Her life's becoming a nightmare. Samantha Stone could have a wonderful life if only other people would cooperate. Like Greg Irvington, for instance. He's the man Sam always knew she'd end up with...right up until the moment he told her he's in love with someone else. Then there's her family, who have this annoying habit of disapproving of the way she lives. And don't even get her started about the holidays, which Sam would really prefer to be cancelled for a year or two -- at least. All that changes when Alex Graham comes into her life. He's the man of her dreams. Alex Graham is smart, sexy, successful, sensitive, and ready to commit. There aren't many guys like him around; in fact, there aren't any. He's a figment of Sam's imagination -- one she makes the mistake of mentioning to her friends, her family, and Greg because she's tired of going it alone. And why should she have to when there are struggling actors like Mark Simpson eager to take on the role of Alex? Everyone who meets him swoons. Pretty soon, though, Mark's taking his role so seriously that Alex is more trouble than a real boyfriend. It's quickly becoming obvious that in order to reclaim her life and her self, Sam is going to have to end the charade...and break everyone else's heart in the process.

She asked for it, she got it.... Anna Munson is constantly pestering the powers-that-be for true love and, quite frankly, Cupid's had it up to here. In fact, he's so fed up that he sends her an arrow of true love even though she hasn't proven herself worthy. Worse, he does it while she's on her first date with Nick Wells -- and Nick is barely worthy of true like. Cupid's rash behavior could cost him his wings if discovered by his higher-ups. But hopefully Nick and Anna will ruin their relationship before that happens. They are human, after all. He just got caught in the crossfire. Anna has never felt this kind of love before. To her own surprise (and Cupid's despair) it changes her. Completely. And Nick starts feeling kind of weird. He was just looking for some regular sex and a few laughs, but all this unconditional love and acceptance is throwing him off his game. Watching closely, Cupid knows exactly what's going on...and he doesn't like it. Not one bit. A little kernel has started to grow inside Nick's heart, and it could turn into something wonderful. But do Nick and Anna stand a chance with an ornery Cupid rooting against them?

Dress You Up is an anthology like no other. The twelve diverse stories in this collection speak to the multiple ways in which fashion is more than just the clothes we wear. There will be no frivolous yarns about fashion here—those tales can be found in other closets. This Capsule Collection of Fashionable Fiction illustrates how the clothing and accessories we wear or covet often reflect past memories, present challenges, or future hopes and dreams. The stories focus on themes such as trauma and healing, perception and identity, love and loss, hopes and dreams. Ultimately, these stories help us understand how fashion can shape who we are or who we want to be. Edited by Brian Centrone (Salon Style: Fiction, Poetry & Art and Southern Gothic: New Tales of the South) and illustrated by Stephen Tornero, Dress You Up will dazzle and delight readers as much as it will touch and move them.

52 weekly doses of love advice to inspire all the hearts in your life. Great stories with powerful relationships impact us time and time again. Whether your favorites consist of Elizabeth and Darcy, Sherlock and Watson, the Ring fellowship, or Professor X and Magneto, we can all say love is eternal. Those kinships create memorable moments that outlast the pages and live beyond the silver screen and often are cherished by their readers. If the hectic pace of life has taught us anything, it’s the importance of making time to preserve relationships with the people occupying our homes and hearts so that our stories last long enough for a sequel. 52 Love offers practical applications for consciously nurturing the love in a romantic partnership, without heteronormative thinking and gender-role assumptions. In weekly installments, this playful guide suggests bedrock principles for strengthening relationships and the heart. The exercises ask readers to stretch a bit beyond their boundaries while offering a wide range of ways to explore new avenues of applying love to everyday life. Whether the relationship is new or decades old, 52 Love provides 52 love lessons for couples of all ages, genders, backgrounds, or affection preferences.

Atwelve-year-old Indian American boy believes he is the reincarnation of Krishna and plans to unveil his true identity at the school talent show. Meet Kiran Sharma: lover of music, dance, and all things sensual; son of immigrants, social outcast, spiritual seeker. A boy who doesn’t quite understand his lot—until he realizes he’s a god . . . As an only son, Kiran has obligations—to excel in his studies, to honor the deities, to find a nice Indian girl, and, above all, to make his mother and father proud—standard stuff for a boy of his background. If only Kiran had anything in common with the other Indian kids besides the color of his skin. They reject him at every turn, and his cretinous public schoolmates are no better. Cincinnati in the early 1990s isn’t exactly a hotbed of cultural diversity, and Kiran’s not-so-well-kept secrets don’t endear him to any group. Playing with dolls, choosing ballet over basketball, taking the annual talent show way too seriously…the very things that make Kiran who he is also make him the star of his own personal freak show . . . Surrounded by examples of upstanding Indian Americans—in his own home, in his temple, at the weekly parties given by his parents’ friends—Kiran nevertheless finds it impossible to get the knack of “normalcy.” And then one fateful day, a revelation: perhaps his desires aren’t too earthly, but too divine. Perhaps the solution to the mystery of his existence has been before him since birth. For Kiran Sharma, a long, strange trip is about to begin—a journey so sublime, so ridiculous, so painfully beautiful, that it can only lead to the truth . . . Praise for Blue Boy “Compassionate, moving, funny, and wise, Blue Boy is one of the best debut novels I have read in years.” &mda

New York Times Editors’ Choice, One of NPR’s Best Books of the Year In this “infinitely readable” biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna (People Magazine) With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion—as great as that of Elvis or the Beatles—taking the nation by storm with her liberated politics and breathtaking talent. Within two years of her 1983 debut album, a flagship Macy's store in Manhattan held a Madonna lookalike contest featuring Andy Warhol as a judge, and opened a department called “Madonna-land.” But Madonna was more than just a pop star. Everywhere, fans gravitated to her as an emblem of a new age, one in which feminism could shed the buttoned-down demeanor of the 1970s and feel relevant to a new generation. Amid the scourge of AIDS, she brought queer identities into the mainstream, fiercely defending a person's right to love whomever—and be whoever—they wanted. Despite fierce criticism, she never separated her music from her political activism. And, as an artist, she never stopped experimenting. Madonna existed to push past boundaries by creating provocative, visionary music, videos, films, and live performances that changed culture globally. Deftly tracing Madonna’s story from her Michigan roots to her rise to super-stardom, master biographer Mary Gabriel captures the dramatic life and achievements of one of the greatest artists of our time.

A marriage or a relationship is not like a mere hot soup to be tasted and be dumped into a garbage can when freezing. Love unconditionally, else, false love with its cover-cloth of jealousy, fear and protectionism will make you wonder with nightmares of the ghost of deception. A wonder mind with doubts in marriage is self-creating hurdles that eventually give birth to destruction. The mystery wind of love blows in its own directions. We can be coincidentally found ourselves in the arms of a lover whose nature and character may perhaps be a contradictory to our life’s style. When there is a will, alike, when unconditional love and trust reign supreme, there is always a possibility for a successful marriage. When two Angels of Love are thrown into a chaotic living hell, they can eventually transform such a chaotic living hell into a living paradise through the mystery power of Love. This precious book; “The Pretty Orphan” contains the life’s threatening story of an exceptional Orphan being simultaneously sexually abused by her adopted father. Eventually, she was rescued by the mercy of true love by a handsome priest. She transformed her matrimonial home into the living paradise prior to her experienced and unconditional love. Love can transform anything to be precious in life. The power of Love conquers all.

The world will be safer and a paradise, if mankind learns to live with its innocence. Unconditional love is the cover cloth of the innocence. Instead of mankind to swim in the romantic lake of unconditional love for the discovery of the hidden paradise bewitching marriage and relationships; lack of awareness, mankind is swimming in the dirty gutters of false love, creating its own worst nightmares. Engaging in marriages, love and sex relationships with the ego’s mindless love tantamount to creating a timing bomb for your destruction. False love nourishes us with the bread of sorrows. Prior to selfishness, mankind has embraced the ego’s mindless love as the simple way of life. Individual’s nuts have transformed love and sex meant to be a divine gift into a merchandise commodity. Since love and sex became a merchandise commodity to be purchased and being manipulated by wealth, unconditional love has been buried under the great oceans surrounding the mother earth. False love is the major contributor to the atrocities caused in the name of love. This lovely book; ‘The Wings of Love Vol.2’ is of much significant to the human races. It highlights and guides mankind for the acknowledgement of the Supreme power of Love, the origin of Life Force. Alike, to enables mankind to distinguish between false love and natural love to avoid deceptions and atrocities caused in the name of love consistently. ‘Prevention is better than cure.’ Natural Love creates no misery. The living hell in which mankind is condemned by the mercy of false love can be transformed into the living heaven through the power of unconditional love. Love unconditionally, and you will always find pleasure in love. The power of Love conquers all.

It is insignificant to blame an imaginary devil for your woes and miseries in your love and sex relationship. The power of love is so real, natural, and creates no misery. Rather, it is the mind that we use to enter into love and sex relationships, which constitutes our agonies and miseries. The mind promises much but delivers nothing. We use the mind in our daily business activities. To love someone with the mind has its cornerstones. It reflects on why you are in love. When the cornerstone that dragged you to that love and sex relationships fades away, you will be totally empty. There will be no remains of love in you. The rest will be agony and misery. When you find no logic and reason, and simply do not know why you are in love, that is a pure love from your heart. Love and sex is a divine gift. It serves as finishing touches to crown the unification of two souls of oneness in existence. It's by-product is the multiplication of human race that makes the world to go round. Generations go and generations come through the mystery of the power of love and sex. And the world abides forever and ever. A perfect natural love from both lovers in unification can trash down any deadly mountain that stands in their way. They can easily exploit or discover the hidden mystery planet of love and its pleasure that most people with the mind games in love and sex relationship fail to discover. Just let an unconditional sweet melody of love songs reign supreme in your love and sex relationship and you will always find pleasure in love. This book, 'The wings of love' reveals the major facts, stories`and occurrences in various love and sex relationships. To enlighten and bring awareness to those lucky ones who may by the grace of the supreme power of love get access to these inspirational facts of love and sex stories. Peace and love.