Well Met

Author : Jen DeLuca
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984805393

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Well Met by Jen DeLuca Pdf

All's faire in love and war for two sworn enemies who indulge in a harmless flirtation in a laugh-out-loud rom-com from debut author Jen DeLuca. Emily knew there would be strings attached when she relocated to the small town of Willow Creek, Maryland, for the summer to help her sister recover from an accident, but who could anticipate getting roped into volunteering for the local Renaissance Faire alongside her teenaged niece? Or that the irritating and inscrutable schoolteacher in charge of the volunteers would be so annoying that she finds it impossible to stop thinking about him? The faire is Simon's family legacy and from the start he makes clear he doesn't have time for Emily's lighthearted approach to life, her oddball Shakespeare conspiracy theories, or her endless suggestions for new acts to shake things up. Yet on the faire grounds he becomes a different person, flirting freely with Emily when she's in her revealing wench's costume. But is this attraction real, or just part of the characters they're portraying? This summer was only ever supposed to be a pit stop on the way to somewhere else for Emily, but soon she can't seem to shake the fantasy of establishing something more with Simon or a permanent home of her own in Willow Creek.

Author : Jen DeLuca
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984805416

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Well Played by Jen DeLuca Pdf

A laugh-out-loud romantic comedy featuring kilted musicians, Renaissance Faire tavern wenches, and an unlikely love story. LibraryReads Pick Stacey is jolted when her friends Simon and Emily get engaged. She knew she was putting her life on hold when she stayed in Willow Creek to care for her sick mother, but it's been years now, and even though Stacey loves spending her summers pouring drinks and flirting with patrons at the local Renaissance Faire, she wants more out of life. Stacey vows to have her life figured out by the time her friends get hitched at Faire next summer. Maybe she'll even find The One. When Stacey imagined "The One," it never occurred to her that her summertime Faire fling, Dex MacLean, might fit the bill. While Dex is easy on the eyes onstage with his band The Dueling Kilts, Stacey has never felt an emotional connection with him. So when she receives a tender email from the typically monosyllabic hunk, she's not sure what to make of it. Faire returns to Willow Creek, and Stacey comes face-to-face with the man with whom she’s exchanged hundreds of online messages over the past nine months. To Stacey's shock, it isn't Dex—she's been falling in love with a man she barely knows.

Author : Rachel Lee Rubin
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479859726

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Well Met by Rachel Lee Rubin Pdf

The Renaissance Faire—a 50 year-long party, communal ritual, political challenge and cultural wellspring—receives its first sustained historical attention with Well Met. Beginning with the chaotic communal moment of its founding and early development in the 1960s through its incorporation as a major “family friendly” leisure site in the 2000s, Well Met tells the story of the thinkers, artists, clowns, mimes, and others performers who make the Faire. Well Met approaches the Faire from the perspective of labor, education, aesthetics, business, the opposition it faced, and the key figures involved. Drawing upon vibrant interview material and deep archival research, Rachel Lee Rubin reveals the way the faires established themselves as a pioneering and highly visible counter cultural referendum on how we live now—our family and sexual arrangements, our relationship to consumer goods, and our corporate entertainments. In order to understand the meaning of the faire to its devoted participants,both workers and visitors, Rubin has compiled a dazzling array of testimony, from extensive conversations with Faire founder Phyllis Patterson to interviews regarding the contemporary scene with performers, crafters, booth workers and “playtrons.” Well Met pays equal attention what came out of the faire—the transforming gifts bestowed by the faire’s innovations and experiments upon the broader American culture: the underground press of the 1960s and 1970s, experimentation with “ethnic” musical instruments and styles in popular music, the craft revival, and various forms of immersive theater are all connected back to their roots in the faire. Original, intrepid, and richly illustrated, Well Met puts the Renaissance Faire back at the historical center of the American counterculture.

Author : Jen DeLuca
Publisher : Random House
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405956543

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Well Matched by Jen DeLuca Pdf

Fall in love with the glorious fake-dating, friends-to-lovers romance that has TikTok swooning! 'A fun vacation in a book' 5***** Reader Review 'Perhaps my favourite book ever! I honestly couldn't put it down' 5***** Reader Review 'So well-written, witty and engaging. LOVE THIS BOOK' 5***** Reader Review _________ After twelve years in Willow Creek, single mother April feels stuck. Determined to make a change, she asks friend Mitch to help get her house ready for sale. Buff Mitch Malone - best known for the kilt-wearing appearances at the town's Renaissance Faire - agrees to help, but in return for a favour: Will she pretend to be his girlfriend at a family dinner? But when dinner turns into a weekend trip, April wonders if she can fake a relationship for so long . . . Then summer comes round, Faire returns to Willow Creek, and Mitch's family show up unexpectedly. He needs her to be his fake girlfriend again. Only this time, April wonders just how fake she and Mitch are becoming . . . _________ Readers are obsessed with the Willow Creak series! 'A pure joy to read. Utterly delightful. I didn't want it to end' 5***** Reader Review 'THIS is how you write modern romance!' 5***** Reader Review 'This gave me all the butterflies, all the feels, all the heart skipping beats' 5***** Reader Review 'Completely in love with this book! A must read' 5***** Reader Review 'A gorgeous enemies-to-lovers romance' 5***** Reader Review 'Well Met left me swooning' 5***** Reader Review

Author : Alexa Martin
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780451491985

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Fumbled by Alexa Martin Pdf

One of NPR's Best Books of 2019 A second chance doesn't guarantee a touchdown in this new contemporary romance from the author of Intercepted. Single-mother Poppy Patterson moved across the country when she was sixteen and pregnant to find a new normal. After years of hard work, she's built a life she loves. It may include a job at a nightclub, weekend soccer games, and more stretch marks than she anticipated, but it's all hers, and nobody can take that away. Well, except for one person. T.K. Moore, the starting wide receiver for the Denver Mustangs, dreamt his entire life about being in the NFL. His world is football, parties, and women. Maybe at one point he thought his future would play out with his high school sweetheart by his side, but Poppy is long gone and he's moved on. When Poppy and TK cross paths in the most unlikely of places, emotions they've suppressed for years come rushing back. But with all the secrets they never told each other lying between them, they'll need more than a dating playbook to help them navigate their relationship.

Author : Jen DeLuca
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593200469

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Well Traveled by Jen DeLuca Pdf

The Renaissance Faire is on the move, and Lulu and Dex are along for the ride, in the next utterly charming rom-com from Jen DeLuca. A high-powered attorney from a success-oriented family, Louisa "Lulu" Malone lives to work, and everything seems to be going right, until the day she realizes it’s all wrong. Lulu’s cousin Mitch introduced her to the world of Renaissance Faires, and when she spies one at a time just when she needs an escape, she leaps into the welcoming environment of turkey legs, taverns, and tarot readers. The only drawback? Dex MacLean: a guitarist with a killer smile, the Casanova of the Faire… and her traveling companion for the summer. Dex has never had to work for much in his life, and why should he? Touring with his brothers as The Dueling Kilts is going great, and he always finds a woman at every Faire. But when Lulu proves indifferent to his many plaid charms and a shake-up threatens the fate of the band, Dex must confront something he never has before: his future. Forced to spend days and nights together on the road, Lulu’s interest in the kilted bad boy grows as he shows her a side of himself no one else has seen. The stresses of her old lifestyle fade away as she learns to trust her intuition and follow her heart instead of her head. But when her time on the road is over, will Lulu go with her gut, or are she and Dex destined for separate paths?

Author : Jenn Bennett
Publisher : Simon Pulse
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781534431997

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The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett Pdf

“A swashbuckling adventure.” —Booklist “A rollicking Indiana Jones flick with a female lead.” —BCCB The Last Magician meets A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue in this thrilling, “breathless” (Kirkus Reviews) tale filled with magic and set in the mysterious Carpathian Mountains where a girl must hunt down Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring in order to save her father. Some legends never die… Traveling with her treasure-hunting father has always been a dream for Theodora. She’s read every book in his library, has an impressive knowledge of the world’s most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn’t have is her father’s permission. That honor goes to her father’s nineteen-year-old protégé—and once-upon-a-time love of Theodora’s life—Huck Gallagher, while Theodora is left to sit alone in her hotel in Istanbul. Until Huck returns from an expedition without her father and enlists Theodora’s help in rescuing him. Armed with her father’s travel journal, the reluctant duo learns that her father had been digging up information on a legendary and magical ring that once belonged to Vlad the Impaler—more widely known as Dracula—and that it just might be the key to finding him. Journeying into Romania, Theodora and Huck embark on a captivating adventure through Gothic villages and dark castles in the misty Carpathian Mountains to recover the notorious ring. But they aren’t the only ones who are searching for it. A secretive and dangerous occult society with a powerful link to Vlad the Impaler himself is hunting for it, too. And they will go to any lengths—including murder—to possess it.

Author : Rowena Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0440195535

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Well Met by Moonlight by Rowena Wilson Pdf

Author : W. Stanley Moss
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589882867

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Ill Met By Moonlight by W. Stanley Moss Pdf

"This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read."—San Francisco Chronicle Ill Met By Moonlight is the gripping account of the audacious World War II abduction of a German general from the island of Crete. British special forces officers W. Stanley Moss and Patrick Leigh Fermor, together with a small band of Cretan partisans, kidnapped the general, then evaded numerous German checkpoints and patrols for nearly three weeks as they maneuvered across the mountainous island to a rendezvous with the boat that finally whisked them away to Allied headquarters in Cairo. "It was a mad adventure, and it came off. Moss recorded the whole escapade in a diary, which survives as a thrilling account of one of the most reckless and dramatic actions of the war."—Patrick Leigh Fermor "A twin masterpiece of action and narrative."—Spectator "[An] exciting account of a feat which demanded an extreme of daring and determination."—London Times The 2011 Paul Dry Books edition includes an Afterword by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Author : Javaid Qazi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8189738747

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Well Met in Cyprus by Javaid Qazi Pdf

Well Met in Cyprus recounts the experiences of Robert, a not-so-young American professor, who meets and falls in love with Anara, a young Kazakh girl. Well Met in Cyprus recounts the experiences of Robert, a not-so-young American professor, who meets and falls in love with Anara, a young Kazakh girl. Robert invites Anara to come and live with him in north Cyprus where he is teaching at a university in Kyrenia. Their idyllic life on Aphrodite's Island and the quaint village of Karmi takes a serious turn when Anara's visa problems bring uncertainty and tension. Anara takes a job

Author : Laura Nowlin
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781402277849

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If He Had Been with Me by Laura Nowlin Pdf

If he had been with me everything would have been different... I wasn't with Finn on that August night. But I should've been. It was raining, of course. And he and Sylvie were arguing as he drove down the slick road. No one ever says what they were arguing about. Other people think it's not important. They do not know there is another story. The story that lurks between the facts. What they do not know—the cause of the argument—is crucial. So let me tell you...

Author : Anita Shreve
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780759523081

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The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve Pdf

From the last time Linda and Thomas meet, at a charmless hotel in a distant city, to the moment, thirty-five years earlier, when a chance encounter on a rocky beach binds them fatefully together, this hypnotically compelling novel unfolds a tale of intense passion, drama, and suspense. The Last Time They Met is a singularly ambitious and accomplished work by one of today's most widely celebrated novelists.

Author : Nina Beachcroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Magic
ISBN : OCLC:1311136459

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Well Met by Witchlight by Nina Beachcroft Pdf

Author : Lucie Whitehouse
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408829226

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Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse Pdf

The most gripping marriage thriller since Gone Girl..

Author : Rosie Curtis
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062964571

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We Met in December by Rosie Curtis Pdf

Following a year in the life of a twenty-something British woman who falls hard for her London flat mate, this clever, fun, and unforgettable romantic comedy is the perfect feel-good holiday read. Two people. One house. A year that changes everything. Twenty-nine-year-old Jess is following her dream and moving to London. It’s December, and she’s taking a room in a crumbling, but grand, Notting Hill house-share with four virtual strangers. On her first night, Jess meets Alex, the guy sharing her floor, at a Christmas dinner hosted by her landlord. They don’t kiss, but as far as Jess is concerned the connection is clear. She starts planning how they will knock down the wall between them to spend more time together. But when Jess returns from a two-week Christmas holiday, she finds Alex has started dating someone else—beautiful Emma, who lives on the floor above them. Now Jess faces a year of bumping into (hell, sharing a bathroom with) the man of her dreams…and the woman of his.