Groomzilla: noun. 1) An ordinary man who, upon betrothal, transforms into a pastry tasting, "Save the Date" card-obsessed know-it-all. 2) A bride's worst nightmare. Maybe you've never seen one yourself, but he's out there. Bridezilla's evil twin: Groomzilla. He's real, all right. He's armed with color swatches and his very own copy of Modern Bride--and he's here to plan your wedding. . . Once upon a time, wedding planning was the bride's project. But if you're recently engaged, then you just might have a Groomzilla on your hands. Craig Bridger was a Groomzilla, and lived to tell the tale. Inside, he'll help you tame your Groomzilla before all hell breaks loose. You'll get groom-tested advice, tactics, scientific* charts and a free set of steak knives*. It's your wedding. Groomzilla can't have it, but maybe he can borrow it* if he behaves. *Not true. *Also, technically, not true. *Don't let him borrow it. "Highly entertaining and bursting with information." --Jenny Lee, author of I Do. I Did. Now What?! "David Sedaris meets Emily Post in Surviving Groomzilla. . .Bridger's insights made me burst a corset." --Lucy Talbot, author of The Bridesmaid's Guerrilla Handbook

From the author of the Faith, Love & Devotion series, Tere Michaels embarks on an adventure of magical realism and romantic comedy in a new mixed couple series. Baker Annalee Martelli is not a Holiday PersonTM. A family feud and a contentious divorce make the holiday insistence on family togetherness depressing, and she much prefers hiding away from humanity in the kitchen of the tiny NYC bakery where she works. If that wasn’t enough to make her grind her teeth in November, her boss suddenly goes MIA after a “quick weekend trip” to her quaint hometown upstate turns into weeks of unanswered calls and emails. With the crazy holiday rush approaching, Annalee girds her loins and heads to Pine Lake to find her boss and save her job. While avoiding getting nature on her boots. Cam Berijssoen has lived his entire life in Pine Lake, the perfectly picturesque jewel of the Hudson Valley where frost sparkles on the pines, there’s always a parade or festival in the town square, and an unusual number of their visitors decide to stay. Permanently. He helps run his parents’ hotel and dreams of a life that doesn’t involve so many trees (he has allergies) and achieving the happiness everyone else seems to find in Pine Lake. Annalee and Cam both have good reason to want out of Pine Lake. When a series of events drops a world of possibilities in their laps, it seems to be time to take a leap of faith. Can a grumpy city girl and a charming master of hospitality make their dreams come true together? (But not like...together together. Right?) Pine Lake has one rule - Fall in Love. Or Else.

"[A] catchy premise with surprising wisdom and specificity."--New York Times Book Review on The Bromance Book Club A LibraryReads Hall of Fame Title A hacktivist and a cat café owner decode the friend zone in this romantic comedy from the author of Undercover Bromance. Alexis Carlisle and her cat café, ToeBeans, have shot to fame after she came forward as a victim of a celebrity chef’s sexual harassment. When a new customer approaches to confide in her, the last thing Alexis expects is for the woman to claim they’re sisters. Unsure what to do, Alexis turns to the only man she trusts—her best friend, Noah Logan. Computer genius Noah left his rebellious teenage hacker past behind to become a computer security expert. Now he only uses his old skills for the right cause. But Noah’s got a secret: He’s madly in love with Alexis. When she asks for his help, he wonders if the timing will ever be right to confess his crush. Noah’s pals in The Bromance Book Club are more than willing to share their beloved “manuals” to help him go from bud to boyfriend. But he must decide if telling the truth is worth risking the best friendship he’s ever had.

Holy sh*t! You're engaged! Your heart starts to race. You feel terribly overwhelmed. Now what? Enter AstroWed, Earth's first space-themed wedding-planning workbook ready to make those checklists work FOR you rather than AGAINST you. Written, designed, and illustrated by Stacey Dyer, AstroWed stems from her experience planning her own offbeat wedding, her knowledge from the tech industry, and combines humor with Bill Nye the Science Guy-like know-how. "AstroWed has a sharp, comedic voice that delivers helpful processes and fills couples-to-be with confidence. Your wedding is supposed to be the best day of your life - not the most stressful!" The AstroWed framework is the key to wedding-planning sanity. It's ready to help you with the HOW behind every wedding to-do, not just the WHAT. Inside this groom-, bride-, and LGBTQ-friendly workbook you'll learn: How and why to cross out all the to-dos that don't matter to you How to make stress-free decisions when it comes to your wedding How to use the Priority Galaxy How to fend off evil brain-sucking 'Zillas Why there's a bird in a space helmet yelling, "Remember: THIS IS YOUR WEDDING!" You'll also find: Timeline-based clusters of worksheets Blank worksheets for you and your vendors, to help truly make this wedding YOURS What AstroWed doesn't offer, and why it's like a mullet: It doesn't have fluff or filler, nor will it throw so many to-dos at you that you don't know where to start. AstroWed is streamlined, focused, and simple to use. Think of this workbook like a friendly wedding-planning mullet: How-to-use-this-framework in the front (business), worksheets in the back (party!). Get your rocket boosters ready to liftoff and launch into YOUR wedding universe today!

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