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Can a date for hire become the love of a lifetime?When Emma Sinclair's younger sister announces her engagement, Emma is determined not to face the wedding alone. With a plan to hire a plus one, she's ready to find the perfect date. Carlos Gonzalez dreams of leaving his firefighter days behind to open a custom body shop. To make his dream a reality, he moonlights as a date for hire, offering companionship with no strings attached. When Emma hires Carlos to be her wedding date, their connection is electric. Amid the celebration, they discover a deeper bond. But Carlos faces the ultimate challenge-proving that his feelings for Emma are authentic and not just part of the job. Falling For Her Fake Wedding Date is book one in the Firefighters of Orange Valley series. This is a Christian Contemporary Romance with strong faith themes.Tropes:Fake datingDate for HireClass WarfareForbidden RomanceFirefighter

Patience Guth was known for living up to her name, known for being one of the kindest and most forgiving people in the entire town of over fifteen thousand people. Yet even she was capable of being tested. Unfortunately, this was one of those rare times...She and her husband are struggling with both their marriage and their bakery. When their store is burned in a fire, the community joins together to build the store back up from scratch as the couple themselves build their relationship back up from the ground up...But can they?

Rachel was subject to daily abuse by her husband John. But the fear of being shunned after getting a divorce was more than she could take...so she endured...Her friend encourages her to leave...and one night she is beaten so severely that she has to be taken to the hospital...But when she arrives home, she finds her husband murdered and fingers are pointed around the Amish community. Could it be Samuel? The man who always pined for her. Or could it be her father who never liked her husband to begin with?

Leah misses her daughter Lara. Obsessed with the Englisch life, her daughter ran away from the community and broke away from the Amish faith. Leah has been struggling with her faith ever since, wondering what she did wrong and how Gott allowed this to happen. As she faces the whispers and rumors of her daughter's behavior in the community, she maintains her dignity as she struggles to move on without the daughter she had loved so much.

Lydia Stolfutz stood at her kitchen window, half-way watching the birds play in a nearby feeder as she kneaded dough for a fresh batch of bread. Across the fields, she could see her husband Alvin plowing up the ground while Daniel fed the chickens in the barn.Daniel.Just watching her son made her sad. Out of all her seven children, Daniel was the only one who still remained at home - unmarried and without a family of his own. Although Daniel always tried to seem upbeat and happy, he wasn't fooling his mamm. When he thought no one was watching, Lydia could always see such pain lurking below the surface of his eyes. Sometimes he would stare off into space, not really seeing anything, just lost in the miserable thoughts about the past. Letting out a deep sigh, Lydia reminded herself who was to blame for Daniel's heartbreak. That awful Sadie Bontrager.And now Sadie was back...after never returning home from her Rumspringa.

Wendy wasn't looking forward to marriage with anyone. She was considered the prettiest girl in her Amish town even as a teenager, but she rejects suitor after suitor all to the chagrin of her parents who think she is being to picky. Enter Benjamin, who has already had his heart broken by a woman the next town over. He finds himself attracted to Wendy but refuses to acknowledge it, knowing that she'll only break his heart. Wendy's mother, however, takes a shine to Benjamin as she sees him as a hard working man on their farm. She sets up a date between the two of them and they find out that they have a lot in common aside from not wanting to get married...But Wendy soon faces off against a rival from Benjamin's past who now shamelessly pursues him, not caring that the two may be destined to be together. Will Wendy and Benjamin get over their past hurts and realize they're meant for each other?

A teenage girl sat in the crowded theatre watching a play unfold about the story of Ruth and Boaz.She gasped in wonder as an angel soared just beneath the ceiling, as actors in exotic Biblical costumes poured out their emotion in song and fell to their knees. She did not dare to look away for an instant although she knew the storyline by heart. She cried when the story grew mournful and clapped when it ended well. Her name was Millie, she was seventeen and she was not supposed to be here. The bishop in her Amish community would have never allowed it. Neither would her parents.When she stepped out into the sunlight, she felt like she had changed within an hour. She wanted to work in this theatre someday. She was absolutely certain.

Discover the captivating world of Urban Tales, where the pulse of city life beats through the pages. These tales are a reflection of the humanity that surrounds us, a celebration of our humor, our loves, our desires, and our secret rendezvous. Only in our urban landscapes could you learn tipping over on the down-low becomes an art form. In these stories, you'll journey through both the long and the short, the gritty and the heart-touching. Characters come alive through their elegant voices and raw urban tongues, a vibrant fusion of culture and emotion. Brace yourself for the raw truth that might stir discomfort or even bring a tear to your eye, but one thing is for certain - it will never bore you. Urban Tales are an exploration of the human experience, where laughter and love exist alongside the poignant and profound, leaving you with thoughts that linger long after the last page is turned.

Benjamin and Nettie seemed to be meant for each other the moment they met. But when Nettie went on her Rumspringa, Benjamin mysteriously stopped talking to her. They went their separate ways, with Nettie marrying another man. Years pass and she's now an orphan and a widow with nothing to turn to except Gott...Then Benjamin reappears in her life. The two haven't spoken in years but the spark from years past is still there. Can they look move past the painful moments of their youth and recapture what was once seemed to be destined by Gott?

Leah is pregnant and newly widowed...Her friends work feverishly to find her someone new but no one can replace her beloved Caleb. She's given introduction after introduction to different suitors and becomes even more stubborn. None of them are a fit. She and her baby will be fine. Until she gets to know Simon. The man that wasn't on anyone's radar, she looks forward to seeing him more and more each day as he helps around the town. But is his character enough to make her change her mind and take another chance at romance?

An older man moves into an Amish community. In the ensusing time period, the conflicting cultural differences of age and culture hinder a potential romance. The internal struggles of each character's experiences Iinclude moments of tension, misunderstandings, and attempts at bridging the gap between their worlds. As the story unfolds, the emotional journey of both characters ultimately leading to a poignant and thought-provoking conclusion that reflects on the complexities of love and cultural understanding.

There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic "white working class," a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working people, including everyday Black workers. In this brilliant corrective, Black Folk, acclaimed historian Blair LM Kelley restores the Black working class to the center of the American story.Spanning two hundred years-from one of Kelley's earliest known ancestors, an enslaved blacksmith, to the essential workers of the Covid-19 pandemic-Black Folk highlights the lives of the laundresses, Pullman porters, domestic maids, and postal workers who established the Black working class as a force in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking jobs white people didn't want and confined to segregated neighborhoods, Black workers found community in intimate spaces, from stoops on city streets to the backyards of washerwomen, where multiple generations labored from dawn to dusk, talking and laughing in a space free of white supervision and largely beyond white knowledge. As millions of Black people left the violence of the American South for the promise of a better life in the North and West, these networks of resistance and joy sustained early arrivals and newcomers alike and laid the groundwork for organizing for better jobs, better pay, and equal rights.As her narrative moves from Georgia to Philadelphia, Florida to Chicago, Texas to Oakland, Kelley treats Black workers not just as laborers, or members of a class, or activists, but as people whose daily experiences mattered-to themselves, to their communities, and to a nation that denied that basic fact. Through affecting portraits of her great-grandfather, a sharecropper named Solicitor, and her grandmother, Brunell, who worked for more than a decade as a domestic maid, Kelley captures, in intimate detail, how generation after generation of labor was required to improve, and at times maintain, her family's status. Yet her family, like so many others, was always animated by a vision of a better future. The church yards, factory floors, railcars, and postal sorting facilities where Black people worked were sites of possibility, and, as Kelley suggests, Amazon package processing centers, supermarkets, and nursing homes can be the same today. With the resurgence of labor activism in our own time, Black Folk presents a stirring history of our possible future.

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) new world of dark fantasy from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse.The year is 1883 and the mining town of Goetia is booming as prospectors from near and far come to mine the powerful new element Divinity from the high mountains of Colorado with the help of the pariahs of society known as the Fallen. The Fallen are the descendants of demonkind living amongst the Virtues, the winners in an ancient war, with the descendants of both sides choosing to live alongside Abaddon’s mountain in this tale of the mythological West from the bestselling mastermind Rebecca Roanhorse.

This reissue of Donna Hill's In My Bedroom, about three unforgettable women and their explosive relationships, is specially priced at $9.99!Rayne Holland seems to have it all: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful five-year-old daughter, and a rapidly rising film career. What everyone doesn't know is that behind closed doors, the picture isn't so perfect. And in the recesses of Rayne's mind she harbors a dark past that even she in unaware of. Then tragedy strikes, and Rayne slowly discovers that the story of her life is just beginning and nothing and no one are as they seem. . .

In the early hours of June 6, 1944, the 320th Barrage Balloon Battalion, a unit of African American soldiers, landed on the beaches of France. Their orders were to man a curtain of armed balloons meant to deter enemy aircraft. One member of the 320th would be nominated for the Medal of Honor, an award he would never receive. The nation's highest decoration was not given to black soldiers in World War II.Drawing on newly uncovered military records and dozens of original interviews with surviving members of the 320th and their families, Linda Hervieux tells the story of these heroic men charged with an extraordinary mission, whose contributions to one of the most celebrated events in modern history have been overlooked. Members of the 320th and thousands of other African Americans were sent abroad to fight for liberties denied them at home. In England and throughout Europe, these soldiers discovered freedom they had not known in a homeland that treated them as second-class citizens?experiences they carried back to America, fueling the budding civil rights movement.Hervieux offers a vivid account of the tension between racial politics and national service in wartime America, and a moving narrative of human bravery and perseverance in the face of injustice.

"Despite a genuine admiration for Native Hawaiian culture, white Californians of the 1930s ignored authentic relationships with Native Hawaiians. Surfing became a central part of what emerged instead: a beach culture of dressing, dancing, and acting like an Indigenous people whites idealized. Patrick Moser uses surfing to open a door on the cultural appropriation practiced by Depression-era Californians against a backdrop of settler colonialism and white nationalism. Recreating the imagined leisure and romance of life in Waikåikåi attracted people buffeted by economic crisis and dislocation. California-manufactured objects like surfboards became a physical manifestation of a dream that, for all its charms, emerged from a white impulse to both remove and replace Indigenous peoples. Moser traces the rise of beach culture through the lives of trendsetters Tom Blake, John "Doc" Ball, Preston "Pete" Peterson, Mary Ann Hawkins, and Lorrin "Whitey" Harrison while also delving into California's control over images of Native Hawaiians via movies, tourism, and the surfboard industry. Compelling and innovative, Waikåikåi Dreams opens up the origins of a defining California subculture"--

The Key to the Door frames and highlights the stories of some of the first black students at the University of Virginia. This inspiring account of resilience and transformation offers a diversity of experiences and perspectives through first-person narratives of black students during the University of Virginia's era of incremental desegregation. The authors relate what life was like before enrolling, during their time at the University, and after graduation. In addition to these personal accounts, the volume includes a historical overview of African Americans at the University--from its earliest slaves and free black employees, through its first black applicant, student admission, graduate, and faculty appointments, on to its progress and challenges in the twenty-first century. Including essays from graduates of the schools of law, medicine, engineering, and education, The Key to the Door a candid and long-overdue account of African American experiences at the University of Virginia.

Psalm Rose has been out of college for a few years now. She has found the perfect balance between her family, friends and her career in Bali. Marriage is the last thing on her mind. The Rose family is known for connection making arranged marriages that only add to their wealth and status, so Psalm knows she won't be single forever. She doesn't mind the marriage as long as it doesn't disrupt the perfect life she's built for herself. Until, at her best friend's party, she meets a man named Soul. Soul graduated college three years ago, and instead of taking over the family tech business so his father can retire, he has spent the time becoming a celebrated artist in New York. Soul just wants to enjoy his youth which leads to bumping heads with his parents and family members home for the holidays. His mother is even hinting at marriage matches. Soul's friends take him to a party to take his mind off things. It's here he meets a woman named Psalm. While the week of Kwanzaa unfolds Psalm and Soul's interactions keep them questioning themselves. Was there room for love in their lives? Can they have it all? Pslam's mother's ambitions and Soul's father's demands drive a frustrating wedge between the potential soulmates. Will Psalm and Soul find romance this holiday season or will they be forced apart forever?

In this book, the author Jesus Briones focuses on the fragility of our psychological ecosystem--a fancy way of saying we are constantly changing and never know exactly what we are becoming. His writing is direct and organic, no fillers or artificial flavors, like folk medicine. He stresses the importance of avoiding false values and appreciating life's simple and unadorned truths. Not dark or gloomy, his message is timely and optimistic, but with provisos. While the world may measure the value of a man by the number of zeroes in his bank account, Mr Briones offers another take on what makes people worth knowing and staying connected to throughout the inevitably unpredictable course of life.His worldview has been shaped by a life spent among all types of people. He was born in 1940 and grew up in rural Mexico. Orphaned at a young age, he worked at a variety of jobs in Mexico and then Arizona, where he is now a builder/contractor. In the process, he came to refine what it means to be a "winner." Success has taught him that winning is not about who has the most points or the most money. For him, life is about accumulating experiences that forge your character and make you the person you were meant to be, something that is often apparent from a young age, as it was in his case.Mr Briones was born on Christmas more than eight decades ago, and he continues to go to work every day and build character, along with fine homes.

Sarah and Joseph have grown up together but never got along. Now that they're both coming into their Rumspringa, Joseph cannot help but start to develop feelings for her. But when he works up the courage to let his feelings known, he discovers that she's dating someone else. Sarah doesn't feel the same way toward Joseph...until he starts to distance himself from her. Will they both come to the realization that they're meant for each other?

After growing up with a past that haunts him and serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan, Wyatt Steele returns home with high hopes of leading a normal life with his wife and young daughter. But little does he know his wife would become a stranger, neglecting their daughter.When at home he is frequently ridiculed and blamed for everything bad that is happening in their surroundings. He turns to a bad habit to keep sane. The only people he has left are his two friends and father who shares his troubled past. Shortly thereafter, his wife files for a divorce. Just then, Wyatt's life hits rock bottom. But when he thinks his life is over, a random outing with friends changes everything.He meets Sasha Bennett, an attractive African American woman who challenges him. At first, he does not think much of her, making comparisons between his present and the weight of the past. Wyatt's life takes a dramatic turn when a chance meeting, as if by fate, brings them together again after a while. She levels him, and their bond is inseparable. But the pressure of her family and secrets reveal that the trials of love are far more challenging than he expected to make it through. Will the young veteran find a way to build a future out of love and healing?

La colección de poesías está compuesta de pensamientos y momentos que han marcado la vida de Leonel y la vida de las personas de su alrededor. Es como un tipo de jornada de los días cálidos como de los días nublados que hemos vivido. Cada sección intenta poner las diferentes etapas de emociones que vivimos en nuestro día a día y poder reflexionar indirectamente un poco sobre ellas. La colección de fotografías está compuesta del recorrido de Oscar por la fotografía. Cada foto muestra una perspectiva diferente de nuestro planeta además de los lugares que a visitado.

In his latest collection, the Cambodian-American poet Chath pierSath delves into the intricate relationship between the external and the intimate. A testament to the resilience of the human spirit, this is a poetry transcending boundaries and embracing the fullness of life. From public moments to inward reflections, from pride to joy and anger, pierSath's poetry balances across space and emotion, offering poems of composure and ectasy, of revelation and proclamation. Moving through a world made cold and closed by the isolation of the COVID era, these poems invite you to explore the act of opening. Through his journey of sexuality and understanding connection, pierSath fearlessly delves into the sensual, presenting it in myriad manifestations that resonate from present to past, from the United States to Cambodia, with emotions that dance in between.Carbonation 002Spokane, Washington

Dad believed people were like money. You could be a thousand-dollar person or a hundred-dollar person -- even a ten-, five-, or one-dollar person. Below that, everybody was just nickels and dimes. To my dad, we were pennies. Fourteen-year-old Manny Hernandez wants to be more than just a penny. He wants to be a vato firme, the kind of guy people respect. But that′s not easy when your father is abusive, your brother can′t hold a job, and your mother scrubs the house as if she can wash her troubles away. In Manny′s neighborhood, the way to get respect is to be in a gang. But Manny′s not sure that joining a gang is the solution. Because, after all, it′s his life -- and he wants to be the one to decide what happens to it.