That’s how long Angela Donovan hoped to know Mark Shafer before they married. But less than a year later, she still fears repeating the mistakes of her previous failed relationship. As Christmas approaches, she senses Mark’s plans for a proposal and wonders if she can learn to trust again.Mark has learned all there is to know about the Shafer miracle trees—or so he thinks. Papa reveals secrets about the trees’ matchmaking power just as a highway expansion threatens to destroy the family legacy. Mark is determined to save the farm and the promise of love stirring in the branches of the Shafer miracle trees. Heartwarming and engaging, The Tree Keeper’s Promise captures the warmth and wonder of the holiday season.

    Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city’s wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne’s teenage son, Aaron, can’t decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family’s moral character to the core.Jon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films Meek’s Cutoff and Night Moves, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family’s moral crisis. In Freebird, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.

    Her love for Raghav is true. But hailing from two very different cultures is the basis of their continued friction. Aisha is a Punjabi girl from Gurgaon and Raghav a Bihari from Ranchi. Raghav's family will certainly not accept a girl from outside their community. And yet, he continues giving her false hopes through his efforts and promises. And then they take a step which entangles her life further. Will she manage to come out of this quandary or must she continue to live in her self-created web? Explore her journey that makes her realise the atrocities being committed on women in the Indian society and the tough decisions she must take, keeping her most loved ones oblivious to everything happening in her life.

    Carrie Mullins a Kentucky bluegrass fiddler, falls for a heartbreaking man, loses her daughter in a senseless accident, and learns the healing power of music and daily routine from two caring, older women living on a drought-struck farm.

    She thinks she has her future all mapped out-until she lays eyes on the man who signs her weekly timesheets.David Powers has a way of making women change their plans. Dripping with money and charm, he has a list of former flames that reads like a society gossip column. But David also has his rules, and dating office secretaries falls strictly out of bounds. Not even pretty blond ones with sassy mouths, who inexplicably keep renewing their temp gigs every week...Now two years later, Penny's still temping for a mysterious reason that she won't explain to her friends. What started as an innocent office flirtation has deepened further than either Penny or David would care to admit. Things change when Penny overhears lewd gossip about herself from coworkers. She quits abruptly, but she can't move past her memories of the man who haunts her every waking thought. David is left with a choice: Let her walk away, or set aside his rules and track her down.IT'S ONLY TEMPORARY is a new release from Hachette Audiobooks: Powered by Wattpad - an innovative collaboration between Hachette Book Group, a leading publisher, and Wattpad, a passionate storytelling community of over 45 million people. Your favorite online stories, now available in your headphones!

    What would you do to escape yours? Nikki grew up in the Soldiers of Chaos Motorcycle Club and as far as women in MC's go she's somewhat of an anomaly. Nikki's one of very few patched female members in the existence of outlaw motorcycle clubs. Between club business and the long running love triangle between her, the club's VP and his best friend Nikki's life is complicated to say the least. Or at least she thought it was. Then she discovers her mother murdered. The event unleashes something dark that had been laying dormant inside her all this time and leads her down a dangerous path into the arms of an equally dark and powerful man. How far will she go to quiet the dark inside her? What will be left of her when she does? Walker 'Tex' King and Trace Deveraux have been in love with the same woman since they were kids. But she's no ordinary woman. She is the darling of their MC, the daughter of the club's man-at-arms and the strongest most stubborn woman they know. Their precarious balance is made more difficult by Tex and Trace's friendship and Nikki's unwillingness to break either of their hearts by choosing one over the other. They've nearly lost her once before and when she pulls away from them embarking on a mission of self-destruction the fight is on to bring her back. As events unfold they discover there is more to the murder of Nikki's mum than first appears. They begin to uncover an interwoven web of coincidences, lies and cover ups that will lead them to nowhere good. Chaos Abounds..........

    Everything you ever wanted to know about scales, but were afraid to ask! This book fills you in on major and minor scales; the modes; the blues scale; harmonic minor, melodic minor, chromatic, whole tone & diminished scales; other exotic and ethnic scales; and more. Includes easy-to-read fretboard diagrams, and a bio of Troy Stetina.

    Clarke embarked on a 3,000-mile motorcycle journey around the coast of Great Britain during the wettest June on record, 2007, in spite of strong opposition from his wife for having bought a new bike and daring such an adventurous trip at his age.

    A punk rock story about lust, love, and all the naughty bits in between. The Long: Meet Jade Daniels, she hates her name, hates her life and hates people in general. She loves sex, loves her roommate, and loves her secret obsession, learning. Now she loves a guy with a stunning green mohawk, lickable abs and a mind as filthy as hers. Hush crashes into her carefully constructed world of sex, drugs and music with his gorgeous tattooed body and sexual demands. Jade is happy... But Jade learned long ago that nothing but misery lasts forever, and happiness is fleeting at best. Or is it? The Warning: ***Rated 18+ Please understand that this book is full of swearing and sex and drugs. I don’t control what my characters do or think, so don’t shoot me off a bunch of angry emails because you got fired for reading it at work, or God is going to smite you for laughing, or you caught your husband jerking it to the sex scenes. This is also a work of fiction. Seriously, dude. If you feel compelled to have casual, unprotected sex or shove coke up your ass because you read about it somewhere, frealz, you need help. Unprotected sex often leads to gross diseases and even worse, babies. And yeah, drugs are bad…mmkay? So, I guess that about covers it

    

    The frontier city of Yanmass seems like a perfect place to lie low, until a job solving a noble’s murder reveals an invading centaur army ready to burn the place to the ground. Of course, Shy could stop that from happening, but doing so would reveal her presence to the former friends who now want her dead. Add in a holier-than-thou patron with the literal blood of angels in her veins, and Shy quickly remembers why she swore off doing good deeds in the first place...From critically acclaimed fantasy author Sam Sykes comes a darkly comic tale of intrigue, assassination, and the perils of friendship, all set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

    Now she’s back − a return less anticipated than a Browns’ Super Bowl win − to help her mom out of a funk. Sam heard it was bad, but now Mom's blowing off bingo? Sam begins to suspect that her mom’s depression may not be all it appears, but she gets side-tracked when her investigator brother Paul tosses her into a case. They’re on the hunt for a client’s missing wife, Tracy. Sam discovers she has an old connection to Tracy, but will that help Sam find her, or will it land her in a trap she can’t escape? Shadowing Sam in her hunt is Johnny Rosato, a warmer complication from her past. Sam's emotions are mixed, but her lower half has a strong opinion. An ancient and unfinished crush, a secretive mother, an aiding and abetting best friend, a hot cop, a salacious uncle, and a living garden gnome all compete to distract Sam as she stumbles down a distorted path. Can she find Tracy? And will childhood ties suck her back in for good?

    The worst that might happen is the Indians come after his scalp. But when he runs into the beautiful Rosemary, he finds himself pitted against ruthless enemies of every kind.Kidnappers, comancheros, and renegade Apaches are on his trail - and after his blood. But most implacable of all, there is the Sonoran Desert itself, where everything that grows either bites, stings or scratches.Murphy needs all his skill with a gun if he is to survive.

     Alyssa Morrow. Pure and clean as fresh snow. That is…until she met us. Meet the 12 most eligible bachelors on the planet. Self-made billionaires who trade in true love. Packaged. Shipped. And sold. Our bodies will ruin you for other men. Yet no woman has ever tamed us. No woman has ever gotten close. We use them. Then lose them. And now we’re going to show her how its done. She thinks she’s going to conquer us. Maybe she can tempt one. Tease the other. But all 12 of us? No way. We’ll drive her to drink instead. And what she gonna be drinking? Let's just call it...egg nog.

    Caroline must choose what is safe or choose what her heart tells her is right.But what if her heart wants more than one thing?2015 Chatelaine Awards for Romantic Fiction Finalist - Contemporary Romance"...beautiful debut novel..." - InD'tale Magazine, Feb 2016This is a stand-alone romance novel at 65,000 words with a HFN. Stockholm Diaries, Caroline 2 is the next episode in their adventure.