Kiss the Bride

This sweet and magical romance about a girl who has just one wish—someone to kiss under the mistletoe—is the perfect holiday escape!Bailey Briggs is counting down the days to Christmas: she lives for

A charming, gorgeously illustrated botanical encyclopedia for your favorite romantic, local witch, bride-to-be, or green-thumbed friend.Floriography is a full-color guide to the historical uses and se

Prince Pete isn't ready for marriage - he's only eleven! And this peculiar business with the pea is the daftest thing he's ever heard. Mother reckons she can find him the perfect royal bride and think

"Don't wait for a thunderstorm to read this book; the chemistry in Soulstruck crackles with its own electricity." ―Gina Ciocca, author of A Kiss in the DarkSeventeen-year-old Rachel Ferguson is trying

The Bride's Guide to Glow is the go-to skincare guide for any bride-to-be. Written by a licensed esthetician, this book features simple practices that cover all the how-tos for that wedding day glow

You're stuck in traffic and you're late to work, but it doesn't matter. Your cat woke you up with a kiss that morning, you've just spotted your first freckle of the year (summer must be here) and now

〈The day before〉──在攻略「SAO」當中， 桐人向亞絲娜求婚並且開始兩個人的新婚生活。 但是到達新居的兩個人，眼前所出現的不可思議光景是……？ 〈The day after〉──以新的虛擬角色潛行至新生「SAO」之後， 亞絲娜就受到謎樣的「抽離現象」襲擊。 其原因是「SAO」時代所發生的悲劇之一── 〈彩虹橋〉──桐人等人結束了海底神殿的冒險。 但是海王利維坦與深淵之王克拉肯之間充

A YA fantasy adventure inspired by The Princess Bride, in which a princess must rescue her stable boy true love, from the acclaimed author of Sea WitchWhen a princess’s commoner true love is kidnapped

A darkly funny and always warmhearted new novel from the acclaimed author of 2 A.M. at the Cat's PajamasThe week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother b

** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ** **Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award **'Intense, lyrical, and powerful. This is a remarkable debut' Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis and The Book of Chocolate Saints'Latitudes of Longing is a book to be savoured' The Hindu 'Bold and imaginative' India TodayA prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, for readers of Yaa Gyasi's HOMEGOING and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's HALF OF A YELLOW SUN In the feverish tropics of the Andaman Islands, a young botanist tends to a fragile rose he has imported to welcome his bride. Hoping their marriage will bloom in this strange life, hundreds of miles from the east coast of India, he is entranced by Chanda Devi's fierce nature and unusual gifts; speaking to trees and the ghosts of former colonialists.These islands, she tells her adoring husband, rest on a faultline, cracked so deep into the earth that spirits cross the boundary freely. But it is not this fracture that takes a tragic

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the author of The Hunting Party.The bride The plus one The best man

Known as the 'Gate to Mecca' or 'Bride of the Red Sea', Jeddah has been a gateway for pilgrims travelling to Mecca and Medina and a station for international trade routes between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean for centuries. Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city's urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula. Contextualising Jeddah with developments in the wider Muslim world, Ulrike Freitag investigates how different groups of migrants interacted in a changing urban space and how their economic activities influenced the political framework of the city. Richly illustrated, this study reveals how the transformation of Jeddah's urban space, population and politics has been indicative of changes in the wider Arab and Red Sea region, re-evaluating its place in the Middle East at a time when both its

Continuing her bestselling Rogue Files series, Sophie Jordan brews up a scintillating romance about a timid wallflower who discovers a love potion and ends up falling for a dashing rogue.A love potion…Charlotte Langley has always been the prudent middle sister, so her family is not surprised when she makes the safe choice and agrees to wed her childhood sweetheart. But when she finds herself under the weather and drinks a “healing” tonic, the potion provokes the most maddening desire…for someone other than her betrothed.With the power…Kingston’s rakehell ways are going to destroy him and he’s vowed to change. His stepbrother’s remote estate is just the place for a reformed rogue to hide. The last thing he wants is to be surrounded by society, but when he gets stuck alone with a wallflower who is already betrothed... and she astonishes him with a fiery kiss, he forgets all about hiding.To alter two destinies.Although Charlotte appears meek, Kingston soon discovers there’s a vixen inside

“Young Frankenstein meets The Princess Bride in the most hysterically hilarious book I’ve read in years.”―Chris Grabenstein, #1 New York Times bestselling authorAll orphan Bolt Wattle has ever wanted

From the chief architect of the Pandora Radio song recommendation engine comes a definitive and groundbreaking examination of why we respond to music the way we do.Everyone loves music. But what is it that makes music so universally beloved and have such a powerful effect on us?In this sweeping and authoritative book, Dr. Nolan Gasser―a pianist, composer, musicologist, and the chief architect of the Music Genome Project, which is what powers Pandora Radio―breaks down what musical taste is, where it comes from, and what our favorite songs say about us.Dr. Gasser delves into the science, psychology, and sociology that explains why humans love music so much; how our brains process music; and why you may love Queen but your friend loves Kiss. He sheds light on why babies can clap along to rhythmic patterns and reveals why different cultures across the globe identify the same kinds of music as happy, sad, or scary. Using easy-to-follow notated musical scores, Dr. Gasser teaches music fans h

At once darkly tense, boldly feminist, and stunningly original, Damsel is the twisty, new YA fairy tale from National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold.*A 2019 Michael L. Printz Award Honor Book*The rite has existed for as long as anyone can remember: When the king dies, his son the prince must venture out into the gray lands, slay a fierce dragon, and rescue a damsel to be his bride. This is the way things have always been.When Ama wakes in the arms of Prince Emory, she knows none of this. She has no memory of what came before she was captured by the dragon or what horrors she faced in its lair. She knows only this handsome young man, the story he tells of her rescue, and her destiny of sitting on a throne beside him. It’s all like a dream, like something from a fairy tale.As Ama follows Emory to the kingdom of Harding, however, she discovers that not all is as it seems. There is more to the legends of the dragons and the damsels than anyone knows, and the greatest threats may not b

不甘命運被支配的女子闖入幽冥，拯救她被侵犯的靈魂《彼岸之嫁》女主角黃姵嘉、黑咖啡聊美劇站長Castle推薦一天傍晚，父親問我願不願意當鬼新娘…… 十九世紀，英國的殖民地馬六甲，有許多華人移民家族世居在此。他們接受西方文化洗禮的同時，也遵循其華人祖先的習俗過生活。潘麗蘭是經商致富的華人移民後代，但多年前爆發天花疫情，使她摯愛的母親病逝；而潘父則因病毀容，從此深居簡出，荒廢家業。一天，潘父告