Emily Birmingham has had it up to here with men. It was hard enough growing up with an overbearing father, but then he dies and leaves everything to her brother—everything Emily’s worked her whole life to build. Now she’s jobless, living in her grandmother's dilapidated house in the middle of Nowhere, Canada, and dealing with the most annoyingly sexy contractor on the planet. Exactly when did her life become the nightmarish opposite of a Hallmark movie? Cooper Merrick learned the hard way that love is never worth the risk. He’s happy running the family contracting business alongside his well-meaning but overly-opinionated brothers...happy enough until polished and perfect Emily enters his world. Nothing prepared him for the ways she turns his life upside down and sees the parts of himself he’s closed off from the world. Now Cooper’s finally found the nerve to ask her out. Only Emily has some requirements before she even considers going out on a date—like a contract with some very specific ground rules. Signing on the dotted line sounds simple enough...but every contract has its fine print.

Originally published as an e-book that became a controversial media phenomenon, No More Mr. Nice Guy! landed its author, a certified marriage and family therapist, on The O'Reilly Factor and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Robert Glover has dubbed the "Nice Guy Syndrome" trying too hard to please others while neglecting one's own needs, thus causing unhappiness and resentfulness. It's no wonder that unfulfilled Nice Guys lash out in frustration at their loved ones, claims Dr. Glover. He explains how they can stop seeking approval and start getting what they want in life, by presenting the information and tools to help them ensure their needs are met, to express their emotions, to have a satisfying sex life, to embrace their masculinity and form meaningful relationships with other men, and to live up to their creative potential.

Growing up with a Colombian father for whom magical realism was a way of life made ordinary reality feel like an immigrant experience for author Jose Chaves, who was born in the U.S. but, as his father would insist, made in Colombia!" That experience comes alive like a movie on the page in The Contract of Love, a memoir about family that is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Chaves' straightforward style turns the familiar exotic and makes the unfamiliar feel like home as he takes readers on a cultural journey from small-town, muscle-car America to the Chaves family farm in Colombia, where the cow is named Lyndon Johnson, and an emotional journey from his father's volatile world where unrequited love is sung out loud in restaurants, to a fraternity where the most important rule is to never reveal your feelings to another guy in public. With tenderness, humor, and hypnotic clarity, Chaves explores the landscape of love that holds us together, beyond the addictions that bind us-- from the broken faith that sends a boy spiraling down, to the grace that finds the man.

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One scorching hot ex-boyfriend. Two ripped, gorgeous business partners.Second chances were never meant to be this much fun... Imagine your hottest, most compatible ex-boyfriend showing up out of the blue with a sinful proposal: travel the world with him and his two gorgeous business partners... but only as their shared girlfriend. Aiden was the one who got away. Model good looks and the chiseled build of a Greek God. I never expected more than a sizzling, late night booty call, but after he rocks my body - and maybe my whole world - I'm willing to listen to anything he says. That is, until he proposes an agreement so wickedly unorthodox it sets off a flock of butterflies in my stomach. My ex wants me back but with a breathtaking catch: he aims to share me with his two business partners and best friends. And yes, share me in every sense of the word... First there's Ryker - the gorgeous, blue-eyed best friend who's been crushing on me for years. Shoulders to die for, and whole oceans of shredded abdominals I just want to drown myself in. Then there's Marcello - the beautiful Italian Stallion. Dusk-skinned and absolutely gorgeous, with arms like bridge cables and a below-the-belt physique to match. As the founders of the viral marketing team Living Legend, the men work hard and they play even harder. And that includes loving me, protecting me. And yes, even adapting me... as their own personal playground. We never should've broken up -- and yet here's our second chance. It comes with three times the love, this time around. Three times the attention, affection, and reward. Can an electrifying agreement between rekindled exes blossom into full-blown love? Or will the sabotage of bitter rivals tear a hole in paradise, and threaten to bring everything crashing down around us? The Ex-Boyfriend Agreement is a butterfly-inducing stand-alone Reverse Harem romance filled with love, humor, and molten hot action that will one-hundred percent rock your world! HEA guaranteed!

“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).

Watch the movies, read the books! The Fear Street movies are coming to Netflix this summer! R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series is back, and in The Dead Boyfriend, he tells the frightening tale of teenage love—and how it can go terribly, murderously wrong. Caitlin has never had a real boyfriend before. When she starts seeing Colin, she throws herself into the relationship with fervor. She ignores her friends who warn her that Colin may be a phony and that she is taking the whole thing too seriously. Caitlin is smitten. She doesn’t care if she loses her friends. All she wants is Colin. When Caitlin approaches Colin with another girl, she completely loses it. She snaps. Everything goes red. When she comes back to her senses, she realizes that Colin is dead—and she has killed him. But if Colin is dead, how is he staring at her across a crowded party? Terrifying from the first page to the last, The Dead Boyfriend is a heart-racing young adult novel from the master of teen screams himself.