Ex-mas
Ex-mas

Author: Kate Brian

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-10-06

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1416996907

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 Two Exes. One holiday adventure. Merry Ex-Mas? Seventeen-year-old Lila Beckwith's parents just left for vacation, and Lila's all set to throw the holiday party of the season. But when her Christmas-obsessed little brother, Cooper, discovers that global warming is melting the North Pole, he and his best friend, Tyler, take off on a runaway mission to save Santa. Lila has to get Cooper safely home before her parents get back on Christmas Eve. But the only person who can help her is Tyler's older brother, Beau -- a.k.a. Lila's musician, anti-everything ex-boyfriend. It'll take more than a Christmas miracle for Lila and Beau to overcome their differences and find their fugitive brothers. But could a journey destined for disaster help these polar opposites fall in love...all over again?

Merry Ex-Mas
Merry Ex-Mas

Author: Sheila Roberts

Publisher: MIRA

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1488098069

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Revisit the third novel in bestselling author Sheila Roberts’ adored Life in Icicle Falls series Cass Wilkes, owner of the Gingerbread Haus bakery, was looking forward to her daughter Danielle’s wedding—until Dani announced that she wants her father, Cass’s ex, to walk her down the aisle. Seriously? Even worse, it appears that he, his trophy wife and their yappy little dog will be staying with Cass…. Her friend Charlene Albach arrives at their weekly chick-flick night in shock. She’s just seen the ghost of Christmas past: her ex-husband, Richard, who left a year ago when he ran off with the hostess from her restaurant, Zelda’s. Now the hostess is history and he wants to kiss and make up. Hide the mistletoe! And bring out the hot buttered rum, because the holidays aren’t easy for Ella O’Brien, either. Ella, newly divorced, is still sharing the house with her ex while they wait for the place to sell. The love is gone. Isn’t it? But watch as Christmas brings all kinds of surprises…. Merry Ex-mas, ladies!

Say You're One of Them
Say You're One of Them

Author: Uwem Akpan

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2008-06-09

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0316032522

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An Oprah's Book Club selection: this "electrifying" book (Washington Post) pays tribute to the wisdom and resilience of children even in the face of the most agonizing circumstances. Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy books and pay fees in order to attend school. Even when his twelve-year-old sister takes to the streets to raise these meager funds, his dream can't be granted. Food comes first. His family lives in a street shanty in Nairobi, Kenya, but their way of both loving and taking advantage of each other strikes a universal chord. In the second of his stories published in a New Yorker special fiction issue, Akpan takes us far beyond what we thought we knew about the tribal conflict in Rwanda. The story is told by a young girl, who, with her little brother, witnesses the worst possible scenario between parents. They are asked to do the previously unimaginable in order to protect their children. This singular collection will also take the reader inside Nigeria, Benin, and Ethiopia, revealing in beautiful prose the harsh consequences for children of life in Africa. Akpan's voice is a literary miracle, rendering lives of almost unimaginable deprivation and terror into stories that are nothing short of transcendent. One of the best books of the year: Wall Street Journal, People, Bloomberg News, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post Book World, and Entertainment Weekly

The Ex-Mas Holidays
The Ex-Mas Holidays

Author: Zoe Allison

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2023-09-26

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0593550080

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It’s hard to escape your ex when you’re working together over Christmas in the Scottish Highlands, but being stuck together might be the best possible present in this sparkling new contemporary romance. Maya Bashir is dreading her drive home for Christmas and having to explain that she's just left her high-paying job and a long-term relationship, so a brief detour to her friend’s festive party doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Until Maya walks in to find the last person she wants to see. Sam, the boy who broke her heart eight years ago. And he’s serving drinks. Naked. Sam Holland is working an extra job on the sly to help his friend get by. But little did he expect Maya Bashir to come barrelling back into his life, learning about his secret side-hustle and taking back her old job alongside him at his daytime role as a ski instructor on the slopes of the Scottish Highlands. As both Sam and Maya realize that their reason for heartbreak so many years ago wasn’t entirely as it seemed, they must learn to stand up for what they want the most…or else miss their second chance at love.

Pagan's X-Mas
Pagan's X-Mas

Author: Morgan Jane Mitchell

Publisher: Morgan Jane Mitchell

Published: 2023-01-11

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13:

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From USA Today Bestselling Author Morgan Jane Mitchell comes the next installment of her Royal Bastards MC: Nashville, TN Chapter series, Pagan's X-Mas. Pagan doesn't celebrate the holidays like his brothers, hence the name. He doesn't know if he believes in anything anymore. And this year the Vice President of the Royal Bastards MC in Nashville decides to leave his sister, Cece to her new man and his club behind altogether to escape to the mountains to the one thing he still believes in. Jassica was not only Pagan's sister's live in nurse, she'd been his side chic for years. His plaything. His secret. Fed up with the turmoil of their strange and unhealthy relationship, she left Royal Road just when the badass biker couldn't go look for her. He'd been injured in the fire. But now that he's healed enough to ride, Pagan is determined to convince Jassica to come back. Snowed in with the biker, will Jassica change her mind about leaving this ruthless man? Will Pagan finally let someone love the man behind his rough shell?

Merry Kissmas to You
Merry Kissmas to You

Author: Jenni Jennings

Publisher:

Published: 2021-10-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780702314155

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A feel-good festive rom-com about three friends looking for love. Milly, Robert and Sam are counting down to the Christmas Snow Ball. Will each of them get their magical moment under the mistletoe this Christmas?

The Politics of Human Rights
The Politics of Human Rights

Author: Sabine C. Carey

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-10-14

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139493337

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Human rights is an important issue in contemporary politics, and the last few decades have also seen a remarkable increase in research and teaching on the subject. This book introduces students to the study of human rights and aims to build on their interest while simultaneously offering an alternative vision of the subject. Many texts focus on the theoretical and legal issues surrounding human rights. This book adopts a substantially different approach which uses empirical data derived from research on human rights by political scientists to illustrate the occurrence of different types of human rights violations across the world. The authors devote attention to rights as well as to responsibilities, neither of which stops at one country's political borders. They also explore how to deal with repression and the aftermath of human rights violations, making students aware of the prospects for and realities of progress.

Kwani? 02
Kwani? 02

Author: Binyavanga Wainaina

Publisher: Kwani Archive Online

Published: 2008-12-31

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9789966983626

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From the critical and commercial success of Kwani? 01 came the next edition, kwani? 02, in 2004. This edition features contemporary literary Kenyan concerns themed on the question of identity. Building on the first issue, kwani? 02 offers all that kwani? 01 did and mirrors the post-millennial angst of young Kenyan writers, poets, cartoonists and photographers. Once again, kwani? featured in the Caine Prize for African writing 2004 when Parselelo Kantaiís Comrade Lemma and the Black Jerusalem Boys Bandwas runner up. Uwem Akpanís An Xmas Feast has since been re-worked and published in the New Yorker magazine ñ the first time an African writer has been featured in that prestigious magazine.