From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Kristen Ashley comes a new story in her Dream Man series...Charlotte “Lottie” McAlister is in the zone. She’s ready to take on the next chapter of her life, and since she doesn’t have a man, she’ll do what she’s done all along. She’ll take care of business on her own. Even if that business means starting a family.The problem is, Lottie has a stalker. The really bad kind. The kind that means she needs a ...

Tyler Cree has never been good at the whole look and don’t touch thing.From the moment he was old enough to walk on his own two feet, he’s been looking for trouble.Trouble comes in many forms…quite a few of those forms being the female persuasion.Tyler knows what girls want—a bad boy. And he has the bad boy image down pat.Ex-military—check.Hot cop—double check.A bike between his legs and a devil may care attitude—oh, yeah.All the girl...

This is not a sob story. It's a story about the difficulties of growing into manhood and my own particular struggle with disabling anxiety that came along with it, and how I managed to find my way. That was more than fifty years ago. American life was more comfortable and comprehensible than it is now as we face the discords of what I call the long emergency. I still had a hard time. I observe that boys today are up against a whole lot more in their quest to become fully functional adult m...

Better Man is a story about love, heartbreak, and the difficult lessons learned while traveling the treacherous road of dating. Striving to become a better man, the author learns about his own values, what he's looking for in a partner, and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is run. Getting through break-ups, navigating partners with differing values, and having the realization that just because sparks fly when you meet...

Lucian Freud is widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time. Freud spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford and the daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader straight into the artist's studio, and to the heart of Freud's working methods, both technical and psychological.Full of wry and revealing observations, this is a book not quite like any other: the inside story of how it feels to pose for a remarkable artist, and be t...

Dieser moderne Klassiker ist nicht nur ein nostalgischer Rückblick auf die Ära von Stan Lee und John Romita Sr., sondern auch eine gefühlvolle Geschichte über Erinnerungen.Peter Parker denkt an seine erste Begegnung mit Mary Jane zurück, die Tage mit der Clique, an seine große Liebe Gwen Stacy sowie an seine ersten Kämpfe mit Rhino, der Echse, demGeier und anderen.

When it came to making money, Don Fertel thought that opening a casino on the Las Vegas Strip had to be a sure thing. I mean how many casinos do you know that go out of business? His did, in just over a year, and he didn't even see it coming. The year was 1973, and to say that he was in over his head would be an understatement. How was he to know that owning a gambling establishment would expose him to a who's who of the criminal underworld. This unbelievable true story looks back to a tim...

Better Man is a story about love, heartbreak, and the difficult lessons learned while traveling the treacherous road of dating. Striving to become a better man, the author learns about his own values, what he's looking for in a partner, and that sometimes the bravest thing you can do is run. Getting through break-ups, navigating partners with differing values, and having the realization that just because sparks fly when you meet doesn't always me...

Whether you call them franks, wieners, or red hots, hot dogs are as American as apple pie, but how did these little links become icons of American culture? Man Bites Dog explores the transformation of hot dogs from unassuming street fare to paradigms of regional expression, social mobility, and democracy. World-renowned hot dog scholar Bruce Kraig investigates the history, people, décor, and venues that make up hot dog culture and what it says about our country. These humble sausages cross...

Better Man is a true story. Itbegins when Bruce was a single gay man in college in North Carolina. The book walks the reader through the highs and lows of 3 significant relationships he experienced over a 10 year period, illustrated using "personal stories" that have been described as "funny and touching."A memoir written for fellow hopeless romantics, Better Man "shares the ups and downs of dating with a lighthearted tone.Written with the ...

Wesen aus dem Wald – oder Wahnvorstellung einer Mörderin?Geheimnisvoll, düster und faszinierend unheimlich: Grusel-Fantasy aus Norwegen für alle Fans von Tim Burton und Guillermo Del ToroDies ist die Geschichte von Cassandra Tipp, erfolgreiche Autorin, exzentrische Tante – und angeklagt, ihren Ehemann und ihren Vater brutal ermordet zu haben:Es ist die Geschichte von Pepper-Man, dem Wesen aus dem Wald, das Cassandra beschützt; eine Geschichte von blutigen Nächten und m...

It started with a question about the blues: what makes the music of the downtrodden black man so alluring to white middle-class ears? And that’s where it gets interesting. Because blues is more than a musical genre: it’s a cultural phenomenon that spans several centuries on both sides of the Atlantic, from slavery to Black Lives Matter, from Jan van Riebeeck to Fees Must Fall, from Robert Johnson to Abdullah Ibrahim. In Blues for the White Man, Fred de Vries looks for answers in America’s ...