MishaMy sister has been pressuring me to jump into the dating pool after my last relationship ended, so I agree to be set up on a blind date.Except when I arrive to the coffee house, I'd rather spend the evening with my hot as sin barista. Not only is he attractive, but he's charming and hilarious as well. When I realize that my date has stood me up, I'm humiliated in front of my gorgeous barista. That is until he asks me out...Jake This isn't happenstance. I knew she would arrive at seven to meet her blind date. I knew her date wouldn't show. It was my job to ask her out, to be the knight in shining armor. It needs to be believable...I am getting paid, after all.

This book is an anthology written by a diverse group of 40 individuals from around the world. They come from all walks of life, yet they are all united by the choices they have made. Confessions of a Caffeine Addict covers all major products including coffee, tea, yerba mate, energy and sport drinks, soda, caffeine pills, diuretics, medicine, chocolate, and other foods containing the drug. All have acted from their hearts and here, they have written from their hearts, telling the stories of what brought them along to their own conclusions about their use of caffeine. This book was written to inspire more people to make informed choices, to know that their actions do make a difference, and to know that, in their efforts to tell their tales anonymously, that they are not alone.

Fischer challenges readers to take big steps in their faith and be like strong, caffeinated coffee rather than weak, powerless decaf. By taking these steps, the author promises, readers will begin to enjoy a deeper, more dynamic faith in Jesus.

Confessions of a Serial Songwriter is an amusing and poignant memoir about songwriter Shelly Peiken's journey from young girl falling under the spell of magical songs to working professional songwriter writing hits of her own. It's about growing up, the creative process – the highs and the lows, the conflicts that arise between motherhood and career success, the divas and schemers, but also the talented and remarkable people she's found along the way. It's filled with stories and step-by-step advice about the songwriting process, especially collaboration. And it's about the challenge of staying relevant in a rapidly changing and youth-driven world. As Shelly so eloquently states in Confessions of a Serial Songwriter: “If I had to come up with one X factor that I could cite as a characteristic most hit songs have in common (and this excludes hit songs that are put forth by an already well-oiled machine...that is, a recording artist who has so much notoriety and momentum that just about anything he or she releases, as long as it's 'pretty good ' will have a decent shot at succeeding), I would say it would be: A universal sentiment in a unique frame.” Peiken has tapped the universal sentiment again and again; her songs have been recorded by such artists as Christina Aguilera, Natalie Cole, Selena Gomez, Celine Dion, the Pretenders, and others. In Confessions of a Serial Songwriter, she pulls the curtain back on the music business from the perspective of a behind-the-scenes hit creator and shares invaluable insight into the craft of songwriting.

How old is Ethiopian cuisine and the unique way of eating it? Ethiopians proudly say their cuisine goes back 3,000 to 5,000 years. Archaeologists and historians now believe it emerged in the first millennium A.D. in Aksum, an ancient kingdom that occupied whats now the northern region of Ethiopia and the southern region of neighboring Eritrea. But regardless of when Ethiopians began to eat spicy wots atop the spongy flatbread injera, or when they first drank the intoxicating honey wine called tej, their cuisine remains unique in the world. Mesob Across America: Ethiopian Food in the U.S.A. brings together what respected scholars and passionate Ethiopians know and believe about this delectable cuisine. From the ingredients of the Ethiopian kitchen the foods, the spices, and the ways of combining them to a close-up look at the cuisines history and culture, Mesob Across America is both comprehensive and anecdotal. Explore the history of how restaurant communities emerged in the U.S., and visit them as they exist today. Learn how to prepare a five-course Ethiopian meal, including homemade tej. And solve the mystery of when Ethiopian food made its debut in America which was not when most Ethiopians think it did.

Sunny Jim was the love child of doting parents. Exceptionally bright, he was twice promoted to a higher grade level. Among older, more sexually aware boys, he was teased for his ignorance of sex. Sunny made it his goal to learn more than the older boys. At age nineteen, Sunny became employed by Ma Bell of Canada, choosing that job because of all the female telephone operators. On his first day at a suburban telephone station, the chief operator invited herself to be his weekend companion. The chief operator used Sunny for sexual experimentation, then tricked him into donating a dowry for her daughter抯 wedding. Sunny married twice, but marriage didn抰 keep him from seeking sex with other women. A special thrill for Sunny was the Christmas he spent with a countess who wanted him as her consort, an ex-sister-in-law who had issued an open invitation to share her bed, Sunny抯 wife, and an orphan he had trained in sexual arts. Sunny invented a method of sending a cardiogram by telephone, but couldn抰 have invented a stranger life than his own. Though his love died with his beloved Mindy, Sunny became the love of a homeless and unattractive woman抯 life.

Confessions explores a woman’s pursuit of the truth about her broken and dysfunctional family. Very early in her childhood, Debbie had discovered that her life was being controlled by some old and very dark secrets. Then one day her father calls and summons her to come back to Missouri to discuss “some family business.” She arrives to find he is in a hospice, dying, and he wants to make a deathbed confession. Upon hearing her father’s story, Debbie believes her father’s actions were justifiable. Then she learns he confessed it once before—to her mother forty years ago. What was in that confession that destroyed her mother? Every time her father visited Debbie, her mother would go into hysterics, sometimes for weeks. Her mother and father had kept secret the story of their romance and his confession from Debbie for decades. Now she had her father’s story. Would her mother be able to tell her side of the story? Confessions as a novel addresses the relationship between a sin, a confession, and forgiveness. Which is worse, the original sin if kept a secret or the confession of the sin to the recipient? We are taught to confess, to seek forgiveness from the person we have sinned against. But is that always the right choice? What if the confession does not generate the forgiveness we desire? What if the confession destroys that person, ruins their life and the lives of others? What if the confession was given for that purpose, not seeking forgiveness but seeking revenge? Confessions have consequences that can’t always be controlled.