A workaholic and a hippie health nut? Perfect combination. The work ethic that's made Chad LaChance crazy rich has also made him sick. When his mentor banishes him to a holistic health resort in the middle of nowhere, he meets Heidi the health coach. And she's nuts. She wants to rub his feet with oil and feed him twigs. Heidi Leeman loves everything about her life. She has no idea that something could be missing until she meets the billionaire. He's a little grumpy, but she can't blame him. He's almost worked himself to death. When sparks fly, Heidi tries to ignore them. What would a man like that want with a woman like her? They are polar opposites--from different planets. But when Chad's stalker shows up, things get complicated quickly. Can they find a way to meet in the middle, or do they need to part ways and return to their separate worlds? (funny billionaire romance; funny sweet romance; clean romance; small town billionaire romance; sweet romance; opposites attract)
She wasn't supposed to fall in love with the billionaire in the backseat. She was just supposed to drive. Isaac Cooley goes to work and goes home. He's keeping his nose to the grindstone, trying to make up for a reckless past. Whitney Ames is his housekeeper, and he doesn't even know her name. But he learns it quickly when the chauffeur position opens up and she jumps to fill it. They're just getting to know each other when a little girl shows up on Isaac's steps, claiming to be his daughter, which isn't possible. Or is it? As the unlikely threesome struggles to make sense of their new circumstances, Whitney becomes more and more worried about the dangerous feelings she's developing for her boss. She shouldn't be having such unrealistic dreams, should she?
The football coach, the country music star, the workaholic—which billionaire will be your favorite? My Billionaire Boss Isaac Cooley goes to work and goes home. That's it. He's keeping his nose to the grindstone, trying to make up for a reckless past. Whitney Ames is his housekeeper, and he doesn't even know her name. But he learns it quickly when the chauffeur position opens up, and she jumps to fill it. They're just getting to know each other when a little girl shows up on Isaac's steps, claiming to be his daughter, which isn't possible. Or is it? As the unlikely threesome struggles to make sense of their new circumstances, Whitney worries about the feelings she's developing for her boss. She shouldn't be having such unrealistic dreams, should she? *** The Billionaire's Second Chance Marriage of Convenience He broke her heart. Now he's back. Jackson Lebak is happy as a college football coach. Until his eccentric grandmother offers a billion-dollar shoe company as an inheritance. The catch? He has to get married before she dies. He doesn't know a single woman he could even imagine such a future with. But he used to know one. And she has no idea what's coming. *** The Snowed-In Billionaire Branch Bronson is the richest country star in history. When his manager betrays him, he needs to get away for a while and goes somewhere he is sure no one will recognize him—rural Maine. Trouble is, he didn't check the weather report first. Daisy Adams is a starving poet embarrassed to be living with her parents. When she picks up a hitchhiker in the blizzard, she has no idea who climbs into her car. It's a good thing, because she hates country music. The blizzard traps the two together in Daisy's parents' house. Just when Daisy admits she has feelings for the handsome stranger, she learns he might not be who she thinks he is. *** The Billionaire and the Hippie Health Nut Chad LaChance is a hyper-successful businessman with no time for love. His work ethic has made him rich, but it has also made him ill. He has to make some changes, or he won't be around long enough to enjoy all his money. His mentor sends him to a holistic health resort in the woods, where he meets his health coach. Heidi Leeman loves her job, her home, and her coworkers. She has no idea there's room in her life for more until she meets the billionaire. But even then, what could a rich man like that want with a hippie like her? They're too different, aren't they? As they get to know each other, sparks fly. But when Chad's stalker shows up, things get complicated fast. Can they sort things out to find their HEA? *** My Billionaire Scrooge Good Samaritan meets Scrooge. Nicholas Blake is the richest author in the country, but he's a bit of a recluse. Skyla Jones is desperate to save her homeless shelter, and she needs his help. He is reluctant to give it. She needs to persuade him, but she can't even stand him. He's arrogant and obnoxious. So why can't she stop thinking about him? (clean billionaire romance series, clean romance series, clean romance box set, clean romance boxset, sweet romance series, sweet billionaire romance, sweet romance box set, sweet romance boxset, sports romance, cowboy romance, country music romance, romantic comedy)
An enlightening narrative history—an entertaining fusion of Tom Wolfe and Michael Pollan—that traces the colorful origins of once unconventional foods and the diverse fringe movements, charismatic gurus, and counterculture elements that brought them to the mainstream and created a distinctly American cuisine. Food writer Jonathan Kauffman journeys back more than half a century—to the 1960s and 1970s—to tell the story of how a coterie of unusual men and women embraced an alternative lifestyle that would ultimately change how modern Americans eat. Impeccably researched, Hippie Food chronicles how the longhairs, revolutionaries, and back-to-the-landers rejected the square establishment of President Richard Nixon’s America and turned to a more idealistic and wholesome communal way of life and food. From the mystical rock-and-roll cult known as the Source Family and its legendary vegetarian restaurant in Hollywood to the Diggers’ brown bread in the Summer of Love to the rise of the co-op and the origins of the organic food craze, Kauffman reveals how today’s quotidian whole-foods staples—including sprouts, tofu, yogurt, brown rice, and whole-grain bread—were introduced and eventually became part of our diets. From coast to coast, through Oregon, Texas, Tennessee, Minnesota, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Vermont, Kauffman tracks hippie food’s journey from niche oddity to a cuisine that hit every corner of this country. A slick mix of gonzo playfulness, evocative detail, skillful pacing, and elegant writing, Hippie Food is a lively, engaging, and informative read that deepens our understanding of our culture and our lives today.
The New York Times bestselling author of Wallbanger and Rusty Nailed is back with Nuts, the first in a series set in New York’s beautiful Hudson Valley. Roxie Callahan is a private chef to some of Hollywood’s wealthiest, and nastiest, calorie-counting wives. After a dairy disaster implodes her carefully crafted career in one fell ploop, she finds herself back home in upstate New York, bailing out her hippie mother and running the family diner. When gorgeous local farmer Leo Maxwell delivers her a lovely bunch of organic walnuts, Roxie wonders if a summer back home isn’t such a bad idea after all. Leo is heavily involved in the sustainable slow food movement, and he likes to take his time. In all things. Roxie is determined to head back to the west coast as soon as summer ends, but will the pull of lazy fireflies and her very own Almanzo Wilder be enough to keep her home for good? Salty. Spicy. Sweet. Nuts. Go on, grab a handful.
From the Laws of Mount Misery: There are no laws in psychiatry. Now, from the author of the riotous, moving, bestselling classic, The House of God, comes a lacerating and brilliant novel of doctors and patients in a psychiatric hospital. Mount Misery is a prestigious facility set in the rolling green hills of New England, its country club atmosphere maintained by generous corporate contributions. Dr. Roy Basch (hero of The House of God) is lucky enough to train there *only to discover doctors caught up in the circus of competing psychiatric theories, and patients who are often there for one main reason: they've got good insurance. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Your colleagues will hurt you more than your patients. On rounds at Mount Misery, it's not always easy for Basch to tell the patients from the doctors: Errol Cabot, the drug cowboy whose practice provides him with guinea pigs for his imaginative prescription cocktails . . . Blair Heiler, the world expert on borderlines (a diagnosis that applies to just about everybody) . . . A. K. Lowell, née Aliyah K. Lowenschteiner, whose Freudian analytic technique is so razor sharp it prohibits her from actually speaking to patients . . . And Schlomo Dove, the loony, outlandish shrink accused of having sex with a beautiful, well-to-do female patient. From the Laws of Mount Misery: Psychiatrists specialize in their defects. For Basch the practice of psychiatry soon becomes a nightmare in which psychiatrists compete with one another to find the best ways to reduce human beings to blubbering drug-addled pods, or incite them to an extreme where excessive rage is the only rational response, or tie them up in Freudian knots. And all the while, the doctors seem less interested in their patients' mental health than in a host of other things *managed care insurance money, drug company research grants and kickbacks, and their own professional advancement. From the Laws of Mount Misery: In psychiatry, first comes treatment, then comes diagnosis. What The House of God did for doctoring the body, Mount Misery does for doctoring the mind. A practicing psychiatrist, Samuel Shem brings vivid authenticity and extraordinary storytelling gifts to this long-awaited sequel, to create a novel that is laugh-out-loud hilarious, terrifying, and provocative. Filled with biting irony and a wonderful sense of the absurd, Mount Misery tells you everything you'll never learn in therapy. And it's a hell of a lot funnier.
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.
Read Julie Klausner's posts on the Penguin Blog In the tradition of Cynthia Heimel and Chelsea Handler, and with the boisterous iconoclasm of Amy Sedaris, Julie Klausner's candid and funny debut I Don't Care About Your Band sheds light on the humiliations we endure to find love--and the lessons that can be culled from the wreckage. I Don't Care About Your Band posits that lately the worst guys to date are the ones who seem sensitive. It's the jerks in nice guy clothing, not the players in Ed Hardy, who break the hearts of modern girls who grew up in the shadow of feminism, thinking they could have everything, but end up compromising constantly. The cowards, the kidults, the critics, and the contenders: these are the stars of Klausner's memoir about how hard it is to find a man--good or otherwise--when you're a cynical grown-up exiled in the dregs of Guyville. Off the popularity of her New York Times "Modern Love" piece about getting the brush-off from an indie rock musician, I Don't care About Your Band is marbled with the wry strains of Julie Klausner's precocious curmudgeonry and brimming with truths that anyone who's ever been on a date will relate to. Klausner is an expert at landing herself waist-deep in crazy, time and time again, in part because her experience as a comedy writer (Best Week Ever, TV Funhouse on SNL) and sketch comedian from NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade fuels her philosophy of how any scene should unfold, which is, "What? That sounds crazy? Okay, I'll do it." I Don't Care About Your Band charts a distinctly human journey of a strong-willed but vulnerable protagonist who loves men like it's her job, but who's done with guys who know more about love songs than love. Klausner's is a new outlook on dating in a time of pop culture obsession, and she spent her 20's doing personal field research to back up her philosophies. This is the girl's version of High Fidelity. By turns explicit, funny and moving, Klausner's debut shows the evolution of a young woman who endured myriad encounters with the wrong guys, to emerge with real- world wisdom on matters of the heart. I Don't Care About Your Band is Julie Klausner's manifesto, and every one of us can relate.
Named one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
The very idea that the teachings can be mastered will arouse controversy within Buddhist circles. Even so, Ingram insists that enlightenment is an attainable goal, once our fanciful notions of it are stripped away, and we have learned to use meditation as a method for examining reality rather than an opportunity to wallow in self-absorbed mind-noise. Ingram sets out concisely the difference between concentration-based and insight (vipassana) meditation; he provides example practices; and most importantly he presents detailed maps of the states of mind we are likely to encounter, and the stages we must negotiate as we move through clearly-defined cycles of insight. Its easy to feel overawed, at first, by Ingram's assurance and ease in the higher levels of consciousness, but consistently he writes as a down-to-earth and compassionate guide, and to the practitioner willing to commit themselves this is a glittering gift of a book.In this new edition of the bestselling book, the author rearranges, revises and expands upon the original material, as well as adding new sections that bring further clarity to his ideas.
