetic work. Over one idyllic day in British Columbia, Miriam and Sturla take in a lifetime of David and Tara’s adventures, inspiration, and love, and in turn reflect on their own relationships to each other and the planet. Revealing David Suzuki and Tara Cullis in an affable, conversational, and often comedic light, What You Won’t Do For Love asks if we can love our planet the same way we love one another.

Download or read book What We Do for Love written by Ilene Beckerman and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 1997-01-10 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for love isn't easy, and it's never what you expect. WHAT WE DO FOR LOVE is a reminder of how true that is. Unlucky in love herself, "Gingy" Beckerman shows us there is always reason to keep trying. "Recaptures in words and line drawings young love in all its glorious agony and possibility."--Glamour; "Charmingly written and illustrated . . . this savory little truffle turns out to be surprisingly poignant, laced with the bitter, the rueful, and the sweet." --Good Housekeeping; "This book would make a perfect gift from a woman to her best woman friend."--Chattanooga Free Press. A BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH CLUB selection.

Download or read book The Things We Do for Love written by Kristin Hannah and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-02-16 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—The Washington Post Book World Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. “Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the characters’ heads.”—The Seattle Times

Download or read book What She d Do for Love written by Cindi Myers and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They have a chance to build something special… Christa Montgomery has faced many changes recently, but she draws the line at an overhaul of her hometown, Cedar Grove, Texas. When the community's livelihood is threatened by a new highway, she's determined to stop the project and its chief engineer, Ryder Oakes. Ryder almost swept Christa off her feet before she recognized who he was, and now she must struggle to resist his warmth and compassion. Torn between two loyalties, she can't support the new highway, even if his career is at stake. As his project runs into trouble, though, she's determined to come up with a way to have her town…and Ryder, too.

Download or read book The Things You Do for Love written by Rachel Crowther and published by Bonnier Publishing Fiction Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A wonderful page-turner of a novel about the complexity of female life, by a new writer who understands it all too well. You can have it all, but only if you're prepared to pay the price.' Fay Weldon An elite surgeon with a brilliant but philandering husband, Flora Macintyre has always defined herself by her success in juggling her career and her marriage. Until, all at once, she finds herself with neither. Retired and widowed in the space of a few months, Flora is left untethered. In a moment of madness, she realises there's nothing to stop her running away to France. But back home her two daughters - the family she's always loved, but never had the time to nurture - are struggling. Lou is balancing pregnancy with a crumbling relationship, while her younger sister, Kitty, begins to realise she may have to choose between love and her growing passion for music. And even as the family try to pull together, one dark secret could still tear them all apart... "The very best sort of fiction that makes you really MIND about those people who you have only just met but whose existence throbs with vitality." Juliet Nicolson, author of A House Full of Daughters

Download or read book The Things We Do for Love written by Margot Early and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The man Mary Anne Drew wants is marrying someone else! So to win him back, she buys a love potion. Mary Anne's not convinced spells and potions work, but still, she has to do something. Too bad the wrong man—aka Graham Corbett—drinks it. Then strange things begin to happen…. Graham has never shown any interest in Mary Anne. In fact, their arguments are legendary. But now Graham is acting anything but hostile! Could the potion really work? Or was Mary Anne looking for love in the wrong place all along?

Download or read book The New Model of Love written by Charles Lim Wu and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, weve been conditioned by society, media, education, and family to believe we need love to be happy. In The New Model of Love, author Charles Lim Wu examines and challenges this tightly held and deep-seated belief. He shows how love has evolved throughout the years and discusses the importance of realizing and accepting these changes to positively move forward. Wu looks at and redefines love. He explores the origins of the old model of love and tells how it no longer serves us to remain within its confines. The New Model of Love discusses how it can be daunting to confront the old model, but once that fear is conquered, youll be free to love as youve never loved before. Once you accept the new model, youll find freedom in love and liberation from the shackles of needing love from others. Youll stop seeking love and start creating it for yourself. Using his personal experiences and discoveries as a backdrop, Wu offers an opportunity to experience abundant joy and happiness in all your relationships, with the goal of naturally and freely experiencing infinite love.

Download or read book What I Did for Love written by Susan Elizabeth Phillips and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Writing with both sharp wit and terrific emotional warmth, Phillips delivers another of her supremely satisfying contemporary romances.” —Chicago Tribune Perennial New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is easily one of the most beloved authors of women’s fiction in America—and with her wonderfully witty What I Did for Love, she works her magic once again. Turning her satirical eye on Hollywood and the messy love triangles of its major superstars (think Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie), the incomparable Susan delivers a treasure of a romantic comedy that the Detroit Free Press calls “a laugh-out-loud tale,” and Publishers Weekly calls a “massively entertaining romp.” Read What I Did for Love and discover why Susan Elizabeth Phillips has won more Favorite Book of the Year Awards from the Romance Writers of America than any other author, including Nora Roberts.

Download or read book The Things We Do for Love written by Xavier Knight and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years ago, Jesse Law was a twenty-year-old with the world at his feet. After surviving a painful, often lonely childhood as the youngest child in a music dynasty, he forged a high-profile career, blazing a path on the charts later followed by the likes of Usher and Justin Timberlake. Those heady times are far in the past now, and Jesse's life is far richer thanks to his emerging values, the love of his wife, Dionne, and a lower-key but fulfilling career as lead singer of the gospel group. As far as he has come, though, Jesse's days are burdened by a shameful reality.

Download or read book The Things I Do for Love written by Sydney Pennington and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serenity Landon hadnt had such a great life as the youngest daughter of the California alpha. Her mother died when she was fourteen in a pack war with Nevada. When the alpha of the Nevada pack died, Serenitys father planned to gain the territory by making his only two daughters marry the sons of the recently deceased alpha. Serenity and her sister, Rena, hated the Nevada pack. They never got along. Both girls refused to marry the guys they hated, especially at the young ages of 16 and 18. When it became clear that they had no choice, the sisters decided to run away . On the run, the sisters meet Zander and Zane, who are also runaways. They travel together, always on the lookout for danger. Will they finally be safe in a new home across the Country? Or will they be found?

Download or read book Girls That Crave for Love written by Lindah Opaade and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith does involve struggle in the ability to accept change; one has to embrace the unknown. Reflecting on the anticipation of the norm is where our faith is shaken and questioned despite of the truth of scripture. Living the past behind seems clear before we start on the journey of faith. The challenge is evident in the tunnels where we find ourselves under the invisible water. Accepting the love of God will guide our destiny in a light worth believing in love and the meaning of love. My own victories and struggles have unleashed the truth that manifests in our mysteries of life. The knowledge of the higher power in this earth directs my understanding to the love we crave as more than we can fathom.

Download or read book Do What You Love written by Miya Tokumitsu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American claim that we should love and be passionate about our job may sound uplifting, or at least, harmless, but Do What You Love exposes the tangible damages such rhetoric has leveled upon contemporary society. Virtue and capital have always been twins in the capitalist, industrialized West. Our ideas of what the “virtues” of pursuing success in capitalism have changed dramatically over time. In the past, we believed that work undertaken with an ethos of industriousness promised financial stability and basic comfort and security for our families. Now, our working life is conflated with the pursuit of pleasure. Fantastically successful—and popular—entrepreneurs such as Steve Jobs and Oprah Winfrey command us. “You’ve got to love what you do,” Jobs tells an audience of college grads about to enter the workforce, while Winfrey exhorts her audience to “live your best life.” The promises made to today’s workers seem so much larger and nobler than those of previous generations. Why settle for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage and a perfectly functional eight-year-old car when you can get rich becoming your “best” self and have a blast along the way? But workers today are doing more and more for less and less. This reality is frighteningly palpable in eroding paychecks and benefits, the rapid concentration of wealth in the hands of a tiny few, and workers’ loss of control over their labor conditions. But where is the protest and anger from workers against a system that tells them to love their work and asks them to do it for less? While winner-take-all capitalism grows ever more ruthless, the rhetoric of passion for labor proliferates. In Do What You Love, Tokumitsu articulates and examines the sacrifices people make for a chance at loveable, self-actualizing, and, of course, wealth-generating work and the conditions facilitated by this pursuit. This book continues the conversation sparked by the author’s earlier Slate article and provides a devastating look at the state of modern America’s labor and workforce.

Download or read book Loving in the Grown Zone written by Alfred A. Edmond Jr. and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too many people have surrendered to the belief that dissatisfaction, neglect, infidelity, abuse, disrespect, conflict, exploitation and betrayal are natural, normal, and unavoidable characteristics of romantic relationships and even marriage. We are presented with a choice: relationships that dont last and relationships that do, as long as participants are willing to endure inevitable suffering, mistreatment, and victimization, usually at the hands of one another. Loving in the Grown Zone is a rejection of that thinking. It is testament to the authors belief that while there may be no such thing as a perfect relationship, that is not justification for accepting anything less than healthy relationships. No one is required to accept mistreatment as the price of a loving, safe, and sustainable relationship of honor, esteem, and respect. Furthermore, establishing such healthy, resilient, and fulfilling relationships are not a matter of luck or chance, but of intention, learnable skills and practices, and commitment to personal growth. Loving in the Grown Zone urges you to learn those skills and commit to those practices, including recognizing the difference between the attractors that motivate us to initiate romantic relationships and the sustainers required to ensure that such relationships are healthy, safe, and affirming for both partners.

Download or read book What Would You Do for Love If You Had No Fear written by Diane Conway and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These inspiring true stories tell of men and women who dared to look inward, damned the risks, and learned to love. Asking the question, "What would you do for love if you had no fear?" Diane Conway took to the streets, interviewing ordinary people about the crazy things they did for love. Drawn to Conway’s warmth, emotional honesty, and outrageous, heartfelt humor, they told her their secrets, their fears, and their adventures on the road to love — and the often extraordinary results. Chronicled in the book, the stories are surprising, romantic, and sometimes heartbreaking. Self-tests, quizzes, growth exercises, and practical tips — along with Conway's fresh voice — challenge readers to open their hearts and just go for it.

Download or read book GOOD MORNING SAINTS written by MARCIA WILSON BROWN and published by Audible Publishing Services. This book was released on 2024-03-27 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her first book, Marcia Wilson Brown brings a fresh new approach to devotionals as she narrates the story of our need as humanity to transform and be transformed, constructed through the intersection of biblical theology and pertinent social analysis.

Download or read book The Writings That Came To Me In A Poem written by Nichols G. Davis Sr. and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry was developed through life's experiences both fun and serious. This book touches on various topics which breach our everyday lives. I hope you find these writings as fun, interesting and informational in reading as they were while being written.