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The Imperfect Marriage: Help for Those Who Think It's Over
by Darryl Strawberry Tracy Strawberry A J GregoryA marriage guidebook for the not-so-perfect marriage--filled with extremely candid, practical, and biblically based principles--proven to make any relationship successful.Darryl and Tracy Strawberry admit they have "made every possible mistake you can make in marriage." Together, this devoted couple has suffered through--and survived--adultery, addiction, financial destruction, and many other all-too-familiar struggles. A no-holds-barred account of their personal journey, The Imperfect Marriage provides a step-by-step program that will help you and your partner understand the key issues that could be causing damage in your relationship and recognize turning points on the journey toward marriage restoration. Darryl and Tracy Strawberry know firsthand what it takes to make it through the battle and how to come out victorious. Beginning with putting God at the center, their words will inspire you to transform your marriage into an enduring and vital relationship. The Strawberrys keep it real and preach it real. They deal with real people, real problems, and offer solutions for the present. Through candid anecdotes, a great deal of self-awareness, and a true sense of honesty, Darryl and Tracy offer the vision, encouragement, and practical advice that every healthy marriage needs in order to thrive. Whether you and your partner are looking to heal a broken relationship, or avoid the mistakes that doomed a past one, The Imperfect Marriage offers the guidance and wisdom you need to make your marriage a success.
An Imperfect Match
by Kimberly Van MeterWidower Dean Halvorsen is concentrating on just two things: his construction business and raising his teenage son. He doesn't really care about anything else. Not anymore. Then Annabelle Nichols comes to Emmett's Mill, California, with her baby daughter, Honey. Before Dean quite knows how, Annabelle is working in his office and turning his world upside down. Still, the more time he spends with Annabelle and Honey, the more he realizes what's missing in his life. But Annabelle is all wrong for him. Of course, when something--or someone!--is all wrong, that doesn't mean things won't work out just right.
An Imperfect Proposal
by Hayley Ann SolomonWith two young nieces now in his charge, the Earl of Devonport is quite suddenly in need of a wife--and kind, gentle Amaryllis Hastings fits the bill nicely. His marriage will be nothing more than a convenience, after all--but his "retiring" bride surprises him at every turn, especially when he discovers that she has stolen his heart!Previously published in A Wife for Papa.
Imperfect Stranger
by Elizabeth OldfieldAppearances can be deceptive...As a stranger, Flynn had just one imperfection: an overriding obsession with secrecy. Danielle was intrigued-dangerously sexy, Flynn had awakened more than her journalistic curiosity. She sensed a story; she also sensed trouble. The problem was, the more involved she got, the less convinced Danielle was that she was chasing the story and not Flynn! Was she falling for a man who didn't even trust her with his last name?
The Imperfection of Swans
by Brandon WittKevin Bivanti's dream is to open a wedding dress shop, a place with the stunning gowns to make every bride-to-be feel adored. At thirty-eight, he quits a successful advertising career to buy an old brownstone in a trendy Boston neighborhood and to make his dream a reality. When one of his cosigners drops out, fate intervenes, ushering in Casper James, who hopes to open his own bakery. With Casper willing to take the risk, their ambitions meld into a wedding dress and wedding cake boutique. Extensive renovations to the brownstone, an affair with his ex-husband, family drama with his mothers, and the anxiety of significant life changes push Kevin to the brink of a nervous breakdown. In the midst of stress and uncertainty, Casper becomes more than a business partner, a mutual attraction that adds another layer of intensity and risk. With their dreams on the verge of reality, Kevin and Casper must find the courage to face the stress of managing their attraction, the gamble of a new business venture, and the resurgence of Kevin's personal demons.
ImPerfectly Happy
by Sharina HarrisWhen four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals—but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can&’t help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to be—and how to get them back . . . Radio personality Raina, known as &“the black Delilah,&” hates the wholesome persona that&’s made her a success. Doling out syrupy versions of her grandma&’s wisdom feels worlds away from the sarcastic, tell-it-like-it-is woman Raina really is. Kara Jones was sure she&’d be a master sommelier by thirty. Life and loss interfered with that plan. Now she has one more chance—but it&’s taking a toll on her self-esteem and her marriage. Nikki Grayson hardly recognizes the stay-at-home mom she&’s become. When her band signed a record deal, she swapped the limelight for a minivan and a sensible &’do. Now she&’s wishing she had followed her heart. Instead, she&’s drowning her regret in alcohol. Public defender Sienna Njeri willingly put her city council aspirations aside to support her fiancé&’s bid for office—and now she&’s wondering if her loyalty is misplaced. Longing for the support, advice, and tough love they once shared, all four resolve to start meeting up again. After all, their dreams may still be within reach. But are they worth the price they&’ll pay to achieve them? Visit us at www.kensingtonbooks.com
Imperial Concubine Chaos World: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Yun ShangShe was the unfavoured daughter of a small clan. He was the prince of the Southern Lion Country, and his ancestors were all generals. If she were to marry him, would his sickly heart be able to change his hatred towards her?
Imperial Concubine Coming to Life: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qian XiaoWeiRanHe had stolen the tomb, but somehow, it had become the corpse of a woman in a coffin. Worst of all, this body had brought him, a pure man, back to a thousand years ago. Can't a man live by becoming a woman? See how he plays with the dynasty!
Imperial Concubine Coming to Life: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Qian XiaoWeiRanHe had stolen the tomb, but somehow, it had become the corpse of a woman in a coffin. Worst of all, this body had brought him, a pure man, back to a thousand years ago. Can't a man live by becoming a woman? See how he plays with the dynasty!
The Imperial Concubine in Palace (Volume 1 #1)
by Yu Xiaoxiao"You, a mere palace maid, actually dares to seduce the Emperor. You better teach me the rules!" The empress said in a cold voice as she dug the tip of her long armor into the flesh of Lin Ange's chin. He had no intention of being a prisoner, but the empress had misunderstood him and wanted him dead. His life hung by a thread. The Emperor's tyrannical love had wanted to give her protection, but it had pushed her to the heart of the struggle! "Queen!" If you don't want to suffer and force me, then I will definitely not continue to live with humiliation! "If I die today, I will be repaid a hundred times in the future, if my Emperor were to show mercy to me, I will pay you back a hundred times!" She swore a cold oath to the closed red lacquer door. Under the torrential rain, she staggered and fainted … The door did not open. Two years later, Lin Ange had destroyed all the powers in the imperial court and left her alone in the imperial harem! The empress held up her three feet long white collar, regretting her actions. However, she only saw her smiling as she approached, with the phoenix hairpin on her forehead and the phoenix hairpin on her body …
Imperial Concubine Punishes Bad Men: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qu HuoshuiA day rob let two fairy bearing eternal curse in the earth eternal an emotional betrayal let her regardless of the cost through the past life this life only with the third party a competition the princess of the golden branches and jade leaves suddenly be true fight with man fight with heaven enemy but fight with own conscience won the surface scenery but lost the personality and dignity he and he are brothers political rivals and romantic rivals against ethics what do they get after all she and she several times struggle in the edge of life and death paid all the price only for man can conquer the day
Imperial Concubine Punishes Bad Men: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Qu HuoshuiA day rob let two fairy bearing eternal curse in the earth eternal an emotional betrayal let her regardless of the cost through the past life this life only with the third party a competition the princess of the golden branches and jade leaves suddenly be true fight with man fight with heaven enemy but fight with own conscience won the surface scenery but lost the personality and dignity he and he are brothers political rivals and romantic rivals against ethics what do they get after all she and she several times struggle in the edge of life and death paid all the price only for man can conquer the day
Imperial Consort Has An Affair: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qiang FeiAn encounter from the country of the most tender feelings of the emperor life and death to seize the guard beauty dismissed haigong only for a heart from the country s most free and easy king loyal to the family loyal to love independence not from the white head ten li red makeup imperial ritual he murong yu ning is not the same as the emperor but he can give the trench coat if a complete love long hair and waist wang ye green crown he is not the same wang ye rong cangfeng but he can give lou blue unswerving love through thick and thin who will remember the oath who still remember the love eyebrow such as far pianifahong if the windbreaker carefully guarded his heart but still lost in the first feng huang autumn water cut eyes strange elves lou lan love will become the love of her life or become the pain can not be erased
Imperial Harem: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Qing AnnuanxiaUnbeknownst to them, their feelings went deep …A conservative and enlightened era.Shen Yu painted the pioneer woman who kicked out her ex-husband in the newspaper.She only wanted to live the rest of her life in peace.However, all of this was destroyed by a single man.Feng Jiutan, who was always cold and detached, held half of the mountain in his hands. Yet, he kept pressing down on her, this lowly woman, in an attempt to steal from her.
Imperial Harem: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Qing AnnuanxiaUnbeknownst to them, their feelings went deep …A conservative and enlightened era.Shen Yu painted the pioneer woman who kicked out her ex-husband in the newspaper.She only wanted to live the rest of her life in peace.However, all of this was destroyed by a single man.Feng Jiutan, who was always cold and detached, held half of the mountain in his hands. Yet, he kept pressing down on her, this lowly woman, in an attempt to steal from her.
Imperial Love: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by ZhenyinfangHe is the eldest son of the Li family. He is the most popular man under the emperor's feet. He is the Prime Minister of the royal government. She is the orphan of the decaying Chen family. Originally her mother was a concubine, but her family was ruined.Li Wenjun, the high spirited prime minister, took the army to the west to wipe out the thieves, but was persecuted by the minister, which led to the death of 30000 troops. Without any evidence, he planned to die and thank huangen. He jumped down from the cliff and was saved by her. At last, he let Li Wenjun abandon the prime minister and spend his whole life with her.
Imperial Nanny: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xin Yuep p tang mi s birth has not yet months her husband gave her a big surprise because prostitution was detained the husband came back and the baby just one month old died of congenital heart disease p p tang mixin was suddenly empty the original happy home overnight all gone in the evening of a thunderstorm tang mi rushed out of the house and was struck by lightning all her husband saw was lightning after the lightning tang mi disappeared from the world tang mi thought that he had arrived in hell but he did not think that a flash of lightning had brought her to a strange dynasty and she was dressed next to a baby the worst thing is that the house is full of people everyone stared at her as she fell from the sky to the crib looking at a group of ancient women tang mi felt dizzy and passed two words through her mind
Imperial Plot: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Nian ChanThere was a saying that was widely spread throughout the capital.Admissions do not provoke Suze, thousand gold can not see Zhong Miaoyi.He was a powerful courtier, a deceitful courtier with a single hand.It was also the only thing she could rely on in this world."Miaoyi, you're a playboy." He had personally deceived everyone by putting on a beautiful facade for her.When use, betrayal, and hatred came.She spilled her blood on the palace walls and bathed in fire.It was a heart-piercing sword that had been specially prepared for him in this mortal world's purgatory.
Imperial Plot: Volume 2 (Volume 2 #2)
by Nian ChanThere was a saying that was widely spread throughout the capital.Admissions do not provoke Suze, thousand gold can not see Zhong Miaoyi.He was a powerful courtier, a deceitful courtier with a single hand.It was also the only thing she could rely on in this world."Miaoyi, you're a playboy." He had personally deceived everyone by putting on a beautiful facade for her.When use, betrayal, and hatred came.She spilled her blood on the palace walls and bathed in fire.It was a heart-piercing sword that had been specially prepared for him in this mortal world's purgatory.
Imperial Plot: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Nian ChanThere was a saying that was widely spread throughout the capital.Admissions do not provoke Suze, thousand gold can not see Zhong Miaoyi.He was a powerful courtier, a deceitful courtier with a single hand.It was also the only thing she could rely on in this world."Miaoyi, you're a playboy." He had personally deceived everyone by putting on a beautiful facade for her.When use, betrayal, and hatred came.She spilled her blood on the palace walls and bathed in fire.It was a heart-piercing sword that had been specially prepared for him in this mortal world's purgatory.
Imperial Plot: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Nian ChanThere was a saying that was widely spread throughout the capital.Admissions do not provoke Suze, thousand gold can not see Zhong Miaoyi.He was a powerful courtier, a deceitful courtier with a single hand.It was also the only thing she could rely on in this world."Miaoyi, you're a playboy." He had personally deceived everyone by putting on a beautiful facade for her.When use, betrayal, and hatred came.She spilled her blood on the palace walls and bathed in fire.It was a heart-piercing sword that had been specially prepared for him in this mortal world's purgatory.
Imperial President Dotes on Me: Volume 1 (Volume 1 #1)
by Xue WeiyangHe drank a bottle of wine in his room in a daze and ate it for the first time. However, after he finished eating and wiped her clean, he actually didn't let go and only shamelessly asked her to drink again and again.
Imperial Scandal (The Rannoch Fraser Mysteries #4)
by Teresa GrantAs two countries prepare for war, the whirl of revelry hides unimaginable deceit. Nights waltzing at candlelit balls…champagne-filled picnics on golden afternoons…When Napoleon's escape from Elba puts the Congress of Vienna into chaos, Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch and his wife, Suzanne, remove to Brussels where the Duke of Wellington is preparing for battle. They find the city, on the verge of war, seemingly bent on pleasure. But one night Malcolm slips away from one of the endless round of lavish balls to meet with a fellow spy. Gunfire interrupts their meeting and claims an unexpected victim. No one knows what Lady Julia Ashton, the demure wife of a British officer, was doing at the château where Malcolm and his fellow British spy are ambushed. But now her enigmatic life has ended in an equally mysterious death. As the conflict with Napoleon marches toward Waterloo, and Brussels surrenders to bedlam, Suzanne and Malcolm search for the truth. The secrets behind Lady Julia's life and death lead them into an intricate labyrinth of secrets and betrayals in which no one can be trusted…not even a spouse. "A brilliantly multilayered mystery and a must-read for fans of the Regency era." --Publishers Weekly
Imperial Stout (Trouble Brewing #1)
by Layla ReyneLayla Reyne spins off from her pulse-pounding Agents Irish and Whiskey books with Imperial Stout, the first installment in the Trouble Brewing seriesIt’s a good thing assistant US attorney Dominic Price co-owns a brewery. He could use a cold one. Nic’s star witness has just been kidnapped, his joint operation with the FBI is in jeopardy, his father’s shady past is catching up with him and the hot new special agent in San Francisco is the kind of distraction best handled with a stiff drink.Kidnap and rescue expert Cameron Byrne has his own ideas about how to handle Nic, but his skills are currently needed elsewhere. The by-the-book FBI agent goes deep undercover as a member of an infamous heist crew in order to save Nic’s witness, break up the crew and close the case before anyone else gets hurt. Nic in particular. Things heat up when Cam falls for Nic, and the witness falls for Cam. As the crew’s suspicions grow, Cam must decide how far he’s willing to go—and how far into his own dark past he’s willing to dive—to get everyone out alive.This book is approximately 62,000 wordsOne-click with confidence. This title is part of the Carina Press Romance Promise: all the romance you’re looking for with an HEA/HFN. It’s a promise!Carina Press acknowledges the editorial services of Deborah Nemeth
An Imperialist Love Story: Desert Romances and the War on Terror
by Amira JarmakaniA curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called "desert romances." Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres. Instructor's Guide