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Recently divorced Juliet is in the midst of money troubles when her childhood friend Cary offers an intriguing proposal?for her to pretend to be his fianc?e in exchange for a handsome payment. She agrees to the deal and heads to Tregellin Manor, where she meets Rafael, who immediately suspects that Juliet isn’t who she says she is. Cary’s grandmother Eleanor, on the other hand, welcomes her warmly and throws the couple an engagement party. But when Eleanor loans Juliet a beautiful ruby ring for the occasion, Rafael reacts most bizarrely. What does it mean?

Hiyaku: An Intermediate Japanese Course provides a progressive intermediate course in Japanese, incorporating modern teaching methods and practicing all four language skills. Hiyaku provides content-based instruction, with authentic and semi-authentic dialogues and readings, all carefully selected to instruct and inspire students as they learn Japanese. Key features of the textbook include: highly structured chapters, beginning with warm-up exercises followed by focused practice of each of the four skills gradual introduction to increasingly authentic materials content taken from original Japanese sources such as books, TV programs, magazines, newspapers and websites extensive audio material provided as FREE MP3 files on a companion website here https://routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/_author/eguchi/ instructor’s materials, including PowerPoint files provided through the companion website. Hiyaku does not simply teach language and basic cultural points: it also helps students gain a holistic understanding of Japanese society and history, and provides the necessary foundation for the advanced study of Japan and its language.

Alexa had hoped never to see her husband, Giovanni de Verrazzano, again after she left him five years ago. But then he came back to Alexa, asking her to play his wife in front of his newly discovered sheikh father. Their married life was something she didn’t want to return to, which is why she’d kept their son a secret from Giovanni. After he finds out about him, Giovanni insists that both his wife and his son accompany him to see his father. Will this trip be the beginning of a longer journey for Alexa and Giovanni or the last stop on the line?

Freshly dumped by her playboy fianc?, Kevin, distraught cooking show host Corri decides to vent her anger toward him during a live broadcast. Kevin''s older brother and owner of the television production company, Aidan, rushes to her side with a bottle of wine and words of compassion. At the same time, he cannot help but feel overjoyed by the development. Aidan has always been attracted to Corri, but he had to bitterly swallow his feelings after she''d started going out with his little brother. Now there is no one keeping him from telling her how he feels.

Tara Peters was a top model before an extramarital scandal with businessman Baron Randall destroyed her career and his marriage. After reinventing herself, she takes a career at Primo Tech with her newfound business degree. But when the boss, Angelo Gordon, invites her out to dinner, she can’t help but wonder if she’s being used as a pawn for revenge! Is Angelo interested in her for business, pleasure…or vengeance?

Years ago, Cassie discovered that she had been played and betrayed by her boyfriend, the second son of the billionaire Falcon family who once became close to her by acting as if he were poor. When they finally reunite as magnate and his assistant, Cassie has already changed and Marcel doesn’t seem to recognize her. Unlike her glamorous modeling past, she is now a stern-looking office worker with glasses and pulled-back hair. But toward the Marcel whom she once loved, she isn’t so sure she wants to pretend as if nothing happened...

Despite the frustration of a failed business venture, cool and in-control entrepreneur Darius Falcon manages to seal the deal with an exquisite natural island basking in the sun. There, on what should have been the worst day of both his professional and personal life, Darius meets a volunteer from a search and rescue unit named Harriet. He begins to feel happier than he has in years and the elevated mood the island has put him in encourages him to take a chance and ask her to be his girlfriend. Harriet gladly accepts, but finds herself deeply implicated in convoluted Falcon family circumstances… It’s a modern Cinderella story!

Despite the frustration of a failed business venture, cool and in-control entrepreneur Darius Falcon manages to seal the deal with an exquisite natural island basking in the sun. There, on what should have been the worst day of both his professional and personal life, Darius meets a volunteer from a search and rescue unit named Harriet. He begins to feel happier than he has in years and the elevated mood the island has put him in encourages him to take a chance and ask her to be his girlfriend. Harriet gladly accepts, but finds herself deeply implicated in convoluted Falcon family circumstances… It’s a modern Cinderella story!

Pour Beth, personne n’est plus important que sa sœur jumelle, Adi. Fiancée à un Sheikh alors qu’elle était encore enfant, de grands espoirs et de lourdes responsabilités reposent sur les épaules d’Adi. Beth en revanche a passé une enfance solitaire, presque toujours ignorée par son père. Dans cette situation, toutes deux ont pourtant grandi en n’ayant confiance en personne plus qu’en l’autre. Alors que la première rencontre avec le Sheikh approche enfin, Adi avoue à Beth en pleurant qu’elle aime quelqu’un d’autre ! Par amour pour Adi, Beth se fait passer pour elle et embarque pour Bha’Khar, un pays dans le désert…

Beth would do anything for her twin sister, Addie, who has been betrothed to a sheikh from young age and has led a life of high expectation and heavy responsibility. Beth, unlike her sister, spent a lonesome childhood receiving little attention from her parents. The twins have grown up trusting and depending on each other. As the day of meeting the sheikh nears, Addie confides in Beth with her secret love for another man. To save her dearest Addie, Beth decides to go to the desert kingdom of Bha''Khar, pretending to be her twin sister!

Christina is a tanned tomboy who works as a crew member on ships. One day she is suddenly approached by a handsome and mysterious man at a Mediterranean harbor town. Why would he choose to talk to her, when there are so many other beautiful girls? He tells her his name is Luc Henri, and she realizes everyone in town knows him by name. He tells her he will see her again before leaving. A few days later, while working on a ship chartered by a royal family, Christina bumps into Luc again...

Determined to save her family''s company from ruin, Tamsin agrees to become a bride to the wealthy shiekh tycoon Aziz. But on the day of their marriage, the wedding party is suddenly attacked by bandits. After being drugged and knocked unconscious, Tamsin wakes up to the sight of a handsome, mysterious man who tells her, "I''ve waited my entire life to exact my revenge of destroying your fianc? and your family!" before stealing a kiss from Tamsin! But who knew that a kidnapper''s kiss could be so hot and so arousing?

3 years after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, popular manga artists go to the heart of it and listen to people''s stories of that day and the turbulence that came afterward. The stories they preserve through manga, "Stories of 3.11" will bring tears to your eyes. Royalties will be donated to the restoration project in Tohoku.

Kendall has a secret daily routine: swimming in a derelict estate''s pool. In that secluded pool, Kendall can swim without anyone seeing her scars...letting the waters soothe her pained soul. But one day this seclusion is broken by a sun-bronzed man. He claims to be Hudson, the estate''s owner. Caught in her bathing suit, she flees from his gaze. She can''t face the feelings he stirs in her heart. She won''t fall in love again...not after the accident that took the man she loved...

What happened after that day? Manga artists interview victims of the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and share their stories through manga. An up-to-date omnibus of 10 manga artists.