First-Time Caller

Aiden Valentine has a secret: he’s fallen out of affection with love. And because the host of Baltimore’s romance hotline, that’s a little bit of an issue. However when a younger lady calls in to the station asking for relationship recommendation for her mother, the interview goes viral, thrusting Aiden and Heartstrings into the limelight.

Lucie Stone thought she was doing simply tremendous. She has a very good job; an unimaginable household; and a wise, barely devious child. However when all of Baltimore is out of the blue scrutinizing her love life—or lack thereof—she begins to query if she’s as comfortable as she thought. Possibly a little bit extra romance wouldn’t be such a foul factor.

Everybody desires Lucie to search out her comfortable ending…even the good-looking, temperamental man calling the photographs. However when sparks begin to fly behind the scenes, Lucie should make the ultimate name between the radio-sponsored fortunately ever after or the person within the headphones subsequent to her.

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Sylvia’s Second Act

Her husband’s dishonest on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she or he isn’t going to take it anymore. She’s shifting again north, to town of her desires—together with her finest pal, Evie, in tow. Assume a screwball comedy that includes a classy Thelma and Louise with martinis in hand . . .

When sixty-three-year-old Sylvia finds her husband in mattress with the floozy of their Boca retirement neighborhood, she’s shocked and livid . . . at first. By the point her head stops spinning, Sylvia realizes that really, this isn’t what she desires anymore anyway.

So she enlists her finest pal, the glamorous older widow Evie, to hitch her in establishing a brand new life in Manhattan. Sylvia’s ex-husband could have misplaced her life financial savings, however Sylvia and Evie are scrappy and decided, unopposed to pawning jewellery and roughing it in tiny residences. And earlier than lengthy, Sylvia indicators on to revive her decades-old wedding ceremony planning enterprise with a former skilled rival. Sylvia has rather a lot to show, and beneath all of it, she will be able to’t assist however surprise: Will she ever have the ability to get again into the relationship sport?

Sylvia doesn’t need to be twenty-five or thirty once more. Her age offers her knowledge, expertise, and perspective. A profession, intercourse, enjoyable, and a brand new romance—her whole second act is stretched out in entrance of her, beckoning to her. It’s her time, and be careful, world, Sylvia is coming!

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Unlearning Disgrace

Be taught to determine—and fight—Systemic Disgrace, the sensation of self-hatred and disempowerment that comes from residing in a society that blames people for systemic issues, with this invaluable useful resource from the social psychologist and writer of Unmasking Autism .

Systemic Disgrace is the socially engineered self-loathing that claims we’re solely guilty for our circumstances. It tells us that poverty is remedied by hard-working folks pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, that marginalized individuals are personally accountable for fixing the issue of their very own oppression, and that huge international crises like local weather change could be solved with particular person motion. Feeling overwhelmed? That’s your downside, too. The extra we try to in the end fail to dwell as much as unimaginable societal requirements of ethical goodness, the extra disgrace we really feel—and the extra we retreat into isolation and despair.

Social psychologist Dr. Devon Value is aware of firsthand the harmful results of Systemic Disgrace; he skilled disgrace and self-hatred as he grappled together with his transgender identification, feeling as if his struggling was attributable to his personal actions relatively than methods like cissexism. And it doesn’t simply finish with inner emotions of anguish. It causes us to guage different folks the identical approach we concern being judged, which blocks us from looking for out the acceptance and help we’d like and discourages us from making an attempt to enhance our communities and {our relationships}.

In Unlearning Disgrace , Dr. Value explores how we will take care of these laborious feelings extra successfully, tackling the societal disgrace we’ve absorbed and directed at ourselves. He introduces the antidote to Systemic expansive recognition, an consciousness of 1’s place within the bigger social world and the information that our battles are solely gained when they’re shared. He offers a collection of workout routines and assets designed to fight Systemic Disgrace on a private, interpersonal, and international degree by means of rebuilding belief in your self, in others, and in our shared future.

By providing a roadmap to therapeutic and a toolkit of actionable gadgets, Unlearning Disgrace helps us reject hopelessness and obtain sustainable change and private progress.

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Stroke of Midnight

He’s no Prince Charming. She doesn’t have a pumpkin coach. Generally love is nothing like a fairy story; it’s even higher…

It’s By no means Too Late

The notorious Laura Falkner has returned to London society in disguise. Decided to clear her father’s title, she turns into a companion to aged Woman Josephine—solely to be taught the lady’s nephew is none apart from Alexander Ross, the devilish Earl of Copley, the person Laura as soon as liked with all her coronary heart. The identical man who’d accused her father of theft and compelled them to flee England.

To Fall Head Over Heels In Love

Alex has by no means forgotten Laura—or forgiven himself for letting her go. In the present day, Laura is as pretty—and cussed—as ever, and her makes an attempt at crime-solving are placing her in peril. The one approach Alex can hold her secure is to marry her. However how can this infamous rake persuade Laura that his coronary heart is true…earlier than the clock strikes twelve?

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