Enemies to love, friends to more, single parent romance, and an office love affair: Four heart-stirring hard-to-put-down contemporary Christian romance novels. BOOK 1: Falling for the Foe She can’t stand him. He blames her for his company’s woes. Now, they have to work together. BOOK 2: Pushing Past the Pain A devoted father devastated by the loss of his wife. A young widowed mother whose wounds began long before her husband died. Will their shared grief bring them together or push them apart? BOOK 3: Lessons Learned in Love The boss’s daughter is off-limits. Especially when she steals the job that should have been his. BOOK 4: Hidden in Her Heart When she needed him most, he proposed to someone else. Can she risk putting her heart on the line again? They never expected to find love, but God had other plans. Dive into these four stories of faith, hope, and love today.
Exuberant redhead Erik always tries his best, but he just can’t understand why he’s missing homework questions at school and messing up at soccer practice. Then one day in art class everyone notices that Erik’s painted a picture of himself with green hair! It turns out he’s not just creative, he’s color blind, too. Color blindness, also known as Color Vision Deficiency (CVD), affects a significant percentage of the population. The tendency to color-code learning materials in classrooms can make it especially hard for kids with CVD. But once Erik is diagnosed, he and his parents, teachers, coach, and classmates figure out solutions that work with his unique way of seeing, and soon he’s back on track.
Taking readers back in time to 1947, an award-winning journalist chronicles an integrated baseball team in Bismarck, North Dakota that rose above a segregated society to become champions, delving into the history of the players, the town and baseball itself.
Collins Avenue Confidential matches Miami's hottest gay men. Each of the four books in this collection is a standalone gay romance with a feel-good HEA and love hotter than the Miami sun. The Mechanic and the Surgeon Ritter Lehman, a hard-driving Miami orthopedic surgeon, can't find a man who will put up with him, and he won't slum by dating a "wrench monkey." Joshua, a young and closeted mechanic, is willing to give Ritter a chance, but doesn't want to be just another notch on his scalpel. Swing State Reg Tarry, Florida’s closeted Republican presidential candidate, meets Clint, a young, out-and-proud law student who's been heckling his speeches. The Pilot and the Professor James used to have a man in every layover city, but after the crash, he only wants to lounge on the beach and take a college class for fun. The beefy, bearded professor, Claude, just had a crash of his own that scared him away from romance. The Minister and the Rock Star Pastor Darius Keen can't find a man who sees him for him. Heavy metal guitarist Dan Schultz is tired of faking being straight, but doesn't want to be a notch on some celebrity-chaser's bedpost. Dan lets the n-word fly, Darius sulks, and their initial meeting is a disaster, but their attraction is real.
A sweet and sexy romance for every season! Snowflakes and Sapphires - Winter After a demanding career of living out of her suitcase, Sophia lands a dream job in New York City that will keep her in one place for six months. Being alone in a big city is nothing new for her, but not during the holidays. When an irresistible jeweler appears in her life more than once, Christmas surprises pop up on every corner. Drew loses his creativity and holiday spirit just when he needs it the most. Then a snowstorm blows Sophia into his jewelry store, and a surge of inspiration follows. He is used to handling precious gems, but nothing as priceless as she is. Even though they just met, their instant attraction turns into something more. But one event leads to betrayal, leaving Sophia once again alone and brokenhearted. Can the magic of Christmas bring them back together, or will one of them be left in the cold? Passions and Peonies - Spring Winter is Lacey’s arch-enemy and it won’t let up even though it’s the middle of April. She can’t get out of New York City fast enough to kick off her spring vacation in the tropics. One travel glitch and a stumbled step finds Lacey on the lap of a handsome, mysterious stranger, connecting her heart to his. Will gets a last-minute seat on a flight back home next to a beautiful, quirky woman who blows into his life like a warm spring breeze. Her magnetism lights him up after weeks of darkness. He refuses to say goodbye until he steals one heated kiss from her. A surprise twist of fate drops them into deep water, but the fire between them never burns out. What they thought would be a week of carefree distractions blossoms into something their hearts didn’t bargain for. Colors and Curves - Summer Skylar's beauty and curves are a curse. She's been lied to, cheated on, and avoids dating like the plague. That is until an adorable three-legged dog runs her over in Central Park, leading to a heated exchange with his arrogant, sexy-as-sin owner. Irritated by his apathy, Skylar walks away, but steamy dreams of his chiseled physique consume her hot summer nights. During a pivotal event in her career, Skylar's restraint snaps like a rubber band when she finds him standing in front of her as the famous photographer, Julius Ariti. Harsh rumors circulating about him and his current actions toward her don't add up, leading Skylar to wonder who the real Julius is. Everyone deserves a chance, no matter how broken they are. Julius leads a secluded, orderly life to keep his traumatic memories at bay. After meeting Skylar Vitale, something ignites inside him, and his world is no longer black and white. His burning desire is to see Skylar's true colors. To capture them with his lens. To see what everyone else sees. If only he could. Maple Trees and Maybes - Autumn Professionally, Daisy is sharp as a knife when it comes to visual arts. Personally, she has gone through lengthy changes to forget her past and rebuild herself. Suddenly her social circle includes a group of warm, loving friends, and a family she never had, but always dreamed of. However, Daisy's hard-won sobriety is at odds with her new friends' social style, and there's a risk that her demons will be exposed. The most unlikely person to catch her when she falls is flirty Josh, the guy everyone warns will stomp on her heart. To her surprise, he fills her life with hope, pride, and desire. A stupid bet. No women for two weeks. For the ladies’ man, Josh, that is physically impossible, but he’s always up for a good challenge. Until the colorful Daisy appears again, throwing him into the unknown. Tempting him in more ways than one. After having her crumple in his arms. Is it because you always want what you can’t have or is there something pushing them together that’s out of his control?
How multiracial people navigate the complexities of race and love In the United States, more than seven million people claim to be multiracial, or have racially mixed heritage, parentage, or ancestry. In The Colors of Love, Melinda A. Mills explores how multiracial people navigate their complex—and often misunderstood—identities in romantic relationships. Drawing on sixty interviews with multiracial people in interracial relationships, Mills explores how people define and assert their racial identities both on their own and with their partners. She shows us how similarities and differences in identity, skin color, and racial composition shape how multiracial people choose, experience, and navigate love. Mills highlights the unexpected ways in which multiracial individuals choose to both support and subvert the borders of race as individuals and as romantic partners. The Colors of Love broadens our understanding about race and love in the twenty-first century.
Kate McKinnon is back -- and this time it's personal. When two hideously eviscerated bodies are discovered and the only link between them is a bizarre painting left at each crime scene, the NYPD turns to former cop Kate McKinnon, the woman who brought the serial killer the Death Artist to justice. Having settled back into her satisfying life as art historian, published author, host of a weekly PBS television series, and wife of one of New York's top lawyers, Kate wants no part of it. But Kate's sense of tranquility is shattered when this new sequence of murders strikes too close to home. With grief and fury to fuel her, she rejoins her former partner, detective Floyd Brown, and his elite homicide squad on the hunt for a vicious psychopath known as the Color-Blind Killer. In her rage and desperation, Kate allows herself to be drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. She abandons her glamorous life for the gritty streets of Manhattan, immersing herself in a world where brutality and madness appear to be the norm, where those closest to her may have betrayed her -- and where, in the end, nothing is what it seems.
As far back as the earliest Greek temples, color has been an integral part of architecture but also one of its least understood elements. Color theory is rarely taught in architecture schools, leaving architects to puzzle out the hows and whys of which colors to select and how they interact, complement, or clash. Color for Architects is profusely illustrated and provides a clear, concise primer on color for designers of every kind. This latest volume in our Architecture Briefs series combines the theoretical and practical, providing the basics on which to build a fuller mastery of this essential component of design. A wealth of built examples, exercises, and activities allows students to apply their learning of color to real-world situations.
"Examines the intersections of racism and polyamory and their impact on people of color navigating polyamory and other nontraditional relationship styles"--
