Bad Business
Bad Business

Author: JC Harroway

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1488062137

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From bestselling author JC Harroway comes the first book in The Pleasure Pact series. Grace Metcalf only wanted a onetime fling…but he’s got her risking it all for more! After my sister died, I knew I owed it to her and myself to get out there and start living. First order—calling off my wedding to a man I didn’t love. Then a margarita-filled night led to an agreement with my best friends: The Pleasure Pact. We’ve all agreed to live in the moment, which means behaving badly, embracing passion and saying yes to every adventure…even a red-hot holiday fling. When I agreed to go honeymooning solo in sunny Fiji, I didn’t expect to find a gorgeous paddleboard instructor ready and waiting to take my mind off the mundanity of real life. The mysterious Ryan Dempsey is exactly what I need: no rings, no romance, just raw sex appeal. His enigmatic past has turned him off love—now he’s all about lust and spontaneity. Ryan might be set on keeping things casual, but each electrifying encounter with him only shows me that our scorching chemistry goes beyond the physical. Can I convince this sworn bachelor that risking our tropical affair for a deeper connection is worth it? Harlequin DARE publishes sexy romances featuring powerful alpha heroes and bold, fearless heroines exploring their deepest fantasies. Four new Harlequin DARE titles are available each month, wherever ebooks are sold!

Getting Dirty
Getting Dirty

Author: Rachael Stewart

Publisher: HarperCollins Australia

Published: 2020-02-01

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1867202956

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Sometimes digging up the dirt means getting deliciously dirty... I always work for the good guys. My job was simple: get the dirt on Coco Lauren, a princess of a socialite who talks – and plays – dirty. But I kissed her. I tasted her. Uncovered the tantalising woman beneath the polished façade. And she undid me in every way. Now I’m the bad guy. But how do I tell Coco the truth...when coming clean means losing her? Mills & Boon Dare – Sensual love stories with smart, sassy heroines and the sexiest men alive!

Enemies with Benefits
Enemies with Benefits

Author: Zara Cox

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0369702492

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An indecent proposal turns bitter enemies into insatiable lovers in internationally bestselling author Zara Cox’s sizzling-hot finale to The Mortimers: Wealthy & Wicked series! Model-turned-marketing-executive Wren Bingham is the most sensual woman I’ve ever seen—and my sworn enemy. I’ve wanted the green-eyed beauty since the first time she strode into my boardroom, but I’ve never tasted her…until an outdoor encounter hot enough to warm the frigid London air leaves me craving more. With her CEO brother in rehab and Wren at the reins of Bingham Industries, I need her cooperation on a deal between our two companies. But she’s avoiding me—at least when it comes to work. So I make an indecent proposal! For every six hours she works on the deal, I’ll give her a mind-blowing orgasm. She should probably be outraged, but instead she insists on another demonstration. Sleeping with the enemy is a forbidden pleasure, and it’s not long before we’re crossing every sensual boundary. And a ten-day business trip to sun-drenched Morocco brings us even closer. Neither of us is looking for love, but that doesn’t stop our growing feelings. Until Wren is forced to make a choice that could shatter my newly awakened heart… Take control. Feel the rush. Explore your fantasies—Harlequin DARE publishes sexy romances featuring powerful alpha males and bold, fearless heroines exploring their deepest fantasies. The Mortimers: Wealthy & Wicked Book 1: Pleasure Payback Book 2: Her Every Fantasy Book 3: Driving Him Wild Book 4: Enemies with Benefits

The Birth of Venus
The Birth of Venus

Author: Sarah Dunant

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 1588364429

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Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their burgeoning relationship is interrupted when Alessandra’s parents arrange her marriage to a wealthy, much older man. Meanwhile, Florence is changing, increasingly subject to the growing suppression imposed by the fundamentalist monk Savonarola, who is seizing religious and political control. Alessandra and her native city are caught between the Medici state, with its love of luxury, learning, and dazzling art, and the hellfire preaching and increasing violence of Savonarola’s reactionary followers. Played out against this turbulent backdrop, Alessandra’s married life is a misery, except for the surprising freedom it allows her to pursue her powerful attraction to the young painter and his art. The Birth of Venus is a tour de force, the first historical novel from one of Britain’s most innovative writers of literary suspense. It brings alive the history of Florence at its most dramatic period, telling a compulsively absorbing story of love, art, religion, and power through the passionate voice of Alessandra, a heroine with the same vibrancy of spirit as her beloved city.

Albion's Seed
Albion's Seed

Author: David Hackett Fischer

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1991-03-14

Total Pages: 981

ISBN-13: 019974369X

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This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

Good Economics for Hard Times
Good Economics for Hard Times

Author: Abhijit V. Banerjee

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1541762878

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The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of the good life as we have known it. Immigration and inequality, globalization and technological disruption, slowing growth and accelerating climate change--these are sources of great anxiety across the world, from New Delhi and Dakar to Paris and Washington, DC. The resources to address these challenges are there--what we lack are ideas that will help us jump the wall of disagreement and distrust that divides us. If we succeed, history will remember our era with gratitude; if we fail, the potential losses are incalculable. In this revolutionary book, renowned MIT economists Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo take on this challenge, building on cutting-edge research in economics explained with lucidity and grace. Original, provocative, and urgent, Good Economics for Hard Times makes a persuasive case for an intelligent interventionism and a society built on compassion and respect. It is an extraordinary achievement, one that shines a light to help us appreciate and understand our precariously balanced world.