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Bodibeng jwa Matlhomola: UBC Contracted
by D. S. MatjilaBodibeng jwa Matlhomola ke padi ya Setswana e e kwadilweng ke Moporofesara D.S. Matjila. Padi e, e touta kgankgolo e e senolang masisapelo, matlhotlhapelo le kutlobotlhoko e e aparelang batho fa ba sa tshedisane jaaka bagolole kgotsa borrammogo. Totatota thitokgang e, ke ya sepolotiki foo basweu ba lwelang go tlhaola, go ja ntsoma le go gatelela bantsho mo lefatsheng la bona, mme bantsho bona ba lwa kgatlhanong le tlhaolele le lenyatso tse di bakiwang ke megagaru. Matjila o dirisa ditsenagare di tshwana le poelomorago le polelelopele go golaganya le go fa ditiragalo lemorago le le kgwedisang. O itshupa sentle gore o dirile ditlhotlhomisi tse di tseneletseng e bile di le maleba tebang le hisetori le maitshetlego a ditiragalo tsa padi a a jaaka Botswana, Lesotho, Aforikaborwa, jalojalo. Se se kgatlhisang bogolosegolo ka ditiragalo tsa padi e ke gore di kitlane e bile di na le kgogedi e e bakang phisegelo ya go buisetsa kwa pele go fihla kwa bokhutlong. Matjila o dirisa malepa a tshwana le kamo, (allusion) kgotlhang ya dikakanyo le dipelaelano tsa baanelwa gammogo le metswako ya dipolelo tse di repileng le tse di šakgetseng go tshola babuisi ba thantse. Bodibeng jwa Matlhomola e a re gopotsa e bile e re thusa go itlhaloganya le go tlhaloganya kwa re tswang teng gore re tle re kgone go tlhaloganya maemo a re tshelang mo go ona gajaana. A o ke o e buise o tle o utlwe ka ga: • mekgwa ya merafe e e farologaneng e re agisaneng le yona le ya Yuropa; • lenyalo la ga Kgosi Seretse Kgama le Mohumagadi Ruth Kgama; • tsholo ya bafaladi ba Aforikaborwa kwa mafatsheng a Aforika le a Yuropa; • tiriso ya dinaane le hisetori mo kelelong ya ditiragalo tsa padi. * Moporofesara P.M. Sebate
Bodibeng jwa Matlhomola: UBC Uncontracted
by D. S. MatjilaBodibeng jwa Matlhomola ke padi ya Setswana e e kwadilweng ke Moporofesara D.S. Matjila. Padi e, e touta kgankgolo e e senolang masisapelo, matlhotlhapelo le kutlobotlhoko e e aparelang batho fa ba sa tshedisane jaaka bagolole kgotsa borrammogo. Totatota thitokgang e, ke ya sepolotiki foo basweu ba lwelang go tlhaola, go ja ntsoma le go gatelela bantsho mo lefatsheng la bona, mme bantsho bona ba lwa kgatlhanong le tlhaolele le lenyatso tse di bakiwang ke megagaru. Matjila o dirisa ditsenagare di tshwana le poelomorago le polelelopele go golaganya le go fa ditiragalo lemorago le le kgwedisang. O itshupa sentle gore o dirile ditlhotlhomisi tse di tseneletseng e bile di le maleba tebang le hisetori le maitshetlego a ditiragalo tsa padi a a jaaka Botswana, Lesotho, Aforikaborwa, jalojalo. Se se kgatlhisang bogolosegolo ka ditiragalo tsa padi e ke gore di kitlane e bile di na le kgogedi e e bakang phisegelo ya go buisetsa kwa pele go fihla kwa bokhutlong. Matjila o dirisa malepa a tshwana le kamo, (allusion) kgotlhang ya dikakanyo le dipelaelano tsa baanelwa gammogo le metswako ya dipolelo tse di repileng le tse di šakgetseng go tshola babuisi ba thantse. Bodibeng jwa Matlhomola e a re gopotsa e bile e re thusa go itlhaloganya le go tlhaloganya kwa re tswang teng gore re tle re kgone go tlhaloganya maemo a re tshelang mo go ona gajaana. A o ke o e buise o tle o utlwe ka ga: • mekgwa ya merafe e e farologaneng e re agisaneng le yona le ya Yuropa; • lenyalo la ga Kgosi Seretse Kgama le Mohumagadi Ruth Kgama; • tsholo ya bafaladi ba Aforikaborwa kwa mafatsheng a Aforika le a Yuropa; • tiriso ya dinaane le hisetori mo kelelong ya ditiragalo tsa padi. * Moporofesara P.M. Sebate
Bodice of Evidence (Perfect Proposals #2)
by Nancy J. ParraThe author of Engaged in Murder returns with her second Perfect Proposals Mystery. This time Pepper Pomeroy discovers that shopping for the dream wedding dress can be a nightmare...<P><P> Pepper's new wedding proposal planning business, Perfect Proposals, seems like a perfect fit. If only shopping for her sister Felicity's bridal gown could be so simple.<P> After a long day of lace, tulle, and tears, Pepper, Felicity, and their mother pull it together to try one last bridal boutique. Maybe they'll be surprised. And indeed they are--when they enter a deserted shop and soon discover the owner of the boutique slain in the alley out back.<P> Distressed by their proximity to the crime, Pepper vows to unveil the killer. As difficult as it is to draw a pattern from the clues, it's still easier than finding Felicity's perfect wedding gown. But as the killer begins to feel hemmed in, Pepper may be the one brought to her knees...
Bodie Bride
by Isabel WhitfieldSpinster Margaret Warren had hoped to spend a lifetime "guiding" her unruly family. But when her saloon-keeper father tired of her teetotaling, bossy ways, well- meaning Margaret found herself bartered into wedlock with irrepressible miner John Banning. She gritted her teeth and promised to honor and obey-but love was another matter entirely! John Banning knew his prickly wife would have to be won over, and he relished kindling the banked fires beneath Margaret's cool exterior. Yet when their explosive attraction sparked genuine panic in her, John feared that one wrong move would send his new bride running scared.
Bodie Troll (Bodie Troll)
by Jay Fosgitt Nathan PrideWritten and illustrated by Jay Fosgitt (Rocket Raccoon & Groot), Bodie Troll is a rollicking fantasy adventure celebrating the importance of stalwart friendships and being true to oneself. Bodie Troll wants to be a fearsome creature, but in truth he’s downright adorable. Alongside his best friend Cholly and her Fairy Godmother, Bodie is up for any challenge, from protecting the village from spellbound beasts to performing shape-changing theater. If he’s lucky, he just might scare someone along the way. A massive original graphic novel, including all previously published Bodie Troll stories, for fans of all ages! <P><P> <i>Advisory: Bookshare has learned that this book offers only partial accessibility. We have kept it in the collection because it is useful for some of our members. Benetech is actively working on projects to improve accessibility issues such as these.</i>
Bodies (Perry Trethowan #4)
by Robert BarnardFour dead bodies are found in a Soho studio, they were of : a former body builder, a studying actress and a photographer and his assistant. Perry Trethowan of London's C.I.D. was unable to find a link or any reason for these murders to have occurred, yet he has to go deeper into the investigation. He finds himself quickly caught up in a sordid world of a competitive body builder. He employs a black gym manager to work undercover and Trethowan investigated further into the case - yet the investigations progress seems to hinder and what he does discover seems unikley.
Bodies Are Where You Find Them (The Mike Shayne Mysteries #5)
by Brett HallidayA disappearing corpse draws Mike Shayne into political guerilla warfare A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone with her husband. She and Mike are about to board a train to New York when a client shows up at the door. Her face gray and her voice slurred, the mysterious woman passes out before she's able to get through her story. Mike carries the stranger to his spare bedroom and, trying to save his wife from worry, tells Phyllis to go on to the train station without him; he'll meet her in a few days. When he goes back to check on the woman, she is dead, with one of her stockings wrapped tightly around her throat. Something is fishy, but it's about to get far more complicated when the body disappears. The woman arrived just after Mike took a call from Sam Marsh, a close friend who's in a mayoral race that's about to turn bloody. To save his friend's campaign and keep himself out of jail, Mike will have to find the killer--but he'll have to find the body first.
Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing
by Natalie Diaz Hannah EnsorSport has always been central to the movements of both the nation-state and the people who resist that nation-state. Think of the Roman Colosseum, Jesse Owens’s four gold-medal victories in the 1936 Nazi Olympics, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s protest at the 1968 Olympics, and the fallout Colin Kaepernick suffered as a result of his recent protest on the sidelines of an NFL game. Sport is a place where the body and the mind are the most dangerous because they are allowed to be unified as one energy.Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport and question the power structures that athletics enforce. What is it that drives us to athletics? What is it that makes us break our own bodies or the bodies of others as we root for these unnatural and performed victories? Featuring contributions from a diverse group of writers, including Hanif Abdurraqib, Fatimah Asghar, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Louise Erdrich, Toni Jensen, Ada Limón, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Danez Smith, and Maya Washington, this book challenges America by questioning its games.
Bodies Electric: A Novel
by Colin HarrisonJack Whitman is a powerful executive with a massive multimedia conglomerate. He is extremely well-paid, highly ambitious, and desperately lonely since his wife's murder. Then one night on a subway car, his eyes meet those of a woman he cannot forget.Dolores Salcines is a ravaged beauty on the knife edge of despair--a woman on the run with secrets, and good reason to hide them. What she needs is a savior--an impulsive rescue form a dire past. What she has found is a man willing to give it to her.It begins as a reckless liaison. It spirals into a nightmare that threatens Jack's career, his fortune, and his life. A trap has been set. For Jack, the only chance at escape is to submit to the one final dangerous urge that resides in the dark side of every human heart.
Bodies Out Back: Evolution (Cameron Andrews Mysteries #2)
by Nanisi Barrett D'ArnukCIA Agent Cameron Andrews' new home on the shores of Lake Memphremagog in Vermont seems like the perfect place to live, but when bodies and a meth lab are found in the woods of her property, new problems arise. Because her land abuts the United States-Canadian border, Cam volunteers to go undercover and investigate what could be an international incident.Finding drug dealers in Magog, Quebec, isn't hard for someone with a felony record, and one young woman is more than happy to introduce Cam to others in the drug world. But more and more people are asking personal questions, and Cam finds herself making up more lies than ever before.When police raid the drug house, Cam finds herself in an even worse predicament -- back in jail. Can her team get her out without blowing her cover?
Bodies and Battlements (The Ravensea Castle Series)
by Elizabeth PenneyThe first in a new cozy mystery series by Elizabeth Penney investigates a suspicious murder in a haunted British castle-turned-bed and breakfast.Herbalist Nora Asquith is delighted to welcome Ravensea Castle’s first guests to the picturesque village of Monkwell, Yorkshire. After a thousand years of ownership, her family has decided to convert the castle into a bed and breakfast. But when Hilda Dibble, a self-appointed local luminary, is found dead in the knot garden the next morning, Nora’s business is not only at risk—she’s a prime suspect. Hilda had opposed the hotel plan every step of the way, and although she didn’t succeed in stopping the venture, her disagreements with Nora seem to only further her motive. One of Ravensea’s guests happens to be Detective Inspector Finlay Cole, who is new to the area and now finds himself with a murder case in his lap. Nora and her actress sister Tamsyn decide to investigate for themselves. They look into the entangled dealings of their newly arrived guests, while also getting hints from Sir Percival, one of the castle ghosts. As they learn, Sir Percival’s tragic death centuries ago sheds light on present-day crimes. Surely they can get to the bottom of this mystery while keeping their new business afloat . . .
Bodies and Bones: Feminist Rehearsal and Imagining Caribbean Belonging (New World Studies)
by Tanya L. ShieldsIn Bodies and Bones, Tanya Shields argues that a repeated engagement with the Caribbean’s iconic and historic touchstones offers a new sense of (inter)national belonging that brings an alternative and dynamic vision to the gendered legacy of brutality against black bodies, flesh, and bone. Using a distinctive methodology she calls "feminist rehearsal" to chart the Caribbean’s multiple and contradictory accounts of historical events, the author highlights the gendered and emergent connections between art, history, and belonging.By drawing on a significant range of genres—novels, short stories, poetry, plays, public statuary, and painting—Shields proposes innovative interpretations of the work of Grace Nichols, Pauline Melville, Fred D’Aguiar, Alejo Carpentier, Edwidge Danticat, Aimé Césaire, Marie-Hélène Cauvin, and Rose Marie Desruisseau. She shows how empathetic alliances can challenge both hierarchical institutions and regressive nationalisms and facilitate more democratic interaction.
Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America
by Gillian SilvermanIn nineteenth-century America, Gillian Silverman contends, reading—and particularly book reading—precipitated intense fantasies of communion. In handling a book, the reader imagined touching and being touched by the people affiliated with that book's narrative world—an author, a character, a fellow reader. This experience often led to a sense of consubstantiality, a fantasy that the reader, the material book, and the imagined other were momentarily merged. Such a fantasy challenges psychological conceptions of discrete subjectivity along with the very notion of corporeal integrity—the idea that we are detached, skin-bound, and autonomously functioning entities. It forces us to envision readers not as liberal subjects, pursuing reading as a means toward privacy, interiority, and individuation, but rather as communal beings inseparable from objects in our psychic and phenomenal world.While theorists have long emphasized the way reading can promote a sense of abstract belonging, Bodies and Books emphasizes the intense somatic bonds that nineteenth-century subjects experienced while reading. Silverman bridges the gap between the cognitive and material effects of reading, arguing that the two worked in tandem, enabling readers to feel deep communion with objects (both human and nonhuman) in the external world. Drawing on the letters and diaries of nineteenth-century readers along with literary works by Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Susan Warner, and others, Silverman explores the book as a technology of intimacy and ponders what nineteenth-century readers might be able to teach us two centuries later.
Bodies and Bows: The Apron Shop Series (Apron Shop Series #3)
by Elizabeth PenneyBodies & Bows is the third in the charming cozy Iris Buckley mystery series set in an apron shop in Maine—Elizabeth Penney will have you on pins and needles…Iris Buckley is hoping for a bit of rest and relaxation now that the summertime rush is winding down in Blueberry Cove, Maine. Her apron shop Ruffles & Bows has been a huge success, her friendships are stronger than ever, and now she’s ready for all of the end of summer cookouts on the beach that she can handle.But before Iris can even turn on the grill, Bella’s latest fling, former Olympian sailor and gorgeous bad boy Lance Pederson is killed in a hit and run while jogging at dawn—and all the evidence points to Bella herself.Suddenly the month of August isn’t looking so restful, since now Iris has been roped into the Lighthouse Rehabilitation Committee, helping her friend Sophie plan a wedding, and—most importantly of all—tracking down a killer and clearing Bella’s good name before everything unravels.
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
by Mark SeltzerBodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and naturalist writing, such as the work of Hawthorne and Henry James, and the discourses which inform it: from scouting manuals and the programmes of systematic management to accounts of sexual biology and the rituals of consumer culture. He explores other mass-produced and mass-consumed cultural forms, including visual representations such as composite photographs, scale models, and the astonishing iconography of standardization.
Bodies and Sole: A Shores Mystery (The Shores Mysteries #Book 5)
by Hilary MacLeodIs this little fishing village about to experience a crime wave? &“A well-written mystery, with some spookiness and plenty of fun.&” —The Guardian The tiny Canadian fishing village known as The Shores is celebrating its bicentennial. But the event takes a dark turn when a skull tossed up on the beach sparks a murder investigation. Meanwhile, a woman named Vera Gloom moves into the village with her three ex-husbands. Are they one big happy family? Amateur sleuth Hyacinth McAllister has her doubts, and things get even more interesting when Vera starts working on husband number four. Hy has to convince Mountie Jane Jamieson that these people are more than just a little dysfunctional—before it&’s too late . . .
Bodies and Souls
by Nancy ThayerIn this fast, steamy novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer, residents of a seemingly picture perfect New England town struggle to hide their shocking secrets . . . until they can no longer. Now available for the first time as an eBook! From his position behind the pulpit, Reverend Peter Taylor has a unique view of his affluent congregants. By and large, they appear respectable and morally upstanding, but they have their share of troubles--and perhaps even more than their share of sins. Liza Howard is a notorious Jezebel who seduces young and old alike, and who now has her sights set on Judy Bennett's son, despite his engagement. Meanwhile, Judy hides her own family secrets behind her relentless judgment of others. Widow Suzanna Blair's newly found passion for her female professor has her questioning the life she's always known. And Peter Taylor himself struggles with faith and lust despite an eighteen-year marriage. As their turbulent lives and their scandalous stories intersect, one thing is certain: small town secrets never remain hidden for long. Includes a captivating preview of Nancy Thayer's upcoming novel Nantucket Sisters! Praise for the novels of Nancy Thayer "The queen of beach books."--The Star-Ledger "Thayer has a deep and masterly understanding of love and friendship, of where the two complement and where they collide."--Elin Hilderbrand "Thayer's gift for reaching the emotional core of her characters [is] captivating."--Houston Chronicle "One of my favorite writers."--Susan Wiggs "Thayer portrays beautifully the small moments, inside stories and shared histories that build families."--The Miami Herald "Thayer's sense of place is powerful, and her words are hung together the way my grandmother used to tat lace."--Dorothea Benton Frank
Bodies and Souls: A Novel (Books That Changed the World)
by John Rechy&“A memorable feast . . . powerful, chilling, moving . . . extraordinary&” from the bestselling author of City of Night and The Sexual Outlaw (Los Angeles Times). An exceptional novel from the bestselling author of the modern classic City of Night, Bodies and Souls is a portrait of modern Los Angeles on an epic scale, &“the most spiritual and physical of cities.&” Gorgeous, seedy, and striving, the Los Angeles of Rechy&’s imagination is a magnetic city that draws to it the nation&’s brightest and darkest energies—characters that include a female porn superstar; a young Chicano punk-rock fan; a Bel Air matron and her tyrannical husband, a Supreme Court judge; an aging male stripper; a black maid with apocalyptic visions; and a cynical TV anchorwoman. Through this rich tapestry of human struggle, Rechy paints a lush portrait of a paradise lost but also a heroic odyssey in search of redemption. &“Masterful . . . one of the most important novels of the year.&” —Dallas Times Herald &“There&’s so much energy, ambition, and humor in Bodies and Souls that the phrase &‘scarred beauty&’ might well describe the novel.&” —The New York Times Book Review &“Brilliant portraits of modern lives . . . superb.&” —San Francisco Chronicle &“Rechy is very good at evoking the seamier side of the streets, and he is masterful in funny, graphic sex scenes.&” —Publishers Weekly
Bodies and Things in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
by Katharina BoehmThis book provides fresh perspectives on the object world, embodied experience and materiality in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Contributors explore canonical works by Austen, Brontë, Dickens and James, alongside less-familiar texts and a range of objects including nineteenth-century automata, scrapbooks, museum exhibits and antiques.
Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater
by Peilin LiangIn Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater, Peilin Liang develops a theory of bodily transformation. Proposing the concept of transformance, a conscious and rigorous process of self-cultivation toward a reconceptualized body, Liang shows how theater practitioners of minoritized cultures adopt transformance as a strategy to counteract the embodied practices of ideological and economic hegemony. This book observes key Taiwanese contemporary theater practitioners at work in forging five reconceptualized bodies: the energized, the rhythmic, the ritualized, the joyous, and the (re)productive. By focusing on the development of transformance between the years of 2000–2008, a tumultuous political watershed in Taiwan’s history, the author succeeds in bridging postcolonialism and interculturalism in her conceptual framework. Ideal for scholars of Asian and postcolonial theater, Bodies and Transformance in Taiwanese Contemporary Theater shows how transformance, rather than performance, calibrates with far greater precision and acuity the state of the body and the culture that it seeks to create.
Bodies beyond Labels: Finding Joy in the Shadows of Imperial Spain (Toronto Iberic)
by Daniel Holcombe Frederick A. De ArmasBodies beyond Labels explores moments of joy and joyful expressions of self-identity, intimacy, sexuality, affect, friendship, social relationships, and religiosity in imperial Spanish cultures, a period when embodiments of such joy were shadowed by comparatively more constrictive social conventions. Viewed in this manner, joy frames historic references to gender, sexuality, and present-day concepts of queerness through homoeroticism, non-labelled bodies, gender fluidity, and performativity. This collection reveals diverse glimmers of joy through a variety of genres, including plays, poems, novels, autobiographies, biblical narratives, and civil law texts, among others. The book is divided into five categories: theatrical works that use mythology to enjoy themes of homoeroticism; narrative prose and visual arts that reveal public and private homoerotic expressions; scopophilia within garden and museum spaces that make possible joyous observations of non-labelled and non-corporeal bodies; biblical narratives and epistolary works that signal religious transgressions of gender and friendship; and sexual geographies explored in historic and legal documents. As new generations develop more nuanced senses of gender and sexual identities, Bodies beyond Labels strives to provide new academic optics, as framed by non-labelled bodies, queer theorizations, joy in unexpected places, and the light that has historically (re)emerged from the shadows.
Bodies in Bedlam (The Shell Scott Mysteries #2)
by Richard S. Prather"As far as I'm concerned, Richard S. Prather was the King of the paperback P.I writers of the 60s. Shell Scott should be in the Top Ten of any readers list of favorite private eyes."--Robert J. RandisiFor four decades, Richard S. Prather published over 40 works of detective fiction, most featuring his clever, cad-about-town hero, Shell Scott. Known for their arched humor, punchy dialogue, and sunny Southern California locale, the Shell Scott books represent one of the greatest private eye collections ever produced.BODIES IN BEDLAMA Shell Scott MysteryShell Scott. He's a guy with a pistol in his pocket and murder on his mind. The crime world's public enemy number one, this Casanova is a sucker for a damsel in distress. When a pair of lovely legs saunters into his office, he can't help but take the job, even when the case is a killer. Constanza Carmocha is like a cat in heat; she innocently purrs while scratching your eyes out with her razor-sharp claws. She is a dame skilled in the age-old act of bending men to her will, using no other weapon than her lips and the sensuous curve of her hips. But she had already left behind a trail of dead bodies, and this gal's blaze burns everyone who touches her. Shell's seen his fair share of women, and this one can't have a deeper bag of tricks than he? Or can she?
Bodies in Motion
by Zane KotkerBodies in Motion takes us back to Manhattan's Upper West Side and a culture just beginning to crack, as women dared to want more than the standard choice--children or career. Young, single Sonya works as a science photographer for children's books and lives in a fanciful world of her own observation. She marries the appealing but sometimes oblivious Victor. Soon Peter is born. At first mother and baby wheel contentedly about the "glens and shadowy places" of nearby Riverside Park. As her son learns to walk, Sonya takes him into a playground to be socialized. Here natural forces and social customs reveal themselves to Sonya, though she no longer packs a camera. Olivia is born. At the sandbox Sonya notices how female and male programming appear and are fostered. Back in her apartment she finds herself sinking into the traditional female role. Will she retain her own curious eye? Will she ever get her camera out of the closet? The culture has changed since 1972 when Bodies in Motion was first published, but the work of raising children remains the same.
Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
by Thomas LynchMasterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts." "Lynch engages the reader with a mixture of poetic and funerary elements....his voice is rich and generous."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times "[W]hat makes him such a fine essayist is that it's just the business of everyday life and death to him."--Los Angeles Times Book Review "Few readers will walk away from this volume less than stunned and grateful."--Jay Parini, author of Benjamin's Crossing "A luminous work of words."--Nicholas Delbanco, author of What Remains
Bodies in Motion: 10 Athletes to Adore
by Angela Smith Lynn Cahoon Casey Dawes Synithia Williams Toni Jones Alicia Hunter Pace Lucy Oliver Cj Petterson Katie Kenyhercz Elley Arden Rachel CrossWorking up a sweat has never been more fun than in this value-priced collection starring sexy, athletic heroes and the dynamic women who capture their hearts.Reforming Gabe: Once the NFL’s best wide receiver, Gabe Beauford’s been dropping the ball this season—literally. After his team loses the Super Bowl, he heads to Beauford to brood, but crossing paths with independent and talented jewelry maker Neyland MacKenzie puts a new gleam in his eye. She needs saving and he needs a project…But will his not-so-deft touch ruin her dreams and their chance at real love? Worth the Wait: Playboy and fitness instructor Jared Patterson seems like the perfect candidate to help Tasha Smith lose her long-held V-card. But what starts out as a one-time thing quickly turns into an affair neither wants to stop—even when it might get in the way of their futures. High Octane: Fueled: Texan rebel Maddux Bates’s bad behavior won him last year’s Formula One championship—and an image problem. Getting caught dating a sponsor’s girlfriend, oncologist Brynn Douglas, could sabotage this season too—but can anything slow this dynamic duo down when their relationship shifts into overdrive? On the Fly: Newly minted MBA Jacey Vaughn gets in over her head when her father unexpectedly leaves her his NHL team. She knows business, not hockey, but it doesn’t take her long to recognize that her flirtation with team captain Carter Phlynn is a danger to her professional reputation. With the Stanley Cup on the line, she must decide between her heart’s desire and her family’s legacy. The Bull Rider’s Brother: Lizzie Hudson is enjoying rodeo weekend to start her summer when James Sullivan, the cowboy who got away, walks his Justin Ropers back into her life. Can he learn to redefine family before she gives up on him and marries another? Montana Christmas Magic: Tennis pro Logan Collins inherits a cabin in rural Phillipsburg, Montana, that he’s not allowed to sell for six months. It’s just enough time to start a sweet relationship with artist and chocolatier Julie Thompson. But despite the trappings of permanence—a dog, a horse, and a woman who brings light into his dark days—his life is still in New York. He’ll have to persuade Julie that Christmas in Manhattan is just as inspiring, before the holidays put a final wrap on their relationship. No Secrets in Spandex: Allegations of drug use surround bike racer Jacob Hunter, and reporter Ariel Hays is ready to do anything to get that story—except reveal her own secrets. Choosing Carter: When Bryn McKay’s brother escapes from prison bent on revenge, she invites her best friend, naturalist and outdoor guide Carter Danielson, on a rafting trip to help her de-stress—and she wouldn’t mind if things turned romantic. But Carter is a recovering alcoholic who shies away from commitment. Then her brother shows up and they must flee for their lives. Will imminent danger prompt Carter to finally figure out where his heart lies? Winter Storms: Daniel’s sailing accident cost Carly her shot at Olympic dreams, while his own athletic success was unhindered. Now he’s returned and they’re stuck in the Cornish village where storms lash them from outside—and within. Final Mend: Jake Inman may be a triathlete, but he needs a private investigator to help him track down his kidnapped goddaughter in the wilderness. Winona Wall left the PI game, but now to save herself, she must team up with Jake—and avoid love at all costs. Sensuality Level: Sensual