Be My Valentine

Be My Valentine
Author: Palmer Jones
Publisher: Sweet Blooms Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2023-02-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

She kissed a stranger on Valentine’s Day. To most women, that probably wasn’t a big deal. But for Chelsea Henderson, it was everything. The type of moment she read about in romance books. A perfect fantasy when that tall, handsome stranger pulled her into his arms, told her she was beautiful, and kissed her in the moonlight until her insides ached for more. Granted, it was to prove a point to his clingy ex, but aside from that minor detail, their kiss, her first kiss since high school, was absolute perfection. A picture-perfect way to start her new life and job after leaving the Army with more internal than external scars to show for her time in service. But her mystery man with a gorgeous smile and strong shoulders doesn’t remain anonymous for long. It’s Blake Rossi. Self-made millionaire. Co-owner of Rossi Construction. And to make her embarrassment complete, he returns to Virginia expecting to resume his position as the company’s accountant. Too bad his family failed to let him know they gave away his job...to Chelsea. Be My Valentine is the fourth book in the Rossi Family Series. It’s a contemporary romance about a woman finding her way after nearly two decades in the military, a man discovering love again, and a hilarious family who gets into the middle of everything.

Friends Forever: The Girls of Harbor View Collection

Friends Forever: The Girls of Harbor View Collection
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: Zonderkidz
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2016-06-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0310754038

From bestselling author Melody Carlson comes a series about four friends determined to change their lives … and their world: Morgan, Amy, Carlie, and Emily—The Girls of Harbor View. Each of the eight ebooks in this complete collection contains unique stories about the girls, their friendship and faith, and their desires to make their lives and their world a better place. Girl Power: The four friends meet and band together against some local bullies. In doing so, they decide to work together to transform and rejuvenate the trailer park where they live—only to have their work destroyed. Mystery Bus: The girls’ trailer park renovations are rewarded when the landlord gives them an old, abandoned bus to fix up and use as a clubhouse—where they discover old albums, journals, and secrets someone left behind. Rescue Chelsea: When Carlie invites a new girl to join the club, no one seems safe from the backstabbing, betrayal, and hurt. The girls must somehow rescue their friendships before the group is destroyed forever. Take Charge: When vandals wreck the local park, the authorities threaten to turn it into a parking lot. The girls take action to save it, but a powerful woman with unknown intentions may ruin everything. Raising Faith: Morgan trusts God to provide her ski trip funds and works hard to earn the needed money. But when everything blocks her efforts, from her school activities to her grandmother’s life-threatening heart attack, it’s a test of faith against the odds. Run Away: As the ski trip nears, Emily’s mom flees her abusive ex-husband and whisks Emily away to somewhere unknown. The girls fear for their friend as Emily struggles with hard lessons in forgiveness. Ski Trip: The girls finally hit the slopes, but events take a downturn when some of them go completely boy crazy. Carlie, however, won’t have anything to do with the boys—or her flirtatious friends. Instead, she gets obsessed with snowboarding, and only after a dangerous accident do the girls discover what really matters in relationships. Secret Admirer: Valentine’s Day approaches, and along with it the school dance. Amy has a secret admirer leaving her notes, and she mistakenly sets her heart on the wrong boy. When her crush becomes public, Amy is devastated and humiliated. Her world falls apart, until she concocts a plan to transform the day.

Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop

Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop
Author: Vernon Joynson
Publisher: Borderline Productions
Total Pages: 735
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1899855254

Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop is an excellent comprehensive guide to the development of both genres in the UK. It includes detailed discographies, personnel details, biographies, analysis of their music and, where applicable, rarity ratings for all the 80s and 90s acts featured. You’ll recognise some names but several less well known acts are included too. There’s also a detailed postscript section on the re-emergence of Shoegaze and Dream Pop in the UK in the 21st century and the bands involved in it. This book is the latest in a quartet of books Vernon has written about UK music commencing with the Two Volume Tapestry of Delights (2014), A Sharp Shock To The System (2019) and The Britpop Bible (2022). These three previous titles appeared in print but in view of the cost of living crisis Discover UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop has been published digitally to reduce the retail price and make it affordable for more of you. You will discover a lot about UK Shoegaze and Dream Pop from this book, which is profusely illustrated throughout. There is nothing similar out there!

XML Schemas

XML Schemas
Author: Chelsea Valentine
Publisher: Sybex
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2006-07-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0782152449

Whether it is used for web development, creating documentation, or exchanging data between business partners, XML continues to grow in importance as a highly flexible document-design and data-modeling tool. Despite the limitations of using SGML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) to define document structures, XML has made inroads wherever data must flow among disparate platforms. The Schema specification has achieved W3C recommendation status, providing an alternative to DTDs that enables you to precisely structure XML data. But using the Schema Language does more than provide a more powerful way of defining data; it's also a better way because it uses XML's structure, syntax, and namespaces, instead of those derived from the complex SGML. XML Schemas introduces you to this elegant new technology, which brings the power of data modeling and data structuring to XML. A truly practical book has to give you more than just the details on syntax and semantics, examples of constructs and datatypes, and instruction in standard procedures. You get all that, but you'll also find lots of expert tips and techniques for document modeling, all reinforced with practical, real-world examples. Even as you're discovering the advantages of XML Schema, you'll learn about the continuing use of DTDs. In some situations -- when designing document-oriented XML, for example -- DTDs might still be the way to go. You'll learn about visual XML Schema tools, but you'll also see how setting out armed with just a text editor gives you insights you might not acquire otherwise. It won't be long before you're developing your own XML Schema documents, using the power of XML to structure data for seamless, cross-platform exchange.

Chelsea's Doom

Chelsea's Doom
Author: Jamee Pilant
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2004-03-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1410727785

At seventeen, Chelsea King is kidnapped while walking to a friends house in a small Wyoming town. Ransom does not seem to be the reason for her kidnapping, nor does rape. Days later, she begins to understand that the men who hold her are members of a mafia. The man who ordered her abduction wants nothing more than to see her die. It is only her kidnappers growing infatuation for her that keeps this from happening. Chelsea is locked inside a luxurious apartment, surrounded by men of the mafia, many of them vulgar and cruel. One of them belongs to a sinister cult and wishes to use her as a human sacrifice. Another runs an exclusive gambling establishment that conveniently supplies customers with young, pretty girls. Escape comes welcome but unexpected, yet Chelsea is not happy. She is torn between love for her family and love for the gangster who once stole her. When he falls into danger she is faced with a difficult decision. Is she brave enough to risk her freedom in order to save him?

Chelsea and the Alien Invasion

Chelsea and the Alien Invasion
Author: Hilda Stahl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 1993
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780891077497

Chelsea's neighbor Colin has proof that aliens have visited the Earth and are planning to invade. He claims that the aluminum and plastic object he found at the "landing site" is from a space ship. When Colin gives Chelsea and her brother a movie about aliens--which they aren't supposed to watch--they are caught by their parents, who encourage them to discuss their fears.

4 Sleuths & A Bachelorette

4 Sleuths & A Bachelorette
Author: Diana Orgain
Publisher: LMAO Press
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 199949816X

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Four USA Today bestselling authors team up to bring you your favorite female sleuths in a hilarious new mystery series!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tonight is Babette Lang’s bachelorette party. Problem is, there’s no bachelorette, only an unusual group of disgruntled guests—a wannabe hand-model bartender, a chain-smoking talent agent, the bride-to-be’s cheapskate boss, plus the sloshed fiancé and his furious sisters. It’s not a party until there’s a body! When one of the guests drops dead, four women with a tendency for trouble join forces to catch a killer. Valentine Beaumont ~ Boston sleuth and gutsy beautician Kate Connolly ~ San Francisco part-time crime-solver and sleep-deprived new mom Merry Wrath ~ Iowa ex-CIA operative turned Girl Scout leader Franki Amato ~ New Orleans PI and victim of a serial-matchmaking Sicilian nonna Will these sleuths untangle this double mystery and save the party? Or is it already too late? **This murder mystery series contains no profanity or graphic descriptions of sex or violence.**

Watch Us Rise

Watch Us Rise
Author: Renée Watson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-02-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1547600098

"This stunning book is the story I've been waiting for my whole life; where girls rise up to claim their space with joy and power.” --Laurie Halse Anderson, New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of Speak "An extraordinary story of two indomitable spirits." --Brendan Kiely, New York Times bestselling co-author of All American Boys and Tradition "Timely, thought-provoking, and powerful." --Julie Murphy, New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin' Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Award-winning author Renée Watson teams up with poet Ellen Hagan in this YA feminist anthem about raising your voice. Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends on a mission--they're sick of the way women are treated even at their progressive NYC high school, so they decide to start a Women's Rights Club. They post their work online--poems, essays, videos of Chelsea performing her poetry, and Jasmine's response to the racial microaggressions she experiences--and soon they go viral. But with such positive support, the club is also targeted by trolls. When things escalate in real life, the principal shuts the club down. Not willing to be silenced, Jasmine and Chelsea will risk everything for their voices--and those of other young women--to be heard. These two dynamic, creative young women stand up and speak out in a novel that features their compelling art and poetry along with powerful personal journeys that will inspire readers and budding poets, feminists, and activists. Acclaim for Piecing Me Together 2018 Newbery Honor Book 2018 Coretta Scott King Author Award 2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Young Adult Finalist "Timely and timeless." --Jacqueline Woodson, award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming "Watson, with rhythm and style, somehow gets at . . . the life-changing power of voice and opportunity." --Jason Reynolds, NYT-bestselling author of Long Way Down "Brilliant." --John Green, New York Times bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars * “Teeming with compassion and insight." --Publishers Weekly, starred review * "A timely, nuanced, and unforgettable story about the power of art, community, and friendship." --Kirkus , starred review * "A nuanced meditation on race, privilege, and intersectionality." --SLJ, starred review

Casual Conversations about Love and Murder

Casual Conversations about Love and Murder
Author: Chelsea Mueller
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781732656468

What would you do if your best friend died? What if she'd betrayed you hours earlier?Emma's nights are haunted by the twisted sight of her friend's body in Stone Lake. Others in the sleepy town of Camber slap an accident label on the death and call it a day. Emma can't. It hurts too much to leave it alone.Proving the drowning was murder isn't easy. The sheriff stonewalls her, her friends want her to leave it alone, and her parents are too busy bickering to worry over much else.Cole's mistrust for corporations and government hasn't made him many friends in town, but his willingness to believe Emma makes him her strongest ally. Together they'll dig into the town's past-and their own-to get to the truth.Even if it brings more danger to their doorsteps.