California Dreamin The Complete Collection

Get ready to LOL and swoon your heart out with this complete California Dreamin’ collection of closed-door romcoms from Kristin Canary. Filled with all of your favorite romance tropes, the California Dreamin’ series follows a group of housemates in San Diego who find their forever loves and live out major #friendshipgoals at the same time. This collection includes all 6 books in the series: Loving the Ladies’ Man, Desiring His Dating Coach, Saving the Secret Prince, Belonging With Her Best Friend, Engaging the Office Enemy, and Needing the Next-Door Neighbor. Loving the Ladies’ Man (Book 1): Perfect for fans of The Hating Game! Evie can’t stand her coworker Connor — but when they’re trapped in the office together overnight, her feelings start to shift. And as Connor poses as her boyfriend at her ex’s wedding, it becomes increasingly challenging to maintain a professional distance. A fake relationship, forced proximity, office romance. Desiring His Dating Coach (Book 2): Dating coach Kayla knows that Rule Number 1 in her line of work is not to fall for her client. But quiet, witty barista Josh Gregory isn’t like other guys—and she finds herself wishing that she could be the woman he wants to win over. Is it possible that some rules are meant to broken? A friends to lovers, dating coach, workplace romance. Saving the Secret Prince (Book 3): When Lauren pushes a stranger out of the way of oncoming traffic, she has no idea Topher’s a prince in disguise. All she knows is he’s tall, dark, and bookish—and her complete opposite. What happens when the woman who wants to stay hidden is forced to choose between the fame she doesn’t want and the love she can’t forget? An opposites attract royalty romance. Belonging With Her Best Friend (Book 4): Kindergarten teacher Shelby can’t help loving her best friend and fellow teacher Eric—a secret she’s determined to take to the grave. But when he becomes her temporary roommate and agrees to help her do whatever it takes to prepare for her lead role in the school’s summer musical (including “practice kissing”), keeping her secret becomes the hardest thing she’ll ever do. A best friends to lovers, forced proximity romance. Engaging the Office Enemy (Book 5): When the arrogant Dax asks workplace nemesis Alexis to be his fake fiancé during a job interview, the only reason she agrees is to get rid of him. But when one dinner turns into a week-long Caribbean cruise, will the close quarters and make believe have her seeing Dax in a new light? An enemies to lovers, one bed, office romance. Needing the Next-Door Neighbor (Book 6): Down-on-her luck Kennedy needs a job. Her sister’s next-door neighbor—and hot older doctor—Ryan needs a nanny for his two nieces. Can they help each other without crossing professional boundaries…especially when Kennedy moves in as part of their new arrangement? An age gap, nanny/boss, forced proximity romance. The California Dreamin’ sweet romantic comedy series is for fans of Emma St. Clair, Jenny Proctor, Katie Bailey, and Katherine Center who enjoy lots of sizzle and romantic tension without explicit on-page intimacy.

California Dreamin' from Pénélope Bagieu depicts Mama Cass as you've never known her, in this poignant graphic novel about the remarkable vocalist who rocketed The Mamas & the Papas to stardom. Before she was the legendary Mama Cass of the folk group The Mamas and the Papas, Ellen Cohen was a teen girl from Baltimore with an incredible voice, incredible confidence, and incredible dreams. She dreamed of being not just a singer but a star. Not just a star—a superstar. So, at the age of nineteen, at the dawn of the sixties, Ellen left her hometown and became Cass Elliot. At her size, Cass was never going to be the kind of girl that record producers wanted on album covers. But she found an unlikely group of co-conspirators, and in their short time together this bizarre and dysfunctional band recorded some of the most memorable songs of their era. Through the whirlwind of drugs, war, love, and music, Cass struggled to keep sight of her dreams, of who she loved, and—most importantly—who she was.

California Dreaming is a multi-genre collection featuring works by Asian American artists based in California. Exploring the places of “Asian America” through the migration and circulation of the arts, this volume highlights creative processes and the flow of objects to understand the rendering of California’s imaginary. Here, “California” is interpreted as both a specific locale and an identity marker that moves, linking the state’s cultural imaginary, labor, and economy with Asia Pacific, the Americas, and the world. Together, the works in this collection shift previous models and studies of the “Golden State” as the embodiment of “frontier mentality” and the discourse of exceptionality to a translocal, regional, and archipelagic understanding of place and cultural production. The poems, visual essays, short stories, critical essays, interviews, artist statements, and performance text excerpts featured in this collection expand notions of where knowledge is produced, directing our attention to the particularity of California’s landscape and labor in the production of arts and culture. An interdisciplinary collection, California Dreaming foregrounds “sensing” and “imagining” place, vividly, as it hopes to inspire further creative responses to the notion of emplacement. In doing so, California Dreaming explores the possibilities imagined by and through Asian American arts and culture today, paving the way for what is yet to be.

Everyone thinks Dean Collins is too old for Fallon Blackwood. Her parents, her friends, even Dean himself. In fact, he wants her to date guys her own age. But Fallon doesn't care about that. All she cares about is that she can't take her eyes off Dean, her neighbor, her best friend, the guy who taught her to ride a bike and to climb trees. And sometimes Dean can't take his eyes off her, either. And sometimes he looks at her like he wants to kiss her. So it doesn't matter that he's thirty-two and she's eighteen. All that matters is that they belong with each other, and she needs to convince him of that. Good thing they're taking a cross-country road trip together, right? California to New York; three thousand miles and a love story in the making ... NOTE: A STANDALONE set in the world of Heartstone.

2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.

Get ready to LOL and swoon your heart out with this collection of closed-door romcoms from Kristin Canary. Filled with all of your favorite romance tropes (friends to lovers, he falls first, fake engagement, age gap, found family, and nanny/boss romance, to name a few!), the California Dreamin’ series follows a group of housemates in San Diego who find their forever loves and live out major #friendshipgoals at the same time. This collection includes Books 4-6 in the series: Belonging With Her Best Friend, Engaging the Office Enemy, and Needing the Next-Door Neighbor. Belonging With Her Best Friend (Book 4): Kindergarten teacher Shelby can’t help loving her best friend and fellow teacher Eric—a secret she’s determined to take to the grave. But when he becomes her temporary roommate and agrees to help her do whatever it takes to prepare for her lead role in the school’s summer musical (including “practice kissing”), keeping her secret becomes the hardest thing she’ll ever do. A best friends to lovers, forced proximity romance. Engaging the Office Enemy (Book 5): When the arrogant Dax asks workplace nemesis Alexis to be his fake fiancé during a job interview, the only reason she agrees is to get rid of him. But when one dinner turns into a week-long Caribbean cruise, will the close quarters and make believe have her seeing Dax in a new light? An enemies to lovers, one bed, office romance. Needing the Next-Door Neighbor (Book 6): Down-on-her luck Kennedy needs a job. Her sister’s next-door neighbor—and hot older doctor—Ryan needs a nanny for his two nieces. Can they help each other without crossing professional boundaries…especially when Kennedy moves in as part of their new arrangement? An age gap, nanny/boss, forced proximity romance. The California Dreamin’ sweet romantic comedy series is for fans of Emma St. Clair, Jenny Proctor, Katie Bailey, and Katherine Center who enjoy lots of sizzle and romantic tension without explicit on-page intimacy.

From bestselling author Kristin Canary comes a series filled with laughs, friendship goals, and the swooniest book boyfriends imaginable … Ever heard of love at first sight? What about love at first push? Because I may have hurtled Topher to the ground so that car wouldn't hit him, but I'm pretty sure I'm the one who fell that December day. How could I not? There's just something about him. It's not just that he's drop-dead handsome, like Henry Cavill and Chris Hemsworth had a baby. Or that he talks in a delicious British-like accent and calls me "love" (swoony swoon swoon, am I right?!). Or that he's impeccably dressed all. the. time. He really just gets me… …even though we're so different. Like he sees me. Which is kind of terrifying for a girl whose past keeps her off social media and out of the public eye—for good reason. But as long as we stay in our little bubble, I feel safe with Topher. Nothing can tear us apart. And then, he tells me he’s a prince… Perfect for fans of: ✔️flirtatious banter ✔️royalty romances ✔️bookish heroes ✔️opposites-attract stories ✔️light holiday romances ✔️relatable heroines ✔️'N Sync references Saving the Secret Prince is Book 3 in the California Dreamin' sweet romantic comedy series, where a group of roommates and friends find their perfect matches and support one another like crazy. Each story stands alone, but you will get more enjoyment out of them if you read in order. This single-POV novel is filled with all the sizzling romantic tension and swoons possible without on-page intimacy. The California Dreamin' sweet romcom series is for fans of Katherine Center, Jennifer Peel, and Donna Jeffries.