They're Strictly Friends

Author: Chloe Liese
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781701506275
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440

Book Description
Outright enmity between France and England might be long past, but merry war betwixt two people from bookends of the English Channel comes easily to Lucas and Elodie. Verbal sparring, witty jabs, and a feverish dance of mutual interest, their friendship is a model uneasy détente. Lucas Edwards is the consummate English gentleman...most of the time. He might get a bit tetchy when his office is a mess, and he's rather particular about his ties, but otherwise he's as affable as afternoon tea. That is, until a grim diagnosis sets his future on a downward slope. And while Elodie Bertrand might be the only woman he wants-brilliant math-mind, decadent curves, a Parisian flair for butchering British idioms as well as turning Scrabble into a war of words-she's the last person he's willing to make a variable in his negative trajectory. As far as Elodie can project, she and Lucas Edwards will forever exist torturously tangential. No matter that Lucas' keen intellect, dry wit, his penchant for Shakespeare and innuendo equally infuriate and enamor her. Because, while he might be deliciously tall and dashing, not to mention the most chivalrous man she knows, Lucas has made it quite clear they must remain "strictly friends". But when circumstances throw them together, Elodie quickly deduces Lucas isn't putting her off out of disinterest. In fact, after plotting the points of their every intersection, only one solution remains: he actually feels quite the opposite... The first Tough Love Spinoff, a standalone friends to lovers, forced-proximity romance. Full of lost in translation laughs, Harry Potter Easter Eggs, a cast of international characters, and an oh-so-satisfying happily ever after.

Strictly No Elephants

Author: Lisa Mantchev
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481416472
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

Book Description
"A sunny, smart, tongue-in-cheek tale." --The New York Times Book Review "Sweet and affirming." --Kirkus Reviews When the local Pet Club won't admit a boy's tiny pet elephant, he finds a solution--one that involves all kinds of unusual animals in this sweet and adorable picture book. Today is Pet Club day. There will be cats and dogs and fish, but strictly no elephants are allowed. The Pet Club doesn't understand that pets come in all shapes and sizes, just like friends. Now it is time for a boy and his tiny pet elephant to show them what it means to be a true friend. Imaginative and lyrical, this sweet story captures the magic of friendship and the joy of having a pet.

Strictly Love

Author: Julia Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781847563231
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
Guilty feet have got plenty of rhythm … Kick off your shoes and snuggle up with this warm and witty new novel from the author of the bestselling Pastures New

Got You Back

Author: Jane Fallon
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141034408
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
Stephanie & Katie are strangers but they're in love with the same man - James. Stephanie is his wife, Katie his mistress. When Stephanie discovers James is having an affair, she tracks Katie down. They join forces to get their own back on him. But what happens when one thinks enough is enough & the other doesn't want to stop?

Strictly No Heroics

Author: B. L. Radley
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
ISBN: 1250818486
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 229

Book Description
In Strictly No Heroics, a normal teen girl must navigate crushing on her best friend, starting a new summer job, and not being squashed during the next supervillain showdown in B.L. Radley's young adult debut filled with humor and heart. A Normie’s guide to staying alive in Sunnylake City: 1. Keep your head down. 2. Don’t make enemies. 3. Strictly no heroics. The world is run by those with the Super gene, and Riley Jones doesn’t have it. She’s just a Normie, ducking her way around the hero vs. villain battles that constantly demolish Sunnylake City, working at a crappy diner to save up money for therapy, and trying to figure out how to tell her family that she’s queer. But when Riley retaliates against a handsy superhero at work, she finds herself in desperate need of employment, and the only place that will hire her is HENCH. Yes, HENCH, as in henchmen: masked cronies who take villains' coffee orders, vacuum their secret lairs, and posture in the background while they fight. Riley's plan is to mind her own business and get paid...but that quickly devolves when she witnesses a horrible murder on the job. Caught in the thick of a gentrification plot, a unionization effort, and a developing crush on her prickly fellow henchwoman, Riley must face the possibility that even a powerless Normie can take a stand against injustice.

Strictly Casual

Author: Amy Prior
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781852426873
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The course of true love for the single girl has never been rougher, but there are always good times to be had on the way. Even the most wayward of girls and wickedest of women can become dazed and confused by the complexities of contemporary romance: detached intimacy-at-a-distance chatrooms; our greater pursuit of all things alcoholic; the growing possibility of cross-country relations; ever-mutating domestic arrangements of friends; intrusion by a variety of therapists; separation as a norm; strictly casual ? sometimes casually turning strict, but often becoming disposable ? affairs. The days of an easy Mills-and-Boon ride are over. For a single girl, relationships are becoming a much trickier business, fraught with complications our mothers and grandmothers never could have predicted. Well beyond the rosy stereotypes of chicklit, Strictly Casual shows how pleasure and chaos can make strange bedfellows.

Self-Taught

Author: Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807888974
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught traces the historical antecedents to freedpeople's intense desire to become literate and demonstrates how the visions of enslaved African Americans emerged into plans and action once slavery ended. Enslaved people, Williams contends, placed great value in the practical power of literacy, whether it was to enable them to read the Bible for themselves or to keep informed of the abolition movement and later the progress of the Civil War. Some slaves devised creative and subversive means to acquire literacy, and when slavery ended, they became the first teachers of other freedpeople. Soon overwhelmed by the demands for education, they called on northern missionaries to come to their aid. Williams argues that by teaching, building schools, supporting teachers, resisting violence, and claiming education as a civil right, African Americans transformed the face of education in the South to the great benefit of both black and white southerners.

Faking Friends

Author: Jane Fallon
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405933119
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 391

Book Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF WORST IDEA EVER What if your best friend turned out to be your worst enemy? 'A deftly plotted, witty tale of revenge. It's a romcom with attitude' MAIL ON SUNDAY _________ Best friend, soulmate . . . backstabber? Amy thought she knew everything about her best friend Melissa. And she also thought she was about to marry the man of her dream. Until she discovers he has been having an affair . . . and Melissa is The Other Woman. In one disastrous weekend she has lost her home, her fiancé and her best friend. But instead of falling apart, she is determined to get her own back . . . _____________ 'It's FABALISS. I was SO GRIPPED' MARIAN KEYES 'I couldn't put it down' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit, this is smart stuff to race through' SUNDAY MIRROR 'So many twists I didn't see coming' 5***** READER REVIEW 'Brilliant, original, edgy and compulsively readable' DAILY MAIL SHORTLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD & LONGLISTED FOR THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT PRIZE

Strictly Personal

Author: William Somerset Maugham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description

Skeletons

Author: Jane Fallon
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141956879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells a story of discovered secrets and the price of keeping them in her stunning novel Skeletons Jen has discovered a secret. It's not hers to share, but is it hers to keep? If she tells her husband Jason, he might get over the shock but will he forgive her for telling the truth? She might drive a wedge through their marriage. If she tells someone else in Jason's family - the family she's come to love more than her own - she'd not only tear them apart but could also find herself on the outside: she's never really been one of them, after all. But if she keeps this dirty little secret to herself, how long can she pretend nothing is wrong? How long can she live a lie? Jen knows the truth - but is she ready for the consequences? Praise for Jane Fallon: 'Intelligent, edgy and witty' Glamour 'Darkly comic and addictive' Daily Express 'Fun and feisty women's fiction at its very best' Heat