One Week In Venice With The CEO - Kate Hardy One week to save her palazzo...and heal her heart! Penniless Contessa Serafina Ardizzone needs to rebuild her family's crumbling palazzo in Venice, and she has just one week to persuade handsome CEO Gianni Leto to help! Neither are looking for anything more than a business relationship, this is strictly professional! But as Venice casts its spell, and they dance under the moonlight in St Mark's Square, romance is in the air...can the next seven days together change their lives -- forever? Baby Surprise For The Millionaire - Ruby Basu The consequence...of their Maltese nights! Hotel tycoon Nathan Haynes isn't just Saira Dey's first love...he's her best friend's brother! So a reunion at his sister's engagement party is unavoidable. If only it didn't lead to another reunion with Nathan! While Saira can't say no to the bride-to-be's offer of a Maltese getaway, sharing a luxury villa with Nathan makes their unfinished business clear...and they're tempted into a fling. Will the consequence of their Mediterranean nights help them realise they never stopped loving each other?

One week to save her palazzo… …and heal her heart Penniless contessa Serafina Ardizzone needs to rebuild her family’s crumbling palazzo in Venice, and she has just one week to persuade handsome CEO Gianni Leto to help! Neither are looking for anything more than a business relationship—this is strictly professional. But as Venice casts its spell and they dance under the moonlight in St. Mark’s Square, romance is in the air… Can the next seven days together change their lives—forever? “Oh, I really enjoyed this one. Kate Hardy is such a fabulous author. She created credible, likeable characters, a well-developed plot, and some emotional depth. It was a very satisfying read.” -Goodreads on Surprise Heir for the Princess “I seldom give 5 star ratings, but this lovely tale certainly deserves it. I highly recommend this charming book. You will be uplifted….” -Harlequin Junkie on A Will, a Wish, a Wedding

A fly-on-the-wall account of the smart and strange subcultures that make, trade, curate, collect, and hype contemporary art. The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of beautifully paced narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Art Fair, the eccentricities of Artforum magazine, the competition behind an important art prize, life in a notorious art-school seminar, and the wonderland of the Venice Biennale. She reveals the new dynamics of creativity, taste, status, money, and the search for meaning in life. A judicious and juicy account of the institutions that have the power to shape art history, based on hundreds of interviews with high-profile players, Thornton's entertaining ethnography will change the way you look at contemporary culture.

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From New York Times bestseller and Hugo Award-winner, John Scalzi, a gleeful mash-up of science fiction and Hollywood satire The space-faring Yherajk have come to Earth to meet us and to begin humanity's first interstellar friendship. There's just one problem: They're hideously ugly and they smell like rotting fish. So getting humanity's trust is a challenge. The Yherajk need someone who can help them close the deal. Enter Thomas Stein, who knows something about closing deals. He's one of Hollywood's hottest young agents. But although Stein may have just concluded the biggest deal of his career, it's quite another thing to negotiate for an entire alien race. To earn his percentage this time, he's going to need all the smarts, skills, and wits he can muster. Other Tor Books The Android’s Dream Agent to the Stars Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded Fuzzy Nation Redshirts 1. Lock In 2. Head On The Interdepency Sequence 1. The Collapsing Empire 2. The Consuming Fire Old Man's War Series 1. Old Man’s War 2. The Ghost Brigades 3. The Last Colony 4. Zoe’s Tale 5. The Human Division 6. The End of All Things At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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