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How You Can Run Faster Effortlessly
Adam D' Alessandro - 2014
• Improve Your Running Form • Increase Your Endurance With Correct Breathing Techniques Issues About Running Addressed In This Running Guide Include: • Using Your Muscle’s Elasticity To Help You Expend Less Energy • Maximizing Your Training With Stretches to Improve Your Running Stride • Minimizing Your Effort To Sustain Your Ideal Running Speed • Getting Rid Of Wasted Motion • Preventing Injuries When Running • Having the Proper Alignment When Running My Running Guide Also Shows Addresses Specific Questions When Running Like… • Having Muscle Cramps When Running • What To Do When You’re Injured And You Can’t Train For Weeks/Months • When You Should Be Doing Your Stretches When Training Special Section for Increasing Your Running Stride: • The Secret that Elite Kenyan Runners and Olympic Athletes Have That Gives Them An Edge Over the Rest. • How To Use This Secret to Drastically Improve Your Running Stride. What The Experts Say “What I love about training with Adam is his attention to detail. He makes sure to squeeze every single drop of talent out of every athlete.” Willis Johnson, Marathon Runner 3rd place “Training with Adam for the Ironman Triathlon helped me shave off 30 minutes from my marathon. I ended up finishing in the top 5. The running techniques in this book will help you improve and break your personal records" Jacob Marlowe, Iron Man Triathlete "While Adam's experience and knowledge of running is what created this book. His passion for teaching runners to improve their running technique makes it an invaluable resource for others." Joma Owiti, Certified Running Coach A Personal Note From the Author This book blends 11 years of experience coaching dozens of athletes and runners of all ages on how they can run faster. With my own personal experience of being a frustrated runner, I know the emotion of trying to set personal records. I use to beat myself up with questions like: What if I don’t have what it takes to be a great runner? I just wasn’t born to be a good runner. That’s why I’ve put together this how-to guide for you to run faster.
The Real Story
R.J. Layer - 2014
Her life has become a treadmill of work, motherhood and celibacy.Her long perfected calm, necessary in a surgical nurse, is tested the moment she meets Megan’s new mentor. Sportswriter “Tommie” Tommelson sets off all the alarms, both good and bad. Out as a lesbian, brash in her seductive powers and with a reputation for breaking hearts, Tommie is obviously looking for nothing more than a fling.Kate knows she is finally ready for so much more, but she’s seen too much of life to believe that Tommie can ever change.Newcomer RJ Layer delivers a story of tumultuous passion in her debut romance.
Hard Candy Christmas
Hildred Billings - 2021
One shopkeeper.And the one wish that brings them together.Candy shop provisioner Emma has more than enough on her plate: her small-town business is struggling, the weather is cold and rainy, and her young daughter is a precocious handful.Yet when daughter Dani asks Santa for the impossible, Emma has another problem on her hands.Because Dani wants a stepmom. More specifically, she wants her mom Emma to get married!Enter city girl Tamryn, who is on assignment on behalf of her law firm. From the moment Emma sees her in a coffee shop, she’s infatuated – and from the moment Dani sees her mom’s eyes wander?Nothing will stop one little girl from bringing Emma and Tamryn together!The cozy tourist town of Cannon Beach is about to vibrate from the cosmic electricity of fate. Good thing Christmas is the season of everything sweet… with just a hint of spice.
Split the Aces
Jove Belle - 2008
It's lust at first sight for blackjack dealer Rae Sutherland and aspiring Vegas singer Cori Romero.
Summer Fate
Emma Nichols - 2019
At least she did until a moment of indiscretion threatens to destroy her career. With everything in London at stake and her fate in the Board's hands, she escapes to her Aunt's house in the Lake District - the perfect place to hide from her secrets and to get some much-needed peace and quiet. But Duckton-by-Dale is nothing like she remembered and she certainly didn't expect to be attracted to her new neighbour, Harriet. But then she also didn't expect her world to be turned upside down by the quirky ensemble of villagers who plot to give love a helping hand. What could possibly go wrong? Laugh out loud as you immerse yourself in the antics of the Duckton-by-Dale villagers and watch Harriet & Grace’s romance blossom... Emma Nichols' lesbian romcom is the perfect summer read! Emma Nichols is the author of Summer 2018 No.1 Bestselling Lesbian Romance 'Ariana' and Summer 2017 No.1 Bestselling Lesbian Romance 'Finding You'.
Changing Leaves
Edie Bryant - 2018
One of those people being Jess, her best friend who she'd completely lost contact with. Though she never stopped thinking of her, she could never bring herself to reach out after the shame of what she'd done to her. Gina didn't even want to come back to her hometown in fear of running into Jess, but she had to take care of her mother who is ill with cancer.But fate and a kitten brings them together again, meeting for the first time in years. The connection is clearly still there between them, but will Jess be able to forgive Gina in her time of need? As the change in seasons brings color to the autumn leaves, will it also bring a drastic change in both of their lives?
In this heartwarming, steamy novella Edie Bryant takes the reader on an emotional rollercoaster toward happily ever after.
Private Dancer
T.J. Vertigo - 2006
Reece Corbett grew up on the mean streets of New York City; abused, used, and in trouble with the law. A mysterious man named Frank stepped in, pulled Reece from despair and saved her life. The obstinant, angry street thug eventually earned respect and makes a name for herself, not to mention a "reputation" despite the demons that still haunt her. When Frank dies suddenly, he leaves her his business, a Gentleman's Club called "The Lounge," which may be the only thing she takes pride in. That, and protecting her "girls," especially one freaky little dancer with a heart of gold named Cori the unspoken friend, ally and confidante of one Reece Corbett. Faith Ashford grew up wealthy with all the creature comforts that wealth provides. Country Clubs, a house in the Hampton's, and debutante balls with white gloves, taffeta and gardenias. There was one difference though, Faith wasn't like the other spoiled rich girls, she had no desire to follow those rather shallow footsteps, instead, she wished to follow her own dreams wherever they may lead her and those dreams lead the aspiring actress into a tenement in New York's Alphabet City, working the night shift in a rather seedy Lower East Side bar whose denizens, a sea of oddities, freaks, and frat boys that call themselves customers. Then one night an exotic dancer with electric blue hair wonders into Faith's bar. Cori of the myriad piercings and tattoos has no idea, but she would become the blonde's ultimate salvation in her moment of desperation, just as Frank was for Reece. Faith needed a break, she needed a change, and bartending at The Lounge would at least afford her something new, more new than she could possibly imagine in fact, a tall drink of water by the name of Reece Corbett who in turn had been looking for "this woman" all her life.
Three Days
L.T. Marie - 2011
Her best friend Riann is getting married there, but Dakota doesn’t like the heat or the fact that she is going to be spending three days with twenty women she can’t stand. All she wants is a little free time and a warm body to fill her bed, that is until her world is upended by the introduction of her best friend’s cousin, the mysterious Shawn Camello.Shawn Camello has been invited to her cousin Riann’s bachelorette party at the last minute. She is reluctant to go but is persuaded by Riann in the hope that they can become reacquainted after not seeing each other for twenty-five years. The moment she meets the sexy, determined Dakota Riley, she tries avoiding her at every turn. The problem is, everywhere she looks, Dakota is there, and she’s becoming harder and harder to resist.In a town like Vegas where anything can happen, Shawn and Dakota find that the stakes are love at all costs, and it’s a gamble neither can afford to lose.
Bad Girl Love
Cynthia Dane - 2018
They don't even know about her ex-girlfriends or her fake IDs.But it's that fake ID that leads her to the hottest club in the city. While her friends tear up the dancefloor, however, Audrey meets the foil to her suppressed desires and curiosity.Dylan. The resident bad girl with an affinity for good girls like Audrey.What begins as a torrid fling soon transforms into something that opens Audrey's eyes to the life she's always wanted. The longer she's with Dylan, the more she realizes the sources of her suffocation. A toxic family. Airheaded friends. Caring for nothing but the trappings of wealth.
"A bad girl is someone who refuses to accept the status quo."
Dylan has dated her fair share of heiresses, but Audrey is the first one to make her believe in a chance at love.Yet it's not easy to give over to someone like Audrey. She represents everything Dylan has spent her whole life rejecting, for she knows all too well what it's like to be forced into the good girl role.And her past is constantly threatening to ruin everything she's built for herself since her darkest days.
"Good girls don't go bad. They save themselves."
The fatalistic love that haunts both Dylan and Audrey will last the summer. After that? Someone will have to give up the only life they've ever known.Easier said than done.Please note that this book contains examples of transphobia and growing up in an abusive cult.
Live This Love
Jamey Moody - 2020
At least that's what she thought, until in walked Riley James. Her life would never be the same.Riley James was looking forward to her friends’ wedding and the following two week vacation in paradise. She walked into a bar and her eyes locked with the bartender. She couldn’t look away.What can happen in two weeks? Alex and Riley were about to find out.But Alex had a secret. Would it end this love story before it even got started? It’s only two weeks.
No Leavin' Love
Larkin Rose - 2009
Ranch foreman Sydney Campbell isn’t expecting anything from the arrogant fireball she once found irresistible, least of all a tame heart inside the beautiful body. She’s not surprised when Mercedes thinks she can use her again. Two can play that game, but when neither notices that the rules have changed, both women find they have a lot to lose.
The Space Between Our Hearts
Kat Evans - 2016
At the height of her career, she was a top female professional athlete by day and an officer for the Atlanta PD by night--until an injury took her off the field and out of the force. For four years, she worked to reestablish herself as a private investigator in her hometown of Macon, Ga. And it looks like all her hard work finally paid off when a high profile case unexpectedly falls in her lap. Taylor Ross may have grown up privileged, but she faced more than her fair share of heartache and loss when she was convicted of a crime she didn’t commit. In a last ditch effort to clear her name, Taylor enlists the help of a virtually unknown private eye, whose sexy body and soft lips make her forget all about her ex-lover’s betrayal and the ticking clock on her freedom. Passion ignites between the polar opposites on the trail of a serial killer. But the question remains: Who really killed Claire Ross?
What Happened After...: Boston Series Finale (Boston, #5)
Nicole Pyland - 2021
The events take place after each story's respective Epilogue.Here’s a glimpse into the lives of the ladies of the Boston Series. Find out what’s been going on with Gretchen & Amanda, Becca & Erin, Cassie & Tessa, and Jamie & Lauren.Epilogues are nice, but they’re a snapshot in time. Maybe it’s a year after the book ends, or even just a few months. Maybe there’s a wedding or another life-changing event. Maybe a character announces she’s pregnant. Maybe the characters are moving across the country.In this group of short stories, you’ll find out about the directions the lives of Boston Series characters have taken and will take in the coming years, how they’re doing together, how they’re doing at work, and learn about what’s coming next for each of the characters in their relationships.If you plan to read these, please read all the books in the series first. While the respective books in the series are always complete without What Happened After…, the context of the main stories is essential for you to enjoy these post-Epilogue vignettes.List of books in the Boston Series: