Category: Contemporary

By Lisa Jewell

Remember falling in love for the 1st time? take into accout considering, this can be the single? have in mind existence entering into the way in which? From adolescent snogging to house stocks, relationships, occupation crises, and youngsters, Vince & Joy is the unforgettable tale of 2 lives lived individually yet eternally entwined.

Back within the Nineteen Eighties, childrens Vince and pleasure met, fell desperately in love, and not relatively stated goodbye. Now approximately two decades later they have either began to invite themselves if that long-ago romance used to be the long-lasting love that they have got been looking for.

By Ken Gelder

This ebook brings jointly new contributions in well known Fiction experiences, giving us a brilliant experience of recent instructions in research and concentration. It appears to be like into the histories of well known genres comparable to the amatory novel, imperial romance, the western, Australian detective fiction, Whitechapel Gothic novels, the British undercover agent mystery, jap mysteries, the 'new weird', myth, woman hero motion novels and Québecois technology fiction. It additionally examines the creation, replica and distribution of renowned fiction because it carves out house for itself in transnational marketplaces and throughout diversified media leisure platforms; and it discusses the careers of well known authors and a few of the investments in well known fiction via readers and lovers. This ebook should be integral for someone with a significant curiosity during this prolific yet hugely detailed literary field.

By Janet Dailey

Along with his rugged-cowboy beauty and the type of smile that makes a lady’s pulse race, Trey Calder may have his decide of girls. yet he’s been protecting out for somebody specified, and the minute he lays eyes on freelance photographer Sloan Davis, he is aware he’s came upon her. The allure among the 2 is rapid and charged as warmth lightning, whether they're as various as should be. yet Trey’s fierce ardour may well blind him to a negative possibility. inside of weeks Trey and Sloan are married, settling right into a new lifestyles jointly on the Triple C. For the orphaned Sloan, being welcomed into Trey’s kin is a dream come precise, and with a child at the means issues couldn’t get any better…until Trey makes a startling discovery approximately his new spouse, person who casts doubt approximately simply who Sloan Davis is and what she’s rather after. Rumors are spreading approximately Trey, too. quickly ardour turns to suspicion. a deadly video game is determined in movement. And the stakes are high—everything the Calders have labored for over the generations is at the line. an impressive enemy has been watching for the precise time to strike. a person who has sworn vengeance at the Calder kin. an individual who will use no matter what ability essential to keep watch over their land, their lives, and their legacy without end. somebody who could even kill to make it take place. All his existence, Trey Calder has been informed to take over his family’s ranch, to guard what's theirs. Now the time has come for a Calder son to make a stand and desire that his means is the suitable method finally… full of ardour, suspense, heartbreak, and wish, Calder hurricane is a charming tale approximately an unforgettable American kin as daring because the land they love.

By Joanna Neil

Finding the doctor's happy-ever-after—in Hawaii!

Dr Amber Shaw has packed her baggage, placed her damaged middle at the back of her, and are available to Hawaii to maintain a prosperous sufferer. as soon as there, she quickly falls below the island's tropical spell, yet she is decided to withstand her patient's infuriating but good-looking nephew, Dr Ethan Brookes!

Guarded Ethan has his personal purposes for conserving his distance—reasons he reveals difficult to recollect at any time when he sees Amber's hot smile. And, jogging together with her hand in hand alongside a abandoned moonlit seashore, he is aware this can be definitely the right second to assert these 4 little phrases: "Will you marry me?"

By Panos Arion Hatziprokopiou

Annotation. This empirical research examines concerns surrounding the combination of immigrants in Greece, specifically in Thessaloniki, in addition to taking a look at migrants in neighbouring nations, Albania and Bulgaria. The ebook means that immigrants' integration might be understood when it comes to broader approaches of social swap, that are more and more attached to international forces. The transformation of Greece right into a multicultural society has taken position in the course of a interval of transition and of accelerating publicity to the foreign setting. inside of this context, Thessaloniki has turn into a brand new domestic for immigrants from the Balkans looking for new identities. Integration is noticeable as a multifaceted and dynamic technique. the concept that of incorporation is severely brought, for you to examine either the methods in which migrants organise their lives within the host society and their structural, institutional and cultural stipulations. The analytical framework is equipped upon an interdisciplinary process that takes under consideration assorted incorporation contexts: socio-political responses, the labour marketplace, housing and social area. a few extra elements also are thought of, e.g. the composition of migrant populations, migratory styles and dynamics, the function of social networks, immigrants' thoughts. The e-book offers an empirical account of the immigrants' features, explaining the styles and typologies of immigrants' integration in Greece. "Immigrants" turn into a social class "constructed" via exclusionary mechanisms: restrictive immigration coverage, labour marketplace exploitation, xenophobia. besides the fact that, they do make a residing in Thessaloniki; their integration is topic to time. steadily, immigrants develop into natural parts of the host society, which shapes, yet can also be being formed via migration. This name should be previewed in Google Books - http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN9789053568736. This identify comes in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org. [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

By Tracie Ratiner

By Nicholas Nicastro

It's a story of 2 cities--the mythical duel among haughty, democratic Athens and brutal, unbeaten Sparta. After seven years of bloody clash, a barren island in a distant nook of Greece turns into the level for what provides to turn into a moment Thermopylae. 400 Spartan infantrymen are bring to a halt by means of enemy ships on a slim strip of land, ravenous, with out provides, but sworn to uphold their indomitable historical past. in the meantime, throughout them, the robust Athenian army lots for the inevitable attack.

because the battle of nerves wears on, Spartan nobles and Athenian demagogues maneuver within the background--and estranged Spartan brothers serve jointly for the 1st time. The eldest, Antalcidas, is a mythical warrior hobbled via a dangerous mystery. His brother Epitadas is envied, renowned, and vicious. jointly they need to conquer a life of hostility to outlive the conflict in their lives.

By Michael Mainelli

Fresh enterprise delicacies: Now and Z/Yen is a singular modelled as a rediscovered old enterprise textual content. It includes a sequence of reports (or case experiences) set round the workings of an old laundry and eating place and its mythical owner, Chao Kli Ning. every one tale is predicated on an easy duality, centralisation as opposed to decentralisation, handling humans or handling effects, expertise is incredible or expertise is dead. fresh company food is firmly grounded in administration idea and perform, served up in a wry, lighthearted demeanour for the final reader to get pleasure from.

By John Shors

Set in modern day Vietnam, DRAGON apartment tells the story of Iris and Noah-two americans, who, as a fashion of therapeutic their very own painful pasts, open a middle to accommodate and train Vietnamese highway youngsters. Irish and Noah locate themselves reborn in an unique land choked with corruption and chaos, sacrifice and sweetness. encouraged via the road young ones she meets, Iris walks within the footsteps of her father, a guy whom Vietnam either shattered and kept. in the meantime, Noah slowly rediscovers himself in the course of the eyes of an unforeseen better half. Resounding with the strong issues of pain, sacrifice, friendship, and love, DRAGON condo brings jointly East and West, battle and peace; and celebrates the resilience of the human spirit.

By Wei Pang; Sophia Song