A BRAND-NEW STORY kicks off this SUMMER FUN issue! In “Babbi’s Riverdale Beach Party,” to celebrate the release of the new Babbi movie, Veronica decides to throw an over-the-top beach party, with everyone dressed as their favorite Babbi doll. The Lodge Beach House is turned into a lifelike version of Babbi’s Beach House—complete with unicorn rides on the beach! There are even some hints that a surprise guest will make an appearance—so when a handsome, young stranger shows up, EVERYONE wants to know who he is! All that plus even more fun in the sun stories and fabulous summer fashions!
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Colors and Breakwater Bay comes this heartwarming story of love, family, and redemption. Two young girls pledged to be best friends forever. Separated by circumstance and hurt, they are reunited years later as they struggle to put their differences aside for the sake of a special little girl—perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah, Elin Hilderbrand, and Karen White. One woman struggling to hold on to what she has, One woman learning to forgive Their lives entwined by one little girl. Sarah Hargreave is anxious to finalize the adoption of her foster daughter Leila. Once a foster child herself, Sarah longs to become Leila’s “forever” family and give her all the love and stability she was denied in her own childhood. When Leila’s biological mother suddenly reappears and petitions the court for the return of her daughter, Sarah is terrified she’ll lose the little girl she loves to the drug addicted mother who abandoned her. Having grown up in foster care, Ilona Cartwright fights for the rights of children who have no one to fight for them. But to Sarah she is Nonie Blanchard, who grew up in the same group foster home as Sarah. They’d promised to be best friends forever, then Nonie was adopted by a wealthy family, and Sarah never heard from her again. Sarah still hurts from the betrayal. But Nonie harbors her own resentment toward the past. Mistrustful of each other, the two women form a tenuous alliance to ensure Leila’s future, but when Leila’s very survival is on the line, they’ll have to come to terms with their own feelings of hurt and rejection to save the child they both have come to love.
What is more important friendship or love?? Can miracles still happen?? Are friends still more caring than the so called relationships? The story starts with Rihant who works for a Book Publishing Company, receiving a manuscript about the real life story of Shabd. Shabd is a good hearted and decent kinda boy. He falls in short term relationships and gets cheated upon. He falls in love again with Sanskriti. Eventually his life becomes perfect. He has the most beautiful girl as his girlfriend who loves him more than herself. He couldn't ask for anything more from life. Few months later, his life is a mess. A mysterious stranger, Samaira, comes to his college by following him halfway across the country, his relationship is falling apart, someone is keep on attacking him trying to hurt him and he don't know who and why, and somehow all these are connected. But Shabd's manuscript ends without unraveling any mysteries. Why will someone send an incomplete manuscript to a Book Publishing Company? What will Rihant do? How will he find Shabd with just a manuscript? And will he able to getall the answers? Who was Samaira?
Sara was stunned when Ty made his announcement at the awards show. Before she can make up her mind how she feels about it, he is back in town, ready to pick up where they left off. Ty knows what he wants and he's ready to do whatever it takes for Sara to take him back. As soon as she tells him what that is. The one thing neither one of them expected was having to deal with Inya but she is not about to go away quietly. Intended for readers 18+ **** This is Book Three of Ty and Sara's story. The full compilation, Book One: So Unexpected, Book Two: My Angel and Book Three: Forever is Here, was published May 2015. ****
This is a love story based on events that occurred in my life more than fifty years ago. Some of the names have been changed, and some events may have been diminished or embellished while recalling things that happened when writing the story. The story is a based on recollections of actual experiences I had. It is a story filled with discovery, joy, and the innocence of teenage years back in the fiftys. It also shows how those years became the building blocks of a lifetime. The motivation for writing this came from an extraordinary thing that happened to me in the Spring of 2006 that stirred my memory and caused me to recall with clarity what I had so long ago buried in my subconscious mind. I met a person who became a good friend, but more importantly she reawakened everything I had discovered in that one magical summer back in 1954. Looking back as an adult fifty years later made me realize that there is symmetry in life, but many people never take the time to see it. This all started for me when we returned from our Winter Condo in Boca Raton, Florida in April of 2006. As per my usual morning routine, I continued to awaken early and go over to Starbucks to sit and have my morning cup of Decaf Americano. Id sit there and read the Daily News, or the New York Times, and chat with some fascinating people I had met whod become friends in the several years since I retired. One particular April morning I came in and they had a new person in charge of the morning shift working there. From the moment I saw her I could not stop looking at her. There was something instantly so familiar about her, but I wasnt able to see exactly what it was initially. When I made the connection with what it was it hit me like a ton of bricks. After we were introduced we began chatting briefly, but the more we made small talk, the less I actually heard what she was saying as memories of my past flooded back. All of a sudden I was fifteen years old again. I knew then I had to sit down and somehow get this written. I also knew I would at some point; have to share this amazing story with her if or when I got to know her better. It was interesting recalling my early childhood, and the events that brought me to that wonderful summer of discovery, and falling in love for what I believed then to be the first and last time in my life. That summer held some of the keys to the person I would become as I grew up, and dealt with life at all ages.
Danielle Roberts is ravishing young beauty who is ripped from her home in Virginia after the tragic death of her mother and deposited on a ship bound for England and a family she never knew she had by a despicable and shady English lawyer. The lawyer inadvertently reveals many truths Danielle’s mother never ment for her to know, including the fact that she is a bastard. Feeling betrayed, lonely and brokenhearted she takes comfort in the new friends she makes on the journey to her new home but is betrayed once again when one of these new friends turns into a bitter enemy. Lord Derrik Wright, a dashingly handsome duke from England, traveled to America to expand on his shipping business but when he agrees to take on a young passenger and deliver her to her family in London he gets much more than he bargained for. Love, an emotion he had fought hard to resist for many years now, bloomed and took hold of his heart the moment he saw her but he would have to endure trials the likes of which he had never seen to make her feel the same way.
GET RICH IN ANY REAL ESTATE MARKET David Schumacher discovered that the way to a lifetime of financial security is to buy smart and never sell, and he built a $20-million fortune using his own savvy advice. Forget about ¿flipping¿ properties. Say goodbye to late-night TV ¿no money down¿ scams. Here¿s a shrewd, moneymaking, step-by-step investment program providing proven advice on how to: * Pick the properties with the most profit potential * Choose the locations that will be tomorrow¿s hottest neighborhoods * Negotiate lucrative real estate deals that can make you wealthy Packed with charts, graphs and David¿s real-life examples and axioms, the book is now updated with new material by nationally recognized real estate investor Steve Dexter. Here¿s your ticket to a sound financial future. ¿You have in your hands a masterpiece from the mind of a real estate legend. I suggest you read it and change your life forever.¿ ¿Bruce Norris, investor and president, The Norris Group _______________________________________ ¿The title says it all. Timeless advice on how to become financially free in an unfree world. Mandatory reading if you¿re serious about changing your financial life forever.¿ ¿Mike Cantu, real estate investor and educator based in Riverside, California ________________________________________ About the Authors DAVID SCHUMACHER, PhD, was an investor, magazine columnist and college instructor in the field of real estate. One of America¿s premier experts, he was also a multimillionaire property owner. He parlayed a modest investment into property holdings worth $20 million, including houses, condos and magnificent oceanfront apartment complexes in Southern California. He also authored The Buy & Hold Real Estate Strategy and Buy & Hold: 7 Steps to a Real Estate Fortune. STEVE DEXTER is the president of National Capital Funding, based in Laguna Beach, California, and an expert commentator for CNN/Money, CBS Radio and Fox TV. He is the author of Real Estate Debt Can Make You Rich and Beat the Banks: How to Prosper from the Rising Wave of Bank Foreclosures.
Forever Summer: Two Books In One from bestselling author Alyson Noël: Laguna Cove & Cruel Summer Summer. A break from the burdens of school. Deep tans, deeper thoughts. Far away from the everyday. Closer to making dreams come true . . . What does summer mean to you? For the two teenage girls in these two unforgettable novels, summer means being torn away from the familiar and finding new friends. A new place in the world. A new sense of self. And maybe even new love along the way . . . When you're having the time of your life, you never want it to end.
When Tess's mother abandons her during her senior year at high school, she must find a way to keep the secret and survive until graduation. She's surprised when Cruz, her crush and an aspiring model, moves in to help. Tess has dreams of studying in Paris, France and becoming a writer...impossible dreams without money or family. But as Tess and Cruz's relationship grows closer, Cruz will do anything to make sure Tess's dreams come true. But at what price? Forever Now is a young adult / new adult story about finding love, living dreams, and overcoming great odds. Forever begins now.
