Could she possibly fall… For her best friend’s ex? Since they were kids, Sadie McBride and Ty Bravo had squared off. When Ty dated—then married!—Sadie’s best friend, Nicole, the battle lines were firmly drawn. Now happily newly single, Ty’s sworn off love while Sadie’s searching for it. But when they’re thrown together at Nicole’s second wedding, the pair discover there may have always been a fine line between their love and hate…and their forbidden feelings might just cross it! From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness. Bravo Family Ties Book 1: Fifty Ways To Say I'm Pregnant Book 2: Marrying Molly Book 3: Lori's Little Secret Book 4: Bravo Unwrapped Book 5: The Bravo Family Way Book 6: Married in Haste Book 7: From Here to Paternity Book 8: A Bravo Christmas Reunion Book 9: Valentine's Secret Child Book 10: Having Tanner Bravo's Baby Book 11: The Stranger and Tessa Jones Book 12: The Bravo Bachelor Book 13: A Bravo's Honor Book 14: Valentine Bride Book 15: A Bride for Jericho Bravo Book 16: Expecting the Boss's Baby Book 17: Donovan's Child Book 18: Marriage, Bravo Style! Book 19: A Bravo Homecoming Book 20: The Return of Bowie Bravo Book 21: Hometown Reunion Book 22: Taking the Long Way Home Book 23: Her Best Friend's Wedding

When did Sadie Beecham get those curves? She'd always been the geek next door, his baby sister Meg's brainy best friend. Smart, sure. But hot? He never would have imagined it…before. Now, Trey Kincaid's imagining all sorts of things. And none of them has to do with Sadie's gifted mind. A mind, he discovers, she's clearly lost. Because she thinks she's in love with Meg's fiancé. And that's an obsession he's determined to put an end to—one way or the other.

Sue, Amanda's Taylor’s best friend is getting married, and Amanda is to be her best maid. The only problem is that the best man is a guy that she really despises, the rich and spoilt Edmond Fairchild. She works at a law firm for Christian Winters, Sue's fiancée, who happens to be Edmond’s family lawyer, and the number of times that she has met him, she has grown to hate him. He is aggressive and always in the news and magazines over some scandal with different women. He is a known player, and Amanda hates players. Amanda on the other hand is quiet and the sort of person that keeps to herself, convincing herself that men are no good. During the wedding reception, she gets drunk and loses control, asking Edmond to fly her to Las Vegas and marry her. Read on to learn more!

A wedding dress passed down through generations unravels the tangled threads of three women's lives in a novel of friendship, family, and forgiveness from the USA Today bestselling author of Ten Beach Road. Prized and stored away for safekeeping, the timeless ivory wedding dress, with its scooped neck and cleverly fitted bodice, sits gently folded in its box, whispering of Happily Ever Afters. To Kendra, Brianna, and Lauren it’s a reminder of what could have been, the promise of a fairy tale, and a friendship torn apart. But as Kendra knows firsthand: it wasn’t the dress’s fault. Once closer than sisters, Lauren and Bree have grown up and grown apart, allowing broken promises and unfulfilled dreams to destroy their friendship. A successful author, Lauren returns home to the Outer Banks, fiancé in tow, to claim the dress she never thought she’d wear. While Bree, a bookstore owner, grapples with the realities of life after you marry the handsome prince. As the former best friends wrestle with their uncertain futures, they are both certain of one thing: some betrayals can never be forgiven. Now on the eve of her daughter Lauren’s wedding, Kendra struggles with a secret she’s kept for far too long. And vows to make sure the dress will finally bring Lauren and Bree back together—knowing they'll need each other to survive the coming storm.

To adopt a child, best friends conveniently tie the knot. But will they inconveniently fall in love? Since they were young, tech mogul Max Marquez and socialite Lizzie McQueen have always agreed on one thing: they're just friends! But fate has thrown them a curveball in the form of a lovable orphan who needs a good home. To adopt the little boy, they must marry. And to marry, they must face the unthinkable: sharing a bedroom! Will they discover that their friendship is a facade for a deeper attraction, long denied, causing their arrangement to spin right off its axis? Paper Wedding, Best-Friend Bride is part of the Billionaire Brothers Club series.

A lavish wedding marries two of the most sacred tenets of American culture - romantic love and excessive consumption. This work offers a look at the historical, social and psychological strains that come together to make it the most important cultural ritual in contemporary consumer culture.

Can heartbreak lead to wedding bells?

Alvin's General Studies teacher Mr Greg loves telling his pupils stories in his lessons. Alvin and John his best friend enjoys Mr Greg's stories. One day, he teaches about pets. Alvin's and his friend's desires to have a dog pet is planted. Alvin's father who is a banker is not as rich as John's father who is a business man. John's father buys him a dog. Alvin's father says no. He does not believe in pets. He thinks his son should focus more in his studies than have an object of distraction. Alvin thinks his father does not love him but his mother has a contrary opinion. She impacts values into her son and her baby girl Gold, Alvin's younger sister. In Mr Greg's class, John and Alvin find a name they think befits John's Alsatian dog, Strelka. Strelka is the name of the historic dog that was the first living creature to move round the earth's orbit 18 times and was recovered alive. Alvin leaves his house without his parents' consent to go play with Strelka. One day, Strelka escapes from her kennel. She gets missing for days. She gets found among stray dogs. She becomes violent and bites Alvin. Alvin runs home and his parents wash his wound with soap and water and drive him to the hospital. He gets anti-rabies vaccination. Strelka is infected with rabies, gets quarantined and dies on the 9th day. John and Alvin cries but John gets another female dog from his father, calls her Strelka still. Not long after, John gets a male dog and calls him Argus after the name of the legendary Odysseus's dog. Strelka and Argus have 5 puppies Alvin call pupniks after President J F Kennedy's pupniks. Alvin is glad to be given one of the puppies and his father does not object.

The contention of Film and the American Presidency is that over the twentieth century the cinema has been a silent partner in setting the parameters of what we might call the presidential imaginary. This volume surveys the partnership in its longevity, placing stress on especially iconic presidents such as Lincoln and FDR. The contributions to this collection probe the rich interactions between these high institutions of culture and politics—Hollywood and the presidency—and argue that not only did Hollywood acting become an idiom for presidential style, but that Hollywood early on understood its own identity through the presidency’s peculiar mix of national epic and unified protagonist. Additionally, they contend that studios often made their films to sway political outcomes; that the performance of presidential personae has been constrained by the kinds of bodies (for so long, white and male) that have occupied the office, such that presidential embodiment obscures the body politic; and that Hollywood and the presidency may finally be nothing more than two privileged figures of media-age power.