She’s a pilot who prefers the air. He’s a dog trainer who prefers the open road. Ruby Freedman is not a workaholic—no matter what anyone else says. As the only charter plane pilot in her small town, it isn’t like she has a choice but to fly at all hours of the day. So when her best friend’s vagabond brother, Clark, visits town for a dog competition, she doesn’t give him a second’s thought. One- Ruby doesn’t have time for men, let alone ones with Peter Pan syndrome, who prefer to be with dogs over people Two- Clark is her best friend’s brother. Enough said. But she hadn’t expected to need to help her friend out and play tour guide for Clark and his dogs. Or that she would like it. As Clark’s time in town draws to a close, Ruby must decide if she has time for love, or if their relationship was doomed to stay grounded from the start. Borrowing Time is the prequel to Kat Bellemore’s Borrowing Amor series. If you’re looking for a short read filled with small-town romance, sweet kisses, and irresistible chemistry, you’ll love this charming love story. Pick up Borrowing Time to discover where Ruby’s love story first began today! inspirational romance, sweet romance, clean romance, Hallmark, small-town romance, dogs, dog lovers, dog competition

A small town mayor. A stranger with a sketchy past. Two weeks before Christmas, Katie is kicked out of her apartment. Again. Rather than wander the streets and continue to work for a dirty cop, she escapes, determined to disappear for good. Until her car breaks down in a small New Mexican town, and everything is threatened when she falls for the charming mayor. Sam Freedman is the first bachelor mayor of Amor. After convincing the locals that having a mayor without family responsibilities means he can dedicate all of his time to the community, they watch his every move. Then Katie Andersen shows up. Against Sam’s better judgement, he hires her to replace his former event coordinator. Now he can barely think straight, let alone run a town. In the midst of half-truths and outright lies, Katie and Sam desperately search for the place where honesty and trust lead to love. But they have to find it before the past catches up with them. Borrowing Amor is the first book in this New Mexican small-town romance series. If you like small towns, quirky characters, and swoon-worthy kisses, then you’ll love this story of love and new beginnings. Read Borrowing Amor for FREE to embark on this romantic journey today! KEYWORDS: Holiday Romances, Contemporary Romance, Small town Romances, New Mexico, Christmas Romance, Hallmark, free book, free romance, inspirational romance, clean romances, sweet romances, New Mexican romances, romance novels free full book, romance books, free romance series starter, romance, small town mayor, redemption love stories, love stories, romance books for older women, heartwarming romances, Borrowing Amor, romance series, political romance

Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of words from one language into the discourse of another. This volume redresses that imbalance by going straight to the source: bilingual speakers in their social context. Building on more than three decades of original research based on vast quantities of spontaneous performance data and a highly ramified analytical apparatus, Shana Poplack characterizes the phenomenon of lexical borrowing in the speech community and in the grammar, both synchronically and diachronically. In contrast to most other treatments, which deal with the product of borrowing (if they consider it at all), this book examines the process: how speakers go about incorporating foreign items into their bilingual discourse; how they adapt them to recipient-language grammatical structure; how these forms diffuse across speakers and communities; how long they persist in real time; and whether they change over the duration. Attacking some of the most contentious issue in language mixing research empirically, it tests hypotheses about established loanwords, nonce borrowings and code-switches on a wealth of unique datasets on typologically similar and distinct language pairs. A major focus is the detailed analysis of integration: the principal mechanism underlying the borrowing process. Though the shape the borrowed form assumes may be colored by community convention, Poplack shows that the act of transforming donor-language elements into native material is universal. Emphasis on actual speaker behavior coupled with strong standards of proof, including data-driven reports of rates of occurrence, conditioning of variant choice and measures of statistical significance, make Borrowing an indispensable reference on language contact and bilingual behavior.

Sometimes to find love, you need a little space. Bev Miller is shocked when she wins a seat on Galactic Enterprise’s inaugural space tourism flight, considering she never entered her name into the drawing. But thanks to her best friend, Bev finds herself at a spaceport, preparing for the adventure of a lifetime. Unfortunately, that includes Charles Michael. Handsome, single, and rich—he’s everything she’s cut herself off from. After her stint with homelessness, she has no desire to date someone who represents her old life, when she too had wealth. Charles Michael thought rising from rags to riches would solve all of his problems, but now that his parents’ bills are paid off, the money is nothing but an anchor around his neck. He reserves a seat on a space tourism flight in hopes it will help him figure out his life—to give him perspective without distractions. He didn’t count on meeting Bev Miller. Bev and Charles have only three days to shed their prejudices and learn to trust. Will their return to earth mean the beginning of a new adventure? Borrowing a Billionaire is the fourth book in the Borrowing Amor small-town romance series. If you like quirky characters, sweet kisses, and out-of-this-world romance, you’ll want to read this unique love story. Buy Borrowing a Billionaire and swoon over Bev and Charles’s story today! KEYWORDS: Contemporary Romance, Small town Romances, New Mexico, Hallmark, inspirational romance, clean romances, sweet romances, New Mexican romances, romance books, romance, love stories, romance books for older women, heartwarming romances, Borrowing Amor, romance series, later in life romance, billionaire romances, travel romance, space tourism, virgin galactic, space x, spaceport, middle age romance

OECD governments are facing unprecedented challenges in the markets for government securities. This Outlook provides OECD's projections for 2012 of anticipated borrowing needs of OECD governments.