This is a story about us, about family, and about the things that tear us apart, as well as the things that hold us together. Meet the Miles'--a perfectly imperfect family that usually supports each other through thick and thin. Usually. But when things get thicker, can the ties that bind keep them together? Can they survive infidelity, drugs and rape? Will the Miles' still be family when the skeletons start tumbling from the closet?
"What I really wanted was her."This trip home would be a hell of a lot easier if she wasn't here.Zoe. My ex-wife.Fixing the broken finances of my family's winery is a little below my pay grade. But if I don't help, they might lose their land. The trouble is, she's everywhere, and I can't avoid her.Seeing Zoe again dredges up feelings I'd rather ignore. Hurt. Regret. Desire. So much f***ing desire. She's sassy and tough, and still the sexiest woman I've ever known. I shouldn't want her like this. I let her go once, and I don't deserve a second chance. But the more time I spend with her, the more I realize what we lost. What we could have again. It might be crazy, but crazy was always our thing. And this time, I'm not going down without a fight.**Each book in the Miles Family series ends with a romantic HEA, but there is an ongoing subplot that spans the entire series. Contains explicit language and content.**
It is Miles' sixth birthday and his family pinches, noogies, hugs, picks up, and tickles him, but Miles does not like all the physical interaction and he gets fed up.
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and insightful” (The Washington Post) testament to people who are left out of the archives. WINNER: Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Harriet Tubman Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, Lawrence W. Levine Award, Darlene Clark Hine Award, Cundill History Prize, Joan Kelly Memorial Prize, Massachusetts Book Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Slate, Vulture, Publishers Weekly “A history told with brilliance and tenderness and fearlessness.”—Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley’s granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the sack in spare, haunting language. Historian Tiya Miles carefully traces these women’s faint presence in archival records, and, where archives fall short, she turns to objects, art, and the environment to write a singular history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States. All That She Carried is a poignant story of resilience and love passed down against steep odds. It honors the creativity and resourcefulness of people who preserved family ties when official systems refused to do so, and it serves as a visionary illustration of how to reconstruct and recount their stories today FINALIST: MAAH Stone Book Award, Kirkus Prize, Mark Lynton History Prize, Chatauqua Prize ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, NPR, Time, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Smithsonian Magazine, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Ms. magazine, Book Riot, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist
"I love being naked. Naked is awesome." ~Cooper MilesLife used to be an endless party. I worked hard and played harder--as often as possible. But things change--people change--and lately the party life isn't doing it for me.Enter Amelia. It isn't every day that you meet a girl in a wedding dress in a bar. A girl whose life just took a sharp left turn she wasn't expecting. Kissing her? It's no big deal--totally just for fun. She's had one hell of a day, and a little kissing lesson by Cooper is bound to make her feel better. Getting in a little dig at the dumbass who left her at the altar is a bonus.The invitation back to her hotel? That, I wasn't expecting.Saying yes to her is reckless. Not because I'm a stranger to a one-night-stand. And not because she's in a wedding dress, and the words this is my first time cross her lips.Saying yes to Amelia is reckless because she's making me feel things I've never felt before--big things. Nothing scares me. But this girl? She might be magic, and I have no idea what to do with that.**Each book in the Miles Family series ends with a romantic HEA, but there is an ongoing subplot that spans the entire series. Contains explicit language and content.**
Ways of using family funds differ with age. The young families follow one pattern; the old, another. But this is to be expected since age brings changes in a person's scale of values, his ideas of what is most worth having and doing, his wants and to some extent his needs--the many inner forces that help to guide his choices of ways of spending.
