Chéri, My Destiny!

Author: Okoge Mochino
Publisher: TOKYOPOP
ISBN: 1427869707
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 163

Book Description
“My chocolate’s so good it’ll make you grovel on your knees!” Kaoru is brimming with confidence. After all, he opened a patisserie after studying in France, and is the head chef of his own store. But there’s one small problem: his customers are enamored with a local Japanese sweet shop and Soujirou, the attractive and reserved craftsman who makes the treats on offer. Convinced that stuffy old Japanese confections could never compete with his modern, Western style creations, he decides the only way forward is to prove to Soujirou that his chocolates are the best. But when Soujirou accepts his gift gracefully and even compliments him on his skills, Kaoru’s intense feelings take a sudden turn in the opposite direction.

Artemis Rising

Author: Cheri Lasota
Publisher: Ever-Sea Press
ISBN: 0985146303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
Award-winning Historical Fantasy by USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author Cheri Lasota. An unforgettable tale weaving myth, history, and romance... Rejected by her father and yet determined to be her mother’s daughter, Eva takes on the tragic destiny of her namesake: the mythological Arethusa. Shipwrecked on foreign shores, Eva finds herself torn between the dark and dangerous shipowner's son and the kind-hearted orphan boy who rescues her. Faced with an impossible choice, Eva must heed the troubling warnings of her goddess-touched visions before her fated destiny destroys them all. Set against the lush backdrop of 1890s Azores Islands, this Historical Fantasy Romance won First Place in the Chanticleer Cygnus Awards and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. **** "Wish I could give it 10 stars. Love it. The story grabs you and puts you in such suspense and over the edge until the end." - Lunanima "Left me breathless and spellbound. I wanted to live inside its pages." - Karen Hooper, Author of Tangled Tides

Chéri, My Destiny!

Author: Okoge Mochino
Publisher: Love X Love
ISBN: 9781427868077
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
"My chocolate's so good it'll make you grovel on your knees!" Kaoru is brimming with confidence. After all, he opened a patisserie after studying in France, and is the head chef of his own store. But there's one small problem; his customers are enamored with a local Japanese sweet shop and Soujirou, the attractive and reserved craftsman who makes the treats on offer. Convinced that stuffy old Japanese confections could never compete with his modern, Western style creations, he decides the only way forward is to prove to Soujirou that his chocolates are the best. But when Soujirou accepts his gift gracefully and even compliments him on his skills, Kaoru's intense feelings take a sudden turn in the opposite direction.

Katakoi Lamp

Author: Kyohei Azumi
Publisher: TOKYOPOP
ISBN: 1427868646
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Kazuto Muronoi runs a cute little coffee shop, where many people enjoy doing some work or writing papers for school. Among his coffee shop's regulars is a college student named Jun, who often studies there. It was love at first sight for Kazuto! Will Kazuto be able to find the courage to confess his crush before Jun graduates college and stops frequenting the shop? And to make matters even more complicated... it seems Jun has his sights set on another worker at the café!

Cheri

Author: Colette
Publisher: French Vintage Classics
ISBN: 9781784878436
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man. Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Chéri - a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Chéri, Léa reluctantly decides their relationship must end. But neither lover can foresee how deeply they are connected, or how much they will have to give up. First published in 1920, it was instantly greeted by Marcel Proust and André Gide as a masterpiece. VINTAGE FRENCH CLASSICS - five masterpieces of French fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. 'This most French of all French writers tells us how love sometimes binds and keeps a woman from breathing freely or how it may shape and support her and help her to be beautiful . . . One thinks of her as the female voice of Paris . . .' New York Times

Tainted Destiny

Author: Cheril N. Clarke
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976727316
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Back in the welcoming arms of New York City after a tumultuous relationship, Sadira Cooper is ready to breathe again. It isn't long before she finds herself entering the dating scene. As she struggles to understand the meaning of true love, Sadira has to confront a past that shed fought very hard to forget. After a failed first attempt at reigniting an old flame she begins an affair with Olivia, but makes a fatal mistake that gets her trapped in Olivias web of destruction. This coupled with the return of her venomously sexy former lover leaves Sadira quickly approaching an unavoidable collision of hearts and shattering of lives.Tainted Destiny is a suspenseful romance that paints a vivid picture of turmoil and passion. Sadira experiences every facet of emotionfear, pain, love, anxiety and utter confusion as she is stretched from one extreme to another in trying to find a balance. Does Sadira have what it takes to survive the obstacles put in her path or is her destiny forever tainted?

Chéri and The End of Chéri

Author: Colette
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681376709
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Colette's celebrated novels about an older courtesan and her young lover, now in a new translation and published in one volume. Colette’s Chéri (1920) and its sequel, The End of Chéri (1926), are widely considered her masterpieces. In sensuous, elegant prose, the two novels explore the evolving inner lives and the intimate relationship of an unlikely couple: Léa de Lonval, a middle-aged former courtesan, and Fred Peloux, twenty-five years her junior, known as Chéri. The two have been involved for years, and it is time for Chéri to get on with life, to make something of himself, but he, the personification of male beauty and vanity, doesn’t know how to go about it. It is time, too, for Léa to let go ofChéri and the sensual life that has been hers, and yet this is more easily resolved than done. Chéri marries, but once married he is restless and is inevitably drawn back to his mistress, as she is to him. And yet to reprise their relationship is only to realize even more the inevitability of its end. That end will come when Chéri, back from World War I, encounters a world that the war has changed through and through. Lost in his memories of time past, he is irremediably lost to the busy present. Paul Eprile’s new translation of these two celebrated novels brings out a vivid sensuality and acute intelligence that past translations have failed to capture.

Cheri (Dual-Language)

Author: Colette
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486120406
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Superb story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old ex-courtesan, and Cheri, a handsome but selfish young man 30 years her junior, is widely considered the author's best work.

Double, Volume 3

Author: Ayako Noda
Publisher: TOKYOPOP
ISBN: 142787140X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
Scatterbrained Takara Takarada is an undiscovered genius actor who fully embodies every character he's cast as, delivering unforgettable performance after performance onstage. But this genius can only be brought forth by his best friend and fellow actor, Yuuji Kamojima, who cares for Takara even as he envies him for his innate talent. When it takes the two of them together to bring a character to life, what will happen when Takara is scouted away from their small-time theater troupe and thrust into the new world of television instead? Can Takara survive without Yuuji's guidance... and how does Yuuji respond to being left behind?

Surrealeum Dreams

Author: James A. Gauthier
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1490739203
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 115

Book Description
SURREALEUM DREAMS is a dreamscape of adventure between the world of being awake and asleep. The two become undistinguishable as Arianne reaches maturity and learns that she will be the Keeper of Surrealeum Dreams and coexist with Michael, her consort. The book is fascinating and explores the interaction of peace and comfort, complacency and disregard, and anger and fear, each being represented by Ariannes surrealbud children. The book is fun and a joy to read for children and adults alike.