My Kind Of Beautiful

From author Nikki Ash comes a stand-alone friends to lovers, surprise pregnancy romance. Lexi You don't find love... it finds you. Alec is the steady in my crazy, the light to my dark. My best friend. He might be the one for me, but I'm not the one for him.He deserves to have a wife, kids, a home-the complete package.How can I build those things with him when I feel so incomplete, afraid I'll never be enough?I lose myself in surfing and my art, desperate to find the meaning of my life.Until Alec confesses his feelings to me, and a tidal wave of emotions threatens to take me under. Because I feel the same. But the darkness isn't finished with me... not even close. Alec You can't help who you love. It's always been her-my wild and carefree best friend. I know she thinks she's not enough, but she's exactly my kind of beautiful.But a girl like Lexi needs to be free, and I would rather love her from afar and keep my best friend, than love and lose her. Then an unexpected loss shatters my world and all bets are off... proving life is too short. No more secrets, no more waiting.It's time to make Lexi mine.Mine to kiss, mine to touch, mine to love. All. Mine.

New Yorker writer and author of The Library Book takes readers on a series of remarkable journeys in this uniquely witty, sophisticated, and far-flung travel book. In this irresistible collection of adventures far and near, Orlean conducts a tour of the world via its subcultures, from the heart of the African music scene in Paris to the World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield, Illinois—and even into her own apartment, where she imagines a very famous houseguest taking advantage of her hospitality. With Orlean as guide, lucky readers partake in all manner of armchair activity. They will climb Mt. Fuji and experience a hike most intrepid Japanese have never attempted; play ball with Cuba’s Little Leaguers, promising young athletes born in a country where baseball and politics are inextricably intertwined; trawl Icelandic waters with Keiko, everyone’s favorite whale as he tries to make it on his own; stay awhile in Midland, Texas, hometown of George W. Bush, a place where oil time is the only time that matters; explore the halls of a New York City school so troubled it’s known as “Horror High”; and stalk caged tigers in Jackson, New Jersey, a suburban town with one of the highest concentrations of tigers per square mile anywhere in the world. Vivid, humorous, unconventional, and incomparably entertaining, Susan Orlean’s writings for The New Yorker have delighted readers for over a decade. My Kind of Place is an inimitable treat by one of America’s premier literary journalists.

From author Nikki Ash comes a roommates-to-lovers, single dad romance...GeorgiaI'm surrounded by love, yet have no one to call my own.But then Chase, my new roommate, is suddenly there.He could be the perfect guy for me, if he wasn't nursing a broken heart.The more time I waste looking for love, the more I realize that what I want has been right in front of me all along.Falling for Chase is the easiest thing I've ever done, but fighting for him is the hardest.Because his past isn't finished with him- not even close.ChaseLove finds you when you least expect it.I was only looking for a place to crash after having my heart ripped out, instead I found someone who turned my world upside down.A girl like Georgia was looking for happily ever after, and so far my life had been anything but a fairytale.I can walk into a burning building without thinking twice, but the spark I feel with her scares the hell out of me.I can't keep watching her look for someone else-not when I'm falling for her.Just when everything starts to fall into place, I'm reminded just how messy and imperfect life can be.When the smoke clears, it's Georgia by my side. Life might not be perfect- but our love could be.

From the New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis comes an emotional women's fiction read about a woman determined to take advantage of her second chance and live life to the fullest. Bailey Moore is finally getting to live on her own terms. After a fierce battle with cancer, she's ready to do all the things she never dared to before, like sail the Greek Islands and explore Europe's castles. Her first new adventure brings her to Cedar Ridge Resort, a ski lodge in the Colorado Rockies. Bailey quickly discovers that following her No Regrets List won't be easy. It doesn't offer instructions for how to deal with a suffocating mother or an ex-fiancé who doesn't want to let her go. Her list also doesn't include falling for the lodge's swoon-worthy head of ski patrol, Hud Kincaid, and his boisterous, kindhearted family. As much as she longs to travel the world, Bailey soon realizes it will be hard to leave the small town of Cedar Ridge and the people in it. And when her past comes calling, she'll have to summon more courage than ever before to live the life she truly wants.

ECPA BESTSELLER • An invitation to love like Jesus and step beyond distraction and division into the joy we long to experience—from the author of The Deeply Formed Life, winner of the Christianity Today Book Award “A stunning book with power to reshape our world . . . if we let it.”—Glenn Packiam, pastor and author of Blessed Broken Given We long for a good life, a beautiful life, a kind life. But clearly that’s not the world we live in. We carry the stress of our fractured world in our bodies and relationships. Families that once gathered around tables have converted those tables into walls. Hostility, rage, and offense is the language of our culture. How did we lose goodness, kindness, and beauty? And more important, how do we get them back into our lives? These are the two questions crying out in our streets, homes, churches, and from deep within our souls. Pastor and author Rich Villodas is convinced that only Jesus offers a way of being human that is both strong and tender enough to tear down the walls of hostility we experience daily. In Good and Beautiful and Kind, he reveals how… • These three essentials are stolen by sin, powers and principalities, and trauma. • We can get goodness, beauty, and kindness back through contemplative prayer, humility, and the cultivation of calm presence. • The traits of healthy conflict, forgiveness, and justice lead to wholeness, healing, and a new collective future—when rooted in the ancient way of Jesus. Filled with fresh energy, classic truth, and practical solutions, this is your road map for stepping beyond distraction and division to love like Jesus. Doing so will change the atmosphere within you…and around you!

From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of community and a small town’s long-buried secrets as a group of New England islanders come together for a recently orphaned girl. On Ichabod Island, a jagged strip of land thirteen miles off the coast of Massachusetts, ten-year-old Sky becomes an orphan for the second time after a tragic accident claims the lives of her adoptive parents. Grieving the death of his best friends, Leo’s life is turned upside down when he finds himself the guardian of young Sky. Back on the island and struggling to balance his new responsibilities and his marriage to his husband, Leo is supported by a powerful community of neighbors, many of them harboring secrets of their own. Maggie, who helps with Sky’s childcare, has hit a breaking point with her police chief husband, who becomes embroiled in a local scandal. Her best friend Agnes, the island busybody, invites Sky’s estranged grandmother to stay for the summer, straining already precarious relationships. Their neighbor Joe struggles with whether to tell all was not well in Sky’s house in the months leading up to the accident. And among them all is a mysterious woman, drawn to Ichabod to fulfill a dying wish. Perfect for fans of Celeste Ng and Ann Leary, My Kind of People is a riveting, impassioned novel about the resilience of community and what connects us all in the face of tragedy.

"Her summer plan was to renovate an old house. But maybe it's her heart that needs repair." -- page 4 of cover.