The Matchmaker
The Matchmaker

Author: Elin Hilderbrand

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2014-06-10

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0316329029

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In this moving story about losing and finding love again, a woman sets out to find the perfect matches for those closest to her. Forty-eight-year-old Nantucketer Dabney Kimball Beech has always had a gift for matchmaking. Some call her ability mystical, while others, her husband, celebrated economist John Boxmiller Beech, and her daughter, Agnes, who is clearly engaged to the wrong man, call it meddlesome. But there's no arguing with her results: With 42 happy couples to her credit and all of them still together, Dabney has never been wrong about romance. Never, that is, except in the case of herself and Clendenin Hughes, the green-eyed boy who took her heart with him long ago when he left the island to pursue his dream of becoming a journalist. Now, after spending twenty-seven years on the other side of the world, Clen is back on Nantucket, and Dabney has never felt so confused, or so alive. But when tragedy threatens her own second chance, Dabney must face the choices she's made and share painful secrets with her family. Determined to make use of her gift before it's too late, she sets out to find perfect matches for those she loves most.

Matchmakers
Matchmakers

Author: David S. Evans

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 163369173X

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A different kind of matchmaker. Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Facebook to Visa, and the most valuable start-ups, such as Airbnb and Uber, are matchmakers that connect one group of customers with another group of customers. Economists call matchmakers multisided platforms because they provide physical or virtual platforms for multiple groups to get together. Dating sites connect people with potential matches, for example, and ride-sharing apps do the same for drivers and riders. Although matchmakers have been around for millennia, they’re becoming more and more popular—and profitable—due to dramatic advances in technology, and a lot of companies that have managed to crack the code of this business model have become today’s power brokers. Don’t let the flashy successes fool you, though. Starting a matchmaker is one of the toughest business challenges, and almost everyone who tries to build one, fails. In Matchmakers, David Evans and Richard Schmalensee, two economists who were among the first to analyze multisided platforms and discover their principles, and who’ve consulted for some of the most successful platform businesses in the world, explain how matchmakers work best in practice, why they do what they do, and how entrepreneurs can improve their chances for success. Whether you’re an entrepreneur, an investor, a consumer, or an executive, your future will involve more and more multisided platforms, and Matchmakers—rich with stories from platform winners and losers—is the one book you’ll need in order to navigate this appealing but confusing world.

The Friendship Matchmaker
The Friendship Matchmaker

Author: Randa Abdel-Fattah

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-07-17

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0802728332

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Lara Zany is known throughout the school yard as the Friendship Matchmaker-kids who need to make or keep a best friend call on her expertise and follow her hard-and-fast rules to find friendships. Lara's documented everything from friendship categories (the BOBF, or Bus Only Best Friend; the NL, or Nerdy Loner; the LBC, or Loner By Choice) to strategies (MAKF, or Make and Keep Friends; BTFP, or Bus Trip Faux Pas). And she's sure that her manual will one day be published by none other than Harry Potter's publishers. But when new kid in school Emily Wong questions whether following such unbendable rules is really the way to true friendship, Lara and Emily decide to compete by each finding a LL a best friend. But Lara, a LBC, doesn't bank on finding her own best friendship in the most unlikely of places... In the tradition of Clueless or Emma, this is a funny and heartwarming story of celebrating individuality and finding acceptance.

God Is a Matchmaker
God Is a Matchmaker

Author: Derek Prince

Publisher: Baker Books

Published: 2011-06-15

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1441263357

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God is the divine matchmaker, and this is His plan for you. Marriage is God's sacred creation, a beautiful gift for His children. But too often we fail to leave the choice or the timing to Him. In this revised and expanded edition of his bestselling book, well-known Bible teacher Derek Prince and his wife, Ruth, reveal God's true plan for you and your future spouse. In addition to sharing their own real-life love story, Derek lays out seven biblical steps to finding your mate. He will also help you answer tough questions, such as · How can I know if it is God's will for me to marry? · How can I prepare myself for marriage? · How can I find the mate God has appointed for me? · What is God's plan for remarriage? Full of inspiring testimonies from people who found their perfect matches by following these principles, God Is a Matchmaker also offers special counsel and material for parents, pastors, counselors, teachers and youth ministers involved with those preparing for this exciting time of life. When you discover God's pattern for marriage, you will experience His perfect gift: a match truly made in heaven.

Empire High Matchmaker
Empire High Matchmaker

Author: Ivy Smoak

Publisher: Empire High

Published: 2021-05-20

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9781942381372

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Matthew Caldwell is NYC's most eligible bachelor. Charming. Gorgeous. Wealthy. Great with kids. Broken. Sixteen years ago he lost everything. He made a vow to never love again. But suddenly everyone in his life is acting like a matchmaker. He can't help but wonder if a broken vow is better than a broken heart. There's just one problem. Only one woman in the city has caught his attention. And it's the only woman he can't have.

Meant For You (A BWWM BDSM Romance)
Meant For You (A BWWM BDSM Romance)

Author: G.L. Tomas

Publisher: Rebellious Valkyrie Press

Published: 2019-08-07

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13:

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Finnish investor Olli Tuominen was supposed to be marrying the woman of his dreams—but the day of the wedding, he's hit with the hard reality. In the eyes of the law, and on paper, he's still married to his first wife Benny. Walking away from a love like hers had always been difficult, but serving her divorce papers proved even more obstacle. Still the enchanting beauty he remembered her to be, his first love might still harbor a fire that can't be extinguished. Bendicíon Obiang thought she'd never see Olli again. She certainly didn't plan after an eight-year estrangement that the reason he'd re-enter her life was to confirm her deepest fear. Her only true love was moving on. Could this happenstance reunion be the push she needs to finally reveal the truth after all this time? That they share a child? Reuniting face to face should’ve been simple. Sign the divorce papers. Wish him happiness on his new life. Go back to California. Only a Nordic snowstorm has other plans for the past lovers; plans that include Benny on her knees succumbing to Olli's dominance. It only takes one weekend to make two things perfectly clear. The former submissive was always his to claim, and the secret she's been keeping might just be the thing that breaks him. This story features a BWWM couple with no cheating and a HEA. This read is steamy and spicy featuring a dormant Dominant who reunites with his former submissive and despite what you take from the blurb features NO CHEATING! If Dominance and submission isn't your cup of tea, sit this one out but for those that enjoy it, this quiet, grumpy Alpha knows how to melt his way into your heart.

The Matchmaker's Match
The Matchmaker's Match

Author: Nicole Flockton

Publisher: Tule Publishing

Published: 2019-06-18

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1950510549

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Could the best man be her best option? The last person Meredith Turner expects to see at her best friend’s wedding rehearsal dinner is the guy she had a one night stand with. What’s worse, Lincoln Forrest is the best man and as maid of honor, her partner. To add insult to injury, she has to leave the rehearsal dinner early, and Lincoln is the one to help her with a deeply personal problem. The aftermath of that night brings big changes for them both. Lincoln Forrest has helped his best friend meet the woman of his dreams, but recently he’s made a series of bad decisions, the biggest being leaving his career with the Army. Now the former K-9 handler is looking for a new career and trying to get his life back on track. Helping Meredith in her time of need connects her to him more than he expected. On a mission to right the wrong he created, Linc will do whatever is needed. But when the attraction that first drew them together flares to life again, will the obstacles between them be too much to overcome? Or has the matchmaker met his match?

The Matchmaker's Marriage
The Matchmaker's Marriage

Author: Meg Alexander

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2011-12-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1459225236

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From good friends to the ideal match! Despite constant admonitions to be discreet, Amy Wentworth had never learned to hold her tongue! Bright, honest and forthright, she couldn’t bear any form of unkindness, and it was her good nature that made her take Miss Charlotte Skelmersdale under her wing. It had seemed like a good idea to make a match for Charlotte with Sir James Richmond. But somehow Amy found she couldn’t do it. James was everything she herself wanted in a husband—now Amy just needed to convince him!

The Matchmaker's Sister
The Matchmaker's Sister

Author: Karen Toller Whittenburg

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1460368983

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Get me a date with a wonderful mate! Love's On The Loose In Providence… Nothing less than divine intervention can quell the commotion when the Danville girls of Providence, Rhode Island, get involved! Cool, confident Miranda is the take-charge beauty of the family. Not content with a simple silver spoon, she was born with a Day-Timer, too—and no one ever escapes her endless list of to-do's! But now the efficient Miranda is up against her sister, Ainsley, the family's intrepid Cupid, who's determined not to rest until she finds the man who'll make her sister part of a perfect pair. When four motherless children—and their handsome dad, Nate—arrive at the matchmaker's door, will Providence see another match made in heaven?

The Matchmaker's Plan
The Matchmaker's Plan

Author: Karen Toller Whittenburg

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2014-10-15

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 1460369009

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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Get me a date with a wonderful mate! Cupid's Plan Goes Awry When Her Arrows Hit Home… For once, intrepid matchmaker Ainsley Danville Dunbar doesn't know how to proceed. There's instant chemistry between her brother Matt and her new friend Peyton O'Reilly, but Ainsley sees no reason to break out the champagne just yet. Their hasty romance was a one-night fling—nobody wants to say, "I do." Still, Ainsley's not about to give up. Especially after Peyton lets her in on a little secret…