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The Designated Drivers' Club
by Shelley K WallJenny Madison was fired from her office job for an “attitude problem” that resulted from, well, a disappointing life. Out of desperation and a need to pay her rent and car loan, she starts a business driving people home after a night on the town. Customer calls continue to put her in contact with Grant Tucker, an equally disillusioned entertainment executive whose life has been derailed due to a family incident of past years.Grant doesn’t remember the young passenger in the car that killed his niece. He just knows the driver died. At the time, the family needed stability and he needed a job so he delved in to help keep the small entertainment company afloat while his aunt and uncle, the owners, dealt with the loss of a daughter. Years later, meeting Jenny seemed more an aggravation than salvation.Jenny faces significant personal challenges when a number of her clients, contacts, and friends end up associated to the haunting accident from her past that killed her father. Unfortunately, the little girl also killed in the accident has no intention of staying hidden in the dark. She makes her presence known in a most inconvenient way.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Designated Drivers' Club
by Shelley K WallJenny Madison was fired from her office job for an “attitude problem” that resulted from, well, a disappointing life. Out of desperation and a need to pay her rent and car loan, she starts a business driving people home after a night on the town. Customer calls continue to put her in contact with Grant Tucker, an equally disillusioned entertainment executive whose life has been derailed due to a family incident of past years.Grant doesn’t remember the young passenger in the car that killed his niece. He just knows the driver died. At the time, the family needed stability and he needed a job so he delved in to help keep the small entertainment company afloat while his aunt and uncle, the owners, dealt with the loss of a daughter. Years later, meeting Jenny seemed more an aggravation than salvation.Jenny faces significant personal challenges when a number of her clients, contacts, and friends end up associated to the haunting accident from her past that killed her father. Unfortunately, the little girl also killed in the accident has no intention of staying hidden in the dark. She makes her presence known in a most inconvenient way.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Designated Drivers' Club
by Shelley K. WallJenny Madison was fired from her office job for an "attitude problem" that resulted from, well, a disappointing life. Out of desperation and a need to pay her rent and car loan, she starts a business driving people home after a night on the town. Customer calls continue to put her in contact with Grant Tucker, an equally disillusioned entertainment executive whose life has been derailed due to a family incident of past years.Grant doesn't remember the young passenger in the car that killed his niece. He just knows the driver died. At the time, the family needed stability and he needed a job so he delved in to help keep the small entertainment company afloat while his aunt and uncle, the owners, dealt with the loss of a daughter. Years later, meeting Jenny seemed more an aggravation than salvation.Jenny faces significant personal challenges when a number of her clients, contacts, and friends end up associated to the haunting accident from her past that killed her father. Unfortunately, the little girl also killed in the accident has no intention of staying hidden in the dark. She makes her presence known in a most inconvenient way.Sensuality Level: Sensual
The Designated Mourner
by Wallace Shawn"The play nicely combines Pinterian menace with caustic political commentary." -Time"Acerbic, elusive, poetic and chilling, the writing is demanding in a rarefied manner. Its implications are both affecting and disturbing." -Los Angeles Times"In his exquisitely written dramatic lament for the decline of high culture. . . . [Shawn] offers a definition of the self that should rattle the defenses of intellectual snobs everywhere." -The New York TimesWriter and performer Wallace Shawn's landmark 1996 play features three characters--a respected poet, his daughter, and her English-professor husband--suspected of subversion in a world where culture has come under the control of the ruling oligarchy. Told through three interwoven monologues, the Orwellian political story is recounted alongside the visceral dissolution of a marriage. The play debuted at the Royal National Theatre in London, in a production directed by David Hare, who also directed the film version, starring Mike Nichols and Miranda Richardson. The play's subsequent New York premiere was staged in a long-abandoned men's club in lower Manhattan, directed by Shawn's longtime collaborator André Gregory.Wallace Shawn is the author of Our Late Night (OBIE Award for Best Play), Marie and Bruce, Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Fever, and the screenplay for My Dinner with André. His most recent play, Grasses of a Thousand Colors, premiered last year in London.
Designated Target
by Karen AndersCriminals want her mind... Her protector wants her love. Special agent Vincent Fitzgerald's mission is to find missing naval scientist Dr. Skylar Baang. The brilliant Filipino American beauty has been kidnapped for her knowledge and research on top secret projects. But even after Vin rescues her from a dangerous group, he knows they'll be back. A long-ago promise has kept Skylar committed to her work-love is a distraction she's never allowed herself. Now in the protective custody of a complicated NCIS agent who surprises her at every turn, Skylar wants to stop thinking and start feeling. But as the thugs come after her, she'll need everything she is-and smart, sexy Vin-to stay alive.
Designated Targets: A Novel of the Axis of Time (Axis of Time #2)
by John BirminghamThe Second World War was turned on its head at the moment Admiral Kolhammer’s ultra-modern stealth warships were hurled back through time from 2021. But no one could have predicted just how much of a nightmare would ensue . . . Only months after the Transition, the great powers scramble to develop the weapons of tomorrow. The year 1942 is now a world of crude jet fighters, monstrous attack helicopters, and unholy dirty bombs - a mongrel technology, born decades prematurely. Then, in a radical rewriting of history, Japanese forces sweep into Australia , foreign agents begin a campaign of terror in the USA , and Germany prepares for an all-out attack on Britain . The twenty-first-century forces must resort to the most extreme measures yet and face a future rife with possibilities - all of them apocalyptic . . . Picking up from where he left off with Weapons of Choice, John Birmingham shocks and awes us with this gripping second instalment in the Axis of Time trilogy.
Designation Gold Rogue Warrior
by MarcinkoThe Rogue Warrior has come to Moscow to investigate the assassination of Paul Mahon, U.S. Defense attaché in Russia. Marcinko knows who killed him -- Andrei Yudin, a godfather in the Russian Mafia -- and he wants to know why. Instead, he finds a cabal of corrupt, mob-linked russian politicians. The revelation gets him yanked back to Washington, where orders come down to disband his elite team of SEALs. But even as the Pentagon's chain of command becomes a noose around his neck, Marcinko begins to cut and slash his way to the truth behind Mahon's death. More about survival than revenge, his mission soon leads him to a black-market network peddling terrorism in Paris, sinister trading in the Middle East, and a devil of a deal that puts American's safety up for sale....
Designed by Desire
by Pamela YayePassion's in vogue A front-row seat at Paris Fashion Week is the perfect pick-me-up for Brianna Hamilton, eldest daughter of New York's most successful clothing dynasty. The once-burned designer has had it with men who care only about the bottom line. Until she meets a guy who's impossible to resist. Here, in the world's most romantic city, Brianna's giving in to desire with a sensual stranger she'll never see again. As CEO of an international hotel chain, Collin Childs has everything...except the one thing money can't buy. So when fate reunites him with the woman who gave him the most unforgettable week of his life, he vows to overcome every obstacle standing in their way. From Paris to New York to a tropical St. Thomas paradise-in the face of danger and sabotage-Collin is slowly winning Brianna over. But can he convince her to take a chance on a love of their own passionate design?
Designed for Death
by Jean HarringtonAn Eye for Detail, a Nose for TroubleInterior designer Deva Dunne's latest project comes to a screeching halt when blood on the carpet leads her to the body of her client, an exotic dancer with a mysterious past. But the murdered woman is not the only resident of the posh beachfront condominium with secrets, and investigating officer Lieutenant Victor Rossi considers them all suspects.Though wary of working in the killer's midst, Deva continues decorating the unit for the new owner. When she stumbles upon clues that might help crack the case, she can't resist doing a little digging of her own, despite Rossi's orders to quit meddling. Now, she's juggling the investigation, her career and sexy neighbor Simon Yaeger, who seems interested in more than her etchings.Deva can't help but be flattered by all the male attention-that is, until she realizes the killer has designs on her, too...67,000 words
Designed for Disaster (Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew #29)
by Macky Pamintuan Carolyn KeeneEight-year-old supersleuth Nancy Drew must solve a crime of fashion!Nancy Drew and her classmates have the chance to submit their own fashion designs to a big-time competition--and the chance to model their designs in a fashion show. <P><P>On a team with her best friends George and Bess, Nancy comes up with some truly original clothing ideas and her team is chosen! But someone keeps sabotaging the contest along the way--stealing designs, hiding sample pieces, and tripping up the models. <P><P>Can the Clue Crew find the culprit before the River Heights fashion show is canceled
Designed for Love
by Kelsey BrowningBook four of Texas NightsAshton Davenport: Hot blonde. Old Money. Off-limits.That's how Mac McLaughlin sees her, anyway. And now that he's enduring a temporary self-imposed exile in tiny Shelbyville, Texas, he's seeing her way too often. Mac only wants to succeed as the contractor for the Lily Lake development in order to rebuild his reputation and return to Dallas, pronto. A sexy distraction like Ashton was not in the plans.Mac McLaughlin: Hot builder. Cash poor. Hands-on.Ashton kissed her trust fund goodbye and left her life as a society princess to prove she could make it on her own. Developing Lily Lake is her big chance, but it's hard to stay focused working side-by-side with bossy, rough-around-the-edges Mac. Especially when he pulls off his shirt.When the discovery of an endangered species derails the project, Mac can't afford to stick around for a stalled job. His and Ashton's explosive chemistry aside, he's outta there...unless she can convince him that they just might be able to build something together.86,000 words
Designed For Love
by Roseanne DowellFate, kismet, or whatever you want to call it is, it turned Interior Designer, Wendy Seidel’s world upside down. From a chance meeting at the airport to Florida and back to Ohio, she can’t believe the strange circumstances that throw her and Bill Johnson together, after he literally knocks her off her feet at the airport.
Designed to Death (The Faith Hunter Scrap This Mysteries #2)
by Christina FreeburnFaith Hunter planned the perfect event at her grandmother’s shop, Scrap This, featuring local scrapbooker and “Life Artist Diva” Belinda Watson. <P><P>But the extravaganza goes up in a cloud of glitter when Belinda and her cousin, Darlene, brawl over scraplifted designs. <P><P>Faith attempts to break it up, but only makes things worse. Then when Belinda turns up dead behind the store, Faith’s involvement goes viral. <P><P>As accusations against her turn vicious, Faith sets out to prove her nemesis, Darlene, committed the crime, only to realize they are both innocent. <P><P>Now they must team up or the murderer’s plan will come together seamlessly with the frenemies sharing a jail cell—or worse, a funeral.
Designed Words for a Designed World: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971
by Jamie HilderSometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments. Television, nuclear weapons, radio transistors, space travel, and colour photography all combined to drastically alter the representation of the world in the period following the Second World War. While never fully embraced as poetry or as visual art, and often criticized for an aesthetic that veers too close to commercial design, concrete poetry is an ambitious critical project that strives to break free of national languages and narrow literary traditions. Crossing national and disciplinary borders to highlight connections between poems and a variety of other cultural material, Jamie Hilder shows how the movement's international character predates and initiates some trends now associated with globalization. Hilder places concrete poetry alongside such transformative projects as the modernist city of Brasília, the development of computers, and the rise of conceptual art in order to accentuate its significance as one of the major poetic movements of the twentieth century. Heavily illustrated with examples of poems that exhibit the politically engaged, complex, and varied aspects of the movement, Designed Words for a Designed World illuminates how a group of poets fascinated by the possibilities of a rapidly transforming cultural geography operated within an emerging global imaginary.
Designed Words for a Designed World: The International Concrete Poetry Movement, 1955-1971
by Jamie HilderSometimes image, sometimes word, and often both or neither, concrete poetry emerged out of an era of groundbreaking social and technological developments. Television, nuclear weapons, radio transistors, space travel, and colour photography all combined to drastically alter the representation of the world in the period following the Second World War. While never fully embraced as poetry or as visual art, and often criticized for an aesthetic that veers too close to commercial design, concrete poetry is an ambitious critical project that strives to break free of national languages and narrow literary traditions. Crossing national and disciplinary borders to highlight connections between poems and a variety of other cultural material, Jamie Hilder shows how the movement's international character predates and initiates some trends now associated with globalization. Hilder places concrete poetry alongside such transformative projects as the modernist city of Brasília, the development of computers, and the rise of conceptual art in order to accentuate its significance as one of the major poetic movements of the twentieth century. Heavily illustrated with examples of poems that exhibit the politically engaged, complex, and varied aspects of the movement, Designed Words for a Designed World illuminates how a group of poets fascinated by the possibilities of a rapidly transforming cultural geography operated within an emerging global imaginary.
Designer Crimes (The Laura Di Palma Mysteries #5)
by Lia MateraA high-profile San Francisco lawyer scrambles to save her career, her client, and her life in this mystery by the author of Face Value.When a cash-cow client bails, attorney Laura Di Palma is certain her old boss is out to ruin her. She visits labor lawyer Jocelyn Kinsley to sue the creep for slander, but their meeting is cut short when Jocelyn is shot by an intruder. As she lays dying, she whispers a cryptic clue to Laura: &“Designer crimes.&”Assisted by her friend and former flame, private detective Sandy Arkelett, Laura searches for the meaning behind Jocelyn&’s last words. Meanwhile, she must defend her one remaining client, an old high school friend accused of murder. His girlfriend left town—a bucket of blood in her wake.Sandy wonders if the bullet that killed Jocelyn was meant for Laura, and when someone tries to shoot her, she begins to agree. Now, Laura must decipher who&’s out to kill whom and why—before someone makes certain her only client is her last . . .&“Complex and satisfying for Ms. Matera&’s faithful readers, who have come to expect such brain-burners from her.&” —The New York Times&“[Matera&’s] skill and literary flair are everywhere on display. Every word counts, and the pieces of the puzzle fit together with exhilarating precision.&” —ABA Journal &“Matera once again demonstrates her mastery of characterization, plotting, and pacing.&” —Booklist
Designer Crimes
by Lia MateraThey say that living well is the best revenge. But attorney Laura Di Palma may not have the opportunity to find out. Her former boss keeps trying to torpedo her new solo law practice, and when his slanders cost Laura her most important client, this lawyer decides to sue. But her case hasn't even begun when labor lawyer Jocelyn Kinsley is shot before her eyes. Uttering the dying words "designer crimes," Kinsley offers Di Palma the only clue to her slaying. With the help of private detective Sandy Arkelett, Laura's friend and former lover, she goes to work untangling Kinsley's cryptic words. Meanwhile, she's also defending a high school friend accused of a grisly murder, and trouble follows closely at her heels -- before long she is shot at, nearly blown up, and even arrested. Living well just may be the best revenge, but survival becomes Laura's first order of business. Unfortunately, her detours off the high road could cost her more than just her career....
Designer Drama
by Sheryl Berk Carrie BerkIs Mickey Williams about to become an international fashion phenomenon?! Mickey thought she'd gotten used to the heavy competition at the Fashion Academy of Brooklyn. But when the students of FAB get the chance to compete for a spot in an international fashion show, Mickey's ready to get tres fierce. Because the top two winners get to experience the holy grail of fashion: Paris Fashion Week. Mickey knows she's got what it takes to make it to Paris, especially with the support of BFF, JC, and her Apparel Arts teacher, Mr. Kaye. But Mickey's nemesis Jade wants it just as bad...and she'll do anything to get what she wants. Can Mickey push past Jade's selfish plans-and the pressure of representing FAB on the international stage-or will she have to kiss her dream au revior?
Designer Drama and Other Stories (Felicity Wishes)
by Emma ThomsonFelicity Wishes and her friends set up a fairy fashion club and make lots of new friends in these three short stories: Cinema Collision, Fashion Passion and Designer Drama.
Designer Knockoff
by Ellen ByerrumWhen fashion columnist Lacey Smithsonian learns that a new fashion museum will soon grace decidedly unfashionable D. C. , it's more than a good story-it's a chance to show off her vintage Hugh Bentley suit. And it's not long before the dapper designer himself spots Lacey in the crowd. A reporter at heart, she manages to get all the juicy details about his past-including a long-unsolved mystery about a missing employee. Could it be linked to the disappearance of a Washington intern or the recent Bentley boutique robbery? Lacey sets out to unravel the murderous details in a fabric of lies, greed-and (gasp!) very bad taste. . . .
The Designer's Secret (Small Town Secrets #2)
by Nina CrespoKeeping it buttoned up. Usually sensible Layla Price stuns herself when she spends the night with a handsome stranger. Blaming it on a freak rainstorm and Bastian Raynes&’s heroic rescue, Layla believes she&’ll never see him again. She&’s only in this small town to end some silly family feud. Except…Bastian&’s family is on the other end of that feud and Layla&’s hiding her real identity. Adding this new drama to the old, Layla should steer clear of the former military man. But can she? From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.Small Town SecretsBook 1: A Chef's KissBook 2: The Designer's Secret
Designing Fictions
by Michael L. RossAdvertising, long a controlling force in industrial society, has provoked an important body of imaginative work by English language writers. Michael Ross's Designing Fictions is the first study to investigate this symbiotic relationship on a broad scale. In view of the appreciable overlap between literary and promotional writing, Ross asks whether imaginative fiction has the latitude to critique advertising as an industry and as a literary form, and finds that intended critiques, time and again, turn out to be shot through with ambivalence. The texts considered include a wide range of books by British, American, and Canadian authors, from H.G. Wells's pioneering fictional treatment of mass marketing in Tono-Bungay (1909) to Joshua Ferris's depiction of a faltering Chicago agency in Then We Came to the End (2007). Along the way, among other examples, Ross discusses George Orwell's seriocomic study of the stand-off between poetry and advertising in his 1936 novel Keep the Aspidistra Flying and Margaret Atwood's probing of the impact of promotion on perception in The Edible Woman (1969). The final chapter of the book considers the popular television series Mad Men, where the tension between artistic and commercial pressures is especially acute. Written in a straightforward style for a wide audience of readers, Designing Fictions argues that the impact of advertising is universal and discussions of its significance should not be restricted to a narrow group of specialists.
Designing Hearts
by Robin StrachanFacing divorce—and new love—a successful designer rearranges her life in “a must for Nora Roberts fans looking for a stylish midlife romance” (Richard J. Levy). Jill Hennessy has a life any woman would envy. She’s an expert in Feng Shui with a flourishing interior design business, David, her handsome husband, is a celebrity talk show host, and her two adult sons have successful lives of their own. Then, Jill—and everyone else—learns that her “perfect” marriage is a perfect lie when a news flash exposes David’s affair with his young assistant. Her false sense of control is broken, and she finally sees the cracks in her husband’s shiny persona: his increasing distance from their family life, his self-absorption, and his flagrant disapproval of their gay son. As Jill struggles to come to terms with her new reality, David pours on the charm to win her back. But while David has always been difficult to resist, Jill also meets a new man who may be her true soulmate. An expert in arranging other people’s lives, it’s finally time for Jill to rearrange her own house in this “very entertaining and upbeat story about surviving divorce” (Lyn Farquhar, author of The Cottonwoods).
Designing Love: 2 Contemporary Romances
by Elley ArdenMeet the Corcarellis, a boisterous, bossy, big-hearted Italian clan, as they find love in this dynamic duo of romances, now specially priced.Family’s a blessing and a curse for the Corcarelli kids, whose best-laid plans are being blown to pieces by meddling relatives and high expectations. Everything may be going wrong for these siblings, but they may just be on the right path to love. Baby by Design: Tony Corcarelli forged his own path as the family’s black sheep, but now his dying Nonna is shamelessly pressuring him to choose between two paths he can’t fathom: a wife and kids or the priesthood. Trish DeVign is a successful interior designer, single by choice and satisfied…except for that ticking biological clock. When Trish asks her best friend’s brother, Tony, to escort her to a wedding, a night of fun and flirtation turns serious, with Trish confessing she wants a baby. Could a calculated conception be the answer they’ve both been looking for? Marriage by Design: When a new highway project will destroy the homes Angie Corcarelli’s family construction business built, she vows to protect their legacy—even if it means battling her best friend’s stuffy ex. Stuart Perrault needs the highway plans to restore his father’s faith in him and get him back on the CEO track. Falling for each other would mean disloyalty with a capital D. Are their feelings strong enough to warrant challenging their family ties? Sensuality Level: Sensual
Designing Women: 4 Contemporary Romances
by Alicia Hunter Pace Jennifer Lawler Elley Arden Ellen ButlerRomance fans won’t be able to resist these colorful stories of four designers who use their creativity to refresh their love lives.Simple Gone South: The last time Brantley Kincaid had an argument with someone, a loved one ended up in Merritt Cemetery. He’s high-strung enough about moving back home to the memories without running into his childhood playmate, Lucy Mead, who’s all grown up and designing the homes of everyone who matters in Merritt. But bringing the right balance to Brantley’s mess might be more than she can measure. Enlisted by Love: Ex-army officer Matthew Blake is eager to start a new career, until he comes up against the most challenging obstacle he’s ever encountered: Greta Ferguson, the interior designer who challenges his every order. Will stubbornness spell curtains for what could be a dynamic relationship? Baby by Design: Tony Corcarelli’s dying nonna is shamelessly pressuring him to choose a wife and kids or the priesthood. Trish DeVign is a successful interior designer, single by choice and satisfied…except for that ticking biological clock. When she asks Tony to escort her to a wedding, a night of fun and flirtation turns serious. Maybe a calculated conception is the answer they’ve both been looking for. Heart of Design: The tabloids portray flirtatious Ian O’Connor as Hollywood’s latest playboy, but Sophie Hartland is just there to renovate his bedroom, not become another notch on his bedpost. Yet Ian finds her a refreshing change from the actress wannabes trying to hop aboard his new gravy train of success. Can Sophie ignore her traitorous libido—and, more importantly, can she protect her heart in this game of wills? Sensuality Level: Sensual