Beauty and the Baller
Beauty and the Baller

Author: Ilsa Madden-Mills

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Published: 2022-03-29

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9781542034784

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An NFL quarterback turned small-town coach gets sacked by a Texas beauty queen in this swoony, passionate romance from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Ilsa Madden-Mills. Gorgeous, talented, and brilliant, NFL quarterback Ronan Smith has the world in his hands. But after losing his career and his fiancée in a car accident, he falls into a pit of grief and bad choices. When a mysterious girl shows up to his party, he feels drawn to her and makes her his...for one night. Former beauty queen Nova Morgan is on a mission. Scantily clad as a princess from a galaxy far, far away, she sneaks into a high-profile party to capture the attention of her favorite quarterback. But her hopes crash after an awful one-night stand. Fast-forward two years. Broke and desperate, Nova returns home to Blue Belle, Texas, where, by a cosmic twist of fate, her broody neighbor is none other than Ronan, the shiny new football coach everyone adores. But he has no idea who she is. The booster club keeps shoving women at Ronan to keep him in town. His solution? He proposes fake dating to Nova. But things heat up for real under these Friday-night lights when he realizes she's the one who slipped away. Has this jaded beauty found her forever baller, or will his past keep them apart?

Beauty and the Baller
Beauty and the Baller

Author: Abbi Hemp

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 9781540361912

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Everything is BIGGER in Texas! His scarred face won't stop her from loving him... Austin is a defensive lineman trying to keep a low profile. Heather is a television news anchor who bounces into his life while looking to further her career. Beauty and beast both learn something from the other. This is NOT your typical fairy tale. Austin - Heather is such a pain, but I can't stop thinking about her. We f*ck like animals at first, but it soon turns into something much deeper. She convinces me to take off my mask, saying there's nothing wrong with my face. How can someone be so wrong? One thing's for certain - I'm going to protect myself and her. Together, we're an unstoppable force. Heather - Austin and I meet in a crazy way, but I soon find myself unable to keep my hands off his buff, sculpted body. He wears this crazy mask because of a scar, but I can see the him on the inside. My entire life changes when he comes into my life. I'm left scrambling to pick up the pieces while piercing this tough guy's armor.

Beauty and the Streets
Beauty and the Streets

Author: Kim K.

Publisher: Melodrama Publishing

Published: 2014-11-18

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1620780488

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Young Khye was always spoiled and told that her beauty would get her far. However, no one told her that beauty without brains would lead to a dead end. Khye and her family moved to Harlem from London when she was nine. She figured out quickly that her accent garnered attention. A decade later, her now exaggerated accent grabs the attention of many men. But Khye only has eyes for Floyd, a pretty boy making a name for himself in the music industry. When Floyd is murdered in the recording studio, Khye begins investigating. Secrets about who he really was and how he really earned his living begin to surface, and Khye is determined to pick up right where he left off.

Beauty and the Inferno
Beauty and the Inferno

Author: Roberto Saviano

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2017-01-17

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 1784786527

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Essays on art, politics and life from the best-selling author of Gomorrah Gomorrah, Roberto Saviano’s 2006 exposé of Naples’s Camorra mafia, was an international bestseller and became an award-winning film. But the death threats that followed forced the author into hiding. Saviano was ostracized by his countrymen and went on the run, changing his location every few months and compelled to keep perpetual company with his bodyguards. To this day, he lives in an undisclosed location. The loneliness of the fugitive life informs the essays in Beauty and the Inferno. Among other subjects, he writes about the legendary South African jazz singer Miriam Makeba, his meeting with the real-life Donnie Brasco, sharing the Nobel Academy platform with Salman Rushdie, and the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Present throughout the book is a sense of Saviano’s peculiar isolation, which infuses his words with anger, exceptional insight and tragedy.

A Terrible Beauty
A Terrible Beauty

Author: Nancy Baker

Publisher: ChiZine

Published: 2014-04-15

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1771481889

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A fairy tale with bite—vampire-style. “Don’t hold your breath waiting for Disney to film this very adult and erotic version of Beauty and the Beast.” —Winnipeg Free Press “Will you give me your blood to drink, though you die of it?” In an unexpected twist on a fairy tale, an artist goes into the wilderness to fulfill his father’s debt and finds himself the prisoner of a dangerously beautiful inhuman monster. “A Terrible Beauty is modern Canadian Gothic . . . Nancy Baker shows her mastery of the form—the mysterious letter, the journey into the wilderness, the shadows that hide from the flickering firelight—and her real affection for a good ol’ fashioned vampire yarn.” —The Telegraph Journal (Saint John) “Baker’s narrative is seductive and compelling. Like Rice, she transcends the horror genre.” —Province Showcase (Vancouver) “A polished and enchanting tale . . . It is, in a word, breathtaking.” —Ottawa Citizen “Baker’s prose is lush and sensual . . . she has a real gift for making the fantastic seem plausible and investing the mundane with eerie significance.” —Toronto Sun “A very interesting and unique take on Beauty and the Beast.” —SFFP Romance

Saved by Beauty
Saved by Beauty

Author: Roger Housden

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2012-11-13

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0307587746

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When Roger Housden decided to travel to Iran and finally see the subject of his youthful fascination, he was in his sixties. By then, he thought he had seen the world. He was wrong. It was a quest that changed him forever. In Iran, Housden met with artists, writers, film makers and religious scholars who embody the long Iranian tradition of humanism, and shared with him their belief in scholarship and artistry. From the bustle of modern Tehran to the paradise gardens of Shiraz to the spectacular mosques and ancient palaces of Isfahan, Housden met Iranians who were warm, welcoming, generous, intellectually curious, and altogether alive with their love for one another, and for the faith and tradition that holds them together. Saved by Beauty weaves a richly textured story of many threads. It is a deeply poetic and perceptive appreciation of a culture that has endured for over three thousand years, while it also portrays the creative and spiritual cultures within contemporary Iran. While there, Roger Housden was brought face to face with the reality that beauty and truth, deceit and violence, are inextricably mingled in the affairs of human life, and was forever altered by it.

Beauty Shop for Rent
Beauty Shop for Rent

Author: Laura Bowers

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 0152063854

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With big aspirations and dreams, Abbey Garner takes her first step toward financial freedom by working at her grandmother's struggling beauty salon where she learns important lessons about life from the feisty Gray Widows, a group of strong, independent-minded women who speak from experience. Reprint.

Charisma: Baller's Wife
Charisma: Baller's Wife

Author: Nikki Turner

Publisher: Urban Books

Published: 2017-05-30

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1622864891

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The past always has a way of catching up with you... Charisma Bland was born and raised in the heart of Baltimore, where she learns that a moment's pleasure can sometimes lead to a life of pain. Against her better judgment, she has a one-night stand that changes her life forever. Turning over the family business to her cousin, she leaves behind her past. Charisma moves to Miami, where she meets Mr. Manny Manifesto, aka Mr. Baseball. Manny is coming off his best season ever, bringing with him a freshly inked 250-million-dollar-plus contract. After a chance meeting, Charisma sees an opportunity to start anew, and she and Manny attempt to build a relationship. The sex might be good, but will their omissions and the deeds of their past come back to haunt them?