Search query: the pleasing hour: a novel

Product: Me + Somebody's Son: A Heights Story (Heights Stories)
Description: I don't aspire to memes - I'm more inclined to have a "hot girl summer" than getting mixed up in any type of "relationship goals".
Not that there's anything wrong with that, if that's your thing.
It's just not MY thing.
Well, it wasn't.
But then I walked into-
and then he -
and OH, my supposed "friends"...
man...
How about I just tell you everything?

(Me + Somebody's Son is a novella)
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Product: The Way to His Lonely Heart: A Historical Western Romance Book
Description: Cooking has always been Lauren Fisher’s greatest passion; a passion she has had the chance to exercise at her best friend’s bakery, until everything is changed forever. When Hank Collins enters her life with an appealing business proposal, she realizes that she has never truly known home outside of her town’s limits. Being rather skeptical, at first, she declines the offer but when her family is in great need of money, she sees no other choice but to take it. Surrounded by people she does not trust and being away from her family, how will she handle the challenges coming ahead? Could a relationship that started as a professional one, be developed into something deeper and more meaningful?

Hank Collins has been down on his luck facing tragedy after tragedy, and now, his family legacy is nearly in shambles. Hank will meet Lauren under very peculiar circumstances, but he is soon to realize that she and her amazing cooking skills are all that he needs. When Lauren joins the ranch, her cooking fills the souls of Hank and his men, while it gives him strength and inspiration for even greater things. How far is he willing to go in order to claim his happiness with Lauren? When a misunderstanding nearly destroys their connection, will he manage to prove his feelings and true intentions to her?

Their paths entwine more than either of them expected, but the struggles of running a ranch might just tear them apart. When success comes knocking, will they make the decision their heart truly desires or will they suppress their feelings driven by selfishness? ?s their love meant to last or will it be demolished at the first sign of trouble and disagreement?

"The Way to His Lonely Heart" is a historical western romance novel of approximately 80,000 words. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after.
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Product: Writers & Lovers: A Novel
Description: #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick as Featured on Today
Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick
A New York Times Book Review’s Group Text Selection

"I loved this book not just from the first chapter or the first page but from the first paragraph... The voice is just so honest and riveting and insightful about creativity and life." —Curtis Sittenfeld

An extraordinary new novel of art, love, and ambition from Lily King, the New York Times bestselling author of Euphoria

Following the breakout success of her critically acclaimed and award-winning novel Euphoria, Lily King returns with another instant New York Times bestseller: an unforgettable portrait of an artist as a young woman.

Blindsided by her mother’s sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Massachusetts in the summer of 1997 without a plan. Her mail consists of wedding invitations and final notices from debt collectors. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard Square and rents a tiny, moldy room at the side of a garage where she works on the novel she’s been writing for six years. At thirty-one, Casey is still clutching onto something nearly all her old friends have let go of: the determination to live a creative life. When she falls for two very different men at the same time, her world fractures even more. Casey’s fight to fulfill her creative ambitions and balance the conflicting demands of art and life is challenged in ways that push her to the brink.

Writers & Lovers follows Casey—a smart and achingly vulnerable protagonist—in the last days of a long youth, a time when every element of her life comes to a crisis. Written with King’s trademark humor, heart, and intelligence, Writers & Lovers is a transfixing novel that explores the terrifying and exhilarating leap between the end of one phase of life and the beginning of another.
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Product: Amplitude: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (Dimension Space Book Three)
Description: Complete the Dimension Space Trilogy

Angela’s reset bought us a new chance, but with the event set to repeat itself, she and Vaughn must fight separate battles to save their comrades. In Houston, Director Randal McCree races against the clock as he frantically struggles to save a scrabbled together team. The survivors will have to join forces if Angela is to enact her plan to take the battle to the enemy. Once united, can the last remnants of humanity make the enemy pay for what it did to all of Earth’s life? Can Angela permanently reset the timeline? If you enjoyed Solitude and Multitude, you'll love the action and plot twists in this apocalyptic epic.

Finish the first Dimension Space Trilogy!

Order Your Copy Today!

What Your Favorite Authors are Saying About Dimension Space

"Like ‘The Martian’ on (and above) Earth. An epic survival story with very human characters, clever problem-solving and a gripping mystery. The end left me with NO IDEA where Dean was going with the story, I couldn’t wait for the next book.”

—Craig Alanson, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Expeditionary Force Series

"R.C. Bray and Julia Whelan are individually stellar. Having them co-voice Dean M. Cole's superb Dimension Space Series is a stroke of genius. Rich with elements of every genre, Solitude is an outstanding listen.”

—Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today Bestselling Author of Hell Divers

What the Critics are Saying About Dimension Space

Goodreads Reviewer: "This is the best journey I have been on since ‘The Stand’."
Goodreads Reviewer: "Solitude is an up to the minute thriller that rivals The Martian for triumph and loss amidst seemingly insurmountable odds.”
AudiobookReviewer: "... so vivid, so intriguing ... RC Bray and Julia Whelan ... at the top of their game."
Kirkus Reviews: "His vibrant prose delivers the high-resolution imagery of a Hollywood blockbuster."

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Product: A Litter of Bones: A Scottish Detective Mystery (DCI Logan Crime Thrillers Book 1)
Description: A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.

Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed 'Mister Whisper,' earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.

Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow's Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.

And what he did.

When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack is sent to lead the investigation and bring the boy home.

But as similarities between the two cases grow, could it be that Jack caught the wrong man all those years ago?

And, if so, is the real Mister Whisper about to claim his fourth victim?

A Litter of Bones is the explosive debut crime thriller novel from Amazon number one bestselling author, JD Kirk, an exciting new voice in Scottish crime fiction. Perfect for fans of L.J. Ross, Ian Rankin, Chris Brookmyre, and Stuart Macbride.

'A breath of fresh air in the crime fiction genre.' - L.J. Ross
'Gripping. Atmospheric. Chilling. A superb debut.' - Adam Croft
'A phenomenal novel.' - M.A. Comley
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Product: Only Ashes Remain (Market of Monsters Book 2)
Description: Dexter meets Victoria Schwab in this dark and compelling fantasy about a girl who seeks revenge on the boy who betrayed her, a sequel to the critically acclaimed Not Even Bones.
After escaping her kidnappers and destroying the black market where she was held captive, all Nita wants is to find a way to live her life without looking over her shoulder. But with a video of her ability to self-heal all over the dark web, Nita knows she’s still a prime target on the black market. There’s only one way to keep herself safe. Nita must make herself so feared that no one would ever dare come after her again. And the best way to start building her reputation? Take her revenge on Fabricio, the boy who sold Nita to her kidnappers. But killing Fabricio is harder than Nita thought it would be, even with Kovit by her side. Now caught in a game of kill or be killed, Nita will do whatever it takes to win.
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Product: You Were Born for This: Astrology for Radical Self-Acceptance
Description: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From beloved astrologer Chani Nicholas comes an essential guide for radical self-acceptance.

Your weekly horoscope is merely one crumb of astrology’s cake. In her first book You Were Born For This, Chani shows how your birth chart—a snapshot of the sky at the moment you took your first breath—reveals your unique talents, challenges, and opportunities. Fortified with this knowledge, you can live out the life you were born to. Marrying the historic traditions of astrology with a modern approach, You Were Born for This explains the key components of your birth chart in an easy to use, choose your own adventure style. With journal prompts, reflection questions, and affirmations personal to your astrological makeup, this book guides you along the path your chart has laid out for you.

Chani makes the wisdom of your birth chart accessible with three foundational keys:

The First Key: Your Sun (Your Life’s Purpose)
The Second Key: Your Moon (Your Physical and Emotional Needs)
The Third Key: Your Ascendant and Its Ruler (Your Motivation for Life and the Steersperson of Your Ship)

Astrology is not therapy, but it is therapeutic. In a world in which we are taught to look outside of ourselves for validation, You Were Born for This brings us inward to commit to ourselves and our life’s purpose.
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Product: A Moment in the Moonlight (Sweet River Book 6)
Description: Sometimes even the best intentions don’t help...

Nora Cassidy wants nothing more than to run Sweet River Lodge on Lone Elk Lake. But change is coming to the lake.

Harrison Stanworth is certain his mother is not getting a fair deal on the sale of their family property on the lake and travels to Sweet River Falls to see what shenanigans his cousin is up to with the sale.

While staying out of sight of his cousin, Harrison stays at Nora’s lodge and they begin a tentative friendship. A Moment in the Moonlight leads to unexpected deeper feelings.

Then Nora finds out that Harrison’s family is at the heart of all her problems on the lake.

Harrison’s attempts to help may not be enough and all may be lost… his family’s cabin, the peaceful lake… and Nora.

A charming conclusion to the Sweet River series.

THE SWEET RIVER SERIES:
A Dream to Believe In
A Memory to Cherish
A Song to Remember
A Summer of Secrets
A Moment in the Moonlight

COMFORT CROSSING SERIES:
The Shop on Main
The Memory Box
The Christmas Cottage
The Letter
The Wedding in the Grove: a short story
The Christmas Scarf
The Magnolia Cafe
The Unexpected Wedding

LIGHTHOUSE POINT SERIES:
Wish Upon a Shell
Wedding on the Beach
Love at the Lighthouse
Cottage near the Point
Return to the Island
Bungalow by the Bay

INDIGO BAY:
(multi-author series)
Sweet Days by the Bay—Kay’s Complete Indigo Bay Collection
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Product: About a Dragon (Dragon Kin Book 2)
Description: The New York Times bestselling author delivers “a welcome high fantasy . . . should definitely please fans of sexy shape-shifters and epic sagas” (Booklist).
For Nolwenn witch Talaith, a bad day begins with being dragged from bed by an angry mob intent on her crispy end and culminates in rescue by—wait for it—a silver-maned dragon. Existence as a hated outcast is nothing new for a woman with such powerful secrets. The dragon, though? A tad unusual. This one has a human form to die for—and knows it. According to dragon law, Talaith is now his property, for pleasure . . . or otherwise. But if Lord Arrogance thinks she’s the kind of damsel to acquiesce without a word, he’s in for a surprise . . .
Is the woman never silent? Briec the Mighty knew the moment he laid eyes on Talaith that she would be his, but he’d counted on tongue-lashings of an altogether different sort. It’s embarrassing, really, that it isn’t this outspoken female’s magicks that have the realm’s greatest dragon in her thrall. No, Briec has been spellbound by something altogether different—and if he doesn’t tread carefully, what he doesn't know about human women could well be the undoing of his entire race . . .

Praise for the Dragon Kin Series

“Aiken’s patented mix of bloodthirsty action, crazy scenarios and hilarious dialogue have made this series a truly unique pleasure.”—RT Book Reviews (4½ Stars)

“A chest thumping, mead-hall rocking, enemy slaying brawl of a good book.”—All Things Urban Fantasy

“Laugh-out-loud funny—I loved it!”—Thea Harrison, New York Times bestselling author
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Product: The Bootlegger’s Legacy (Pacheco & Chino Mysteries)
Description: A treasure hunt for lost millions hidden by a bootlegger in the 1950s, whose unlawful past haunts his family even after his death. The bootlegger's son, Mike Allen, and his best friend, Joe Meadows, are both looking for a way to change their troubled lives—they need money and to rediscover a sense of meaning. The search begins with a cryptic letter left by the bootlegger father. It is full of clues and hints on the hidden treasure, but also vague and mysterious about how to find the treasure. Mike and Joe embark on a journey through three states and fifty years of history. What they find goes beyond money and transforms them both. New relationships are formed; old ones die; nothing remains the same.
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Product: The Trial Lawyer: A Legal Thriller (Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller Series Book 8)
Description: Thaddeus Murfee’s life is about to change forever. And there is nothing he can do to stop it.
Killen Erwin slumps on the other side of the desk, silently waiting for his longtime friend to respond. It’s not a question of whether Thaddeus wants to help, but whether he can. Thad barely survived last week’s savage attack, and for the first time ever he’s feeling unsure of his abilities in front of a jury. Now, Killen’s life has fallen apart: his wife is brazenly sleeping around, he’s facing charges for driving drunk and causing a death, and a special prosecutor is hell-bent on destroying him. Will Thaddeus have any strength left to defend a friend? And in the face of such brutality, will he even be able to make a difference?
The Trial Lawyer is part of the Thaddeus Murfee Legal Thriller Series, which has more than 3.5 million readers and counting, and made John Ellsworth into a household name. If you love page-turning thrillers with mystery, clandestine plotting, and a dash of romance, dive into the world of Thaddeus Murfee today! USA Today Bestselling Author John Ellsworth’s books are renowned for their twists and turns and surprise endings. See the politics and internal maneuvering that lurk behind criminal cases and discover how the strongest bonds can grow out of the strangest places.
Enjoy this Legal Thriller Series FREE as part of your Kindle Unlimited subscription. You can read these Kindle Unlimited books online via your Kindle device or any smartphone or tablet with the free Amazon Kindle app.
"The Best Legal Fiction." - American Institute of Justice
"WE ARE INSPIRED BY THIS WRITER AND HOW HE IS DELIGHTING READERS"--AMAZON PRESS RELEASE 10/15/18
More than 3m copies downloaded and 1000s of five-star reviews. Available in digital, print, and audiobook.
What Amazon readers are saying:
★★★★★ 'Once I started reading, I didn't want to put it down!'
★★★★★ 'Recommend to anyone who likes legal thrillers.'
★★★★★ 'Once again, I love the way the author keeps you on your toes on who is going to be involved in the next crime.'
★★★★★ 'So far, this series is a must-read. John Ellsworth is a new author to me, and I will continue to read what he writes.'
★★★★★ 'John Ellsworth has done a great job creating a character who is in the same category as John Grisham, And the other great writers, my new favorite.'
★★★★★ 'Of course, I enjoy all of his books, but this one was exceptional!'
★★★★★ 'Remarkable book!'
★★★★★ 'John Ellsworth doesn’t fool around.'
★★★★★ 'Simply awesome.'
★★★★★ 'This is another unputdownable book by Mr. Ellsworth.
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Product: Outrageous Openness: Letting the Divine Take the Lead
Description: A “playful, enlightening, and creative collection" (Spirituality and Practice) of spiritual lessons, anecdotes, and thoughts on the Divine’s intervention in our lives, this brilliantly written and wonderfully entertaining book teaches us how to live purposefully and in line with the Force of Love.
“What if the Divine is constantly igniting roadside flares to get our attention? What if there actually is a Supreme Organizing Principle with an unbridled sense of humor? And what if we each have this ardent inner suitor who’s writing us love letters every day that often go unopened?”

Whether we know it or not, we all experience the touch of the Divine in our lives every single day. After twenty-five years spent consulting and advising tens of thousands of people from all over the world, Tosha Silver realized that almost all of us have similar concerns: “How do I stop worrying? How can I feel safe? Why do I feel so alone?” and often, “Who am I really?” For the passionately spiritual and the bemusedly skeptical alike, she created Outrageous Openness. This delightful book, filled with wisdom and fresh perspectives, helps create a relaxed, trusting openness in the reader to discover answers to life’s big questions as they spontaneously arise.

Outrageous Openness opens the door to a profound truth: By allowing the Divine to lead the way, we can finally put down the heavy load of hopes, fears, and opinions about how things should be. We learn how to be guided to take the right actions at the right time, and to enjoy the spectacular show that is our life.
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Product: Fair Game (Alpha & Omega Book 3)
Description: #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs' third Alpha and Omega novel brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could turn the hunters into the prey…
It is said that opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son—and enforcer—of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant Alpha. While Anna, an Omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.
When the FBI requests the pack’s help on a local serial-killer case, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston to join the investigation. It soon becomes clear that someone is targeting the preternatural. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer’s sights...
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Product: The Pleasing Hour: A Novel
Description: The award-winning novel of a young American girl in France—hailed as “an impressive debut” that is “written with quiet, lyric forcefulness” (Elle).

A New York Times Notable Book

Young, inexperienced, and fleeing a terrible personal loss, Rosie—the new au pair to the Tivot family estate in France—finds herself ill at ease when trying to connect with Nicole, the cool, distant, and beautifully polished mother of the three children she cares for. There is something about the woman that both fascinates and unnerves Rosie.

The same is true of the rest of the Tivot clan. Nicole’s dissatisfied husband, Marc, and their children all seem to be caught in an unending struggle against each other for love and acceptance. Only when Rosie is sent to care for Nicole’s now-elderly guardian—the storyteller of the family’s secrets—does she finally discover the truth. There, Rosie will learn of a past darkened by war, duplicity, and a tragedy that still resonates in the Tivot’s lives . . .

With this novel of family, betrayal, and the naïveté of youth, Lily King has spun a story that is “powerful . . . splendid . . . [and all] so assured that it’s hard to believe the book itself is her debut” (The New York Times Book Review).

“Expertly constructed, full of surprises, superbly paced and sweetly sad, King’s book hardly reads like a first novel.” —Publishers Weekly
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Product: Father of the Rain: A Novel
Description: A New York Times Editors’ Choice—“a gripping epic about a father and daughter that plumbs the dark side of a family riven by addiction and mental illness” (Entertainment Weekly).

Gardiner Amory’s life is reeling—Nixon is being impeached, his wife is leaving him, and his worldview is rapidly becoming outdated. His daughter, Daley, has spent the first eleven years of her life negotiating her parents’ conflicting worlds: the liberal, socially committed realm of her mother and the conservative, liquor-soaked life of her father. But when the pair divorces, Gardiner’s basest impulses are unleashed in a deluge, the chasm between all of them widens, and Daley is stretched thinly across it.

As she reaches adulthood, Daley rejects the narrow world of her father’s prejudices and embarks on her own life—until Gardiner hits rock bottom. Returning home to help her father get sober, Daley risks everything she’s found beyond him, including a chance at love, in an attempt to repair a trust that was broken long ago . . .

In this Winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction, Lily King pulls readers into “a brilliant exploration of the attraction of martyrdom, the intoxication of playing savior. . . . An absorbing, insightful story written in cool, polished prose right to the last conflicted line” (Washington Post).
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Product: Warriors: A Vision of Shadows #5: River of Fire
Description: Erin Hunter’s #1 bestselling Warriors series continues in A Vision of Shadows #5: River of Fire.

StarClan’s prophecy has been fulfilled, and the long-lost SkyClan has returned to its rightful place among the other four warrior Clans. Many cats believe the danger is past. But after moons of division and strife, ShadowClan is in danger of falling apart forever....

Full of epic adventure and thrilling intrigue, this fifth Warriors series is the perfect introduction for readers new to the Warriors world—while for dedicated fans, it’s a long-awaited return to the era of Bramblestar’s ThunderClan, after the events of Omen of the Stars.
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