Mocha Pleasures

Mocha Pleasures
Author: Pamela Yaye
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488003653

Trusting in the sweetness of love Jackson Drayson has never been one to stick to the rules—or resist a dare. So when he's challenged to jump-start a patisserie that rivals his cousins' shop, Lillian's of Chicago, he's all in. Between his good looks, captivating manner and newly discovered gift for innovative cake designs, Jackson is soon winning over legions of customers, including Grace Nicholas. The willowy, reserved master baker is also Jack's chief competition—and the one woman who seems immune to his legendary charms. The delectable desserts she creates at her family's leading Seattle bakery are all the temptation Grace needs in her life. A lover's betrayal has made her wary of trusting another man. But Jackson can be so passionately persuasive…until Grace is accused of stealing his shop's top secret recipe. Torn between loyalty and love, will Grace make the decision that can assure her a lifetime of sinfully sweet pleasure?

Mocha

Mocha
Author: Michael Turback
Publisher: Ten Speed Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2013-02-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0307762262

Coffee and chocolate combined have a complementary effect, which means drinking a mocha wakes you up and puts you in a good mood. High-quality chocolate, strong coffee, and a big mug--basic tools of the trade for Mocha, the sophisticated follow-up to Michael Turback's best-selling Hot Chocolate. Presented in a compact yet luxurious collection, Mocha offers nearly sixty recipes featuring the companionable ingredients of chocolate and coffee. Ranging from cozy cocoa concoctions to caffeinated couture combinations, recipes include hot drinks (the Triple Chocolate Maple Passion hails from Toronto, where they know how to heat things up); cold, refreshing classics (the Black-and-White Espresso Milkshake is almost a meal); creative cocktails (Chocolate-Espresso Martini, anyone?); and outrageous desserts (the Mocha-Java Cheesecake is the richest and smoothest cheesecake ever). Recipe contributors include notable chocolatiers, popular coffee purveyors, preeminent restaurant chefs, and a competitive cadre of coffeehouse baristas.

Pleasure at Midnight & His Pick for Passion

Pleasure at Midnight & His Pick for Passion
Author: Pamela Yaye
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488034338

PLEASURE AT MIDNIGHT Sent to Madrid to talk his firm’s top client out of canceling her tour, Roderick Drake quickly realizes pop star Genevieve Harris isn’t the diva he pictured. In fact, she’s irresistible. Genevieve wants a life away from the paparazzi—shared with the gorgeous lawyer who fulfills her in every way. Faced with devastating betrayal, can she trust her emotions and the sensual music they make together? HIS PICK FOR PASSION On and off the court, professional basketball player Will Hampton scores easily. Then he’s dared to seduce his sister’s best friend—the only woman who’s never fallen for his game. Marketing exec Erin Fry has transformed from tomboy to stunning beauty, but she doubts Will can change his ways. One mind-blowing night puts their hearts in play, but can Erin let her guard down—and let love in?

The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook

The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook
Author: Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Total Pages: 123
Release: 2009-03-15
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 1401924980

From the New York Times bestselling author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook picks up where The Secret Pleasures of Menopause left off. In this companion volume (which Dr. Christiane Northrup calls a “playbook” as opposed to a workbook), scores of midlife women share the nitty-gritty details about how they incorporate the fun, pleasurable,and health-enhancing ideas outlined in Secret Pleasures into their own lives. Their glowing, poignant, insightful, straight-from-the-heart stories beautifully illustrate the empowering truth that daring to expand joy and pleasure in your life (despite what our culture teaches us) is actually the key to creating vibrant health physically, emotionally, and spiritually—including enjoying the best sex of your life! But that’s just the beginning. This Playbook is designed as your personal guide to deliberately attracting and experiencing more health-giving, life-sustaining joy and pleasure into your own life. At the end of each chapter, Dr. Northrup provides space for you to choose options, record your own ideas, and then commit to creating your own personal heaven on earth.

Seduced by the Bachelor

Seduced by the Bachelor
Author: Pamela Yaye
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488013535

A game of seduction Tatiyana Washington will do whatever it takes to right a wrong for her beloved sister…even if it means deceiving one of LA's most celebrated attorneys. Flirting with elegant, sexy Markos Morretti on a Florida-bound plane is the first step. The irresistible Italian plays right into her hands when he invites her to be his guest at a celebrity-studded charity golf tournament. Spending a sizzling weekend together is a perk Tatiyana didn't expect. Too bad it can never lead to anything permanent. The wealthy Hollywood divorce lawyer splits couples up for a living. Yet once he meets Tatiyana, all Markos wants is to lavish her with all his passion. And once he discovers they have met under false pretenses, he only desires her more. Markos vows that two can play at this game, until a brewing political scandal threatens to make his career ambitions crash and burn. Faced with an impossible decision, will he choose the promise of love?

The Pleasures of Autumn

The Pleasures of Autumn
Author: Evie Hunter
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241966671

The Pleasures of Autumn is another hot-hot-hot tale of romantic obsession and explosive sexual chemistry from bestelling erotica author Evie Hunter, a novel that fans of Sylvia Day, Kitty French and E.L. James will love and devour. When museum curator Sinead O'Sullivan is charged with stealing the Fire of Autumn, a dazzling ruby with a history of violence and treachery, bail is set at one million Swiss francs. Investigator Niall Moore is hired to stop her fleeing and to find the jewel. Their sexual chemistry is electric but logic says to ignore it. Desperate as she is to convince Niall of her innocence, Sinead cannot reveal everything she knows. And the feisty red-head's improbable tale tells him that she is not to be trusted. Yet it's impossible to ignore the carnal heat between them. Niall, an expert interrogator, uses every trick of the trade - and every weapon in his erotic armoury - to get at the truth. Sinead, a fast learner, counters his every move with one of her own. Thief and thief-taker fight for dominance and there can be only one winner. But what happens in their red-hot game of cat-and-mouse when criminals chasing the precious jewel come after Sinead ... and the stakes become deadly? If you're new to Evie, well you're in for a delicious treat . . . __________ PRAISE FOR EVIE HUNTER: 'A BDSM MASTERPIECE' Sunday World 'A MUST-READ IF YOU ENJOYED FIFTY SHADES OF GREY' Daily Star 'Better written than E.L. James and a more exciting read than any of Sylvia Day's books' Irish Independent

It's a Pleasure

It's a Pleasure
Author: Virpi Mikkonen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2016-09-13
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1681881098

A delightful cookbook of decadent sweets and homemade treats that taste great, look beautiful, and have good health in mind. This enticing collection features easy recipes, made from high-quality, nutritious ingredients, for fabulous desserts that are gluten-free, dairy-free, and refined-sugar-free. With this inspiring book, award-winning Finnish author Virpi Mikkonen shows how easy it is to make sweet treats a truly enjoyable—and guilt-free—pleasure. It’s a Pleasure: Sweet Treats without Gluten, Dairy, and Refined Sugar is a gorgeous guide to making delicious and wholesome desserts at home without sacrificing flavor. Featuring candies, cakes, pies, and more, the appealing recipes—such as gingerbread chocolate, cookie ice cream with salty peanuts, and cardamom-vanilla donuts—offer great-tasting, guilt-free pleasure and are suited for entertaining, gift giving, or everyday snacking. Find inspiration for chocolate and candies, cakes and pies, ice creams and sorbets, jams, frostings and more! Recipes include: sea salt toffee bites; vanilla stars with chocolate hearts; frosty banana cake; blueberry cream cake; mango-melon sorbet cake; tiramisu ice cream cake; fig fudge; and licorice truffles.

A Los Angeles Rendezvous

A Los Angeles Rendezvous
Author: Pamela Yaye
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2018-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488082162

The woman he’s never considered… Might be the only one he’ll ever need Jada Allen’s Christmas wishlist is simple: her gorgeous boss. A-list talent agent Max Moore counts on Jada to handle his life—and help him get through to his tween daughter. Yet workaholic Max never really notices her until a makeover reveals the vibrant woman he’s taken for granted. Will one hot night shatter their working relationship or lead to something far sweeter?

Pleasure Island

Pleasure Island
Author: Robert McLaughlin
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738564609

Billed as Boston's answer to Disneyland, Pleasure Island opened on June 22, 1959. William Hawkes, president of Childlife Magazine, and executives at Cabot, Cabot and Forbes collaborated with Marco Engineering of Los Angeles to build what was called the "Disneyland of the East." Pleasure Island rose from the wetlands off of Route 128 into an 80-acre theme park. Through photographs, Pleasure Island recalls memories of boat rides to Pirate Cove, searching for the great white whale, driving a Jenney car, getting dizzy in the Slanty Shanty, and taking a ride on Old Smoky. At Pleasure Island, children and children at heart entered into a world that traditional amusement parks could not provide, where character actors continually put on a show and the entire park was the stage.

Empty Pleasures

Empty Pleasures
Author: Carolyn de la Peña
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0807879673

Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the 1893 World's Fair. In Empty Pleasures, the first history of artificial sweeteners in the United States, Carolyn de la Pena blends popular culture with business and women's history, examining the invention, production, marketing, regulation, and consumption of sugar substitutes such as saccharin, Sucaryl, NutraSweet, and Splenda. She describes how saccharin, an accidental laboratory by-product, was transformed from a perceived adulterant into a healthy ingredient. As food producers and pharmaceutical companies worked together to create diet products, savvy women's magazine writers and editors promoted artificially sweetened foods as ideal, modern weight-loss aids, and early diet-plan entrepreneurs built menus and fortunes around pleasurable dieting made possible by artificial sweeteners. NutraSweet, Splenda, and their predecessors have enjoyed enormous success by promising that Americans, especially women, can "have their cake and eat it too," but Empty Pleasures argues that these "sweet cheats" have fostered troubling and unsustainable eating habits and that the promises of artificial sweeteners are ultimately too good to be true.