She's been a very bad girl, he could be the man to teach her a lesson...Gunnar Fox has the patience of a saint. You have to when you teach high school. But one thing that isn't so saintly is the thoughts he's had about Twyla Smith. She's nineteen, in her second senior year at Clover Hills High, and she has a reputation. She's loud, she's crude, and she breaks all the rules. Gunnar doesn't like brats but something about Twyla says she's just never had anyone teach her how to be good. Maybe he could be that man. Maybe he could be her daddy. When Gunnar comes to her rescue after some boys gang up on her after school, they'll have the chance to find out.
How many daddies does it take to heal a broken little girl? Cosima Valtolina has been trapped in a living hell for eight long years, held hostage by a man she thought would be her savior but who turned out to be a monster. One fateful night frees her from her nightmare come true but also leaves her beaten and bloody in a ditch. Ian Galbraith, Hudson Lindberg, and Ryker Donahue have been looking for a little to love together for two decades. They never expected their best prospect to turn up half-dead on their doorstep. Hudson falls hard from the start for sweet and submissive Cosima, and Ian's not far behind, but the enigmatic Ryker isn't interested in risking his heart again for anything. The owners of Clover City's favorite fetish club can help Cosima's body mend, but can they heal and win her heart? Or will ghosts and demons from their pasts keep them from their happily ever after? Cosima's Club Owner Daddies is a standalone novel in the Clover City Littles series. It features a damaged but determined little girl in need of a guardian angel-or three-and a trio of protective and devoted best friends who have vowed to share everything, even love.
No one makes a little's Christmas wish come true like a Santa daddy...Jethro Del Bosque owns Clover City's best garden center. He's also Clover City's most sought after Santa, and he's got his eye on one of his elves. Sable Hollingsford is heir to the Hollingsford real estate fortune, and she's one of the city's wealthiest and most sophisticated women. She's completely out of Jethro's league. Sable's always wanted a daddy who would spoil and discipline her, and she's always liked the look of Jethro, but being little isn't in the cards for a ruthless businesswoman like her. Except a chance encounter at the club Jethro frequents and where Sable fulfills her secret needs gives them an inkling of hope. And when a stranger at the club won't take no for an answer, Jethro rushes to Sable's aid. His heroics give them both second thoughts about what might be possible...especially at Christmas.
When you're a single mom, who's your daddy? Devaney Bishop is glad to be free of her ex-husband, but juggling work and two on-the-go sons isn't easy for anyone, and Devaney's been struggling with debilitating health problems. Problems that culminate in a mortifying moment in front of her kids' dreamboat doctor. Eric Southerland is Clover City's most well-respected pediatrician--and also the first person mommies and daddies call when their littles are injured, under the weather, or due for a very special trip to the doctor's office. As beloved as he is, Doctor Eric hasn't found a little he'd like to call his very own...until newly divorced Devaney Bishop falls ill in his exam room. Devaney's used to doing everything herself, but compulsive caretaker Eric won't tolerate her self-destructive stubbornness. He might get his way while she's sick, but once she's recovered will she still want what he has to offer? And will she be able to trust him after the abandonment she's already suffered? Devaney's Doctor Daddy is a standalone novel in the Clover City Littles series. It features a stressed-to-the-brink single parent who needs someone to take as good care of her as she takes of her boys, and an attentive dominant daddy who might be just what the doctor ordered.
The final chapter in the Viking Brothers Series... Dag knows his destiny lies within the future. Will it be with his eldest brother or beyond? Has time bound him to a woman, the way it has for Thorin and Jerrik? And if so, who will she be? Either way, he's ready to head straight into the mist. Desiree has been running from love her whole life. With a rough start in life, she's only ever depended on herself. Now, after a fling gone wrong, Dez finds herself in a delicate situation. Her life is about to become a party of two. During a celebration for Jett and Jerrik's twins' first birthday, Dez finds herself ripped from her time and thrown into the future. A dystopian future. And the only person to help her is Jerrik's terrifying bastard half-brother. Dez and the scarred Viking get off to a rocky start as they try to find out what happened to the world around them. Dag feels bound by duty to protect the feisty woman and the baby she carries. His devotion to protecting her melts Desiree's tough, icy exterior. Could it be possible for love to blossom among the wreckage? Wrapped up in each other and a new baby, neither has any idea that a psychotic woman who believes herself to be a god is plotting to use them, particularly Dag, to repopulate the world. Caught in her trap, they have to find a way to escape before she makes good on her plan. And before she can harm Desiree's child. Will they get help from the most unlikely allies? Will they be enslaved forever? Or is it possible their destiny is to save the world? Find out in the epic conclusion to the Viking Brothers series, in...Bound Through Time: Future. Warning: Adult content. 18+ only!!!
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtly and grace. In Morrison’s acclaimed first novel, Pecola Breedlove—an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. Here, Morrison’s writing is “so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry” (The New York Times).
"This ... collection from the ... editor Robert Gottlieb features twenty or so pieces he's written mostly for The New York Review of Books, ranging from reconsiderations of American writers such as Dorothy Parker, Thornton Wilder, Thomas Wolfe (genius), and James Jones, to Leonard Bernstein, Lorenz Hart, Lady Diana Cooper (the most beautiful girl in the world), the actor-assassin John Wilkes Booth, the scandalous movie star Mary Astor, and not-yet president Donald Trump"--Amazon.com.
Profiles the life and career of the professional ballerina, covering from when she began dance classes at age thirteen in an after-school community center through becoming the only African American soloist dancing with the American Ballet Theatre.
What is the secret of talent? How do we unlock it? This groundbreaking work provides readers with tools they can use to maximize potential in themselves and others. Whether you’re coaching soccer or teaching a child to play the piano, writing a novel or trying to improve your golf swing, this revolutionary book shows you how to grow talent by tapping into a newly discovered brain mechanism. Drawing on cutting-edge neurology and firsthand research gathered on journeys to nine of the world’s talent hotbeds—from the baseball fields of the Caribbean to a classical-music academy in upstate New York—Coyle identifies the three key elements that will allow you to develop your gifts and optimize your performance in sports, art, music, math, or just about anything. • Deep Practice Everyone knows that practice is a key to success. What everyone doesn’t know is that specific kinds of practice can increase skill up to ten times faster than conventional practice. • Ignition We all need a little motivation to get started. But what separates truly high achievers from the rest of the pack? A higher level of commitment—call it passion—born out of our deepest unconscious desires and triggered by certain primal cues. Understanding how these signals work can help you ignite passion and catalyze skill development. • Master Coaching What are the secrets of the world’s most effective teachers, trainers, and coaches? Discover the four virtues that enable these “talent whisperers” to fuel passion, inspire deep practice, and bring out the best in their students. These three elements work together within your brain to form myelin, a microscopic neural substance that adds vast amounts of speed and accuracy to your movements and thoughts. Scientists have discovered that myelin might just be the holy grail: the foundation of all forms of greatness, from Michelangelo’s to Michael Jordan’s. The good news about myelin is that it isn’t fixed at birth; to the contrary, it grows, and like anything that grows, it can be cultivated and nourished. Combining revelatory analysis with illuminating examples of regular people who have achieved greatness, this book will not only change the way you think about talent, but equip you to reach your own highest potential.
