Casual Affair

Casual Affair

Author: Melanie Munton

Publisher: Entangled: Brazen

Published: 2017-07-24

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1640631445

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Bea Paxton is a free spirit. She loves her fledgling interior design business, having fun, and she loves men. But only temporarily. Rule #1 is no relationships, no love, no commitment. She likes being in charge. It's the only way to protect herself from getting hurt again. Zane Price is the perfect candidate for a steamy time—beautiful, built, and British. Plus, he'll soon be moving back to England. Really perfect. Well...except for the fact that he's her biggest client. And he doesn't play by her rules. Hell, no. He wants more. Much more. Which is definitely not on the agenda. Unfortunately, his kisses are nothing short of toe-curlingly awesome. And he is distracting her—a lot—from doing her job. She needs to stay away from him. Her livelihood depends on it. But Zane always gets what he wants. And he wants Bea. But for right now? Or forever...? Each book in the Slow Seductions series is STANDALONE: * Casual Affair * Sweet Attraction


Casual Affairs

Casual Affairs

Author: Maryellen V. Keefe

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2014-06-01

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13: 1438450893

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Follows the life and career of Sally Benson, acclaimed writer of New Yorker fiction and Hollywood screenplays. In Casual Affairs, Maryellen V. Keefe vividly follows the life and career of Sally Benson, the New Yorker writer remembered by generations of moviegoers for Meet Me in St. Louis, the film that brought her family to life. Keefe traces Benson’s life from her childhood in St. Louis to marriage and motherhood to her award-winning fiction career and her success as a Hollywood screenwriter. Through the Jazz Age and into the 1930s and ’40s, Benson negotiated the transition from domesticity to the marketplace, becoming a full-fledged career woman while juggling her responsibilities as a wife and mother and indulging in several “quiet little affairs.” She succeeded early in a profession dominated by men, forging her way in a largely male world and winning the support and friendship of colleagues and editors. Benson established herself as a writer known for brutally honest portraits of middle-class women much like herself. “Impeccably researched and highly entertaining, this long-awaited biography of Sally Benson will find an important place in the history of American theater, film, and belles lettres.” — Donald Spoto, biographer of Alfred Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Laurence Olivier, and others “Finally a biographer capable of bringing the brilliant and outrageous Sally Benson to life! And what a life it was for a woman, who began a long career writing for the New Yorker in 1929 and Hollywood in the forties. Keefe’s vivid account, which draws on family papers as it traces Benson’s personal and professional ups and downs, is also the story of a generation of young women eager to balance work and family. Readers who know Benson primarily from the film Meet Me in St. Louis will come to know her as a stylist every bit as talented as Dorothy Parker and with the same wonderful flair.” — Susan Goodman, author of Republic of Words: The Atlantic Monthly and Its Writers, 1857–1925


Love Affairs

Love Affairs

Author: Joel Block Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2018-04-02

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1440861552

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A psychologist specializing in couples therapy provides an honest and compassionate guide to dealing with a spouse's or partner's love affair, from the one-night stand to the grand amour. As a result of innovative technologies and a globalized world, temptation and opportunity often intersect, allowing infidelity to increasingly create problems between spouses, partners, and other couplings in which at least one person expects exclusive intimacy. In this timely work, noted couples therapist Joel Block examines the challenges of affairs, including types of affairs; their motivations and effects; and how to repair and improve a relationship, or part ways, after an affair. Questions addressed include: "What is the motivation?", "Is it a result of deep dissatisfaction? Or not a reflection of the relationship at all?", and "Can relationships be affair-proofed?" Providing vignettes from the author's therapy sessions to illustrate points, the book also explains how to respond to discovery; minimize disruption in the lives of children; and when separation or divorce is the chosen solution, understand new modes of "conscious de-coupling" that keep post-breakup life stable as well as satisfying. A lifeline for recovering from crisis, this text will interest general readers looking for advice to react to, cope with, or avoid infidelity, as well as students and professionals in the fields of psychology, counseling, and social work.


Metamorphosis -Service Tax To Goods Services Tax

Metamorphosis -Service Tax To Goods Services Tax

Author: Monish Bhalla

Publisher: Monish Bhalla

Published: 2020-05-24

Total Pages: 1200

ISBN-13:

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2006 to 2017 for 11 long years the Author wrote a weekly column in the leading English daily DNA- “Service Tax Simplified” Every week a recent burning issue, a new current problem and the challenge for finding a solution. A solution which had to be simple, in lucid, layman language. Many of his professional colleagues asked him why he gives a free solution in public!! What he achieve in giving free advice? And His response–A SMILE ! Because that’s what he give to his readers when they find their solutions, a smile on their tense faces. If his articles have brought back the smiles on the reader’s faces, if his articles have assisted them to resolve their service tax issues with the department, without spending a penny; if many articles have enriched the knowledge of his learned friends-chartered accountants, consultants, tax professionals and his friends working with the service tax department, then my efforts have been awarded. He has learned that Life is a journey, a journey with no destination. It is this voyage one needs to learn to enjoy. As you read this compilation of over 450 articles, you will experience the evolution of service tax, as if a small caterpillar has metamorphosed into a butterfly.


The Dangerous Ladies Affair

The Dangerous Ladies Affair

Author: Marcia Muller

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2017-01-03

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1466876794

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For these Victorian-era PIs, stopping extortionists is not only grand, but excitingly lucrative—from the authors of The Plague of Thieves Affair. When a pleasant afternoon’s bicycling through Golden Gate Park with a friend ends with the revelation of threatening letters, followed by a gunshot in a mansion garden, Sabina Carpenter knows this is a case that demands her immediate and undivided attention. The questions her partner John Quincannon has to unravel are not difficult: Wrixton, a wealthy banker, has met his extortionist’s first demand, but the order to pay another $5,000 is too much to face. The banker’s real problem is something he doesn’t want to reveal. That was fine with the detective, and when he was informed that some private letters were involved and Wrixton absolutely needed them back, there was nothing more Quincannon needed in the way of background. As with so many of San Francisco’s elite, the bedroom doors never seemed to stay shut. That was the easy part; far more difficult was the matter of the dead courier, murdered most foully in a locked room within a locked room, creating a trail that will take John Quincannon through most of San Francisco’s less savory places and end with a riverboat trip that is anything but a relaxing cruise. The Dangerous Ladies Affair is the next thrilling installment in this charming historical mystery series from MWA Grand Masters Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini.


HER SECRET AFFAIR

HER SECRET AFFAIR

Author: Arlene James

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2012-04-16

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1459240154

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THE MILLIONAIRE’S SEDUCTION Chey Simmons had entered Brodie Todd’s world as part of a business contract. So why did she find her powerful, handsome client so unnerving…and intriguing? Chey didn’t know. She only knew that getting involved with the elusive millionaire single father could be dangerous to her heart…. When Brodie took Chey into his arms, he knew this woman had a hold on him like no other. But Brodie’s life was filled with commitments that kept him from claiming Chey as his own—and a scandal that threatened to tear them apart forever. And yet, once they yielded to soulstirring desire, Brodie knew there was no turning back. That somehow, some way, this woman was bound to be his….


Bad Timing

Bad Timing

Author: Betsy Berne

Publisher: Villard

Published: 2001-06-01

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 0375506640

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“The value of Bad Timing as a cultural portrait, its subversiveness, is not in what it criticizes, but in what it celebrates—the pride of losers, the volatility of deep friendships between women, the tribal bonds between blacks and Jews, and especially love of family. This is a hilarious, venomous first novel.”—Darryl Pinckney The unnamed narrator is an artist, a single woman in her late thirties. The man she meets at a downtown club is a jazz musician, older—and married. Their attraction is instinctive, irrational, and profound—and complicated by the fact that she becomes pregnant after their first night together. Bad Timing is the story of their affair, which unfolds over one steamy summer in the dreamy enclaves of lower Manhattan. Under the erratic tutelage of her black, gay neighbor, her stentorian Jewish mother, and a circle of eccentric friends (who provide fuel as much for neurosis as for comfort), this unconventional woman struggles to reconcile her need for love with the limits and liberties of an undercover affair. Her story is filled with head-on confrontations with issues of race, ethnicity, gender, class, morals, and family—by turns bitingly funny and genuinely heartbreaking. Set in an all-too-small New York universe of artists, musicians, and writers in which the lives of our hapless heroine and her errant lover intersect repeatedly with far fewer than six degrees of separation, Bad Timing memorably depicts a woman seeking to find love and balance in a world where men and women are equally complicit in games of emotional hide-and-seek, and where culture has become little more than merchandise and personalities. With devilish insights into the clubby worlds of art and magazines, Bad Timing is a tart-yet-sweet story of modern love, lost and found.


Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples

Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples

Author: Dr. Monique Thompson DHA, LPC

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2021-01-05

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1648769047

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Repairing your relationship after infidelity—an unbiased, hands-on workbook for couples Couples can and do survive infidelity, but they must first commit to the honesty and emotional work that's required for lasting change. The Infidelity Recovery Workbook for Couples helps you do that, with a collection of evidence-based advice and activities to help facilitate the healing process. You'll explore the different types of infidelity, learn effective communication language, and begin the process of rebuilding your trust, happiness, and future together. Commit to a better future with your partner with: An expert first step—Work through your relationship issues with quizzes, writing prompts, and guided questions that help you express your feelings, grow more intimate, and practice forgiveness. Strategies for both partners—Learn effective techniques for speaking and listening that honor the perspectives and feelings of both partners equally. For all couples—Couples of any age, gender, marital status, religion, or sexual orientation will find guidance from a licensed mental health professional who specializes in infidelity. Recover from relationship infidelity with this book of clear and empathetic strategies that every couple can use.


Casual Affairs

Casual Affairs

Author: Lillian O'Donnell

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9781560541349

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Lieutenant Norah Mulcahaney attempts to reconstruct the glamorous world of a woman who is lying in a drug-induced coma to determine if her condition was a result of her excessive life-style or part of a premeditated plan.